Fiona Laird

Fiona Laird is a British theatre, television, and radio director, writer, composer, and lyricist. In 2013, responding to UK cuts in performing arts education, Laird founded the National Youth Theatre Arts Trust.

Laird grew up in Ely, Cambridgeshire, where her father was an educator and her mother a musician. She attended King's Ely and holds a BA in Philosophy from University College London. She has directed plays for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre, The Old Vic, the Royal Court Theatre, the Welsh National Opera.Notable productions include Stephen Fry's Cinderella at the Old Vic, Oh, What a Lovely War! for the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2018 production of The Merry Wives of Windsor. , for which she also composed much of the music.

In 2009, Laird directed the live television performance of The Turning Point by Michael Dobbs, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as spy Guy Burgess. The production was part of the Sky Arts Theatre Live! Series, which won the Broadcasting Press Guild Best Multichannel Programme Award.

• Frogs (1996) - The Royal National Theatre (also translator, composer, lyricist)
• Oh What a Lovely War! (1998) - The Royal National Theatre
• High Society (2001) - Sheffield Crucible
• They're Playing Our Song - Menier Chocolate Factory
• Twenty Men Singing (2007) - for the Welsh National Opera
• The Wasps (2015) - a new adaptation by Laird from Aristophanes' original play
• The Merry Wives of Windsor (2018) - Royal Shakespeare Company (also composer)

• Musicool (2007) - reality tv musical
• Theatre Live! (2009) - theatrical production broadcast live
• The Merry Wives of Windsor (2018) - recording of the 2018 Royal Shakespeare Company theatrical production