Background
Whyman was born in Harrogate, Yorkshire, but lived in Barnsley until aged eight, before her family moved to Surrey.
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Erica Whyman
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Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Career
She has a first class honours degree in French and Philosophy from Oxford. She trained in the theatre with Philippe Gaulier in Paris and then at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. In 2013, she was awarded an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for services to theatre in the New Year Honours List.
She has a daughter, Ruby, with playwright Richard Bean.
1997 Awarded the John South Cohen Bursary for Directors at the National Theatre Studio
1997 - 1998 Associate Producer of Tricycle Theatre
1998 - 2000 Associate Director of English Touring Theatre
1999 - 2001 Artistic Director Southwark Playhouse (Peter Brook Empty Space Award)
2001 - 2004 Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Gate Theatre
2004 - 2005 Fellow of the Clore Leadership Programme in the first cohort
2013 - Deputy Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company
Northern Stage productions
Son of Manitoba (2006)
Ruby Moon (2007)
Our Friends in the North (2007)
A Christmas Carol (2007)
A Doll"s House (2008)
Look Back in Anger (2009)
Hansel and Gretel (2008)
Oh What a Lovely War (2010, nominated for two Turnaround Management Association awards)
The Wind in the Willows (2010)
Who"s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (2011)
The Glass Slipper (2011)
Oh, The Humanity (2012)
The Borrowers (2012)
Non-Northern Stage productions
The Winter"s Tale (2000, Southwark Playhouse)
Les Justes (2001, Gate Theatre)
Witness (Gate Theatre, 2002)
Marieluise (Gate Theatre, 2004)
The Flu Season (Gate Theatre, 2003)
The Shadow of a Boy (National Theatre, 2002)
The Birthday Party (Sheffield Crucible, 2002)
The Christmas Truce (Royal Shakespeare Company, 2014)
Hecuba (Royal Shakespeare Company, 2015)
A Midsummer Night"s Dream: A play for the nation (Royal Shakespeare Company, 2016).
