Career
He is the Artistic Director of Headlong He trained at both the Royal Court and the National Having trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Herrin was an assistant director under Stephen Daldry at the Royal Court from 1993-1995. He then was a staff director at the National from 1995 to 1999. In 2007 he directed the critically successful That Face by Polly Stenham at the Royal Court Upstairs, which subsequently transferred to the West End.
He became the Deputy Artistic Director at the Royal Court to Dominic Cooke in 2009.
He has directed a number of new plays at the Royal Court including Spur of the Moment by Anya Reiss, Richard Bean"s The Heretic and Number Quarter, also by Stenham, in 2013. Herrin made his Shakespearean debut at the Globe in 2011, directing Eve Best in Much Ado About Nothing.
He also directed the United Kingdom premiere of David Hare"s The Vertical Hour as well as the world premiere and West End transfer of Hare"s South Downs. He has directed Roger Allam in Uncle Vanya and in The Tempest at Shakespeare"s Globe.
He was nominated as Best Director in the 2013 Olivier Awards for his work on "This House" by James Graham at the National In December 2013 he directed the world premiere of two plays adapted from Hilary Mantel"s novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies for the Royal Society of Chemistry . The plays subsequently transferred to The Aldwych In July 2014, he will direct the European premiere of Jennifer Haley"s "The Nether" as a coproduction between Headlong at The Royal Court Herrin is patron of London-based drama school, The Associated Studios.