2023/24 Harman/Eisner Artist in Residence

2023/24 Harman/Eisner Artist in Residence
Simon Godwin

@ KK Ottesen

Simon Godwin will serve as the Aspen Institute Arts Program 2023/24 Harman/Eisner Artist in Residence. In this role, Godwin will offer his artistic vision to various Policy Programs, events, leadership activities and more in Aspen, New York, Washington D.C., and elsewhere.

Godwin has been the Artistic Director of Shakespeare Theatre Company since 2019. He has directed the acclaimed King Lear featuring Patrick Page, Much Ado About Nothing featuring Kate Jennings Grant and Rick Holmes, and Timon of Athens featuring Kathryn Hunter and co-produced by New York’s Theatre for a New Audience. When the pandemic shuttered theater doors, Godwin directed Romeo & Juliet for the National Theatre, an original film for television. He will direct his fourth production for STC, Macbeth, in the 23/24 Season. He previously served as Associate Director of the National Theatre of London, the Royal Court Theatre, the Bristol Old Vic, and the Royal and Derngate Theatres (Northampton).