Imy Wyatt Corner

Imy trained on the Drama Directing MA at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She received the Nicole Kidman Bursary from Michael Grandage Futures 2025/6  to write and direct a new play about gender, power and magic, which she is workshopping at Kiln Theatre. She was awarded a Develop Your Creative Practice grant to learn about Opera Direction in 2024. The same year her production Duck won the Charlie Hartill Award. Her production BEASTS, by Mandi Chivasa was awarded a Fringe First Award in 2023 - she co-directed this with Sarah Stacey.

She was the Mackintosh Resident Assistant Director at Kiln Theatre 2024/5, where she assisted on four shows and spent four months working on Hamilton and Phantom of the Opera. She was an Artistic Associate at Arcola Theatre 2023/4, where she worked In-House on producing, programming and script-reading. She was a Creative Associate at Jermyn Street Theatre 2022/3. Imy was recently shortlisted for the 2025 Peter Hall Director Award. 

Directing includes This Little Earth (Arcola Theatre), The Maladies (Kiln Theatre- Kiln Youth Theatre), Duck (Southeast Tour, Arcola Theatre, Jermyn Street Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe), Passing (Park Theatre), The Last One (Arcola Theatre), Scarlet Sunday (Omnibus Theatre), A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Grove DIY Skatepark), Humane (Pleasance Theatre), Snail (Vault Festival), Walk Swiftly & With Purpose (Theatre503, North Wall Arts Centre), Baby, What Blessings (Theatre503) and Happy Yet? (International Theatre, Frankfurt). 

Associate direction: The Dance of Death (Theatre Royal Bath & Arcola Theatre UK Tour) 

Assistant Direction includes Private Lives (Ambassador's Theatre), Relatively Speaking (Theatre Royal Bath UK Tour), Shanghai Dolls (Kiln Theatre), The Lonely Londoners (Kiln Theatre), The Purists (Kiln Theatre), Pins and Needles (Kiln Theatre) and Love All (Jermyn Street Theatre).