Finn Beames

Finn Beames is a theatre maker and Oedipa’s artistic director. His practice combines writing, composing and staging to create music-led work with a changing company of collaborators.

Finn is the writer, composer and director of Quiet Songs. This new work for actor, string quartet and swords will premiere at the Barbican in autumn 2024, as winner of the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award. He is also writing a new musical about pole dancing in the Cotswolds, supported by Bristol Old Vic and commissioned by Audrey Productions.

In 2015 Finn won the Genesis Future Directors Award with his production of Man: Three plays by Tennessee Williams at the Young Vic, and later held the Lina Bo Bardi Fellowship at the British Council for his research into theatre and architecture in Brazil and the UK. In 2019, he created a large-scale installation on the site of a medieval priory in Gloucester, exploring the history of mental healthcare through full-body marbling, dance and choral singing.

For Oedipa, Finn is a founder as leader of the Aphasia New Music Group.

Finn is represented by Tracey Elliston at United Agents.