Iqbal Khan worked onstage with Masterclass members on pieces from Shakespeare, Beckett & Chekhov.

About Iqbal


Iqbal began his directing career at the Leicester Haymarket and National Theatre Studio.

His recent work includes: A Christmas Carol (Box Clever), Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe), Snookered (Tamasha/Oldham Coliseum/ Bush/UK tour), The Importance of Being Earnest – The Musical (Riverside Studios), The Killing of Sister George (West End), Broken Glass (Tricycle/West End), Rafta Rafta (Bolton Octagon/New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme), East is East (Birmingham Rep), A Slight Ache, Landscape (National Theatre), Treemonisha (Pegasus Opera), The Last Photograph (Edinburgh Festival), Othello (Associate Director, Birmingham Opera Company), Time for the Good Looking Boy (BoxClever/UKtour), Oleanna (Bolton Octagon), 16UP (Union Theatre/tour), Too Close to Home (Lyric Hammersmith/Library Theatre), Madama Butterfly (Lyric Hammersmith/Minack), and Beautiful Thing (Oldham Coliseum).

For the RSC, Iqbal has directed Othello, Much Ado about Nothing and Antony and
Cleopatra, currently playing in Stratford and coming to London’s Barbican Theatre in November