Holly Race Roughan is Artistic Director of Headlong and board member of theatre-in-prisons charity Kestrel. Previous work at Shakespeare’s Globe includes Henry V (UK tour) and Metamorphoses. 

Holly has directed works including The New Real (Royal Shakespeare Company); Prurience (Southbank Centre, Guggenheim New York); and Eye of a Needle (Southwark Playhouse). 

For Headlong: The House Party (Chichester Festival Theatre & UK Tour); A View from the Bridge (Bolton Octagon & UK Tour); Corrina Corrina (Liverpool Everyman); Hedda Tesman (Chichester Festival Theatre); People, Places & Things (UK Tour only) and Unprecedented (BBC). 

In Autumn 2025 she will direct Ralph Fiennes in Small Hotel by Rebecca Lenkiewicz for Theatre Royal Bath.