About

Aimée Sweet is a theatre director and playwright based in London.

Currently, she is the Associate Director for Blood Wedding, which will be performed at the Courtyard Theatre in April 2026. She is the Resident Director and Dramaturg for Central Drama Lab, a theatre company specialising in contemporary performance and actor-training programmes. Within the company, she looks at new scripts being written, directs productions and offers 1-1 training courses for those wanting to pursue a career in acting. She is also the Director and Writer for The Hideout, which is in development and will be performed again in 2026.

After graduating on the BA: Drama programme at the University of Exeter with a First Class Honours and a Dean’s Commendation, she finished her training at the Northcott Early Careers Artists Programme. This resulted in her first play, KNOTS, being showcased at the Barnfield Theatre in July 2022. In the same month, she produced Backbone, a Belarusian play, at Reed Hall Pond in Exeter. In October 2022, her work was selected for the Exeter Fringe Festival, and was awarded a one-week residency at the Exeter Library. KNOTS was developed during this week and performed for the second time at Exeter Phoenix.

She returned to London in 2023 and joined the Director’s Cut Theatre Company. Within the company, she directed a number of short plays at Southwark Playhouse and Park Theatre. Aimée started her Masters course at Central Saint Martins (MA: Performance, Design and Practice) in 2023 and graduated in 2025 with a Distinction.

Most recently, Aimée has worked on a number of professional productions: as associate director to Mitchell Cushman for Prepare to Fail by Haley McGee (Soho Theatre), as director and writer for The Hideout (Platform Theatre), as director for Welcome to the World by Holly Powell Jones (The Water Rats).

Aimée loves working on musicals, gig theatre and new writing. She is concerned with plays that deal with intimacy, climate change, hope and humour. She directs theatre because she believes that the collective experience of watching a show is transformative on a personal and global level. Music and movement are the lynchpin of plays for her, and she is excited to continue this exploration of work in the future.

‘Aimée Sweet is an extremely gifted and driven young artist. Her debut show, The Hideout, was an incredibly researched, ambitious, and joyous romp filled with exciting plot twists and sea shanties. She is going places!’ – Haley McGee