Nadia Latif is a theatre and film director whose theatre career has included work for the Donmar Warehouse, Royal Shakespeare Company and Bush theatres. From 2018 to 2020 she was Associate Director of the Young Vic theatre, and directed Jackie Sibblies-Drury’s Pulitzer Prize winning play Fairview there. Her first short film White Girl was funded by the BFI and screened in competition at the 2019 LFF. In 2020 she directed a short sci-fi film for Film4, They Heard Him Shout Allahu Akbar. In 2019, she was one of Screen International’s Stars of Tomorrow, and in 2020, she was a Sundance Screenwriters Lab fellow. Her debut feature film, The Man In My Basement, starring Corey Hawkins & Willem Dafoe just premiered at TIFF, and is now streaming on Disney+/Hulu. In Spring 2026, she will direct the stage adaptation of Babak Anvari’s film Under the Shadow at the Almeida Theatre. She is from Sudan and based in London.

