Atri Banerjee trained at Birkbeck and on the NT Directors’ Course. Directing credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Look Back in Anger (Almeida); Julius Caesar (RSC); The Glass Menagerie (Royal Exchange/ UK tour); SHED: EXPLODED VIEW, Hobson’s Choice (both Royal Exchange); Britannicus (Lyric Hammersmith); Scenes from the Climate Era (Gate); Dracula (National Youth Theatre); Kes (Octagon Theatre Bolton/ Theatre by the Lake); HARM (Bush). Film directing credits include: HARM (BBC Four); This Room, Now (Gate). Translation credits include: Carbon, Antigone Power, All Saints, Raisa.

Atri was a 2022-24 recipient of the Peter Hall Bursary at the National Theatre, In 2019, for Hobson’s Choice, he won The Stage Debut Award for Best Director and was nominated for the UK Theatre Award for Best Director.

From 2023, Atri was Creative Associate and then Artistic Lead at the Gate Theatre, until its closure in 2026. He was also Trainee Director at the Royal Exchange and a Resident Director at the Almeida. He sits on the Boards of the Marlowe Theatre and the Regional Theatre Young Directors’ Scheme (RTYDS).