Federay is an Associate Artist at Shakespeare’s Globe where she directs and teaches acting,
and is also an Associate of experimental London theatre company, The Factory, for whom she
writes and performs.

An actor for over thirty years, she has worked extensively in theatres around the UK as well as
many London theatres. She has made many television appearances and performed in
innumerable radio dramas for the BBC.

She has variously taught acting and directed many productions with undergraduate students
at RADA, Royal Central School of Music and Drama, Rose Bruford, LAMDA and is lead Acting
Tutor for Rutgers Conservatory at Shakespeare’s Globe.

Federay also works frequently as a Shakespearean text consultant and is passionate about
supporting actors to access so-called classical texts from which they may previously felt
excluded. She has taken part in a range of discussions, symposia and trainings looking at
issues of decolonisation and anti-racist approaches to early-modern texts.

She has a long association as director with experimental Baroque Ensemble, Solomon’s Knot.
Between 2015-2017 she directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet for The
Dutch Factory in Amsterdam. She directed the Globe’s Sonnet Walks between 2015-2017 and
Shakespeare in the Abbey in 2017 at Westminster Abbey for the Globe. In 2018 she directed
the inaugural Globe Ensemble in Hamlet and As You Like It and the Globe’s first immersive
event, Sonnet Sunday. In 2019 she directed the Globe Ensemble productions of: Henry IV part
1, Henry IV part 2 and Henry V as well as a revival of 2018’s As You Like It.

She counts herself lucky to live way outside London with her wife, dog and family with space
enough to grow a few vegetables.