Joseph Winters is a freelance director and the Artistic Director of the Shipwright.

Formerly Resident Director at the Almeida Theatre, recent credits as director include: Paradise Lost, a new opera by Bertie Baigent; The Waterfront Journals by David Wojnarowicz; The Pied Piper by Eleanor Colville; The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson, Quartet for the End of Time by Messiaen; Dido & Aeneas by Purcell (Shipwright); RUSH by Willi Richards (BBC Culture in Quarantine, King's Head Theatre); Ulysses (Pierre Boulez Saal); Gianni Schicchi (Southgate Opera); The Marriage of Figaro (Fortismere Music Centre); Bigamous by Eleanor Colville (UK Tour).