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2016	East 15’s BA International students performed in the grounds of Hatfield House, Loughton, Essex	Director	Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’
2016	Queens Theatre Hornchurch	Director	‘The Silver Gym’ written by and starring Nichola Mcauliffe
2015	New National Theatre in Shinjuku, Tokyo, then tour in Osaka, Fukuyama and Nagoya & Tokyo	Director	Oscar Wilde’s 'A Picture of Dorian Gray'
2015	Shochiku Company in Tokyo	Director	*Blood Brothers -* Willy Russell
2014	Seoul, Hongik Daehangno Art Centre	Director	Directing new production of ‘Blood Brothers’ for Shownote Company
2014	Barbados	Script	Prepared adaptations of ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ for film called ‘Caribbean Dream’ set in Barbados. Held workshop/auditons/ location recces/ meetings in Barbados in preparation for film.
2013	Battersea Arts Centre	Director	Widows - Ariel Dorfman
2013	Tristan Bates Theatre, Covent Garden	Adapted and directed	Animal Farm - George Orwell
2012	Queens Theatre Hornchurch	Guest Director	Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare
2011	Seoul Arts Centre	Guest Director	Shirley Valentine - Willy Russell
2011	Corbett Theatre	Guest Director	Return of the Tempest - Glen Walford
2011	Arts Theatre, London	Guest Director	*Park Avenue Cat* - Frank Strausser
2011	Tristan Bates Theatre, London WC2H 9NP	Guest Director	*Five Women Wearing The Same Dress* - Alan Ball
2010	Trafalgar Studios, West End	Guest Director	Shirley Valentine - Willy Russell
2010	Clifftown Theatre, Southend-on-Sea	Guest Director	*Twelfth Night* - Shakespeare
2010	Seensee, Seoul	Guest Director	Two Gentlemen of Verona - Shakespeare
2010	Menier Chocolate Factory, London	Guest Director	Shirley Valentine - Willy Russell
2009	Clifftown theatre, Southend-on-Sea	Guest Director	Prisoner of Zenda - adapted by Leon Rubin
2009	Joan Littlewood studio Debden, Essex	Guest Director	Gut Girls - Sara Daniels
2009	Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool	Guest Director	Shirly Valentine - Willy Russell
2009	Fuji Television Network, Tokyo	Guest Director	Titanic the Musical
2008	Academy of Live and Recorded Arts	Guest Director	The Baby - Chris Hannan
2008	Gale Theatre Company Barbados	Guest Director	Macbeth - Shakespeare
2007	Fuji Television Network, Tokyo	Guest Director	Two Gentlemen of Verona - Shakespeare
2007	Ludlow Festival	Guest Director	Comedy of Errors - Shakespeare
2007	Gale Theatre Company Barbados	Guest Director	*Blithe Spirit* by Noel Coward
2007	Fuji Television Network, Tokyo	Guest Director	Titanic the Musical
2006	Ludlow Festival	Guest Director	*Midsummer Night's Dream* - Shakespeare
2005	Fuji Television Network, Tokyo	Guest Director	*Grand Hotel*
2005	Seensee, Seoul	Guest Director	*Shirley Valentine -* Willy Russell
2005	Mondavi Centre, Davis, California	Guest Director	Rocky Horror Show
2004	Fuji Television Network for Globe Theatre, Tokyo	Guest Director	*Cabaret*
2004	Seensee Theatre Company - Seoul	Guest Director	*Blood Brothers -* Willy Russell
2003	Liverpool Playhouse	Guest Director	*Breezeblock Park -* Willy Russell
2003	Aoyama Theatre, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan for Fuji Television Network	Guest Director	*Blood Brothers* - Willy Russell
2003	Mondavi Centre, Davis, California U.S.A	Guest Director	HMS Pinafore - Gilbert & Sullivan
2002	Liverpool Playhouse	Guest Director	Educating Rita. New version by Willy Russell. Premiere April. Revival November
	Mountview Theatre School	Guest Director	The Rivals - Richard Brinsley Sheridan
	Belgrade Theatre Coventry	Guest Director	*Women On The Verge of HRT* - Marie Jones
	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art	Adapter & Director	*The Beau Defeated* - Mary Pix
2001	Queens Theatre, Hornchurch	Guest Director	*The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband* - Debbie Isitt
	Vienna's English Theatre	Author & Guest Director	*The Portrait of Dorian Gray* - (adapted from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde)
	Queens Theatre, Hornchurch	Guest Director	*What The Butler Saw* - Joe Orton
	Mountview Theatre School	Guest Director	*Entertaining Strangers* - David Edgar
2000	Academy of Live and Recorded Arts	Guest Director	*Camille* - Pam Gems
	Queens Theatre, Hornchurch	Guest Director	*Women On The Verge of HRT* - Marie Jones
	Mountview Theatre School	Guest Director	*Napoli Millionaria*
	Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama	Guest Director	*On The Razzle* - Tom Stoppard
1999	Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama	Adapter & Director	*The Beau Defeated* - Mary Pix
	Ludlow Festival	Festival Shakespeare Director	Midsummer Night's Dream - (own adaptation)
	Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Guildford	Guest Director	Paul Farrah Productions Ltd - Funny About Love - Terence Frisby (Developed with writer for premiere production, followed by UK tour)
	Theatre Royal, Windsor	Guest Director	Bill Kenwright Ltd. - Gym and Tonic - John Godber Shirley Valentine - Willy Russell. Followed by UK tour
1998	Ludlow Festival	Artistic Director	*Hamlet* - William Shakespeare (directed own adaptation)
	Academy of Live and Recorded Arts, London	Guest Director	*Loves Labours Lost* - Shakespeare (own adaptation)
	Vienna's English Theatre, Vienna, Austria	Guest Director	*Skylight* - David Hare
1997	Vienna's English Theatre, Vienna, Austria	Guest Director	*As You Like It* - Shakespeare (own adaptation)
	Ludlow Festival	Artistic Director	*Much Ado About Nothing* - William Shakespeare (directed own adaptation)
	Red Torch Theatre Novosibersk Siberia Russia	Guest Director	*Blood Brothers* - Willy Russell (Russian cast. Directed in Russian)
	Vienna's English Theatre, Vienna, Austria	Guest Director	*The Dresser* - Ronald Harwood
1996	Vienna's English Theatre, Vienna, Austria	Guest Director	*Midsummer Night's Dream* - Shakespeare (own adaptation)
	Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Festival	Director	*Rambling* - Sandi Toksvig (Developed with writer for premiere production)
	Belgrade Theatre Coventry	Guest Director	*Our Day Out* - (Premiere of new musical version. Developed in collaboration with the writer Willy Russell)
	Norwich Playhouse Norwich	Guest Director	*The Last Yankee* - Arthur Miller
1995	Thorndike Theatre Leatherhead	Guest Director	For Bill Kenwight Ltd. *A Christmas Carol* - Charles Dickens (adaptation by Nick Fisher)
	Minamiza Theatre Kyoto Japan	Guest Director	For Shochiku Company Ltd. Blood Brothers - Willy Russell (re-mounted and directed for Shochiku centenary)
	Aoyama Theatre Tokyo Japan	Guest Director	*Blood Brothers -* Willy Russell
	Sherman Theatre Cardiff	Guest Director	*Romeo and Juliet* - Shakspeare (main auditorium). (Subsequent tour of Wales)
1986 - 1995	Benisan Pit Theatre Tokyo Japan	Guest Director	Rhyming Theatre Company. Invited to create a popular performing 'house-style' and direct Rhyming Theatre Company's annual Shakespeare productions. Adapted Japanese translations, incorporated appropriate facets of Japanese and English culture, introduced actor-musicians and made full use of flexible space. Much Ado About Nothing (1986) Comedy 0f Errors (also toured Japan 1987) Measure For Measure (1988) Merchant 0f Venice (Best production award 1990) As You Like It (1992) Macbeth (1994) (Japanese actors. Directed in Japanese)
1994	Lyric Theatre Hammersmith London	Guest Director	Cole Kitchenn Ltd. *Mad And Her Dad* - Paul Sand (new musical developed with writer for premiere)
	National Theatre Organisation, Zimbabwe Africa	Festival Adjudicator	Lectures and Workshops (In English, Shona and Mtebele)
1993	Hampstead Theatre London	Guest Director	*Punchbag* - Robert Llewellyn (developed with writer for premiere production).
	Theatre Project Tokyo Japan	Guest Director	Red Star Productions. Educating Rita - Willy Russell (Japanese actors, Directed in Japanese. Followed by a tour)
1992	Mermaid Theatre London	Guest Director	*Top Girls* - Caryl Churchill
	Belgrade Theatre Coventry	Guest Director	Bill Kenwright Ltd. Safe In Our Hands - Andy de la Tour.
	Nagoya Theatre Nagoya Japan	Guest Director	Shochiku Company Ltd. Revival of Blood Brothers - Willy Russell
	Embassy Theatre London	Guest Director	Central School of Speech and Drama - Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
	Liverpool Philharmonic Hall	Guest Director	Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - The Soldier's Tale - Stravinsky (new version written by Willy Russell who also played the Narrator, performed by actors and Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra).
	Sunshine Theatre Tokyo Japan	Guest Director	Shochiku Company Ltd. Blood Brothers - Willy Russell (new production mounted and directed with Japanese actors in Japanese). Revived in 1992 & 1995) Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare (1994)
1991	Nottingham Playhouse	Guest Director	*A Slight Case of Murder* - Damon Runyon (UK premiere of Runyon's only play). Adapted Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare for The Pocket Dream - Sandi Toksvig and Elly Brewer (premiered here then played Albery Theatre West End)
	Liverpool Playhouse	Guest Director	(1991 and 1993) for Bill Kenwright Ltd. Our Day Out - Willy Russell Rough Crossing - Tom Stoppard
	Thorndike Theatre Leatherhead	Guest Director	Bill Kenwright Ltd. Lettice and Lovage - Peter Shaffer (production subsequently toured UK) Our Day Out - Willy Russell
1990	National Theatre Organisation Zimbabwe Africa	Festival Adjudicator	Lectures and Workshops (Shona and Mtebele languages)
	English Shakespeare Company	Guest Director	First visiting director for this touring company. Comedy of Errors - Shakespeare. Major UK tour followed by Jerusalem Festival, Kiev- Ukraine and Moscow Integrated two Russian-speaking actors to provide simultaneous translation.
1989	Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg West Germany	Guest Director	*Blood Brothers* - Willy Russell (German actors. Directed in German)
1988	Epidaurus Amphitheatre Greece	Guest Director	Anatoli Theatre Company Athens - Epidaurus Festival. Prometheus - Aeschylus. International creative team (Greek actors. Directed in Greek). Production subsequently toured Greece and Canada
1986 - 1995	Benisan Pit Theatre Tokyo Japan	Guest Director	Rhyming Theatre Company. Invited to create a popular performing 'house-style' and direct Rhyming Theatre Company's annual Shakespeare productions. Adapted Japanese translations, incorporated appropriate facets of Japanese and English culture, introduced actor-musicians and made full use of flexible space. Much Ado About Nothing (1986) Comedy 0f Errors (also toured Japan 1987) Measure For Measure (1988) Merchant 0f Venice (Best production award 1990) As You Like It (1992) Macbeth (1994) (Japanese actors. Directed in Japanese)
1986	Bristol Old Vic Theatre Bristol	Guest Director	*Archangels Don't Play Pinball* - Dario Fo (UK premiere)
	Arts Theatre London	Guest Director	Rose Bruford College. The Sea - Edward Bond
1985	Swan Theatre Worcester	Guest Director	*Rocky Horror Show* - Richard OÕBrien
1984	Tricycle Theatre Kilburn London	Guest Director	*Return to the Forbidden Planet* - Bob Carlton (This production originated at London Bubble Theatre - re-cast re-designed and re-mounted for new production - Everyman Theatre Liverpool (1983) revival (1984) re-adapted & re-directed for Tricycle's integrated casting policy)
1983 - 1989	Everyman Theatre Liverpool	Artistic Director	Created new artistic policy in which long-running productions - large-scale musical epics, innovative Shakespeare and actor-musician premieres attracted large audiences and supported smaller-scale innovative in-house productions. Musical premieres include - Liverpool Blitz Show, Dragon Tales (own adaptation). Classics include - She Stoops to Conquer - Oliver Goldsmith. Musicals (adapted for Everyman house-style) include: Threepenny Opera, Me Myself And I - Ayckbourn, Scapino and Cabaret. Wrote original libretto for the opera Tosca and directed production with eighteen actor-musicians performing and playing Puccini's operatic score. Shakespeare productions - The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Taming Of The Shrew, Hamlet, Winter's Tale. Commissioned and directed Shirley Valentine - Willy Russell (world premiere)
1983	Cambridge Theatre Company	Guest Director	*Midsummer Night's Dream* - Shakespeare
1981-1982	Secombe Centre Sutton	Founding Director	Policy-creator fund-raiser. Co-adapted, produced and directed Dick Whittington (Christmas panto)
	Crucible Theatre Sheffield	Guest Director	Developed and directed Dead Ernest - Mike Harding (premiere)
	Haymarket Theatre Leicester	Actor	Played Wicked Witch Of The West in Scatterbrained Scarecrow of Oz
	Hong Kong Repertory Company	Guest Director	*Romeo and Juliet* - Shakespeare (Cantonese actors. Directed in Cantonese language)
1979-1982	Chung Ying Theatre Company, Hong Kong	Founder and Artistic Director	Employed by British Council to establish new theatre company with similar policy to London Bubble Theatre but with gradual assimilation of Cantonese personnel. Later helped steer company to independent status with own Board of Governors. Directed many English and Cantonese-speaking productions integrating both British and Chinese cultures into classics, musicals and self-devised premieres. Performed in many venues in Hong Kong and new territories. Played many roles including Jenny Diver in The Threepenny 0pera. Arts Centre Hong Kong Directed Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare. Queen Elizabeth Stadium Hong Kong Co-adapted and directed new musical version of Animal Farm - George Orwell. Production toured large-scale theatres in Malaysia sponsored by British Council. City Hall Theatre Hong Kong (1981-1982) Directed The Threepenny Opera - Brecht School For Clowns - Ken Campbel, Scapino - Moliere Macbeth - Shakespeare (All for Chung Ying Theatre Company with English and Cantonese actors in English and Cantonese)
1978-1979	Royal Shakespeare Company	Actor	Aldwych Theatre London. Played major role of Glenda in Cousin Vladimir - David Mercer
1977	Almost Free Theatre London	Guest Director	*Happy and Glorious, Black Mass* - Edward Bond plus two South African one-act plays (triple bill) Played Lady Two in Grandma Faust - Edward Bond
	Greenwich Theatre London	Guest Director	*Camelot Pie* (musical premiere)
1976	Cameri Theatre Tel Aviv Israel	Guest Director	*Rhinoceros* - Ionesco (Israeli actors. Directed in Hebrew)
	Bush Theatre London	Guest Director	*Winter Visitors* - Andy Smith (premiere)
1975 - 1976	Belgrade Theatre Coventry	Associate Director	Directed - Lady Godiva - David Turner (new musical). Directed Sleeping Beauty (Christmas pantomime) Played Goneril in King Lear - Shakespeare
1974	Crucible Theatre Sheffield	Guest Director	Marat-Sade - Peter Weiss (main auditorium). Endgame - Samuel Beckett (studio theatre)
1971-1974 and 1976-1979	Bubble Theatre Company London	Founder and Artistic Director	Employed by Greater London Arts Association to plan fund-raise and budget for UK's only completely mobile theatre structure to tour London's parks/open spaces. Created policy of original actor/musican theatre (developed from Theatre Vanguard) to appeal to a complete cross-section audience. Directed and co-wrote many original musical productions including The Blitz Show, The Jack The Ripper Show (which later played UK and abroad). Steered company to independence forming own Board of Governors and constitution. Negotiated planning design and opening of second enlarged structure and planned designs for third super-structure. Expanded repertoire and house-style to embrace the classics. Directed Beggar's Opera - John Gay Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night - Shakespeare. Performed in several shows including Mrs.Trapes in Beggar's 0pera, Evil Maid in Goose Girl, Gossamer Beynon and Lily Smalls in Under Milk Wood
	Traverse Theatre Edinburgh	Guest Director	*The Second Shepherds Play. Adapted and directed The Ballad Of The Mari Lwyd*
	Nottingham Playhouse	Guest Director	Adapted (from the film script) directed and played Morgan's mother in stage premiere of Morgan - A Suitable Case For Treatment - David Mercer (premiered at Nottingham Playhouse followed by UK tour)
1970-1971	Everyman Theatre Liverpool	Guest Director	*School For Scandal* - Sheridan Italian Straw Hat - Feydeau (with new musical score)
1966-1970	Sheffield Playhouse	Actor and Director	Acting roles include Ellie Dunn in Heartbreak House Lady Anne in Richard 111 Audrey in As You Like It plus parts in new plays. Founder member/actor and later Artistic Director of Theatre Vanguard - an attached, self-contained company. Pioneered actor/musician style of theatre Opened StudioTheatre for premiering new plays/events. Mounted two Festivals. Directed several shows for main auditorium including Black Comedy, An Evening For Merlin Finch. Wrote and directed Crackers (Christmas musical)
1965-1966	Traverse Theatre Edinburgh	Actor and Director	Compiled, wrote and directed various shows including The Wife 0f Bath's Prologue, The Song 0f Solomon. Acting roles include Madame Y in The Stronger and Woman in Before Breakfast plus parts in new plays

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