Director

Trevor Nunn was educated at Downing College, Cambridge and in 1962 he won an ABC Director's Scholarship to the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, where as Resident Director, his productions included The Caucasian Chalk Circle ,Peer Gynt and a musical version of Around the World in Eighty Days . In 1964, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, was made an Associate Director in 1965 and became the company's youngest ever Artistic Director in 1968. He created The Other Place, the Donmar Warehouse and the Swan Theatre, and led the RSC into its new home in the Barbican. He was responsible for running the RSC until he retired from his post in 1986. From 1997 – 2003 he was Director of the National Theatre.

Theatre: His productions for the RSC included The Revenger's Tragedy ,The Relapse ,The Alchemist ,Henry V ,The Taming of the Shrew ,King Lear ,Much Ado About Nothing ,The Winter's Tale ,Henry VIII ,Hamlet ,Macbeth ,Antony and Cleopatra ,Coriolanus ,Julius Caesar ,Titus Andronicus ,Romeo and Juliet ,The Comedy of Errors ,As You Like It ,All's Well That Ends Well ,Once in a Life-time ,Three Sisters ,Juno and the Paycock ,Othello ,The Blue Angel ,Measure for Measure ,Henry IV, Parts I and II ,The Fair Maid of the West; and with John Caird, Nicholas Nickleby (winner of five Tony Awards), J M Barrie's Peter Pan and Les Misérables , which won eight Tony Awards and has become the most performed musical in the world.

Trevor Nunn’s work at the NT includes Arcadia ,Enemy of the People ,Mutabilitie, Not About Nightingales ,Oklahoma! ,Betrayal, Troilus and Cressida ,The Merchant of Venice ,Summerfolk ,Albert Speer ,The Cherry Orchard ,My Fair Lady ,The Relapse ,South Pacific ,The Coast of Utopia ,A Streetcar Named Desire ,Anything Goes and Love’s Labour’s Lost .

Other credits include Hamlet (Old Vic), Skellig (Young Vic), The Lady From The Sea (Almeida Theatre), Cats ,Starlight Express ,Aspects of Love ,Sunset Boulevard ,Chess ,The Baker's Wife ,Timon of Athens ,Heartbreak House.

Opera: For Glyndebourne: Idomeneo ,Porgy and Bess ,Cosi Fan Tutte ,Peter Grimes . For The Royal Opera House: Porgy and Bess ,Katya Kabanova, Sophie’s Choice .

Television: Antony and Cleopatra (BAFTA award ), The Comedy of Errors ,Macbeth ,Three Sisters ,Nicholas Nickleby (Emmy Award), Word of Mouth ,Othello ,Porgy and Bess ,Oklahoma! (Emmy Award), The Merchant of Venice .

Film: Hedda ,Lady Jane ,Twelfth Night.

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