Our Amplify Producer, Craig Gilbert, has been holed up in his makeshift bedroom studio talking to a host of exciting artists of national and international renown.
These conversations cover career and process as well as offering a few exciting ideas to explore from home during this time of Social Distancing.
Today’s guest is Director Bill Buckhurst, who directed our 2018 production of Sweet Charity and last year’s Assassins. He’s also due to direct a brand new production of Sister Act the Musical starring Whoopi Goldberg and Jennifer Saunders, which will now take place in the summer of 2021.
Bill’s theatre directing credits for Tooting Arts Club include: Sweeney Todd (West End, Harrington’s Pie and Mash Shop & Off-Broadway; Best Musical Off-West End Awards, Outstanding Revival of a Musical Lucille Lortel Awards, Best Musical Revival Off-Broadway Alliance, Best Off-Broadway Musical Theater Fans’ Choice Awards, Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Director of a Musical), Barbarians, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Tinderbox.
Directing credits for Shakespeare’s Globe include: Omeros, Hamlet (and International Tour), King Lear (and International Tour), Twelfth Night, Othello, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo & Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth (Playing Shakespeare).
Other directing includes: Much Ado About Nothing (StoryHouse Chester); The Selfish Giant (West End & Northampton Theatre Royal); Babette’s Feast (The Print Room); Sleeping Beauty (The Watermill); Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Stafford Festival Shakespeare); Riff Raff (Arcola); The Vegemite Tales (West End & Riverside Studios); Penetrator (Theatre503).
Feature film: Pond Life (Open Palm Films)
If you’ve enjoyed today’s podcast, please consider donating to our Curtain Up Appeal, to ensure we can keep creating new work for audiences to enjoy: https://www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/support/curtain-up-appeal/
Our Amplify Producer, Craig Gilbert, has been holed up in his makeshift bedroom studio talking to a host of exciting artists of national and international renown.
These conversations cover career and process as well as offering a few exciting ideas to explore from home during this time of Social Distancing.
Today’s guest is Director Bill Buckhurst, who directed our 2018 production of Sweet Charity and last year’s Assassins. He’s also due to direct a brand new production of Sister Act the Musical starring Whoopi Goldberg and Jennifer Saunders, which will now take place in the summer of 2021.
Bill’s theatre directing credits for Tooting Arts Club include: Sweeney Todd (West End, Harrington’s Pie and Mash Shop & Off-Broadway; Best Musical Off-West End Awards, Outstanding Revival of a Musical Lucille Lortel Awards, Best Musical Revival Off-Broadway Alliance, Best Off-Broadway Musical Theater Fans’ Choice Awards, Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Director of a Musical), Barbarians, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Tinderbox.
Directing credits for Shakespeare’s Globe include: Omeros, Hamlet (and International Tour), King Lear (and International Tour), Twelfth Night, Othello, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo & Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth (Playing Shakespeare).
Other directing includes: Much Ado About Nothing (StoryHouse Chester); The Selfish Giant (West End & Northampton Theatre Royal); Babette’s Feast (The Print Room); Sleeping Beauty (The Watermill); Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Stafford Festival Shakespeare); Riff Raff (Arcola); The Vegemite Tales (West End & Riverside Studios); Penetrator (Theatre503).
Feature film: Pond Life (Open Palm Films)
If you’ve enjoyed today’s podcast, please consider donating to our Curtain Up Appeal, to ensure we can keep creating new work for audiences to enjoy: https://www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/support/curtain-up-appeal/