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Julian Woolford is a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 Theatre Director and Writer. He was educated at the University of Kent
University of Kent

The University of Kent is a plate glass university Campus university university in Kent, England....
 and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School

The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, opened by Laurence Olivier in 1946, is an affiliate of the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama, an organisation securing the highest standards of training in the performing arts, and is an associate school of the Faculty of Creative Arts of the University of the West of England....
.

He was Artistic Director of Sevenoaks Playhouse, The Global Search for New Musicals at The International Festival of Musical Theatre, and Associate Director of the Queen's Theatre Hornchurch. In 2008 he directed a revival of his 2003 production of Fiddler On The Roof
Fiddler on the Roof

Fiddler on the Roof is a musical theatre with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905....
, this time starring Joe McGann as Tevye, and he directed the premiere of Deadly Game at Vienna's English Theatre.






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Julian Woolford is a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 Theatre Director and Writer. He was educated at the University of Kent
University of Kent

The University of Kent is a plate glass university Campus university university in Kent, England....
 and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School

The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, opened by Laurence Olivier in 1946, is an affiliate of the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama, an organisation securing the highest standards of training in the performing arts, and is an associate school of the Faculty of Creative Arts of the University of the West of England....
.

He was Artistic Director of Sevenoaks Playhouse, The Global Search for New Musicals at The International Festival of Musical Theatre, and Associate Director of the Queen's Theatre Hornchurch. In 2008 he directed a revival of his 2003 production of Fiddler On The Roof
Fiddler on the Roof

Fiddler on the Roof is a musical theatre with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905....
, this time starring Joe McGann as Tevye, and he directed the premiere of Deadly Game at Vienna's English Theatre. In 2007, he directed the UK National Tour of South Pacific
South Pacific (musical)

South Pacific is a 1949 in music#Musical theater with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan....
. In 2006, he directed the UK premiere of The Musical of Musicals, at the King's Head Theatre and Sound Theatre, London.

As Artistic Director of the Sevenoaks Playhouse he directed Vita & Virginia, The Railway Children
The Railway Children

The Railway Children is a children's book by E. Nesbit, originally published in 1906. It has been adapted for the screen several times, the 1970 film version is the best known....
, Wallflowering, Kiss of the Spiderwoman (the play), Wind in the Willows and Jeffrey Hatcher's version of The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw

The Turn of the Screw is a short novel or a novella written by American writer Henry James. Originally published in 1898 in literature, it is ostensibly a ghost story that has lent itself well to operatic and film adaptation....
.

He directed the 2003 British national tours of Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof

Fiddler on the Roof is a musical theatre with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905....
, Carousel
Carousel (musical)

Carousel is a musical theater by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II that was adapted from Ferenc Molnar's 1909 play Liliom, transplanting the Budapest setting of Molnar's play to a New England fishing village....
 and Murdered to Death and his productions at the Queen's Theatre Hornchurch include Turn of the Screw, Dames at Sea
Dames at Sea

Dames at Sea is a musical theatre with book and lyrics by George Haimsohn and Robin Miller and music by Jim Wise.The musical is a parody of large, flashy 1930s Busby Berkeley-style movie musicals in which an understudy steps into a role on Broadway theatre and becomes a star....
, The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music

The Sound of Music is a musical theater with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse....
, The Fifteen Streets, Who's Under Where?, The Underworld Project; Other productions include The Oedipus Complex and Oedipus Rex (Bristol New Vic); and The Comedy of Errors
The Comedy of Errors

The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's earliest plays, believed to have been written between 1589 and 1594. It is his shortest and one of his most farce, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and wordplay....
 (Worthing).

As a writer his work includes book and lyrics (with music by Richard John) for musical versions of Wind in the Willows (Sevenoaks Playhouse) and The Railway Children (both at Sevenoaks Playhouse).

He is also a producer and is winner of the prestigious Stage One Award from SOLT/TMA. He is currently producing the UK premiere of Totally Looped with Erica Fee.

In 2009 he will direct I Do! I Do!
I Do! I Do!

I Do! I Do! is a Musical theatre with a book and lyrics by Tom Jones and music by Harvey Schmidt.Based on the Jan de Hartog play The Fourposter, the two-character story spans fifty years, from 1895 to 1945, as it focuses on the trials and tribulations, laughters and sorrows, and hopes and disappointments experienced by Agnes and Mi...
 in Vienna (in English).

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