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Sir Trevor Robert Nunn CBE
Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom....
 (born 14 January 1940) is an English
England

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 theatre- and film director
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
.

was born in Ipswich
Ipswich

Ipswich is a non-metropolitan district and the county town of Suffolk, England on the estuary of the River Orwell. Nearby towns are Felixstowe in Suffolk, Harwich in Essex and Colchester also in Essex....
, England
England

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 to Robert Alexander Nunn, a cabinetmaker, and Dorothy May Piper. He was educated at Northgate Grammar School, Ipswich and Downing College, Cambridge
Downing College, Cambridge

Downing College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom....
, where he began his stage career before becoming a trainee director at the Belgrade Theatre
Belgrade Theatre

The Belgrade Theatre is a Performance venue seating 866 and situated in Coventry, England. It was the first civic theatre to be built after the World War II in United Kingdom and as such was more than a place of entertainment....
 in Coventry
Coventry

Coventry is a City status in the United Kingdom and metropolitan borough in the county of West Midlands in England. With a population of 303,475 at the United Kingdom Census 2001 , Coventry is the 9th largest city in England and the 11th largest in the United Kingdom....
. He has held both the posts of Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company
Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company is a British theatre company. Located primarily at Stratford-upon-Avon, with bases also in London and Theatre Royal, Newcastle, it is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly-funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal National Theatre....
 and Director of the Royal National Theatre
Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre, London, England, is generally known as the National Theatre and commonly as The National. It is located on the The South Bank in the London Borough of Lambeth, England, immediately east of the southern end of Waterloo Bridge....
, following in the footsteps of Sir Peter Hall.






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Sir Trevor Robert Nunn CBE
Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom....
 (born 14 January 1940) is an English
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 theatre- and film director
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
.

Biography


Early years

Nunn was born in Ipswich
Ipswich

Ipswich is a non-metropolitan district and the county town of Suffolk, England on the estuary of the River Orwell. Nearby towns are Felixstowe in Suffolk, Harwich in Essex and Colchester also in Essex....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 to Robert Alexander Nunn, a cabinetmaker, and Dorothy May Piper. He was educated at Northgate Grammar School, Ipswich and Downing College, Cambridge
Downing College, Cambridge

Downing College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom....
, where he began his stage career before becoming a trainee director at the Belgrade Theatre
Belgrade Theatre

The Belgrade Theatre is a Performance venue seating 866 and situated in Coventry, England. It was the first civic theatre to be built after the World War II in United Kingdom and as such was more than a place of entertainment....
 in Coventry
Coventry

Coventry is a City status in the United Kingdom and metropolitan borough in the county of West Midlands in England. With a population of 303,475 at the United Kingdom Census 2001 , Coventry is the 9th largest city in England and the 11th largest in the United Kingdom....
. He has held both the posts of Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company
Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company is a British theatre company. Located primarily at Stratford-upon-Avon, with bases also in London and Theatre Royal, Newcastle, it is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly-funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal National Theatre....
 and Director of the Royal National Theatre
Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre, London, England, is generally known as the National Theatre and commonly as The National. It is located on the The South Bank in the London Borough of Lambeth, England, immediately east of the southern end of Waterloo Bridge....
, following in the footsteps of Sir Peter Hall. He was knighted in 2002.

Career

In 1968, Nunn was appointed Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company
Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company is a British theatre company. Located primarily at Stratford-upon-Avon, with bases also in London and Theatre Royal, Newcastle, it is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly-funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal National Theatre....
, a position he held until 1986. His first wife, Janet Suzman
Janet Suzman

Janet Suzman is a South African actress and director....
, appeared in many of his productions. Nunn became a leading figure in theatrical circles, and was responsible for many ground-breaking productions, such as the RSC's version of Dickens
Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens, Royal Society of Arts , pen-name "Boz", was the most popular English people novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous Reform movement....
's Nicholas Nickleby
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (play)

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is an eight-hour stage play, presented over two performances, adapted from the Charles Dickens The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by David Edgar ....
, co-directed with John Caird
John Caird (director)

John Newport Caird is an English stage director and writer of plays, musicals and operas....
. A very successful director of musicals, in the non-subsidised sector, Nunn was responsible for Cats
Cats (musical)

Cats is a Musical theatre composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. It introduced the song standard, 'Memory '....
 (1981), formerly the longest running musical in Broadway's
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 history, and the first English production of Les Misérables
Les Misérables (musical)

Les Mis?rables , colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz, is a Musical theatre composed in 1980 by the French composer Claude-Michel Sch?nberg with a libretto by Alain Boublil....
 in 1985, also with John Caird
John Caird (director)

John Newport Caird is an English stage director and writer of plays, musicals and operas....
.

Nunn has also directed opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
 at Glyndebourne
Glyndebourne Festival Opera

Glyndebourne Festival Opera is an list of opera festivals held at Glyndebourne, a country house near Lewes, in East Sussex, England.Under the supervision of the Christie family, the festival has been held annually since 1934, except in 1993, when the theatre was being rebuilt....
, and began directing for television with Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It was first printed in the First Folio of 1623.The plot is based on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Life of Markus Antonius and follows the relationship between Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Mark Antony from the time of the Roman-Persian Wars to Cleopatra's suicide....
 (starring Suzman) in 1974. He re-staged his highly successful Gyndebourne production of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess is an opera, first performed in 1935, with music by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward....
 for television in 1993, and it was more favorably received than the 1959 Samuel Goldwyn
Samuel Goldwyn

Samuel Goldwyn was an American film producer, and founding contributor executive of several motion picture studios....
 - Otto Preminger
Otto Preminger

Otto Ludwig Preminger was an Austrian-born Jewish film director who moved from the theatre to Hollywood, directing over 35 feature films in a five-decade career....
 film version of the opera. He has occasionally ventured into film directing, such as Lady Jane
Lady Jane (film)

Lady Jane is a 1986 in film United Kingdom costume drama romance film directed by Trevor Nunn, written by David Edgar , and stars Helena Bonham Carter in the title role....
 (1986), Hedda
Hedda (film)

Hedda is a 1975 film adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. It stars Peter Eyre, Glenda Jackson and Patrick Stewart.The movie was adapted by directed by Trevor Nunn....
, an adaptation of Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler

Hedda Gabler is a Play first published in 1890 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The play premiered in 1891 in Germany to negative reviews, but has subsequently gained recognition as a classic of Realism , nineteenth century theatre, and Drama ....
, and a 1996 film version
Twelfth Night: Or What You Will (1996 film)

Twelfth Night: Or What You Will is a 1996 in film film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, or What You Will by Film director Trevor Nunn....
 of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. He is currently married to actress Imogen Stubbs
Imogen Stubbs

Imogen Stubbs, Lady Nunn, , is a United Kingdom actress who was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, United Kingdom. She is married to Sir Trevor Nunn and they have two children together: a son called Jesse and a daughter called Ellie....
, whose play We Happy Few he directed, and who often appears in his productions, including the Twelfth Night mentioned above.

Besides Cats and Les Misérables Nunn's other musical credits include Starlight Express
Starlight Express

Starlight Express is a rock musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber , Richard Stilgoe and Arlene Phillips , with later revisions by Don Black and David Yazbek ....
 and Sunset Boulevard
Sunset Boulevard (musical)

Sunset Boulevard is a Musical theater with book and lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Based on the Sunset Boulevard , the plot revolves around Norma Desmond, a faded star of the silent screen era, living in the past in her decaying mansion on the fabled Los Angeles street....
. His current London production Les Miserables
Les Misérables (musical)

Les Mis?rables , colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz, is a Musical theatre composed in 1980 by the French composer Claude-Michel Sch?nberg with a libretto by Alain Boublil....
, has been running for nearly 22 years, whilst recent London credits include My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady is a musical theater based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe....
, 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....
 (at the Royal National Theatre
Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre, London, England, is generally known as the National Theatre and commonly as The National. It is located on the The South Bank in the London Borough of Lambeth, England, immediately east of the southern end of Waterloo Bridge....
), The Woman In White
The Woman in White (musical)

The Woman in White is a musical theater by Andrew Lloyd Webber and David Zippel with a book by Charlotte Jones, based on the novel The Woman in White written by Wilkie Collins....
, Othello
Othello

Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian language short story "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio first published in 1565....
 and Acorn Antiques The Musical, The Royal Hunt of the Sun
The Royal Hunt of the Sun

The Royal Hunt of the Sun is a 1964 play by Peter Shaffer that portrays the destruction of the Inca empire by conquistador Francisco Pizarro....
, Rock 'N' Roll (starring Alice Eve
Alice Eve

Alice Eve is a United Kingdom actor....
, Sinead Cusack
Sinéad Cusack

Sin?ad Moira Cusack is an Ireland actress....
, Brian Cox
Brian Cox

Brian Denis Cox, Order of the British Empire is a BAFTA- and Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated Scotland actor....
 and Rufus Sewell
Rufus Sewell

Rufus Frederik Sewell is an English people actor. In film, he appeared in The Woodlanders, Dangerous Beauty, Dark City , A Knight's Tale , The Illusionist, and Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence....
) and Porgy and Bess
Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess is an opera, first performed in 1935, with music by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward....
 (an abridged version with dialogue instead of recitatives, unlike Nunn's first production of the opera).

Nunn directed a modern production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet
Hamlet

Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle King Claudius, who has murdered King Hamlet, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude ....
 in 2004, which starred Ben Whishaw
Ben Whishaw

Benjamin "Ben" Whishaw is an England actor who trained at RADA. Whishaw is perhaps best known for his breakthrough role as Hamlet#Hamlet as a character, and his role as the lead character in Tom Tykwer's film Perfume: The Story of a Murderer ....
 in the title role, and was staged at the Old Vic
Old Vic

The Old Vic is a theatre located just south-east of Waterloo Station in London on the corner of The Cut and Waterloo Road, London. It became a Grade II* listed building in 1951....
 Theatre in London, England. In 2007 his RSC productions of King Lear
King Lear

King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1603 and 1606, and is considered one of his greatest works....
 and The Seagull
The Seagull

The Seagull is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major Play by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. The play was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896 in literature....
 played at Stratford before embarking on a world tour and playing at the New London Theatre
New London Theatre

The New London Theatre is a West End theatre located on the corners of Drury Lane and Parker Street in Covent Garden, in the London Borough of Camden....
 from November 2007. The two plays both starred Ian McKellen
Ian McKellen

Sir Ian Murray McKellen, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire , is an England actor of theatre and film, the recipient of the Tony Award and two Academy Awards nominations....
, Romola Garai
Romola Garai

Romola Sadie Garai is an award-winning England - Hungarian actor....
, Frances Barber
Frances Barber

Frances Barber is an Olivier Award-nominated English actor with a long and distinguished stage career. She has also worked extensively in BBC, Granada and ITV television drama....
, Sylvester McCoy
Sylvester McCoy

Sylvester McCoy is a Scotland acting. He is best known for playing the Seventh Doctor of Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1987 to 1989 and a brief return in a television movie in 1996....
, and William Gaunt
William Gaunt

William Charles Anthony Gaunt is an England actor, sometimes credited as Bill Gaunt....
. Nunn's television production of King Lear
King Lear (2008 TV film)

King Lear is a 2008 in film TV film based on the William Shakespeare King Lear, directed by Trevor Nunn. It was broadcast on More4 in the UK on Christmas Day, and shown on PBS in America in Autumn....
 is to be screened on Boxing Day, 2008. In 2008 he returned to The Belgrade Theatre in Coventry (the theatre where he started his career) to direct Joanna Murray-Smith
Joanna Murray-Smith

Joanna Murray-Smith is a Melbourne based playwright, screenwriter, novelist, Libretto and newspaper columnist....
's adaptation of Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman

Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Sweden director, writer and Film producer for film, stage and television. He depicted bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his explorations of the human condition....
's film Scenes from a Marriage
Scenes from a Marriage

Scenes from a Marriage is a 1973 in film Swedish cinema film and mini-series written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. The story follows the relationship between Marianne and Johan over the course of a number of years....
 starring Imogen Stubbs
Imogen Stubbs

Imogen Stubbs, Lady Nunn, , is a United Kingdom actress who was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, United Kingdom. She is married to Sir Trevor Nunn and they have two children together: a son called Jesse and a daughter called Ellie....
 and Iain Glen
Iain Glen

Iain Glen is a Scotland film and theatre actor.Glen was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He trained at RADA where he won the Bancroft Gold Medal....
.

His musical adaptation of Gone With The Wind
Gone With The Wind (musical)

Gone With The Wind is a musical theatre based on the famous Gone With The Wind, with music and lyrics by Margaret Martin, and a book by Martin, adapted by Sir Trevor Nunn....
, opened at the New London Theatre
New London Theatre

The New London Theatre is a West End theatre located on the corners of Drury Lane and Parker Street in Covent Garden, in the London Borough of Camden....
 in April 2008 and, after slating reviews, closed on 14 June 2008 after just 79 performances. In December 2008 he directed a revival of A Little Night Music
A Little Night Music

A Little Night Music is a Musical theater with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. Inspired by the Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night, it involves the romantic lives of several couples, with the music set almost entirely in waltz time....
 at the Menier Chocolate Factory
Menier Chocolate Factory

The Menier Chocolate Factory is an award-winning 190 seat fringe theatre studio theatre, restaurant and gallery. It is located in a former 1870s chocolate factory in Southwark Street, a major street in the London Borough of Southwark, central south London, England....
.

Personal life

Nunn is married to actress Imogen Stubbs
Imogen Stubbs

Imogen Stubbs, Lady Nunn, , is a United Kingdom actress who was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, United Kingdom. She is married to Sir Trevor Nunn and they have two children together: a son called Jesse and a daughter called Ellie....
 with whom he has two children, Ellie and Jesse. With his first wife, actress Janet Suzman
Janet Suzman

Janet Suzman is a South African actress and director....
, he has one child, Joshua, and another two, Laurie and Amy, with his second wife Sharon Lee-Hill.

Credits


Broadway

  • Rock 'n' Roll - Nov 4, 2007 - Mar 9, 2008
  • Les Misérables - Nov 9, 2006 - Jan 6, 2008
  • The Woman in White
    The Woman in White (musical)

    The Woman in White is a musical theater by Andrew Lloyd Webber and David Zippel with a book by Charlotte Jones, based on the novel The Woman in White written by Wilkie Collins....
     - Nov 17, 2005 - Feb 19, 2006
  • Chess
    Chess (musical)

    Chess is a musical theater with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Bj?rn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, formerly of ABBA. The story involves a romantic triangle between two players in a world chess championship, and a woman who manages one and falls in love with the other....
     - Sep 22, 2003 - Sep 22, 2003
  • Vincent in Brixton
    Vincent in Brixton

    Vincent in Brixton is a Play by Nicholas Wright. The play premiered at London's Royal National Theatre. It transferred to the Playhouse Theatre and later to Broadway theatre....
     - Mar 6, 2003 - May 4, 2003
  • Oklahoma! - Mar 21, 2002 - Feb 23, 2003
  • Noises Off
    Noises Off

    Noises Off is a 1982 Play by English playwright Michael Frayn. The idea for it was born in 1970, when Frayn was standing in the wings watching a performance of The Two of Us , a farce that he had written for Lynn Redgrave....
     (as original producer) - Nov 1, 2001 - Sep 1, 2002
  • Rose (play) (as original producer) - Apr 12, 2000 - May 20, 2000
  • Copenhagen
    Copenhagen (play)

    Copenhagen is a play by Michael Frayn, based around an event that occurred in Copenhagen in 1941, a meeting between the physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg....
     (as original producer) - Apr 11, 2000 - Jan 21, 2001
  • Amy's View
    Amy's View

    Amy?s View was written by British playwright David Hare, and originally premiered in London at the Royal National Theatre?s Lyttelton Theatre on June 13th, 1997....
     (as original producer) - Apr 15, 1999 - Jul 18, 1999
  • Closer
    Closer (play)

    Closer is the third play written by English playwright Patrick Marber. The play was premiered at the Royal National Theatre in London in 1997, and made its North American debut at the Music Box Theatre on Broadway on 25 January 1999....
     (as original producer) - Mar 25, 1999 - Aug 22, 1999
  • Not About Nightingales
    Not about Nightingales

    Not about Nightingales is a play by Tennessee Williams that was written in 1938 in literature for the Group Theatre in New York City but was rejected and remained unproduced until 1998 in literature....
     - Feb 25, 1999 - Jun 13, 1999
  • Arcadia
    Arcadia

    Arcadia, Arkad?a , or Arcady is a region of Greece in the Peloponnesus. It takes its name from the mythological character Arcas....
     - Mar 30, 1995 - Aug 27, 1995
  • Sunset Boulevard - Nov 17, 1994 - Mar 22, 1997
  • Aspects of Love
    Aspects of Love

    Aspects of Love is a musical theatre with a book and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Don Black and Charles Hart . It is most famous for losing the most money on Broadway....
     - Apr 8, 1990 - Mar 2, 1991
  • Chess - Apr 28, 1988 - Jun 25, 1988
  • Starlight Express
    Starlight Express

    Starlight Express is a rock musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber , Richard Stilgoe and Arlene Phillips , with later revisions by Don Black and David Yazbek ....
     - Mar 15, 1987 - Jan 8, 1989
  • Les Misérables - Mar 12, 1987 - May 18, 2003
  • The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
    The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

    The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is a comic novel by Charles Dickens. Originally published as a Serial from 1838 to 1839, it was Dickens' third novel....
     - Aug 24, 1986 - Oct 12, 1986
  • André DeShield's Harlem Nocturne
    Harlem Nocturne

    Harlem Nocturne is a jazz standard written by Earle Hagen and Dick Rogers in 1939. A deliberate attempt by Hagen to capture and imitate the sound of Duke Ellington's compositions, the song was adopted by bandleader Randy Brooks the next year as his theme song....
     (Featuring songs with lyrics by Trevor Nunn) - Nov 18, 1984 - Dec 30, 1984
  • Cyrano de Bergerac
    Cyrano de Bergerac

    Hector Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac was a France dramatist and duelist who is now best remembered for the many works of fiction which have been woven around his life story....
     (as original producer) - Oct 16, 1984 - Jan 19, 1985
  • Much Ado About Nothing
    Much Ado About Nothing

    Much Ado About Nothing is a romantic Shakespearean comedy by William Shakespeare set in Messina, Sicily. The story concerns a pair of lovers named Claudio and Hero who are due to be married in a week....
     (as original producer) - Oct 14, 1984 - Jan 16, 1985
  • All's Well that Ends Well
    All's Well That Ends Well

    All's Well That Ends Well is a play by William Shakespeare. It was probably written between 1601 in literature and 1608 in literature, and it was first published in the First Folio in 1623 in literature....
      - Apr 13, 1983 - May 15, 1983
  • Good (as original producer) - Oct 13, 1982 - Jan 30, 1983
  • Cats - Oct 7, 1982 - Sep 10, 2000
  • The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby - Oct 4, 1981 - Jan 3, 1982
  • Piaf - Feb 5, 1981 - Jun 28, 1981
  • London Assurance
    London Assurance

    London Assurance is a five-act comedy by Dion Boucicault. It was the second play that he wrote, but his first to be produced. Its first production, from March 4, 1841 at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden was Boucicault's first major success....
     (as original producer) - Dec 5, 1974 - Jan 12, 1975
  • Sherlock Holmes (as original producer) -Nov 12, 1974 - Jan 4, 1976
  • Old Times (as original producer) - Nov 16, 1971 - Feb 26, 1972
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream
    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic love Shakespearean comedies by William Shakespeare, suggested by "The Knight's Tale" from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, written around 1594 to 1596....
     (as original producer) - Jan 20, 1971 - Mar 13, 1971


West End

  • A Little Night Music - 2009
  • Gone with the Wind - 2008
  • Porgy and Bess - 2006
  • Acorn Antiques: The Musical! - 2005
  • The Woman in White - 2004
  • Anything Goes - 2002
  • South Pacific - 2001
  • My Fair Lady - 2001
  • Oklahoma! - 1998
  • Sunset Boulevard -1993
  • The Baker's Wife - 1989
  • Aspects of Love - 1989
  • Chess - 1986
  • Les Misérables - 1985
  • Starlight Express - 1984
  • Cats - 1981


Film

  • Twelfth Night: Or What You Will (director and adaptation) (1996)
  • Lady Jane (film)
    Lady Jane (film)

    Lady Jane is a 1986 in film United Kingdom costume drama romance film directed by Trevor Nunn, written by David Edgar , and stars Helena Bonham Carter in the title role....
     (director) (1986)
  • Hedda (film)
    Hedda (film)

    Hedda is a 1975 film adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. It stars Peter Eyre, Glenda Jackson and Patrick Stewart.The movie was adapted by directed by Trevor Nunn....
     (director and adaptation) (1976)


Television

  • The Merchant of Venice (2001 TV movie)
  • Oklahoma! (1999 TV movie)
  • Porgy and Bess (1993 TV movie)
  • Othello (1990 TV movie)
  • The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1982 TV mini-series)
  • The Three Sisters (1981 TV movie)
  • BBC2 Playhouse (TV series) - (1 episode, 1979)
    • Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (1979)


Broadway awards and nominations

  • 2002 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical
    Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical

    This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical. Prior to 1960, category for direction included plays and musicals....
     – Oklahoma! [nominee]
  • 2002 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical
    Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical

    The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor Director of a Musical was first awarded at the 1974-1975 Drama Desk Awards and has been awarded every year since....
     – Oklahoma! [nominee]
  • 1999 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play
    Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play

    The Tony Award for Best Direction has been given since 1947. In 1960, the award was split into two categories: Dramatic and Musical. In 1976 the Dramatic category was renamed to Play....
     – Not About Nightingales [nominee]
  • 1999 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play
    Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play

    The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor Director of a Play was first awarded at the 1974-1975 Drama Desk Awards and has been awarded every year since....
     – Not About Nightingales [winner]
  • 1995 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical– Sunset Boulevard [nominee]
  • 1995 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical– Sunset Boulevard [nominee]
  • 1990 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical– Aspects of Love [nominee]
  • 1987 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical– Les Misérables [winner]
  • 1987 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical– Starlight Express [nominee]
  • 1983 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical– Cats [winner]
  • 1983 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play– All's Well that Ends Well [nominee]
  • 1983 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play– All's Well that Ends Well [winner]
  • 1982 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play– The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby [winner]
  • 1975 Drama Desk Award Unique Theatrical Experience – London Assurance [winner]


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