Jeremy Herrin
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| Occupation | Theatre director |
Jeremy Herrin is an English theatre director . He trained at both the Royal Court and the National Theatre.[1] On 10 June 2013, he was announced as the new director of Headlong Theatre.[2]
He recently directed the acclaimed National Theatre productions of James Graham's This House in the Cottesloe and the subsequent transfer to the Olivier Theatre, for which he was nominated as Best Director at the 2013 Olivier Awards.
In 2007 he directed the critically successful That Face by Polly Stenham at the Royal Court Upstairs, which subsequently transferred to the West End. He was nominated for the Evening Standard Award for Best Director for Stenham's Tusk Tusk in 2009. Since then he has directed a number of new plays at the Royal Court including Spur of the Moment by Anya Reiss and Richard Bean's The Heretic and most recently No Quarter. He made his Shakespearian debut at the Globe Theatre in 2011, directing Eve Best in Much Ado About Nothing. In 2011 Herrin directed several West End productions, including a well received revival of Alan Ayckbourn's Absent Friends. He also directed the UK premiere of David Hare's The Vertical Hour as well as the world premiere and West End transfer of Hare's South Downs. He has directed Roger Allam in Uncle Vanya and most recently in The Tempest at Shakespeare's Globe. In autumn 2013 he directs the world premiere of two plays of Hilary Mantel's novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies for the RSC.
Career
Having trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, he was an assistant director under Stephen Daldry at the Royal Court Theatre 1993-95. He then was a staff director at the National Theatre from 1995 to 1999. In 2000 he became Associate Director at Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne. He then became the Deputy Artistic Director at Royal Court to Dominic Cooke in 2009.
Stage productions
References
- ^ http://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/tft/client/user1671/
- ^ https://www.facebook.com/HeadlongTheatre?ref=stream&hc_location=stream
- ^ http://www.whatsonstage.com/news/theatre/london/E8831273589550/Galas%3A+Court+Laws,+Cardboard+Seats+%26+Grateful.html
- ^ http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/whatson01.asp?play=559
- ^ http://www.whatsonstage.com/interviews/theatre/london/E8821226922273/Jeremy+Herrin+On+...+TS+Eliot,+The+Playwright.html
- ^ http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/files/downloads/THATFACErelease.doc.pdf
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