Dominic Cooke

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Dominic Cooke CBE (* 1966 in Wimbledon ) is a British theater director as well as theater and film director.

Life

Cooke's father was a film editor and his mother was an NHS employee . She actually wanted to become an actress, and was admitted to study at RADA in London, which she was not allowed to take up at her father's instigation. When Cooke was four years old, the parents divorced. He and his siblings grew up temporarily in Swiss Cottage in London, attended a state school and, as a student, benefited from the ILEA (The Inner London Education Authority) program, through which schools received free theater tickets.

While studying at Warwick University , he directed his first plays. After completing his studies, he first worked in television, headed his own theater company, the Pan Optic , for two years , and was then hired as assistant director at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). In 1996 he moved to the Royal Court Theater as Stephen Daldry's assistant and returned to the RSC in 2003, where he directed Shakespeare's Cymbeline as the first play . In 2006 he produced Arthur Miller's witch hunt with RSC and received the Laurence Olivier Award for it .

In 2006 he became Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theater, which under his direction brought out a number of controversial and award-winning productions and top hits. During the six years at the Royal Court he staged around 100 new plays. The 2009 production of Jerusalem , directed by Ian Rickson and starring Mark Rylance , first hit the West End and then hit Broadway in 2011 . Rylance won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, the play was nominated for a Tony Award , Rylance won the Tony for Best Actor. In 2009/2010 his play Arabian Nights , an adaptation of A Thousand and One Nights , was performed at the Young Vic at the Courtyard Theater in Stratford-upon-Avon.

In 2013 he finished his work at the Royal Court and from then on worked as a freelancer for theater and television. His first television directorial work was three episodes of The Hollow Crown , which was nominated for Best Miniseries at BAFTA 2017. The creation of the series, in which he was also involved as a screenwriter, he documented with a half-hour video The Hollow Crown: Making of The Hollow Crown . In 2017 he made his first feature film, Am Strand, based on the novel by Ian McEwan . His production of Follies at RNT won the Olivier Award 2018 for Best Musical Revival and received eight other nominations. Cooke himself was named best director for Follies with the Critics' Circle Theater Award awarded 2017th

Awards

  • 2010: Royal Court Theater - London Theater of the Year
  • 2013: Honorary Doctorate from Warwick University
  • 2014: Commander of the British Empire

literature

  • Elaine Aston, Thomas Mark: Royal Court: International . London: Macmillan 2015. (Studies in International Performance.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrew Dickson: Dominic Cooke: a life in theater The Guardian, January 31, 2011, accessed January 11, 2019
  2. ^ Rachel Cooke: Behind the scenes at the Royal Court, Dominic Cooke's years of living dangeroursly, The Guardian, Jan. 3, 2010
  3. ↑ Dominic Cooke to depart from Royal Court BBC.com, December 19, 2011, accessed January 4, 2019.
  4. ↑ Jerusalem wins high praise on Broadway The Guardian, April 22, 2011, accessed January 4, 2019
  5. ↑ Olivier Awards 2018: Winners in full bbc.com, accessed January 4, 2019
  6. ↑ Dominic Cooke, biography British Council, literature
personal data
SURNAME Cooke, Dominic
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British theater director and theater and film director
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Wimbledon