Gregory Doran

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Gregory "Greg" Doran (born November 24, 1958 in Huddersfield , West Yorkshire ) is a British actor and theater director. Since 2012 he has been the director of the renowned Royal Shakespeare Company , for which he has worked as an actor since 1987 and as a director since 1989.

Life

Greg Doran grew up in Lancashire and attended Preston Catholic College. He studied English and theater at the University of Bristol and then received professional acting training at the Bristol Old Vic Theater School . He began his theater career at the Playhouse in Nottingham . In 1987 he got an engagement as an actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company , in 1989 he started working there as an assistant director. In 1992 he was the sole director responsible for a play for the first time, and in 1996 he staged All Is True, his first Shakespeare play for the RSC. Since then, Doran has realized over half of the existing Shakespeare plays with the RSC. In 2012 Doran was appointed successor to RSC director Michael Boyds and from 2014 also took over the artistic direction.

Doran has also performed contemporary dramatists at the RSC and at other venues, including David Edgar's Written on the Heart in 2012 . In 2015 he staged Death of a Salesman for the season opening on Shakespeare's birthday in Stratford, breaking a custom in the Shakespeare community. In 1995 he directed Titus Andronicus in Johannesburg , in which his husband Antony "Tony" Sher played the title role. The production should be a project to support a South African theater company ( The Market ). Born in South Africa, Sher, who emigrated to England during apartheid, made it a point to give the play a politically critical component. This caused some controversy in Mandela's young democracy, the debate is the subject of the book Woza Shakespeare , published by Sher and Doran ! .

In 2003 he received the Laurence Olivier Award . In July 2011 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Bristol , the same honor has so far been given to him by the universities of Nottingham , Warwick , Huddersfield and Birmingham . In the 2012–13 academic year, Doran accepted the offered Humanitas visiting professorship at Oxford University (department of drama).

When he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, he met Sir Antony Sher KBE , with whom he has worked many times since. They have been in a relationship since 1987, after the introduction of the civil partnership in 2005, they were one of the first couples to make use of the new regulation. On the 10th anniversary of this alliance and after 28 years of relationship, the two finally married on December 21, 2015.

Publications (selection)

  • Antony Sher; Gregory Doran: Woza Shakespeare! : Titus Andronicus in South Africa , Publisher: London: Methuen Drama, 1996
  • Gregory Doran; David Wallace; Rebecca Dobbs; Gerry Branigan; Peter Harvey: In search of Shakespeare , Maya International Vision, Distributed by PBS Home Video: PBS DVD Video, 2003
  • Cardenio: Shakespeare's 'lost play' re-imagined , London: Nick Hern Books, 2011

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Career history on the RSC homepage , accessed on November 28, 2017.
  2. ^ Michael Billington: Gregory Doran is the right choice for the Royal Shakespeare Company , The Guardian , March 22, 2012
  3. ↑ Peter Aspden: The Inside of his head , in: Financial Times , March 14, 2015, p. 14
  4. ↑ Michael Kaiser: Gregory Doran and Antony Sher: A Remembrance Huffingtonpost.com, July 5, 2012. Retrieved November 28, 2017.
  5. ^ The art of darkness . In: The Times . August 30, 2008. Retrieved March 23, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Doran, Gregory
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Doran, Greg (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Huddersfield