Michael Grandage

Michael Grandage, 2018

Michael Grandage CBE (born May 2, 1962 in Yorkshire , England) is a British theater, opera and film director and producer. From 2002 to 2012 Grandage was Artistic Director of Donmar Warehouse in London.

Life

Grandage was educated at the Central School of Speech and Drama and the Humphry Davy School. Grandage is in a relationship with Christopher Oram.

From 1999 to 2005 Grandage was Artistic Director of the Sheffield Theater , from 2002 to 2012 Artistic Director of Donmar Warehouse in London. For his work at the Donmar Warehouse, he has received the Tony Award , the Laurence Olivier Award , the Evening Standard Award , the Critics' Circle Theater Award and the South Bank Awards . He received his first Laurence Olivier Award nomination in 2001 for directing Peter Nichols Passion Play , before receiving an award in 2004 for his work on David Greig's Caligula . Two of his musical productions at Donmar Warehouse also received a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Musical Production and another award for Best New Musical .

At the end of 2011, Grandage founded the Michael Grandage Company for theater, film and television productions together with James Bierman, the then Executive Producer at Donmar Warehouse. In 2012 he ended his position as head of the Donmare Warehouse. In 2014, Grandage and Bierman began work on their first feature film. The film Genius , which was cast with Colin Firth , Jude Law and Nicole Kidman among others , describes the relationship between publisher Max Perkins and the writer Thomas Wolfe and is based on a biography by A. Scott Berg. The project announced in January 2016 to film the play Photograph 51 , which tells the story of the biochemist and pioneer of DNA research Rosalind Franklin , with Nicole Kidman in the lead role, has not been realized until today (2019).

Directing work at the theater

1996: The Last Yankee - Mercury Theater, Colchester 1997: The Deep Blue Sea - Mercury Theater, Colchester 1998: The Doctor's Dilemma - Almeida & national tour 1998: Twelfth Night - Sheffield 1998: What The Butler Saw - Sheffield 1999: The Jew of Malta - Almeida & national tour 1999: Good - Donmar Warehouse 2000: The Country Wife - Sheffield 2000: Passion Play - Donmar Warehouse 2000: As You Like It - Sheffield & Lyric Hammersmith 2000: Merrily We Roll Along - Donmar Warehouse 2001: Don Juan - Sheffield 2001: Private on Parade - Donmar Warehouse 2001: Edward II - Sheffield 2002: The Tempest - Sheffield & Old Vic Theater, London 2002: Richard III - Sheffield 2002: The Vortex - Donmar Warehouse 2003: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Sheffield 2003: Caligula - Donmar Warehouse 2003: After Miss Julie - Donmar Warehouse 2004: Don Carlos - Sheffield & Gielgud Theater , London 2004: Suddenly Last Summer - Sheffield & Noel Coward Theater, London 2004: Pirandello's Henry IV - Donmar Warehouse 2004: Grand Hotel - Donmar Warehouse 2005: The Wild Duck - Donmar Warehouse 2005: Guys and Dolls - Piccadilly Theater, London 2006: The Cut - Donmar Warehouse 2006: Frost / Nixon - Jacobs Theater, New York

2006: Evita - Adelphi Theater, London 2006: Frost / Nixon - Donmar & Gielgud Theater, London 2006: Don Juan in Soho - Donmar Warehouse 2007: John Gabriel Borkman - Donmar Warehouse 2008: Twelfth Night - Donmar at Wyndham’s 2008: Ivanov - Donmar at Wyndham’s 2008: The Chalk Garden - Donmar Warehouse 2008: Othello - Donmar Warehouse 2009: Madame de Sade - Donmar at Wyndham’s 2009: Red - Donmar Warehouse 2009: Hamlet - Donmar at Wyndham’s 2010: King Lear - Donmar Warehouse 2010: Madama Butterfly (Opera) - Houston Grand Opera 2010: Danton's Death - National Theater 2011: Richard II - Donmar Warehouse 2011: Luise Miller - Donmar Warehouse 2011: Don Giovanni (Opera) - Metropolitan Opera, New York 2011: King Lear - Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York 2012: Le Nozze de Figaro (Opera) - Glyndebourne 2012: Evita - Marquis Theater, New York 2013: Henry V - Noel Coward Theater 2013: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Noel Coward Theater 2013: The Cripple of Inishmaan - Noel Coward Theater 2013: Peter and Alice - Noel Coward Theater 2013: Privates on Parade - Noel Coward Theater 2014: Dawn French: Thirty Million Minutes - UK Touring Production 2014: The Cripple of Inishmaan - Cort Theater, New York 2015: Photograph 51 - Noël Coward Theater

Filmography

• 1989: Chelworth (TV series, 7 episodes)
• 1990: The Green Man (TV series, 3 episodes)
• 1997–1998: Bugs (7 episodes)
• 2016: Genius (as director and producer)

Awards

• 2000: Critics' Circle Theater Award for Best Theater Direction - Merrily We Roll Along / Passion Play / As You Like It
• 2000: London Evening Standard Theater Award for Best Directing - Merrily We Roll Along / Passion Play / As You Like It
• 2004: Laurence Olivier Award for Best Theater Director - Caligula
• 2005: Critics' Circle Theater Award for Best Theater Director - The Wild Duck
• 2005: TMA Award for Best Theater Director - Don Carlos
• 2005: London Evening Standard Theater Award for Best Theater Director - Grand Hotel / Don Carlos
• 2008: London Evening Standard Theater Award for Best Director - Ivanov / The Chalk Garden / Othello
• 2009: Critics' Circle Theater Award for Best Theater Director - Ivanov / The Chalk Garden
• 2009: Theatregoers' Choice Award for Best Theater Director - Ivanov / The Chalk Garden / Othello
• 2010: Tony Award for Best Theater Director - Red
• 2010: Drama Desk Award for Best Theater Director - Red
• 2011: London Evening Standard Editors Award - for one season at Donmar Warehouse
• 2011: Critics' Circle Theater Award for Best Theater Director - King Lear
• 2014: Whatsonstage Award for Best Theater Director - for The Michael Grandage Season at the Noel Coward Theater
• 2016: Berlin International Film Festival - nomination for best debut film - Genius - The thousand sides of a friendship
• 2016: Berlin International Film Festival - Nomination for the Golden Bear - Genius
• 2016: Film by the Sea - Nomination for the Film and Literature Award - Genius - The thousand sides of a friendship
• 2017: Goya Awards 2017 - nomination for best European film - Genius - The thousand sides of friendship

Web links

• Michael Grandage in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Michael Grandage in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
• Michael Grandage Company Homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ After 'Genius' another offer for Nicole Kidman ( memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: DIE ZEIT Online, January 13, 2016.
2. ↑ Pamela Rolfe: Juan Antonio Bayona's 'A Monster Calls' Leads Goya Award Nominations In: The Hollywood Reporter, December 14, 2016.