Rupert Goold

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Rupert Goold , CBE (born February 18, 1972 in Highgate , London) is an English theater director, director and screenwriter. Since 2013 he has been artistic director of the Almeida Theater in London .

Life

Goold was born in Highgate, his father was a management consultant and his mother is a children's author. He studied English at Trinity College , Oxford. After graduating, he continued his studies in performance at New York University with a Fulbright scholarship . In 1995 he returned to England and worked in funding programs and as an assistant at the RNT studio and at the Salisbury Playhouse . From 2002 to 2005 he was Artistic Director of the Royal and Derngate in Northampton . From 2009 to 2012 he was Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company . From 2005 to 2013 he was the Artistic Director of the Headlong Theater , formerly The Oxford Stage Company , a touring theater based in London. In September 2013 he took over the artistic direction of the Almeida.

In the course of the New Year Honors 2017, Goold was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire by the British Queen .

Goold is married to actress Kate Fleetwood. The couple have two children.

Almeida Theater

Rupert Goold's relationship with the Almeida began in 2007 with a Headlong Theater co-production of Shakespeare's Macbeth . In 2008 he staged the European premiere of Stephen Adly Guirgi's The Last Days of Judas Iscariot here . In the same year American Psycho: A new musical thriller based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis with Matt Smith in the lead role had its world premiere here.

In 2014, Goold directed Mike Bartlett's King Charles III , a play in blank verse modeled on William Shakespeare's period dramas . Tim Pigott-Smith took over the role of Prince Charles . The play was a huge success and was subsequently adopted by Wyndham's Theater and then moved to the Music Box Theater on Broadway. Goold's production won the Critics' Circle Theater Award and received five Olivier Award nominations , including Best Director and Best Actor. In 2016 he produced a production of Shakespeare's Richard III. out with Ralph Fiennes in the title role and Vanessa Redgrave as Queen Margaret. The production was shown in August at the Ulysses Theater Festival in Brijuni .

Opera

In 1999 he staged the opera buffa Gli equivoci by Stephen Storace (1762–1796) at the Batignano Opera Festival . His first opera production in England - Giacomo Puccini's Turandot at the English National Opera - received mixed reviews. In 2005 he directed Rossini's comic opera Le comte Ory at Garsington Opera in Wormsley Estate, Buckinghamshire.

Movies

In 2010 the BBC aired a film adaptation of his production of Macbeth for the Chichester Festival. The film was shot in Welbeck Abbey . He evokes the atmosphere in the Soviet Union under the rule of Stalin and draws parallels between Macbeth and Stalin . The film won the 2010 Peabody Award , Patrick Stewart , who embodies Macbeth, received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination .

In 2012 he directed Richard II , the first part of the first cycle of the BBC series The Hollow Crown , which is about the Wars of the Roses . Goold co-wrote the script with Ben Power and Ben Whishaw plays Richard II. The film received a BAFTA nomination for Best Single Drama at the Television .

In 2015 his first feature film, True Story, came out, for which he wrote the script with David Kajganich . The film received three nominations for the Teen Choice Award 2015. His television film King Charles III was nominated for the BAFTA in 2018. In 2019, Judy, his film about Judy Garland , was released.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Unitedagents. Retrieved August 20, 2016
  2. ↑ New Year Honors 2017: Anna Wintour, Ken Dodd and Ray Davies on list , BBC December 30, 2016, accessed January 13, 2017
  3. ^ The Telegraph , April 27, 2008, accessed August 21, 2016.
  4. ↑ Total Croatia News August 11, 2016, accessed August 21, 2016.
  5. ↑ Michael Billington: Does Rupert Goold's Turandot really show him up? In: The Guardian, October 12, 2009, accessed August 21, 2016.
  6. ↑ List of winners 2010 pdf, accessed on May 11, 2019
  7. ↑ List of winners 2015 pdf, accessed on May 11, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Goold, Rupert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English theater director, director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Highgate , London