The Art of the Artistic Director: Conversations with Leading Practitioners

ISBN-13: 9781350016934 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 200 str.

Christopher Haydon

Opis

The only book of its kind available, The Art of the Artistic Director features interviews with 20 of of the most prominent and successful artistic directors in the US and UK, uncovering the essential skills and talents that go into making an accomplished artistic director.

Recenzje

Invaluable . [Offers] a wide range of insights into the hoops US and British artistic directors must jump through before a play is even considered. The Irish Times

Spis treści

Forword by Michael GrandageSarah Benson - Soho Rep, LondonAndre Bishop - Lincoln Center Theater, New York (formerly Playwrights Horizons, New York)Oskar Eustis - Public Theatre (Formerly Associate AD at The Mark Taper Forum, LA and AD of Eureka Theatre Company in San Francisco)Paige Evans - Signature Theatre, New York (formerly LCT3, Lincoln Center New York)Robert Falls - Goodman Theatre, Chicago (formerly Wisdom Bridge Theatre, Chicago)Vicky Featherstone - Royal Court (Formerly National Theatre Scotland, Paines Plough)Sarah Frankcom - Manchester Royal ExchangeKwame Kwei-Armah - Young Vic, London (formerly Centre Stage, Baltimore)David Lan - formerly Young Vic, LondonTom Morris - Bristol Old Vic (Formerly BAC and also currently as Associate Director at the NT)Jim Nicola - New York Theatre WorkshopRufus Norris - Royal National Theatre, LondonDiane Paulus - American Repertory Theatre, BostonJosie Rourke - Donmar Warehouse (Formerly Bush Theatre)Indhu Rubasingham - Tricycle TheatreHoward Shalwitz - Woolly Mammoth, Washington DCNiegel Smith - Flea Theatre, New YorkKully Thiarai - National Theatre, Wales (formerly Red Ladder Theatre, Leeds and Leicester Haymarket Theatre)Erica Whyman - Deputy Artistic Director, Royal Shakespeare Company (formerly Southwark Playhouse and Gate Theatre, London)Madani Younis - Bush Theatre, London (formerly Freedom Studios, Bradford)

O autorze

Christopher Haydon was artistic director of the Gate Theatre, London, from 2012-17. Prior to that, he was an associate director at the Bush Theatre, London. He studied at Cambridge University and trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, the National Theatre Studio and with Cicely Berry at the RSC. In 2007 he received both the inaugural Chichester Festival Theatre Heller Fellowship and the Channel Four Theatre Director's Bursary at the Salisbury Playhouse. Directing credits include: Twelve Angry Men (Birmingham Rep and West End); The Christians (Gate Theatre/Traverse Theatre, Winner of a Fringe First Award); Grounded (Gate Theatre/Traverse Theatre, Winner of a Fringe First Award); Image of an Unknown Young Woman, The Edge of our Bodies, The Trojan Women, The Prophet, Wittenberg (Gate Theatre); Sixty Six Books, In The Beginning (Bush Theatre/Westminster Abbey); A Safe Harbour for Elizabeth Bishop (Southbank Centre); Pressure Drop, starring Billy Bragg and his band (Wellcome Collection); Deep Cut (Sherman Cymru/National Tour); Monsters (Arcola Theatre); A Number (Salisbury Playhouse); Grace (British Council/On Theatre, Theatre Du Poche, Brussels, Belgium); Notes from Underground (Arcola Theatre).