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RICHARD EYRE
DIRECTOR
RICHARD EYRE (Director) worked for ten years
in regional theatre in Leicester, Edinburgh and Nottingham (where he
commissioned and directed Trevor Griffith�s Comedians, which later
transferred to London and Broadway). In London his work includes his adaptations
of the novel, The Ha-Ha, and Sartre�s Les Mains Sales,
Hamlet (with Jonathan Pryce), David Mamet�s Edmond and The
Shawl, and Alan Bennett�s Kafka�s Dick. He became Director of the
Royal National Theatre in 1988, directing 27 productions including: Guys and
Dolls (Olivier, Evening Standard, and Critics Circle Awards for Best
Director), The Beggar�s Opera, Futurists (Time Out Award),
Hamlet (with Daniel Day-Lewis), The Voysey Inheritance, Richard
III (with Ian McKellen), Christopher Hampton�s White Chameleon,
Eduardo de Filippo�s Napoli Milionaria and La Grande Magia,
Tennessee Williams� The Night of the Iguana (with Eileen Atkins)
and Sweet Bird of Youth, John Gabriel Borkman (with Paul Scofield,
Vanessa Redgrave and Eileen Atkins; Critics Circle Award), King Lear
(with Ian Holm; also for BBC TV and WGBH; Evening Standard Award, Olivier Award,
Critics Circle Award), Tom Stoppard�s The Invention of Love (Evening
Standard Award) and David Hare�s Racing Demon (also at the Lincoln
Center), Murmuring Judges, The Absence of War (also for BBC TV),
Skylight (also at the Royale) and Amy�s View (also at the
Barrymore). He also produced over over a hundred productions (including 4 of
Arthur Miller�s plays), many of which transfered to New York � most notably
Carousel at the Lincoln Center, for which he won a Tony Award as
co-producer. He has also won a Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding
Achievement, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Critics Circle and from the
Directors Guild of Great Britain, and was knighted in 1997.
He has directed La Traviata at Covent Garden
(conducted by Georg Solti) and Le Nozze di Figaro at the Aix-en-Provence
festival. He has written a memoir, Utopia and Other Places, and (with
Nicholas Wright) Changing Stages, which was the basis of his TV series
for the BBC and PBS about the history of 20th C theatre. He has
directed many award-winning films for TV and two feature films - The
Ploughman�s Lunch (Evening Standard Award) and Iris (which he
co-wrote), currently playing in the US and the UK.
Read
the forward by Richard Eyre from the newly published hardcover edition of
The Crucible marking the occasion of its return to Broadway.
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