JONATHAN CHURCH
- Master Class - Director -Winter 2010
- The Critic / The Real Inspector Hound - Director -Festival 2010
- The Grapes of Wrath - Director -Festival 2009
- The Circle - Director -Festival 2008
- Hobson's Choice - Director -Festival 2007
- Nicholas Nickleby - Part I - Co-director -Festival 2007
- Nicholas Nickleby - Part II - Co-director -Festival 2007
- Nicholas Nickleby Part I - Co-Director -Festival 2006
- Nicholas Nickleby Part II - Co-Director -Festival 2006
- Pravda - Director -Festival 2006
Biography
Born and educated in Nottingham, Jonathan trained as Assistant Director at the Nottingham Playhouse. Other posts include Associate Director of Derby Playhouse (1994-1995), Artistic Director of Salisbury Playhouse (1995-1999), Associate Director of Hampstead Theatre (1999-2001) and Artistic Director of Birmingham Repertory Theatre (2001-2006).
As Artistic Director of Chichester Festival Theatre Jonathan has directed The Grapes of Wrath, The Circle, Hobson’s Choice, Pravda and co-directed, with Philip Franks, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Parts I and II (all Festival Theatre).
West End Productions include Of Mice and Men (Savoy Theatre and The Old Vic ), The Witches (Wyndham’s Theatre), A Busy Day (Lyric Theatre), The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Parts I and II (Gielgud Theatre).
National touring productions include The Grapes of Wrath, The Crucible, The Witches, Of Mice and Men, The Diary of Anne Frank, Hobson’s Choice, God and Stephen Hawking, Romeo and Juliet, The Circle.
Other productions include The Life of Galileo, Promises and Lies, Elizabeth Rex, Hobson’s Choice, Of Mice and Men, Private Lives, Closer, Peter Pan, The David Hare Trilogy, The Norman Conquests, The Crucible and The Witches (Birmingham Rep), A Busy Day (Bristol Old Vic), You Be Ted and I’ll Be Sylvia (Hampstead Theatre), The Crucible (Birmingham Old Rep), The Norman Conquests, The Rover, The Banished Cavaliers, The Merchant of Venice, The Rehearsal, The Double Inconstancy, Disappearances, Racing Demon, The Cherry Orchard, Romeo and Juliet, The Alchemical Wedding, Colombe (Salisbury Playhouse), Angels Rave On and Saint Oscar (Nottingham Playhouse), Educating Rita and Oleanna (Salisbury Playhouse and Chichester Festival Theatre), Top Girls (Theatre Royal Plymouth), Time and the Conways (Colchester Mercury), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Two, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, The Importance of Being Earnest, Absurd Person Singular and Oleanna (Derby Playhouse), The Bear and The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Sheffield Crucible), Magnetic North (West Yorkshire Playhouse), In Lambeth (Lyric Hammersmith Studio and Nottingham Playhouse), The Broken Heart (Lyric Hammersmith Studio), Comic Cuts (Derby Playhouse, Bristol Old Vic and Lyric Hammersmith Studios).
