HOWARD DAVIES
- The House of Special Purpose - Director -Festival 2009
Biography
Howard Davies is Associate Director of the National Theatre and was previously an Associate of the Royal Shakespeare Company. While at the RSC he established and ran the Warehouse Theatre where he produced and directed 35 new plays.
Work at the National includes Burnt by the Sun, Gethsemane, Her Naked Skin, Never So Good, Present Laughter, Philistines, The Life of Galileo, Paul, The President of an Empty Room, The House of Bernarda Alba, The Shaughraun, The Secret Rapture, Hedda Gabler, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Crucible, Piano, Pygmalion, The Children’s Hour, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Mary Stuart, Chips with Everything, Flight (Evening Standard and Critics’ Circle Awards for Best Director), Battle Royal, All My Sons (Olivier Award for Best Director), The Talking Cure and Mourning Becomes Electra (Critics’ Circle Award, Best Director; Olivier Award, Best Revival).
For the RSC his work included Piaf, Good, Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Troilus and Cressida.
For the Almeida his work has included Period of Adjustment, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Iceman Cometh (also at The Old Vic and on Broadway; Olivier, Evening Standard and Critics’ Circle Awards for Best Director), The Play About the Baby, and Vassa at the Albery. In the West End his work includes Private Lives and The Breath of Life.
He has directed eight productions on Broadway: Piaf, Good, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, My Fair Lady, Translations, The Iceman Cometh, Private Lives and Moon for the Misbegotten.
Opera includes Idomeneo, Eugene Onegin (WNO), I Due Foscari (Scottish Opera), and The Italian Girl in Algiers.
Television includes Tales from Hollywood, Armadillo, Copenhagen and Blue/Orange.
Films David Hare’s screenplay, The Secret Rapture.
