John Caird was born in Edmonton, Canada, in 1948 and educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford, and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. John is a freelance theatre director who was first an Associate Director of the Contact Theatre, Manchester, before moving on to the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he was an Associate Director for twelve years and is now an Honorary Associate Director. John’s numerous productions at the Royal Shakespeare Company include A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, AS YOU LIKE IT, TWELFTH NIGHT, ROMEO AND JULIET, and ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, and classic plays by such writers as George Bernard Shaw and Ben Jonson, as well as many premieres of new work. Together with Trevor Nunn, John directed the first production of PETER PAN, at the Barbican Theatre in 1982 (and two subsequent revivals), and then NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, which played on Broadway in 1981 and 1986 and in Los Angeles in 1986 (it was also produced for television in 1984) and for which they won the Tony Award for Best Director. They won the same award in 1987 for their production of LES MISERABLES, which has played to audiences all over the world including Japan, Australia, France, Canada, Israel, Sweden, Norway, Spain, Holland, Hungary, and the United States. In the West End, John directed Andrew Lloyd Webber’s SONG AND DANCE, which ran for two years at the Palace Theatre and the musical CHILDREN OF EDEN, which played at the Prince Edward Theatre and which he co-wrote with Stephen Schwartz. In 1989 John wrote and directed a show in Las Vegas with the internationally renowned illusionists Siegfried and Roy. In 1984 he directed AS YOU LIKE IT in Stockholm, Sweden, both at the Klarateatern and for Swedish television, and in 1991 directed ZAIDE by Mozart at Batignano in Italy. John also directed TRELAWNY OF THE WELLS at the National Theatre.
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Trevor Nunn was educated at Downing College, Cambridge, and in 1962 he won an ABC Director’s Scholarship to the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, where as Resident Director, his productions included The CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE, PEER GYNT, and a musical version of AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS. In 1964, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, was made an Associate Director in 1965, and became the company’s youngest ever Artistic Director in 1968. He was responsible for running the RSC until he retired from his post in 1986. His productions for the RSC included: THE REVENGER’S TRAGEDY, THE RELAPSE, THE ALCHEMIST, HENRY V, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, KING LEAR, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, THE WINTER’S TALE, HENRY VIII, HAMLET, MACBETH, ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, CORIOLANUS, JULIUS CAESAR, TITUS ANDRONICUS, ROMEO AND JULIET, THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, AS YOU LIKE IT, ALL’S WELL THAT END’S WELL, ONCE IN A LIFETIME, THREE SISTERS, JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK, OTHELLO (the final production at The Other Place Theatre), and THE BLUE ANGEL and MEASURE FOR MEASURE (the first two productions in the new Other Place Theatre). With his colleague John Caird, he co-directed NICHOLAS NICKLEBY (winner of five Tony Awards), J.M. Barrie’s PETER PAN, and LES MISERABLES, which won eight Tony Awards and has become the most performed musical in the world. In 1982, he opened the RSC’s new London home, the Barbican Theatre, with his production of Shakespeare’s HENRY IV, PARTS I and II. 1986 saw the opening of the Swan Theatre in Stratford upon Avon, which he conceived and for which he directed one of the first productions, THE FAIR MAID OF THE WEST. Outside the RSC, he has directed the Tony Award-winning CATS, STARLIGHT EXPRESS, and ASPECTS OF LOVE for Andrew Lloyd Webber, CHESS, THE BAKER’S WIFE, TIMON OF ATHENS, HEARTBREAK HOUSE, ARCADIA, and at Glyndebourne, IDOMENEO, PORGY AND BESS, COSI FAN TUTTE, and PETER GRIMES. His television work includes "Antony and Cleopatra" (BAFTA award), "The Comedy of Errors," "Macbeth," "Three Sisters," "Nicholas Nickleby" (Emmy Award), "Word of Mouth," "Othello," and "Porgy and Bess." He has directed two films, "Hedda" and "Lady Jane."
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