Sir Trevor Nunn

Trevor Nunn has now directed all 37 of Shakespeare’s 37 plays. From 1968 to 1986, he was the longest serving Artistic Director of the RSC, directing much of the Shakespeare canon, as well as the multi-award winning productions Nicholas Nickleby and Les Misérables.

From 1997 to 2003, he was Director of the National Theatre, where his productions included: The Merchant of Venice, Troilus and Cressida, Summerfolk, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Cherry Orchard, plus the musicals Oklahoma!, My Fair Lady and Anything Goes. He has directed the world premieres of Tom Stoppard’s Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia and Rock ’n’ Roll; and of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats, Starlight Express, Sunset Boulevard and The Woman in White.

Other theatre credits include: Timon of Athens and Skellig (Young Vic), The Lady from the Sea (Almeida), Hamlet, Richard II and Inherit the Wind (Old Vic), A Little Night Music (London/New York), Cyrano de Bergerac and Kiss Me Kate (Chichester Festival Theatre), Flare Path, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Tempest and The Lion in Winter (Theatre Royal, Haymarket), A Chorus of Disapproval (West End), Beckett’s All That Fall (London/ New York), Happy Days (Riverside Studios), Relative Values, Agnes Colander and The Score (Bath Theatre Royal/West End), Schikaneder (Vienna), Love in Idleness and Fiddler on the Roof (Menier Chocolate Factory/West End), The Third Man (Menier Chocolate Factory), Happy Days (Riverside Studios) and Uncle Vanya (Orange Tree Theatre). Opera includes, Idomeneo, Porgy and Bess, Così fan tutte and Peter Grimes (Glyndebourne and Salzburg) and Katya Kabanova and Sophie’s Choice (Royal Opera House).

His television credits include, Antony and Cleopatra, The Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, Three Sisters, Othello, King Lear and Prisoner C33; and on film, Hedda, Lady Jane, Twelfth Night and Red Joan.