Stephen Whitson

Director - the bigger the scale the better / love working in multi-disciplinary teams / enjoy stories where success comes in the face of adversity / without pain there is no joy / choreography is creating order out of chaos, directing is creating chaos out of order / coffee, stuff, wine / he, him, his

Credits

-> MUSICALS
RAGTIME, Director, ArtsEd, Andrew Lloyd Webber Theatre, London, 2021
CITY OF ANGELS, Director, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, New Athenaeum Theatre, Glasgow, 2020
WEST SIDE STORY, Director, Edinburgh International Festival, Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 2019
WEST SIDE STORY, Director, BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall, London, 2018
RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET, Director, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, SWG3, Glasgow, 2016
PUTTING IT TOGETHER, Director, Lyric Theatre, Belfast, 2015
THE LAST FIVE YEARS, Director, Lyric Theatre, Belfast, 2015
ELEGIES FOR ANGELS, PUNKS AND RAGING QUEENS, Director, West End – Criterion Theatre, 2015
LITTLE WOMEN, Director, Old Rep Theatre, Birmingham, 2015

-> MUSICALS (as ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR)
HAMILTON, Associate Director (dir. Thomas Kail), Cameron Mackintosh, West End – Victoria Palace Theatre, 2016-22
MOULIN ROUGE, Associate Director (dir. Alex Timbers), Global Creatures, Broadway – Al Hirschfeld / West End – Piccadilly Theatre, 2019-22
42ND STREET, Associate Director (dir. Mark Bramble), GradeLinnit, West End – Theatre Royal Drury Lane, 2017-19
BARNUM, Associate Director (dir. Jean-Pierre van der Spuy), UK Tour (Cameron Mackintosh Ltd.), 2014-15
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, Associate Director (dir. Tamara Harvey), West End – Shaftesbury Theatre, 2013-14

-> STAGE (NEW WRITING & ADAPTATIONS)
DIARY OF A CEO LIVE (Steven Bartlett), Director, London Palladium & UK Tour, 2021-22
CAT (Jamie Beamish/Richard Hardwick), Director, West End – Ambassadors Theatre, 2017
BENIGHTED (J.B. Priestley), Director, Old Red Lion Theatre, London, 2016-17
YOU FORGOT THE MINCE (Francesca Joy), Director, Edinburgh/UK Tour/Prison Tour, 2016-17
DUBAILAND (Carmen Nasr), Director, Finborough Theatre, London, 2015
WHAT YOU WILL (Mark Rylance), Assistant Director (dir. Jonathan Moore), Shakespeare’s Globe, 2012

-> STAGE (REVIVALS)
IF ONLY (Michael Tremblay), Director, Bread & Roses Theatre, London, 2015
PRIVATE LIVES (Noel Coward), Assistant Director (dir. Martin Duncan), Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, 2014
CIRCUIT BREAKER (Maksym Kurochkin), Director, Timewave Festival, London, 2013
CROSS PURPOSE (Albert Camus), Director, Kings Head Theatre, London, 2012-13

-> OPERA
LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST, Assistant Director (dir. Stephen Barlow), Opera Holland Park, London, 2014
NOYE’S FLUDDE, Assistant Director (dir. Martin Duncan), Aldeburgh/BBC, 2013
 
-> FILM
DA (Short), Director, Rare Moustache, 2019
FACT OF LIFE, Director, Colchester Film Festival, 2015
SHOOTING STAR, Director, The Big Bads, 2015
13, Director, Rare Moustache, 2014
THE TRIP, Director, London Sci-Fi Festival, 2014

Previous Artistic & Executive Director of the Old Rep Theatre, Birmingham
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