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William Alexander Paterson (born 23 February 1948) known professionally as Bill Alexander is a British theatre director who is best known for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and as artistic director of Birmingham Repertory Theatre. He currently works as a freelance, internationally as a theatre director and most recently as a ...
Following early success as part of the comedy double act The Right Size and their long-running stage show The Play What I Wrote, Foley has more recently become a director, including of several West End comedy productions. From 2019 to 2024, he was appointed as Artistic Director of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
Birmingham Repertory Theatre, commonly called Birmingham Rep or just The Rep, is a producing theatre based on Centenary Square in Birmingham, England. Founded by Barry Jackson , it is the longest-established of Britain's building-based theatre companies [ 1 ] and one of its most consistently innovative.
Jonathan Church, CBE (born 1967), is a British stage director. Church was the artistic director of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre (2001–2005) and Chichester Festival Theatre (2006–2016). [1] In August 2015, Sydney Theatre Company announced that he would be succeeding Andrew Upton as their artistic director. [2]
From 1929, he gave his support to the Montreal Repertory Theatre and worked closely with Martha Allan promoting Canadian theatre. From 1933, the Sir Barry Jackson Trophy was awarded to the best Canadian play staged at the Dominion Drama Festival. Jackson returned to Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1948, but retired from running the company.
Artistic Director – Hamish Glen Birmingham Hippodrome: Birmingham 1895 1,935 Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre Trust Ltd Birmingham Repertory Theatre: Birmingham 1913 1,265 Birmingham Rep Enterprises Limited Blackburn Empire Theatre: Blackburn October 2002 332 Charity with Volunteer Board Blackfriars Arts Centre: Boston 27 March 1949 230 ...
After a period of freelance theatre work he joined the Birmingham Repertory Theatre as Artistic Director in the autumn of 1965, in its original building - the first purpose built repertory theatre in the UK - and remained in that post until the company moved to the new venue in 1971, leaving in 1972, his last production there being the double ...
Khan is British Pakistani, and one of five brothers. [2] Khan began his studies at University of Cambridge in math and physics, but he became involved in theatre. His first show was a university production of Twelfth Night in which he played the priest, so he "spent a lot of time in a rehearsal room listening and observing other people". [3]