The Art of the Artistic Director - Conversations with Leading Practitioners

Zusatztext A most unusual and important book … What emerges is a remarkable document, revealing the mixture of pragmatism and ideals, regrets and successes, artistic obsessions and nut-and-bolts practicalities that characterise the lives of all Artistic Directors, while showing us the myriad individual ways in which these remarkable people deal with the job. Informationen zum Autor Christopher Haydon was artistic director of the Gate Theatre, London, from 2012-17. Prior to that, he was an associate director at the Bush Theatre, London. He studied at Cambridge University and trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, the National Theatre Studio and with Cicely Berry at the RSC. In 2007 he received both the inaugural Chichester Festival Theatre Heller Fellowship and the Channel Four Theatre Director’s Bursary at the Salisbury Playhouse. Directing credits include: Twelve Angry Men (Birmingham Rep and West End); The Christians (Gate Theatre/Traverse Theatre, Winner of a Fringe First Award); Grounded (Gate Theatre/Traverse Theatre, Winner of a Fringe First Award); Image of an Unknown Young Woman, The Edge of our Bodies, The Trojan Women, The Prophet , Wittenberg (Gate Theatre); Sixty Six Books , In The Beginning (Bush Theatre/Westminster Abbey); A Safe Harbour for Elizabeth Bishop (Southbank Centre); Pressure Drop, starring Billy Bragg and his band (Wellcome Collection); Deep Cut (Sherman Cymru/National Tour); Monsters (Arcola Theatre); A Number (Salisbury Playhouse); Grace (British Council/On Theatre, Theatre Du Poche, Brussels, Belgium); Notes from Underground (Arcola Theatre). Klappentext How do you decide what stories an audience should hear? How do you make your theatre stand out in a crowded and intensely competitive marketplace? How do you make your building a home for artistic risk and innovation, while ensuring the books are balanced? It is the artistic director's job to answer all these questions, and many more. Yet, despite the central role that these people play in the modern theatre industry, very little has been written about what they do or how they do it. In The Art of the Artistic Director, Christopher Haydon (former artistic director of the Gate Theatre, 'London's most relentlessly ambitious theatre' - Time Out ) compiles a fascinating set of interviews that get to the heart of what it is to occupy this unique role. He speaks to twenty of the most prominent and successful artistic directors in the US and UK, including: Oskar Eustis (Public Theater, New York), Diane Paulus (AmericanRepertory Theater, Boston), Rufus Norris (National Theatre, London) and Vicky Featherstone (Royal Court Theatre, London), uncovering the essential skills and abilities that go into making an accomplished artistic director. The only book of its kind available, The Art of the Artistic Director includes a foreword by Michael Grandage, former artistic director of the Sheffield Crucible and the Donmar Warehouse in London. Vorwort The only book of its kind available, The Art of the Artistic Director features interviews with 20 of of the most prominent and successful artistic directors in the US and UK, uncovering the essential skills and talents that go into making an accomplished artistic director. Zusammenfassung How do you decide what stories an audience should hear? How do you make your theatre stand out in a crowded and intensely competitive marketplace? How do you make your building a home for artistic risk and innovation, while ensuring the books are balanced? It is the artistic director’s job to answer all these questions, and many more. Yet, despite the central role that these people play in the modern theatre industry, very little has been written about what they do or how they do it. In The Art of the Artistic Director, Chris...

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Forword by Michael Grandage

Sarah Benson - Soho Rep, London

Andre Bishop - Lincoln Center Theater, New York (formerly Playwrights Horizons, New York)

Oskar Eustis - Public Theatre (Formerly Associate AD at The Mark Taper Forum, LA and AD of Eureka Theatre Company in San Francisco)

Paige Evans - Signature Theatre, New York (formerly LCT3, Lincoln Center New York)

Robert Falls - Goodman Theatre, Chicago (formerly Wisdom Bridge Theatre, Chicago)

Vicky Featherstone - Royal Court (Formerly National Theatre Scotland, Paines Plough)

Sarah Frankcom - Manchester Royal Exchange

Kwame Kwei-Armah - Young Vic, London (formerly Centre Stage, Baltimore)

David Lan - formerly Young Vic, London

Tom Morris - Bristol Old Vic (Formerly BAC and also currently as Associate Director at the NT)

Jim Nicola - New York Theatre Workshop

Rufus Norris - Royal National Theatre, London

Diane Paulus - American Repertory Theatre, Boston

Josie Rourke - Donmar Warehouse (Formerly Bush Theatre)

Indhu Rubasingham - Tricycle Theatre

Howard Shalwitz - Woolly Mammoth, Washington DC

Niegel Smith - Flea Theatre, New York

Kully Thiarai - National Theatre, Wales (formerly Red Ladder Theatre, Leeds and Leicester Haymarket Theatre)

Erica Whyman - Deputy Artistic Director, Royal Shakespeare Company (formerly Southwark Playhouse and Gate Theatre, London)

Madani Younis - Bush Theatre, London (formerly Freedom Studios, Bradford)

Report

Invaluable . [Offers] a wide range of insights into the hoops US and British artistic directors must jump through before a play is even considered. The Irish Times

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Haydon
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.02.2019
• EAN: 9781350016934
• ISBN: 978-1-350-01693-4
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 214 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; Theatre Management, DRAMA / General, Theatre Direction & Production, Theatre direction and production