Career Gregory Doran

1 career

1.1 non-rsc productions
1.2 tv
1.3 books

career

doran left bristol old vic school having been invited direct midsummer night s dream @ jamestown community college in upstate new york. went nottingham playhouse actor, before becoming assistant director associate director, directing own productions including waiting godot, , long day s journey night.

after brief acting career in tv, joined royal shakespeare company in 1987 actor (as solanio in merchant of venice , octavius caesar in julius caesar) became assistant director following season.

he directed first rsc production in 1992, commissioning derek walcott write adaptation of homer s odyssey performed @ other place.

in 1995 directed partner antony sher titus andronicus @ market theatre, johannesburg, south africa. controversial production, toured national theatre, subject of book, woza shakespeare!

he returned rsc in 1996, becoming associate director, , directing jane lapotaire, ian hogg , paul jesson in true (or henry viii), first shakespeare company.

since then, doran has directed on half canon of shakespeare s plays rsc.

1999


the winter s tale
timon of athens michael pennington


2000


macbeth (which made channel 4 film)


2001


king john


2002


much ado nothing harriet walter , nicholas le prevost
doran supervised season of seldom-performed jacobean plays, including debatedly shakespearean edward iii , works philip massinger, john fletcher, ben jonson, john marston , george chapman earned doran laurence olivier award outstanding achievement of year


2003


the taming of shrew
fletcher s sequel, tamer tamed alexandra gilbreath , jasper britton
all s ends took judi dench rsc after 25 years


2004


othello antony sher , sello maake ncube


2005


a midsummer night s dream


2006


antony , cleopatra harriet walter, , patrick stewart both returned rsc after 24 years
merry wives musical, dame judi dench , simon callow


2007


coriolanus houston, janet suzman , timothy west toured madrid , washington dc (the final production in royal shakespeare theatre before closed redevelopment, re-opening in winter 2010/11)


2008


doran directed company in 3 plays in courtyard theatre including revival of 2005 production of midsummer night s dream, plus love s labour s lost , hamlet both featured david tennant


2009


film adaptation of award-winning production of hamlet broadcast on bbc on boxing day.


2011


written on heart, play david edgar, mark 400th anniversary of publication of king james bible.


2012


directed julius caesar world shakespeare festival, played in stratford-upon-avon, london, moscow, new york , ohio. winter 2012 directed orphan of zhao (swan theatre).


2013


doran directed david tennant in title role of richard ii @ royal shakespeare theatre , barbican.


2014


directed henry iv, part 1 , henry iv, part 2 @ royal shakespeare theatre. production toured uk, played @ barbican, london , screened live in cinemas.
directed witch of edmonton in swan theatre eileen atkins in title role.


2015


arthur miller s death of salesman antony sher in role of willy loman, alex hassell biff , harriet walter linda loman.
shakespeare s henry v


2016


directed shakespeare s king lear antony sher in title role
the tempest


2017


directed puppet-based performance of venus & adonis
directing upcoming productions imperium: conspirator , imperium: dictator, based on cicero trilogy robert harris

non-rsc productions

doran has directed various productions outside rsc including:

the york mystery plays in millennium production in york minster, 2000
the real inspector hound , black comedy, 1998, donmar theatre, london
mahler s conversion ronald harwood, aldwych theatre, london
the giant antony sher, hampstead theatre, london
anjin: english samurai mike poulton
the merchant of venice, galaxy theatre, tokyo

tv

doran contributed michael wood s bbc series in search of shakespeare, , filmed documentary bbc 4 called midsummer night s dreaming.

books

in 2009, doran s shakespeare almanac published.