Giles Ramsay
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Giles Ramsay is founding Artistic Director of the Trident Theatre and is an award-winning dramatist, having won the Soho Theatre's Westminster Prize for his play Shall We Go to the Alhambra? He is also co-author of Only as Multiple, a stage adaptation of the poetry of Fernando Pessoa. His latest play is entitled For the Want of Bullets.
He was educated at St Chad's College, Durham University, where he was elected President of the Durham Union Society. He subsequently studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).
He has directed a series of plays, including Amadeus, Equus, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, Entertaining Mr. Sloane and Sophie (which was awarded four stars at the Edinburgh Festival and subsequently re-produced for BBC Radio 4).
He is particularly noted as a promoter of international art and works with artists in Columbia, Georgia, Mexico, Poland and Zimbabwe. In 2005 he produced MEXART 2005, a festival of Mexican music, dance, film and drama. It was awarded a Fringe First in Edinburgh.
