Adrian Noble

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Adrian Noble
Born	July 19, 1950(1950-07-19) Chichester, Sussex, England
Other names	Adrian Keith Noble
Occupation	Theatre director
Known for	Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director and chief executive

Adrian Keith Noble (born Chichester, Sussex, England, 19 July 1950^[1]) is a theatre director, and was also the artistic director and chief executive of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1990 to 2003.

1 Education and career
2 Theatre (selected productions)
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Education and career

After he graduated from Chichester High School, he studied at the University of Bristol. He began his professional career as a director at the London Drama Centre. In 1976 he moved on to the Bristol Old Vic and worked at the same time for the TV. From 1980 till 1981 he worked at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, producing the Duchess of Malfi, which won him the London Drama Critics' Award and the Circle Theatre Award (also for his production of Doktor Faust, and as Best Director for A Doll's House in 1980).

During his career, he received 120 Olivier Award nominations.^{[citation needed]} In 1980 he became assistant director at the RSC where his first production was Ostrowski's Two Sisters. In 1988 he was promoted to director, but in 1989 he took a break and left the company. He then worked for the Peter Hall Company, directing the Fairy Queen. He also worked at the Manhattan Theatre Club, the Kent Opera House and directed a production of Giovanni in a Paris circus tent.

After this time of searching for his independence, Noble returned to the RSC in March 1991. In 1993, he won the Globe Award for Best Director for The Winter's Tale. However, in 2002, he announced a final parting with the Company would happen the following year, stating that "it is now time for me to seek new artistic challenges".^[2]

He has also directed several successful London West End musicals including Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and The Secret Garden, and adapted Henrik Ibsen's play, Brand, for the London theatre in 2003.^[3] In 2007, he took Jean-Paul Sartre's Kean to Malvern, Bath and Brighton, before it transferred to the West End in the spring of that year.^[4] In 2008 he directed Hamlet for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.