Guy Sprung is a director of film and theatre born in Ottawa in 1947. Having worked all over the world, he now lives in the Mile End area of Montreal and is the Artistic Director of Infinitheatre.
Before founding the Half Moon Theatre in London, England, he was an Assistant Director at the Schiller Theater in Berlin, where he gained tremendous experience working with some of Germany's best-known actors and directors in one of the largest repertory theatres in the world. As director of the wildly popular Balconville by David Fennario, Sprung traveled with the company on an international tour to England and Ireland. In 1990 Mr. Sprung was invited to direct A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Pushkin Theatre in Russian in Moscow. The production ran in repertory for eleven years to sold-out houses. He wrote Hot ice: Shakespeare in Moscow: a director's diary.( Winnipeg: Blizzard Publishing, 1991.(PN 2308 .S678 1991)) In 2001 his Montréal theatre company, Infinithéâtre, was invited to represent Québec and Canada at the Cairo International Festival of Experimental Theatre in Egypt, with its bilingual production of Beckett's Endgame/Fin de partie. Sprung created the bilingual version, directed the production, and also played the part of Nagg when Québec's beloved actor, the late Marc Gélinas, was in too poor health to play the role he originated. Sprung is perfectly fluent in both French and German, works easily in three languages, and even became proficient enough in Russian while in Moscow to direct in that language.
He has worked at The Canadian Stage Company, as Associate Director at the Stratford Festival, and as Interim Artistic Director of the Vancouver Playhouse and has taught at the National Theatre School of Canada and the Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique de Montréal.
His productions are marked by a vivid imagination and a profound understanding of the dynamics of text. Matt Radz [1] in The Gazette that "If there was a Great Book of Canadian Theatre, Sprung's picture would head the Cutting Edge chapter."
He has three children.