Lindsay Posner
Lindsay Posner (born 6 June 1959) is an award-winning British theatre director, known for his work in London's West End and at the Royal Court Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre, particularly plays by David Mamet.
Career
Lindsay Posner graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1984. He was associate director of the Royal Court Theatre from 1987 to 1992 where his production of Death and the Maiden won two Laurence Olivier Awards.
He has directed five productions of David Mamet's plays, describing him as "America's greatest living playwright".[1]
Theatre
As associate director at the Royal Court, he directed a number of new plays between 1997 and 1992, including Built on Sand, Blood, Ficky Stingers by Eve Lewis, and Colquhoun and McBryde. Other productions during this period:
- Downfall and Ambulance by Gregory Motton (1987) at the Royal Court
- American Bagpipes by Iain Heggie (1989) at the Royal Court, with Lesley Manville and Ken Stott
- No One Sees the Video by Martin Crimp (1990) at the Royal Court
- Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman (1991) at the Royal Court (Laurence Olivier Award for best new play)
Since his days based at the Royal Court, Posner has directed:
- The Treatment by Martin Crimp (1993) at the Royal Court
- The Seagull by Anton Chekhov (1995) at the Gate Theatre, Dublin
- The Robbers by Schiller (1995) at the Gate Theatre, Dublin
- American Buffalo by David Mamet (1997) at the Young Vic, with Douglas Henshall, Neil Stuke and Nicholas Woodeson
- The Provok’d Wife by Sir John Vanbrugh (1997) at the Old Vic, with Michael Pennington and Victoria Hamilton
- After Darwin by Timberlake Wertenbaker (1998) at Hampstead Theatre
- Volpone by Ben Jonson (1999) for the Royal Shakespeare Company
- The Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare (1999) for the Royal Shakespeare Company
- The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (2000) for the Royal Shakespeare Company, with Benjamin Whitrow and David Tennant
- Twelfth Night by Shakespeare (2001) for the Royal Shakespeare Company, with Guy Henry
- Tartuffe by Molière (2002) at the Royal National Theatre
- The Caretaker by Harold Pinter (2003) at Bristol Old Vic
- The Lady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen (2003) at the Lyric Hammersmith and West Yorkshire Playhouse, starring Natasha Richardson
- Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet (2003) at the Comedy Theatre, starring Matthew Perry, Hank Azaria and Minnie Driver
- Power by Nick Dear (2003) at the Royal National Theatre
- Oleanna by David Mamet (2004) at the Garrick Theatre, with Aaron Eckhart and Julia Stiles
- The Hypochondriac by Molière (2005) at the Almeida Theatre, starring Henry Goodman
- Romance by David Mamet (2005) at the Almeida Theatre, starring John Mahoney
- The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter (2005) at the Duchess Theatre
- A Life in the Theatre by David Mamet (2005) at the Apollo Theatre
- The Misanthrope by Molière, adapted by Martin Crimp (2006), at the Young Vic, with Elizabeth McGovern and Ken Stott
- Fool for Love by Sam Shepard (2006) at the Apollo Theatre, starring Juliette Lewis and Martin Henderson
- Tom and Viv (2006) at the Almeida Theatre, starring Will Keen and Frances O'Connor
- Fiddler on the Roof (2007) at the Sheffield Crucible and the Savoy Theatre, starring Henry Goodman
- Three Sisters on Hope Street by Diane Samuels and Tracy-Ann Oberman, based on Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters (2008), at Hampstead Theatre
- Carousel by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II (2008) at the Savoy Theatre, starring Lesley Garrett
- A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller (2009) at the Duke of York's Theatre, starring Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Ken Stott
Opera
Television
Posner has directed two television plays:[2]
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