David Thacker

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David Thacker (born 21 December 1950) is an English award-winning theatre director.

David Thacker is currently the Artistic Director at the Octagon Theatre Bolton.^[1] He has directed over 100 theatre productions including plays by William Shakespeare, Arthur Miller, Samuel Beckett, Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov, Tennessee Williams, Tom Stoppard and Eugene O’Neill.

Education

Thacker studied at the University of York.

Background

He has worked at eight producing theatres including the Royal Shakespeare Company (Director-in-Residence), the Young Vic (Director), the Dukes Playhouse, Lancaster (Theatre Director), and the National Theatre. Seven of his productions have transferred to the West End.

He has won Olivier Awards for Best Director (Pericles) and Best Revival (Pericles) and the London Fringe Award for Best Director (Ghosts) and Best Production (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?).

Television Work

David is also a prolific television director. He has directed more than 30 TV productions, including episodes of The Vice, Silent Witness, Foyle's War and Waking the Dead. He has also directed films, such as Measure for Measure, A Doll’s House, Broken Glass, The Mayor of Casterbridge and Faith, the critically acclaimed film for the BBC set in the Miners Strike.

Building on the success of the Octagon’s 40th anniversary season David has planned a year long programme of work for his first season. The wide-ranging repertoire of productions includes plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen and Miller, a world premiere, a co-production, a revival of one of Mark Babych’s (Artistic Director 1998 - 2008) most successful productions, contemporary classics and a musical.

References

↑ Octagon Theatre Bolton

"David Thacker Biography". filmreference. 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-01.

External links

David Thacker at the Internet Broadway Database
David Thacker at the Internet Movie Database

v t e Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director (1976–2000)

Jonathan Miller (1976) Clifford Williams (1977) Terry Hands (1978) Michael Bogdanov (1979) Trevor Nunn / John Caird (1980) Peter Wood (1981) Richard Eyre (1982) Terry Hands (1983) Christopher Morahan (1984) Bill Bryden (1985) Bill Alexander (1986) Declan Donnellan (1987) Deborah Warner (1988) Michael Bogdanov (1989) Michael Bogdanov (1990) Richard Jones (m)/David Thacker (p) (1991) Simon Callow (m)/Deborah Warner (p) (1992) Nicholas Hytner (m)/Stephen Daldry (p) (1993) Declan Donnellan (m)/Stephen Daldry (p) (1994) Scott Ellis (m)/Declan Donnellan (p) (1995) Trevor Nunn (1995) Sam Mendes (1996) Des McAnuff (1997) Richard Eyre (1998) Howard Davies (1999) Trevor Nunn (2000)

Complete list (play, 1991–1995) (musical, 1991–1995) (1976–2000) (2001–2025) Separate awards for play and musical between 1991 and 1995 depicted by (p) and (m)

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Name	Thacker, David
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Short description	Theater and Television director
Date of birth	21 December 1950
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