Trevor Nunn
Director

Trevor Nunn is Director of the Royal National Theatre.

He was educated at Downing College, Cambridge and in 1962 he won an ABC Director's Scholarship to the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, where as resident Director, his productions included The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Peer Gynt and a musical version of Around the World in Eighty Days.

In 1964, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, was made an Associate Director in 1965, and became the company's youngest Artistic Director in 1968. He was responsible for running the RSC until 1986.

His productions there included The Revenger's Tragedy, The Relapse, Henry V, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, The Winter's Tale, Henry VIII, Hamlet, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, The Comedy of Errors, The Alchemist, As You Like It, All's Well That Ends Well, Once in a Life-time, Three Sisters, Juno and the Paycock, Othello (the final production at The Other Place Theatre) and The Blue Angel and Measure for Measure (the first two productions in the new Other Place Theatre).

With his colleague, John Caird, he co-directed Nicholas Nickleby (winner of five Tony Awards); J M Barrie's Peter Pan and Les Misérables which won eight Tony Awards and has become the most performed musical in the world.

In 1982, he opened the RSC's new home, The Barbican Theatre, with his production of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2. 1986 saw the opening of the Swan Theatre in Stratford upon Avon which he conceived and for which he directed one of the first productions, The Fair Maid of the West.

He has directed the Tony Award-winning Cats, Starlight Express, Aspects of Love and Sunset Boulevard for Andrew Lloyd Webber; Chess; The Baker's Wife; Timon of Athens and Heartbreak House. At the National Theatre, Oklahoma! won Evening Standard and Olivier Awards for Best Musical Production, and with the NT Ensemble 99, he has won an Olivier Award for Best Director for Troilus and Cressida, Summerfolk and The Merchant of Venice, and a Critics' Circle Award and Evening Standard Award for The Merchant of Venice and Summerfolk; Summerfolk also won the South Bank Show Award for Theatre.

His most recent NT productions are Albert Speer, The Cherry Orchard and (with Corin Redgrave), In Extremis/De Profundis. Previous productions at the National are Arcadia, An Enemy of the People, Mutabilitie, Not About Nightingales and Betrayal.

At Glyndebourne he has directed Idomeneo, Porgy and Bess, Cosi Fan Tutte and Peter Grimes and at The Royal Opera House, Porgy and Bess (revival) and Katya Kabanova.

His television work includes Antony and Cleopatra (BAFTA Award), The Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, Three Sisters, Word of Mouth, Othello, The Merchant of Venice and Emmy Award winners, Nicholas Nickleby, Porgy and Bess and Oklahoma!.

He has directed three films, Hedda, Lady Jane and Twelfth Night.