Directors (1976 - 1995)

This page lists the directors - where known - of in-house productions at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round between 1976 and 1996; it does not include directors of touring companies or co-productions.

All information is drawn from research into programmes / playbills and reflects the information contained there.
Alan Ayckbourn: Alan Ayckbourn directed more productions than anyone else during the 1976 - 1995 period. For details of productions directed by Alan Ayckbourn, visit the accompanying page here
Claude Close: Dorothy Parker's Dead (1995)
Peter Clough: Simple Simon (1980)
Bob Eaton: Westwood Coronation Day Street Party (1977); Forget-Me-Not Lane (2007)
David Graham Young: Regressions (1987)
Tessa Harrison: Once Upon A Time (1978); Once More Upon A Time (1979); Kidstuff (1979)
Malcolm Hebden: Robin Hood And The Magic Forest (1976); The Linden Tree (1984); The Dresser (1984); Educating Rita (1987); Say Something Happened (1990); Doris And Doreen (1990); Dangerous Obsession (1991); Same Time, Next Year (1991); Rutherford And Son (1991); To (1991); Confusions (1991); Closing Number (1991); Apple Blossom Afternoon (1992); Rocket To The Moon (1992); Village Wooing (1992); Abigail's Party (1992); The Shawl (1992); Mr A's Amazing Maze Plays (1993); Selling Out (1993); Tomfoolery (1993); Take It To The Green Light, Barry (1993); White Lies (1994); Gaslight (1994); Penny Blue (1994); Love Is In The Air (1994); Let's Pretend (1995); For Services Rendered (1995); Talking Heads (1995); Oleanna (1995);
Robin Herford: The Ruffian On The Stair (1978); Barefoot In The Park (1979); Old Times (1979); The Golden Pathway Annual (1979); Mooney And His Caravans (1980); Absolutely Free (1980); Trailer (1980); The Importance Of Being Earnest (1980); Clouds (1980); Tapster (1981); Out Front (1981); Twelfth Night (1981); Butley (1982); The Winslow Boy (1983); She Stoops To Conquer (1983); Can't Pay, Won't Pay (1985); Blithe Spirit (1986); Touch Wood And Whistle (1986); Calling (1986); Sergeant Musgrave's Dance (1986); Spokesong (1987); Getting On (1987); All My Sons (1987); The Woman In Black (1987 & 1997); The Beaux Stratagem (1988); The Turn Of The Screw (1988); Just Between Ourselves (1996); Forty Years On (1996); A Going Concern (1996); What Every Woman Knows (2000)
Steven Hirst: Appropriate Channels (1994); Romeo And Juliet (1994); Windy (1994); Misery (1995)
Stephen Lowe: Shooting, Fishing And Riding (1977)
Stephen Mallatratt: Double, Double (1979); Pay Day Night (1986); School For Clowns (1986); Old King Cole (1987); A Galway Girl (1987); Bar And Ger (1987); Falkland Sound (1987); Chances (1988); Joggers (1988); Potholes (1988)
Anthony Naylor: Taylor's Tickler (1995)
Connal Orton: A Man Of Letters (1991); Neville's Island (1992); A Bigger Slice Of The Pie (1992); Prince On A White Bike (1993); The End Of The Food Chain (1993); Cigarettes And Chocolate (1993); Bye Bye Blues (1993); Physical Jerks (1993)
Stanley Page: Hindle Wakes (1977)
John Pattison: Sand In The Sandwiches (1989); The Donkeys Are Eating Their Lunch (1989); Pull For The Shore (1989); Can This Be Love? (1991)
Adrian Reynolds: The Vanishing (1981); The Island (1982)
Michael Simkins: Brighton Beach Memoirs (1989)
Alison Skilbeck: The Guv'nor (1976); Housey, Housey (1977)
Caroline Smith: The Price (1990)
Alan Strachan: June Moon (1989); Alphabetical Order (1990)
Paul Todd: On Me Todd (1978); ABC... (1982); ...XYZ (1982); Prologue (1981); Epilogue (1982)
James Tomlinson: Feed (1993)
Stephanie Turner: Benefactors (1986)
Kate Valentine: Hard Times (1995); Grimm Tales (1995)
Mervyn Watson: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf (1977); Barnstable (1978); Reversed Charges (1978); Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead (1978); Doreen (1978); A Little Arrangement (1978); Plaza Suite (1978);

All research for this section by Simon Murgatroyd. Please do not reproduce without crediting Simon Murgatroyd and the website.