John Caird, Esq's Biography

John Caird, Esq's Professional Career

Career

director, writer and producer of plays, opera and musical theatre; hon assoc dir RSC 1990-, fndr and dir Caird Co 2001-06, princ guest dir Royal Dramatic Theatre Stockholm 2009-; tstee dir Friends of Highgate Cemetery; fell Welsh Coll of Music and Drama, fell Mansfield Coll Oxford; Theatre assoc dir Contact Theatre Manchester 1974-76: Look Back in Anger, Downright Hooligan, Krapp's Last Tape, Twelfth Night; fndr (with Steven Barlow and others) Circle of Muses touring music theatre gp; dir The Changeling (Univ of Ottawa) 1975, Last Resort (Sidewalk Theatre Co) 1976, Regina v Stephens (Avon Touring Co) 1976; resident dir RSC 1977-82: Dance of Death 1977, Savage Amusement 1978, Look Out Here Comes Trouble 1978, Caucasian Chalk Circle 1979, Nicholas Nickleby (co-dir with Trevor Nunn in London, NY and LA) 1980, 1982 and 1986, Naked Robots 1981, Twin Rivals 1981, Our Friends in the North 1982, Peter Pan (co-dir with Trevor Nunn) 1982-84; assoc dir RSC 1982-90: Twelfth Night 1983, Romeo and Juliet 1983, The Merchant of Venice 1984, Red Star 1984, Philistines 1985, Les Miserables (co-dir with Trevor Nunn in London, NY, Tokyo, Sydney and worldwide) 1985-, Every Man in His Humour 1986, Misalliance 1986, A Question of Geography 1987, The New Inn 1987, As You Like It 1989, A Midsummer Night's Dream 1989, The Beggar's Opera 1992, Columbus and the Discovery of Japan 1992, Antony and Cleopatra 1992; dir: Song and Dance (London) 1982, As You Like It (Stockholm, for TV 1985) 1984, Siegfried & Roy Spectacular (Las Vegas) 1989, Zaïde (Batignamo) 1991, The Beggar's Opera (RSC, Barbican) 1993, Trelawny of the Wells (RNT) 1993, Life Sentences (Second Stage Theatre NY) 1993, The Seagull (RNT) 1994, Watch your Step (Her Majesty's Theatre) 1995, Henry IV (also adaptor for BBC) 1995, The Millionairess (UK tour) 1995, Stanley (RNT and Broadway) 1996, (worldwide) 1998-2001, Money (RNT) 1999, Jane Eyre (Broadway) 2000, Hamlet (RNT and World tour) 2000, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Royal Dramatic Theatre Stockholm) 2000, Humbleboy (RNT, West End) 2001 (NY) 2003, Twelfth Night (Royal Dramatic Theatre Stockholm) 2002, What the Night is For (Comedy Theatre) 2002, Rattle of a Simple Man (Comedy Theatre) 2004, Becket (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Macbeth (Almeida Theatre) 2005, Don Carlos (WNO) 2005, (Toronto) 2007 and Houston Grand Opera 2012, Beggar's Opera (Nissay Theatre Tokyo and WOWOW TV) 2005 and (Osaka) 2008, Twin Spirits (writer and dir, ROH) 2006, Dance of Death (Royal Dramatic Theatre Stockholm) 2007, A Midsummer Night's Dream (New National Theatre Tokyo) 2007 and 2009, Aida (WNO) 2008, Private Lives (theatre Crié Tokyo) 2008, Merry Wives of Windsor (Royal Dramatic Theatre Stockholm) 2009, Jane Eyre (Nissay Theatre Tokyo) 2009 and 2012, Daddy Long Legs (Ventura CA and US tour), Tosca (HGO) 2010, Candide (Imperial Theatre Tokyo) 2010, The Tempest (Royal Dramatic Theatre Stockholm) 2010, Romeo and Juliet (Royal Dramatic Theatre Stockholm) 2011, Don Giovanni (WNO) 2011, Daddy Long Legs (Tokyo) 2012, La Bohème (Houston Grand Opera) 2012; staged for Worldwide Fund for Nature: Religion and Nature Interfaith Ceremony (Assisi) 1986, Sacred Gifts for a Living Planet (Bhaktapur, Nepal) 2000; as prodr: new writing festivals 2001-02 (Gatehouse Theatre 2001, Jerwood Space 2002 and 2003, Pleasance Theatre 2002, Soho Theatre 2002), Robin Hood (RNT) 2002-03, Theatre Cafe (Arcola Theatre) 2004, Arab-Israeli Cookbook (Gate Theatre) 2004, New Directions (Theatre Royal Haymarket) 2004, The Lemon Princess (West Yorkshire Playhouse) 2005; writer and dir: Beethoven The Kingdom of the Spirit (a concert for actor and string quartet) 1986, Children of Eden (with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, London and worldwide) 1991, Jane Eyre (with lyrics and music by Paul Gordon, Toronto, La Jolla and Broadway) 1996 and (Nissay Theatre Tokyo) 2009, Candide (with music by Leonard Berstein, RNT) 1999, Daddy Long Legs (with lyrics and music by Paul Gordon) 2002, Kinshu (adapted from Teru Mitamoto, Tokyo) 2007 and 2009, Brief Encounter - An Opera (music by André Previn, Houston Grand Opera) 2009; Awards SWET Award 1980, Tony Award for Best Dir 1982 (both for Nicholas Nickleby), Tony Award for Best Dir 1986 and 1987 (for Les Miserables), Lawrence Olivier Award for Most Outstanding Musical (for Candide) 2000, Critics Outer Circle Award (for Stanley), Nipon Engeki Kogyo Kyukai Award (for Kinshu & Beggar's Opera) 2007, Kikuta Kazuo Theatre Award for Special Achievement in Japanese Theatre, LA Ovation Award for Book of a Musical (for Daddy Long Legs) 2010

John Caird, Esq's Publications

Books and Publications

Peter Pan (1993, 2 edn, 1998), Children of Eden (1997), The Beggar's Opera (with Ilona Sekacz, 1999), Jane Eyre (2003), Candide (2003), Theatre Craft (2010); Recordings Les Miserables (1985, and further cast recordings worldwide), Children of Eden (1991), The Beggar's Opera (1992), Jane Eyre (1998), Candide (2000), Daddy Long Legs (2010), Brief Encounter (2011)

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