Hugh Wooldridge

Director, writer, lighting designer and producer Hugh Wooldridge was born in London, England, UK, the son of British Catholic actress Margaretta Scott, and brother of actress Susan Wooldridge.

For over thirty years, Hugh Wooldridge has directed, produced, devised and lit productions worldwide – from Copenhagen to Cape Town.

Having trained at LAMDA, he started his career by assisting directors such as Alan Ayckbourn, Eric Thompson, Frank Hauser and Michael Blakemore; however, he has been directing plays in his own right since the age of seventeen.

In the first ten years of his career Hugh directed more than sixty productions in London and throughout the UK – from Alan Ayckbourn to Rene de Obaldia, and Pam Gems to Athol Fugard. He was a resident director at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester; the Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead, and the Old Vic Theatre, London.

During the next ten years, he ran his own multi-media company, The Jolly Good Production Company, which produced plays and TV programmes, managed artistes and published books. During this time he was also responsible for music programmes and programming in the ITV network, specifically in the south and south east of England. He also directed international tours of Jesus Christ Superstar and The Rocky Horror Show as well as national tours of plays by Noël Coward, Daphne du Maurier and Dylan Thomas

More recently he has specialised in devising, directing and producing large-scale events around the world including the Richard Rodgers Award celebrating Andrew Lloyd Webber in Pittsburgh, An Evening with Hal Prince in Munich, Sondheim Tonight in New York, and Who Could Ask For Anything More? – the centenary celebration of Ira Gershwin at the Royal Albert Hall, London. With Trevor Nunn he co-directed the Golden Wedding Anniversary celebrations for Her Majesty the Queen.

Since 1999, he has annually produced, devised and directed The Night of 1000 Voices at the Royal Albert Hall, London. He has also directed many showcase, workshops and first productions of new writing.

External links

* [http://www.hughwooldridge.com/hw.html Hugh Wooldridge's official site]
* [http://www.thenightof1000voices.com The Night of 1000 Voices]