David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers

David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers are West End and Broadway theatre producers.^[1]

Biography

David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers first produced Art by Yazmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton, at the Wyndhams Theatre in London's West End. This has subsequently become the most successful play in London in the last 25 years as well as winning every major award. Art opened on Broadway at the Royale Theatre, winning the Tony Award for Best Play.

David & Dafydd then produced The Play What I Wrote by Hamish McColl & Sean Foley, directed by Kenneth Branagh at the Wyndhams Theatre, winning the Olivier Award for Best Comedy, and every review was a rave. It opened at the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event.

This was followed by Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Gérald Sibleyras' play Heroes at the Wyndhams Theatre in 2005, which won the Olivier Award for Best Comedy.

David & Dafydd then produced Equus in London’s West End, which starred Richard Griffiths and Daniel Radcliffe and played a sell-out season at The Gielgud Theatre.

Their production of God of Carnage by Yazmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton, which starred Ralph Fiennes, Tamsin Grieg, Janet McTeer and Ken Stott played a phenomenally successful season at the Gielgud and won the Olivier Award for Best Comedy.

In 2008 they produced Kneehigh Theatre's production of Noel Coward's Brief Encounter, which played for over 350 performances in the old Cinema on the Haymarket in London, and just finished a successful run playing at Studio 54 on Broadway following a season at St Ann's Warehouse in New York and subsequent US tour.

God of Carnage opened on Broadway in 2009 starring James Gandolfini, Marcia Gay Harden, Jeff Daniels and Hope Davis, and was one of Broadway’s biggest play successes, winning David & Dafydd the Tony Award. Subsequent casts included Lucy Liu and Jimmy Smits.

David & Dafydd are currently producing the most successful touring production ever of a play, the Whatsonstage award winning best comedy Calendar Girls by Tim Firth, which ran for nine months in London's West End and has now grossed over £25,000,000,. Deathtrap by Ira Levin at the Noel Coward Theatre starring Simon Russell Beale, Jonathan Groff and Claire Skinner recently concluded its five month season.

Credits

West End

• Art
• The Play What I Wrote
• Ducktastic
• Equus with Daniel Radcliffe and Richard Griffiths (2007)
• Noel Coward's Brief Encounter (2008)
• God of Carnage (2008)
• Calendar Girls (2009)
• Deathtrap (2010)

Broadway

• Art
• The Play What I Wrote
• God of Carnage

Tours

• Art
• Rebecca starring Nigel Havers
• Calendar Girls
• Brief Encounter

References

1. ^ Gore-Langton, Robert (16 February 2008). "David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers - the men reviving Brief Encounter". The Times (London). http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/theatre/article3358312.ece. Retrieved 8 April 2010. 

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Name	Pugh, David
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Name	Rogers, Dafydd
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