- Giles Ramsay
Giles Ramsay is founding Artistic Director of the Trident Theatre and is an award-winning dramatist, having won the Soho Theatre's Westminster Prize for his play "Shall We Go to the Alhambra?" He is also co-author of "Only as Multiple", a stage adaptation of the poetry of Fernando Pessoa. His latest play is entitled "For the Want of Bullets".
He was educated at
St Chad's College ,Durham University , where he was elected President of theDurham Union Society . He subsequently studied at theRoyal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).He has directed a series of plays, including "
Amadeus ", "Equus", "Macbeth ", "The Merchant of Venice ", "Entertaining Mr. Sloane " and "Sophie" (which was awarded four stars at theEdinburgh Festival and subsequently re-produced forBBC Radio 4 ).He is particularly noted as a promoter of international art and works with artists in Columbia, Georgia, Mexico, Poland and Zimbabwe. In 2005 he produced MEXART 2005, a festival of Mexican music, dance, film and drama. It was awarded a Fringe First in Edinburgh.
External links
*http://www.tridenttheatre.co.uk/
*http://www.gilesramsay.co.uk/
*http://www.thestage.co.uk/edinburgh/features/9021-mexican-wave-giles-ramsay-and-jon
*http://www.herald.co.zw/inside.aspx?sectid=1689&cat=3
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