Terry Hands

Infobox actor
name = Terry Hands

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birthname = Terence David Hands
birthdate = birth date and age|1941|01|09|df=y
birthplace = Aldershot, England
occupation = Theatre director
spouse = Ludmila Mikaël
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laurenceolivierawards =Best Director
1978 "Henry VI"
1983 "Cyrano de Bergerac"
awards = Drama Desk Awards
Drama Desk Special Award
1982 "Nicholas Nickleby"

Terence David Hands (born 9 January, 1941) is a English theatre director.

Biography

Hands was born at Aldershot, Hampshire, England. He studied at Woking Grammar School, University of Birmingham and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. In 1964 he established the Liverpool Everyman. Hands joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1966 to run the Company's touring group, Theatregoround. He become joint Artistic Director with Trevor Nunn in 1978, and in 1986 chief executive.

His decision to close the RSC's The Barbican Theatre and The Pit in the winter of 1990-91, was an essential act for the RSC, securing an increase in subsidy from the Arts Council.

In 1997 Hands became been director of Clwyd Theatr Cymru which presents much of its work on tour in Wales and the rest of the UK. He was awarded the C.B.E. (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2007 Queen's New Years Honors List for his services to drama.

In October 2001 he resigned from his position as an advisory director of the RSC.

Hands was married to actress Ludmila Mikaël and their daughter, Marina Hands, is also an actress. Hands is currently married to director Emma Lucia. He has two sons named Sebastian (18) and Rupert (15), who is currently performing in Clwyd Theatr Cymru's production of "Macbeth" having previously performed in the theatre's 2007 production of "Arcadia (play)". He shared his role in both plays with fellow King's School, Chester schoolboy James Ellis.

tage productions

; Theatregoround - Touring RSC
*1966: "The second shepherd's play"
*1966: "The Proposal", Anton Chekhov
*1967: "The Criminals", José Triana
*1967: "The Dumb Waiter", Harold Pinter
*1967-1968: "Under Milk Wood", Dylan Thomas

; RCS (Royal Shakespeare Theatre and Aldwych Theatre)
*1968: "The Merry Wives of Windsor"
*1968: "The Latent Heterosexual", Paddy Chayefsky
*1969: "Bartholomew Fair", Ben Jonson
*1969: "Pericles, Prince of Tyre"
*1969: "Women Beware Women", Thomas Middleton
*1970: "Richard III"
*1971: "The Balcony", Jean Genet
*1971: "The Man of Mode", George Etherege
*1971-1972: "The Merchant of Venice" (Also on UK tour)
*1972: "Murder in the Cathedral", T. S. Eliot
*1973: "Romeo and Juliet"
*1973: "Cries from the Basement", David Rudkin
*1974: "The Actor", (RSC Australian Tour)
*1974: "The Bewitched", Peter Barnes
*1975-1976: "Henry IV parts 1 and 2"
*1975-1976: "Henry V" (Also International tour)
*1975-1976: "The Merry Wives of Windor"
*1977: " Old World", Aleksei Arbuzov
*1977-1978: "Henry VI Parts 1,2 and 3"
*1978: "The Changeling", Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
*1978-1979: "Coriolanu" (Also International Tour)
*1979: "Children of the Sun", Maxim Gorky
*1979-1980: "Twelfth Night"
*1980-81: "As You Like It"
*1980-81: "Richard II"
*1980-81: "Richard III"
*1981: "Troilus and Cressida"
*1982-1983: "Arden of Faversham"
*1982-84: "Much Ado About Nothing"

; RSC at the Barbican Theatres and Royal Shakespeare Theatre
*1982: "Poppy", Peter Nichols
*1983-1984: "Cyrano de Bergerac", Edmond Rostand (Also International tour)
*1985: "Red Noses", Peter Barnes
*1985-1986: "The Winter's Tale"
*1987: "The Balcony", Jean Genet
*1987-1988: "Julius Caesar"
*1988: "Carrie" (musical), Stephen King
*1988: "Scenes from a Marriage", Peter Barnes
*1989: "Romeo and Juliet"
*1989-1990: "Coriolanus", co-directed with John Barton
*1989-1990: "Singer", Peter Flannery (At The Swan, and The Pit)
*1990-1991: "Love's Labour's Lost"
*1990-1991: "The Seagull", Anton Chekhov
*1993: "Tamburlaine the Great", Christopher Marlowe
*1995: "The Merry Wives of Windsor" (at The National Theatre)

; Chichester Festival
*1995: "Hadrian VII", Chichester Festival Theatre
*1995: "The Visit", Chichester Festival Theatre

; Clwyd Theatr Cymru
* 1997: "Equus"
* 1998: "A Christmas Carol", Peter Barnes
* 1998: "The Journey of Mary Kelly", Siân Evans
* 1998: "Table Manners"
* 1998: "Living Together"
* 1998: "Round And Round The Garden"
* 1999: "Twelfth Night"
* 1999: "Macbeth"
* 2000: "Under Milk Wood", Dylan Thomas
* 2001: "King Lear"
* 2001: "Bedroom Farce"
* 2001: "The Rabbit", Meredydd Barker
* 2002: "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead", Tom Stoppard
* 2002: "Romeo and Juliet"
* 2002: "The Four Seasons", Arnold Wesker
* 2002: "Betrayal"
* 2003: "Blithe Spirit", Noel Coward
* 2003: "The Crucible", Arthur Miller
* 2004: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", Ken Kesey
* 2005: "Brassed Off"
* 2005: "Troilus and Cressida"
* 2005: "Brassed Off (Revival)"
* 2005: "Night Must Fall"
* 2006: "A Chorus Of Disapproval"
* 2006: "Memory"
* 2007: "Arcadia"
* 2007: "Memory (Revival in New York)"
* 2007: "The Cherry Orchard"

Awards and nominations

;Awards
* 1978: Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director – "Henry VI"
* 1982: Drama Desk Special Award – "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby"
* 1983: Critics' Circle Theatre Awards for Best Classical Director – "Cyrano de Bergerac"
* 1983: Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director – "Cyrano de Bergerac"
* 1993: Evening Standard Awards for Best Director – "Tamburlaine The Great'
* 1993: Critics' Circle Theatre Awards for Best Director – "Tamburlaine The Great"

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