Bill Bryden

Infobox actor
name = Bill Bryden

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birthname = William Campbell Rough Bryden
birthdate = birth date and age|1942|4|12
birthplace = Greenock, Scotland
occupation = Theatre director
spouse = Deborah Morris (m. 1970)
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laurenceolivierawards = Best Director
1985 "The Mysteries"

William Campbell Rough Bryden CBE (born 12 April 1942, Greenock, Scotland) is a British stage- and film director and screenwriter. He has worked as a director at the Royal Court Theatre (1967-1971), the Royal Lyceum Theatre (1972-1975), the National Theatre (1975-1985); and as a visiting director in Glasgow and New York. In 1990, he directed Janacek's "Cunning Little Vixen", at the Royal Opera House.

He has also done work for film and television, as screenwriter, director and executive producer.

He married Deborah Morris, a potter, in 1970 and they have two children.

Work

Film director

*1983: "Ill Fares the Land"
*1986: "The Holy City"
*1992: "Six Characters in Search of an Author"
*1987: "Aria"

Writer

*1980: "The Long Riders" (film)
*1977: "Old Movies"
*1975: "Willy Rough", BBC "Play for Today"
*1975: "Benny Lynch, Scenes from a Short Life : a Play" [http://books.google.com/books?id=80APAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Benny++Lynch%22&dq=%22Benny++Lynch%22&pgis=1]

Theatre director

*1974: "Spring Awakening" – Old Vic
*1974: "Romeo and Juliet" – Old Vic
*1975: "The Playboy of the Western World" – Old Vic
*1976: "Watch It Come Down" – Old Vic
*1976: "Il Campiello" – Old Vic
*1976: "Counting The Ways" – National Theatre
*1977 (with Sebastian Graham-Jones): "The Passion" – National Theatre
*1977: "Old Movies" – National Theatre
*1977: "The Plough and the Stars" – National Theatre
*1978 (with Sebastian Graham-Jones): "Lark Rise" – National Theatre
*1978: "American Buffalo" – National Theatre
*1978 (with Sebastian Graham-Jones): "The World Turned Upside Down" – National Theatre
*1978: "The Long Voyage Home" – National Theatre
*1978: "Dispatches" – National Theatre
*1979 (with Sebastian Graham-Jones): "Candleford" – National Theatre
*1980: "Hughie" – National Theatre
*1980: "The Iceman Cometh" – National Theatre
*1980: "The Nativity" – National Theatre
*1980: "The Crucible" – National Theatre
*1982: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" – National Theatre
*1983: "Glengarry Glen Ross" – National Theatre (World Premiere)
*1985: "Doomsday", presented with "The Nativity" and "The Passion", as the "Mysteries" from medieval "Mystery plays" in a version by Tony Harrison – National Theatre
*1990: "The Ship" (writer & director) Harland & Wolff Shed, Govan, Glasgow
*1994: "A Month in the Country" by Ivan Turgenev, starring Helen Mirren and John Hurt. Yvonne Arnaud Theatre and West End
*1994: "The Big Picnic" (writer & director) Harland & Wolff, Govan, Glasgow
*2005: "Romeo and Juliet" – Birmingham Repertory Theatre
*2005: "The Creeper" – Theatre Royal Windsor

Awards and nominations

*1985: Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Director, "The Mysteries".
*1985: London Critics' Circle Theatre Awards for Best Director for "The Mysteries"
*1985: [Evening Standard Awards|London Evening Standard Theatre Award] for Best Director for "The Mysteries"

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