John Doyle (director)

John Doyle (director)

John Doyle is an Engish Tony Award-winning musical stage director. He has served as artistic director at several regional theatres in the United Kingdom, where he has staged more than 200 professional productions during his career spanning 30 years.

Biography

Trained at the University of Georgia in the United States, for the past 10 years Doyle has been associate director of the Watermill Theatre, a 216-seat performance space in the English countryside of Berkshire. There he has become known for his unusual approach to musical theatre which features casts who are both actors and musicians, accompanying one another while simultaneously playing roles.

His 2004 staging of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd" moved from the Watermill to the West End of London in 2005 (first to Trafalgar Studios and then the Ambassadors Theatre). In November 2005 he re-mounted "Sweeney" on Broadway, with Michael Cerveris playing the "demon barber" and Patti LuPone as his pie-baking accomplice, Mrs. Lovett.

For Doyle's next project, he moved to the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park to reinvent Sondheim's "Company" with a cast led by Raúl Esparza — again with actors who sing, dance and provide their own musical accompaniment (known in England as actor/muso). This production moved to the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway with previews beginning October 30, 2006 and opening officially on November 29, 2006. In 2007, it won the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critic's Circle and Drama League Awards for Best Revival of a Musical. Doyle also staged an actor/musician version of "Mack and Mabel" staring David Soul and Janie Dee in London's West End.

References

*cite web | author=ATW writers | title=John Doyle Biography | url=http://www.americantheatrewing.org/biography/detail/john_doyle | publisher=American Theatre Wing | date=2006 | accessdate=2008-05-24
*cite journal | last=Pender | first=Rick | title=Finding the story: An interview with director John Doyle | journal=The Sondheim Review| volume=12 | issue=4 | year=2006 | url=http://sondheimreview.com/v12n4.htm#sample | accessdate=2008-05-24
*cite web | author=Charlotte Headrick | title=There’s a DAWG on Broadway! UGA alumnus John Doyle directs Sweeney Todd | url=http://www.franklin.uga.edu/news/2006/article27_06.htm | work=Georgia Magazine | date=2007 | accessdate=2008-05-24

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