David Lan is a South African-born British playwright, theatre producer and director and a social anthropologist.
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18 Facts About David Lan
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David Lan was awarded a BSc first class and a PhD in Social Anthropology from LSE, with his thesis Making history: spirit mediums and the guerilla war in the Dande area of Zimbabwe.
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David Lan was the writer in residence at the Royal Court Theatre from 1995 to 1997.
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David Lan was the artistic director of the Young Vic theatre in London from 2000 until 2018.
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David Lan led the 24 shows in 31 cities 'Walkabout' season during the 2-year rebuild.
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David Lan initiated the Genesis Directors' Project, the Jerwood Directors Award and the Young Vic Award.
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David Lan wrote screenplays for the features 'Dark City' and 'Streets of Yesterday' and wrote, directed and produced documentaries for the BBC made in Mozambique, Namibia and Nigeria, and a 'fly on the wall' account of the redesign of the Royal Court Theatre which he filmed himself over the course of a year.
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David Lan was co-director of the 'Young Genius' season at the Barbican in 2005 and of 'World Stages London' at theatres across London in 2012.
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David Lan is on the boards of Sadlers Wells, the Belarus Free Theatre, the Genesis Foundation and the Motley Theatre Design School.
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David Lan is co-chair of the International Council of the Isango Ensemble of South Africa and Patron of the theatre at the Mulberry School.
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David Lan's writing he received the John Whiting Award and the George Orwell Award.
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David Lan received an Olivier Award for the entire 2004 Young Vic season.
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David Lan received the 2018 Marsh 'Anthropology in the World' Award given by the Royal Anthropological Institute.
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David Lan has applied these talents while leading theatre companies both artistically and practically with their building projects.
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David Lan first trained as an actor before beginning to write and direct for the theatre.
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David Lan has connected scholarship, and geographical and cultural differences with complete disregard for conventional boundaries: educating through performance and taking every opportunity to help younger and less well-placed artists at each stage of a career that is currently at its height.
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David Lan is a fine example of practising the characteristics of an anthropological informed mindset appraising the contemporary world.
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David Lan was co-producer of 'The Walk' which received the 2021 Time Out Best Public Theatre Award.
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