1. Rupert Goold was born on 18 February 1972 and is an English director who works primarily in theatre.
20 Facts About Rupert Goold
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Rupert Goold is the artistic director of the Almeida Theatre, and was the artistic director of Headlong Theatre Company.
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Since 2010, Goold has been an associate director at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Rupert Goold was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 for services to drama.
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Rupert Goold was Olivier-nominated for King Charles III, Ink, and Dear England.
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Rupert Goold received Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play nominations for King Charles III and Ink.
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Rupert Goold made his directorial film debut with True Story.
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Rupert Goold was born in Highgate, England, a suburb of north London.
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Rupert Goold's father was a management consultant, and his mother was an author of children's books.
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Rupert Goold attended the independent University College School, graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1994 with a First in English literature and studied performance studies at New York University on a Fulbright Scholarship.
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Rupert Goold was trainee director at Donmar Warehouse for the 1995 season, and assisted on productions including 'Art' and Speed-the-Plow in the West End.
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Rupert Goold was artistic director of the Royal and Derngate Theatres in Northampton from 2000 to 2005.
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Rupert Goold directed Sir Patrick Stewart as Macbeth in his acclaimed Minerva Studio staging of Macbeth at the Chichester Festival Theatre in May 2007.
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At the 2007 Evening Standard Theatre Awards, Macbeth won two awards: Stewart won the Best Actor Award, while Rupert Goold won The Sydney Edwards Award for Best Director.
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Rupert Goold says he was not concerned with thoughts of a career anti-climax.
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In 2009, Rupert Goold directed a revival of Shakespeare's King Lear at the Young Vic.
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Rupert Goold set his Lear in Northern England during the 1970s, and approached the play with a drastically different view, and as a result this production received mixed reviews.
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Rupert Goold returned to Broadway with the transfer of the play, King Charles III which he previously directed in the West End.
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Rupert Goold earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play.
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Rupert Goold received his second nomination for the Tony Award for Best Direction.