Trevor Nunn has been the Artistic Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre, and, currently, the Theatre Royal, Haymarket.
21 Facts About Trevor Nunn
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Trevor Nunn has directed dramas for the stage, like Macbeth, as well as opera and musicals, such as Cats and Les Miserables.
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Hewett persuaded the headmaster to help with the cost of Trevor Nunn staying in Cambridge to take the exam.
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At Downing, Trevor Nunn began his stage career and first met contemporaries Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi.
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Trevor Nunn won a Director's Scholarship, becoming a trainee director at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry.
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In 1964, Trevor Nunn joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and in 1968 he was appointed Artistic Director of the RSC, a position he held until 1986.
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Trevor Nunn directed the RSC production of Macbeth starring Ian McKellen in the title role and Dame Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth in 1976.
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Trevor Nunn became a leading figure in theatrical circles, and was responsible for many significant productions, such as the RSC's version of Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby, co-directed with John Caird, and a 1976 musical adaptation of the Shakespeare play The Comedy of Errors.
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Trevor Nunn became Artistic Director of the Royal National Theatre in September 1997, a position he retained until 2003.
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Trevor Nunn directed We Happy Few, a play by his second wife Imogen Stubbs, in 2004.
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Trevor Nunn directed a modern production of Shakespeare's Hamlet in 2004, which starred Ben Whishaw in the title role, and Imogen Stubbs as Gertrude, and was staged at the Old Vic Theatre in London.
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In 2010, Trevor Nunn directed a revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Aspects of Love from July to September 2010 at the Menier Chocolate Factory and the play Birdsong, which opened in September 2010 at the Comedy Theatre, based on the Sebastian Faulks novel of the same title.
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Trevor Nunn marked his debut as Artistic Director of the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, with a revival of Flare Path.
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Trevor Nunn returned to the Haymarket in 2014 to direct the play Fatal Attraction.
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For Christmas 2018, Trevor Nunn directed a revival of Fiddler on the Roof at the Menier Chocolate Factory, before transferring to the Playhouse Theatre in London's West End for a limited season in spring 2019.
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Trevor Nunn has directed for film, including Lady Jane, Hedda, an adaptation of Hedda Gabler, and a 1996 film version of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
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Trevor Nunn has been married three times and has five children.
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Trevor Nunn was married to actress Janet Suzman from 17 October 1969 until their divorce in 1986.
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Trevor Nunn was in a brief relationship with Nancy Dell'Olio in 2011.
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In 1998 Trevor Nunn was named in a list of the biggest private financial donors to the Labour Party.
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In 2014, Trevor Nunn told The Telegraph that Shakespeare was his religion.