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Welcome to richardbaron.co.uk
Richard is a freelance theatre director who works throughout the United Kingdom. Educated at St Andrews University, he was awarded a Scottish Arts Council Trainee Director’s bursary at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh and has since been Associate Director and Associate Artist at the Dundee Rep, Pitlochry Festival and Nottingham Playhouse theatres.
Richard’s productions have won Barclays TMA, Herald Angel and Scottish Theatre awards and have been nominated for twelve other national awards. His 2005 Theatre Royal, Bath, production of Look Back in Anger won TMA and CATS Best Actor and Director Awards and nominations for Richard, David Tennant and Steven McNicoll and was nominated as Best UK Touring Production in the Whatsonstage Awards. In Autumn 2006, his Nottingham Playhouse production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof earned four Manchester Evening News Theatre Award nominations, including Best UK Touring Production. Richard has also directed three critically acclaimed national tours of the hit comedy The 39 Steps: “Brilliantly directed by Richard Baron…One of the most enjoyable evenings of my life. I have never known such happiness from a theatrical production” (Auberon Waugh, Daily Telegraph).
Other recent shows include Surviving Spike by Richard Harris at the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Festival (***** Edinburgh Evening News, **** The Independent, **** The Scotsman, **** Sunday Express, **** Metro) and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at Pitlochry Festival Theatre (“By any standards a classy production” **** The Times, “This production is ‘the crème de la crème’” **** Whatsonstage, “Baron’s production is a model of seriousness, professionalism and insight” **** The Scotsman.)
Latest News
Richard has two shows currently touring the UK; his Nottingham Playhouse production of Our Man In Havana (**** The Guardian), and his 25th Anniversary revival of Stepping Out, which has just been nominated in the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards (“The playwright has said that this production, directed by Richard Baron, is one of the best. I’ve seen the original production and several tours since and completely agree” ****Manchester Evening News.)
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