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Theatre, Film and TV
Camilla Young
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Paul
Robinson
Director for Film & Theatre
Paul Robinson has just directed his first feature film, And Then Come the Nightjars for Finite Films.
Since 2016 Paul has been Artistic Director of The Stephen Joseph Theatre where productions include Brief Encounter, Constellations, The Offing, Little Voice, Goth Weekend, The 39 Steps, Stepping Out, A Christmas Carol, Pinnochio, Alice In Wonderland and The Snow Queen.
Paul trained as a director at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Shortly after, he received an Arts Council Directing Bursary at The Manchester Royal Exchange. He was selected to attend the National Theatre's Advanced Directors' Course and was then Staff Director at the National Theatre for three years.
Paul was Joint Artistic Director of Theatre503 from 2007 – 2012, when the theatre was turned into a multi award-winning new writing powerhouse. Credits include: Salt Meets Wound, They Have Oak Trees in North Carolina (also Radio 4), The Lifesavers (TMA nominated), This Charming Man, Desolate Heaven and The Life of Stuff.
Paul took on sole leadership of Theatre503 from 2012, introducing the Trafalgar Transfer season and the International Playwriting Award. He has been twice nominated for Best Artistic Director at the Off West End Awards. Paul's productions of And Then Come the Nightjars, A Handful of Stars and Land of Our Fathers all received huge critical acclaim and garnered a total of twelve Off West End Award nominations, including Best Director for each.
Other credits include: Breakfast with Mugabe, The Swallowing Dark (TMA award winner), My Mother Said I Never Should (starring Maureen Lipman) and Honour (starring Henry Goodman and Imogen Stubbs).
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Theatre, Film and TV
Camilla Young
+44 (0)20 7393 4450
Email Camilla Young
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Revival of Joanna Murray-Smith's play, Honour paints an unflinching portrait of what happens when a secure marriage suddenly stalls.
Revival of Charlotte Keatley's play exploring relationships between mothers and daughters
Touring production of the drama about a group of miners stuck down a coal mine
Premiere of play set on a farm in the south-west of England during the foot and mouth crisis
Drama about a group of Welsh miners trapped in a coal mine
Revival of Billy Roche's play about a young man living in Wexford
Revival of Simon Donald's play as part of Theatre 503's Second Look
Opening play for Paul's first season as solo Artistic Director of Theatre503
Collaborative project with plays from five writers
Sell out show at the Edinburgh fringe
Psychological thriller about a man and his son who have fled Zimbabwe
Political satire about a young man fast-tracked to become leader of the Green Party
Musical comedy about a Maltese man who becomes a porn star in America
Play about a woman who has a psychic connection to her husband who is fighting in the Afghanistan war
A dystopian vision of the future where parents are no longer trusted to bring up their children
Play about a manor house where children are experimented upon
Revival of Athol Fugard's play about a brother and sister searching for compensation money they believe their father has hidden
Play about a couple whose son disappears when he is five and twenty-two years later a young man arrives at their home claiming to be their son
Play about a white psychiatrist brought in to help President Mugabe who is battling with mental demons
A writer goes to Central Asia to research his book during the height of the War on Terror
West End transfer of the play about the link between rock music, East European dissidence and the fall of Communism
Play about a young woman moving her belongings out of her ex-boyfriend's flat
Play about the murder of a journalist working for a newspaper in Apartheid era South Africa
Staff director on production of Mamet's play about a businessman who walks out on his life
Staff director on Trevor Nunn's production of the Shakespearean classic
Staff director on the trilogy of plays dealing with Russian revolutionaries
Four short stories about teenagers dealing with morality
Drama about a group of bus passengers trapped in diner by a snowstorm
Revival of Strindberg's classic play set over the course of midsummer evening in Sweden