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David Thacker
David Thacker (born 21 December 1950) is an English theatre, film and television director. He is Professor of Theatre and Film at the University of Greater Manchester.
He directs freelance theatre productions and films and teaches and directs at other universities and drama schools, including the University of York, University of Manchester, Drama Studio London and London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
He is married to the actress Margot Leicester. They have four children and four grandchildren and live in Crouch End, London.
Thacker was born in Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire and brought up in nearby Rushden. He was educated at Wellingborough Grammar School and the University of York, where he read English and Related Literature and studied under Philip Brockbank for an MA in Shakespeare.
Thacker has directed over 160 productions throughout the UK and internationally and has been artistic director of three theatres (Duke’s Playhouse Lancaster, the Young Vic and Octagon Theatre, Bolton); and Director-in-Residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
He has directed over 160 theatre productions throughout the UK and internationally, including plays by Edward Albee, Alan Ayckbourn, Samuel Beckett, Alan Bennett, Bertolt Brecht, Anton Chekhov, Alan Drury, David Edgar, Athol Fugard, Jean Genet, Trevor Griffiths, David Holman, Henrik Ibsen, Barrie Keeffe, Tom Kempinski, Christopher Marlowe, Arthur Miller, Eugene O’Neill, Joe Orton, Harold Pinter, Stephen Poliakoff, Peter Shaffer, Terence Rattigan, Ron Rose, Willy Russell, William Shakespeare, Les Smith, Tom Stoppard, Oscar Wilde and Tennessee Williams.
He has directed 30 productions of 15 of Shakespeare's plays including Macbeth (Theatre Royal York); Julius Caesar (Lyceum Theatre Crewe); Romeo and Juliet, Measure for Measure, Hamlet (Duke's Playhouse Lancaster); Othello, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar, The Winter's Tale (the Young Vic); Pericles, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, As You Like It, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, The Tempest (Royal Shakespeare Company) ; A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, The Winter's Tale, Hamlet (Octagon Theatre Bolton); and The Merchant of Venice, (The Great Theatre of China, in association with the RSC).
He directed the British premiere of Arthur Miller's Broken Glass and Death of a Salesman at the National Theatre and has directed more productions of Arthur Miller’s plays than any other director in the world -11 of his plays in 15 productions at the Young Vic, the National Theatre, the Octagon Theatre: and in the USA, Israel, for the BBC and BBC World Service.
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David Thacker
David Thacker (born 21 December 1950) is an English theatre, film and television director. He is Professor of Theatre and Film at the University of Greater Manchester.
He directs freelance theatre productions and films and teaches and directs at other universities and drama schools, including the University of York, University of Manchester, Drama Studio London and London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
He is married to the actress Margot Leicester. They have four children and four grandchildren and live in Crouch End, London.
Thacker was born in Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire and brought up in nearby Rushden. He was educated at Wellingborough Grammar School and the University of York, where he read English and Related Literature and studied under Philip Brockbank for an MA in Shakespeare.
Thacker has directed over 160 productions throughout the UK and internationally and has been artistic director of three theatres (Duke’s Playhouse Lancaster, the Young Vic and Octagon Theatre, Bolton); and Director-in-Residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
He has directed over 160 theatre productions throughout the UK and internationally, including plays by Edward Albee, Alan Ayckbourn, Samuel Beckett, Alan Bennett, Bertolt Brecht, Anton Chekhov, Alan Drury, David Edgar, Athol Fugard, Jean Genet, Trevor Griffiths, David Holman, Henrik Ibsen, Barrie Keeffe, Tom Kempinski, Christopher Marlowe, Arthur Miller, Eugene O’Neill, Joe Orton, Harold Pinter, Stephen Poliakoff, Peter Shaffer, Terence Rattigan, Ron Rose, Willy Russell, William Shakespeare, Les Smith, Tom Stoppard, Oscar Wilde and Tennessee Williams.
He has directed 30 productions of 15 of Shakespeare's plays including Macbeth (Theatre Royal York); Julius Caesar (Lyceum Theatre Crewe); Romeo and Juliet, Measure for Measure, Hamlet (Duke's Playhouse Lancaster); Othello, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar, The Winter's Tale (the Young Vic); Pericles, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, As You Like It, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, The Tempest (Royal Shakespeare Company) ; A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, The Winter's Tale, Hamlet (Octagon Theatre Bolton); and The Merchant of Venice, (The Great Theatre of China, in association with the RSC).
He directed the British premiere of Arthur Miller's Broken Glass and Death of a Salesman at the National Theatre and has directed more productions of Arthur Miller’s plays than any other director in the world -11 of his plays in 15 productions at the Young Vic, the National Theatre, the Octagon Theatre: and in the USA, Israel, for the BBC and BBC World Service.