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Sean Foley (director)
Sean Foley (born John Foley; 21 November 1964) is a British director, writer, comedian and actor. Foley won two Olivier Awards with six additional nominations, and a Tony Award Nomination. Following early success as part of the comedy double act The Right Size and their long-running stage show The Play What I Wrote, Foley has more recently become a director, including of several West End comedy productions. From 2019 to 2024, he was appointed as Artistic Director of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
Foley trained in clown under Philippe Gaulier at École Philippe Gaulier, where her met Hamish McColl. Foley and McColl formed The Right Size in 1988. They devised and performed in the shows, with regular creative team collaborators such as director Jozef Houben, designer Alice Power, and songwriter Chris Larner. Their style combined elements of clowning, physical comedy, mime, slapstick, vaudeville and variety. The Right Size's major successes were Do You Come Here Often?, about two strangers stuck in a bathroom for 25 years, and The Play What I Wrote, a tribute to Morecambe and Wise. The Right Size were active until 2006.
Foley has played some major parts in traditional scripted roles, including Freud in Hysteria by Terry Johnson at Birmingham Rep in 2007, and the single role in the film of Samuel Beckett's Act Without Words I directed by Karel Reisz. He appeared alongside Mark Rylance in I Am Shakespeare at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester in 2007. He acted at the Oxford Youth Theatre before his time at the University of Oxford, where he studied history.
On television, he appeared as pub owner Jeff in all twelve episodes of the BBC One sitcom Wild West (2002–2004), playing opposite Dawn French and Catherine Tate. He then starred alongside Tate in the episode "The Patter of Tiny Feet" of the BBC Three comedy horror anthology series Twisted Tales (2005), and also directed The Catherine Tate Show Live tour years later in 2016.
Foley made his stage directorial debut in 2007 with Pinter's People. He then directed several stage shows by stand-up comedians including Joan Rivers, Nina Conti and Armstrong and Miller.
He achieved significant West End success in 2012, when he directed productions of The Ladykillers (for which he was nominated for the 2012 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director) and Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw. He also, with Patrick Barlow, co-directed and co-wrote a four-actor stage adaptation of Ben Hur at the Watermill Theatre, a regional English theatre.
In 2013, Foley made his Royal Shakespeare Company debut, directing Thomas Middleton's A Mad World, My Masters. The production was well received by UK critics.
It was announced in June 2013 that Foley would be directing Matthew MacFadyen and Stephen Mangan in a theatrical adaptation of P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster stories, to be titled Perfect Nonsense, at the Duke of York's Theatre, London, from 30 October 2013. He also directed the X Factor stage musical, I Can't Sing! The X Factor Musical, which premiered in 2014 at the London Palladium and starred Nigel Harman, Alan Morrissey and Cynthia Erivo. However, the show was cancelled after 6 weeks and 3 days due to poor ticket sales, and lost £4 million.
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Sean Foley (director)
Sean Foley (born John Foley; 21 November 1964) is a British director, writer, comedian and actor. Foley won two Olivier Awards with six additional nominations, and a Tony Award Nomination. Following early success as part of the comedy double act The Right Size and their long-running stage show The Play What I Wrote, Foley has more recently become a director, including of several West End comedy productions. From 2019 to 2024, he was appointed as Artistic Director of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
Foley trained in clown under Philippe Gaulier at École Philippe Gaulier, where her met Hamish McColl. Foley and McColl formed The Right Size in 1988. They devised and performed in the shows, with regular creative team collaborators such as director Jozef Houben, designer Alice Power, and songwriter Chris Larner. Their style combined elements of clowning, physical comedy, mime, slapstick, vaudeville and variety. The Right Size's major successes were Do You Come Here Often?, about two strangers stuck in a bathroom for 25 years, and The Play What I Wrote, a tribute to Morecambe and Wise. The Right Size were active until 2006.
Foley has played some major parts in traditional scripted roles, including Freud in Hysteria by Terry Johnson at Birmingham Rep in 2007, and the single role in the film of Samuel Beckett's Act Without Words I directed by Karel Reisz. He appeared alongside Mark Rylance in I Am Shakespeare at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester in 2007. He acted at the Oxford Youth Theatre before his time at the University of Oxford, where he studied history.
On television, he appeared as pub owner Jeff in all twelve episodes of the BBC One sitcom Wild West (2002–2004), playing opposite Dawn French and Catherine Tate. He then starred alongside Tate in the episode "The Patter of Tiny Feet" of the BBC Three comedy horror anthology series Twisted Tales (2005), and also directed The Catherine Tate Show Live tour years later in 2016.
Foley made his stage directorial debut in 2007 with Pinter's People. He then directed several stage shows by stand-up comedians including Joan Rivers, Nina Conti and Armstrong and Miller.
He achieved significant West End success in 2012, when he directed productions of The Ladykillers (for which he was nominated for the 2012 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director) and Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw. He also, with Patrick Barlow, co-directed and co-wrote a four-actor stage adaptation of Ben Hur at the Watermill Theatre, a regional English theatre.
In 2013, Foley made his Royal Shakespeare Company debut, directing Thomas Middleton's A Mad World, My Masters. The production was well received by UK critics.
It was announced in June 2013 that Foley would be directing Matthew MacFadyen and Stephen Mangan in a theatrical adaptation of P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster stories, to be titled Perfect Nonsense, at the Duke of York's Theatre, London, from 30 October 2013. He also directed the X Factor stage musical, I Can't Sing! The X Factor Musical, which premiered in 2014 at the London Palladium and starred Nigel Harman, Alan Morrissey and Cynthia Erivo. However, the show was cancelled after 6 weeks and 3 days due to poor ticket sales, and lost £4 million.