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Nunn, Sir Trevor (Robert)
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| Stage director, born in Ipswich, Suffolk, E England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, then joined the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, as a trainee director, and moved to the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1965. In 1968 he succeeded Peter Hall as the company's artistic director, being joined as co-artistic director by Terry Hands 10 years later. He directed many outstanding productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), and during his directorship (1968–87) the RSC took many strides forward, including the opening of two new theatres in Stratford: The Other Place (1974) and The Swan (1986). He has also directed the Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals Cats (1981), Starlight Express (1984), and Aspects of Love (1989). During a successful period as director of the Royal National Theatre (1997–2003), he created Ensemble Companies with a core group of actors forming different casts in a series of plays. He received a knighthood in 2002. |
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