Jeremy Herrin
Jeremy Herrin | |
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Born | 19 January 1970 New York City USA |
Alma mater | Royal Conservatoire of Scotland |
Occupation | Theatre director |
Jeremy Herrin is an English theatre director. He is one of the founding directors of Second Half Productions.
Career
Having trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Herrin was an assistant director under Stephen Daldry at the Royal Court Theatre from 1993 to 1995. He then was a staff director at the National Theatre from 1995 to 1999. In 2000 he became associate director at Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne, where his credits included plays by Richard Bean and Joe Harbot.
His breakthrough show was the critically successful
Herrin made his Shakespearean debut at the
In December 2013 he directed the world premiere of two plays adapted from Hilary Mantel's novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies for the RSC.[2] The plays subsequently transferred to The Aldwych Theatre. In 2021 he directed the stage adaptation of Mantel's third novel in the trilogy The Mirror and the Light, which played at the Gielgud Theatre.
In 2013, he succeeded Rupert Goold as the artistic director of Headlong, where he has directed a number of hit productions including Jennifer Haley's The Nether (at The Royal Court Theatre), People, Places and Things by Duncan Macmillan and Labour of Love by James Graham, featuring Martin Freeman and Tamsin Greig in the West End.
In 2022 he directed Amy Adams, who made her West End debut, in a production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, his inaugural production for Second Half Productions.
His production of Best of Enemies based on the acclaimed documentary by Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville transferred from the Young Vic theatre to the West End, winning the South Bank Show’s best Production award. The show was broadcast on NT Live.
Philosophy
Herrin describes himself as the archetypal Royal Court Theatre director, putting the writer before the director:
You never want anything onstage that the writer doesn’t like. You need them to be entirely proud. What you want is to give them the deluxe version of their play... I try to disappear into the work. I’d hate for someone to say, in the way they do about other directors, ‘That’s a very Jeremy Herrin production.’ Ego’s a really dangerous thing in theatre. It’s a collegiate enterprise.[3]
Herrin has been instrumental in the founding of Stage Directors UK, an organisation that aims to create better working conditions and terms for directors.
Theatre
References
- ^ "No Quarter at The Royal Court Theatre", Royal Court Theatre. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
- ^ "Wolf Hall director to become Headlong artistic director", BBC News, 10 June 2013. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
- ^ "The vanishing man | Interviews | The Stage". The Stage. 21 January 2013. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
- ^ "Galas: Court Laws, Cardboard Seats & Grateful - - News - Whatsonstage.com". Archived from the original on 15 June 2011. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
- ^ http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/whatson01.asp?play=559 [dead link]
- ^ "Jeremy Herrin On ... TS Eliot, The Playwright - - Interviews - Whatsonstage.com". Archived from the original on 16 June 2011.
- ^ http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/files/downloads/THATFACErelease.doc.pdf [dead link]