Steven Pimlott - Original Director

18 April 1953 - 14 February 2007

Steven Pimlott read English at Cambridge.

Theatre includes: Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None (Gielgud), three world premieres of plays by Phyllis Nagy, Butterfly Kiss (Almeida), The Strip (Royal Court) and Neverland (Ambassadors), and Molière’s The Miser (NT). For three years, with Martin Duncan and Ruth MacKenzie, he was artistic director of the Chichester Festival Theatre where he directed Nathan the Wise, The Seagull, The Master and Margarita, King Lear with David Warner and 5/11 (2003-05). Musical theatre includes: Carousel (Royal Exchange), with Clare Venables the British premiere of Carmen Jones (Sheffield Crucible), Les Misérables (Cameri Theatre, Israel), Sunday in the Park with George (NT, Olivier Award for Best Musical), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (London Palladium, Canada, Australia and USA, filmed with Donny Osmond), Doctor Dolittle (Apollo, Hammersmith) and Bombay Dreams (Apollo Victoria and Broadway). Also, Ring Round the Moon (Royal Exchange), The Daughter-in-Law, Twelfth Night, The Winter’s Tale, with Clare Venables the British premiere of Botho Strauss’s The Park at Sheffield Crucible, where he was an associate director (1987-88), Victor Bannerjee in The York Mysteries and Tennessee Williams’s Vieux Carré (Nottingham Playhouse). He was an associate artist of the RSC and directed Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, Richard III, As You Like It, Antony and Cleopatra, Richard II and Hamlet, as well as T S Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral, Tennessee Williams’s Camino Real, Molière’s The Learned Ladies and world premieres of Michael Hastings’s Unfinished Business and Robert Holman’s Bad Weather. He was an associate director of the RSC (1996-2002) and artistic director of The Other Place (1998-2001).

Opera includes: restaging many operas for ENO and the Royal Opera. At Opera North, he directed new productions of La Bohème, Nabucco, Tosca, Der Freischutz, The Bartered Bride, Werther, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci and the British premiere of Prince Igor, which he translated with David Lloyd Jones. Also, The Pearl Fishers (Scottish Opera), La Traviata and Don Giovanni (Opera 80), Macbeth and Don Giovanni (Opera Northern Ireland), La Bohème and The Coronation of Poppea (ENO), the world premiere of Param Uir’s Ion (Almeida Opera) and Eugene Onegin (ROH). International: Massenet’s Griselidis and Marschener’s Hans Heiling (Wexford Festival Opera), Così fan Tutte (Dublin Grand Opera), Don Giovanni (Victoria State Opera), Manon Lescaut (Australian Opera), Samson et Dalila (Bregenz and Amsterdam), La Traviata (New Israeli Opera), Ariane et Barbe Bleue (Krefeld), Un Ballo in Maschera (Antwerp), Macbeth (Hamburg) and his arena Carmen (Earls Court, Tokyo, Melbourne, Sydney, Birmingham, Dortmund, Zurich, Munich and Berlin).

As an actor: Mozart in Amadeus (Sheffield Crucible), the Duke of Plaza-Toro in The Gondoliers (Carl Rosa Opera Company), Sir Joseph Porter in HMS Pinafore (D’Oyly Carte, Savoy) and, on TV, Midsomer Murders.

Steven was awarded the OBE in the 2007 New Year’s Honours list.

 

 

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