• Fin Walker choreographs THE TEMPEST at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre
  • Ti Green designs RICHARD III for RSC at Swan Theatre, Stratford
  • Buy THE IMMORTAL DINNER by Penelope Hughes-Hallett
  • IN THE VAN by Clare Bayley on BBC Radio 4 at 10:45am and 7:45pm
  • Jonathan Kent directs SWEENEY TODD at the Adelphi Theatre
  • CHARLOTTE STREET by Danny Wallace is in bookshops now
  • Lloyd Wood serves as Associate Director on SWEENEY TODD at Adelphi
  • Richard Bean's ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS at Theatre Royal Haymarket
  • Neil Austin lights EVITA on Broadway
  • See BELONG by Bola Agbaje at the Royal Court Upstairs
  • David Mercatali directs UK Tour of TENDER NAPALM
  • Kate Saxon directs THE REAL THING for English Touring Theatre
  • Gregory Clarke designs sound for MISTERMAN at the National Theatre
  • Richard Bean's ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS plays the Music Box Theatre, NY
  • Naomi Dawson designs KING JOHN for RSC at Swan Theatre, Stratford

Client details

Jonathan Kent

Director

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St John Donald
Assistant: Rachel Hopkin
+44 (0) 20 3214 0928
About

Between 1990 and 2002 he was joint artistic director of the Almeida Theatre, which he founded as a full-time producing theatre.  His productions included When We Dead Awaken, All For Love, Medea (also West End, Broadway), Chatsky, The Showman, The School for Wives, Gangster No.1, Tartuffe, The Life of Galileo, The Rules of the Game, Ivanov (also Moscow), The Government Inspector, Naked (also West End), The Tempest, Hamlet (also Broadway).
Richard II, Coriolanus (also New York, Tokyo), Phèdre, Britannicus (West End, New York), Plenty (West End), Lulu (also Washington), Platonov, Faith Healer, King Lear.
 
Other theatre includes Le Cid, Mother Courage and Her Children, The False Servant, Oedipus, The Emperor and Galilean (all National Theatre); Man of La Mancha (Broadway); Hamlet (Japan); Hecuba (Donmar); As You Desire Me (West End); The Country Wife, The Sea, Marguerite (all Theatre Royal Haymarket), Faith Healer (Dublin and Broadway), A Month In The Country, (Chichester).
 
Opera: Elektra, Die Frau ohne Schatten (Mariinsky St Petersburg).  The Fairy Queen, (Glyndebourne, Paris, New York) Tosca (ROH); Child of Our Time.  The Flying Dutchman (ENO); Lucio Silla, Kát’a Kabanová, The Tempest, The Marriage of Figaro, (Santa Fe), Turn of the Screw, Don Giovanni, (both Glyndebourne)
 

Opera
ProductionCompanyNotes
THE LETTER .
(2009)
Santa Fe
TOSCA
(2006)
Royal Opera House
THE TURN OF THE SCREW
(2007)
Glyndebourne
THE FAIRY QUEEN
(2009)
Glyndebourne
MARRIAGE OF FIGARO
(2008)
Santa Fe
TOM ADES'S THE TEMPEST
(2006)
Santa Fe
ELEKTRA
(2007)
Marinsky Theatre
CHILD OF OUR TIME
(2005)
ENO
LUCIO SILLA
(2005)
Santa Fe
KATYA KABANOVA AT SANTA FE
(2003)
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