Jonathan Munby

Theatre Director

Jonathan Munby

AWARDS
Jonathan was nominated for an ‘Outstanding Director’ Helen Hayes Award for THE DOG IN THE MANGER at the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington DC. He is currently Creative Associate for the English Touring Theatre.


PRODUCTION	VENUE / COMPANY


CURRENT & FORTHCOMING PRODUCTIONS
ROMEO AND JULIET	Akasaka Act Theatre, Tokyo and Theatre Brava, Osaka

MOST RECENT THEATRE
THE RECOMMENDATION	The Old Globe, San Diego
COMPANY	Sheffield Crucible
A NUMBER	Fugard Theatre, Capetown
TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE	West Yorkshire Playhouse
THE WINTER'S TALE	Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis
A NUMBER	Menier Chocolate Factory
THE PRINCE OF HOMBURG	Donmar Warehouse
LIFE IS A DREAM	Donmar Warehouse


MOST RECENT OPERA
CARMEN	Opera Holland Park


THEATRE
SERIOUS MONEY	Birmingham Rep
THE DOG IN THE MANGER	Washington D.C’s Shakespeare Theatre Company, USA
THE 24 HOUR PLAYS	The Old Vic
THE WHITE DEVIL (WOS Theatregoers’ Choice nomination for Best Off-West End Production)	Menier Chocolate Factory
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (WOS Theatregoers’ Choice nomination for Best Shakespearean Production)	Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER	Birmingham Rep and on No 1 tour
HENRY V	Manchester Royal Exchange
Goldoni’s MIRANDOLINA	Manchester Royal Exchange
GILGAMESH	National Theatre Studio
FIREBIRD	National Theatre Studio
NAKAMITSU	The Gate Notting Hill (Jonathan directing with Mike Ashcroft)
NOISES OFF	Kreeger Theatre, Washington
A NUMBER	Sheffield Crucible Studio & Chichester Festival, Minerva Studio
THE CANTERBURY TALES	Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, Washington, USA and West End as one of three directors presenting the complete tales
TARTUFFE	Watermill Theatre & tour
THE ANNIVERSARY	West End, restaged & opened the Liverpool Playhouse production
THE GENTLEMAN FROM OLMEDO	Watermill Theatre
THE VENETIAN TWINS	Watermill Theatre
THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE	Watermill Theatre
DANCING AT LUGHNASA	Watermill Theatre and also at Greenwich Theatre
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS	Sheffield Crucible
BIRD CALLS	Sheffield Crucible
JOHN BULL’S OTHER ISLAND	Lyric Theatre, Belfast
JOURNEYS AMONG THE DEAD	Young Vic Theatre Studio
21yrs @ 6am	Ablaze Theatre Co, Hill Street Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe
EBB AND RUN	Bristol Council, Bristol City Docks Community Project
DECONSTRUCTING THE DREAM	New Moon Theatre Company
THE MYSTERY PLAYS	Write Act Theatre Company, Waterfront Studio
PERIBANEZ	Year Out Drama Course, Stratford
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA	Guildhall School
LOVE FOR LOVE	Guildhall School
BED SHOW	Bristol Old Vic
ALL MY SONS (as asst dir to Andy Hay)	Bristol Old Vic


For the Royal Shakespeare Company
MADNESS IN VALENCIA	The Other Place
ROBIN HOOD	(Rehearsed reading)


OPERA
SWEETNESS AND BADNESS	Welsh National Opera’s Max project
DON GIOVANNI	English Touring Opera


AS ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
*To Gregory Doran:* KING JOHN and JUBILEE (Swan Theatre); MACBETH (Swan & Young Vic and re-staged: UK Tour, Tokyo Globe, Long Warf Connecticut, USA)
*To Lindsay Posner*: TWELFTH NIGHT (RST)


He has also written three plays: 21yrs @ 6am, COAST and SOCIETY and please ask for details of his teaching work at Rose Buford Drama School, the Guildhall School of Speech and Drama, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Queens University Belfast, British Council Japan, Long Warf Theatre New Haven, Tokyo Globe and the University of Bristol.


EDUCATION
Jonathan has a BA (First Class Hons) Degree in Drama: Theatre, Film and Television from The University of Bristol (1995-98).