Sean Mathias

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Career

Mathias began his acting career by appearing on television in a small role in an episode of the cult BBC TV series Survivors in 1977. He appeared in 1977 as an Irish Guard lieutenant in the film A Bridge Too Far.

Mathias appeared in a production at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1978, during which he met actor Ian McKellen, who later became his lover of about nine years.

Mathias' acting career continued into the 1980s with minor television appearances and film clips including Priest of Love (1981), starring Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour, and McKellen. Gerald Portman made one of his most famous appearances in the 1988 film White Mischief as Gerald Portman.

Minder, a 1982 television show, was another popular TV appearance. Mathias appeared in "Broken Arrow" and played the part of a young darts player named Dafydd.

Cowardice, Mathias' play, was performed at the Ambassadors Theatre in London in August 1983, starring Ian McKellen, Janet Suzman, and Nigel Davenport, and received no praises. Infidelities, which premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1985, followed him after moving to Donmar Warehouse in London.

A Prayer For Wings, directed by Joan Plowright in 1987, was produced in Edinburgh and then moved to the Bush Theatre in London after winning a Fringe First award. Poor Nanny appeared in 1989, and Swansea Boys in 1990.

In addition, his book Manhattan Mourning, released in 1988, and the BBC television film The Lost Language of Cranes were both broadcast in 1992.

Mathias, a friend of Ian Charleson, who also worked in Bent, contributed a chapter to the 1990 book For Ian Charleson: A Tribute.

Mathias' career as a drama producer began in 1988 with Exceptions.

In 1989, he directed a revival of Bent at the Adelphi Theatre, the award-winning work by Martin Sherman that opened on Broadway in 1979 starring McKellen. McKellen, Richard E Grant, Ian Charleson, and Ralph Fiennes appeared on stage as a benefit. Mathias directed a complete run at the National Theatre in 1990 with McKellen, Paul Rhys, and Christopher Eccleston, winning the City Limits Award for Revival of the Year after receiving critical acclaim.

Mathias went on to direct dramatic performances in London and Broadway, including Pam Gems' performance of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya with McKellen and Antony Sher in 1992 at the Royal National Theatre; Noel and Gertie starring Patricia Hodge and Edward Petherbridge; McKellen and McKellen; and Broadway's Noel and Gertie.

Mathias received the London Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best Director of No.l Coward's Design for Life (with Rachel Weisz, Clive Owen, Paul Rhys, and Rupert Graves) and Jean Cocteau's Les Parents tragics starring Sheila Gish, Frances de la Tour, Alan Howard, and Jude Law, 1994. As Indiscretions, the two performers were taken to the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in April 1995, with Law joined by Kathleen Turner, Eileen Atkins, Roger Rees, and Cynthia Nixon. It received nine Tony Awards, including Best Director of a Play.

Mathias directed A Little Night Music, his first Stephen Sondheim performance, at the West End National Theatre in October 1995, with Judi Dench and Siân Phillips. He had worked with Phillips before, directing her in another Pam Gems production, Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts at the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff in 1993. Mathias appeared in Siân Phillips again in 1997, directing Marlene Dietrich in Marlene, which received two Tony Award nominations.

Other London directorial credits include Antony and Cleopatra, starring Alan Rickman and Helen Mirren in 1998, and Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer with Sheila Gish, which appeared in April to July 1999 at the Comedy Theatre.

Mathias' career then proceeded to New York, where he supervised McKellen and Helen Mirren in August Strindberg's Dance of Death on Broadway in October 2001. In 2003, he began to direct this in London and Sydney. Evan Smith also directed an Off-Broadway servicemen by Evan Smith in March 2001. Billy Crudup appeared in The Elephant Man revival at the Royale Theatre in April 2002.

In 2002, he returned to Sondheim to direct Company at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater in Washington, D.C., as part of the Sondheim Festival, which brought together John Barrowman and Lynn Redgrave. "I always wanted to do Company; it's the first musical I ever fell in love with," he told the Stephen Sondheim Society at the time. Mathias, a youngster in South Wales, listened to the first Broadway recording of the show and performed "The Ladies Who Lunch" with friends: "I couldn't believe the songs, the mistrust, and the sexuality."

Mathias directed the pantomime Aladdin at the Old Vic in London, with McKellen as Widow Twankey alongside Maun Lipman, Roger Allam, and Joe McFadden. Mathias reunited with McKellen and Allam for a second run over Christmas, with Frances Barber in the cast.

Mathias directed Rebecca Lenkiewicz's Shoreditch Madonna at the Soho Theatre in London in 2005, starring Francesca Annis and Leigh Lawson. He returned to the United States to direct Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, starring Annette Bening, Alfred Molina, and Lothaire Bluteau, which opened at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in February 2006.

Since visiting South Africa with the National Theatre in 1994 for a series of workshops, Mathias has had a home in South Africa since 1997. With Jean Anouilh's Antigone at the Rhodes Theatre in July 2004, he made his South African debut at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival, starring South African actor John Kani. In October 2004, he told the Financial Times, "I had fallen out of love with London." "I felt I'd exhaustion in London." I couldn't invent myself any more. My life was tumultuous, and there was never time to absorb experiences. Since my mother died, a long-term friendship ended abruptly, I had a string of deaths near me, my mother died, and a long-term relationship fell apart. I felt I had failed right then," says the author. In 2007, Edna O'Brien directed Triptych, starring leading South African actress Dorothy-Anne Gould.

L'Invitation au Château, Christopher Fry's adaptation of Jean Anouilh's comedy, Ring Round the Moon, opened in February 2008, and he began in 2008 by directing a revival of Ring Round the Moon, starring Angela Thorne at the West End Playhouse Theatre (opening in February 2008). He continued his journey by directing Triptych at the London Southwark Playhouse in April 2008.

McKellen and Patrick Stewart appeared in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, which toured the UK in early 2009 before launching at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London in May 2009. It was his first performance as the Theatre Royal Haymarket's 2009 artistic director.

His second play at the Theatre Royal Haymarket was a stage version of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's, which was adapted for the stage by British playwright Samuel Adamson and starring Anna Friel, which opened in September 2009, with some critics expressing disappointment about the actors' "good performances" and the play's "fluent staging."

Waiting For Godot and No Man's Land, two of Mathias's in repertory on Broadway, starring Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart. These performances ranged from November 2013 to rave reviews, with Ben Brantley of The New York Times calling them "Absurdly Enjoyable" and ""these performances discover the true enjoyment value in existential emptiness."

Mathias is also known as a film producer because of his first feature film, Bent, based on the play that propelled him to fame, despite the fact that his primary interest is theatre direction. Clive Owen appeared in it in 1997, it was directed by McKellen, Mick Jagger, Rupert Graves, Jude Law, and Lothaire Bluteau. At the Cannes film festival, it took home the Prix de la Jeunesse.

Mathias is planning to direct The Colossus, a South African film that has been based on Ann Harries' book Manly Pursuits. Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Colin Firth, and Ian McKellen were among the actresses lined up for roles. This film project was still in pre-production as of 2010.

Mathias is also scheduled to direct Somewhat Dead, a horror-comemory film set in present-day England with a large cast.

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