Trevor Nunn

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Sir Trevor Robert Nunn (born 14 January 1940) is an English theatre director.

Nunn has been the Artistic Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre, and, more recently, the Theatre Royal Haymarket.

He has directed dramas for the stage, including Macbeth, as well as opera and ballet, such as Cats (1981) and Les Misérables (1985). Nunn has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical, the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director of a Play, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical, as well as the Olivier Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical by Michael Greyl, The Merchant of Venice, Troilus and Cressida, and Nicholas Nickleby.

He was named one of Britain's most influential people in 2008.

He has also produced films and television scripts.

Early years

Nunn was born in Ipswich, England, to Robert Alexander Nunn, a cabinetmaker, and Dorothy May Piper. He loved reading as a young boy, but his parents had no budget for books. However, an aunt had more books, including a complete Shakespeare, which she enjoyed whenever the family visited her. She gave it to him at the end.

He was educated at Northgate Grammar School, Ipswich, and Downing College, Cambridge. Peter Hewett, the school's assistant, was a rousing English teacher at Northgate. In the hopes of studying under F. R. Leavis at Downing, Hewett encouraged him to sit the scholarship exam in Cambridge. Hewett also begged the headmaster to assist Nunn with the costs of attending the exam while staying in Cambridge. Nunn's father could not afford it and the headmaster had refused at first, so Nunn was close to giving up. Nunn began his acting career at Downing, and first met contemporaries Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi. He directed Macbeth for The Marlowe Society in 1962 and also produced Footlights in that year. He also received a Director's Award for his work as a trainee director at Coventry's Belgrade Theatre.

Personal life

Nunn has been married three times and has five children. He was married to actress Janet Suzman from 17 October 1969 to their divorce in 1986. Joshua is their one-year-old son. He was married to Sharon Lee-Hill, with whom he has two children, Laurie and Amy, from 1986 to 1991.

Imogen Stubbs, a comedian with two children, married him in 1994. Ellie and Jesse are the actor's children. Stubbs announced their separation in April 2011.

Nunn had a brief friendship with Nancy Dell'Olio in 2011.

Nunn was listed in a list of the top private financial contributors to the Labour Party in 1998. He was knighted in 2002.

Shakespeare was his faith, according to Nunn in 2014, who told The Telegraph that it was his faith. "Shakespeare has more wisdom and information about our lives, how to live and how not to live, how to forgive, and how to recognize our fellow creatures than any religious book." One hundred times more than the Bible. I'm sorry to say so. However, there is an understanding of the human condition that is otherwise unheardent in religious books."

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Career

Nunn joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1964 and was appointed Artistic Director of the RSC in 1968, a post he held until 1986 (latterly with Terry Hands from 1978).

Janet Suzman, his first wife, appeared in several of his films, including the 1974 televised version of Antony and Cleopatra. In 1976, Nunn directed Macbeth's RSC production starring Ian McKellen in the title role and Dame Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth. Nunn staged the performance with not only the paying audience but also the audience of all of the actors in the production that was not on the show — they sat on wooden crates just outside the main playing area.

Nunn became a leading figure in dramatic circles, co-directed by John Caird and co-directed by Richard Caird, and was involved in several major productions, including the RSC's adaptation of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors in 1976.

Nunn, the first English director of musicals and the first to be in London since opening, was a very popular director of musicals in the non-subsidized market. At Windsor Castle, Nunn also supervised the little-known 1986 Webber-Rice musical Cricket. Starlight Express and Sunset Boulevard are among Cats and Les Misérables Nunn's other musical credits. In September 1997, he became the Artistic Director of the Royal National Theatre, a post he held until 2003.

Later in London, My Fair Lady, South Pacific (at the Royal National Theatre), The Woman in White, Othello, and Acorn Antiques: The Musical! The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Rock 'n' Roll, Porgy and Bess performed in 2006 at the Savoy Theatre (an abridged version with dialogue rather than recitatives, unlike Nunn's first performance of the opera).

In 2004, he directed We Happy Few, a play by his second wife Imogen Stubbs. Stubbs appears in his films, including the 1996 Twelfth Night film. In 2004, Nunn staged a modern interpretation of Shakespeare's Hamlet, starring Ben Whishaw as the title role and Imogen Stubbs as Gertrude, and the Old Vic Theatre in London staged Imogen Stubbs as Gertrude.

He supervised King Lear and The Seagull's RSC productions in 2007, which appeared in Stratford before embarking on a world tour (including the Brooklyn Academy of Music) and then appearing at the New London Theatre in November 2007. Both Ian McKellen, Romola Garai, Frances Barber, Sylvester McCoy, and William Gaunt appeared in Ian McKellen, Romola Garai, and William Gaunt. On Boxing Day, 2008, Nunn's television adaptation of King Lear starring McKellen was shown.

He returned to The Belgrade Theatre in Coventry (the theatre where he began his career) in 2008 to direct Joanna Murray-Smith's production of Ingmar Bergman's film Scenes from a Marriage starring Imogen Stubbs and Iain Glen. His musical interpretation of Gone with the Wind opened at the New London Theatre in April 2008, but after poor reviews, it closed on June 14, 2008, after 79 performances. He directed a revival of A Little Night Music at the Menier Chocolate Factory in December 2008, which later transferred to the West End at the Garrick Theatre in 2009. Desiree Armfeldt and Angela Lansbury were the leading female actors in the Broadway show. Other cast members of the original London cast also performed with the company. After 425 performances, the production came to a close in January 2011.

Nunn's latest version of The Man and the Birdsong Musical Aspects of Love, which opened in September 2010 at the Menier Chocolate Factory and the Play Birdsong, based on Sebastian Faulks' book of the same name.

With a revival of Flare Path (part of the playwright, Terence Rattigan's centennial year celebrations), Nunn made his debut as Artistic Director of the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. Sienna Miller, James Purefoy, and Sheridan Smith appeared in March 2011 and closed in June 2011, followed by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (June – October 2011), starring Ralph Fiennes. Joanna Lumley and Robert Lindsay appeared in his last performance at the Haymarket, The Lion in Winter (November 2011 – January 2012), starring Joanna Lumley and Robert Lindsay.

Nunn directed the play Fatal Attraction in the Haymarket in 2014.

Nunn produced Fiddler on the Roof at the Menier Chocolate Factory in December 2018, before transferring to the Playhouse Theatre in London's West End for a limited season in spring 2019. Andy Nyman appeared as Tevye and Judy Kuhn as Golde in the film.

In 2020, he was supposed to direct a new musical Identical based on The Parent Trap. It was scheduled to be its world premiere at the Nottingham Playhouse before transferring to the Theatre Royal, Bath in the summer of 2020. However, production has been postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.

Nunn has conducted operas at Glyndebourne. In 1993, he revived his highly praised Glyndebourne production of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, which was highly praised.

Lady Jane (1986), Hedda, Hedda Gabler's adaptation, and a 1996 film version of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night were among his film scripts.

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