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'Nicholas Hytner' (born May 7, 1956) is an award-winning English producer and director.
Hytner was born in Manchester to a Jewish family, attended Manchester Grammar School and read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He worked as an Associate Director at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre between 1985 and 1989, and at the National Theatre in London between 1989 and 1997. His directorial work includes ''The Country Wife'', ''Edward II'', ''Don Carlos'', ''Ghetto'', ''Miss Saigon'', ''Orpheus Descending'', a 2-part adaptation of Philip Pullman's ''His Dark Materials'' trilogy, Alan Bennett's ''The History Boys'', ''Carousel'', Southwark Fair and ''The Alchemist''.
He has also directed movies, such as ''The Crucible'', ''The Madness of King George'', ''The Object of My Affection'' and ''Center Stage''. Openly gay,[1]Hytner strived to avoid stereotypical gay characters in ''The Object of My Affection''. The film was later criticized by some gay critics as a "commercial whitewash".1
His production of the world-wide hit ''Miss Saigon'' and the launch of his period as director of the National Theatre with the controversial ''Jerry Springer: the Opera'' both benefited from his pathbreaking direction of operas, including most notably Xerxes in 1985, which won the Laurence Olivier Opera Award that year, became a huge hit (uniquely for a Handel opera in modern times) and is still in the English National Opera repertory. He has subsequently directed opera for Covent Garden, Glyndebourne, Paris Opera, Théâtre du Châtelet, Geneva Opera and Bavarian State Opera.
He was appointed director of the National Theatre in London in 2003. He has made some drastic changes at the National, choosing much more political and controversial pieces than his predecessors, but he was famously quoted upon being appointed the job that he himself was "a member of all sorts of interesting minorities". He also introduced a very successful plan called the Travelex £10 Season, which, as the name suggests, offers up a number of tickets at a very reduced price.
Hytner's film version of the very successful stage play ''The History Boys'' appeared in 2006.
1. Dancing queen >> With Center Stage, director Nicholas Hytner brings smarts to the aspiring dancer movie
★ The Guardian profile: Nicholas Hytner
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| Contents |
| Background |
| Director at the National Theatre |
| References |
| External links |
Background
Hytner was born in Manchester to a Jewish family, attended Manchester Grammar School and read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He worked as an Associate Director at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre between 1985 and 1989, and at the National Theatre in London between 1989 and 1997. His directorial work includes ''The Country Wife'', ''Edward II'', ''Don Carlos'', ''Ghetto'', ''Miss Saigon'', ''Orpheus Descending'', a 2-part adaptation of Philip Pullman's ''His Dark Materials'' trilogy, Alan Bennett's ''The History Boys'', ''Carousel'', Southwark Fair and ''The Alchemist''.
He has also directed movies, such as ''The Crucible'', ''The Madness of King George'', ''The Object of My Affection'' and ''Center Stage''. Openly gay,[1]Hytner strived to avoid stereotypical gay characters in ''The Object of My Affection''. The film was later criticized by some gay critics as a "commercial whitewash".1
His production of the world-wide hit ''Miss Saigon'' and the launch of his period as director of the National Theatre with the controversial ''Jerry Springer: the Opera'' both benefited from his pathbreaking direction of operas, including most notably Xerxes in 1985, which won the Laurence Olivier Opera Award that year, became a huge hit (uniquely for a Handel opera in modern times) and is still in the English National Opera repertory. He has subsequently directed opera for Covent Garden, Glyndebourne, Paris Opera, Théâtre du Châtelet, Geneva Opera and Bavarian State Opera.
Director at the National Theatre
He was appointed director of the National Theatre in London in 2003. He has made some drastic changes at the National, choosing much more political and controversial pieces than his predecessors, but he was famously quoted upon being appointed the job that he himself was "a member of all sorts of interesting minorities". He also introduced a very successful plan called the Travelex £10 Season, which, as the name suggests, offers up a number of tickets at a very reduced price.
Hytner's film version of the very successful stage play ''The History Boys'' appeared in 2006.
References
1. Dancing queen >> With Center Stage, director Nicholas Hytner brings smarts to the aspiring dancer movie
External links
★ The Guardian profile: Nicholas Hytner
★
★
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