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Michael Bogdanov
Born of Russian and Welsh parents, Michael Bogdanov studied in England, Ireland, Germany and France. He has produced, written and directed for television in England and Ireland, but his primary interest has been the theatre.
Among his credits are:
- eight productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company, among them
The Taming of the Shrew, for which he received a Director
of the Year Award in 1979;
- From 1980 to 1988 he was Associate Director of the Royal National
Theatre;
- During that time he also worked in various theatres internationally
- directing for example,
- Hamlet at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin
- Romeo and Juliet at the Imperial Theatre, Tokyo
- Measure for Measure at Stratford Ontario
- the world premiere of Stockhausen's Montag Aus Licht
at La Scala, Milan
- Julius Caesar and his own adaptation of Goethe's
Reinecke Fuchs at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg
- created and directed a 12-part series for Channel 4, Shakespeare
Lives
- from 1989 to 1992 he was Intendant of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus
in Hamburg - the first non-German ever to hold such a post. There
he directed:
- Hamlet
- Mary Stuart
- The Tempest
- The Ginger Man (a new version in conjunction with
JP Donleavy)
- Romeo and Juliet.
In 1986, Michael Bogdanov co-founded (with Michael Pennington) the
English Shakespeare Company as Joint Artistic Director, where
he directed:
- the Company's inaugural productions of The Henrys
- (1987) the seven play history cycle of The Wars of the Roses,
which toured world-wide and for which he received the 1990 Laurence
Olivier Award for Best Director
- (1990) the ESC's international tour of Coriolanus and
The Winters Tale, which travelled to Japan, Australia
and India
- (1992) a pioneering version of Macbeth for four African
countries
- (also 1992) a national and international tour of The Tempest
Since 1992 he has continued to work throughout Europe and the world directing - among many other productions:
- a major revival of the musical Hair at the Old Vic
(1993)
- his own version of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf
(Royal National Theatre of Denmark) (1994)
- Peer Gynt for the Residenz Theater, Munich (1995)
- Goethe's Faust I and II for the Royal Shakespeare Company
- a 90-minute film based on The Tempest in Wales (1996)
- Beowulf for the English Shakespeare Company (1997)
- Timon of Athens for the Shakespeare Repertory Theatre,
Chicago (March 1997)
- a film of Macbeth for Granada Television (July 1997)
- Macbeth for the Residenz Theater, Munich
Please note: these credits are not complete.
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