Hamlet
2024
Director
Film
Sean
Mathias
Director . Writer . Actor
Sean Mathias is a celebrated British theater director with an illustrious career spanning over four decades. Mathias has established himself as a true visionary in the world of stage productions. His innovative approach to storytelling and his ability to breathe new life into classic works have earned him critical acclaim and numerous accolades.
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Biography
Sean Mathias is a British Theatre Director, Film Director and Writer. He has worked at the Royal National Theatre, the West End, the Kennedy Centre, The Mark Taper Forum, Off-Broadway and many times on Broadway, as well as Paris, Sydney, Cape Town, Johannesburg, San Francisco and extensively in the UK.
He has written a number of plays including the award-winning A Prayer for Wings, and the screenplay for the award-winning BBC film The Lost Language of Cranes.
In 2009/2010 Sean was the Artistic Director of Theatre Royal Haymarket and his legendary production of Waiting for Godot played two seasons at the theatre, as well as touring the UK and internationally. In 2013 he directed and co-produced Two Plays in Rep, comprising Beckett’s Godot and Pinter’s No Man’s Land on Broadway at the Cort Theatre. His production of No Man’s Land, starring Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, was the highest-grossing play in the history of the Wyndham’s Theatre. In 2019 he directed the UK premiere of Martin Sherman’s play Gently Down the Stream at the Park Theatre and later that year his production A Prayer For Wings transferred to the Kings Head Theatre from the Swansea Grand. Also in 2019 he directed Ian McKellen Onstage which toured the UK and played a season at the Pinter Theatre raising a staggering five million pounds for theatre charities. Sean first season as the Artist Director of Theatre Royal Windsor, produced Hamlet and The Cherry Orchard, with an ensemble of actors led by Ian McKellen and Francesca Annis.
He directed the award-winning film Bent.
He has won various awards including The Standard Award, WhatsOnStage Award, Cardiff International Film Festival award, the Critics’ Circle Award, a Fringe First at Edinburgh and the Prix de la Jeunesse at Cannes. He has been nominated for an Olivier Award and Tony Award.
Work
Title
Year/s
Role/s
Category
Alone Together
2023
Director
Play
Frank & Percy
2023
Director
Play
The Chalk Garden
2022
Director
Play
Dial M for Murder
2022
Director
Play
The Cherry Orchard
2021
Director
Play
Hamlet
2021
Director
Play
Ian McKellen on Stage
2019
Director
Play
A Prayer For Wings
1987, 2019
Director, Writer
Play
Savage Love
2018
Director
Play
Gently Down The Stream
2017, 2019
Director
Play
The Exorcist
2016, 2017, 2019
Director
Play
No Man’s Land
2016
Director
Film
The Unbuilt City
2015
Director
Play
No Man’s Land
2013
Director, Producer
Play
The Syndicate
2011
Director
Play
Waiting for Godot
2009, 2013
Director, Producer
Play
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
2009, 2013
Director
Play
Ring Around the Moon
2008
Director
Play
Triptych
2007, 2008
Director
Play
The Cherry Orchard
2006
Director
Play
Shoreditch Madonna
2005
Director
Play
Antigone
2004
Director
Play
Aladdin
2004
Director
Play
The Elephant Man
2002
Director
Play
Company
2002
Director
Play
Servicemen
2001
Director
Play
Dance of Death
2001, 2003
Director
Play
Suddenly Last Summer
1999
Director
Play
Antony and Cleopatra
1998
Director
Play
Marlene
1997, 1999
Director
Play
Bent
1997
Director
Film
Indiscretions (formerly Les Parents terribles)
1995
Director
Play
A Little Night Music
1995
Director
Play
Les Parents terribles
1994
Director
Radio
Les Parents terribles
1994
Director
Play
Design for Living
1994
Director
Play
Ghosts
1993
Director
Play
Uncle Vanya
1992
Director
Play
The Lost Language of Cranes
1991
Writer
Film
Noel and Gertie
1991
Director
Play
Swansea Boys
1990
Writer
Play
Bent
1990
Director
Play
The Bed Before Yesterday
1989
Director
Play
Poor Nanny
1989
Writer
Play
Exceptions
1988
Director
Play
Infidelities
1985
Writer
Play
Cowardice
1983
Writer
Play
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