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Declan Donnellan was born on 4 August, 1953 in Manchester, United Kingdom, is a British theatre director (born 1953). Discover Declan Donnellan's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?
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Declan Michael Martin Donnellan (born 4 August 1953) is an English film/stage director and author.
After leaving Cambridge, he was called to the Bar at Middle Temple in 1978.
He co-founded the Cheek by Jowl theatre company with Nick Ormerod in 1981.
In addition to his Cheek by Jowl productions, Donnellan has made theatre, opera and ballet with a variety of companies across the world.
In 1989, Donnellan was made Associate Director of the Royal National Theatre in London where his productions have included Fuenteovejuna, The Mandate and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1993) The cast of Sweeny Todd included Alun Armstrong, Adrian Lester and Julia McKenzie.
He wrote a play, Lady Betty, which was performed by Cheek by Jowl in 1989.
In 1992, he received an honorary degree from the University of Warwick and in 2004 he was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his work in France.
He directed the 1992 short The Big Fish which starred Fiona Shaw.
In 1993 Donnellan directed both parts of Angels in America, after having previously directed the play’s first part Millennium Approaches at the National’s Cottesloe Theatre in 1991.
In 1993 the play’s second part, Perestroika, received its London debut at the National Theatre and was played in repertory with Millennium Approaches, starring Daniel Craig and Jason Isaacs.
In 2000 he formed a company of actors in Moscow, under the auspices of The Chekhov Festival, whose productions include Boris Godunov, Twelfth Night and Three Sisters.
First published in Russian in 2001, Donnellan's book, The Actor and the Target, was published in English in 2002 (reprinted 2005), and has since appeared in 15 languages, including French, Spanish, Italian, German, Romanian and Mandarin.
For the Royal Shakespeare Company he has directed The School for Scandal, King Lear (Academy 2002) and an adaptation of Great Expectations (2005) with Nick Ormerod.
He has also directed Le Cid for the Avignon Festival, Falstaff for the Salzburg Festival and the ballet of Romeo and Juliet for the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
Other work in Russia includes The Winter's Tale for the Maly Drama Theatre of Saint Petersburg.
In February 2004 he was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his work in France, and in 2009 he shared the Charlemagne award with Craig Venter and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Since 2006 the company has been part of the Barbican's International Theatre Program (BITE) resulting in co-productions of The Changeling (2006), Cymbeline (2007) and Troilus and Cressida (2008).
He has directed plays at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the English National Opera, the Old Vic and the Bolshoi Ballet, among others.
In 2010, he was made an honorary fellow of Goldsmiths' College, University of London.
Donnellan has won awards in London, Paris, New York and Moscow, including Laurence Olivier Awards for:
In 2014, Donnellan directed the stage play of Shakespeare in Love (play) at the Noël Coward Theatre.
The play was adapted for stage by Lee Hall (playwright) from the screenplay by Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman and produced by Disney Theatrical Productions and Sonia Friedman Productions.
The production was designed by Donnellan’s co-Artistic Director of Cheek by Jowl theatre company, Nick Ormerod.
Eve Ponsonby played Annabella and Orlando James played her brother Giovanni in the 2014 revival.
From January 2015, the cast included Eve Ponsonby as Viola de Lesseps, Orlando James as William Shakespeare and Suzanne Burden as Elizabeth I of England.
Peter Moreton, who played Antigonus and the Old Shepherd in Cheek by Jowl’s The Winter’s Tale in 2015, played Richard Burbage in Shakespeare in Love, and Ryan Donaldson, who played Autolycus in the Cheek by Jowl’s The Winter’s Tale, played Edward Alleyn.
In 2016, Donnellan won the Golden Lion of Venice for lifetime achievement in theatre at the Venice Biennale.
Donnellan was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to theatre.
Donnellan was born in Manchester and grew up in Ealing, London.
He was educated at St Benedict's School, Ealing and Queens' College, Cambridge, where he read English and Law.