Richard Eyre 

Richard Eyre's theatre work includes Comedians, Guys and Dolls, The Beggar’s Opera, Hamlet, Richard III, King Lear, Night of the Iguana, Sweet Bird of Youth, Racing Demon, Skylight, John Gabriel Borkman, The Invention of Love, The Reporter and The Observer (NT), Mary Poppins, Private Lives, Amy’s View, Vincent in Brixton and The Crucible (Broadway), The Bay at Nice, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, My Name is Lucy Barton, Betty Blue Eyes, The Judas Kiss, Quartermaine’s Terms, The Pajama Game and Mr Foote’s Other Leg, Long Day’s Journey Into Night (West End) and his own adaptations of Les Mains sales, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler and Little Eyolf (Almeida). Other opera credits include Carmen, Werther, Le nozze di Figaro and Manon Lescaut (Metropolitan Opera). Film and television work includes Tumbledown, Suddenly Last Summer, The Ploughman’s Lunch, Iris, Stage Beauty, Notes on a Scandal, The Children Act, Henry IV Parts I and II, The Dresser, King Lear and Allelujah. He was Director of the National Theatre (1988–97), has written four books, was knighted in 1997 and made a Companion of Honour in 2017.