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Brigid Larmour

Director

Director, Adaptor and Associate Producer of the groundbreaking and critically acclaimed MERCHANT OF VENICE 1936 with Tracy Ann Oberman, co-produced by Watford Palace Theatre and HOME Manchester in spring 2023. It sold out two seasons at the Royal Shakespeare Company as part of a successful national tour with Trafalgar Entertainment and Eilene Davidson Productions. (Whatsonstage Awards nomination for Best Revival.) It transferred to the West End for a sell-out run at the Criterion Theatre in spring 2024.

Brigid is a skilled and experienced text-based Director, especially Shakespeare, comedy, new writing, and Dramaturg (Writers’ Guild New Writing Encouragement Award 2012).

Directing, producing and teaching experience across subsidised and commercial theatre and TV, in the UK and America. Associate Artistic Director, Patsy Rodenburg Associates. Brigid was CEO and AD for Watford Palace Theatre (WPT) from 2006 – 2023.

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Directing credits for WPT include:

Premieres of: LITTLE WOMEN adapted by Anne-Marie Casey (Pitlochry Festival Theatre/WPT/HOME Manchester); JEFFERSON’S GARDEN by Timberlake Wertenbaker (Writers’ Guild Best New Play Award); 14 by Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti; WE THAT ARE LEFT, MRS REYNOLDS AND THE RUFFIAN and PERFECT MATCH, all by Gary Owen; COMING UP by Neil d’Souza; OUR FATHER by Charlotte Keatley; VON RIBBENTROP’S WATCH (Oxford Playhouse/WPT and tour) and LOVE ME DO (co-directed with Charlotte Keatley), both by Marks and Gran; I CAPTURE THE CASTLE a musical by Theresa Howard and Steven Edis (WPT/Bolton/Oxford Playhouse/Kevin Wallace).

Revival credits for WPT include:

All-female MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING; AS YOU LIKE IT; Shaw’s ARMS AND THE MAN; Ayckbourn’s ABSENT FRIENDS, TIME OF MY LIFE and ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR; Ronald Harwood’s EQUALLY DIVIDED; MY MOTHER SAID I NEVER SHOULD by Charlotte Keatley.

Pantomime credits for WPT include:

MOTHER GOOSE; ROBIN HOOD; ALADDIN; SLEEPING BEAUTY; DICK WHITTINGTON

Awards include:

UK Theatre Award for Promotion of Diversity 2015.

Other Credits include:

2002–2004 Theatre Consultant, BBC4 Plays.

1993-1998 Devised and Directed Shakespeare Unplugged for NT Education. Interactive promenade shows in schools, venues, the Cottesloe, Lincoln Center. David Carr’s HENRY V the first Black Shakespeare King at NT/ RSC, Virginia Radcliffe first woman Prospero.

1989-1994 Artistic Director and Joint CEO, Contact Theatre. Directed Brenton's Brecht GALILEO with African American actor Joseph Mydell in the lead. Commissioned and directed first British play about the cultural implications of VR and the internet: STRANGE ATTRACTORS by Manchester poet Kevin Fegan, a multimedia promenade show using (then) ground-breaking technologies, in partnership with Granada TV. FROM THE MISSISSIPI DELTA by Endesha Ida Mae Holland featured Josette Bushell-Mingo and Pauline Black. Bushell-Mingo worked with director Annie Castledine again in Brecht’s THREEPENNY OPERA. Caryl Churchill’s CLOUD 9 had a post-colonial slant and Global Majority director, Burt Caesar and cast including Adjoah Andoh. SAFE SEX by Harvey Fierstein was the first play on a British main stage to address the AIDS crisis.

1987-1989 Freelance directing, presenting and teaching. Including HALF THE STORY, BBC documentary about women in the arts; BADGER by Charlotte Keatley, single camera drama for Granada TV (Prix Danube Nomination); Gorky’s VASSA for the Juilliard School in NY.

1985-1987 Associate Director, Contact Theatre Manchester. Championed and directed Charlotte Keatley’s game-changing MY MOTHER SAID I NEVER SHOULD, rejected by the major theatres for its all-female cast and innovative form. It won the George Devine Award, became a UK schools set text, and was produced worldwide. Directed Mustapha Matura’s PLAYBOY OF THE WEST INDIES, the first play with an entire cast of Global Majority actors produced in the UK outside London. Cast included Sharon D Clarke, Eddie Nestor, Diane Louise Jordan. Directed Shakespeare's ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA with Black actor Wyllie Longmore as Antony.

1982-1985 Assistant Director to Terry Hands, RSC.

1980 Edinburgh Fringe - Directed the first major revival of Middleton and Dekker’s THE ROARING GIRL, leading to the play re-entering the UK theatre repertoire.