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Declan Donnellan (born 1953) is a British theatre director and writer. He is joint founder of Cheek by Jowl theatre company.

In 1992 he was awarded an Honorary Degree by 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.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Selected credits 3 Cheek by Jowl's Productions 3.1 Other productions 4 Bibliography 5 See also 6 External links

Donnellan was born in England to Irish parents and grew up in London. He read English and Law at Queens' College, Cambridge and was called to the Bar at Middle Temple in 1978. His early work was spotted by a lecturer from the Arts Educational Drama School, who employed him to direct his students.^{[citation needed]}

He founded Cheek by Jowl with Nick Ormerod in 1981. The company has performed across the world and gave the first performance of Shakespeare in the Swan: Twelfth Night in 1986.

For the Royal Shakespeare Company he has directed School for Scandal, King Lear (Academy 2002) and Great Expectations. 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 in Moscow. Other work in Russia includes The Winter's Tale for the Maly Drama Theatre of St. Petersburg.

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 The Three Sisters.

He wrote a play, Lady Betty, which was performed by Cheek by Jowl in 1989. He has also adapted Don't Fool with Love by de Musset, Antigone by Sophocles, The Mandate by Erdman and Masquerade by Lermontov.

First published in Russian in 2001, Donnellan's book, The Actor and the Target, has subsequently been published in English (2002, reprinted 2005), French and Spanish.

Donnellan has won awards in London, Paris, New York and Moscow, including Laurence Olivier Awards for :

• 1995 Best Director of a Play for As You Like It
• 1994 Best Director of a Musical for Sweeney Todd
• 1989/90 The Observer Award for Outstanding Achievement for Fuente Ovejuna
• 1987 Best Director for Le Cid, Twelfth Night and Macbeth

• 2007 Three Sisters ... by Anton Chekhov
• 2007 Cymbeline ... by William Shakespeare
• 2005 Great Expectations ... adapted from Charles Dickens
• 2005 The Changeling ... by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
• 2004 Othello ... by William Shakespeare
• 2002 Homebody / Kabul ... by Tony Kushner ..... British premiere
• 1998 Much Ado About Nothing ... by William Shakespeare
• 1997 Out Cry ... by Tennessee Williams ..... British premiere
• 1995 The Duchess of Malfi ... by John Webster
• 1994 As You Like It (revival) ... by William Shakespeare
• 1994 Measure for Measure ... by William Shakespeare
• 1993 Don't Fool With Love ... by Alfred de Musset
• 1993 The Blind Men ... by Michel de Ghelderode ..... British premiere
• 1991 As You Like It ... by William Shakespeare
• 1990 Hamlet ... by William Shakespeare
• 1990 Sara ... by Lessing ... British premiere
• 1989 Lady Betty ... by Declan Donnellan ..... British premiere
• 1989 The Doctor of Honour ... by Pedro Calderon ..... British premiere
• 1988 The Tempest ... by William Shakespeare
• 1988 Philoctetes ... by Sophocles
• 1988 A Family Affair ... by Ostrovsky ..... British premiere
• 1987 Macbeth ... by William Shakespeare
• 1986 Twelfth Night ... by William Shakespeare
• 1986 Le Cid ... by Pierre Corneille ..... British premiere
• 1985 The Man of Mode ... by George Etherege
• 1985 A Midsummer Night's Dream ... by William Shakespeare
• 1985 Andromache ... by Jean Racine ..... British premiere
• 1984 Pericles ... by William Shakespeare
• 1983 Vanity Fair ... by William Makepeace Thackeray ..... British premiere
• 1982 Othello ... by William Shakespeare
• 1981 The Country Wife ... by William Wycherly

• 2005 Gilgamesh, a new adaptation by Declan Donnellan
• 2002 King Lear with the RSC Academy Company
• 2000 Boris Godunov at the Moscow Art Theatre
• 1996 Martin Guerre, West End
• The Winter’s Tale for the Maly Theater of St Petersburg
• Le Cid at the Avignon Festival with French actors
• Falstaff at the Salzburg Festival

• Donnellan, D. The Actor and the Target (English edition) Nick Hern Books, London, 2002 (ISBN 1-85459-127-4)

• Approaching the Millennium: Essays on Angels in America, eds. Deborah R. Geis and Steven F. Kruger University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1997 (ISBN 0-472-09623-0)

• Reade, Simon. Cheek by Jowl: Ten Years of Celebration, Oberon Books (hardback) 1991 (ISBN 0-948230-47-9) -- currently out of print

• Irvin, Polly. Directing the Stage, RotoVision, Hove, 2003 (ISBN 2-88046-661-X)

• In Contact With the Gods?, Directors Talk Theatre, eds. Maria M. Delgado & Paul Heritage, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1996 (ISBN 0-7190-4763-3)

• National Theatre Platform Papers No. 2 on Angels in America, National Theatre Publications Department

• National Theatre Platform Papers, Declan Donnellan Talks About his Book, The Actor and the Target, National Theatre Publications Department, London, 24 January 2003

• On Directing, eds. Mary Luckhurst and Gabriella Giannachi, Faber, London 1999 (ISBN 0-571-19149-5)

• Laurence Olivier Awards
• List of theatre directors

• cheekbyjowl.com
• nationaltheatre.org.uk
• officiallondontheatre.co.uk/awards