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Terence David ('Terry') Hands (born 9 January 1941) is a leading British stage director.

He was born in Aldershot, and studied at Woking Grammar School, University of Birmingham and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

In 1964 he established the Liverpool Everyman.

Terry joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1966 to run the Company's touring group, Theatregoround. He become joint Artistic Director with Trevor Nunn in 1978, and in 1986 chief executive.

His decision to close the RSC's The Barbican Theatre and The Pit in the winter of 1990-91, was an essential act for the RSC, securing an increase in subsidy from the Arts Council.

In 1997 he became been director of Clwyd Theatr Cymru which presents much of its work on tour in Wales and the rest of the UK.

In October 2001 he resigned from his position as an advisory director of the RSC.

Hands once married actress Ludmila Mikael. Their daughter, Marina Hands, is also a successful actress. He is currently married to director Emma Lucia.

• 1984 (for 1983 season) – Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Director, Cyrano de Bergerac.
• 1983 – London Critics' Circle Theatre Awards (Drama Theatre Awards) for Best Classical Director, Cyrano de Bergerac.
• 1993 – London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Director, Tamburlaine The Great.
• 1993 – London Critics' Circle Theatre Awards (Drama Theatre Award) for Best Director, Tamburlaine The Great.
• 2002 – Honorary Fellowship of Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
• 2007 – Awarded a CBE in the 2007 New Year's Honours list.

For Theatregoround - Touring RSC

• 1966 – The Proposal, Anton Chekhov
• 1966 – The second shepherd's play
• 1967 – The Dumb Waiter, Harold Pinter
• 1967 – The Criminals, José Triana
• 1967-1968 – Under Milk Wood, Dylan Thomas

For The RCS (Royal Shakespeare Theatre and Aldwych Theatre)

• 1968 – The Merry Wives of Windsor
• 1968 – The Latent Heterosexual, Paddy Chayefsky
• 1969 – Pericles
• 1969 – Women Beware Women, Thomas Middleton
• 1969 – Bartholomew Fair, Ben Jonson
• 1970 – Richard III
• 1971-1972 – The Merchant of Venice (Also on UK tour)
• 1971 – The Man of Mode, George Etherege
• 1971 – The Balcony, Jean Genet
• 1972 – Murder in the Cathedral, T.S. Eliot
• 1973 – Romeo and Juliet
• 1973 – Cries from the Basement, David Rudkin
• 1974 – The Bewitched, Peter Barnes
• 1974 – The Actor, (RSC Australian Tour)
• 1975-1976 – Henry IV parts 1 and 2
• 1975-1976 – Henry V (Also International tour)
• 1975-1976 – The Merry Wives of Windor
• 1977 – Old World, Aleksei Arbuzov
• 1977-1978 – Henry VI Parts 1,2 and 3
• 1978-1979 – Coriolanus (Also International Tour)
• 1978 – The Changeling, Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
• 1979-1980 – Twelfth Night
• 1979 –Children of the Sun, Maxim Gorky
• 1980-81 – Richard II
• 1980-81 – Richard III
• 1980-81 – As You Like It
• 1981 – Troilus and Cressida
• 1982-84 – Much Ado About Nothing
• 1982-1983 –Arden of Faversham

For the RSC at the Barbican Theatres and Royal Shakespeare Theatre

• 1982 – Poppy, Peter Nichols
• 1983-1984 – Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand (Also International tour)
• 1985 – Red Noses, Peter Barnes
• 1985-1986 – Othello
• 1986-1987 – The Winter's Tale
• 1988 – Scenes from a Marriage, Peter Barnes
• 1987-1988 – Julius Caesar
• 1987 – The Balcony, Jean Genet
• 1988 – Carrie (a musical), Stephen King
• 1989 – Romeo and Juliet
• 1989-1990 – Coriolanus, co-directed with John Barton
• 1989-1990 – Singer, Peter Flannery (At The Swan, and The Pit)
• 1990-1991 – Love's Labour's Lost
• 1990-1991 –The Seagull, Anton Chekhov
• 1993 – Tamburlaine the Great, Christopher Marlowe
• 1995 –The Merry Wives of Windsor (at The National Theatre)

For the 1995 Chichester Festival

• Hadrian VII, Chichester Festival Theatre
• The Visit, Chichester Festival Theatre

For Theatr Clwyd

• 1997 – Equus
• 1998 – A Christmas Carol, Peter Barnes
• 1998 – The Journey of Mary Kelly, Siân Evans
• 1999 – Twelfth Night
• 1999 – Macbeth
• 2000 – Under Milk Wood, Dylan Thomas
• 2001 – King Lear
• 2001 – The Rabbit, Meredydd Barker
• 2002 – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard
• 2002 – Romeo and Juliet
• 2002 – The Four Seasons, Arnold Wesker
• 2003 – Blithe Spirit, Noel Coward
• 2003 – The Crucible, Arthur Miller
• 2004 – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
• 2005 – Troilus and Cressida