User:David Farr/David Farr (director)

David Farr is an award-winning theatre director, playwright and screenwriter. He is currently Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and was Artistic Director of the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith from 2005-2009. He writes regularly for Spooks for the BBC and is a film writer, co-writing the upcoming Joe Wright film Hanna.

Background
He was brought up in Surrey and educated in Guildford and at Cambridge University (English Literature, double first)

Career
David started directing theatre at University and won The Guardian Student Drama Award at the Edinburgh Festival for his production of Slight Possession starring Rachel Weisz and Sasha Hails. He worked under Stephen Daldry at The Gate Theatre Notting Hill before becoming Artistic Director at the age of twenty five. He has also been Artistic Director at the Bristol Old Vic (2002-2005) and Lyric Hammersmith (2005-2009). His plays have been performed in over twenty countries and he is published by Faber and Faber.

= Plays and adaptations =

Elton John's Glasses (Watford Palace Theatre, Queens Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, 1998) The Danny Crowe Show (The Bush Theatre)