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Stephen Unwin Announces Plans to Leave ETT After Fifteen Years

PRESS RELEASE
For immediate release March 12 2007

STEPHEN UNWIN ANNOUNCES PLANS TO LEAVE ETT AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS.
Stephen Unwin has announced his decision to resign as Director of ETT after fifteen years. Unwin founded ETT in 1993 and will leave in the summer of 2008 to pursue other projects.
Over the past 15 years, the company has staged over 40 plays and visited more than 75 theatres throughout the UK and overseas. ETT has enjoyed four seasons at the Donmar, two at the Old Vic, two at the Royal Court and four in the West End.  Stephen was awarded the Shakespeare’s Globe Sam Wanamaker Award in 2003 and ETT has won 17 national awards. ETT has been hailed for its twelve productions of Shakespeare (including Hamlet first with Alan Cumming and then Ed Stoppard, Henry IV with Timothy and Sam West and King Lear with Timothy West), five productions of Ibsen (including Hedda Gabler with Alexandra Gilbreath and Ghosts with Diana Quick) and six world premieres, including Peter Gill’s The York Realist, Richard Bean’s Honeymoon Suite and two plays by Jonathan Harvey.  While Director of ETT Stephen has also written a number of theatre books, including Faber’s Pocket Guide to Shakespeare, So You Want to be a Theatre Director and A Guide to the Plays of Bertolt Brecht.

Nic Lloyd, Chair of ETT’s Trustees has said: Stephen has been an immensely successful director and has established ETT as one of the leading touring companies in the UK. I have greatly enjoyed working with him and the Trustees would like to thank him for his immeasurable contribution and to wish him well in all his future endeavours. He has thoughtfully given us time to reflect on how the company should move forward to the next exciting phase of its development.

Stephen Unwin’s production of Drew Pautz’ Someone Else’s Shoes plays at Soho Theatre until April 7.  He will direct Rowley and Middleton’s The Changeling in Autumn 2007 and announce his final Spring season shortly.

ENDS
 
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Mark Slaughter
Press & Marketing for ETT
Mail mslaughter@ett.org.uk

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