London Theatre Directing
In the West End he directed the tenth anniversary cast of Fame (The Aldwych Theatre) and Treasure Island (The Mermaid Theatre) A Midsummer Nights Dream in Dubai, Blowing Whistles (Croydon Warehouse Theatre and Sound Theatre, Leicester Square) You Don't Kiss (Stratford Circus) The DVD recording of rock musical Poe at the Abbey Road Studios and Liberace’s Suit and I Love You You’re Perfect, Now Change (Jermyn Street)
For his own company, The Steam Industry, award winning productions of new writing have included The Fundraisers, Fucking Men, Watch Out for Mr Stork, Venetian Heat, Born Bad and The Oedipus Table, and classics such as Crime and Punishment, The Grapes of Wrath, Trelawny of the ‘Wells’and Loyalties (all at the Finborough Theatre) and Blood Wedding, Helen of Troy, Disney's Jungle Book, Petite Rouge, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Cyclops, Children of Hercules, Treasure Island, Oedipus, Agamemnon, Androcles and the Lion, and The London Nativity at the Scoop.
His other notable Steam Industry productions include Joe DiPietro’s play Fucking Men which transferred from the Finborough Theatre to a box office record breaking run Off West End at The Kings Head, Victor/Victoria, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (The Bridewell), Measure for Measure (Riverside Studios). Ring Round the Moon (King’s Head), The Winter's Tale (The Courtyard Theatre) Titus Andronicus, Germaine Greer’s Lysistrata, Murdered Sleep, Inherit the Wind, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Sound of Music, The King and I, Calamity Jane and Sweet Charity (all at BAC where he was an associate artist) South Pacific, Joe Orton's Funeral Games and his own musical Dick Daredevil and play Venom (The Drill Hall) Joe Orton's Crimes of Passion and his own plays Stealing the Scene, Succulence and Mermaid Sandwich and radical Shakespeare adaptations: The Wax King (from Henry VI parts 1, 2 & 3 ) Iago (from Othello) and Illyria (from Twelfth Night) at The Man in The Moon.
In 2013 Phill will be directing the Modern World Premier of Fair Em at the Union Theatre.
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