Rupert Goold Explained

Rupert Goold
Birth Date:1972 2, df=yes
Birth Place:Highgate, London, England
Occupation:Theatre director
Years Active:1995–present
Education:Trinity College, Cambridge
New York University
Children:2

Rupert Goold (born 18 February 1972) is an English director who works primarily in theatre. He is the artistic director of the Almeida Theatre, and was the artistic director of Headlong Theatre Company (2005–2013).[1] Since 2010, Goold has been an associate director at the Royal Shakespeare Company.[2] He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 for services to drama.

Goold is known for his extensive work in theatre. For his work in the West End he won two Laurence Olivier Awards for Best Director for Macbeth (2008) and Enron (2010). He was Olivier-nominated for King Charles III (2015), Ink (2018), and Dear England (2024). He received Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play nominations for King Charles III (2016) and Ink (2019). He made his directorial film debut with Judy (2019).

Early years and education

Goold was born in Highgate, England, a suburb of north London. His father was a management consultant, and his mother was an author of children's books.[3] He attended the independent University College School,[4] graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1994 with a First in English literature and studied performance studies at New York University on a Fulbright Scholarship. He was trainee director at Donmar Warehouse for the 1995 season, and assisted on productions including 'Art' and Speed-the-Plow in the West End.

Career

Goold was artistic director of the Royal and Derngate Theatres in Northampton from 2000 to 2005. Prior to that, he was an associate at the Salisbury Playhouse in 1996–97. In addition to his work as a director he has co-authored three adaptations for the stage. Goold directed Sir Patrick Stewart (whom he had previously directed as Prospero, and later in Richard II) as Macbeth in his acclaimed Minerva Studio staging of Macbeth at the Chichester Festival Theatre in May 2007.[5]

In September 2007, the production transferred to the Gielgud Theatre in London, then the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York and then to the Lyceum Theater on Broadway. At the 2007 Evening Standard Theatre Awards, Macbeth won two awards: Stewart won the Best Actor Award, while Goold won The Sydney Edwards Award for Best Director.[6] It also won Goold a 2008 Olivier Award for Best Director. He says he was not concerned with thoughts of a career anti-climax. "I came home to an empty house after the Olivier Awards, clutching my trophy for Best Director and I realised that I'd peaked. It was now going to be downhill all the way. But I still felt quite comfortable with the realisation that nothing could get better after this."[7] He later directed a 2010 BBC4 television film version of Macbeth using Soviet-era Russian-type uniforms and weapons.[8]

In 2008, he directed the UK premiere of Stephen Adly Guirgis's The Last Days of Judas Iscariot and a radical re-interpretation of Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author at the Chichester Festival which he co-authored with Ben Power. This production subsequently transferred to the West End and toured the UK and later Australia. In 2009 he directed a hugely acclaimed West End revival of Lionel Bart's Oliver! Produced by Cameron Mackintosh, Goold recreated Sam Mendes' direction for the London Palladium production, which was nominated for three Olivier Awards.[9] In 2009, Goold directed a revival of Shakespeare's King Lear at the Young Vic. Goold set his Lear in Northern England during the 1970s, fascinated by the fact that during this decade, Britain was enduring the power of women. He approached the play with a drastically different view, and as a result this production received mixed reviews. In 2009, he again won Best Director at the Evening Standard Awards for ENRON.[10] His opera credits include productions at Batignano Opera Festival and Garsington.[11]

In the following years he directed a string of plays for the Almeida Theatre, which include the musical American Psycho (2013), the new play King Charles III (2014), the revivals Medea (2015) and Richard III (2016), as well as the new play Ink (2017).[12] Goold returned to Broadway with the transfer of the play, King Charles III which he previously directed in the West End. He earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play.[13] The following year he directed the musical transfer, American Psycho based on the 1991 novel of the same name by Bret Easton Ellis.[14] In 2019 he directed the Broadway transfer for the James Graham play Ink about the rise of Rupert Murdoch which ran at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Goold received his second nomination for the Tony Award for Best Direction.[15] That same year he directed the Almeida Theatre production of The Hunt (2019) starring Tobias Menzies by David Farr which was based on the 2012 film of the same name directed Thomas Vinterberg.[16] In 2021 he directed the musical revival of Spring Awakening on the West End.[17]

In 2022 he directed the Peter Morgan play Patriots about the rise of Vladimir Putin[18] and the Elton John musical Tammy Faye about the American evangelist Tammy Faye Messner.[19] The following year he directed the play Dear England about the England football manager Gareth Southgate[20] and Cold War based on the 2018 film of the same name directed by Paweł Pawlikowski, the former of which earned Goold a nomination for the Olivier Award for Best Director.[21] In 2024 he directed the New York transfer of The Hunt which ran at St. Ann's Warehouse.[22]

Personal life

Goold is married to actress Kate Fleetwood.[23] The couple met while working together on a production of Romeo and Juliet. They have one son, Raphael, and a daughter, Constance.[3]

Credits

Theatre

Directing
Writing

Film and television

Directing

Award and nominations

YearAwardCategoryNominated workResultRef.
The Hollow Crown

Richard II

[37]
King Charles III [38]
Macbeth [39]
Enron [40]
King Charles III [41]
Ink [42]
Dear England [43]
King Charles III [44]
Ink [45]

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Matt Trueman . Rupert Goold named as Almeida theatre's new artistic director . The Guardian . 8 February 2013 . 28 February 2013 . London.
  2. http://www.rsc.org.uk/press/420_6673.aspx rsc.org.uk
  3. News: Emma John . Going for Goold . The Observer . 28 September 2008 . 4 December 2008 . London.
  4. Web site: Interview with Alan Franks . Alanfranks.com . 15 October 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131015040507/http://www.alanfranks.com/Rupert_Goold.html . 15 October 2013 . dmy-all .
  5. News: Shakespeare is coursing through me . https://web.archive.org/web/20071226113914/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/07/16/btpatrick116.xml . dead . 26 December 2007 . The Daily Telegraph . London . Dominic . Cavendish . 16 July 2007 . 23 May 2010.
  6. Web site: Winning performances on the West End stage . 28 November 2007 . This Is London.co.Uk . 30 June 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071230225548/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23423447-details/Winning+performances+on+the+West+End+stage/article.do . 30 December 2007.
  7. Rupert Goold profile. Director magazine. 30 June 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20130828061156/http://www.afterhoursmagazine.co.uk/lifestyle/people/lpeo19.html. 28 Aug 2013. dead. Al Senter.
  8. Web site: Macbeth with Sir Patrick Stewart: The Scottish play from stage to TV. BBC. March 18, 2024.
  9. News: Laurence Olivier Theatre Awards 2010 Winners Announced . londontheatre.co.uk . June 8, 2016 .
  10. Web site: Winners of Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2009. Standard.co.uk. March 18, 2024.
  11. Web site: Does Rupert Goold's Turandot really show him up?. The Guardian. March 18, 2024.
  12. Web site: Rupert Goold Theatre Credits. abouttheartists. March 18, 2024.
  13. Web site: King Charles III. The Hollywood Reporter. March 18, 2024.
  14. Web site: American Psycho (Broadway, 2016). Playbill. March 18, 2024.
  15. Web site: Ink (Broadway, 2019). March 18, 2024.
  16. Web site: The Hunt at the Almeida Theatre. aboutheartists. March 18, 2024.
  17. Web site: Spring Awakening at the Almeida Theatre. March 18, 2024.
  18. Web site: Patriots at Almeida Theatre. abouttheartists. March 18, 2024.
  19. Web site: Tammy Faye. abouttheartists. March 18, 2024.
  20. Web site: Dear England. Abouttheartists. March 18, 2024.
  21. Web site: Cold War. Almeida Theatre. March 18, 2024.
  22. Web site: The Hunt at St. Ann's Warehouse. abouttheartists. March 18, 2024.
  23. The Tatler List > Rupert Goold . . https://web.archive.org/web/20120606224958/http://www.tatler.com/the-tatler-list/g/rupert-goold . 6 June 2012 . dead.
  24. Web site: John Thaxter . The Stage / Reviews / The Glass Menagerie . Thestage.co.uk . 14 February 2007 . 15 October 2013.
  25. Web site: The Merchant of Venice. Almeida Theatre. en. 2019-01-19.
  26. Web site: Gemma Arterton to star in Made in Dagenham musical . 3 March 2014 . BBC. 3 March 2014.
  27. Web site: 2016/7 Season. Almeida Theatre.
  28. Web site: Ink. Almeida Theatre. en. 2019-01-19.
  29. Web site: Ink. Almeida Theatre. en. 2019-01-19.
  30. Web site: Rupert Murdoch Story 'Ink' Sets Broadway Bow at Manhattan Theatre Club. 30 April 2018.
  31. Web site: Shipwreck. Almeida Theatre. en. 2019-01-19.
  32. Web site: The Hunt (London, 2019). Playbill. March 18, 2024.
  33. Web site: The Hunt. St. Ann's Warehouse. March 18, 2024.
  34. Web site: Spring Awakening. Almeida Theatre. en. 2022-01-01.
  35. Web site: Cold War . Almeida Theatre. 13 December 2023.
  36. Book: Goold, Rupert . The End of the Affair by Graham Greene, Adapted for the stage by Rupert Goold and Caroline Butler . London . Samuel French Ltd. . 2001 . 0-573-01886-3.
  37. Web site: TV Baftas 2013: all the winners. 12 May 2013. Guardian UK . 13 May 2013 .
  38. Web site: Bafta TV awards 2018: full list of winners. Lanre Bakare . May 13, 2018. theguardian.com .
  39. Web site: Olivier Winners 2008 . officiallondontheatre.com . . 2024-03-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211029090948/https://officiallondontheatre.com/olivier-awards/winners/olivier-winners-2008/ . 2021-10-29 . live.
  40. Web site: Olivier Winners 2010 . officiallondontheatre.com . . 2024-03-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211029090948/https://officiallondontheatre.com/olivier-awards/winners/olivier-winners-2008/ . 2021-10-29 . live.
  41. Web site: Olivier Winners 2015 . officiallondontheatre.com . . 2024-03-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211029090948/https://officiallondontheatre.com/olivier-awards/winners/olivier-winners-2008/ . 2021-10-29 . live.
  42. Web site: Olivier Winners 2018 . officiallondontheatre.com . . 2024-03-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211029090948/https://officiallondontheatre.com/olivier-awards/winners/olivier-winners-2008/ . 2021-10-29 . live.
  43. Web site: Olivier Winners 2024 . officiallondontheatre.com . . 2024-03-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211029090948/https://officiallondontheatre.com/olivier-awards/winners/olivier-winners-2008/ . 2021-10-29 . live.
  44. Web site: King Charles III (Broadway, 2015). Playbill. March 18, 2024.
  45. Web site: Ink (Broadway, 2018). Playbill. March 18, 2024.

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