Joe Douglas (born 1983) is a British theatre director, playwright and performer. He was the Artistic Director of Live Theatre in Newcastle from 2018 to 2020.

Background

Douglas was born and raised in Manchester, where he attended St. Bede's College. He studied directing at Rose Bruford College in London before winning a place on the ITV Theatre Director Scheme to train with the

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Career

As a freelance director Douglas has directed at the

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, Oran Mor and the Traverse Theatre among others. He has worked for the

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and

National Youth Music Theatre The National Youth Music Theatre (NYMT) is an arts organisation in the United Kingdom providing pre-professional education and musical theatre stage experience for young people. Based in London, it is constituted as a private limited company (orig ...

. In 2012 he was awarded an Edinburgh Fringe First Award for ''Educating Ronnie'', a one-man show based on his experiences in Uganda which he both wrote and performed. He directed two shows at the Edinburgh festival in 2014 including a play by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. His revivals of

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and Death of a Salesman were both critical and commercial successes, winning several

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. His first directorial production for

Live Theatre Live Theatre, formerly Live Theatre Company, is a new writing theatre and company based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. As well as producing and presenting new plays many of which go on to tour nationally and internationally, it seeks out an ...

was Clear White Light.

Theatre credits

*''Clear White Light'' (2018), for

*''Arabian Nights'' (2017), for the Royal Lyceum Theatre *''Death of a Salesman'' (2016), by Arthur Miller for

*''The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil'' (2014) by John McGrath for the

*''Dear Scotland'' (2014), co-directed with Catrin Evans for the

*''Bloody Trams'' (2014) by Joe Douglas at the Traverse Theatre *'' The Call of the Wild'' (2014) by

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at Oran Mor *''

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'' (2013) by

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at the Dundee Repertory Theatre *''The Reprobates'' (2013) by Phil PorterThe Reprobates
''HighTide''. Retrieved 20 July 2019. *''Thank You'' (2013) by Catrin Evans at Oran Mor *''The Last Polar Bears'' (2011) by Harry Horse for the

The Last Polar Bears
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''. Retrieved 20 July 2019. *''Our Teacher's A Troll'' (2010) by

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for the

*''Videotape'' (2009) by Oliver Emmanuel at Oran Mor

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Douglas, Joe Living people 1983 births British theatre directors Theatre people from Greater Manchester Alumni of Rose Bruford College