Christopher Paul Stebbings

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is an actor and the artistic director of TNT Theater Britain (known in Japan as the International Theater Company London) and the American Drama Group Europe.

Background

Stebbings was born in

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and studied drama at

Bristol University , mottoeng = earningpromotes one's innate power (from Horace, ''Ode 4.4'') , established = 1595 – Merchant Venturers School1876 – University College, Bristol1909 – received royal charter , type ...

.Short biography of Stebbings
British Council, official website. Retrieved 24 December 2010 He trained in the

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method with Triple Action Theatre in Britain and Poland. Stebbings founded TNT theatre in 1980 and received regular Arts Council funding for work in the UK. He has also acted for

Nottingham Playhouse Nottingham Playhouse is a theatre in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England. It was first established as a repertory theatre in 1948 when it operated from a former cinema in Goldsmith Street. Directors during this period included Val May and Fr ...

and TNT and directed and written for South Yorkshire Theatre; Paragon Ensemble, Glasgow; Tams Theatre, Munich; the St. Petersburg State comedy Theatre, the Athens Concert Hall, Megaron; and regularly for Teatro Espressivo in Costa Rica where his adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol "Cuenta de Navidad" is performed each year. Paul is the most prolific foreign director of theatre in China, in both English and Mandarin. His three productions for the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre remain in their regular repertoire: The Taming of the Shrew, Oliver Twist and The Murder of Sherlock Holmes. TNT theatre tours three to four times a year throughout much of China, produced by Beijing-based Milky Way Paul Stebbings work in China is featured extensively in Nancy Pellegrini's book The People's Bard TNT theatre website: https://www.tnttheatre.com/ His productions tour in Europe, Asia, Central America and the Middle East. Festival appearances include the award-winning ''Wizard of Jazz'' at the Munich Biennale, the Off-Broadway Festival in

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, and award-winning performances at the

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of ''The Murder of Sherlock Holmes'', in which he played the title role. Paul recently (2017) directed Julius Caesar in Schlegel's German translation at the Munich Glyptothek. His new play about the Syrian Civil War and the refugee crisis, My Sister Syria, toured Europe in 2017 and 2018. in 2019 his Spanish version of Lord of the Flies premiered in Costa Rica and toured to Peru. In 2021 he co-wrote the musical FRANKENSTEIN with composer Christian Auer for the Deutsches theater Munich. The musical will be performed in Spanish at the teatro Espressivo de Costa Rica in autumn 2023. His production of OTHELLO toured to 60 European castles and palaces in 2022 and closed the Royal Jubilee celebrations at Balmoral castle. Paul's productions of ROMEO & JULIET and MACBETH toured Latin America from Mexico to Chile in spring 2023 where he received a Ministry of Culture award in Peru. Paul's work returns to China in November 2023. In autumn Paul premiers his own version (with Phil Smith) of Orwell's 1984. Paul Stebbings lives in Munich with his wife, Angelika, a television executive.

Honours

He was appointed

Member of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

(MBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to promoting British theatre and furthering British cultural interests in Asia.

Productions and publications

*''TNT The New Theatre - The ideas, adventures and productions of TNT theatre'' by Paul Stebbings and Phil Smith. Published by Triarchy Press UK 2020. https://www.triarchypress.net/tnt.html *''

Macbeth ''Macbeth'' (, full title ''The Tragedie of Macbeth'') is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those w ...

'' *'' One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' *''

Brave New World ''Brave New World'' is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarch ...

'' *''Moon Palace'' *''

Fahrenheit 451 ''Fahrenheit 451'' is a 1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury. Often regarded as one of his best works, ''Fahrenheit 451'' presents an American society where books have been personified and outlawed and "firemen" burn any that ar ...

'' *''

A Midsummer Night's Dream ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' is a comedy written by William Shakespeare 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot involves a conflict amon ...

'' *''

Hamlet ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts ...

'' *''

The Taming of the Shrew ''The Taming of the Shrew'' is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592. The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken ...

'' *'' Gulliver's Travels: A Satirical Science-Fiction Adventure'' *''Harlequin'' (later retitled ''Glasnost Harlequin'') *''The Charlie Chaplin Putsch'' *''Twelfth Night'' *''The Life and Death of Martin Luther King'' *''Free Mandela'' (new play by Paul Stebbings and Phil Smith) 2020 *''Othello'' 2020 - 2022 *''Cuenta de Navidad'' 2007 - 2022 * Frankenstein the rock musical 2021 7

External links

TNT theatre

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stebbings, Paul English male stage actors English theatre directors Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Male actors from Nottingham Theatre people from Munich Alumni of the University of Bristol Members of the Order of the British Empire