Matthew Dunster is an English

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, playwright and actor.Dominic Cavendish for The Telegraph. 17 Mar 201
Matthew Dunster: From teenage kicks to dramatic hits
/ref> He was the Associate Director of the Young Vic from 2005 to 2009 and the Associate Director of Shakespeare’s Globe from 2015 to 2017. His production of Love and Money by

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was nominated for the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre in 2006 and his production of Mogadishu by Vivienne Franzmann was nominated for that same award in 2012. In January 2016 Dunster was appointed as a patron to the

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. He was nominated for the Best Director award at the 2016 Oliviers' for ''Hangmen'' by Martin McDonagh.

Directing credits

* '' Love and Money'' by

at the

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and

Young Vic Theatre The Young Vic Theatre is a performing arts venue located on The Cut, near the South Bank, in the London Borough of Lambeth. The Young Vic was established by Frank Dunlop in 1970. Kwame Kwei-Armah has been Artistic Director since February 2018 ...

. (2006) * ''You can see the Hills''. Written and directed by Matthew Dunster at the

(2008) * ''

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''. At the

with

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as Macbeth and Hilary MacClean as Lady Macbeth.( 2009) * ''

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''. Adapted and directed by Matthew Dunster at the

.( 2010) * ''Mogadishu'' by Vivienne Franzmann. World premiere at the

. (2011) * ''Saturday Night and Sunday Morning''. Adapted and directed by Matthew Dunster at the

. (2012) * '' Hangmen'' by

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at the

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transferred to

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. * ''Love's Sacrifice'' by

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at the RSC. * ''

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'' by

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at the

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. * ''

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'' by

at the Bridge Theatre. *'' 2:22: A Ghost Story'' at the

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. (2021)

Writing credits

* ''Children's Children'' * ''You Can See the Hills''

References

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