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David Taylor – Director
Award-winning American director David Taylor works consistently on both sides of
the Atlantic and has a string of international credits. His production of the new
musical Whatever Happened To Baby Jane premiered in the United States last year,
and his most recent U.K. credit is A Moment of Weakness with Gwen Taylor and Michael
Jayston which concluded a successful tour in Spring 2003. Prior to that he directed
a new play The Adjustment starring Stephanie Powers.
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The Prisoner of Second Avenue starring Richard Dreyfuss and Marsha Mason at the
Haymarket Theatre London endorsed David’s affinity with the work of Neil Simon -
he previously directed Lost in Yonkers with Maureen Lipman and Rosemary Harris at
the Strand Theatre, Anna Massey in the critically acclaimed British premiere of
Broadway Bound at Greenwich, and regional productions of The Odd Couple, The
Gingerbread Lady, Chapter Two and The Last of The Red Hot Lovers. It was with
Simon's hit musical They're Playing Our Song starring Tom Conti and Gemma Craven
that David made his London West End directorial debut following extensive work in
the United States.
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David first came to London to supervise the transfer from Broadway of A Chorus Line
to Drury Lane. Later, following the success of They're Playing Our Song, he directed
Don Black’s Dear Anyone with Jane Lapotaire, Pump Boys and Dinettes and Can-Can -
all in the West End - returning to the States to direct a new version of Chess
in New York, and to Canada for a spectacular production of The Wizard of Oz which
re-opened the Elgin Theatre in Toronto.
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In addition to his London West End credits, David’s regional U.K. productions
include The Lion in Winter with David McCallum and Sian Phillips; The Cemetery
Club with Millicent Martin, Anne Charleston, Judy Cornwell and Carmen Silvera;
Lunch Girls with Sylvia Syms, Gemma Craven and Jan Harvey; the thriller Ricochet
with Nigel Havers and Keith Barron and Plaintiff in a Pretty Hat with Ian Lavender.
He directed Arthur Miller’s The Ride Down Mount Morgan in a revised version by
the author at Derby; the British premiere of Bernard Slade’s play You Say Tomatoes
starring Christopher Timothy; the national tour of South Pacific with Jessica
Martin and Mark Wynter; David Mamet’s Speed the Plow starring David Soul and
Michael Brandon and the British premiere of Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi
Chronicles with Susannah Harker and Peter Polycarpou at Greenwich.
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In the United States he directed the musical play Queen of the Stardust Ballroom in
Chicago, and worked on Robert Redford’s musical theatre projects and Playwrights’
Laboratory at Sundance, Utah.
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In 1985 David directed Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats in Toronto winning Canada's top
theatre award, a 'DORA', for Best Director and was promptly invited to direct the
German version of CATS in Hamburg - his production bore the distinction of being
Germany's first open-ended commercial production and played for almost 15 years to
capacity audiences until 2001. His recently directed a brand new German production
of Cats in Stuttgart.
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