ABSTRACT
Though born in the USA, Nancy Diuguid has contributed to British theatre for many years, mainly through her work as a director for theatre, opera and film. She came to Britain in 1972 and trained as an actress at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Her acting experience ranges from Jerzy Grotowski’s Polish Laboratory Theatre to Warren Beatty’s Reds. Her career has followed a trajectory from women’s and gay theatre to the mainstream. As a director she has worked in numerous London theatres including: the Royal Court; Hampstead Theatre where she was an Associate Director; and the English National Opera; and she has worked extensively abroad. She has twice won the Time-Out 01 for London awards plus Munich and Edinburgh Festival awards for her theatre productions. Productions have included such classics as Twelfth Night, A Streetcar Named Desire, Goldoni’s II Campiello, and the operas Woyzeck and A Masked Ball, plus premieres of new work by Timberlake Wertenbaker, Louise Page, Howard Brenton, No ël Greig and Franz Xavier Kroetz. She has also written and directed her first drama for film, Aftermath, funded by the British Film Institute as well as two documentaries for the UK’s Channel Four. In 1995, she was at work writing an original screenplay.
