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(Resumé)

Stephen has directed productions in London, the UK and Ireland, and been the Associate Director on West End, Touring and Regional productions.

Highlights include directing West Side Story for the BBC Proms and Edinburgh International Festival, the Irish premieres of Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years and Stephen Sondheim's Putting It Together (both at The Lyric Theatre, Belfast) and developing and directing the World Premiere of J.B. Priestley's Benighted in London for which he was nominated Best Director at the Off West End Awards. His production of new play You Forgot The Mince was supported by the Arts Council to present performances in prisons throughout the UK as part of a strong commitment to community development.

Stephen has created and directed performances for TV including Strictly Come Dancing, Big Night of the Musicals, Britain’s Got Talent, and the Royal Variety Performance. His is creative work has also been showcased at major industry events, including the Olivier Awards, WhatsOnStage Awards, and Evening Standard Awards.

In 2022-23 Stephen was the Artistic & Executive Director of the Old Rep Theatre, Birmingham – a theatre for emerging artists.

He is an Ambassador for Kidz R Us Youth Theatre at the St. Ives Theatre, Cornwall.

About

World Premiere
Dundee Rep Theatre
Peacock Theatre, Los Angeles
The London Palladium
World Tour
Starring Dan Howell & Phil Lester
Director: Stephen Whitson
Choreographer: Alexzandra Sarmiento
Designer: Rebecca Brower
Lighting Designer: David Howe
Video Designer: Leo Flint
Courtyard Theatre, London
The London Palladium
UK & Ireland Tour
Featuring Steven Bartlett, The House Gospel Choir and special guests Tim Gallagher, J Hope, Hamzaa and Josh Barry
Director: Stephen Whitson
Video Design: Sam Diaz
The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Theatre, London
Coalhouse: Akmed Junior Khemalai
Sarah: Beatrice Penny-Touré
Mother: Lauren Jones
Father: Jamie Chatterton
Younger Brother: Luke Hogan
Tateh: Benjamin Durham
Emma Goldman: Lauren Arney
Evelyn Nesbit: Eleanor Wainwright
Harry Houdini: Louie Wood
Booker T. Washington: Tavio Wright
Henry Ford: Scott Olley
Sarah's Friend: Oonagh Cox
Director: Stephen Whitson
Choreographer: Stuart Winter
Musical Supervisor: James McKeon
Set Designer: Frankie Bradshaw
Costume Designer: Natalie Pryce
Lighting Designer: Nic Farman
Sound Designer: Adam Fisher
Video Design: Robert Hamilton
Associate Costume Designer: Kinnetia Isidore
Fight Director: Kiel O’Shea
New Athenaeum Theatre, Glasgow
Edinburgh International Festival
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Director: Stephen Whitson
Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Choreographer: Ste Clough
Tony: Alex Shrader
Maria: Sophia Burgos
Riff: Dan D’Souza
Action: Ryan Kopel
Bernardo: Nuno Silva
Anita: Andrea Baker
Rosalia / Somewhere Girl: Carmen Ruby Floyd
BBC Proms
Royal Albert Hall, London
The John Wilson Orchestra
Director: Stephen Whitson
Conductor: John Wilson
Maria: Mikaela Bennett
Tony: Ross Lekites
Anita: Eden Espinosa
Riff: Leo Roberts
Bernardo: Gian Marco Schiaretti
Rosalia: Emma Kingston
Francisca: Laila Zaidi
Consuelo: Jocasta Almgill
Snowboy: Christopher Jordan Marshall
Action: Alistair Brammer
Baby John: Jack North
Diesel: Michael Colbourne
A-Rab: Fra Fee
Soprano (Somewhere): Louise Alder
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/efmbc8
West End
Ambassadors Theatre, London
World Premiere
UK Tour
SWG3, Glasgow
Irish Premiere
The Lyric Theatre, Belfast
Irish Premiere
The Lyric Theatre, Belfast
Jamie: Fra Fee
Cathy: Amy Lennox
West End
Criterion Theatre, London
Written by Bill Russell, Janet Hood
Starring: Madalena Alberto, Jade Anouka, Simon Bailey, Daniel Boys, Omari Douglas, Fra Fee, Emma Hatton, Michael McKell, Ian McIntosh
Director: Stephen Whitson
Choreographer: Ewan Jones
Musical Director: Dean Austin
Designer: Alex Doidge Green
The Old Rep Theatre, Birmingham

As Director…

Original West End Production (Victoria Palace Theatre, London)
Original UK & Ireland Tour
Associate Director to Thomas Kail
World Premiere
Hampstead Theatre, London
Associate Director to Jonathan Kent
Original Broadway Production (Al Hirschfeld Theatre, New York), 2019
Original West End Production (Piccadilly Theatre, London) 2021-23
Original German Production (Musical Dome, Köln), 2022
Associate Director to Alex Timbers
West End
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

Associate Director to Mark Bramble
UK & Ireland Tour
Associate Director to Tim Sheader/Jean-Pierre van der Spuy
World Premiere
West End
Shaftesbury Theatre, London
Associate Director to Tamara Harvey
The Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
Assistant Director to Martin Duncan
2012 London Festival
Shakespeare’s Globe, London
Assistant Director to Jonathan Moore

As Associate Director…

For all professional enquiries, Stephen is represented by…

Theatre, Film and TV Department

Adam Maskell, Helen Clarkson, and Alastair Lindsey-Renton

mrcoffice@curtisbrown.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 7393 4318