CHRISTIAN DURHAM
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DIRECTION
ZORRO - THE MUSICAL, Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester / Charing Cross Theatre, London
Aria Entertainment & John Gertz for Zorro Inc
BREAKING THE CODE, Salisbury Playhouse
Producer: Salisbury Playhouse
CAFÉ SOCIETY SWING, Stratford East Theatre Royal
Producer: Stratford East Theatre Royal / Lateralize
QUAINT HONOUR, Finborough Theatre
(Nominated Best Male - OFFIES: Jack Archer) Chiplin Productions & Finborough Theatre.
Current: DUSTY, Azura, Carnival Cruise Lines
Producer: 5 Foot 2 Productions in association with Carnival (P&O)
SPEND SPEND SPEND and CHILDREN OF EDEN, Union Theatre
(Nominated Best Female - OFFIES: Katy Dean, Julie Armstrong for SSS) Union Productions.
PIECES OF STRING, Waterloo East Theatre
Snaydon Productions
HENNA NIGHT, Hen and Chickens Theatre, London
Laudan Productions.
PROUD, New Wimbledon Theatre Studio
Producer: Nic Gilder for 6:37 Productions
PETER PAN, Ascot, Aberdeen Arts Centre & Bridewell Theatre, London
Producer: YMT UK.
THE PLANTAGENET CLUB, based on Edward II by Christopher Marlowe.
Workshop / Process Week via the Young Vic Director’s Programme.
UK National Tour of Boy George’s TABOO.
(BEST MUSICAL – Manchester Evening News Awards). Producer: Fiery Angel.
DEBBIE DOES DALLAS. Oxford Fire station & E4 Udderbelly, Edinburgh Festival
(Nominated BEST MUSICAL PRODUCTION - MTM Awards) Producer: Mark Goucher
REAL CLASSY AFFAIR at the Soho Studio Theatre.
Producer : Paul Cavanagh.
SNOW WHITE, His Majesty’s Aberdeen
Producer: Jonathan Kiley for Qdos Entertainment
ONLY YOU CAN SAVE MANKIND. Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh Festival
Producer: Clear Channel & Broadhouse Productions.
PRODUCTIONS FOR DRAMA COLLEGES
PENELOPIAD
LIOLÀ (Pirandello) & CLOUD 9 (Churchill)
CURTAINS
SPRING AWAKENING & PIPPIN
ANIMUS & JUST SO
ASSOCIATE & RESIDENT DIRECTION
Current: Associate Director (full restage) THE LITTLE MERMAID, Moscow & Tokyo.
Producer: Disney / Stage Entertainment / Shiki
(Winner of Best Musical & Best Actress in a Musical – Golden Mask Awards, Russia)
Current: Associate Director HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS, (National Tour)
Producer: Simon Friend Entertainment.
Current: Recast Director on JACK AND THE BEANSTALK, West End in Schools.
Associate Director KING LEAR, Derngate & National Tour for Max Webster
Producer: Northampton Derngate & ATG
Associate Director PURE IMAGINATION, St James Theatre for Chris Renshaw
Producer: Danielle Tarento.
Recast Director TABOO, The ClubHouse, Brixton
Producer: Danielle Tarento & End Of Pier Productions
Director: CHICAGO Press Launch with Ute Lemper, Germany
Stage Entertainment / Barry Weissler
Resident Director CHICAGO, Garrick & Cambridge Theatre, West End.
Producer: Barry & Fran Weissler
Associate Director STUDIES FOR A PORTRAIT, Kings Head, London for Adam Spreadbury-Maher.
Producer: Ben Cooper, Benjamin Jones, Good Night Out Productions
(Directed rehearsals from week 2 onwards through to Previews).
Associate Director THE NEW STATESMAN (National Tour) for Jennie Darnell
Producer: ATG
Associate Director GUYS AND DOLLS (National Tour) for Michael Grandage / Jamie Lloyd.
Producer: ATG / Donmar Warehouse
Associate Director on ZORRO, West End & National Tour for Christopher Renshaw.
Producer - Adam Kenwright, John Gertz & Isabel Allende
Resident Director THE KING AND I (National Tour).
Producer – Clear Channel.
Assisting Christopher Renshaw on the West End production of WE WILL ROCK YOU, the West End and Broadway productions of TABOO and many developmental workshops including ZORRO, A ROOM WITH A VIEW & OVER THE RAINBOW in London and Los Angeles.
WORKSHOPS & REHEARSED READINGS (Direction & Development):
NOBODY’S BUSINESS by Sylvia Freedman, Charing Cross Theatre.
FINDING THE BURNETT HEART by Paul Elliot, Lauderdale House
SILENT VOICES by James Burn, Tristan Bates Theatre
THIS IS ALSO ENGLAND by Joseph Finley & Raphael Smith, Tristan Bates Theatre
NO EXIT by Jean-Paul Sartre, Park Theatre.
PETER PAN by Jimmy Jewell & Nick Stimson, Lyric Theatre, London
The OLYMPIADS by various, Arts Ed for MMD & ANMT
GOING ONCE by Leon Parris and Sam Adamson. The Venue. Adam Kenwright
Mountview
Drama Studio London
Arts Education
Guildford School of Acting
Musical Theatre Academy