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John Ginman

 

John has been working professionally in UK theatre as a director and writer for twenty-five years, including periods as Associate Director at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry and the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton, as Director of Theatre at South Hill Park Arts Centre, and as Artistic Director at the Swan Theatre, Worcester and at Contact Theatre, Manchester. During the 1990s he wrote and directed extensively for the Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham. He specialises in the direction of Shakespeare, the mainstream European repertoire (including Brecht, Molière, and Wedekind), large-scale community projects, and work for children and young people, in addition to developing plays by new writers. In collaboration with the composer Colin Riley, he has also directed and written the libretti for three operas, including Noir (Purcell Room, 1995), Gulliver (Malvern, 1995) and Science Fictions (CD release and the Drill Hall, London, 1998). He is Convenor of the MA Writing for Performance programme at Goldsmiths College, London.