Rupert Goold

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Template:Short description Script error: No such module "For". Template:DMCA Template:DMCA

Page Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content.

Rupert Goold
CBE
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:InfoboxImage/data' not found.
Goold in 2026
BornScript error: No such module "person date".
Highgate, London, England
DiedScript error: No such module "person date".
EducationTrinity College, Cambridge
New York University
OccupationTemplate:Pluralize from textTheatre director
Years active1995–present
EmployerTemplate:Pluralize from textTemplate:Pluralize from text
OrganizationTemplate:Pluralize from textTemplate:Pluralize from text
AgentTemplate:Pluralize from textTemplate:Pluralize from text
Notable creditTemplate:Pluralize from textTemplate:Pluralize from text
LabelTemplate:Pluralize from textTemplate:Pluralize from text
OpponentTemplate:Pluralize from textTemplate:Pluralize from text
Template:Pluralize from text
SpouseTemplate:Pluralize from textPage Template:Marriage/styles.css has no content.
​
​
(m. 2001)​
Script error: No such module "Parameter validation".Template:Pluralize from text
PartnerTemplate:Pluralize from textTemplate:Pluralize from text
Children2
Template:Pluralize from text

Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for deprecated parameters".

Rupert Goold CBE (born 18 February 1972)[1] is an English director who works primarily in theatre. He is the artistic director of the Almeida Theatre, and was the artistic director of Headlong Theatre Company (2005–2013).[2] Since 2010, Goold has been an associate director at the Royal Shakespeare Company.[3] He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 for services to drama.[4]

Goold is known for his extensive work in theatre. For his work in the West End he won two Laurence Olivier Awards for Best Director for Macbeth (2008) and Enron (2010). He was Olivier-nominated for King Charles III (2015), Ink (2018), and Dear England (2024). He received Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play nominations for King Charles III (2016) and Ink (2019). He made his directorial film debut with True Story (2015).[5]

Life and career

Early years and education

Goold was born in Highgate, England, a suburb of north London. His father was a management consultant, and his mother was an author of children's books.[6] He attended the independent University College School,[7] graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1994 with a First in English literature and studied performance studies at New York University on a Fulbright Scholarship. He was trainee director at Donmar Warehouse for the 1995 season, and assisted on productions including 'Art' and Speed-the-Plow in the West End.[citation needed]

Career

Goold was artistic director of the Royal and Derngate Theatres in Northampton from 2000 to 2005. Prior to that, he was an associate at the Salisbury Playhouse in 1996–97. In addition to his work as a director he has co-authored three adaptations for the stage. Goold directed Sir Patrick Stewart (whom he had previously directed as Prospero, and later in Richard II) as Macbeth in his acclaimed Minerva Studio staging of Macbeth at the Chichester Festival Theatre in May 2007.[8]

In September 2007, the production transferred to the Gielgud Theatre in London, then the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York and then to the Lyceum Theater on Broadway. At the 2007 Evening Standard Theatre Awards, Macbeth won two awards: Stewart won the Best Actor Award, while Goold won The Sydney Edwards Award for Best Director.[9] It also won Goold a 2008 Olivier Award for Best Director. He says he was not concerned with thoughts of a career anti-climax. "I came home to an empty house after the Olivier Awards, clutching my trophy for Best Director and I realised that I'd peaked. It was now going to be downhill all the way. But I still felt quite comfortable with the realisation that nothing could get better after this."[10] He later directed a 2010 BBC 4 television film version of Macbeth using Soviet-era Russian-type uniforms and weapons.[11]

In 2008, he directed the UK premiere of Stephen Adly Guirgis's The Last Days of Judas Iscariot and a radical re-interpretation of Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author at the Chichester Festival which he co-authored with Ben Power. This production subsequently transferred to the West End and toured the UK and later Australia. In 2009 he directed a hugely acclaimed West End revival of Lionel Bart's Oliver! Produced by Cameron Mackintosh, Goold recreated Sam Mendes' direction for the London Palladium production, which was nominated for three Olivier Awards.[12] In 2009, Goold directed a revival of Shakespeare's King Lear at the Young Vic. Goold set his Lear in Northern England during the 1970s, and approached the play with a drastically different view, and as a result this production received mixed reviews. In 2009, he again won Best Director at the Evening Standard Awards for ENRON.[13] His opera credits include productions at Batignano Opera Festival and Garsington.[14]

In the following years he directed a string of plays for the Almeida Theatre, which include the musical American Psycho (2013), the new play King Charles III (2014), the revivals Medea (2015) and Richard III (2016), as well as the new play Ink (2017).[15] Goold returned to Broadway with the transfer of King Charles III. He earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play.[16] The following year he directed the musical transfer, American Psycho based on the 1991 novel of the same name by Bret Easton Ellis.[17] In 2019 he directed the Broadway transfer for the James Graham play Ink about the rise of Rupert Murdoch which ran at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Goold received his second nomination for the Tony Award for Best Direction.[18] That same year he directed the Almeida Theatre production of The Hunt (2019) starring Tobias Menzies by David Farr which was based on the 2012 film of the same name directed Thomas Vinterberg.[19] In 2021 he directed the musical revival of Spring Awakening on the West End.[20]

In 2022 he directed the Peter Morgan play Patriots about the rise of Vladimir Putin[21] and the Elton John musical Tammy Faye about the American evangelist Tammy Faye Messner.[22] The following year he directed the play Dear England about the England football manager Gareth Southgate[23] and Cold War a musical based on the 2018 film of the same name directed by Paweł Pawlikowski, the former of which earned Goold a nomination for the Olivier Award for Best Director.[24] In 2024 he directed the New York transfer of The Hunt which ran at St. Ann's Warehouse.[25]

In February 2025, Goold directed William Shakespeare's Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company starring Luke Thallon, Jared Harris, Nancy Carroll, Elliot Levey and Anton Lesser. The production will also tour the UK in 2026. It is the second production of the play that Goold has directed following his 2005 production at the Royal & Derngate.

On 24 November 2024, Goold was named as the next artistic director of The Old Vic taking over from Matthew Warchus in September 2026.[26]

Personal life

Goold is married to actress Kate Fleetwood.[27] The couple met while working together on a production of Romeo and Juliet. They have one son, Raphael, and a daughter, Constance.[6]

Works

Theatre

Directing
Name Year Theatre Ref.
Travels with My Aunt 1997 Salisbury Playhouse / UK Tour Template:Screen reader-only
The End of the Affair 1997 Salisbury Playhouse / Bridewell Theatre
Romeo and Juliet 1998 UK Tour
Dancing at Lughnasa 1998 Salisbury Playhouse
Summer Lightning 1998 Salisbury Playhouse
Habeas Corpus 1999 Salisbury Playhouse
The Colonel Bird 1999 Gate Theatre
Broken Glass 1999 Salisbury Playhouse/ Watford Palace Theatre
Gone To LA 2000 Hampstead Theatre
Privates on Parade 2001 New Vic Theatre
Scaramouche Jones 2001 International Tour
The Wind in the Willows 2001 Birmingham Rep
Arcadia 2002 Northampton
Betrayal 2002 Northampton
Waiting for Godot/ The Weir 2003 Northampton
Sunday Father 2003 Hampstead Theatre
Othello 2003 Northampton/ Greenwich Theatre
Insignificance 2004 Northampton
Summer Lightning 2004 Northampton
Hamlet 2005 Northampton
Speaking Like Magpies 2005 RSC
The Tempest 2006 RSC
Restoration 2006 Headlong/ Bristol Old Vic: UK Tour
Faustus 2006 Headlong/ Hampstead Theatre
The Glass Menagerie 2007 Apollo Theatre [28]
Macbeth 2007 Chichester Festival Theatre/ West End/ NYC Template:Screen reader-only
Rough Crossings 2007 Headlong: Lyric Hammersmith/ Birmingham Rep, Liverpool Everyman/ WYP
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot 2008 Headlong: Almeida Theatre
Six Characters in Search of an Author 2008 Headlong: Chichester / West End
No Man's Land 2008 Gate Theatre, Dublin/West End
King Lear 2008 Headlong: Liverpool Everyman/Young Vic
Oliver! 2009 Theatre Royal Drury Lane
ENRON 2009 Minerva Theatre / Royal Court Theatre
Romeo and Juliet 2010 RSC
Earthquakes in London 2010 National Theatre
The Merchant of Venice 2011 RSC;
2014 Almeida Theatre [29]
Decade 2011 Headlong Template:Screen reader-only
The Effect 2012 National Theatre
American Psycho 2013 Almeida Theatre
King Charles III 2014 Almeida Theatre
Made in Dagenham 2014 Adelphi Theatre [30]
Medea 2015 Almeida Theatre Template:Screen reader-only
Richard III 2016 Almeida Theatre [31]
Albion 2017 Almeida Theatre [1]
Ink 2017 Almeida Theatre [32]
Duke of York's Theatre [33]
2019 Samuel J. Friedman Theatre [34]
Shipwreck 2019 Almeida Theatre [35]
The Hunt 2019 Almeida Theatre [36]
2024 St. Ann's Warehouse [37]
Spring Awakening 2021 Almeida Theatre [38]
The 47th 2022 The Old Vic Template:Screen reader-only
Patriots 2022 Almeida Theatre
2023 Noël Coward Theatre
Tammy Faye 2022 Almeida Theatre
2024 Palace Theatre, Broadway)
Women, Beware the Devil 2023 Almeida Theatre
Dear England 2023 National Theatre
Cold War 2023 Almeida Theatre [39]
Hamlet 2025 RSC Template:Screen reader-only
Writing
  • The End of the Affair (1997) – a play with music, adapted with Caroline Butler, from the novel by Graham Greene. The first production included music played by a pianist at the side of the stage, underscoring the text with some period songs sung by the cast. Goold and Butler removed the music from later productions and the play was published without musical interpolation in 2001.[40]
  • Faustus (2004) – adapted with Ben Power from Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
  • Six Characters in Search of an Author (2008) – adapted with Ben Power from the play by Luigi Pirandello

Film and television

Directing

Award and nominations

Award Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
British Academy Television Award 2013 Best Single Drama The Hollow Crown: Richard II Nominated [41]
2018 King Charles III Nominated [42]
Laurence Olivier Award 2008 Best Director Macbeth Won [43]
2010 Enron Won [44]
2015 King Charles III Nominated [45]
2018 Ink Nominated [46]
2024 Dear England Nominated [47]
Tony Awards 2016 Best Direction of a Play King Charles III Nominated [48]
2019 Ink Nominated [49]

References

Page Template:Reflist/styles.css has no content.

  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Birthdays", The Guardian, p. 37, 18 February 2014
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Matt Trueman (8 February 2013). "Rupert Goold named as Almeida theatre's new artistic director". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
  3. ^ rsc.org.uk Script error: No such module "webarchive".
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.[Script error: No such module "London Gazette util". "No. 61803"]. The London Gazette (Script error: No such module "London Gazette util".). 31 December 2016. p. Script error: No such module "London Gazette util".. {{cite magazine}}: Check |url= value (help); More than one of |pages= and |page= specified (help)Script error: No such module "London Gazette util".
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Goodykoontz, Bill (15 April 2015). "Rupert Goold tells 'True Story' in directing debut". AZ Central. USA Today Network. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  6. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Emma John (28 September 2008). "Going for Goold". The Observer. London. Retrieved 4 December 2008.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Interview with Alan Franks". Alanfranks.com. Archived from the original on 15 October 2013. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cavendish, Dominic (16 July 2007). "Shakespeare is coursing through me". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 26 December 2007. Retrieved 23 May 2010.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Winning performances on the West End stage". This Is London.co.uk. 28 November 2007. Archived from the original on 30 December 2007. Retrieved 30 June 2012.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Al Senter. "Rupert Goold profile". Director magazine. Archived from the original on 28 August 2013. Retrieved 30 June 2012.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Macbeth with Sir Patrick Stewart: The Scottish play from stage to TV". BBC. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Laurence Olivier Theatre Awards 2010 Winners Announced". londontheatre.co.uk. 8 June 2016.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Winners of Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2009". Standard.co.uk. 10 April 2012. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Billington, Michael (12 October 2009). "Does Rupert Goold's Turandot really show him up?". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Rupert Goold Theatre Credits". abouttheartists. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."King Charles III". The Hollywood Reporter. 12 June 2016. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."American Psycho (Broadway, 2016)". Playbill. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Ink (Broadway, 2019)". Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  19. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Hunt at the Almeida Theatre". aboutheartists. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  20. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Spring Awakening at the Almeida Theatre". March 18, 2024.
  21. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Patriots at Almeida Theatre". abouttheartists. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  22. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Tammy Faye". abouttheartists. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  23. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Dear England". Abouttheartists. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  24. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Cold War". Almeida Theatre. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  25. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Hunt at St. Ann's Warehouse". abouttheartists. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  26. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bakare, Lanre; Arts, Lanre Bakare; correspondent, culture (27 November 2024). "Rupert Goold named as next artistic director of Old Vic". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 11 May 2025. {{cite news}}: |last3= has generic name (help)
  27. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Tatler List > Rupert Goold". Tatler. Archived from the original on 6 June 2012.
  28. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.John Thaxter (14 February 2007). "The Stage / Reviews / The Glass Menagerie". Thestage.co.uk. Archived from the original on 6 May 2007. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
  29. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Merchant of Venice". Almeida Theatre. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  30. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Gemma Arterton to star in Made in Dagenham musical". BBC. 3 March 2014. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
  31. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."2016/7 Season". Almeida Theatre.
  32. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Ink". Almeida Theatre. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  33. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Ink". Almeida Theatre. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  34. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Rupert Murdoch Story 'Ink' Sets Broadway Bow at Manhattan Theatre Club". 30 April 2018.
  35. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Shipwreck". Almeida Theatre. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  36. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Hunt (London, 2019)". Playbill. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  37. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Hunt". St. Ann's Warehouse. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  38. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Spring Awakening". Almeida Theatre. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  39. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Cold War". Almeida Theatre. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
  40. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Goold, Rupert (2001). The End of the Affair by Graham Greene, Adapted for the stage by Rupert Goold and Caroline Butler. London: Samuel French Ltd. ISBN 0-573-01886-3.
  41. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."TV Baftas 2013: all the winners". Guardian UK. 12 May 2013. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
  42. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lanre Bakare (13 May 2018). "Bafta TV awards 2018: full list of winners". theguardian.com.
  43. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Olivier Winners 2008". officiallondontheatre.com. Society of London Theatre. Archived from the original on 29 October 2021. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  44. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Olivier Winners 2010". officiallondontheatre.com. Society of London Theatre. Archived from the original on 29 October 2021. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  45. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Olivier Winners 2015". officiallondontheatre.com. Society of London Theatre. Archived from the original on 29 October 2021. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  46. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Olivier Winners 2018". officiallondontheatre.com. Society of London Theatre. Archived from the original on 29 October 2021. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  47. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Olivier Winners 2024". officiallondontheatre.com. Society of London Theatre. Archived from the original on 29 October 2021. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  48. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."King Charles III (Broadway, 2015)". Playbill. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  49. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Ink (Broadway, 2018)". Playbill. Retrieved 18 March 2024.

Page Module:Side box/styles.css has no content.Page Template:Sister project/styles.css has no content.

Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content.
Script error: No such module "Sister project logo".
Wikimedia Commons has media related to [[commons:Template:If then show|Template:If then show]].
  • {{IBDB name}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
  • Profile Script error: No such module "webarchive". at Headlong's Official site.

Template:Rupert Goold Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Navbox/configuration' not found. Template:Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Director Template:Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Director Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Navbox/configuration' not found.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Navbox/configuration' not found.

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Authority control/config' not found.

Retrieved from "https://cosmopedia.co/index.php?title=Rupert_Goold&oldid=3917973"