Douglas Rintoul

Director

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Film, TV & Theatre

Agent: Giles Smart
Assistant: Lee Byrne

Film, TV & Theatre

Douglas is the Artistic Director of the Queen's Theatre Hornchurch, was an associate of Complicite 2004 - 2010 and AD of the national touring company Transport.

Douglas read Drama & Theatre Arts at The University of Birmingham. He won a Regional Theatre Director Scheme Bursary to train at Salisbury Playhouse and was selected for the Royal National Theatre Studio Young Director's Programme. His script for his production Elegy won a Royal National Theatre Foundation Playwright's Award and the production was nominated for a Fringe First. His work has received 17 Off West End Awards nominations (including two for Best Production) and a What's On Stage Award nomination. The Queen's Theatre Hornchurch was recenlty awarded the London Theatre of the Year Stage Award.

He has directed musicals, new writing, classic texts, modern classics, work for young people as well as devising work. He has commissioned and dramturged new work and has written eight plays.

Productions include: As You Like It (QTH / National Theatre Public Acts), Dardanus (English Touring Opera), Macbeth, Robin Hood, In Basildon, The Hired Man, DNA, Abigail's Party, The Crucible, Made in Dagenham, Rope, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Sparky the Elf and the Secret Toyshop, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas and Much Ado About Nothing (QTH), The Deep Blue Sea, All My Sons and Of Mice and Men (Watermill Theatre), Elegy (Transport/Theatre503), 1001 Nights (Transport/Unicorn Theatre), As You Like It (Transport/New Wolsey Theatre/Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg), Invisible and The Edge (Transport/New Wolsey Theatre), State Red (Hampstead Theatre), Touched (Trafalgar Studios), The Summer Book and 'Twas The Night Before Christmas (Unicorn Theatre), The East London Lecture (with Jonny Woo at Shoreditch Town Hall), Europe (Barbican/Dundee Rep. Theatre), Copenhagen, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, Second from Last in The Sack Race, Fen, Sharp Relief, Noël & Gertie and The Shakespeare Revue (Salisbury Playhouse), Private Lives and Travels with My Aunt (New Wolsey Theatre), King Lear (Creation), Closer and Design for Living (Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg).

As an associate director: A Disappearing Number, Endgame and Measure for Measure (Complicite), Julius Caesar (dir. Deborah Warner - Barbican)and Fidelio (dir. Deborah Warner - Glyndebourne).

He has also directed and taught for LAMDA, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Mountview, Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and Royal Central School of Speech & Drama.

Theatre

ProductionCompanyNotes

MACBETH

2020

Queen's Theatre / Derby Theatre

By William Shakespeare

ROBIN HOOD

2019

Queen's Theatre Hornchurch

By Andrew Pollard

SPARKY THE ELF AND THE SECRET TOYSHOP

2019

Queen's Theatre Hornchurch

As Writer & Director

LOVE LETTERS

2019

Queen's Theatre Hornchurch

As Writer & Director

THE HIRED MAN

2019

Queen's Theatre Hornchurch / Hull Truck Theatre / Oldham Coliseum

Book by Melvyn Bragg. Music and Lyrics by Howard Goodall
*Nominated for 3 Off West End Awards

AS YOU LIKE IT

2019

Queen's Theatre Hornchurch and the National Theatre (NT Public Acts)

*Nominated for Best Ensemble Broadway World Awards

DNA

2019

Queen's Theatre Hornchurch / Royal Central School of Speech & Drama

THE SECRET TOYSHOP

2018

Queen's Theatre Hornchurch

As Writer & Director

IN BASILDON

2019

Queen's Theatre Hornchurch

ABIGAIL'S PARTY

2018

Queen's Theatre Hornchurch / Derby Theatre / Salisbury Playhouse

By Mike Leigh

'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS

2018

Queen's Theatre Hornchurch

As Writer & Director

PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT

2018

Queen's Theatre Hornchurch

Book by Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott
Based on the Latent Image/Specific Films Motion Picture
*Nominated for 3 Off West End Awards

ROPE

2018

Queen's Theatre Hornchurch / New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich

By Patrick Hamilton

ELEGY

2018

LabKelpie - Australian Tour

As Writer

TESTOSTERONE

2018

Rhum & Clay - UK and International tour

*Winner of the Best Theatre Show Award at the Pleasance 2017
*Nominated for the Peter Brook Empty Space Award 2017

DARDANUS

2017

English Touring Opera

THE CRUCIBLE

2017

Sell A Door / Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch

By Arthur Miller

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

2016

Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch

By William Shakespeare

THE DEEP BLUE SEA

2015

Watermill Theatre

By Terence Rattigan

ELEGY

2015

Transport/VAULT Festival

THE EDGE

2015

Transport/New Wolsey Theatre/ UK tour

STATE RED

2014

Hampstead Theatre: Downstairs

By Atiha Sen Gupta

JONNY WOO'S EAST LONDON LECTURE

2014

Mill Co. Projects at The Rose Lipman Building

'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS

2014

Reading Repertory Theatre

As Writer

ALL MY SONS

2014

Watermill Theatre

MARY SHELLEY

2014

LAMDA/Pleasance/Theatr Brycheiniog

THE SUMMER BOOK

2014

Unicorn Theatre

Based on the book by Tove Jansson (translation by Thomas Teal)
Adapted by Jemma Kennedy
As Director

ELEGY

2014

Nave73 Madrid, Spain

As Writer

1001 NIGHTS

2014

Transport/Unicorn Theatre/ UK tour

*Nominated for Off West End Award for Best Production for Young People
Conceived, Directed and Devised

'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS

2013

Unicorn Theatre

Based on the poem by Clement Clarke Moore
As Deviser and Director

AS YOU LIKE IT

2013

Transport / Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg / New Wolsey Theatre (Ipswich) / House (UK and European Tour)

By William Shakespeare
As Director

1001 NIGHTS

2013

Unicorn Theatre / Transport Theatre

* Nominated: Off West End Award for Best Production for Young People
As Director and Adapter

ELEGY

2013

Transport/ MonoDrama Festival

*Winner of an inaugural National Theatre Foundation Playwright's Award
Conceived, Directed and Devised

ELEGY

2012

Transport/Summerday/Theatre503

Conceived, written and directed by Douglas Rintoul
* Nominated: 2 Off West End Awards

INVISIBLE

2012

Transport / New Wolsey Theatre (Ipswich) / UK & European Tour

OLD

2012

Upswing

Research and Development

ART OF DYING

2012

Ice&Fire

As Artist in Residence for Research and Development

OF MICE AND MEN

2012

Watermill Theatre

THE EDGE

2012

Transport/Ranan

British Council funded action research in India

INVISIBLE

2011

Transport / New Wolsey Theatre (Ipswich) / UK & European Tour

ELEGY

2011

Transport/Summerday/Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Conceived, written and directed by Douglas Rintoul
* Nominated for Fringe First

CLOSER

2011

Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg

THE EDGE

2011

Transport / Central School of Speech and Drama

Devised project

A DISAPPEARING NUMBER

2010

Théâtre de Complicité / Lincoln Centre (New York) / World Tour

As Associate Director
Directed by Simon McBurney

INVISIBLE

2009

Theatre Institute (Warsaw, Poland) / National Theatre Studio (Research & Development)

Research & Development

ENDGAME

2009

Théâtre de Complicité / Duchess Theatre (West End, London)

As Associate Director
Directed by Simon McBurney

TOUCHED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME

2009

Trafalgar Studios (West End, London)

* Whatsonstage Award Nomination for Best Solo Performance

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

2009

Guildhall School of Music and Drama / Silk Street Theatre

A DISAPPEARING NUMBER

2008

Barbican BITE:08 / Théâtre de Complicité / World Tour

As Associate Director
Directed by Simon McBurney

DESIGN FOR LIVING

2008

Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg

EUROPE

2007

Barbican BITE:07 / Dundee Repertory Theatre

TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT

2007

New Wolsey Theatre (Ipswich)

FIDELIO

2006

Glyndebourne Festival Opera

As Assistant Director
Directed by Deborah Warner

KING LEAR

2006

Creation Theatre Company (Oxford)

PRIVATE LIVES

2006

New Wolsey Theatre (Ipswich)

MEASURE FOR MEASURE (2004-06)

Théâtre de Complicité / National Theatre - Lyttelton Theatre / World Tour

As Associate Director
Directed by Simon McBurney

JULIUS CAESAR

2005

Barbican BITE:05 / European Tour

As Associate Director
Directed by Deborah Warner

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

2004

Salisbury Playhouse

COPENHAGEN

2003

Salisbury Playhouse

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

2002

Salisbury Playhouse

Short Films

ProductionCompanyNotes

THE DROP

2010

Transport / Synergy Collective