Jonathan Kent

Between 1990 and 2002 Jonathan was joint Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre, which he founded as a full-time producing theatre. His productions included Britannicus, Phèdre; (also West End/New York);  Hamlet (also Broadway); Plenty (West End); King Lear; The Tempest; Platonov; Lulu (also Washington); Coriolanus / Richard II ​ (also New York /Tokyo); Naked (also West End); The Government Inspector; Ivanov (also Moscow); Tartuffe; Gangster No 1; The Life of Galileo; Chatsky; The Showman; The School for Wives; Medea (also West End/Broadway); The Rules of the Game; All for Love; When We Dead Awaken.

Other theatre work includes Sweet Bird of Youth (Chichester Festival Theatre); Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Broadway); David Hare's Young Chekhov Trilogy: Ivanov, Platonov & The Seagull (Chichester Festival Theatre and the National Theatre); Gypsy (Chichester Festival Theatre and the West End); Good People (The Hampstead Theatre and the West End); Private Lives (Chichester Festival Theatre and the West End); Sweeney Todd (Chichester Festival Theatre and the West End); The Emperor and Galilean (National Theatre); A Month in the Country (Chichester Festival Theatre); Oedipus (National Theatre);The Country Wife, The Sea, Marguerite (Theatre Royal Haymarket Season); Faith Healer (Dublin/Broadway); As You Desire Me (West End); King Lear (Sheffield Crucible); Hecuba (Donmar); Hamlet (Japan); Man of La Mancha (Broadway); Le Cid, Mother Courage and Her Children (National Theatre); The False Servant (National Theatre).

 
Opera work includes Manon Lescaut (The Royal Opera House); Hippolyte et Aricie (Glyndebourne); The Flying Dutchman (ENO/Royal Danish Opera), The Fairy Queen (Glyndebourne/Paris/New York); Don Giovanni (Glyndebourne); Die Frau ohne Schatten (Mariinsky St Petersburg); The Letter (Santa Fe); The Marriage of Figaro (Santa Fe); Elektra (Mariinsky St Petersburg); The Turn of the Screw (Glyndebourne); The Tempest (Santa Fe); Tosca (Royal Opera House); A Child of Our Time (ENO); Lucio Silla and Kát'a Kabanová (Santa Fe).