Jonathan O'Boyle
Director
Photograph: Nick Rutter
Film, TV & Theatre
Film, TV & Theatre
Jonathan trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and Birkbeck, University of London where he graduated with an MFA in Theatre Directing. He was previously Trainee Associate Director at Chichester Festival Theatre and Associate Director at Theatre503.
Hair (The Vaults) won the 2018 WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off West End Production.
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Ravishingly good … an unalloyed masterwork
The Stage on Aspects of Love
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Seldom has [Pippin] been mounted as coherently or excitingly as it is here in Jonathan O'Boyle's exhilarating staging, which feels – in terms of imagination and ambition – a natural progression from the same director's WhatsOnStage Award-winning take on Hair
What’s On Stage on Pippin
In Development
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
2018 | Trafalgar Studios 2 | By Keith Urban |
2018 | Park 200 | By J.M. Barrie |
Theatre
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
2018 | Bill Kenwright Ltd/UK Tour | By Dan Gordon |
2018 | Hope Mill Theatre | Music and Book by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Lyrics by Don Black and Charles Hart |
2018 | Trafalgar Studios 2/Troupe Productions | UK Premiere, starring Tanya Moodie and Elizabeth Berrington |
2018 | Southwark Playhouse/Hope Mill Theatre | Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and Book by Roger O. Hirson |
2018 | Headlong/UK Tour | Replica Director |
2017 | Southwark Playhouse | By J.M. Barrie |
2017 | The Vaults/Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester | Book and Lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and Music by Galt MacDermot |
2017 | Dominion Theatre/Playful Productions | Resident Director |
2016 - 2017 | Chichester Festival Theatre/Garrick Theatre | Associate Director |
2016 | Ed Mirvish Theatre, Toronto/Brooklyn Academy of Music | Associate Director |
2016 | Theatre503 | By Jake Brunger |
2015 | Chichester Festival Theatre/Playful Productions | Associate Director |
2015 | Theatre503 | By Ken Urban |
2015 | Old Red Lion/Aria Entertainment | Book, Music and Lyrics by Andy Collyer |
THE SURPLUS 2015 | Young Vic | Schools Theatre Production |
2015 | Young Vic | Associate Director |
2015 | Old Red Lion | By Ella Carmen Greenhill |
2014 | Sheffield Lyceum/UK Tour | Associate Director |
ALL THE WAYS TO SAY GOODBYE 2014 | Young Vic 5 Plays | New play by Neil LaBute |
2014 | Theatre503 | By Christopher A. Adams |
2014 | Trafalgar Studios 2 | West End transfer |
BASH 2014 | Old Red Lion | By Neil LaBute |
THE MONSTER BRIDE 2013 | Tristan Bates Theatre | By Brendan Cull |
LAST ONLINE TODAY 2013 | Sheffield Crucible New Writing Project | By Dominic Aitken |
GUINEA PIGS 2013 | Sheffield Crucible New Writing Project | By Matt Medlock |
AS ASSISTANT DIRECTOR | ||
2014 | Chichester Festival Theatre | By Peter Shaffer |
THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS 2013 | Young Vic | By Kander & Ebb |
THIS IS MY FAMILY 2013 | Sheffield Crucible Studio | By Tim Firth |
BULL 2013 | Sheffield Crucible Studio/59E59, New York | By Mike Bartlett |
MY FAIR LADY 2013 | Sheffield Crucible | By Lerner & Loewe |
THE VILLAGE BIKE 2012 | Sheffield Crucible Studio | By Penelope Skinner |
SOMEONE WHO'LL WATCH OVER ME 2012 | Southwark Playhouse | By Frank McGuinness |
THE PROVOKED WIFE 2012 | Guildhall School of Music and Drama | By John Vanbrugh |
Opera
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
MANON 2013 | Royal Opera House | By Massenet |
Other
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
WORKSHOPS | Young Vic | Taking Part workshops; Talk Back and Q&A; Onstage workshops; Parallel Production of THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS |
WORKSHOPS | Sheffield Theatres | Sheffield Theatres Summer School 2013; NT Connections 2013; The Lab: Drama School Auditions; Page to Stage workshops |
DIRECTING WORKSHOP | National Student Drama Festival |