Simon Stallworthy
Writer - Director

 
 
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After Graduating from Bristol University, Simon spent three years in stage management before directing his first productions. He wrote and directed Double Act at the Leicester Haymarket Studio and Captain Incredible at the Leicester Phoenix Arts Centre before going to the Bolton Octagon as Young People's Director.

Simon wrote and directed Rock-Me-Amadeus - a play about Mozart which toured nationally for Compass Theatre; and Now We Are Engaged for the national Museum of Photography, Film and Television. He also wrote Fairplay, commissioned by Southport Arts Centre and broadcast by BBC Radio Four.

Simon joined Hull Truck Theatre in September 1995, where he directed Alan Ayckbourn's Relatively Speaking, The Twelve Days of Christmas by world famous children's TV author John Cunliffe, John Godber's Hooray For Hollywood, Mick Martin's A Weekend In England, David Bown's Stand, Shakespeare's Macbeth and Alan Bennett's Talking Heads. He also directed Kissing Sid James by Robert Farquhar which played at Hull Truck Theatre in February 1999 before embarking on a nation-wide tour of Great Britain. He wrote and directed Gold!, an 80's musical, for Hull Truck Theatre which also toured nationally through Autumn 1999.

In 1999 he became Executive Director of the Octagon Theatre in Bolton. Here he directed Misconceptions by David Lewis which was nominated for Best Production in the Manchester News Theatre Awards 2001, and 100 years in Worktown, a Year of the Artist funded projected which produced a piece of theatre from an oral history project examining working life in Bolton over the last century.

He worked for two years in Television, both for the BBC and on ITV's "Coronation Street" as the programme's Script Editor.

In April 2005 Simon joined the Gala Theatre in Durham as Director. Over the last six years he has worked with a new team at Gala to make the venue one of the most successful in the North East. At Gala Simon directed 14 productions including 10 World Premieres. Simon was the Creative Director of Durham Mysteries 2010 - a major outdoor performance event for 2010 which is commisioned 10 new plays based on traditional mystery plays.

He has also recently collaborated with Rodney Bewes on a new play about Jerome K. Jerome which toured nationally..

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the Directors Guild of Great Britian