Tim Supple has created theatre throughout the UK and in Europe, North and South America, Australia, India, North Africa and the near and far East. He has worked regularly with the National Theatre and the RSC and during the 1990s he was Artistic Director of the Young Vic Theatre in London. He has been described as “the leading storyteller in British Theatre” (Financial Times). In 2005 he founded Dash Arts with Josephine Burton to create new performance in collaboration with artists from abroad. His multi-lingual A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, created in India for Dash Arts in 2006, was a world-wide success and acclaimed as ‘the most life-enhancing production of Shakespeare’s play since Peter Brook’s” (Guardian). His Arabic production of ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS premiered at Edinburgh International Festival in 2011 where it was hailed as “an instant classic” (Independent).

Among his adaptations for the theatre are GRIMM TALES AND MORE GRIMM TALES with Carol Ann Duffy; ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST with Dario Fo & Alan Cumming; MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN with Salman Rushdie & Simon Reade; and TALES FROM OVID with Ted Hughes & Simon Reade.

Dash Arts theatre projects in development include a staging of the epic Iranian national poem, The Shahnameh, commissioned by the National Theatre; SOUL, part of REVOLUTION17 to be researched and created in the post Soviet States, commissioned by National Theatre, London; Lincoln Center Festival, New York; Perth Festival, Australia and Belgrade Theatre, Coventry; and the King Lear World Theatre Project a three year research and development process launched in the UK in June 2015: a worldwide series of workshops that will bring together actors from the world’s great theatre traditions and practices to evolve a multi-lingual and cross national production for a global audience.

Other current projects include COMEDY OF ERRORS (BBT, Istanbul) and IL RITORNO D’ULISSE IN PATRIA (Grange Festival)

Selected stage direction

ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS, 2011
with Hanan Al Shaykh
Luminato Festival, Toronto/Edinburgh International Festival
Produced by Dash Arts

AS YOU LIKE IT, 2009
Leicester Curve
Produced by Dash Arts

WHAT WE DID TO WEINSTEIN, 2005
Menier Chocolate Factory
Produced by Dash Arts

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, 2005
Commissioned by the British Council
Two tours of India, extensive tours of the UK, Australia and North America, two seasons at Stratford-upon-Avon and a season at the Roundhouse in London.
Produced by Dash Arts.

THE COSMONAUTS LAST MESSAGE…, 2005
Donmar Warehouse;

BEASTS AND BEAUTIES, 2002
Norwegian National Theatre, Bergen;

TOO CLEVER BY HALF, 2001
Norwegian National Theatre, Bergen;

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, 2000
Maxim Gorki Theatre, Berlin;

CORIOLANUS, 1992
with Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Richard Briers and Iain Glenn
Renaissance Theatre Company

TRAVELING TALES, 1991
John Session
Renaissance Theatre Company

BILLY BUDD, 1991
Crucible Theatre, Sheffield;

OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR, 1989
Haymarket Theatre, Leicester

GUYS AND DOLLS, 1989
Haymarket Theatre, Leicester;

At the Young Vic (Artistic Director from 1993 – 2000)

A SERVANT TO TWO MASTERS (national & international tour & West End), 1999

MORE GRIMM TALES (& Broadway), 1998

AS I LAY DYING, 1998

TWELFTH NIGHT, 1998

BLOOD WEDDING,1997

THE JUNGLE BOOK, 1995

GRIMM TALES (& International Tour), 1994

THE SLAB BOYS TRILOGY, 1994

OEDIPUS, 1994

At the National Theatre:

ROMEO AND JULIET, 2000

THE VILLAINS OPERA, 2000

HAROUN AND THE SEA OF STORIES, 1998

WHALE, 1998

THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH, 1993

BILLY LIAR , 1991
(National Tour)

ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST, 1990
(National Tour)

At the RSC

MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN, 2003
Barbican, National Tour & Apollo Theatre, New York

LOVE IN A WOOD, 2001

TALES FROM OVID (Young Vic), 1999

THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, 1996
National/ International Tour & Young Vic

SPRING AWAKENING, 1995

Opera:

THE MAGIC FLUTE, 2003
Opera North;

BABETTE’S FEAST, 2002
Linbury Studio, ROH

HANSEL AND GRETEL, 2001
Opera North

Film Includes

ROCKABYE, 2004
IWC/Channel 4.

TWELFTH NIGHT, 2002
Projector/Channel 4

Awards and nominations

Tim is the recipient of a NESTA Invention and Innovation Award for experiments in film.

Time Out, Evening Standard, TMA, Olivier, BAFTA, Herald Angel

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