Director Royal National Theatre
Nicholas Hytner was appointed Director of the Royal National Theatre in April 2003.He was born in Manchester and educated at Manchester Grammar School and Cambridge University. His first theatre productions were at the Northcott Theatre, Exeter. He then directed a series of productions at the Leeds Playhouse, and in 1985 became and Associate Director of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. He has directed three productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company and from 1990 to 1997 he was Associate Director of the National Theatre.
Since 1994 he is Associate Director of Lincoln Centre Theatre, New York
and his first feature film, The Madness of King George, was released in
1994 by the Samuel Goldwyn Company. It was nominated for four Academy
Awards and won both the BAFTA and Evening Standard awards for best
British film. He has since directed The Crucible, nominated for two
Academy Awards, and The Object of My Affection. Nicholas Hytner has
also directed various opera productions in the UK and abroad amongst
them for English National Opera: Wagner's Rienzi, Handel's Xerxes,
Mozart's The Magic Flute and Verdi's The Force of Destiny; for
Glyndebourne: Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito; for the Paris Opera:
Handel's Guilia Cesare; for the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris: Janacek's
The Cunning Little Vixen; for the Geneva Opera: Mozart's Le Nozze di
Figaro; and for the Bavarian State Opera, Munich: Mozart's Don
Giovanni. He has received, in addition to the BAFTA and Evening
Standard awards for best British film, amongst others two Olivier
Awards, two Evening Standard Awards, the London Critics' Circle Award,
a Drama Desk Award, and a Tony.
