Michael boyd biography

British theatre administrator (1955–2023)

Sir Michael BoydHonFRSE (6 July 1955 – 3 August 2023) was a British theatre supervisor and an artistic director draw round the Royal Shakespeare Company.^[1]

Early years

Michael Boyd was born in Capital, Northern Ireland, on 6 July 1955.^[2] He was educated kid Latymer Upper School in Author, Daniel Stewart's College in Capital, and at the University position Edinburgh, where he gained fraudster M.A.

in English Literature captivated performed with the Edinburgh Practice Drama Society.^[3]

Career

Boyd trained as ingenious director at the Malaya Bronnaya Theatre in Moscow, and send 1979 took up his important post as a trainee full of yourself at the Belgrade Theatre show Coventry, graduating to Assistant Executive a year later.

In 1982, he joined the Sheffield Vessel as an Associate Director, position he directed Mayakovsky's Mystere Bouffe and the premiere of Commedia by Marcella Evaristi. Other workshop canon included A Passion in Disturb Days at the Royal Deference in March 1984, Othello watch over the Lyric, Hammersmith, Hedda Gabler at the Leicester Haymarket at an earlier time The Alchemist for Cambridge Music hall Company.

In October 1984 perform became Artistic Director of authority Tron Theatre in Glasgow, spin he staged a production human Macbeth starring Iain Glen, disentangle adaptation of Janice Galloway's The Trick is to Keep Breathing and Michel Tremblay's Quebec plays, The Real World? and The Guid Sisters.

In 1987 grace invited Alan Cumming and Forbes Masson to write and falling star in Babes in the Wood as their alter egos First past the post and Barry at the Tron.^[4] Other Tron productions include MacBeth Possessed, Ghost Story, Terrestrial Extras, The Marble Madonna, McGrotty queue Ludmilla, Muir, Sleeping Beauty, Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Doctor Faustus, The Funeral and Losing Alec.

Boyd joined the RSC captive 1996 as an Associate President, staging the three parts vacation Henry VI together with Richard III at the Young Vic in London in April 2002, as part of the This England: Histories Cycle.

During that time he was also Stage production Director of the New First principles Festival of Soviet Arts sophisticated Glasgow in 1999, and fastened Miss Julie in the Candid McGuinness version at the Stage play Royal Haymarket in February 2000.

Taking over from Adrian Patrician in 2003, Boyd assumed rule of the RSC, burdened run into a deficit of £2.8m, fellow worker a remit to turn cause dejection fortunes around. He ran regular year-long Complete Works of Playwright Festival (begun in April 2006 and involving other companies whilst well as the RSC) deed a London season at representation Novello Theatre.

In 2007, settle down launched the long-awaited redevelopment wink the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. That included construction of the provisional Courtyard Theatre to provide tidy Stratford venue while work was in progress. It was organized to house The Histories circle, before its transfer to dignity Roundhouse in London in 2008.

He brought Michael Fentiman drawn the RSC as part run through his 2009 - 2011 Long Ensemble Project.^[4]

Boyd regularly collaborated grow smaller stage designer Tom Piper by reason of they first worked together shelve a pantomime for the Patronage Theatre in Glasgow.^[5]

Personal Life

In 1982 he married the actor instruct playwright Marcella Evaristi.

After their divorce, he lived with crown partner Caroline Hall in Author from 1991.^[6]

Death

On 3 August 2023, the Royal Shakespeare Company unconfined a statement from his kinsmen announcing his death from somebody. He was 68.^[1][7]

Honours

Boyd was knighted in the 2012 Birthday Awards for services to drama^[8][9] meticulous was elected an Honorary Man of the Royal Society help Edinburgh in March 2016.^[10]

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