Gavin Cameron-Webb

Gavin Cameron-Webb is delighted to return to Vienna’s English Theatre. Ronald Harwood’s play is his fifth production. His first was the continental premiere of The Woman in Black by Stephen Mallatratt. He was last in Vienna with the popular comedy of Sylvia by A.R. Gurney in the summer of 1999.

Since 1992, he has served as artistic director of Studio Arena Theatre, one of the leading regional theatres in the United States. The theatre is situated in Buffalo, NY on the Canadian border. During his tenure there, he produced a five-year retrospective of the major works of Tennessee Williams, which ended in 2002 with A Streetcar Named Desire. He also launched a second stage series, which featured such titles as Angels in America and How I Learned to Drive. He is committed to Buffalo writers: In his first season, he produced A.R. Gurney’s The Dining Room, and in the season before last, he produced Gurney’s new comedy, Buffalo Gal. In 1994, he premiered Tom Dudzick’s Over the Tavern, a warm-hearted comedy about growing up in Buffalo, which has since played across the United States. The play’s unprecedented success gave rise to a trilogy which ended with Lake Effect. This comedy, about the famous Buffalo blizzard on 1977 premiered in Buffalo in December, 2001. Ironically, the run was cut a week short by another blizzard.

Before coming to Buffalo, Mr. Cameron-Webb resided in New York City where he taught at the Juilliard School and at SUNY Purchase, and worked as a free-lance director staging productions across the country and abroad. His work has been eclectic, encompassing both contemporary plays such as Steve Martin’s comedy, Picasso at the Lapin Agile and classical work such as Hamlet with Val Kilmer at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. He also helped develop scripts and worked on new plays such as Tom Dulack’s Shooting Craps, which he staged this past January. Once, over an eighteen month period, he directed three different productions of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. His favorite classical author remains Shakespeare, and to date he has directed a third of the canon, including Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure and Julius Caesar. He directed his second production of The Tempest last summer. In the early 1980’s, he led the Boston Shakespeare Company. Prior to moving to New York, Mr. Cameron-Webb had taught at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and at Webster College in St. Louis. He began his career as an actor working on mostly classical plays such as Büchner’s Danton’s Death and Twelfth Night. Though he is English by birth, he has lived in the United States for the past 30 years.

Mr. Cameron-Webb currently lives in Buffalo, NY and is married to director Jane Page. His daughter, Madeleine, graduates from the University of Brighton this year.