Patrick Sandford

Patrick is Artistic Director of The Nuffield, where he directed Murder in Green Meadows and Earth and Sky, both by Douglas Post. Patrick won Best Director in the TMA awards for The Winter Wife by Claire Tomalin (which was nominated for five TMA awards and transferred to the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith) and Much Ado About Nothing.

Recently, Patrick has directed Writer’s Block: Comedies by Woody Allen, Antony and Cleopatra, The House of Bernarda Alba, The Playboy of the Western World, A Streetcar Named Desire, She Stoops to Conquer, Tchaikovsky and the Queen of Spades, Salome, Don Quixote, Nelson, Romeo and Juliet, The School for Wives, Frankenstein, Mary Stuart, Hamlet and Chekov’s Three Sisters. This production was nominated for Best Touring Production in the 2002 TMA awards. He has also directed three new plays by Claire Luckham, one of which, The Dramatic Attitudes of Miss Fanny Kemble (with Brenda Blethyn), he directed again in Australia. Other new plays include When We Are Rich and The President’s Holiday, both by Penny Gold, and Peeler and The Grizzled Skipper, both by Maggie Nevill.

British premieres of foreign plays include Woody Allen’s The Floating Lightbulb (with Sylvia Syms and Lee Montague), In Broad Daylight by Lesley Bruce (also at the Tricycle Theatre, Kilburn), two Australian comedies; Dead White Males by David Williamson and Tony MacNamara’s The John Wayne Principle (also at The Pleasance, London) and Beach Wedding by Didier Van Cauwelaert (with Nichola McAuliffe and Adrian Lukis). Michael Frayn’s adaptation of the Russian play Exchange transferred to the Vaudeville Theatre with Martin Jarvis and Rosalind Ayres. Classics include Twelfth Night (also in French at the Théâtre des 2 Rives, Rouen, >France), Euripides’ The Bacchae, and The Nuffield production of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, which played at the ancient amphitheatre in Paphos, Cyprus.

Abroad, his productions have been seen in Australia, France, Germany, South Africa and recently Barbados. He directed Syrinx by Kate Mosse and Charity Begins… by Sandi Toksvig for The Sky Arts Theatre Live Season.