Keith Myers

Keith has more than a hundred productions to his credit and has directed all styles of theatre from Shakespeare to pantomime.

He has been Artistic Director of several touring managements and was responsible for many UK tours including the farces Anyone For Breakfast by Derek Benfield, and Anybody for Murder by Brian Clemens and Dennis Spooner, and the thriller Murder by Misadventure by Edward Taylor. His work has also taken him all over Europe; he directed Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor in Luxembourg, Agatha Christie’s Spider’s Web which toured Israel, and a touring production of Bag Lady in Germany. He is an Associate Director for two major West End producers; Bill Kenwright and Ian Fricker.

He has also directed repertory seasons of plays all over the UK and favourite productions include; Deadly Nightcap by Francis Durbridge at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, The Business of Murder by Richard Harris, Martin Sherman’s Bent, Lee Hall’s Cooking With Elvis, Time and Time Again by Alan Aykbourn, Habeas Corpus by Alan Bennett, Brian Clemen’s Inside Job and The Opposite Sex a farce by David Tristram, Frederick Knott’s classic thriller Dial M For Murder and Mike Leigh’s famous comedy Abigail’s Party.

Keith’s London productions include; Carlo Goldoni’s early farce The Venetian Twins, Carlo Collodi’s classic, Pinocchio, Shakespeare’s comedy As You Like It, East by Stephen Berkoff, Jean Paul Sartre’s Huis Clos, Ibsen’s The Lady From the Sea, and Vincent (about Van Gogh) written by Leonard Nimoy. His musical comedy revue, When Movies Were Movies, (which he also wrote) has just completed a successful run in London.

He also directs and teaches in several London drama schools as well as running workshops for drama training organisations and amateur groups in the UK and Europe. He recently visited The Hague in Holland where he was running a directing workshop.

Keith has a busy parallel career as an actor and in March he completed a long UK tour of Noel Coward’s comedy Star Quality playing fading matinee idol Gerald Wentworth. Last year he appeared at Vienna’s English Theatre playing the hapless Vic Johnson in the farce Funny Money by Ray Cooney and before that the outrageous Reverend Dicky Sainsbury in Michael Frayn’s Donkeys’ Years.

He is delighted to return to beautiful Wien as a director this time.