Keith Myers

Since directing the hugely popular farces Boeing Boeing and Key For Two here in Vienna Keith has directed Boeing Boeing and a new thriller, The Perfect Murder by Peter James, at the Mill at Sonning Theatre, Terry Johnson’s Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick (about the Carry On gang) in Broadstairs, a new American comedy The House by Brian Parks in London, also a stage version of ITV’s Heartbeat and the classic Whitehall farce Dry Rot, both of which toured the UK.

Keith has been Artistic Director of several theatrical managements and theatres and has more than a hundred productions to his credit. UK touring shows include 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. He has also directed repertory seasons of plays all over the UK and favourite productions include: Deadly Nightcap by Francis Durbridge, 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 Clemens Inside Job, 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.

His work has taken him abroad many times; 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 also produced a series of Les Misérables concerts in the UK, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Pakistan.

Keith’s London productions include; Carlo Goldoni’s early commedia dell’arte 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 Star Trek’s Leonard Nimoy.

He also regularly teaches all over Europe; last year he ran a Directing Workshop in The Hague and ran a course in Acting in Farce and High Comedy as part of the International Theatre Summer School in Belgium.

Keith first came to Vienna’s English Theatre as an actor. In 2010 he played the hapless Vic Johnson in Ray Cooney’s farce Funny Money and before that the outrageous Reverend Dicky Sainsbury in Michael Frayn’s Donkeys’ Years.

He is delighted to return to beautiful Wien and hopes you enjoy Run For Your Wife.