Richard Baron

Director

Richard is a graduate of St Andrews University, a former Scottish Arts Council Trainee, Director at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh, and Associate Director of the Perth, Dundee Rep, Pitlochry Festival and Nottingham Playhouse theatres. He has directed internationally and in London’s West End and is co-founder and Director of Productions of the award-winning Firebrand Theatre Company.

Notable productions include: his Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland (CATS) and Theatrical Management Association (TMA) award-winning production of Look Back in Anger starring David Tennant (Theatre Royal, Bath); CATS Award-winning productions of The Monarch of the Glen (Pitlochry Festival Theatre) and Iron (Firebrand); 3 UK tours of the international hit The 39 Steps; UK tours of The Ladykillers, Our Man in Havana, Travels With My Aunt, and Cat on A Hot Tin Roof (nominated for 6 Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards); Dear Brutus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest, and The Hound of the Baskervilles (all Nottingham Playhouse); Bold Girls (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow); Travesties, The Price, Rookery Nook, and Laurel and Hardy (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh); Chicago, Heritage, Scrooge! and TMA Award-winning productions of Man and Superman, Kind Hearts and Coronets, and Amadeus (all Pitlochry), and All My Sons, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, and the TMA Award-winning The Glass Menagerie at Dundee Rep.

For Vienna’s English Theatre Richard has directed Murder by Misadventure and a tour of Macbeth. Most recently he has written and directed the critically acclaimed Nan Shepherd: Naked and Unashamed, which will be revived at Pitlochry Festival Theatre in June 2025, prior to a national tour.