Lawrence Evans

Movement Director

Lawrence works as a movement director, actor, voiceover artist, director, and acting teacher.

Nominated for an Olivier Award for his work with the late and great Tony Harrison at the National Theatre, he worked with the poet as an actor and movement director on all his site-specific theatre pieces from Delphi to Bradford. He received a best actor award from the Liverpool Newspapers Arts awards and has worked at many of the regional Repertory Theatres throughout the UK, as well as the National Theatre, NT studio, Cheek by Jowl, the Young Vic, and Northern Broadsides. 

His directing work includes The Soldiers Tale with the Orchestra of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Irish Chamber Orchestra & Storytellers Theatre Company and as an Associate Director at Theatre Centre. 

As a Movement Director his work includes the National Theatre, National Education dept (touring), Hampstead Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, Tamasha Theatre Company, Unicorn Theatre and Chalkfoot Productions. His teaching credits include RADA, Drama Centre, Central School of Speech & Drama, and LAMDA, where he has recently finished directing a production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing with the MA Classical graduates, and his co-written play Lives Worth Living is published by Heinemann Educational. 

This is his eighth production at Vienna’s English Theatre as a Movement Director.