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English Touring Theatre (ETT) is a major touring theatre company based in London , England.

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5-512: English Touring Theatre was founded in 1993 by Stephen Unwin . In 2008, the directorship of the company was taken over by Rachel Tackley, making ETT the first producer -led touring theatre company in the UK. Richard Twyman succeeded Tackley to become the company's Artistic Director in November 2016. Awards for English Touring Theatre include: 2016 2015 2014 2012 2011 2010 ETT

10-555: The Almeida, where he was awarded an Arts Council Trainee Director’s Bursary. He has since directed over 50 professional productions and 12 operas . For much of the 1980s, he was Associate Director at the Traverse Theatre , Edinburgh, and several of his productions transferred to London theatres. He worked with a wide range of leading actors, including Simon Russell Beale , Tilda Swinton , Ken Stott , and dozens of others. In

15-1039: The early 1990s, he became Resident Director at the National Theatre Studio. He launched the English Touring Theatre in June 1993, where he directed twenty productions, many of which were seen at the Old Vic, the Donmar, the Lyric Hammersmith and others. He stepped down from ETT in 2008 after fifteen years at the helm. He became the second Artistic Director (after Sir Peter Hall ) of the Rose Theatre, Kingston . He has also directed in Europe and in British repertory theatre . He

20-467: Was joint winner of the 2003 Sam Wanamaker Award with Barrie Rutter , and in autumn 2003 was Judith E Wilson Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University. Unwin was Artistic Director of The Rose Theatre in Kingston, Greater London between 2008 and 2014. In September 2010, Unwin directed Noël Coward's Hay Fever, a Rose Theatre production starring Celia Imrie , which received great critical acclaim. He

25-584: Was one of the organisations which collaborated in the launch of Digital Theatre , a project of recording and distributing theatre performance digitally. The first performance filmed and released was Far From the Madding Crowd . Stephen Unwin (director) Stephen Unwin (born 29 December 1959) is an English theatre director. Unwin read English at Downing College , Cambridge , where he directed many student productions, including an award-winning production of Measure for Measure that transferred to

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