Tim is a playwright, director, actor and teacher

TIM LUSCOMBE

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DIRECTOR

WRITER

As a director, Tim’s productions have been seen in the West End, all over the UK, On and Off Broadway (Artist Descending A Staircase at the Helen Hayes Theatre and When She Danced at the Playwrights’ Horizons), and in the Netherlands, Japan and at the National Theatre in
Sweden.

His London directing credits include Hungry Ghosts (Orange Tree Theatre), Easy Virtue (Garrick), Private Lives (Aldwych), Artist Descending A Staircase (Duke of York’s), The Browning Version and Harlequinade (Royalty), EuroVision (Vaudeville), Relative Values (Savoy), The Second World (LAMDA), Parade (Mountview), When She Danced and Cracks (both at the Kings Head), Snow Orchid and Salvation (both at The Gate) and The One You Love (Royal Court at the Ambassadors).

Outside London, Tim has directed five shows for the Chichester Festival Theatre, five for the Salisbury Playhouse as well as many tours of the UK. He has directed at the Manchester Royal Exchange, Leeds Playhouse, Watford Palace and several other regional theatres.

Recent productions include Parade and Bonnie and Clyde, both at Mountview, 13 at Rose Bruford, The
Little Hut on tour, A Lie of the Mind and When She Danced, both at RADA, The English Game at
LAMDA, The Green Bay Tree at the Jermyn Street Theatre, The Taming of the Shrew at the University
of Southern Florida and The Rat Trap at the Finborough Theatre in London. With Alan Ayckbourn,
Tim co-directed Intimate Exchanges at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough – a collection of
plays all of which subsequently transferred to New York.
 
Upcoming productions include Hair at the Guildford School of Acting.

Awards:
Lawrence Olivier Award nominee for Easy Virtue and The Browning Version and Harlequinade.

Tim has written plays for the National Theatre Studio, the Royal Court (The One You Love), RADA (The Quickest Light) and Hampstead Theatre (The Schuman Plan). All four of his Jane Austen adaptations (Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion and Mansfield Park) have been produced in the UK, and Northanger Abbey also in Chicago (2013). The
One You Love was also produced at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, Hungry Ghosts at the Orange Tree Theatre (2012) and Pig at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto (2013). Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and Kevin Wallace co-produced Tim’s first play EuroVision at the Vaudeville Theatre in 1994 after its success at the Drill Hall. It was also at the Drill Hall that The Death of Gogol and the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest was first seen. The Second World was commissioned and produced by LAMDA (2011) and Bubi Doll (The Education of Adolf H) by E15 at the Tristan Bates Theatre (2009). Tim’s latest adaptation is Turn of the Screw, which will have its first production in 2018 at the Mercury Theatre in Colchester.

The Schuman Plan and Northanger Abbey are published by Nick Hern, Persuasion and Mansfield Park by Oberon Books, and Kimalia and Tim's 9-hander comedy Amateur Rites by Stagescripts.

Awards:
Bruntwood nominated 2011 for A Map of the Region.