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 (Kings Head and RADA), Cracks (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 many other regional theatres.

Recently, Tim directed The Little Hut with Janie Dee on tour, A Lie of the Mind 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, The Rat Trap at the Finborough Theatre in London, and co-directed with Alan Ayckbourn Intimate Exchanges at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough – a collection of plays, all of which subsequently transferred to New York.

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

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 three of his Jane Austen adaptations (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 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 is currently working on an adaptation of George Eliot’s Silas Marner and a book for a Eurovision jukebox musical (called Douze Points!).

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

Awards:
Bruntwood nominated 2011 for A Map of the Region (Writer)