Adrian Keith Noble (born Chichester, Sussex, England, 19 July 1950) is a theatre director, and was also the artistic director and chief executive of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1990 to 2003.
After he graduated from Chichester High School, he studied at the University of Bristol, where he studied English. He began his professional career as a director at the London Drama Centre. In 1976 he moved on to the Bristol Old Vic and worked at the s...
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Adrian Keith Noble (born Chichester, Sussex, England, 19 July 1950) is a theatre director, and was also the artistic director and chief executive of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1990 to 2003.
After he graduated from Chichester High School, he studied at the University of Bristol, where he studied English. He began his professional career as a director at the London Drama Centre. In 1976 he moved on to the Bristol Old Vic and worked at the same time for the TV. From 1980 till 1981 he worked at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, producing the Duchess of Malfi, which won him the London Drama Critics' Award and the Circle Theatre Award (also for his production of Doktor Faust, and as Best Director for A Doll's House in 1980).
During his career, he received 120 Olivier Award nominations. In 1980 he became assistant director at the RSC where his first production was Ostrowski's Two Sisters. In 1988 he was promoted to director, but in 1989 he took a break and left the company....
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