Di Trevis

Last updated

Diane "Di" Trevis (born 8 November 1947)[ citation needed ] is an English theatre director and actress.

Contents

Early life and education

Trevis was born in Birmingham and educated at Sussex University. [1]

Career

After eight years as an actress, which included appearances in The Professionals and The Sweeney , [2] Trevis began directing in 1981. [3]

She was the first woman to run a company at Britain's Royal National Theatre. [4] Between 1986 and 1993, she directed Happy Birthday Brecht, The Mother , The School for Wives , Yerma , The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui and Inadmissible Evidence for the National. [5] In 2000 she adapted for the stage, with Harold Pinter, Pinter's unfilmed cinema adaptation of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past . The production, which transferred to the Olivier stage in 2001, [6] was described as "ravishing" by critic Nicholas de Jongh in the Evening Standard [7] and won an Olivier Award.[ citation needed ]

Trevis has also worked extensively at the Royal Shakespeare Company, with productions of Happy End , The Taming of the Shrew , The Revenger's Tragedy , Much Ado About Nothing and Elgar’s Rondo.[ citation needed ] In 1991 she mounted a production of Harrison Birtwistle's opera Gawain at the Royal Opera House. She also directed The Merry Widow for Scottish Opera and The Voluptuous Tango for the Almeida.

Trevis has had a long-standing affiliation with the US, directing and teaching in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Pittsburgh. Her American productions include: As You Like It , The Duchess of Malfi , Human Cannon, Le Grand Meaulnes and Silverland. In December 2008 she directed London Cries at the Irondale, Brooklyn, featuring Jenny Galloway and Richard Poe. [4] Trevis directed a production of The Beaux' Stratagem at The Pennsylvania State University in the spring of 2011.

For over a decade, Trevis has been teaching actors and directors in her international workshops. She has taught in the UK, the US, France, Germany, Austria and Cuba. [3] [ dead link ] Gary Oldman, Kenneth Branagh and Rupert Everett have all passed through her workshops and she has a following of young actors in London who regularly attend her Sunday workshop. Between 2003 and 2007, Trevis was Head of Directing at Drama Centre London. [3] [ dead link ]

A friend of Ian Charleson, Trevis contributed a to the 1990 book, For Ian Charleson: A Tribute. [8]

Trevis published her own book, Being a Director: A Life in Theatre in 2011.

Personal life

Since 1986, Trevis has been married to composer Dominic Muldowney.[ citation needed ]

Bibliography

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Royal National Theatre</span> Theatre in London, England

The Royal National Theatreof Great Britain, commonly known as the National Theatre (NT) within the UK and as the National Theatre of Great Britain internationally, is a performing arts venue and associated theatre company located in London, England. The theatre was founded by the actor Laurence Olivier in 1963, and many well-known actors have performed with it since.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Peter Hall (director)</span> English theatre, opera and film director (1930–2017)

Sir Peter Reginald Frederick Hall CBE was an English theatre, opera and film director. His obituary in The Times declared him "the most important figure in British theatre for half a century" and on his death, a Royal National Theatre statement declared that Hall's "influence on the artistic life of Britain in the 20th century was unparalleled". In 2018, the Laurence Olivier Awards, recognising achievements in London theatre, changed the award for Best Director to the Sir Peter Hall Award for Best Director.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kristin Scott Thomas</span> British actress (born 1960)

Dame Kristin Ann Scott Thomas is a British actress. Five-time BAFTA Award and Olivier Award nominee, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and the Olivier Award for Best Actress in 2008 for the Royal Court revival of The Seagull. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in The English Patient (1996).

Colleen Zenk is an American actress. She is known for her role as Barbara Ryan in the CBS daytime soap opera, As the World Turns, a role she played from September 1978 until the show ended in September 2010. She received three Daytime Emmy Awards nominations for her performance.

Sir Richard Charles Hastings Eyre is an English film, theatre, television and opera director.

<i>Blasted</i> Play by Sarah Kane

Blasted is the first play by the British author Sarah Kane. It was first performed in 1995 at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in London.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Young Vic</span> Theatre in Waterloo, London

The Young Vic Theatre is a performing arts venue located on The Cut, near the South Bank, in the London Borough of Lambeth.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Indira Varma</span> British actress and narrator

Indira Anne Varma is a British actress and narrator. Her film debut and first major role was in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love. She has gone on to appear in the television series The Canterbury Tales, Torchwood, Rome, Luther, Human Target, and Game of Thrones. In September 2016 she began starring in the ITV/Netflix series Paranoid as DS Nina Suresh.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eve Best</span> British actress (born 1971)

Emily "Eve" Best is an English actress and director. She is known for her television roles as Dr. Eleanor O'Hara in the Showtime series Nurse Jackie (2009–2013), First Lady Dolley Madison in the American Experience television special (2011), and Monica Chatwin in the BBC miniseries The Honourable Woman (2014). She also played Wallis Simpson in the 2010 film The King's Speech.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rebecca Hall</span> English actress and filmmaker (born 1982)

Rebecca Maria Hall Spector is an English actress and filmmaker. She made her first onscreen appearance at age 10 in the 1992 television adaptation of The Camomile Lawn, directed by her father, Sir Peter Hall. Her professional stage debut came in her father's 2002 production of Mrs. Warren's Profession, which earned her the Ian Charleson Award.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Emma Fielding</span> English actress

Emma Georgina Annalies Fielding is an English actress.

Janie Dee is a British actress. She won the Olivier Award for Best Actress, Evening Standard Award and Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Actress in a Play, and in New York the Obie and Theatre World Award for Best Newcomer, for her performance as Jacie Triplethree in Alan Ayckbourn's Comic Potential.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Thea Sharrock</span> British director

Thea Sharrock is an English theatre and film director. In 2001, at age 24, she became the artistic director of London's Southwark Playhouse and the youngest artistic director in British theatre.

Bijan Sheibani is a British theatre director.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sean Mathias</span> British actor

Sean Gerard Mathias is a Welsh actor, director, and writer. He is known for directing the film Bent and for directing highly acclaimed theatre productions in London, New York City, Cape Town, Los Angeles and Sydney.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Katie Mitchell</span> British theatre director (born 1964)

Katrina Jane Mitchell is an English theatre director.

Paule Constable is a British lighting designer. She is an Associate Director for the National Theatre, the Lyric Hammersmith and Matthew Bourne's company New Adventures.

Remembrance of Things Past is the 2000 collaborative stage adaptation by Harold Pinter and director Di Trevis of Harold Pinter's as-yet unproduced The Proust Screenplay (1977), a screen adaptation of À la recherche du temps perdu, the 1913–1927 seven-volume novel by Marcel Proust.

Cush Jumbo is a British actress and writer. She is best known for her leading role as attorney Lucca Quinn in the CBS drama series The Good Wife (2015–2016) and the Paramount Plus spin-off series The Good Fight (2017–2021) and most recently June Lenker in the Apple series Criminal Record (2024).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Siobhan Daly</span> British producer and artistic director

Siobhán Daly is a British producer and artistic director.

References

  1. "Watford Palace Theatre | an English Tragedy". Archived from the original on 18 February 2008. Retrieved 6 October 2009.
  2. "Di Trevis". IMDb .
  3. 1 2 3 "Drama Centre London". Archived from the original on 5 February 2009. Retrieved 6 October 2009.
  4. 1 2 "Irondale Ensemble Project".
  5. http://www.nt-online.org.uk/7058/archive/the-archive.html . Retrieved 6 October 2009.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)[ dead link ]
  6. "NT Education Workpack: Remembrance of Things Past" (PDF). National Theatre. Retrieved 8 September 2013.[ permanent dead link ]
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 13 June 2011. Retrieved 6 October 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. Ian McKellen, Alan Bates, Hugh Hudson, et al. For Ian Charleson: A Tribute. London: Constable and Company, 1990. pp. 21–32.