Di Trevis

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

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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 ] They live in Putney, south-west London.

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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". Archived from the original on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 6 October 2009.
  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.
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