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Diane "Di" Trevis (born 8 November 1947)[ citation needed ] is an English theatre director and actress.
Trevis was born in Birmingham and educated at Sussex University. [1]
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.
Since 1986, Trevis has been married to composer Dominic Muldowney.[ citation needed ]
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