Mick Gordon (director)

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Mick Gordon (born 1970) is a Northern Irish writer, film and theatre director. Currently he is Guest Lecturer, MA Creative Writing, Queens University Belfast where he is also a PhD candidate - Translating Artificial Intelligence into Theatre. [1]

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Personal

Mick Gordon was born in Belfast. He graduated from Wadham College, Oxford in 1992, with a First Class Honours Degree in Modern History. He lives in Northern Ireland, with his wife Sophie Hayles and their two children.

Career

From 2012 to 2015 Gordon was Artistic Director of Aarhus Teater, Denmark. [2] Previously he was Trevor Nunn's Associate Director at the Royal National Theatre in London [3] and was Director of the National's Transformation Season. And Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre in London. [4] He founded the charitable theatre company On Theatre to work in collaboration with experts from fields such as neurology, psychology, philosophy and theology. He has produced and directed over 100 theatre productions. He is the author of eight plays, and a collection of essays. His mentors were Peter Brook and Brian Friel.

Awards

Directing

Writing

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