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Simon Hubbard is a British actor and director.
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Simon Hubbard is a British actor and director.
Hubbard was born in Washington, Tyne & Wear, in June 1976. At the age of 7 his family moved to the mining village of Shiney Row where he attended Shiney Row primary school, then on to Washington Comprehensive School.
Shiney Row is a village in Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear. The village enjoys good travel links with not just the rest of Sunderland but also County Durham, South Shields & Newcastle. One of the City of Sunderland College's main centres was located in Shiney Row, however the college was retired in 2014 with plans to develop residential housing being pushed forward. In April 2015, this college was subject to a fire of unknown cause leading to the demolition of the college followed in early 2016 by the planned residential housing development. Some of the most notable people who where born in Shiney Row are Adam Pratt and Sir George Elliot, 1st Baronet, owner of the factory that produced the first Transatlantic telegraph cable.
Hubbard directed his first play at the age of sixteen, George Bernard Shaw's The Dark Lady of the Sonnets , staged at the Washington Arts Centre. His other directing credits include:
George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1912) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets is a 1910 short comedy by George Bernard Shaw in which William Shakespeare, intending to meet the "Dark Lady", accidentally encounters Queen Elizabeth I and attempts to persuade her to create a national theatre. The play was written as part of a campaign to create a "Shakespeare National Theatre" by 1916.
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He also directed several plays at the New Theatre in Dublin:
He directed the critically acclaimed female cast version of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross . [1]
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