Toby Gough

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Toby Gough
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NationalityBritish
Occupation(s) Theatre director, Writer, Actor & Teacher

Toby Gough is a British theatre director, writer, actor and teacher. [1] He is known for devising multi-cultural adaptations of Shakespeare plays and creating international music theatre shows from Cuba, Ireland, India and Brazil. [2] [3]

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He has won five Scotsman Fringe First Awards, two Herald Archangel awards, and two Jack Tinker Spirit of the Fringe lifetime achievement awards. [4] [5] The album he co-produced Small things fall from the Baobab Tree by the Zawose family of Tanzania was nominated for a Grammy Award. [5]

Education

Gough went to Charterhouse School, and holds an MA in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh 1989-1994. [6]

Career

Gough works in theatre as a writer, director, producer and actor. [7] He has directed Kylie Minogue in The Caribbean Tempest in The Holders Festival in Barbados. [8] During the Bosnian war, he entered Sarajevo under siege through a sewage tunnel to co-direct the opera Evropa with the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Palcici children's choir. [9]

After the 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka, Gough created Children of the Sea with child survivors of the disaster which toured to refugee camps across the island and went on to win the first prize at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. [10]

As a writer and director Gough has created the international touring productions of Linnaeus Prince of Flowers, Brazil! Brazil!, Lady Salsa, and others. [11] [12]

Gough has served as a visiting lecturer and theatre practitioner leading workshops in Participatory Theatre for Conflict Transformation, and Devising Theatre in universities and drama schools in the UK and around the world. [13] As a theatre practitioner, he has led educational workshops in eastern and central Africa. [14]

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  2. ↑ "'Have I got a part for you'". The Guardian. 1999-08-09. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
  3. ↑ "No Macbeth curse for Dannii". BBC. 1999-08-11. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
  4. ↑ "Bathurst teen takes out major performing arts prize". Western Advocate. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
  5. 1 2 Dorothy Max Prior, "Total Theatre Awards". totaltheatre.org.uk. 2002-03-14. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
  6. ↑ "Edinburgh Festival: Mulch ado about nothing: Toby Gough's alfresco play on a tyrannical botanist leads its audience up the garden path. Sabine Durrant reports" . Independent. 1994-08-19. Archived from the original on 2022-06-21. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
  7. ↑ "Toby Gough's compelling and spectacular theatre work". ABC. 2010-01-27. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
  8. ↑ "Kylie meets tsunami theatre group". BBC. 2006-03-13. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
  9. ↑ "Capoeira Spectacular Live Stage Show". Scoop. 2009-11-17. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
  10. ↑ Ed Caesar, "Tsunami survivors discover hope on Edinburgh stage" . Independent. 2013-04-29. Archived from the original on 2022-06-21. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
  11. ↑ "Theatre Reviews". BBC. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
  12. ↑ Monica Westin, "Hooray for Bollywood: Bringing Indian film to life on stage". newcitystage. 2010-09-28. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
  13. ↑ "Toby Gough's compelling and spectacular theatre work". ABC Net. 2010-01-27. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
  14. ↑ Pauline McLean,, "The world fringe". BBC. 2008-08-01. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
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