John Caird (Canada/United Kingdom)

Director

HGO Performances: Tosca (2010), Brief Encounter (2009).

About the Artist: Caird is an honorary associate director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, a regular director with the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain, and the principal guest director of the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm. For Royal Shakespeare Company, he has worked on over 20 productions of classic and new plays including Twin Rivals, Our Friends in the North, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, The Beggar’s Opera, and Antony and Cleopatra. Other theatre, opera, and musical theatre productions include The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Les Misérables, Song and Dance, The Seagull, Stanley, Jane Eyre, Hamlet, his own version of Bernstein’s Candide, Humble Boy, Macbeth, Don Carlos, Aïda, Don Giovanni, The Beggar’s Opera, Kinshu, Merry Wives of Windsor, Dance of Death, The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, Candide, Private Lives, and a current U.S. tour of Daddy Long Legs. In addition to his work with Houston Grand Opera, he has also collaborated with Welsh National Opera and Canadian Opera Company to great success. His work has also been seen worldwide at venues including Aldwych Theatre in Los Angeles, Broadway, the Barbican in London, Tokyo’s Nissay and Galaxy theatres, and Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. Caird was educated at Selwyn House School Montreal, Oxford’s Magdalen College School, and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He has won Olivier awards for The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby and Candide; an Evening Standard Award for The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby; Tony Awards for Les Misérables and The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby; the Nippon Engeki Kogyo Kyukai Award for Kinshu, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Beggar’s Opera; Outer Critics Circle Awards for Les Misérables and Stanley; and the Kikuta Kazuo Theatre Award for Special Achievement in Japanese Theatre, among others. Caird’s new book about directing, Theatre Craft, is published by Faber & Faber in London and New York.