John Doyle

Scottish director John Doyle makes his Houston Grand Opera debut with Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor this winter. He has recently directed Britten’s Peter Grimes at the Metropolitan Opera and Puccini’s Madame Butterfly at Grange Park Opera, having made his operatic debut directing The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by Kurt Weill at Los Angeles Opera. Associate Director of Watermill Theatre in Newbury, England, Mr. Doyle has garnered critical acclaim for his staging of musical theater works, in which he casts actor/musicians who accompany one another onstage while playing their roles. His 2004 staging of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd originated at the Watermill and moved on to the West End of London and then to Broadway, where it starred Patti LuPone and Michael Cerveris. His other recent credits include Sondheim’s Company at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway, which won Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critic’s Circle, and Drama League Awards in the category of “Best Revival of a Musical”;  Mack and Mabel by Stewart and Herman in London’s West End; and Oklahoma! by Rogers and Hammerstein at the Chichester Festival Theatre. He also directed Sondheim’s Road Show at the Public Theatre in New York City and Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate at Stratford Shakespeare Festival.