Tony Award-winning director John Caird is an Honorary Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Principal Guest Director of the Royal Dramatic Theatre (Dramaten) in Stockholm, and a freelance writer and director of plays, musicals, and operas. During the 2024-25 season for HGO, he directs La bohème, the same production he directed for the company in 2012 and 2018. Other work for HGO includes directing and writing the libretto for two company world premieres: Tarik O’Regan’s The Phoenix (2019) and André Previn’s Brief Encounter (2009). Also for HGO, he directed Parsifal (2024), Tosca (2023, 2015, 2010), and Don Carlos (2012). His recent directorial credits include his own adaptation of Hayao Miyazaki’s animated film Spirited Away in Tokyo and London; Monteverdi’s Orfeo at Garsington Opera; Estella Scrooge in New York; Knights’ Tale, Hamlet, and Twelfth Night, all in Tokyo; Don Giovanni at Welsh National Opera; McQueen at the Haymarket Theatre; Tosca in Chicago and LA; Love’s Labour’s Lost at the Stratford Festival in Canada; La bohème in San Francisco and Toronto; and his own musical, Daddy Long Legs, off-Broadway, in Tokyo, and across the U.S. His musical Jane Eyre was recently revived in a new chamber version at Theatre Raleigh in North Carolina. His many National Theatre productions include his own Olivier Award-winning version of Candide, The Seagull with Judi Dench, Peter Pan with Daniel Evans and Ian McKellen, and Hamlet with Simon Russell Beale. His directorial work for the RSC included over 20 productions, including Nicholas Nickleby and Les Misérables, both of which have won numerous awards in the West End, Broadway, and all around the world. Theatre Craft, his book about directing plays and musicals, is published by Faber and Faber.