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Reviews for Sex With A Stranger by Stefan Golaszewski:
 
'A dazzling achievement'

 Paul Taylor, The Independent
 
'Phillip Breen's intimate production is both unsettling and satisfying'
 
Henry Hitchings, Evening Standard
 
'[Stefan Golaszewski] is a talent on the move and his director Phillip Breen 
has served up his play with real flair and deftness'
 
Michael Coveny, What's On Stage
 
'There is a sense of ice at this plays heart and one leaves it with a shiver'
 
Charles Spencer, Telegraph

'Phillip Breen directs with a jeweller's eye for telling detail'
Ian Shuttleworth, Financial Times
 
'Phillip Breen directs without noticeable mishap...'

Quentin Letts, Daily Mail


After storming the UCB Los Angeles and Soho Theatre London, 
Dymock Watson: Nazi Smasher
 returns FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY to the 
Fortune Theatre in the West End on 21 May. Book tickets here.


Phillip Breen starts rehearsals at the Royal Shakespeare Company for The Merry Wives of Windsor
starring Desmond Barritt as Falstaff on 4 August. The production opens at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre
in Autumn 2012. Click here for more details and tickets.


This is the website of 
Phillip Breen, freelance theatre and television director and writer. 
 
If you would like to contact Phillip, please do so via his agent Howard Gooding at
Judy Daish Associates, 
2 St. Charles Place, 
London W10 6EG. howard@judydaish.com,
020 8964 8811.
 
For a CV and biography, please click here.

Latest News

Phillip Breen directed and designed the Alliance of Religions and Conservationists Gala performance in Assisi, Italy on 1 November 2011 in front of His Excellency Ban Ki Moon and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh.
 
Phillip Breen's essay on Jonathan Slinger is published in Routledge's book Actor's Shakespeare. For further details and to buy the book click here.

 
Phillip Breen directed a rehearsed reading of Eugene O'Hare's new play, Only Good People Love Bach, at  RADA on 20 July 2011.
 
Please click here and here for two sketches from the Lady Garden taster for BBC comedy,  produced by Charlie Hanson and
directed by Phillip Breen earlier in 2011.

 

Productions

Sex With A Stranger
by Stefan Golaszewski
Trafalgar Studios. 
Produced by The Invisible Dot.
 
A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg

by Peter Nichols
Produced by the Citizens Theatre Company, Glasgow

Humphrey Ker is Dymock Watson: Nazi Smasher!

Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh
Feature Spot Productions Ltd.
 
Lady Garden: A Sketch Show
Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh
 
The Hard Man

by Tom McGrath and Jimmy Boyle.
King's Theatre Edinburgh, King's Theatre Glasgow, His Majesty's Theatre Aberdeen, Eden Court Theatre Inverness, Dundee Rep Theatre.
Produced by Scottish Theatres Consortium.
 
Lady Garden: Top Secret Gig
Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh
 
I'm Hans Christian Andersen
by Rachel Rose Reid. 
Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh; National Tour; and Street Theatre, Canberra.

The Glory of Living
by Rebecca Gilman. 
Linbury Studio, LAMDA.
 
Party

by Tom Basden. 
Arts Theatre, London; Sydney Festival; Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh.
Produced by The Invisible Dot
 
The Stefan Golaszewski Plays
by Stefan Golaszewski
Bush Theatre, London

Richard Jordan Productions Ltd in association with the Bush Theatre and United Agents
 
Stefan Golaszewski Is A Widower 
World Premiere of new play by Stefan Golaszewski
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh

Richard Jordan Productions Ltd in association with CKP and United Agents
 
Dumb Show

by Joe Penhall
Produced by The New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme and Richard Jordan Productions Ltd

Thoroughly Modern Millie
 
by Tesori & Scanlan
Students of the RWCMD, at the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff

RSC Alternative Christmas Lecture 
by Vivienne Westwood
Produced by the RSC, at Wilton's Music Hall, London

All's Well That Ends Well 
by Shakespeare
Workshop production at the Birmingham School of Acting

The Caretaker 
by Harold Pinter
Produced by the Citizens Theatre Company, Glasgow

Stefan Golaszewski Speaks About A Girl He Once Loved
World Premiere of new play by Stefan Golaszewski
CKP by arrangement with United Agents

Measure for Measure 
by Shakespeare
Produced by Clwyd Theatr Cymru

Cariad 
by Sophie Stanton
Wales Premiere
Produced by Clwyd Theatr Cymru

Two Princes 
by Meredydd Barker
World Premiere
Produced by Clwyd Theatr Cymru

Suddenly Last Summer 
by Tennessee Williams
Produced by Clwyd Theatr Cymru

The Shadow of a Gunman 
by Sean O’Casey
Produced by the Citizens Theatre Company, Glasgow

Cowards
2005 & 2006 stage shows
New sketches by Tom Basden, Tim Key, Stefan Golaszewski and Lloyd Woolf
Produced for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and London venues


The Birthday Party 
by Harold Pinter
Produced by Clwyd Theatr Cymru 
 
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui 
by Bertolt Brecht
(new adaptation by Phillip Breen)
Produced by the Citizens Theatre Company, Glasgow


A Few Idiots Who Spoil It For Everyone Else
A new comedy by Tim Key and Mark Watson
Produced by the writers and director for the Canal Cafe Theatre, London


The Promise  
by Alexi Arbuzov 
The Union Theatre, London  
Produced by Eleanor Lloyd and Pete Le May for TriplePoint
   
 
Curator of the RSC Laugh-In event, featuring original stand up sets from Armando Iannucci, Ken Dodd, Mark Watson, Alex Horne, The Cowards, Oliver and Zaltzman, music from The Mitchell Brothers, and seminars and debates led by Alan Plater, Dr Richard Wiseman, Richard Herring and Owen Powell.
 
Director of Edge04, The Chichester Festival Theatre’s Fringe event. I directed an new adaptation of Bulgakov’s Black Snow by me and Owen Powell with additional material by Kevin Trainor and members of the ‘Memoirs’ company, and I directed the BBC rehearsed reading of John Hegley’s radio play ‘The Cat in the Kennel’ in a varied programme made and played by the Chichester 2004 company.

Destiny
by David Edgar
A work in progress, with funding by The Arts Council of England for BAC.
Runner-up for the 2003 James Menzies-Kitchen Award

 
Far Too Happy
New comedy by Tim Key, Mark Watson, Owen Powell, Day Macaskill, Sophie Winkleman, James Morris, Ed Jaspers and Phillip Breen.
Produced by
the Cambridge Footlights for Edinburgh, National tour and West End.
2001 Perrier Award Nomination (Best Newcomer)

Student Work

Work as Assistant/Associate Director


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