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At the 2013 Edinburgh Festival, Phillip Breen will be directing the premiere of Threeway by DC Jackson featuring Joe Dixon, Brian Ferguson and Gabriel Quigley. He will also be directing Tom Basden's new comedy Holes, with Matthew Baynton, Bebe Cave, Daniel Rigby and Katy Wix at a secret seaside location. The plays will be designed by Rhys Jarman and produced by The Invisible Dot.

Tickets can be booked by clicking here for Holes and for Threeway.

Phillip Breen will also be directing Alex Ferns and Eugene O'Hare in Sam Shepard's masterpiece True West at the Glasgow Citizens Theatre in October.

And next week Phillip will be directing a week's workshop on four Elizabethan and Jacobean plays for the RSC - The Old Wives Tale, Look About You, The Insatiate Countess and Mercurius Rusticans - with Natalie Dormer, Clare Dunne, Paapa Essiedu, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Russell Tovey and John Ramm. The scholar attached to the project is Professsor Martin Wiggins.

More news to follow soon...


Recently, Phillip directed The Merry Wives of Windsor for the RSC: 
 

 
It was designed by Max Jones and featured Desmond Barrit as Falstaff, Alexandra Gilbreath, Sylvestra Le Touzel, John Ramm, Anita Dobson, Martin Hyder, Bart David Soroczynski, Obioma Ugoala, Naomi Sheldon, Paapa Essiedu, Calum Finlay, David Charles, Simeon Truby, David Sterne, Carla Mendonca, Stephen Harper and Ansu Kabia. Please click here for more details.


Reviews for Sex With A Stranger by Stefan Golaszewski at Trafalgar Studios:

 


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 biography and CV, please click here.

 

Latest News

Phillip has just been directing Donny McCleary's new sit-com Mountain Men as part of the BBC Comedy Showcase at the Glasgow Comedy Festival at the Citizens Theatre. The evening featured Alison O'Donnell, Kevin O'Loughlin, Jimmy Chisholm, Kathryn Howden, David Ireland and Anne Kidd. The evening was produced by Owen Bell for BBC Comedy.
 
Phillip was in Dubai recently creating and directing the opening ceremony to the Emirates Airlines International Festival of Literature, featuring amongst others Kate Adie, Shobhaa De, Jeffrey Deaver, Philip Ardagh and Abdelbari Atwan. 
 
Phillip was a workshop leader on the National Theatre's 'Connections' Weekend; Phillip and Jim Cartwright workshopped OMG with teachers and youth theatre leaders from all over the UK
 
Phillip directed the rehearsed reading of Tom Basden's new work in progress Making Good, with Tom, Tim Key, Jonny Sweet, Sian Brooke and Diane Morgan. It was produced by The Invisible Dot.
  
Phillip's essay on Jonathan Slinger is published in Routledge's book Actor's Shakespeare. For further details and to buy the book click here.

 

 

Productions
Click on the play title to see production photographs and reviews

The Merry Wives of Windsor
by Shakespeare. 
Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford upon Avon
 
The Game of Love and Chance
by Pierre Marivaux. Translated by Stephen Mulrine.
Linbury Studio, LAMDA.
 
Sex With A Stranger

by Stefan Golaszewski.
Trafalgar Studios, London.
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; Fortune Theatre, London; Soho Theatre, London; UCB Theatre, Los Angeles.
Feature Spot Productions Ltd.
2011 Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner (Best Newcomer)
 
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.
2008 Scotsman Fringe First Winner.

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 Zam Zam Room: 
An Evening with His Royal Hipness Lord Buckley
 
by Lord Buckley, Jake Broder and David Tughan
Produced by Seaforde productions and Breen Le May Lloyd Ltd for 59E59 Theaters , New York .
Time Out New York ‘Off-Broadway Pick of 2005’
2005 Stony Award Nomination for Best Production
 
Vote Dizzy!  
A new Cabaret for the US elections, based on the work of Lord Buckley and Lenny Bruce compiled by Jake Broder
Produced by Virginia Buckley for the Soho Theatre, London
 
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui 
by Bertolt Brecht, in a 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.
   
 
Curator of the RSC Laugh-In event, featuring original stand up sets from Armando Iannucci, Ken Dodd, Mark Watson, Alex Horne, 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 Edinburgh Comedy Award Nomination (Best Newcomer).

Student Work

Work as Assistant/Associate Director


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