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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.
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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
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New York
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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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