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Welcome to my website. I’m Phillip Breen, freelance theatre director and writer. Here you will find my CV, photos, cast lists and details of past productions and future work.  

If you’d like to contact me please do so via my agent, Harriet Cruickshank of Cruickshank Cazenove.
harriet@ccagents.co.uk

+44 (0)20 7735 2933.

For an up-to-date CV and biography, please click here.

Latest News

Phillip Breen to direct Tom McGrath's classic drama The Hard Man for national tour in the  spring. Opening at the King's Theatre Edinburgh on 31 March 2011.
 
I'm Hans Christian Andersen plays at the Soho Theatre on 5 October 2010 and is on UK tour in 2011. Click here for further details 
 
Lady Garden: Top Secret Gig plays at Sheffield Comedy Festival on 21 October 2010 (to book tickets click here), and Manchester Comedy Festival on 24 & 25 October 2010 (to book tickets click here).

Productions

Lady Garden: Top Secret Gig
Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh
 
I'm Hans Christian Andersen
by Rachel Rose Reid. 
Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh.

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 Zam Zam Room: 
An Evening with His Royal Hipness Lord Buckley
 
by Lord Buckley, Jake Broder and David Tughan
Produced by Seafforde 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
(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, I also directed the BBC rehearsed reading of John Hegley’s radio play ‘The Cat in the Kennel’ and previewed ‘Vote Dizzy!’ among 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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