David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers
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David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers are West End
and Broadway theatre
producers.
by Yazmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton
, at the Wyndhams Theatre in London's West End. This has subsequently become the most successful play in London in the last 25 years as well as winning every major award. Art opened on Broadway
at the Royale Theatre, winning the Tony Award
for Best Play.
David & Dafydd then produced The Play What I Wrote by Hamish McColl & Sean Foley, directed by Kenneth Branagh
at the Wyndhams Theatre, winning the Olivier Award for Best Comedy, and every review was a rave. It opened at the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event.
This was followed by Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Gérald Sibleyras
' play Heroes
at the Wyndhams Theatre in 2005, which won the Olivier Award for Best Comedy.
David & Dafydd then produced Equus
in London’s West End, which starred Richard Griffiths
and Daniel Radcliffe
and played a sell-out season at The Gielgud Theatre.
Their production of God of Carnage
by Yazmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton, which starred Ralph Fiennes
, Tamsin Grieg, Janet McTeer
and Ken Stott
played a phenomenally successful season at the Gielgud and won the Olivier Award for Best Comedy.
In 2008 they produced Kneehigh Theatre
's production of Noel Coward's Brief Encounter
, which played for over 350 performances in the old Cinema on the Haymarket in London, and just finished a successful run playing at Studio 54
on Broadway
following a season at St Ann's Warehouse in New York and subsequent US tour.
God of Carnage
opened on Broadway in 2009 starring James Gandolfini, Marcia Gay Harden, Jeff Daniels and Hope Davis, and was one of Broadway’s biggest play successes, winning David & Dafydd the Tony Award. Subsequent casts included Lucy Liu
and Jimmy Smits
.
David & Dafydd are currently producing the most successful touring production ever of a play, the Whatsonstage award winning best comedy Calendar Girls
by Tim Firth, which ran for nine months in London's West End and has now grossed over £25,000,000,. Deathtrap
by Ira Levin at the Noel Coward Theatre starring Simon Russell Beale
, Jonathan Groff
and Claire Skinner
recently concluded its five month season.
Broadway
Tours
West End theatre
West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...
and Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
producers.
Biography
David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers first produced ArtArt
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
by Yazmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton
Christopher Hampton
Christopher James Hampton CBE, FRSL is a British playwright, screen writer and film director. He is best known for his play based on the novel Les Liaisons dangereuses and the film version Dangerous Liaisons and also more recently for writing the nominated screenplay for the film adaptation of...
, at the Wyndhams Theatre in London's West End. This has subsequently become the most successful play in London in the last 25 years as well as winning every major award. Art opened on Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
at the Royale Theatre, winning the Tony Award
Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
for Best Play.
David & Dafydd then produced The Play What I Wrote by Hamish McColl & Sean Foley, directed by Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Charles Branagh is an actor and film director from Northern Ireland. He is best known for directing and starring in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays including Henry V , Much Ado About Nothing , Hamlet Kenneth Charles Branagh is an actor and film director from...
at the Wyndhams Theatre, winning the Olivier Award for Best Comedy, and every review was a rave. It opened at the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event.
This was followed by Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Gérald Sibleyras
Gérald Sibleyras
Gérald Sibleyras is a French dramatist, and actor, most noted for his 2003 play, Le vent des peupliers that received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy in 2006.-Work:* On a très peu d'amis * Le vent des peupliers...
' play Heroes
Heroes: Le Vent Des Peupliers
Heroes: Le Vent Des Peupliers is a 2005 play by French dramatist Gérald Sibleyras, translated and adapted by Tom Stoppard....
at the Wyndhams Theatre in 2005, which won the Olivier Award for Best Comedy.
David & Dafydd then produced Equus
Equus (play)
Equus is a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973, telling the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses....
in London’s West End, which starred Richard Griffiths
Richard Griffiths
Richard Griffiths, OBE is an English actor of stage, film and television. He has received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Actor and a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor...
and Daniel Radcliffe
Daniel Radcliffe
Daniel Jacob Radcliffe is an English actor who rose to prominence playing the titular character in the Harry Potter film series....
and played a sell-out season at The Gielgud Theatre.
Their production of God of Carnage
God of Carnage
God of Carnage is a play by Yasmina Reza. It is about two pairs of parents, one of whose child has hurt the other at a public park, who meet to discuss the matter in a civilized manner. However, as the evening goes on, the parents become increasingly childish, resulting in the evening devolving...
by Yazmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton, which starred Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes is an English actor and film director. He has appeared in such films as The English Patient, In Bruges, The Constant Gardener, Strange Days, The Duchess and Schindler's List....
, Tamsin Grieg, Janet McTeer
Janet McTeer
Janet McTeer, OBE is a British actress.-Life and career:McTeer was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom, the daughter of Jean and Alan McTeer...
and Ken Stott
Ken Stott
Kenneth Campbell "Ken" Stott is a Scottish actor, particularly known in the United Kingdom for his many roles in television.-Early life:...
played a phenomenally successful season at the Gielgud and won the Olivier Award for Best Comedy.
In 2008 they produced Kneehigh Theatre
Kneehigh Theatre
Kneehigh Theatre is an international theatre company based in Cornwall, England.Kneehigh was started in 1980 by Mike Shepherd. Early productions were performed in village halls, marquees, cliff-tops and quarries...
's production of Noel Coward's Brief Encounter
Brief Encounter
Brief Encounter is a 1945 British film directed by David Lean about the conventions of British suburban life, centring on a housewife for whom real love brings unexpectedly violent emotions. The film stars Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway and Joyce Carey...
, which played for over 350 performances in the old Cinema on the Haymarket in London, and just finished a successful run playing at Studio 54
Studio 54
Studio 54 was a highly popular discotheque from 1977 until 1991, located at 254 West 54th Street in Manhattan, New York, USA. It was originally the Gallo Opera House, opening in 1927, after which it changed names several times, eventually becoming a CBS radio and television studio. In 1977 it...
on Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
following a season at St Ann's Warehouse in New York and subsequent US tour.
God of Carnage
God of Carnage
God of Carnage is a play by Yasmina Reza. It is about two pairs of parents, one of whose child has hurt the other at a public park, who meet to discuss the matter in a civilized manner. However, as the evening goes on, the parents become increasingly childish, resulting in the evening devolving...
opened on Broadway in 2009 starring James Gandolfini, Marcia Gay Harden, Jeff Daniels and Hope Davis, and was one of Broadway’s biggest play successes, winning David & Dafydd the Tony Award. Subsequent casts included Lucy Liu
Lucy Liu
Lucy Alexis Liu is an American actress and film producer. She became known for playing the role of the vicious and ill-mannered Ling Woo in the television series Ally McBeal , and has also appeared in several Hollywood films including Charlie's Angels, Chicago, Kill Bill, and Kung Fu Panda.-Early...
and Jimmy Smits
Jimmy Smits
Jimmy Smits is an American actor. Smits is perhaps best known for his roles as attorney Victor Sifuentes on the 1980s legal drama L.A. Law, as NYPD Detective Bobby Simone on the 1990s police drama NYPD Blue, and as Congressman Matt Santos on The West Wing...
.
David & Dafydd are currently producing the most successful touring production ever of a play, the Whatsonstage award winning best comedy Calendar Girls
Calendar Girls
Calendar Girls is a 2003 comedy film directed by Nigel Cole. Produced by Buena Vista International and Touchstone Pictures, it features a screenplay by Tim Firth and Juliette Towhidi based on a true story of a group of Yorkshire women who produced a nude calendar to raise money for Leukaemia...
by Tim Firth, which ran for nine months in London's West End and has now grossed over £25,000,000,. Deathtrap
Deathtrap
Deathtrap may refer to:*Deathtrap , a 1978 play by Ira Levin which received a Tony Award nomination for Best Play*Deathtrap , a 1982 film based on the Levin play*Deathtrap , a plot device in fiction and drama...
by Ira Levin at the Noel Coward Theatre starring Simon Russell Beale
Simon Russell Beale
Simon Russell Beale, CBE is an English actor. He has been described by The Independent as "the greatest stage actor of his generation."-Early years:...
, Jonathan Groff
Jonathan Groff
Jonathan Drew Groff is an American singer-songwriter, stage, television and film actor. He originated the role of Melchior Gabor in the stage musical Spring Awakening and appeared as Jesse St...
and Claire Skinner
Claire Skinner
Claire L. Skinner is an English actress, who is well known in the United Kingdom for her television career.-Biography:Born and brought up in Hemel Hempstead, Skinner, the youngest daughter of a shopkeeper and an Irish-born secretary, was immensely shy as a child...
recently concluded its five month season.
Credits
West End- ArtArtArt is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
- The Play What I Wrote
- Ducktastic
- EquusEquus (play)Equus is a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973, telling the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses....
with Daniel RadcliffeDaniel RadcliffeDaniel Jacob Radcliffe is an English actor who rose to prominence playing the titular character in the Harry Potter film series....
and Richard GriffithsRichard GriffithsRichard Griffiths, OBE is an English actor of stage, film and television. He has received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Actor and a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor...
(2007) - Noel CowardNoël CowardSir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".Born in Teddington, a suburb of London, Coward attended a dance academy...
's Brief EncounterBrief EncounterBrief Encounter is a 1945 British film directed by David Lean about the conventions of British suburban life, centring on a housewife for whom real love brings unexpectedly violent emotions. The film stars Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway and Joyce Carey...
(2008) - God of CarnageGod of CarnageGod of Carnage is a play by Yasmina Reza. It is about two pairs of parents, one of whose child has hurt the other at a public park, who meet to discuss the matter in a civilized manner. However, as the evening goes on, the parents become increasingly childish, resulting in the evening devolving...
(2008) - Calendar GirlsCalendar GirlsCalendar Girls is a 2003 comedy film directed by Nigel Cole. Produced by Buena Vista International and Touchstone Pictures, it features a screenplay by Tim Firth and Juliette Towhidi based on a true story of a group of Yorkshire women who produced a nude calendar to raise money for Leukaemia...
(2009) - DeathtrapDeathtrapDeathtrap may refer to:*Deathtrap , a 1978 play by Ira Levin which received a Tony Award nomination for Best Play*Deathtrap , a 1982 film based on the Levin play*Deathtrap , a plot device in fiction and drama...
(2010)
Broadway
- ArtArtArt is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
- The Play What I Wrote
- God of CarnageGod of CarnageGod of Carnage is a play by Yasmina Reza. It is about two pairs of parents, one of whose child has hurt the other at a public park, who meet to discuss the matter in a civilized manner. However, as the evening goes on, the parents become increasingly childish, resulting in the evening devolving...
Tours
- ArtArtArt is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
- RebeccaRebeccaRebecca a biblical matriarch from the Book of Genesis and a common first name. In this book Rebecca was said to be a beautiful girl. As a name it is often shortened to Becky, Becki or Becca; see Rebecca ....
starring Nigel Havers - Calendar GirlsCalendar GirlsCalendar Girls is a 2003 comedy film directed by Nigel Cole. Produced by Buena Vista International and Touchstone Pictures, it features a screenplay by Tim Firth and Juliette Towhidi based on a true story of a group of Yorkshire women who produced a nude calendar to raise money for Leukaemia...
- Brief EncounterBrief EncounterBrief Encounter is a 1945 British film directed by David Lean about the conventions of British suburban life, centring on a housewife for whom real love brings unexpectedly violent emotions. The film stars Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway and Joyce Carey...