Frank Whately

Recently retired (July 2009) as Head of School, Performance and Screen Studies, Kingston University
Associate Writer and Director, National Youth Music Theatre, 1985 – 2000
Director, Kingston Theatre Trust (responsible for the Rose Theatre, Kingston) 1988 – 2009
Was one of the two founders of the Rose Theatre
Conceived International Youth Arts Festival as a part of the Rose Theatre Artistic policy
Founder, Picklock Theatre Company, 2010

Publications include: Nield, D., Taylor J., Whately, F., The Ragged Child (Josef Weinberger, 1987)
Allwood, P., Horton, J., Taylor,J., Whately, F., Pendragon (Josef Weinberger, 1997)

Theatre Work includes:

The Ragged Child (co-writer/co-director): Bergen International Festival, Norway; Edinburgh International Festival (1986); Further productions of The Ragged Child: Sadler’s Wells (1998); BBC 2 TV (1989). Frequent revivals, including two tours to New York, one to Canada and Glyndebourne Opera (1998). Rose Theatre, Kingston (2008) as a part of the inaugural Rose Theatre programme

October’s Children (co-writer/ co-director): Edinburgh International Festival (1989); Leeds Festival; Swan Theatre, Stratford (1990)

The Song of the Loathly Lady (writer/ co-director): Edinburgh Fringe Festival (1993)

Pendragon (co-writer/ co-director): Edinburgh Fringe Festival (1994): The Scotsman Fringe First Award. Edinburgh Festival Theatre and Far East tour to National Theatre of Taiwan and to Sha Hong Kong (1995); Lyric Theatre Hammersmith; City Centre on Broadway, New York (1995): New York Times’ Critic’s Choice. Subsequent revivals including Northcott Theatre and Minak Theatre, Cornwall (2000) Tokyo, Japan (2001), Rose Theatre, Kingston (2009), as the core production for the inaugural IYAF

The Beggar’s Opera (co-director): Brewery Arts Kendal, George Square Edinburgh Fringe: BBC Radio 3 Best Direction; Lyric Theatre Hammersmith (1996); RSC’s Swan Theatre Stratford (1997).

Aurelius – the Valiant Apprentice (co-writer/ co-director): Sydmonton Festival; Tyne Opera House Newcastle; Assembly Rooms Edinburgh Fringe (1998)

Claiming the Space of the Rose Pageant (writer/ director): Kingston upon Thames (2000)

Exposure (writer/ director): Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Pleasance Theatre) and Kingston Festival (2003); first Muybridge Festival (2004)

The Revenger’s Tragedy (Director), Rose Theatre, Kingston (2010)

Kingston University:

Created the Drama department and drama programme at Kingston, which opened in 2001.

Subsequently, wrote the postgraduate programme (MFA/MA in Classical Theatre) with Sir Peter Hall

Founded the School of Performance & Screen Studies at Kingston (2005), and first Head of School , 2005-2009