BIO
Graham is an Olivier Award nominated adaptor/director.
He trained at LAMDA (Evelyn Laye Award) and was an actor for fourteen years working extensively in regional/West End theatre, television and film with directors such as Kenneth Branagh, Matthew Warchus, Gregory Doran, John Caird and John Doyle. He then moved into directing and writing.
In the West End Graham was associate director on Sweeney Todd (New Ambassadors/also the Eugene O’Neil on Broadway), Mack and Mabel (Criterion), The Sound of Music (Palladium), Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Palace).
Graham’s productions range from Shakespeare, through Coward and Brecht to musical theatre. As artistic director for New Rep Theatre, he was nominated for the Peter Brook Award (2012) for his actor/musician production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle. He supports and develops new writing and was nominated for Best Director (Broadway World 2013) for his work on the world premiere of Carol Vine’s The Spring Tide. Graham has enjoyed a longstanding association with the London School of Musical theatre and regularly directs at many drama schools in the UK (CSSD, Arts Ed, LIPA, BSA, Guildford Conservatoire.)
For over a decade Graham has enjoyed being artistic director for the Salvation Army’s annual charity carol concert at the Royal Albert Hall.
His stage adaptation of Julia Donaldson’s children’s book What The Ladybird Heard, which he also directs, had two successful West End seasons (Palace and Lyric theatres) and several international tours.
He has written book/lyrics for a new musical adaptation of The Colonel’s Lady (based on a short story by Somerset Maugham) and has adapted the South African novel, Buckingham Palace, District Six for the stage.
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