Simon Godwin (Director) Artistic director of The Shakespeare Theatre Company. STC: Othello; The Wild Duck;Uncle Vanya; Comedy of Errors; King Lear; Much Ado About Nothing; Timon of Athens. INTERNATIONAL: UK: Liverpool/Edinburgh/London/Washington: Macbeth (ft. Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma) | National Theatre: Much Ado About Nothing (ft. Katherine Parkinson and John Heffernan); Romeo and Juliet (ft. Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley and filmed for Sky Arts/PBS); Antony and Cleopatra (ft. Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo); Twelfth Night; Sunset at the Villa Thalia; The Beaux’ Stratagem; Man and Superman; Strange Interlude | Royal Shakespeare Company: Timon of Athens (ft. Kathryn Hunter and reimagined in 2020 for Theatre for a New Audience and STC); Hamlet; The Two Gentlemen of Verona | Royal Court Theatre: Routes; NSFW; The Witness; Goodbye to All That; The Acid Test; Wanderlust. OPERA: Aspen Music Festival; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Washington National Opera: Romeo et Juliette. JAPAN: Theatre Cocoon: Hamlet. AWARDS: Evening Standard/Burberry Award for an Emerging Director (2012).