Born and raised in Washington DC, writer and director Cheryl Martin fell in love with theatre through seeing shows in her home city – including Morg...

Dermot Daly does a bit of everything. The actor, director, lecturer and filmmaker grew up in Birmingham in the 1980s and fell in love with performing ...

Amy Hodge grew up in North London in the 1980s and 1990s, falling in love with theatre through youth groups. She acted a lot as a child, even landing ...

Director, writer and composer Andy McGregor was born in 1980 and grew up in Largs in Ayrshire. He made his first forays into performance as a teenager...

Born in 1993, Emily Aboud grew up in Trinidad and fell in love with drama through attending Lilliput Theatre, the island’s only children’s theatre...

Sean Foley has taken an unusual route to becoming one of the country’s most influential directors. Born in 1964 in Cleethorpes, he moved around a lo...

These memories of Piers Haggard, SDUK’s Founder, have been compiled by Thomas Hescott. Thank you to all who added their memories and good wishes...

Tom Littler fell in love with theatre – and with directing – as a teenager growing up in Devon in the late 1990s. He threw himself into student dr...

Raised on the outskirts of London and trained as an actor, director Katie Posner was in her late twenties when she discovered that she actually prefer...

  Our friends at The Directors Charitable Foundation are re-launching their offer of low cost therapy and all SDUK members can benefit: DIRECTORS TH...

Born in 1945, director Nicolas Kent grew up in Hampstead, then studied English at Cambridge University in the mid-1960s, where got involved with stude...

Luke Sheppard grew up in Sandhurst, Berkshire. He was a successful child actor but discovered directing as a student at the University of Bristol. Aft...

We are deeply saddened by the news that our founder, Piers Haggard, passed away on 11th January. Piers was born in London in 1939. He started his care...

Downloadable PDF with the full census can be downloaded via the link below. SDUKDirectorsCensus2023 (We will be conducting a choreographer/movement di...

Most days, when he is not in a rehearsal room or a television studio, Scott Penrose can be found in his workshop in Essex, surrounded by various theat...

Incredibly, the Norfolk and Norwich Festival is a quarter of a millennium old this year. The multi-arts event is celebrating its 250th anniversary in ...

Samantha Lane remembers the moment she realised she wanted to work in the performing arts. She was thirteen – or around that age, she says – and a...

  THE CENSUS IS NOW CLOSED.  A HUGE THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO COMPLETED IT!     We are delighted to launch the UK Stage Directors Census 2022...

  Hello from Edinburgh. Having lived and worked in Scotland for over 20 years, I joined the SDUK board because I felt that the perspective of dir...

  Dr Sita Thomas left her native Wales when she was sixteen to pursue more opportunities to work in theatre and the arts. Fifteen years on, she h...

  A brief break from our ‘A Sense of Direction’ blogs this week, to introduce you to our new General Manager, Tanja Raaste: — A...

  When it comes to staging plays, there are four different types of director, says Anthony Clark: the deferential director, the daring director, ...

  How do you get a job? In most industries, the answer is obvious. You see a vacancy, you send in an application, you go for an interview, and yo...

Kane Husbands, artistic director of award-winning physical theatre company ThePappyShow, likes to play. A rehearsal day run by him usually starts with...

We are thrilled to announce that Harold Finley has been appointed as SDUK’s new Executive Director. Harold and Thomas Hescott will work together for...

  Stage Directors UK is inviting proposals for new leadership to work alongside Thomas Hescott to create a new transformative vision for the futu...