Tim Supple

Tim Supple is an English theatre and opera director, with a reputation for breathing new life into familiar stories. Tim Supple began working as an assistant director at the Theatre Royal in York. Between 1988 and 1991 he directed at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. In 1993, Tim Supple was appointed the Artistic Director of the Young Vic, London. Here he directed Oedipus, Grimm Tales, the Jungle Book, an adaptation of Lorca's Blood Wedding by Ted Hughes and "As I lay Dying" by William Faulkner. He also works with the Royal National Theatre and with the company, he has co-adapted and directed Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories and The Villains Opera. Tim Supple works regularly with the Royal Shakespeare Company. With the RSC he has staged Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Wedekind's Spring Awakening translated by Ted Hughes, the Comedy of Errors and a co-adaptation of Ted Hughes' translation of Tales from Ovid. Supple has also produced a film version of Twelfth... full article at wikipedia