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Ron Daniels

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Ron Daniels
BornRonaldo George Daniel
15 October 1942, aged 81
Niteroi, Rio de Janiero, Brazil.
🏳️ NationalityBrazilian
🏫 EducationFundação Brasileira de Teatro, Rio de Janeiro.
💼 Occupation
Known forTheatre, film and opera director
Notable work1982 - The Tempest starring Derek Jacobi, Mark Rylance, RSC; 1984 - Hamlet starring Roger Rees, Kenneth Branagh, Frances Barber, Brian Blessed RSC; 1989 - Hamlet starring Mark Rylance, RSC; 2010 Il Postino starring Plácido Domingo, LA Opera, Theatre an der Wien, in Vienna, the Châtelet in Paris;
🌐 Websitewww.rondanielsdirector.com

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Ron Daniels (born 15 October 1942) is a theatre and opera director who has directed notable productions all over the globe.[1][2] Daniels is an Honorary Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company[3] and former Artistic Director of The Other Place, Royal Shakespeare Company. Daniels is also the former Associate Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theatre (ART),[4][5][6] Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1991—1996 and former Head of Acting and Directing Programs of the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University, 1991—1996. He is also a founding member of the Teatro Oficina, São Paulo, in his native Brazil.[citation needed]

Early years and acting[edit]

Son of Percy and Nellie Daniel, Daniels, (also known as Ronaldo Daniel) was born in Niteroi, Rio de Janiero, Brazil, October 15, 1942. He studied at Fundação Brasileira de Teatro, Rio de Janeiro.[citation needed]

Daniels began his career as an actor. In 1959 Daniels performed in Sangue no Domingo by Walter Hugo Durst, Boca de Ouro by Nelson Rodrigues, directed by Ziembinski.[citation needed]

As a founding member of the Teatro Oficina,[7][8] São Paulo, 1959-1963:

A Incubadeira; Fogo Frio; Todo Anjo é Terrível "Look Homeward, Angel" with Henriette Morineau, directed by José Celso Martinez Correa[9]; A Vida Impressa em Dolar "Awake and Sing"; José do Parto à Sepultura by Augusto Boal) Quatro num Quarto; Um Bonde Chamado Desejo "A Streetcar Named Desire" directed by Augusto Boal); Os Pequenos Burguêses "Les Petits Bourgeois" by Gorki - with Eugenio Kusnet, Raul Cortez, Celia Helena, direced by José Celso Martinez Correa.[citation needed]

In 1964, aged 21, Daniels moved to the UK where he continued to act. He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1968, playing Metellus Cimber and played Marc Antony in John Barton's Julius Caesar[10] and John Grass in Indians by Arthur Kopit, directed by Terry Hands.[11]

Directing 1969 - 1974[edit]

In 1969 Daniels became a director and worked for five years directing the following:

1969-1972:[edit]

Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent: The Pot of Gold; Electra; She Stoops to Conquer; Coriolanus; Major Barbara; Fighting Man; Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf; Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street;[12] Ghosts; Drums in the Night; The Samaritan; Time Travelers; The Recruiting Officer.

1972-1974:[edit]

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art: Measure for Measure; Fear and Miseries of the Third Reich; The Insect Play; Twelfth Night; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Pillars of the Community.

Drama Centre London: The Word

As a freelance director:[edit]

The Long and Short and the Tall; The Samaritan by Peter Terson, with Timothy Dalton; The Children's Crusade by Paul Thompson; Female Transport by Steve Gooch; Sergeant Musgrave's Dance by John Arden; Into the Mouth of Crabs; By Common Consent by Paul Thompson; The Motor Show; Made in Britain; Bang by Howard Barker; Ashes by David Rudkin, with Ian McKellen, Gemma Jones; The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B by JP Donleavy, with Simon Callow; Across from the Garden of Allah by Charles Wood, with Nigel Hawthorne and Glenda Jackson; The Feast of Snails by Olaf Olafsson.

Royal Shakespeare Company 1974 - 1991[edit]

In 1974, Daniels returned to the RSC, where he directed 34 productions until he moved to the US in 1991.[citation needed]

After fifteen years directing many productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he was the Artistic Director of The Other Place Theatre, Daniels was named Honorary Associate Director of the RSC.[citation needed]

His work for the RSC included two productions of Hamlet (one with Roger Rees and one with Mark Rylance), The Tempest (with Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar, Timon of Athens, Pericles, Romeo and Julie't, Much Ado about Nothing, Richard II and Henry V along with plays by Stephen Poliakoff, David Rudkin, David Edgar and Naomi Wallace, including Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange.[13]'''''

Daniels directed 34 productions for the RSC between 1974-1991:[14]

US years[edit]

In 1991, Daniels moved stateside, where he resided for 30 years, until recently moving back to the UK in 2021.[citation needed]

Daniels is a former Associate Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a former head of the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University, where he taught acting and directing. At the A.R.T he directed that company’s productions of Henry IV parts 1 and 2, Henry V, Hamlet and The Seagull (both with Mark Rylance), The Tempest, The Cherry Orchard, among others.[citation needed]

While in New York he directed Richard II, Richard III and Macbeth for the Theatre for a New Audience and Naomi Wallace's One Flea Spare for the Public Theatre. He also directed Much Ado about Nothing and The Taming of the Shrew at the Old Globe in San Diego and most recently, Othello at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC.[citation needed]

Productions include:

ART and Institute for Advanced Theatre Training 1991-1996

As a freelance director in the US:

However during his time in the US Daniels still continued to direct some productions in the UK. Namely:

National Theatre:

Opera[edit]

Daniels's extensive work with musical theatre in the US includes many new productions of grand operas like Madama Butterfly, La Bohème, Carmen, and Don Giovanni. Notable productions include Ron’s widely praised production of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis and the critically acclaimed world premiere of Daniel Catán’s Il Postino at the LA Opera in 2010, with Plácido Domingo in the role of Pablo Neruda.[citation needed] That production was revived at the Theatre an der Wien, in Vienna, the Châtelet in Paris, the Bellas Artes in Mexico City and the Teatro Municipal, Santiago, Chile.[citation needed]

Productions include:

Brazil and Japan[edit]

In his native Brazil, Ron directed King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth, Measure for Measure and Colm Tóibín’s The Testament of Mary and in Japan, Titus Andronicus and Hamlet.

Brazil:

Japan:

  • Titus Andronicus
  • Hamlet (with Mikijiro Hira)
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

Film[edit]

Directed:

Executive Producer:

Move back to the UK[edit]

In 2021 Daniels moved back to the UK where he continues to work on a number of exciting projects and has recently entered the world of curating and directing digital art.[citation needed]

Daniels is currently working with Naomi Wallace, historian Marcus Rediker and actor Mark Povinelli on a new one person event, entitled The Return of Benjamin Lay, about the XVIII century Quaker abolitionist. This will open at the Finborough Theatre in London, in June 2023, produced by Arsalan Sattari.[22]

Acting Coach[edit]

Daniels runs a weekly ‘salon’ for actors from across the United States, who continue to work with him to refresh their notions of Shakespeare, examine new ideas and to prepare for auditions and roles. The members of these salons range from Tony winners to early career actors trying to work on their craft.

Since his return to the UK, Daniels has established himself as an acting coach with his teaching based in the work of Shakespeare. Daniels offers his expertise to UK actors looking to train further in Shakespeare through workshops, courses and one off top-up sessions.

Publications and media[edit]

Daniels is the author of Encontros com Shakespeare,[23] published 22nd May, 2019.

He is also known for his translations of Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear and Measure for Measure (published by SESC, São Paulo) into Portuguese.[citation needed]

Contributions:

Daniels' work with playwright Naomi Wallace is extensively referenced and discussed in The Theatre of Naomi Wallace: Embodied Dialogues[15] by Scott T Cummings and Erica Abbitt Stevens; in which he is also a contributing author in the chapter titled ‘Naomi is in my head’.[citation needed]

In 1989 Daniels took his Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet, starring Mark Rylance, to Broadmoor Hospital, a high security psychiatric unit. It was one of a series of Shakespeare tragedies presented to the patients, along with workshops that took place after the performances.[citation needed] The book, Shakespeare Comes to Broadmoor[24] by Murray Cox with a foreword from Sir Ian Mckellen offers insights into the impact of such drama performed in the central hall of Broadmoor Hospital between 1989 - 1991, upon the actors and audiences. Daniels contributed an interviewed chapter to this publication.[citation needed]

Daniels' work as a director, with emphasis on his Shakespeare work, is heavily referenced and studied in An A-Z Guide to Shakespeare[2] by Stanley Wells (2013); while his contribution to theatre is discussed and referenced further in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance[7] by Dennis Kennedy (2003), The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance[1] by Dennis Kennedy (2010), and The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre[4] by Colin Chambers (2006); his Portuguese production and work is mentioned and studied in Flavio Imperio[9] by Renina Katz (2005).

Media:

The South Bank Show

In 1989, Ron Daniels was interviewed on The South Bank Show with Melvyn Bragg, alongside Richard Eyre and Yuri Lyubimoy, regarding the three simultaneous productions of Hamlet at Royal National Theatre, on tour, and Daniels’ production featuring Mark Rylance at the RSC. They discuss the play’s merits and relevance, aided by Orson Welles, Tyron Guthrie, John Barton and Michael Pennington. Performances are provided by Hamlets past and present including Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Richard Burton, Derek Jacobi, John Barrymore and Sarah Brenhardt.

BBC Late Show

In 1990, the BBC Late Show featured an interview with director Ron Daniels, about his production of A Clockwork Orange at the Royal Shakespeare Company, designed by Richard Hudson and featuring music by Bono and The Edge. The feature, along with interviews with Hudson, production manager Mike Arnold, and theatre critic Tom Sutcliffe, discuss the design and the development of the production for a 90’s audience.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Oxford companion to theatre and performance. Dennis Kennedy. Oxford. 2010. ISBN 978-0-19-172791-7. OCLC 666928872 – via worldcat.org. Search this book on [page needed]
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Wells, Stanley (2013). An A-Z guide to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-174076-3. OCLC 849650058 – via worldcat.org. Search this book on [page needed]
  3. ↑ "Associate artists | Royal Shakespeare Company". www.rsc.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-02-13.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 The Continuum companion to twentieth century theatre. Colin Chambers. London: Continuum. 2006. ISBN 978-0-19-975472-4. OCLC 823862760 – via worldcat.org. Search this book on [page needed]
  5. ↑ "Ron Daniels | A.R.T." americanrepertorytheater.org. Retrieved 2023-02-13.
  6. ↑ Tulloch, John; Burvill, Tom; Hood, Andrew (1999-12-22). "Chekhov in Massachusetts: Competing Modernisms at the American Repertory Theatre". Modern Drama. 42 (4): 615. doi:10.3138/md.42.4.615 – via Gale Academic Online. Unknown parameter |s2cid= ignored (help)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 The Oxford encyclopedia of theatre and performance. Dennis Kennedy, Oxford University Press. New York. 2003. ISBN 0-19-861096-3. OCLC 79410878 – via worldcat.org. Search this book on [page needed]
  8. ↑ GORDILHO, Postado por MARIO. "Ronaldo Daniel" (in português). Retrieved 2023-02-13.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Katz, Renina (2005). Flávio Império (in Portuguese). EDUSP. p. 143. ISBN 978-8531404344.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link) Search this book on
  10. ↑ "Search | RSC Performances | JUL196804 - Julius Caesar | Shakespeare Birthplace Trust". collections.shakespeare.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-02-13.
  11. ↑ "Search | RSC Performances | IND196807 - Indians | Shakespeare Birthplace Trust". collections.shakespeare.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-02-13.
  12. ↑ "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at Victoria Theatre 1970". www.abouttheartists.com. Retrieved 2023-02-13.
  13. ↑ "A Clockwork Orange on Stage". The International Anthony Burgess Foundation. Retrieved 2023-02-13.
  14. ↑ "Home | Shakespeare Birthplace Trust". collections.shakespeare.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-02-13.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Cummings, Scott T; Stevens Abbitt, Erica (2013). The theatre of Naomi Wallace : embodied dialogues (1st ed.). Basingstoke. pp. 4, 23, 50. ISBN 978-1-137-01791-8. OCLC 859558338 – via worldcat.org. Search this book on
  16. ↑ "The Cherry Orchard | A.R.T." americanrepertorytheater.org. Retrieved 2023-02-13.
  17. ↑ Cummings, Scott T; Stevens Abbitt, Erica (2013). The theatre of Naomi Wallace : embodied dialogues. Scott T. Cummings, Erica Stevens Abbitt (1st ed.). Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 4, 23, 40, 61–2, 179. ISBN 978-1-137-01791-8. OCLC 859558338 – via worldcat.org.CS1 maint: Date and year (link) Search this book on
  18. ↑ "Charlie Parker's YARDBIRD - Charlie Parker's YARDBIRD: Apollo Theater". Philadelphia Opera. Retrieved 2023-02-13.
  19. ↑ Hettmansberger, Greg. "Landing 'Charlie Parker's Yardbird' a major coup for Madison Opera". Channel3000.com. Retrieved 2023-02-13.
  20. ↑ "A moving tribute in Charlie Parker's Yardbird". bachtrack.com. Retrieved 2023-02-13.
  21. ↑ Cummings, Scott T; Stevens Abbitt, Erica (2013). The theatre of Naomi Wallace : embodied dialogues. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 197. ISBN 978-1-137-01791-8. OCLC 859558338 – via worldcat.org.CS1 maint: Date and year (link) Search this book on
  22. ↑ "The Return Of Benjamin Lay – Finborough Theatre". Retrieved 2023-02-13.
  23. ↑ Daniels, Ron (2019). Encontros Com Shakespeare. São Paulo: Edições Sesc São Paulo. ISBN 978-8594931573. Search this book on
  24. ↑ Cox, Murray, ed. (1992). Shakespeare comes to Broadmoor: "The actors are come hither"; the performance of tragedy in a secure psychiatric hospital (1. publ ed.). London: Kingsley. ISBN 978-1-85302-121-3. Search this book on

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