Bill Bryden

William Campbell Rough Bryden, CBE, (born 12 April 1942, Greenock) is a Scottish stage and film director and screenwriter.

Bill Bryden
Born
William Campbell Rough Bryden

(1942-04-12) 12 April 1942
Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland
OccupationTheatre director
Spouse(s)Deborah Morris (1970–1988) div
Angela Douglas (1988–present, married 2009)
AwardsLaurence Olivier Award for Best Director (1985): The Mysteries

Biography

He has worked as a director at the Royal Court Theatre (1967–1971), the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh (1972–1975), the National Theatre (1975–1985); and as a visiting director in Glasgow and New York.[1] In 1990, he directed Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen, at the Royal Opera House.[2] He has also done work for film and television, as screenwriter, director and executive producer.[3]

Personal life

He married Deborah Morris, a potter, in 1970 and they had two children. The couple divorced in 1988.

In 1988, he met actress Angela Douglas at a dinner party arranged by mutual friend Marsha Hunt.[4] They have lived together in west London since, and were married at City Hall, New York City in February 2009.[5]

National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C1316/11) with Bill Bryden in 2009 for its Legacy of the English Stage Company collection held by the British Library.[6]

Work

Film director

Writer

Theatre director
Theatre programme for the 1990 production of The Ship

Awards and nominations

Further reading
  • Craig, Cairns (1980), Fearful Selves: Character, Community and the Scottish Imagination, in Cencrastus No. 4, Winter 1980-81, pp. 29 - 32,ISSN 0264-0856
  • McArthur, Colin (1983), Tendencies in the New Scottish Cinema, in Hearn, Sheils G. (ed.), Cencrastus No. 13, Summer 1983, pp. 33 - 35, {issn|0264-0856}}

References
  1. Banham, Martin (March 7, 1996). The Cambridge Paperback Guide to Theatre. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521446549 – via Google Books.
  2. "The Cunning Little Vixen | Opera review". the Guardian. March 21, 2010.
  3. "Bill Bryden". BFI.
  4. Fox, Sue (1994-08-14). "How We Met: Bill Bryden and Angela Douglas". The Independent. London. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
  5. "Carry On actress Angela Douglas on how she wrote her first book and – 35 years later – her follow-up". HeraldScotland.
  6. National Life Stories, 'Bryden, Bill (1 of 6) National Life Stories Collection: The Legacy of the English Stage Company', The British Library Board, 2009. Retrieved 21 February 2018
  7. Stevenson, Randall (1981), Scottish Theatre Company: First Days, First Nights, in Murray, Glen (ed.), Cencrastus No. 7, Winter 1981 - 82, pp. 10 - 13
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