Award –winning international theatre director Dan Jemmett directs at some of Europe’s most highly regarded theatres, including Théâtre de Vidy, Lausanne, the Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris, The Lyric Hammersmith and The Almeida Opera in London, the Deutsche-Oper-Am-Rhein in Düsseldorf, Holland’s Reisopera , and the Teatro dell’opera in Rome among many others. After being awarded the French critics’ Revelation Théâtral prize in 2002, he was the first British director to be invited to direct at the Comedie Francaise, where he has two shows currently in repertoire – Les Precieuses Ridicules is on tour in Europe, while his production of La Gran Magie has received rave reviews in the European press. His first film, Curtains, produced by Warp Films in London, was selected for The Edinburgh Film Festival 2009, and in 2010 he will be directing Berlioz’s opera Beatrice and Benedict for the Opera Comique in Paris, followed by Richard III at Poland’s national theatre.

 In Pittsburgh, Dan has conceived and directed three highly acclaimed shows for Quantum Theatre. Dogface, his adaptation of The Changeling, was performed in an abandoned steel mill, while The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, a dramatization of Michael Ondaatje’s celebrated book of poems, was presented in a disused porn cinema. Both of these productions were invited to Madrid’s prestigious Festival de Otono, and were followed by The Museum of Desire, a presentation of stories by renowned art historian and writer John Berger that took place in Pittsburgh’s Frick Museum.