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Phil Willmott
Occupation	Theatre director • Playwright • Journalist • Teacher
Nationality	British
Period	Contemporary
Notable works	Founder of The Steam Industry

Phil Willmott is an award-winning British theatre director, playwright, and founder of The Steam Industry theatre company in London. The Steam Industry incorporates the Free Theatre Festival (an annual event held at The Scoop open-air amphitheatre on the South Bank of the Thames) and the Finborough Theatre (a fringe venue in west London, of which Neil McPherson is the current artistic director). He was the Artistic Director of the Finborough from 1994 to 1999, an Associate Director of the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford, and an Associate Artist of the Battersea Arts Centre for ten years. He has directed the work of a wide range of dramatists, including Brecht, Shakespeare, [etc.] His West End productions include the 10th-anniversary production of Fame at the Aldwych Theatre and an adaptation of Treasure Island at the Mermaid Theatre.

Promotion of new writing with award winning productions of new writing Joe DiPietro’s play Fucking Men, which transferred from the Finborough Theatre to a box office record breaking run Off West End at The Kings Head

He has led new writing development projects at Soho Theatre and The National Theatre Studio. His own work as a playwright and composer is published and performed internationally. In 2009 He has awarded a prestigious T.M.A award for "Outstanding production of a musical" and nominated for the What’s On Stage Best Regional Theatre prize for his musical Once Upon A Time at the Adelphi at the Liverpool Playhouse. He has received a Peter Brook Award for his annual classical productions and family shows at the Scoop, a Brook Atkinson New Dramatists Award, and numerous London Fringe Awards. He was head of acting and co-director of the Musical theatre degree course at the Arts Educational School. He has also lectured at Goldsmith's College, RADA and the Brit School, and directed students in productions at Arts Ed, Central School of Speech and Drama, Guildford Conservatoire, Rose Bruford, and The Court Training Company. In his role as an arts journalist, he is chief theatre reviewer for the British satirical radio series Mind The Gap and regularly broadcasts, blogs and writes about theatre.

Productions

Blowing Whistles at the Croydon Warehouse Theatre and Sound Theatre, Leicester Square, You Don't Kiss at the Stratford Circus. The DVD recording of rock musical Poe at the Abbey Road Studios and

Liberace’s Suit and I Love You You’re Perfect, Now Change at Jermyn Street.

For his own company, The Steam Industry, have included The Fundraisers, Fucking Men, Watch Out for Mr Stork, Venetian Heat, Born Bad The Oedipus Table

classics Crime and Punishment, The Grapes of Wrath, Trelawny of the Wells Loyalties (all at the Finborough Theatre)

Blood Wedding Helen of Troy, Disney's Jungle Book, Petite Rouge, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Cyclops, Children of Hercules, Treasure Island, Oedipus, Agamemnon, Androcles and the Lion, The London Nativity at the Scoop.

Victor/Victoria,

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (The Bridewell),

Measure for Measure (Riverside Studios).

Ring Round the Moon (King’s Head),

The Winter's Tale (The Courtyard Theatre)

Titus Andronicus, Germaine Greer’s Lysistrata,

Murdered Sleep,

Inherit the Wind,

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers , The Sound of Music, The King and I, Calamity Jane and Sweet Charity (all at BAC where he was an associate artist)

South Pacific, Joe Orton's Funeral Games and his own musical Dick Daredevil and play Venom (The Drill Hall)

Joe Orton's Crimes of Passion and his own plays Stealing the Scene, Succulence and Mermaid Sandwich and radical Shakespeare adaptations: The Wax King (from Henry VI parts 1, 2 & 3 ) Iago (from Othello) and Illyria (from Twelfth Night) at The Man in The Moon.

REGIONAL For Liverpool's Everyman and Playhouse theatres he has directed Much Ado About Nothing, Billy Liar, Athol Fugard's Master Harold and the boys & his own musicals Once Upon a Time at the Adelphi (Commissioned as a centre piece to Liverpool’s year as European City of Culture) & Around the World in Eighty Days (Liverpool Playhouse, UK tour and German tour).

Elsewhere regionally he has directed Rent (Olympia, Dublin) Pal Joey (The New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich & Nottingham Playhouse) Beautiful and Damned (The Yvonne Arnauld Theatre, Guildford) Angels in America and Kiss of the Spider Woman (Sheffield Crucible)

FAMILY SHOWS

Pantomime includes two productions of Leslie Joseph in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Richmond Theatre and Theatre Royal, Newcastle for Kudos) Sleeping Beauty (Greenwich Theatre) His own versions of Snow White starring Toyah Wilcox, Richard O'Brian, Warwick Davies and Suzanne Shaw (Milton Keynes Theatre for Ambassador's Theatre Group) Aladdin (The Corn Exchange, Newbury) and writing a new Pantomusical of Dick Whittington for Oxford Playhouse.

CABARET, CONCERT AND EVENT DIRECTING

He has directed cabaret and concert tours of Four Poofs and A Piano and Nonsense, Children’s Laureate, Michael Rosen’s collaboration with composer Colin Riley (The Royal Festival Hall). He devised and directed Ugly Bugs Ball with the BBC Big Band for the 2009 Olympic Launch Day.

His community play Don Juan in Kingston launched the Rose Theatre in Kingston with a cast of nearly 200, he has directed on board entertainment for Swan Hellenic's Minerva Cruise Ships and staged The London International Film Awards,

TEACHING AND NEW WRITING DEVELOPMENT The Seven Ages of Sondheim, Nicholas Nickleby, Petite Rouge, Sherlock Holmes - The Early Years and Jesus Christ Superstar (Arts Ed) Romeo and Juliet (Central School of Speech and Drama) Dear Anyone (Guildford Conservatoire) Napoli Millionaria, Three Men on a Horse and Backstage (Rose Bruford) The Taming of the Shrew, Howard Barker’s The Possibilities and First Love (The Court Training Company)

External links

• Phil Willmott

Category:English dramatists and playwrights Category:English theatre directors