artist profile

Philip Franks

THEATRE

Philip Franks is an Associate Director at Chichester Festival Theatre where he has directed:

2010 THE COMEDY OF ERRORS Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park  
2009 SEPARATE TABLES Chichester Festival Theatre    
2009 TAKING SIDES/COLLABORATION (revival) Chichester Minerva Theatre & Duchess Theatre  
2008 TAKING SIDES/COLLABORATION Chichester Minerva Theatre    
2008 THE CHERRY ORCHARD    
2007/08 NICHOLAS NICKLEBY (with Jonathan Church) Rivival at Chichester, Tour, Gielgud Theatre and Toronto  
2007 TWELFTH NIGHT    
2006 NICHOLAS NICKLEBY (with Jonathan Church)  

Productions for other theatres include:

2006 THE DUCHESS OF MALFI West Yorkshire Playhouse    
2005 THE TEMPEST Liverpool Playhouse    
2000 THE WHITE DEVIL Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith    
2000 THE HEIRESS Crucible Theatre, Sheffield & Royal National Theatre    
1999 KISS OF THE SPIDERWOMAN Nottingham Playhouse    
1999 PRIVATE LIVES Royal National Theatre (Lyttelton)    
1998 KAFKA’S DICK Nottingham Playhouse    
1997 EARLY MORNING National Theatre Studio    
1997 THE COCKTAIL PARTY Royal Lyceum Theatre for the Edinburgh Festival For this Philip won The Scotsman Hamada Foundation Prize for Best Production at the 1997 Edinburgh Festival  
1997 REBECCA Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh    
1997 HAMLET Greenwich Theatre/West Yorkshire Playhouse/Tour    
1996 NIGHT MUST FALL Theatre Royal, Windsor & Churchill Theatre, Bromley  
1996 PAINT SAID FRED! Royal Academy of Art    
1996 EAST LYNNE Greenwich Theatre    
1995 MACBETH Crucible Theatre, Sheffield    
1995 THE DUCHESS OF MALFI Greenwich Theatre & Wyndham’s Theatre  
1994 GREAT EXPECTATIONS Playhouse Theatre, Salisbury  
1994 THE BROWNING VERSION Greenwich Theatre    
1993 DR. FAUSTUS Greenwich Theatre    

FILM

2002 NEVERLAND   Philip directed sequences from the plays Little Mary and Peter Pan for the film “Neverland” directed by Marc Forster for Neverland Films and Miramax  
RADIO
2010 AN ENGLISH TRAGEDY New Unique Broadcasting for BBC    
2008 BLITHE SPIRIT BBC R4