Dr Michael Fry, Deputy Director, East 15 Acting School
Dr Michael Fry is from the UK.
Dr Michael Fry has worked as director and writer at theatres including the Liverpool Everyman, Nottingham Playhouse, Nuffield Southampton, Cambridge Theatre Company and for the Welsh National Opera and Glyndebourne. Work in London includes the Young Vic, the Lyric Hammersmith, the Gate and the King's Head. Work abroad includes Ireland, Italy, Romania, South Africa and the United States.
Dr Fry has been Artistic Director of Floorboards Theatre Productions, Chief Executive of Great Eastern Stage, Professor of Theatre at Washington and Webster Universities and a regular tutor at Trinity College of Music, Mountview, Webber Douglas and Arts Educational. His adaptations of Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma and The Great Gatsby have been performed throughout England and America, most recently at Gloucester Stage in Boston, Aurora Theatre in San Francisco and the Royal Exchange in Manchester. From 2000-07 he was Senior Lecturer in Theatre at Coventry University and an Associate of the postgraduate directing programme at Middlesex University. He is Co-Artistic Director of NOT The National Theatre, for whom he has recently directed Simon Gray's Japes and April de Angelis's Wild East. His study of adaptation, Playing the Novel, will be published by Oberon Books in 2010.
