Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965) is an English film and stage director, producer and screenwriter. In theatre, he is known for his dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret (1994), Oliver! (1994), Company (1995), and Gypsy (2003). He directed an original West End stage musical for the first time with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013).
For directing the play The Ferryman, Mendes was awarded the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2019.
Ncuti Gatwa, Helena Bonham Carter, Theo James, Jessie Buckley, Richard Armitage, Jack Lowden & Toby Jones Set For Sam Mendes Audible Update Of ‘David Copperfield’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Sex Education and Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa is set to star as David Copperfield in a new all-star audible series executive-produced by Oscar winner Sam Mendes.
Also starring in the series will be Helena Bonham Carter (Sweeney Todd), Theo James (The White Lotus), Jessie Buckley (Chernobyl), Richard Armitage (The Hobbit), Jack Lowden (Slow Horses) and Toby Jones (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy).
David Copperfield is the second in Sam Mendes’ Charles Dickens collaborations with Audible, following Oliver Twist which released last year.
Dickens himself referred to David Copperfield as his “favourite child” and the series will explore the life and loves of a gentle orphan in an indifferent adult world.
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