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.
Netflix Donates $625K to Sam Mendes' New Fund to Help U.K. Theater Workers
hollywoodreporter.comNetflix has donated $625,000 (£500,000) to a new fund established by Sam Mendes, the Society of London Theatre and U.K. Theatre to help the U.K.'s pandemic-affected theater workers.
London's famed West End theater district as well as regional companies around the country employ hundreds of thousands of workers who have been hit hard by the COVID-19-related lockdown in the U.K which began on March 16 and is still in place as theaters are considered a higher risk business in the phased reopening of the country.
The new fund will provide small grants of $1,250 (£1,000) to struggling theatre workers who are ineligible for government aid and have been unable to work since the shutdown.
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