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.
U.K.'s Casting Directors' Guild Calls on Film, TV Industry to "Safeguard Future" of Theater
hollywoodreporter.comThe U.K.'s Casting Directors' Guild has urged the British TV and film industry to help safeguard the future of U.K. theater amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, arguing that screen media rely heavily on the stage talent pool. "Television and film continue to reap the benefits of U.K.
theaters’ innovation and industry, with artists now celebrated for their screen work – from Sam Mendes to Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Abi Morgan to Chiwetel Ejiofor – having forged their careers on and around stages of all sizes in the U.K.
and Ireland," wrote Guild committee members Victor Jenkins (who is also the organization's chair), vice chair Priscilla John, Andy Brierley, Sophie Parrott, Kate Ringsell and Jessica Ronan. "Put simply, television comedy, for.
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