Deborah Warner

Quick Facts

Full Name	Deborah Warner
Occupation	Theatre Director
Date Of Birth	May 12, 1959(1959-05-12)
Age	65
Birthplace	Oxford
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Taurus

Deborah Warner Biography

Deborah Warner is one of the most popular and richest Theatre Director who was born on May 12, 1959 in Oxford, England, United Kingdom. Deborah Warner CBE (born 12 May 1959) is a British director of opera and theatre, renowned as an interpreter of works by Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, Benjamin Britten, and Henrik Ibsen.

Warner produced the film in 1999, The Last September, starring Michael Gambon and Maggie Smith.

Her first creations for Kick – a company that she invented and managed herself – were deeply influenced by the example of Peter Brook and his belief that the performer must always be at the centre of the event. “I’m not sure I would have been in any way conscious of the potency of theatre if I hadn’t seen his work”, she said in an interview with Vogue in July 1994. Other figures important in her formative years include Peter Stein, who commissioned her production of Coriolanus at the Salzburg Festival, and Nicholas Payne and Anthony Whitworth-Jones who commissioned her first essays in opera, at Opera North and Glyndebourne respectively.

Warner has also worked extensively in field of opera and classical music, including a production of The Diary of One Who Disappeared by Janáček starring Ian Bostridge; a staging of the St John Passion at English National Opera; a controversial staging of Mozart’s Don Giovanni at Glyndebourne; Wozzeck for Opera North; Death in Venice and Tansy Davies’ Between Worlds at English National Opera; and Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with Les Arts Florissants in Vienna, Paris and Amsterdam. Other notable productions include opening the 2015/15 season at La Scala, Milan, with Fidelio conducted by Daniel Barenboim and Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in the 2013/2014 season.

In 1987, Warner was a part of in 1987 the Royal Shakespeare Company, where she directed Titus Andronicus and where she also began her long-term partnership together with Fiona Shaw. Warner as well as Shaw has collaborated in many plays like Electra (RSC); The Good Person of Sezuan (1989, National Theatre); Hedda Gabler (1991, The Abbey Theatre and BBC2) The notorious Richard II, with Shaw as the title character as well as at The National Theatre National Theatre (1995) in 1995 and broadcast through BBC2; Footfalls, whose dramatic staging was so unpopular with those in the Beckett estate that it was canceled from the stage during its run. The PowerBook, at the National Theatre and a dramatic adaptation from Jeanette Winterson’s novel Medea (2000-2001 The in the Queen’s Theatre in Queen’s Theatre and Broadway) and The play by Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, in which Shaw was the sole actor of Portia. The production featured Ralph Fiennes and Simon Russell Beale and was first staged on stage at The Barbican Centre, it later was staged in Europe. Shaw and Warner traveled the world in T. The stage was T. Eliot’s The Waste Land, which began at the Wilton’s Music Hall in London’s East End. Her work began to center on the connection between drama and locations thematically, which was further explored through the Angel Project. Following discussions in conjunction with The Beckett estate Warner produced Shaw for Happy Days at the National Theatre and toured around the world including the amphitheatre of the past in Epidaurus in Greece as well as the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, followed in 2009 by Mother Courage and Her Children (with Shaw in the lead role) on The Olivier Theatre located at the National. Warner returned to her home at the Barbican Centre in 2011, to play the role of director in The School for Scandal.

Deborah Warner Net Worth

Deborah Warner is one of the richest Theatre Director from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Deborah Warner 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Warner has since the 80s collaborated in a close creative partnership with actress Fiona Shaw, developing a diverse range of shows that have been viewed across Europe as well as the United States. The Sunday Times’ critic John Peter wrote of their vision of Richard II that “Warner and Shaw are not being either fashionable or reactionary … They are making theatre that is an adventure, a journey of the mind, a discovery of other ages, other countries, other people, other minds.” Warner was also able to enjoy long-lasting collaborations with artists Jean Kalman [de] , Hildegard Bechtler Chloe Obolensky [de] , Tom Pye, Mel Mercier [de] and choreographer Kim Brandstrup.

Warner is a native of Oxfordshire, England, to antiquarians Roger Harold Metford Warner and Ruth Ernestine Hurcombe. After her time at Sidcot School and St Clare’s, Oxford, she studied stage Management at the Central School of Speech and Drama. In 1980, she started KICK, a theatre company. KICK theatre company at the age of 21.

Although the majority of her work has focused on major classics of spoken drama and opera, she has also experimented with the performance of poetry (The Waste Land, Readings) and the staging of oratorios (St John Passion, Messiah), as well as installations (The St Pancras and Angel projects, Peace Camp). She has made relatively few excursions into new work (Jeanette Winterson’s The Powerbook (2002), Tansy Davies’ 2015 opera Between Worlds and The Testament of Mary being exceptions) or comedy (The School for Scandal), and although she has made much creative use of video on stage, she has directed little for film and television.

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Deborah Ranked on the list of most popular Theatre Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Deborah Warner celebrates birthday on May 12 of every year.