Tim Supple

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Tim Supple is an English theatre and opera director, with a reputation for breathing new life into familiar stories.

Tim Supple began working as an assistant director at the Theatre Royal in York.

Between 1988 and 1991 he directed at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.

In 1993, Tim Supple was appointed the Artistic Director of the Young Vic, London. Here he directed Oedipus, Grimm Tales, the Jungle Book, an adaptation of Lorca's Blood Wedding by Ted Hughes and "As I lay Dying" by William Faulkner.

He also works with the Royal National Theatre and with the company, he has co-adapted and directed Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories and The Villains Opera.

Tim Supple works regularly with the Royal Shakespeare Company. With the RSC he has staged Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Wedekind's Spring Awakening translated by Ted Hughes, the Comedy of Errors and a co-adaptation of Ted Hughes' translation of Tales from Ovid.

Supple has also produced a film version of Twelfth Night for Channel 4 on television.

In 2000, Supple was invited to direct Hansel and Gretel for Opera North. In 2003, he directed their production of Mozart's The Magic Flute. The Linbury Theatre at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden invited him to direct Babette's Feast by John Browne, which he directed in December 2004. In Spring 2007 he revived The Magic Flute for Opera North.

In 2006 he staged the multi-lingual production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in India. In seven languages, five Indian, Sinhalese from Sri Lanka, and English, the experimental interpretation was considered by some to be the best Midsummer Night's Dream to play at the RSC (Swan Theatre, Stratford) ^[1]. The production played at the Roundhouse in London in 2007 and is now touring the world.

He is Co-Director of Dash Arts with Josephine Burton.

He attended Gosford Hill School, Kidlington and Lewes Priory Comprehensive School. ^[2]. He subesquently attended Churchill College, Cambridge. There he was a member of the GODS Dramatic Society.