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Ian Brown is Artistic Director and Chief Executive of the West Yorkshire Playhouse, where he has directed Electricity, The Wind in the Willows, A Small Family Business, Pretending to be Me, Hamlet, The Lady in the Van, Hijra, Eden End, Stepping Out, Broken Glass, The Comedy of Errors, Proposals, You’ll Have Had Your Hole and Of Mice and Men. Theatre credits include: Equus (Beer Sheva Theatre, Israel); Goodnight Children Everywhere, which won the Olivier Award for Best New Play, Victoria (RSC); Five Kinds of Silence (The Lyric, Hammersmith); Strangers on a Train (Colchester, Guildford and Richmond); Babycakes (Drill Hall); Food for Love (Donmar Warehouse); Widows (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh); Steaming (Piccadilly Theatre); Nabokov’s Gloves (Hampstead Theatre); Killing Rasputin (Bridewell Theatre); the original production of Trainspotting (Citizen’s Theatre and The Bush Theatre). |
From 1988 to 1999 Ian was Artistic Director and Executive Director of the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. Productions included: Reader, The Collection, Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love and Poor Super Man (Evening Standard Award), Ines de Castro, Light in the Village, Moscow Stations with Tom Courtenay (Evening Standard Award, Best Actor), Hanging the President (Scotsman Fringe First), The Bench, Hardie and Baird, Bondagers (which transferred to the Donmar Warehouse and World Stage Festival, Toronto), Shining Souls.
Ian was also Artistic Director of TAG Theatre Company, Citizen’s Theatre for five years, where productions included: Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, Hard Times, Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!, Great Expectations.
Ian trained as a teacher at The Central School of Speech and Drama and spent five years teaching in Stoke Newington and at The Cockpit Theatre, London.