Daniel Evans is Co-Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and an acclaimed, Olivier Award-winning actor and director.
Daniel Evans recently starred in a new RSC production of Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Daniel Evans is directing Born With Teeth at the Wyndham’s Theatre starring Ncuti Gatwa and Edward Bluemel.
Evans joined the RSC in June 2023. He was previously the Artistic Director of Chichester Festival Theatre, and Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres.
Daniel grew up in South Wales and was educated in Welsh before training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He left college early in 1994 to join the Royal Shakespeare Company and returned to the company a decade later.
His work as an actor has spanned Shakespeare, Sondheim and Sarah Kane, at the RSC, National Theatre, Royal Court, Donmar Warehouse, Menier, Sheffield and on Broadway. He’s the recipient of two Olivier Awards for his Sondheim performances.
Daniel Evans’ theatre credits include Cleansed, 4.48 Psychosis, Other People, and Where Do We Live? (Royal Court Theatre; Cardiff East, Peter Pan, Candide, Troilus and Cressida, The Merchant of Venice (National Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Coriolanus, Henry V, Cymbeline, Measure For Measure (Royal Shakespeare Company); Ghosts (ETT); Merrily We Roll Along (Donmar); The Tempest (Sheffield/Old Vic); Sunday in the Park with George (Menier/West End/Studio 54).
As director, Daniel Evans’ theatre credits include: Black Superhero (Royal Court Theatre), Our Generation (& National), South Pacific (& Sadler’s Wells), Quiz (& Noel Coward), Fiddler on the Roof (CFT); American Buffalo (Wyndham’s); Othello, An Enemy of the People, The Effect, Show Boat (& New London), Macbeth, Flowers for Mrs Harris, My Fair Lady, Racing Demon, This is My Family (Sheffield Theatres); The Light in the Piazza (RFH, LA Opera & Chicago Lyric Opera); Esther (Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru); Lovely Evening/In The Blue (Young Vic at Theatre 503).
Daniel Evans’ awards include: Olivier Awards for Best Actor in a Musical (Merrily We Roll Along and Sunday in the Park with George); UK Theatre Awards for Best Musical Production (Show Boat and Flowers for Mrs Harris).
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