David Farr

David Farr is a playwright, screenwriter, and stage director. In 2009, he became Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. His inaugural productions were The Winter's Tale and King Lear, in which he directed Greg Hicks in the lead roles, and which received rave reviews.
His theatre career began when he became Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre, London, in 1995. His work at The Gate earned him a reputation as one of the most exciting new talents in British theatre, and he left The Gate to become Artistic Director of the Bristol Old Vic in 2002. He earned a TMA Award for Best Director, for his Bristol staging of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
In 2005, Mr. Farr took up the post of Artistic Director of London's Lyric Hammersmith. In establishing the venue as one of high-quality visually oriented theatre, he adapted and directed the Lyric's hugely successful production of Kafka's Metamorphosis, which has been performed all over the world including in New York and Sydney and directed the acclaimed devised piece Water in conjunction with Filter Theatre, as well as the 50th anniversary production of Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party.
Among Mr. Farr's plays – the majority of which he has directed – are The Nativity, Elton John's Glasses, Ruckus in the Garden, The UN Inspector (starring Michael Sheen at The National Theatre), and Max Klapper: A Life in Pictures. For his staging of the latter, he integrated film components into the material and the production.
He has scripted multiple episodes of the long-running television series Spooks (a.k.a. MI-5) and the new television series Outcasts. His current movie projects include an updated remake of The Fallen Idol, for which he is writing the screenplay; and an original screenplay, Paani.

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