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BOB EATON

  (1948 - )
Nationality:    British
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BOB EATON, born 19 Sep 1948, began his career as director, writer and actor in 1971 as Assistant Director to Peter Cheeseman at the Victoria Theatre Stoke. He then spent three years as a member of Alan Ayckbourn's Scarborough company before becoming Associate Director at Manchester's Contact Theatre. In 1981 he was appointed Artistic Director of the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, in 1984 Artistic Director of the London Bubble and in 1995 Artistic Director of the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry. He has directed over seventy professional productions in English regional Theatre, London, New York and Hong Kong. He has also written or co-written over twenty plays, musicals and musical adaptations. Highlights include: LENNON, first produced at the Liverpool Everyman and then at the Entermedia Theater New York and the Astoria Theatre London; OUR DAY OUT - the MUSICAL, with Willy Russell; the lyrics for the ska musical FACE, with Bob Carlton, Phil Whitchurch and Julian Littman; the Coventry two tone musical THREE MINUTE HEROES; GOOD GOLLY MISS MOLLY, first produced at the New Vic Newcastle Under Lyme and later at the Arts Theatre London; I DON'T Want TO SET the WORLD ON FIRE; the GOOD COMPANIONS, COUNTRY and SILAS MARNER, with Sayan Kent; OUT WITH A BANG for the Sheffield Crucible; and who could forget . . .. the PHantOM SAUSAGE for the New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich. For the last six years Bob has been heavily involved in the rejuvenation of Liverpool's remarkable Royal Court Theatre, for whom he has directed many productions. In 2012 he directed SOUL SISTER, a musical based on the life and times of Ike and Tina Turner, at the Hackney Empire, which later transferred to the Savoy Theatre London, toured nationally and was nominated for Best New Musical in this year's Olivier Awards. In 2013 he directed Ray Cooney's RUN FOR YOUR WIFE at the Queens Theatre Hornchurch, the RECREATION QUARTET for the Coventry Mysteries Company and BOUNCERS by John Godber and LENNON for the Royal Court Theatre Liverpool.

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        Aladdin         Blue Beat         Brontes         Buttons - Another Cinderella Story         Caucasian Chalk Circle, The         Country         Dick Whittington         Duckin' and Divin'         Face         Fire and Brimble         Flash Gorton         Good Companions, The         Good Golly Miss Molly         Huckleberry Finn         I Don't Want To Set the World On Fire         Imagine         Jill and the Beanstalk         Lennon         Life And Death of James Cook, The         Mother Goose         Mummy!         Night Before the Morning After Show, The         Our Day Out         Our Day Out - the Musical         Out Without a Bang         Phantom Sausage, The         Refugees         Robin Hood and the Magic Forest         Roll Over Beethoven         Shane         Silas Mariner         Snow Queen, The         Three Minute Heroes         Truckers         Well What Did You Expect?         Westwood Coronation Day Street Party, The         What The Devil!