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Dateline: 17th October, 2010
Gray Takes Over at ATC Ramin Gray is to be the new artistic director of the Actors Touring Company (ATC), following the departure of Bijan Sheibani earlier this year. Born in London in 1963, Gray grew up in Oxford, Tehran, New York and Paris before graduating from Christ Church, Oxford with a BA (Hons) in Oriental Studies (Persian and Arabic) in 1987. He speaks French, Persian, Arabic, German and Italian and has travelled extensively, especially in the Middle East. He began directing professionally in 1988 with a production of John Marston’s The Malcontent at the Latchmere. In 1990 he was awarded a Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme bursary which took him to the Liverpool Playhouse where initially he directed classic texts such Franz Wedekind’s Spring Awakening and Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge.
He also re-opened the Playhouse Studio as a dedicated space for new plays from 1992-95, raising finance and arranging co-productions with the National Theatre and the Royal Court Theatre.
From 2000-09 Gray was at the Royal Court Theatre, first as International Associate, then as Associate Director where he directed over fifteen world or British premieres, including Push Up by Roland Schimmelpfennig, Terrorism by the Presnyakov Brothers, Ladybird by Vassily Sigarev, Way to Heaven by Juan Mayorga, Woman and Scarecrow by Marina Carr, Just a Bloke by David Watson and Scenes from the Back of Beyond by Meredith Oakes.
In the Theatre Downstairs he directed the world premiere of Simon Stephens’ Motortown, Max Frisch’s The Arsonists, Martin Crimp’s Advice to Iraqi Women, two plays by Marius von Mayenburg, The Ugly One and The Stone, and Over There by Mark Ravenhill which transferred to the Schaubuhne am Lehniner Platz in Berlin. He also did play development work for the Royal Court on almost every continent. His freelance theatre work in the UK includes two plays for the Royal Shakespeare Company, David Grieg’s The American Pilot and Leo Butler’s I’ll Be the Devil as well as Alistair Beaton’s King of Hearts which he co-directed with Max Stafford-Clark for Hampstead Theatre and Out of Joint. "I am delighted to lead Actors Touring Company into the future," Gray said. "The Company, founded by John Retallack and more recently led by Bijan Sheibani, has just celebrated 30 years on the road during which time it has consistently broadened our horizons. My vision for ATC now is to tour a distinctive company of actors in a season of cosmopolitan, modern drama that reflects and questions the complex world we share today."
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