Irina Brown

Irina Brown (born Leningrad, Russia) is a theatre and opera director in the United Kingdom. She has lived in the United Kingdom for over thirty years. Brown was the Artistic Director of the Tron Theatre in Glasgow from 1996 to 1999. She was noted for directing the production of Further Than the Furthest Thing by Zinnie Harris, for the Royal National Theatre.^[1] Brown was the Granada Artist-in-Residence at the University of California, Davis in 2004 and 2008.^[2]

Selected Directing Credits

1. Lavochkin-5 by Alexei Shipenko
2. Mate in Three by an acclaimed Italian playwright Vittorio Franceschi
3. Sea Urchins by Sharman Macdonald
4. The Tempest Dream after William Shakespeare
5. Speedrun by Isabel Wright (a world premiere)
6. The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union by David Greig
7. The Misunderstanding at the Gate Theatre as part of the Consummate Classics Season; the production was the winner of the Time Out magazine /-01 for London Award 1990
8. Marina Tsvetaeva. Poet. Outcast. Actors included Fiona Shaw. Theatre: Royal National Theatre, Cottesloe stage
9. A Doll’s House at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre
10. Blood Libel (the world premiere) by Arnold Wesker. The play was performed at the Norwich Playhouse
11. Romeo and Juliet (Contact Theatre)
12. A Midsummer Night’s Dream the 1996 inaugural production for the Southern Shakespeare Festival, Florida, produced my Michael J. Trout
13. The Sound of Music at the West Yorkshire Playhouse
14. Our Country’s Good (Tabakov Theatre, Moscow).

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