Biography of John Bashford

John Bashford: (Writer/ Director) trained at LAMDA and worked in the UK with the Churchill Theatre Company and on national tours with Cambridge Theatre Company before travelling to Australia where he lived for 10 years. A graduate of NIDA (N.S.W.) he was one of the founding shareholders of the Belvoir Street Theatre. From 1986 to 1992 he was the Artistic Director of the Warehouse Theatre, Sydney. Productions include: The Sonnets, Not About Heroes, Dr Faustus, New Australia and The Duchess of Malfi. He directed the premieres of The White Rose of Annandale and Rust in the Dust by Steven Dawson for Wingandaprayer and Gulls and Away for Now Theatre, Orange. Since returning to the UK he worked with Sir Peter Hall on Piaf, On Approval and Hamlet, formed Briefly Shakespeare (with actor Andrew Vezey) and directed and taught at LAMDA and for The Actors Network in Japan. Other productions include: Food, Arcadia, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, Search and Destroy, Othello, The Winter's Tale, Baal, The Art of Success, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Serious Money, What the Butler Saw, Tales from the Vienna Woods and The Suicide. Hare's Breadth is his new company. Some Kinda' Arizona was his third play. Daemons - After Frankenstein (his second) was commissioned by Sitos and LAMDA and toured Holland, Belgium and Northern Germany in 2004. New Australia, his first, was premiered in Sydney in 1992. He has recently completed a new play: The Hop Garden.