Rupert Goold

Date of Birth:
1972

Show History:

• Oliver

Current Role

Rupert Goold is an English theatre director and the artistic director of Headlong theatre, previously known as the Oxford Stage Company. He will soon be directing Cameron Mackintosh's Oliver!.

Early Life

Goold studied at Trinity College in Cambridge and was trainee director at the Donnar Warehouse for the year 1995/6. Goold has directed many plays including The Tempest, Macbeth, The Glass Menagerie and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot. He is now married to British Actress Kate Fleetwood who played Lady Macbeth in Goold's Chichester 2007 production of Macbeth.

Career Highlights

Rupert Goold won The Sydney Edwards Award for Best Director for his production of Macbeth in 2007. This is the highest point in his career s far. Now he gets to direct the winner of I'd Do Anything Jodie Prenger for the West End Show Oliver!

Interesting Facts

• Goold has been married for seven years
• Goold's wife did not originally want to be Lady Macbeth
• Goold has one child

Awards

Goold won The Sydney Edwards Award for Best Director while his colleague won Best Actor Award for Goolds Macbeth production.