Richard Baron

Richard is a graduate of St Andrews University, a former Scottish Arts Council Trainee Director at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, and Associate Director of the Perth, Dundee Rep and Nottingham Playhouse theatres. He has recently been Season Director at Pitlochry Festival Theatre (PFT), where his production of Chicago broke box office records, and is a co-founder and Director of Productions of Firebrand Theatre Company.

Notable productions include: Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland (CATS) Award-winning productions of The Monarch of the Glen (PFT) and Iron (Firebrand); three national tours of the international hit The 39 Steps; UK tours of Travels With My Aunt, Our Man in Havana and Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (nominated for 5 Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards); Dear Brutus (Nottingham Playhouse); Bold Girls (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow); Travesties, The Price and Laurel and Hardy (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh); his CATS Award-winning, TMA Award and Whatsonstage Award nominated production of Look Back in Anger starring David Tennant (Theatre Royal, Bath) and TMA Award-winning and nominated productions of Man and Superman and Amadeus (PFT) and The Glass Menagerie, All My Sons and Long Day’s Journey Into Night at Dundee Rep.