Richard Eyre

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Sir Richard Charles Hastings Eyre CBE (born 28 March, 1943) is a British film and theatre director.

Educated at Sherborne School, Peterhouse, Cambridge and Lincoln College, Oxford, Richard Eyre is a noted British stage director. He was artistic director of Nottingham Playhouse from 1973-78, and was then responsible for the BBCs Play for Today for two years (1978-80). Eyre was director of the National Theatre (which became the Royal National Theatre during his time there) between 1987 and 1997, havingt previously directed a noted revival of Guys and Dolls for the venue in 1982. His diaries during this time have been published as National Service and won the 2003 Theatre Book Prize.

Other than Guys and Dolls, his most noted theatre productions are of Hamlet (twice), with Jonathan Pryce at the Royal Court in 1980 and Daniel Day-Lewis in 1989; King Lear with Ian Holm, and Hedda Gabler with Eve Best.

For film he directed the Falklands War story Tumbledown (starring Colin Firth), Iris, a biopic of writer and philosopher Iris Murdoch (starring Judi Dench and Jim Broadbent) and, most recently, Stage Beauty, a period drama adapted from the play by Jeffrey Hatcher (starring Claire Danes and Billy Crudup).

He has been the recipient of numerous directing awards including three Olivier Awards.

Eyre served as a Governor of the BBC between 1995 and 2003.

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