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DAVID GRIMESDavid is a multi award-winning actor and director having worked in both the US and in the UK. As an actor, David has appeared in principal roles with the EGTG in Wild Honey, Twelfth Night, The Pillowman, Cloud 9, The Secret Rapture, The Comedy of Errors, Six Degrees of Separation, Julius Caesar, The Duchess of Malfi, Festen, and A Number. Some of his favourite productions with other groups include performances in A Few Good Men, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Into the Woods, Chess, and Sweeney Todd. As a director for EGTG David has directed: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, the award winning Wit, Closer, Hamlet (RSC OpenStages), Doctor Faustus, Richard III (RSC OpenStages), Agnes of God, August: Osage County, Titus Andronicus (RSC OpenStages, Dundee Rep), The Witch of Edmonton, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Edinburgh and Dalbeattie), In a Forest, Dark and Deep, The Ladykillers, Reckless, as well as all of EGTG’s pieces (Edward II and The Cherry Orchard) featured on Sky Arts’ reality TV programme, Nation’s Best AmDram.
David is currently directing EGTG’s Fringe Festival show, Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare. Much Ado About Nothing will transfer to Stratford-Upon-Avon as part of the RSC’s 2018 Dell programme taking part at the RSC’s outdoor Dell theatre on the banks of the river Avon. Among other UK productions he has directed are the critically acclaimed The House of Yes and Travels With My Aunt for Arkle Theatre Company and A Christmas Carol for the Melodramatics. He was the associate director for The Secret Garden, also for the Melodramatics. David has acted as a producer in Edinburgh for EGTG and the Melodramatics, as well as several equity waiver theatres in Los Angeles. David is delighted to be taking part in his first Threepenny Theatricals production. - Biography taken from the programme for Dear Brutus (2019) |
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