James Roose-Evans

James Roose-Evans

James Roose-Evans (born November 11, 1927) is a British author, playwright, and theatre director.

Born in London, Roose-Evans studied at Oxford University, from which he graduated in 1957. Two years later, he founded the Hampstead Theatre Club, where he served as artistic director until 1971 [ [http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00230/hrc-00230.html James Roose-Evans at the University of Texas library archives] ] .

Roose-Evans has directed, among other projects, "The Dumb Waiter", "Under Milk Wood", "Private Lives", "An Ideal Husband", "The Seven Year Itch", "84 Charing Cross Road", and "Cider with Rosie", the latter two of which he also wrote. Additional playwrighting credits include "Re: Joyce!", a celebration of the life and career of Joyce Grenfell on which he collaborated with Maureen Lipman. He also edited "Darling Ma", a 1997 collection of Grenfell's letters to her mother [ [http://www.hodder.co.uk/book_details.asp?book=2242 "Darling Ma" at Hodder.co.uk] ] .

Roose-Evans is the author of "Experimental Theatre from Stanislavsky to Peter Brook", "Directing a Play", "London Theatre: From the Globe to the National", "Inner Journey, Outer Journey", "Cook A Story", "Passages of the Soul: Ritual Today", "The Inner Stage: Finding a Centre in Prayer and Ritual", "One Foot on the Stage: The Biography of Richard Wilson", "Lost Treasures of Wales", "Cook-a-Story: The Bleddfa Cook Book", and a number of children's books, including "Secret of the Seven Bright Shiners", "The Adventures of Odd and Elsewhere", "Elsewhere and the Gathering of Clowns" , "Odd and the Great Bear", "Return of the Great Bear", "Odd to the Rescue!", and "Secret of Tippity-witchit" [ [http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=sr_st?keywords=james+roose-evans&rs=266239&page=1&rh=n%3A266239%2Ck%3Ajames+roose-evans&sort=-pubdate James Roose-Evans at Amazon.co.uk] ] .

Roose-Evans won the London Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Director for "84 Charing Cross Road". He is a member of the Royal Society of Arts, the Welsh Arts Council, the Southeast Wales Art Association, and the Welsh Dance Theatre.

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