Finborough Theatre
Now Playing until 7th June
"Intimate, revealing and appealing ....
Phil Willmott’s fast, punchy production keeps the sexual tension simmering"
Mark Shenton, The Stage
16 May 2008 - 10 July 2008
U.K Tour 2008
Phil Wilmott’s affectionate pastiche of the lantern-jawed hero who captured the imagination of 15 million listeners in the BBC radio serial, Dick Barton - Special Agent, manages to entertain fans and those who’d never even heard of the famous hero.
4 June 2008 - 7 June 2008
Arts Educational Musical Theatre School
A double bill celebrating new musical comedy from the U.S.
A unique opportunity to see some of the U.K’s top musical theatre students in two brand new shows with a future.
28 June 2008 - 19 July 2008
Liverpool Playhouse
A NEW MUSICAL BY PHIL WILLMOTT
1930’s Liverpool, and the glitz and glamour of Hollywood pour off the luxury liners for their first taste of England; a night in the city’s most fashionable hotel.
Phil has directed over fifty productions across the world from Shakespeare & musicals to cutting edge new writing.
He is founding Artistic Director of his own multi award winning theatre company The Steam Industry incorporating The Finborough Theatre (under the Artistic Directorship of Neil NcPherson) and the London's annual Free Theatre Festival at the open-air "Scoop" amphitheatre on the South Bank
He was an Associate Artist of London's acclaimed Battersea Arts Centre throughout the 1990s and Associate Director of the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford. He is currently Associate Director of the degree courses in Acting and Musical Theatre at the Arts Educational School, London.
He has won a Peter Brook award in London, A Brook Atkinson New Dramatists Award in New York and numerous London Fringe Awards
In the West End he directed the tenth anniversary cast of Fame (The Aldwych Theatre) and Treasure Island (The Mermaid Theatre) A Midsummer Nights Dream in Dubai, Blowing Whistles (Croydon Warehouse Theatre and Sound Theatre, Leicester Square) You Don't Kiss (Stratford Circus) The DVD recording of rock musical Poe at the Abbey Road Studios and Liberace’s Suit and I Love You You’re Perfect, Now Change (Jermyn Street)
For Liverpool's Everyman and Playhouse theatres he has directed Much Ado About Nothing, Billy Liar, Athol Fugard's Master Harold and the boys & his own musicals - Once Upon a Time at the Adelphi & Around the World in Eighty Days (Liverpool Playhouse, UK tour and German tour).
Elsewhere regionally he has directed Rent (Olympia, Dublin) Pal Joey (The New Woolsey Theatre, Ipswich & Nottingham Playhouse) Beautiful and Damned (The Yvoone Arnauld Theatre, Guildford) Angels in America and Kiss of the Spider Woman (Sheffield Crucible)
For his own company, The Steam Industry, award winning productions of new writing have included The Fundraisers, Fucking Men, Watch Out for Mr Stork, Venetian Heat, Born Bad and The Oedipus Table, and classics such as Crime and Punishment, The Grapes of Wrath, Trelawny of the ‘Wells’ and Loyalties (all at the Finborough Theatre) and Helen of Troy, Disney's Jungle Book, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Cyclops, Children of Hercules, Treasure Island, Oedipus, Agamemnon, Androcles and the Lion, and The London Nativity at the Scoop.
His other notable Steam Industry productions include Victor/Victoria, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (The Bridewell), Measure for Measure (Riverside Studios). Ring Round the Moon (King’s Head), The Winter's Tale (The Courtyard Theatre) Titus Andronicus, Germaine Greer’s Lysistrata, Murdered Sleep, Inherit the Wind, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers , The Sound of Music, The King and I, Calamity Jane and Sweet Charity (all at BAC where he was an associate artist) South Pacific, Joe Orton's Funeral Games and his own musical Dick Daredevil and play Venom (The Drill Hall) Joe Orton's Crimes of Passion and his own plays Stealing the Scene, Succulence and Mermaid Sandwich and radical Shakespeare adaptations: The Wax King (from Henry VI parts 1, 2 & 3 ) Iago (from Othello) and Illyria (from Twelfth Night) at The Man in The Moon.
His community play Don Juan in Kingston launched the Rose Theatre in Kingston with a cast of nearly 200, he has directed on board entertainment for Swan Hellenic's Minerva Cruise Ships, staged The London International Film Awards, led new writing development projects at Soho Theatre and The National Theatre Studio, lectured at Goldsmith's College, RADA and the Brit School and directed students in The Seven Ages of Sondheim, Nicholas Nickleby, Petite Rouge, Sherlock Holmes - The Early Years and Jesus Christ Superstar (Arts Ed) Romeo and Juliet (Central School of Speech and Drama) Dear Anyone (Guildford Conservatoire) Napoli Millionaria, Three Men on a Horse and Backstage (Rose Bruford) The Taming of the Shrew & First Love (The Court Training Company)
Pantomime includes two productions of Leslie Joseph in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Richmond Theatre and Theatre Royal Newcastle for Kudos) Sleeping Beauty (Greenwich Theatre) His own versions of Snow White starring Toyah Wilcox, Richard O'Brian, Warwick Davies and Suzanne Shaw (Milton Keynes Theatre for Ambassador's Theatre Group) Aladdin (The Corn Exchange, Newbury) and writing a new Pantomusical of Dick Whittington for Oxford Playhouse.
His work as a playwright and composer is widely published and performed internationaly and as a journalist he regularly broadcasts, blogs and writes about theatre.