The award-winning theatre director and Bristol alumnus, Greg Doran, has been announced as the new Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC).

Doran, who studied Drama and English at Bristol before training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, has worked at the RSC since 1987, first as an actor and then as a director. He has been Chief Associate Director at the RSC since 2006.

Doran received an honorary Doctorate from the University in 2011.

More information is available in the RSC’s press release.

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