Simon Evans (director)

Simon Richard Evans (born 31 December 1983)[1] is an English theatre and television director, writer, and actor.[2][3][4][5][6]

Simon Evans
OccupationTelevision writer, television actor, television director, theatre director 

Evans was raised in Oxford while his parents ran a dental practice in nearby Kidlington. He was educated at The Dragon School and Abingdon School, where his fellow alumni include Tom Hollander, Toby Jones and members of Radiohead.[7] He studied Education, English, Drama & the Arts at Homerton College, Cambridge.

As a theatre director, his productions include The Dazzle (starring Andrew Scott), Bug (James Norton), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Lenny Henry), Killer Joe (Orlando Bloom) and A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Toby Stephens and Claire Skinner).[7][8]

As an actor, his early roles include parts in Stig of the Dump (2002) and Lewis (2007).[3]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, he wrote, directed and co-starred in the BBC Television series Staged, playing himself, alongside exaggerated versions of the show's stars, Michael Sheen and David Tennant.[4][5][6] The series was notable for being made using video conferencing technology. Evans had been due to rehearse Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing at Chichester when lockdown came into effect.[9] His cinematic directorial debut, Hunter in the Dark, was also postponed.[7][10]

Following Staged, Evans hosted and directed another lockdown event, a live-streamed Oxford Playhouse fundraiser, A Theatre Near You, starring Stephen Fry, Marcus Brigstocke, and Lucy Porter.[7]

He is the founding director of the theatre company, Myriad Immersive.[3]

As of 2020, he lives in Noke, Oxfordshire.[7]

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