Terry Hands

Terry Hands
Hands in 1972
Born
Terence David Hands

(1941-01-09)9 January 1941
Died4 February 2020(2020-02-04) (aged 79)
OccupationTheatre director
Spouse(s)Dame Josephine Barstow (1964–1967; divorced)
Ludmila Mikaël (1974–1980; divorced)
Julia Lintott
Emma Lucia (2002–2020)
Children3

Terence David Hands, CBE (9 January 1941 – 4 February 2020[1]) was a multi-award English theatre director. He founded the Liverpool Everyman Theatre and ran the Royal Shakespeare Company for thirteen years during one of the company's most successful periods; he spent 25 years in all with the RSC.[2] He also saved Clwyd Theatr Cymru from closure and turned it into the most successful theatre in Wales in his seventeen years as Artistic Director.[3] He received several Olivier, Tony and Molière awards and nominations for directing and lighting.[4]

  1. ^ Wiegand, Chris (4 February 2020). "Theatre director Terry Hands, who ran the Royal Shakespeare Company, dies aged 79". The Guardian.
  2. ^ "Terry Hands, award-winning theatre director who proved to be the wrong man to lead the RSC – obituary". The Telegraph. 4 February 2020.
  3. ^ "Review of In Memory from the theatre dance and drama in Wales web site". www.theatre-wales.co.uk. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  4. ^ Green, Michael (26 January 2015). "Mold Clwyd Theatr Cymru to stage Hamlet as artistic director's swan song". chesterchronicle.co.uk. Retrieved 23 May 2015.

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