David Gilmore has directed more than a dozen West End productions. These include the Award -winning production of 'Daisy Pulls It Off', 'Lend Me A Tenor' and the musical 'The Hired Man'.

 

His production of 'Grease' ran at the Dominion and Cambridge Theatres before returning to the Victoria Palace. He also directed productions of Grease in Paris, Berlin, Munich, Athens and Tokyo as well as Arena Productions in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

 

This year his production of 'Hair' has played in Paris and Berlin.

 

Last year he directed the musical 'Footloose' in Sydney and Jamie Oliver's hugely successful stage performances in England and Australia.

 

Two years ago his Production of 'Defending the Caveman' at the Apollo Theatre won an Olivier Award for best entertainment.

 

During the last few years much of David's work has been overseas. His production of 'Happy Days' opened the Olympic Superdome in Sydney while his production of 'La Haut', a French comedy operetta, which he originally directed for the Theatre des Celestines in Lyon, completed a season at the Theatre de Varieties in Paris and has subsequently been filmed for French television.

 

Other Productions abroad include 'As you like it' for the Shakespeare Repertory Company in Chicago; David Mamet's 'Glengarry Glen Ross' at the Royal Flemish Theatre in Brussels and 'Song and Dance' in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.

 

Other West End productions include the long running hit 'Beyond Reasonable Doubt' at the Queen's Theatre, 'Chapter Two' by Neil Simon at the Gielgud Theatre, 'Radio Times' and 'The resistible Rise of Arturo Ui' both at the Queen's Theatre: the American Courtroom Drama, 'Nuts' at the Whitehall Theatre, 'Annie get your gun' at the Aldwych, The Cole Porter Revue 'A Swell Party' at the Vaudeville, 'Out Of The Blue' at the Shaftesbury Theatre and 'Fatal Attraction' at the Haymarket. He also directed the Farewell Tour of the band 'Harvey and the Wallbangers'.

 

At the National Theatre he directed Machiavelli's 'Mandragola' and for the Compass Theatre he directed Sir Anthony Quayle in Pinero's 'Dandy Dick'; for the New Shakespeare Company 'The Winter's Tale'; and for the Chichester Festival Theatre Noel Coward's 'Cavalcade'.

 

Currently his production of 'Jekyll and Hyde' is touring nationally, and he is directing the new production of 'Grease' following the great success of the ITV show to cast the leads: Grease Is The Word.