Cain
John Caird
Jonathan Cake
David Calder
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Michael Calf
Camille
Camino Real
Cheryl Campbell
Il Candelaio
Can Opener
The Canterbury Tales
Captain Swing
John Carlisle
Jason Carr
Carrie
Nancy Carroll
Elaine Cassidy
The Castle
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
The Changeling
Jan Chappell
Ian Charleson
Ian Charleson Awards
Geoffrey Chaucer
Paddy Chayefsky
Anton Chekhov
Nick Chelton
The Cherry Orchard
Children of the Sun
Alison Chitty
A Christmas Carol
Christopher Columbus
Tony Church
Caryl Churchill
The Churchill Play
Clay
Dennis Clinton
A Clockwork Orange
The Collection
Patience Collier
Columbus and the Discovery of Japan
The Comedy of Errors
Complete Works Festival
Comrades
Kerry Condon
William Congreve
Shelley Conn
Paule Constable
The Constant Couple
Nina Conti
Kandis Cook
Ron Cook
Dominic Cooke
Nigel Cooke
Richard Cordery
Coriolanus
Charlotte Cornwell
Oliver Cotton
Yvonne Coulette
Country Dancing
The Country Wife
Courtyard Theatre
Cousin Vladimir
Andrea J. Cox
Brian Cox
Claire Cox
Cries from the Casement
Crimes in Hot Countries
The Criminals
Derbhle Crotty
Bob Crowley
The Crucible
Frances Cuka
Paddy Cunneen
Liam Cunningham
Julian Curry
Curse of the Starving Class
Curtmantle
Cyril Cusack
Niamh Cusack
Sinéad Cusack
The Custom of the Country
Cymbeline
Cyrano de Bergerac
On graduating from Warwick University, Dominic Cooke formed a company called Pan Optic and toured productions of Beaumarchais's The Marriage of Figaro and Strindberg's Miss Julie (1990). He was an assistant director at the RSC from 1992-94, working on Peter Hall's All's Well That Ends Well (Swan), Michael Attenborough's The Changeling (Swan), and Adrian Noble's Travesties (Barbican). The next few years saw him directing at the Nottingham Playhouse (Of Mice and Men, 1994), the Gate, Notting Hill (Martin Sperr's Hunting Scenes from Lower Bavaria, 1995; Gerhart Hauptmann's The Weavers, 1996), and at Terry Hands's Theatr Clwyd (Entertaining Mr Sloane, 1997; Rudkin's Afore Night Come, 1998). His ingenious production of The Arabian Nights at the Young Vic, Christmas 1998/99, received glowing notices.
From 2000-03 Cooke was an associate director at the Royal Court, directing fashionable new work: Marius von Mayenburg's Fireface (2000); Christopher Shinn's Other People (2000, with Daniel Evans); Rebecca Gilman's Spinning Into Butter (2001, with Emma Fielding); Leo Butler's Redundant (2001); Grae Cleugh's Fucking Games (2001); Vasilly Sigarev's Plasticine (2002); and Michael Wynne's The People are Friendly (2002).
In 2002 he returned to the RSC to direct Antony Sher in John Marston's The Malcontent (Swan). He set the play in a banana republic, a garish, style-free zone of broad, cartoon-like comedy. Great entertainment (like being trapped in the Top of the Pops studio circa 1974), but a less than adequate response to Marston's relentlessly moral view of the world. From 2003 to 07 he was a member of Michael Boyd's directorial team: as well as running the RSC's new writing programme, he directed Emma Fielding and Anton Lesser in Cymbeline (Swan, 2003); Greg Hicks in Macbeth (RST, 2004); Lia Williams in As You Like It (RST, 2005); and Iain Glen in The Crucible (RST, 2006). The Shakespeares played like works in progress, but the Miller was lucid and passionate, benefiting from the elegant simplicity of Hildegard Bechtler's design and Jean Kalman's lighting. Cooke's RSC 'New Work festivals' were lacklustre non-events. In 2007 he takes charge of the Royal Court.
Other work: Tennessee Williams's The Eccentricities of a Nightingale (Gate, Dublin, 2003); La bohème (Grange Park Opera, 2003).
Education: Warwick University
RSC: Joined 1992; Assistant Director, 1992-94; Associate Director, 2003-07
Productions: The Malcontent, John Marston (Swan, 2002/Gielgud, 2002-03); Cymbeline (Swan, 2003); Macbeth (RST, 2004/Albery, 2005); As You Like It (RST, 2005/Novello, 2006); Elective Affinites, David Adjmi/Eric Larue, Brett Neveu (Attic Theatre, Cox's Yard, Stratford, 2005); The Crucible, Arthur Miller (RST, 2006/Gielgud, 2006); The Winter's Tale (Swan, 2006-07); Pericles (Swan, 2006-07); Days of Significance, Roy Williams (Swan, 2007)
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