Trivia

He was awarded the 1999 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Director, for the 1998 production of "The Iceman Cometh".

He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre in 2001 (2000 season) for Best Director for the production of "All My Sons" at the Royal National Theatre, Cottesloe Stage.

He was nominated for a 2002 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Director of 2001 for "Private Lives" performed at the Albery Theatre in London, England.

He was awarded the 2003 London Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best Director for Mourning Becomes Electra performed at the Royal National Theatre: Lyttelton.

He was awarded the 1998 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama) for Best Director for The Iceman Cometh performed at the Almeida and later at the Old Vic Theatres and Flight performed at the Royal National Theatre.

He was awarded the 1998 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Director for Flight and The Iceman Cometh.

He was nominated for a 2001 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Director of Private Lives at the Albery Theatre.

Has been nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as Best Director (Play) three times: in 1987 for "Les Liaisons Dangereuses;" in 1999 for a revival of Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh;" and in 2002 for a revival of Noël Coward's "Private Lives."

He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2011 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to drama.

Britiish theater director, he was named CBE in 2011.

Forest Hill, London, England. (December 2010)