Simon Evans (director)

Simon Evans is an English theatre and television director, writer, and actor.[1][2][3][4][5]

For the comedian, see Simon Evans.
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 students included Tom Hollander , Toby Young and members of Radiohead.[6]

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).[6][7]

As an actor, his early roles include parts in Stig of the Dump (2002) and Lewis (2007).[2]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, he wrote, directed and co-starred in the BBC Television series Staged, playing an exaggeratedly inept version of himself, alongside equally exaggerated versions of the show's stars, Michael Sheen and David Tennant.[3][4][5] 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.[8] His cinematic directorial debut, Hunter in the Dark, was also postponed.[6][9]

Following Staged, Evans hosted and directed another lockdown event, a live-streamed Oxford Playhouse fundraiser, A Theatre Near You, staring Stephen Fry, Marcus Brigstocke, and Lucy Porter.[6]

He is the founding director of the theatre company, Myriad Immersive.[2]

As of 2020, he lives in Noke, Oxfordshire.[6]

Appearances
gollark: Ah, but it's *very complicated* curve fitting which can sometimes do interesting things.
gollark: Any particular improvement might not work, but I would be *very very surprised* if people several hundred years ago just happened to stumble on the optimal court system.
gollark: *An* issue is that sentencing can vary significantly based on judges' arbitrary opinions and how they are feeling. So maybe if you averaged over multiple judges once the facts of the case were determined it would help. Although there are a lot of ways for that to go wrong (messing with the framing of those and such).
gollark: Thank you for your somewhat misspelt tautology.
gollark: I doubt there's literally no way to fix it. Decoupling sentencing and judgement of guilt somehow, maybe.

References
  1. "Zoom, Tennant and Sheen: Simon Evans on writing lockdown comedy Staged". Evening Standard. 2020-06-09. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  2. Palmer, Katie (12 June 2020). "Simon Evans: Who is Simon Evans? Meet the Staged series creator". Express. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  3. "Everything you need to know about Staged on BBC One". inews.co.uk. 2020-06-11. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  4. "Meet the cast of BBC One's lockdown drama Staged". Radio Times. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
  5. "BBC One's thespian comedy Staged nails the quirks of life under lockdown - review". The Independent. 2020-06-10. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  6. "Simon Evans on BBC lockdown drama Staged and Oxford Playhouse fundraiser starring Stephen Fry, Marcus Brigstocke, Lucy Porter & Rachel Parris". Ox In A Box. 7 August 2020. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  7. "Orlando Bloom Will Star in Tracy Letts' Killer Joe in the West End". Playbill. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  8. Hughes, Tim. "David Tennant and Michael Sheen's STAGED!: Oxford duo's secrets of TV hit". Oxford Mail. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  9. "Berlin: Lawrence Osborne Thriller 'Hunters in the Dark' Fills Out Cast (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
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