Hugh Wooldridge

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Born
Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England
AlmamaterLondon Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
OccupationsTheatre director, theatre and television producer and writer, and stage lighting designer
Parents
Hugh Wooldridge
Born
Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England
Alma materLondon Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
OccupationsTheatre director, theatre and television producer and writer, and stage lighting designer
Parents
RelativesSusan Wooldridge (sister)

Hugh Wooldridge is an English theatre director, theatre and television producer and writer, and stage lighting designer. Wooldridge was born in Amersham, Bucks, the son of British composer John Wooldridge[1] and actress Margaretta Scott.[2] He is the brother of actress Susan Wooldridge. Wooldridge currently specialises in large productions, often at the Royal Albert Hall, London. He also teaches, gives master-classes and runs workshops.[3][4]

After attending Stonyhurst College in Lancashire, Wooldridge trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, then assisted directors including Alan Ayckbourn, Eric Thompson, Frank Hauser and Michael Blakemore. He directed his first play at the age of sixteen. In the first ten years of his career he directed more than sixty productions in London and throughout the UK, by authors including Alan Ayckbourn, René de Obaldia, Pam Gems and Athol Fugard. He was a resident director at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester, the Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead, and The Old Vic, London.[5] In 1980 he co-devised with James and Edward Duke Jeeves Takes Charge by PG Wodehouse. He produced, directed and lit the world premiere production performed by Edward Duke at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith.

During the next ten years Wooldridge ran his own multi-media company, The Jolly Good Production Company (JGPC), which produced plays and TV programmes, managed artistes and published books. During this time he was also responsible for music programmes and programming in the ITV network in the south and south east of England. He also directed international tours of Jesus Christ Superstar and The Rocky Horror Show, as well as national tours of plays by Noël Coward, Dylan Thomas and Daphne du Maurier.[6] In 1993/4, Wooldridge adapted and directed the famous Daphne du Maurier novel Rebecca; an all-star production which opened at the Theatre Royal, Lincoln, and toured widely across the UK.[7]

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