Roger Clissold
Roger was born in Stroud in 1939, and educated at King’s School Gloucester, where he was a choral scholar. After taking a degree at St. David’s College Lampeter, he went to the Birmingham School of Speech and Drama, and thence to the Old Vic for its final season in 1962. He joined the Nottingham company for their first season at the new Playhouse, and met his future wife Sonia Woolley. After a short period at the Everyman Theatre Liverpool, he was appointed Associate Director at the Chester Playhouse. In September 1965 he won an ABC Trainee directorship to the Salisbury Playhouse, where he stayed for several years, before becoming Director of Productions at the Thorndike Theatre Leatherhead.
Past productions
- Director, Sleuth, Bill Kenwright Ltd
- Director, The Business of Murder, Salisbury Arts Theatre Ltd
- Director, The Rivals, Leatherhead Repertory Company
- Director, Loot, Thorndike Theatre
- Director, The Maintenance Man
- Director, All My Sons
- Director, Candida, Thorndike Theatre
- Director, Fighting Chance, Bill Kenwright
- Director, Privates On Parade, Leatherhead Repertory Company
- Director, On Golden Pond, Leatherhead Repertory Company
- Director, The Chalk Garden, Bill Kenwright and Thorndike Theatre
- Director, Don’t Misunderstand Me, Thorndike Theatre
- Director, Double Cut, Robert Fox Ltd and Thorndike Theatre
- Director, Dead Ringer, Bill Kenwright, Charles Ross, and Thorndike Theatre
- Director, Puss in Boots, Leatherhead Repertory Company
- Director, Twelfth Night, Leatherhead Repertory Company
- Director, Look Back in Anger, Thorndike Theatre
- Director, Cider with Rosie, Salisbury Arts Theatre Ltd
- Director, Betrayal, Salisbury Arts Theatre Ltd
- Director, Parting Day, Salisbury Arts Theatre Ltd
- Director, Ours, Salisbury Arts Theatre Ltd
- Director, Under Milk Wood, Salisbury Arts Theatre Ltd
- Director, Miss Leading Lady, Salisbury Arts Theatre Ltd
- Director, Old Time Music Hall, Salisbury Arts Theatre Ltd
- Director, Shadow Play, Salisbury Arts Theatre Ltd
- Director, Journey’s End, Salisbury Arts Theatre Ltd
- Director, A Handful of Dust, Salisbury Arts Theatre Ltd
- Director, Mutual Consent, Salisbury Arts Theatre Ltd
- Producer, Welcome to the Playhouse, Salisbury Arts Theatre Ltd
- Director, Aladdin, Salisbury Arts Theatre Ltd
- Director, Cinderella, Salisbury Arts Theatre Ltd
- Director, Habeas Corpus, Salisbury Arts Theatre Ltd
- Director, All Together Now, Salisbury Arts Theatre Ltd
- Director, Equus, Salisbury Arts Theatre Ltd
- Director, Ring Round the Moon, Salisbury Arts Theatre Ltd
- Director, An Inspector Calls, Salisbury Playhouse
- Director, Barchester Towers, Salisbury Playhouse
- Director, The Rivals, Salisbury Arts Theatre Ltd
- Director, The Tale of the Red Dragon, Salisbury Playhouse
- Director, Old Time Music Hall, Salisbury Playhouse
- Director, The Love of Four Colonels, Salisbury Playhouse
- Director, Mr What-Not, Salisbury Playhouse
- Director, Robinson Crusoe, Salisbury Playhouse
- Director, Old Time Music Hall, Salisbury Playhouse
- Director, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Salisbury Playhouse
- Director, The Secretary Bird, Salisbury Playhouse
- Director, Sweeney Todd, Salisbury Playhouse
- Director, On the Boil, Salisbury Playhouse
- Director, Jack and the Beanstalk, Salisbury Playhouse
- Director, There’s a Girl in My Soup, Salisbury Playhouse