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, The Rivals, Leatherhead Repertory Co.
- Director, Loot, Thorndike Theatre
- Director, All My Sons
- Director, Candida, Thorndike Theatre
- Director, The Fighting Chance
- Director, Privates On Parade, Leatherhead Repertory Co.
- Director, On Golden Pond, Leatherhead Repertory Co.
- Director, Dead Ringer
- Director, Puss in Boots, Leatherhead Repertory Co.
- Director, Twelfth Night, Leatherhead Repertory Co.
- Director, Look Back in Anger
- Director, Look Back in Anger, Leatherhead Repertory Co.
- Director, Cider With Rosie, Salisbury Playhouse
- Director, Miss Leading Lady, Salisbury Arts Theatre LimitedP
- Director, A Handful of Dust, Salisbury Arts Theatre Limited
- Director, Mutual Consent, Salisbury Arts Theatre Limited
- Director, An Inspector Calls, Salisbury Playhouse
- Director, Barchester Towers, Salisbury Playhouse
- Director, The Rivals, Salisbury Playhouse
- Director, The Tale of the Red Dragon, Salisbury Playhouse