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. 12^th – 30^th April 1988, Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead.
Director, Loot, Thorndike Theatre 1988, Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead.
Director, All My Sons 1986 – 1987, Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead.
Director, Candida, Thorndike Theatre ended 9^th February 1985, Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead.
Director, The Fighting Chance 1984 – 1985, Apollo Theatre (Shaftesbury Avenue), London.
Director, Privates On Parade, Leatherhead Repertory Co. started 1985, Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead.
Director, On Golden Pond, Leatherhead Repertory Co. started November 1984, Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead.
Director, Dead Ringer started 17^th May 1983, The Duke of Yorks Theatre London.
Director, Puss in Boots, Leatherhead Repertory Co. 17^th December 1982 – 15^th January 1983, Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead.
Director, Twelfth Night, Leatherhead Repertory Co. 5^th – 23^rd October 1982, Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead.

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