Jeremy Sams

Director

Theatre credits as Director include Oklahoma! (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Sound of Music (international tour), The Rehearsal from his own translation (Minerva Theatre), The Wizard of Oz (Ed Mirvish Theatre Toronto, US tour, The London Palladium – winner of 2012 WhatsOnStage Award for Best Musical Revival), Educating Rita (Menier Chocolate Factory, Trafalgar Studios), The King and I (Royal Albert Hall), The Sound of Music (Prince of Wales Theatre Toronto, The London Palladium), 13 (Bernard B Jacobs Theatre), Donkey’s Years (Comedy Theatre, UK tour), Little Britain Tour (UK tour), Noises Off (National Theatre, Piccadilly Theatre, Brooks Atkinson Theatre), Mr Limberham (National Theatre studio), Schippel, The Plumber (Greenwich Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe), Mozart in Milan (Barbican Theatre), The Card (Watermill Theatre), Entertaining Mr Sloane (Greenwich Theatre), The Wind in the Willows (Tokyo, The Old Vic), Neville’s Island (Nottingham Playhouse, Apollo Theatre), Forty Years On (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Maria Friedman by Special Arrangement (Donmar Warehouse, Whitehall Theatre), Enjoy (Nottingham Playhouse), Wild Oats, Marat/Sade (National Theatre), Passion (West End), 2 Pianos 4 Hands (Birmingham Rep, West End), Spend Spend Spend (West End, UK tour), What The Butler Saw (Theatre Royal Bath, UK tour), Benefactors (West End), The Water Babies (Chichester Festival Theatre).

His writing credits include A Damsel in Distress, Exit the King, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The King of Comedy, Mozart in Milan.

Sams has translated many works for the stage, and has worked widely as a Musical Director, and Composer for the stage and screen.