Nunn, Trevor (1940-…), is a British theater director. From 1968 to 1988, he was artistic director or joint artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Nunn served as artistic director of the Royal National Theatre from 1997 to 2003. Nunn is also a successful director in commercial theater. He directed the musicals Cats (1981), Starlight Express (1984), and Aspects of Love (1989), all composed by the English composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. Nunn also co-directed the musical Les Misérables (1985).
In 2007, Nunn directed a critically acclaimed production of the play King Lear (1606), by the English dramatist William Shakespeare. Nunn’s production starred the British actor Ian McKellen . Nunn also directed a television adaptation of the play released in 2008 with the same cast. Nunn’s other work from the 2000’s includes the plays Scenes from a Marriage (2008), Gone with the Wind (2008), Fatal Attraction (2014), and Identical (2022).
Trevor Robert Nunn was born on Jan. 14, 1940, in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. He graduated from Cambridge University before joining the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry as a trainee director. Nunn moved to the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1965. Within three years, he had become the company’s artistic director. The RSC was modernized and expanded while Nunn was its director. The company opened two new Stratford-upon-Avon theaters, The Other Place and The Swan, in 1974 and 1986, respectively.
