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Neil Bartlett makes work as a director, deviser, translator, adaptor, author and performer. Over the last twenty-five years his work in theatre and music-theatre has included controversial solo and large-scale performance pieces as well as major productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National, the Royal Court, the Traverse in Edinburgh, the American Repertory Theatre in Boston , the Goodman in Chicago and the Aldeburgh Festival. His first book, published in 1988, was a pioneering reassessment of Oscar Wilde ; since then he has also written three acclaimed novels. In 1994 he was appointed Artistic Director of the Lyric Hammersmith in London ; having left the Lyric in 2004 to resume his freelance career, he continues to break new ground both as an author and a theatre-maker….
 The Pianist, Manchester International Festival 2007 |  The Maids: Brighton Festival 2007 |  Twelfth Night, RSC 2007 |
 An Ideal Husband, 2008 Derbhle Crotty as Mrs. Cheveley |  The Turn of the Screw Aldeburgh 2009 |
RECENT AND FORTHCOMING WORK
2009
An Ideal Husband at The Abbey Theatre nominated for Best Director in the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2009 ; Romeo and Juliet for the RSC ; The Pianist at the Manchester Royal Exchange; Everybody loves a winner for the Manchester International Festival; The Turn of the Screw at Aldeburgh.
2010
January 22 In Conversation with Wayne Koestenbaum at Nottingham Contemporary
February 25 In Conversation at The Museum of London, for LGBT History Month
March 20 MC at The National Review of Live Art, Glasgow
Directing The Girl I left Behind Me; a one-woman show for soprano Jessica Walker. Opera North, Leeds,May 14;Purcell Room May 18; Brighton Festival May 22
Projects currently in development ; James Baldwin's "Giovanni's Room" for Radio 4 ; The National Theatre ,London - a collaboration with Handspring ( creators of "Warhorse")for September 2010; Opera North, Leeds ( for 2011)