Trevor Nunn named next Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor

Director Trevor Nunn has been named as the next Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre, based at St Catherine's College, Oxford. He will succeed the writer and playwright Michael Frayn in October 2010. Trevor Nunn's illustrious career running first the Royal Shakespeare Company and then the National Theatre has seen him firmly in the centre of British cultural life since he became the youngest ever Artistic Director of the RSC. Whilst there, he directed most of the Shakespeare canon, alongside historic productions such as Nicholas Nickleby and Les Miserables . From 1996 until 2003, he was Director of the National Theatre, where his productions included world premieres of plays by Tom Stoppard and Tennessee Williams, revivals of plays by Shakespeare, Chekhov and Gorki, and of great musicals such as Oklahoma! and Anything Goes . He directed the original productions of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats , Starlight Express , Aspects of Love and Sunset Boulevard . He has also directed operas, films and television adaptations.