Adam Spreadbury-Maher

Adam is an award-winning director and producer. He is the founding Artistic Director of the Cock Tavern Theatre, OperaUpClose and the Hope Theatre. In 2010, Adam became Artistic Director of the King’s Head Theatre and won Best Artistic Director in the Fringe Report Awards. In 2011 he was nominated for Best Director in the Off West End Awards. In 2017 and 2018, his critically-acclaimed productions of Coming Clean, La Bohème and Strangers in Between transferred to Trafalgar Studios. La Bohème was later nominated for Best New Opera at the 2018 Olivier Awards whilst his production of Tosca won Best Opera Production at the 2018 Off West End Awards. Theatre and Opera Directing highlights: Coming Clean (West End/King’s Head); Tosca (King’s Head); Masterclass (Sydney Opera House/Australian Tour); Strangers in Between (West End/King’s Head); La Bohème (West End/King’s Head); Trainspotting Live (Off Broadway/UK Tour/Australia Tour and King’s Head); A Tale of Two Cities adapted by Terence Rattigan and John Gielgud (King’s Head/Australia); Dead Party Animals (Hope); Louis Nowra’s Cosi and Daniel Reitz’s Studies for a Portrait (Oval House/White Bear); Peter Gill’s The York Realist and The Sleepers Den (Riverside Studios); Hannie Rayson’s Hotel Sorrento and a new play by Edward Bond, There Will Be More (Cock Tavern); and in Australia, Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing and Joe Orton’s Loot. For OperaUpClose he directed Tosca (West End/King’s Head/Tour), Ballo: A Masked Ball (King’s Head) and Madam Butterfly (King’s Head). @SpreadburyMaher