Ted Craig

Who is Ted Craig?

Ted Craig FRSA is an Australian-born theatre director lately the artistic director of the Warehouse Theatre, South London, England.

Craig was born and educated in Melbourne, Australia. He worked in Australian television as a Director for four years, as well as an actor. He travelled to England in 1964, where he joined the Crewe repertory company, and went on to act and direct at Crewe, Richmond, Folkestone, and Harrogate. He served as the resident Artistic Director at Crewe Theatre for three years, before taking over from Christopher Denys as the new Artistic Director at the Connaught, Worthing. Since then he has directed theatre productions all over the UK, Europe, the United States, Asia and Australia, including the directorship of the Drama Theatre of the Sydney Opera House. His freelance productions have included the Off-Broadway production of Look Back in Anger with Malcolm McDowell; Shakespeare's The Tempest, Congreve's Love for Love, Molière's The Misanthrope, Feydeau's The Lady from Maxim's all at the Sydney Opera House; Tarantara, Tarantara! by Ian Taylor, the Australian première of The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance; and Arthur Miller's The Last Yankee and Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr Sloane.