Michael Grandage to Step Down as Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse

Tony Award winner Michael Grandage has announced that he will step down as artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse. He is scheduled to depart the position he has held for nine years in late 2011. Under Grandage, the company has won over 80 major theater awards both in the UK and in the U.S.

During his tenure with the company, Grandage has directed such plays as The Vortex, Caligula, The Wild Duck, Othello and The Chalk Garden, Frost/Nixon, Mary Stuart, and Red, for which he won the Tony Award.

In addition, Grandage has introduced a national touring program to the theater’s activities and last year, he instituted a year-long season in the West End for the company, which featured such productions as Ivanov with Kenneth Branagh, Twelfth Night with Derek Jacobi, Madame de Sade with Judi Dench and Hamlet with Jude Law, which was also subsequently seen on Broadway.

.His next production for the company will be King Lear followed by Luisa Miller in 2011. Among his other upcoming projects are a revival Evita , scheduled to play Broadway in 2012, and a new production of Don Giovanni to debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 2011.