BILL BUFFERY

Education & Training

• National Youth Theatre 1973-77
• Oxford University BA Hons English 1974-77
• Bell Language School Cambridge/RSA CELTA 2000
• Full Equity 1977

Physical characteristics

• Height 5'10" Build medium
• Hair brown Eyes blue

Career details

• Present:Co-director multi story

Writing, creating and performing The Firebird, East o'the Sun West o'the Moon, The Golden Key, The Magician's Daughter, Baby Iron Teeth, Tattercoats, Dragon Fish and Poor Jack for young audiences and Medea, Earthly Delights, Cassandra, Dancing with Angels, Surviving Bluebeard and Beast! for adult audiences in the UK, the USA, Canada, Chile and Peru. Theatre skills workshops for students. Inset training.

• 1989-2000:Artisitic Director Orchard Theatre Company

Touring mainly in South West England but also nationally and in France and Canada. Directed 40 productions, wrote or adapted 15, and acted in 18. Productions directed included: Frankenstein, Deadman's Hat, Sweeney Todd, Plantation, Surviving Bluebeard, The Contract, Reynard Fox, Fen, The Snow Queen, The Winter's Tale, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Venus & Adonis, Romeo & Juliet, Uncle Vanya, A Doll's House, La Ronde, An Enemy of the People, Ubu Rules, Medea.

• 1988:director with Royal Shakespeare Company

Directed productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Keeping Tom Nice. Devised an anthology to represent the RSC in Japan.

• 1987:assistant director with Royal Shakespeare Company

Assistant to Deborah Warner, Terry Hands, Jonathan Miller, John Caird and Bill Alexander.