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Nicholas Hytner (born
May 7,
1956) is an
English award-winning producer and director.
Background
Hytner was born in
Manchester to a
Jewish family, the son of the barrister Benet Hytner
QC. He attended
Manchester Grammar School and read English at
Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He worked as an Associate Director at Manchester's
Royal Exchange Theatre between 1985 and 1989, and at the
National Theatre in
London between 1989 and 1997. His directorial work includes
The Country Wife,
Edward II,
Don Carlos,
Ghetto,
Miss Saigon,
Orpheus Descending, a 2-part adaptation of
Philip Pullman's
His Dark Materials trilogy,
Alan Bennett's
The History Boys,
Carousel,
Southwark Fair and
The Alchemist.
Hytner has also directed movies, such as
The Crucible,
The Madness of King George,
The Object of My Affection and
Center Stage. Openly gay, Hytner strived to avoid stereotypical gay characters in
The Object of My Affection. The film was later criticized by some gay critics as a "commercial whitewash."
Hytner's production of
Miss Saigon and the launch of his period as director of the National Theatre with the controversial
Jerry Springer: the Opera both benefited from his direction of operas, including most notably Xerxes in 1985, which won the Laurence Olivier Opera Award that year, became a huge hit for a baroque era opera today, and is yet in the
English National Opera repertory. He has subsequently directed opera for
Covent Garden,
Glyndebourne,
Paris Opera,
Théâtre du Châtelet,
Grand Théâtre de Genève and
Bavarian State Opera.
The National Theatre
Hytner was appointed director of the National Theatre in London in April 2003. He made drastic changes at the National, choosing much more political and controversial pieces than his predecessors, but he was famously quoted upon being appointed the job that he himself was "a member of all sorts of interesting minorities". He also introduced a very successful plan called the
Travelex GB£10 Season, which, as the name suggests, offers up a number of tickets at a greatly reduced price.
Hytner's film version of the very successful stage play
The History Boys was released in 2006.
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