Michael buffong biography

  • Michael Buffong is an English theatre director and the Artistic Director of Talawa Theatre Company.
  • Michael Buffong (born 1964) is an English theatre director and the Artistic Director of Talawa Theatre Company.
  • Director and theatre practioner Michael Buffong talks about his career and his experience of working as a black British theatre director.

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    Michael Buffong

    English theatre director

    Michael Buffong

    Born1964 (age 60–61)

    Islington, London, England

    NationalityEnglish
    OccupationTheatre director

    Michael Buffong (born 1964) is an English theatre director and the Artistic Director of Talawa Theatre Company. His work is characterised bygd reworking stage classics delivered to high degree of detail.[1][2][3][4] Buffong has been described as "one of the most influential directors of classic plays over the last two decades",[5] in addition to being named one of Creative Review's 50 Creative Leaders.[6] In Spring 2019, Buffong was one of the judges of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.[7][8]

    Career

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    Buffong was born in Islington, London, in 1964. He attended a director's course at Theatre Royal Stratford East and was later appointed an assistant director there. Buffong then went on to work in televisi

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    News


    Cast Announced For Unicorn And Talawa Theatre's HOME SONG
    by A.A. Cristi - Jan 22, 2025

    Unicorn Theatre, the national theatre for ung audiences, and leading Black British theatre pioneers Talawa Theatre Company have announced the cast for Home Song.

    Photos: In Rehearsal for the UK Premiere of New Shakespeare-Inspired Musical, PLAY ON!
    by A.A. Cristi - Sep 7, 2024

    See photos from inside rehearsal for the UK premiere of Play On!, the jazz-fuelled, Twelfth Night-inspired musical that will tour the UK from September 2024 – February 2025.

    Full Cast Set For PLAY ON! Opening At Coventry's Belgrade Theatre In September
    by Stephi Wild - Jun 20, 2024

    Casting has been announced for Play On!, a co-production with Talawa Theatre Company, that will open at the Belgrade Theatre 23 September – 5 October, with a national press night on Thursday 26 September, ahead of a UK tour.  

    Cast Set For UK Tour of PLAY ON!

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    Michael Buffong

    Michael Buffong is the artistic director of Talawa Theatre Company, the UK's primary Black-led touring theatre company.

    He has previously directed Private Lives, All the Ordinary Angels, Six Degrees of Separation, On My Birthday and the multi-award winning A Raisin in the Sun for the Royal Exchange Theatre.

    Other theatre credits include: God’s Property (Talawa Theatre Company, Soho Theatre and the Albany); The Serpent’s Tooth (Talawa Theatre Company and Almeida Theatre); Moon on a Rainbow Shawl (Royal National Theatre); One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Leicester Curve); Crawling in the Dark (Almeida); To Kill a Mockingbird (West Yorkshire Playhouse and Birmingham Rep); Little Sweet Thing (Hampstead Theatre); Raising the Roof (Palace Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue); Long Time No See and Unfinished Business (Talawa Theatre Company); Souls (Theatre Centre); The Prayer (Young Vic Studio); Stories From Mean Street (New End Theatre, Hampstead); Airport 2000 (Leicester

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