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NANDA Giles Croft
Giles started his career as a playwright. In 1985 he was appointed Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre, London. In 1989 Giles joined the National Theatre as Literary Manager. He became Artistic Director of the Palace Theatre, Watford in May 1995.
Giles has been Artistic Director of Nottingham Playhouse since 1999. His most recent productions include: Of Mice and Men, The Importance of Being Earnest, Forever Young, Private Lives, The Ashes, The League of Youth, and Fakebook.
Other productions include: Wonderful Tennessee, Because It's There, The Boy Who Fell into a Book, Polygraph, Ethel and Ernest, Rat Pack Confidential (which won the City Life award for Best Production, toured the UK and transferred to the West End), The Day That Kevin Came, The Man Who, Double Indemnity, Angels Among the Trees, Chicken Soup With Barley (which transferred to London's Tricycle Theatre), The White Album, To Reach The Clouds, Whisky Galore! (UK tour), I Have Been Here Before, Beast on the Moon, Vertigo, Blithe Spirit, Garage Band and The Price (a co-production with Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse) and All Quiet on the Western Front (UK tour).
In summer 2011, Giles was Artistic Director of the first ever Nottingham European Arts and Theatre Festival (neat11).
His adaptations of Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Ladykillers and Passport To Pimlico have all been produced throughout the UK and Europe and his adaptation of Loving April by Melvin Burgess toured the UK in 2010.