David Shrubsole

For the National:

Training

David Shrubsole studied music at Trinity College of Music, and dramaturgy and critical theory at Goldsmiths University.

Theatre

For the National Theatre: A Tupperware of Ashes, Dear Octopus, The Father and the Assassin, The Great Wave, My Country; a work in progress, The Threepenny Opera, Table, London Road, The Magistrate, She Stoops to Conquer, Major Barbara, The Enchantment, The Alchemist and My Fair Lady

In London’s West End: Miss Saigon, The Wind in the Willows and Epitaph for George Dillon

Other theatre includes: The Ballad of Hattie and James, Holy Sh!t and Wife at Kiln; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd, Sunshine on Leith, The Crucible, Europe, Dr Korczak’s Example, Annie, Peter Pan and Martin Guerre at Leeds Playhouse; American Psycho at the Almeida; The Great Wall at the Singapore Drama Centre; Porgy & Bess, Romeo and Juliet, Hello Dolly and Much Ado About Nothing at Regent’s Park; A Chorus Line, Assassins, Ain’t Misbehavin’ and Amadeus at Sheffield Crucible; Just So and Hay Fever at Chichester; Of Mice and Men at Colchester Mercury; Hobson’s Choice at the Watermill, Newbury; Total Eclipse at Menier Chocolate Factory; You Are Here at Goodspeed Opera House; Something Wicked This Way Comes at Delaware Theatre Company; The Three Musketeers and Troilus and Cressida at Chicago Shakespeare; Gaslight at the Old Vic; and A Streetcar Named Desire for Theatr Clywd

Awards

Life is for Living: Conversations with Coward (co-written with Simon Green) – 2017 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revue

(Updated September 2024)