Peter Hall

He was awarded the 1999 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award: Special Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Arts.

He was awarded the 1990 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Best Director of The Wild Duck.

He was awarded the 1987 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Director for Anthony and Cleopatra.

He was awarded the 1981 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Director for The Oresteia.

Sir Peter Hall directed his first play while he was still a student. He soon achieved prominence as a stage director. He started his occasional film work in 1968 with Work Is a Four Letter Word (1968).

Has twice won Broadway's Tony Award: in 1967 as Best Director (Dramatic) for Harold Pinter's "The Homecoming," and in 1981 as Best Director (Play) for Peter Shaffer's "Amadeus." He has also been Tony-nominated eight other times: as Best Director, in 1958 for "The Rope Dancers;" as Best Director (Dramatic), in 1972 for Harold Pinter's "Old Times," as Best Director (Play), in 1979 with collaborator-playwright Alan Ayckbourn for "Bedroom Farce," in 1980 for Harold Pinter's "Betrayal," in 1992 for John Guare's "Four Baboons Adoring the Sun," and in 1996 for a revival of 'Oscar Wilde's "An Ideal Husband;" and in 1990 as Best Director (Play) and one of the co-producers of Best Revival nominee, Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice."

Attended St Catharine's College, Cambridge, of which he became an Honorary Fellow in 1964.

He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1963 Queen's Birthday Honours List and created a Knight Bachelor in the 1977 Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to Drama.

He was the Artistic Director of The Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon from 1960 - 1968.