Sir Trevor Robert Nunn CBE (born 14 January 1940) is an English theatre- and film director.
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Sir Trevor Robert Nunn CBE (born 14 January 1940) is an English theatre- and film director.

Biography
Early years
Nunn was born in Ipswich, England to Robert Alexander Nunn, a cabinetmaker, and Dorothy May Piper. He was educated at Northgate Grammar School, Ipswich and Downing College, Cambridge, where he began his stage career before becoming a trainee director at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry.
Career
In 1968, Nunn was appointed Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, a position he held until 1986. He was also Artistic Director of the Royal National Theatre, following in the footsteps of Sir Peter Hall. His first wife, Janet Suzman, appeared in many of his productions. Nunn became a leading figure in theatrical circles, and was responsible for many ground-breaking productions, such as the RSC's version of Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby, co-directed with John Caird, and a musical adaptation of the Shakespeare play The Comedy of Errors. A very successful director of musicals, in the non-subsidised sector, Nunn was responsible for Cats (1981), formerly the longest running musical in Broadway's history, and the first English production of Les Misérables in 1985, also with John Caird.
Nunn has also directed opera at Glyndebourne, and began directing for television with Antony and Cleopatra (starring Suzman) in 1974. He re-staged his highly successful Gyndebourne production of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess for television in 1993, and it was more favorably received than the 1959 Samuel Goldwyn - Otto Preminger film version of the opera. He has occasionally ventured into film directing, such as Lady Jane (1986), Hedda, an adaptation of Hedda Gabler, and a 1996 film version of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. He is currently married to actress Imogen Stubbs, whose play We Happy Few he directed, and who often appears in his productions, including the Twelfth Night mentioned above. Nunn also directed the little-known but very successful 1986 Webber-Rice musical Cricket, at Windsor Castle.
Besides Cats and Les Misérables Nunn's other musical credits include Starlight Express and Sunset Boulevard. His London production Les Misérables, has been running for nearly 24 years, whilst later London credits include My Fair Lady, South Pacific (at the Royal National Theatre), The Woman In White, Othello and Acorn Antiques The Musical, The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Rock 'N' Roll (starring Alice Eve, Sinéad Cusack, Brian Cox and Rufus Sewell) and Porgy and Bess (an abridged version with dialogue instead of recitatives, unlike Nunn's first production of the opera).
Nunn's best known production is quite possibly his RSC production of Macbeth starring Ian McKellen in the title role and Dame Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth. Nunn's production was not only important due to its cast of virtuosic proportions, but also due to several avenues he explored through direction. He staged the action of the drama with not only the paying audience, but also the audience of all of the actors in the production not in the ongoing scene—they sat on wooden crates just beyond the main playing space.
Nunn returned to the bard from Stratford, directing a modern production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet in 2004, which starred Ben Whishaw in the title role, and was staged at the Old Vic Theatre in London, England. In 2007 his RSC productions of King Lear and The Seagull played at Stratford before embarking on a world tour and playing at the New London Theatre from November 2007. The two plays both starred Ian McKellen, Romola Garai, Frances Barber, Sylvester McCoy, and William Gaunt. Nunn's television production of King Lear was screened on Boxing Day, 2008 with McKellen in the title role. In 2008 he returned to The Belgrade Theatre in Coventry (the theatre where he started his career) to direct Joanna Murray-Smith's adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's film Scenes from a Marriage starring Imogen Stubbs and Iain Glen.
His musical adaptation of Gone With The Wind, opened at the New London Theatre in April 2008 and, after slating reviews, closed on 14 June 2008 after just 79 performances. In December 2008, he directed a revival of A Little Night Music at the Menier Chocolate Factory. The production will transfer to Broadway, opening late November 2009, with Catherine Zeta-Jones taking on the role of Desiree Armfeldt, and Angela Lansbury taking on the part of Madame Armfeldt. Other members of the original London cast will be transferring with the production.
In 2010, Nunn signed on to direct two productions on the West End: a revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Aspects of Love (from July to September 2010 at the Menier Chocolate Factory) and the play Birdsong (opening in September 2010 at the Comedy Theatre), based on the Sebastian Faulks novel of the same title.
Personal life
Nunn is married to actress Imogen Stubbs with whom he has two children, Ellie and Jesse. With his first wife, actress Janet Suzman, he has one child, Joshua. He has another two children, Laurie and Amy, with his second wife, Sharon Lee-Hill. He was knighted in 2002.
Politics
In 1998 Nunn was named in a list of the biggest private financial donors to the Labour Party (UK).
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