Awards & Winners

Peter Dews

Date of Birth 26-September-1929
Place of Birth Wakefield
(West Yorkshire, United Kingdom)
Nationality England
Profession Theatre Director, Television Producer, Television Director
Peter Dews was an English stage director. Born and educated in Wakefield, Yorkshire he then took an M.A. at University College, Oxford. After two years teaching history he joined the BBC, in Birmingham, working first in radio and then television, as a director. He won the BAFTA 'Best Director' Award in 1960 for An Age of Kings, a television adaptation of Shakespeare's history plays. He subsequently directed Shakespeare's Roman plays in the series The Spread of the Eagle. After a period of freelance theatre work he joined the Birmingham Repertory Theatre as Artistic Director in the autumn of 1965, in its original building - the first purpose built repertory theatre in the UK - and remained in that post until the company moved to the new venue in 1971, leaving in 1972, his last production there being the double-bill of Sophocles Oedipus the King and Sheridan's The Critic with Derek Jacobi in both play's leading roles. Previously his productions of Shakespeare's As You Like It and Peter Luke's Hadrian VII had transferred from the old Birmingham Rep to London's West End, the latter going on to New York gaining Dews a Tony Award for its direction. Other notable productions at the Rep included Hamlet, with Richard Chamberlain in 1969, Quick, Quick Slow a musical by Monty Norman and Julian More, based on a play by David Turner, who also scripted the musical, and The Sorrows of Frederick, an epic play about Frederick the Great by Romulus Linney, in 1970.

Awards by Peter Dews

Check all the awards nominated and won by Peter Dews.

1969


Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play
Honored for : Hadrian VII

Nominations 1969 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play Hadrian VII

1961


British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Production
British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Production

Nominations 1961 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Production
British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Production