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Date of Birth
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1966-02
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Place of Birth
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Wimbledon
(United Kingdom, London, England)
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Nationality
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England
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Also know as
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Dominic Cooke CBE
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Profession
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Theatre Director, Playwright
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Dominic Cooke CBE is an English theatre director and playwright. He won the 2007 Laurence Olivier Award for best director for his revival of The Crucible while working at the RSC. He took over as the Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theatre in London in 2006 and his tenure was widely hailed a success staging much new work and refocusing the aims of the theatre. Apart from being a successful director he has also adapted Malorie Blackman's novel, Noughts and Crosses, for stage and wrote a version of Arabian Nights.
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