“Theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt”
Declan Donnellan, The Actor and the Target
“Declan Donnellan – Irish in origin, English in education, European in culture, universal in thought – is one of the most original directors there is”
Le Figaro
Declan Donnellan is joint Artistic Director of Cheek by Jowl, with his partner, the designer Nick Ormerod. They formed Cheek by Jowl in 1981, for which they have created over 40 productions, performing in over 400 cities, across six continents.
Donnellan has staged the English premieres, 300 years after their writing, of major European classics by writers such as Racine, Corneille, Lessing and Ostrovski.