Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965) is an English film and stage director, producer and screenwriter. In theatre, he is known for his dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret (1994), Oliver! (1994), Company (1995), and Gypsy (2003). He directed an original West End stage musical for the first time with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013).
For directing the play The Ferryman, Mendes was awarded the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2019.
British Writer Jack Thorne Puts His Pen Down In Solidarity With WGA Strikers
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: His Dark Materials and Enola Holmes scribe Jack Thorne, a “proud” member of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, has paused work on two projects in solidarity with the WGA strikers.
The multi-BAFTA winner, who is based in the UK, told us: “For me the crucial issue of the strike is about writer minimums and protecting young writers.
We need to be looking after these young writers to ensure they have a career and can run their own shows and be the generation that does even better with television.” Thorne spoke to us a couple of times this week, including at London’s National Theatre for the opening night of his acclaimed new play The Motive And The Cue, directed by Sam Mendes.
However, the in-demand writer wouldn’t be drawn on which projects he has paused work on, only noting that one is a film and one a series.
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