Giles Ramsay is an independent theatre producer and director who specializes in creating new work with artists in developing countries. He is the Founding Director of the charity Developing Artists and a Fellow of St. Chad’s College, Durham University.

He is currently working on long term projects in Zimbabwe, Mexico and The Cape Verde Islands and in 2009 new projects will begin in Israel and Palestine. In 2008 he presented a number of Mexican artists at The Edinburgh International Book Festival and in 2007 produced shows from Mexico and the USA at The Assembly Rooms as part of The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He has previously presented work at venues ranging from The Riverside Studios, The Theatre Museum, Artsdepot, Flowers East Gallery and The National Theatre in London as well as at The Pleasance Theatre and The Traverse Theatre (Fringe First winner 2005) in Edinburgh.

As a writer, Giles won The Soho Theatre’s Westminster Prize with his play Shall We Go to the Alhambra? Other plays include Territory (Harare, London, Edinburgh), Only As Multiple (Edinburgh) and Crocodile which premiered at The Harare Festival in May 2007 and received a staged reading in the USA starring Lisa Harrow in October 2008. As a director he is currently working on a production of The Glass Menagerie for Northern Stage in the USA and a new Zimbabwean version of Oedipus Tyrannus which will open in Harare in May 2009.

Giles was educated at the universities of Cambridge, London and Durham (where he was President of the Union). He also spent a year at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts as part of his MA in drama.

In 1987 Giles led The British National Debate Team on its annual tour of America and in 1992 was awarded both a Chautauqua and a Page Scholarship by The English Speaking Union. Throughout the 1990s he was Director of Studies for Summer Schools in Drama at the University of Edinburgh and Director of Drama at Trent College, Nottingham. He was formerly Head of Divinity at King’s College, Taunton and also taught English Literature at Queen’s College, Harley Street.

Giles has lectured and run drama workshops at schools and universities in Denmark, Mexico, Thailand, Zimbabwe and the USA and also organizes development programmes for a number of North American not-for-profit theatres. He currently also lectures on the history of British theatre on Queen Mary 2 as it sails from New York to London.


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