Dominic Dromgoole has been appointed the new artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. He will replace Mark Rylance, the theater's first artistic director, who is stepping down at the end of this year, his 10th at the Globe.
Dromgoole is the artistic director of Oxford Stage Company. He is currently represented in the West End with Someone Who'll Watch Over Me at the New Ambassadors. Dromgoole has directed many other plays including mountings of Americans, The Cherry Orchard, After the Dance, The Tempest and Hay Fever at Oxford Stage and is the author of The Full Room: An A-Z of Contemporary Playwriting. He is also an arts commentator, writing for many publications, including The Sunday Times, The Guardian and The New Statesman.
"I know Dominic to be a wholly committed man of the theater, with a passion for Shakespeare and a strong desire to engage with what he has described as 'the maverick energy' of the Globe," Globe Chief Executive Peter Kyle said in a statement. "We all look forward to Dominic's own maverick energy being brought to bear on our 2006 theatre season, which he will begin programming immediately and to welcoming him when he formally takes up the post at the end of the year."
