Terry Hands

Terry Hands
Hands in 1972
Born
Terence David Hands

(1941-01-09)9 January 1941
Died4 February 2020(2020-02-04) (aged 79)
London, England
OccupationTheatre director
Years active1966–2015
Spouse(s)
(m. 1964; div. 1967)

(m. 1974; div. 1980)

Emma Lucia
(m. 2002)
PartnerJulia Lintott (1988–1996)
Children3

Terence David Hands, CBE (9 January 1941 – 4 February 2020) was an English theatre director. He founded the Liverpool Everyman Theatre and ran the Royal Shakespeare Company for thirteen years during one of the company's most successful periods; he spent 25 years in all with the RSC.[1] He also saved Clwyd Theatr Cymru from closure and turned it into the most successful theatre in Wales in his seventeen years as Artistic Director.[2] He received several Olivier, Tony and Molière awards and nominations for directing and lighting.[3]

  1. ^ "Terry Hands, award-winning theatre director who proved to be the wrong man to lead the RSC – obituary". The Telegraph. 4 February 2020.
  2. ^ "Review of In Memory from the theatre dance and drama in Wales web site". www.theatre-wales.co.uk. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  3. ^ Green, Michael (26 January 2015). "Mold Clwyd Theatr Cymru to stage Hamlet as artistic director's swan song". chesterchronicle.co.uk. Retrieved 23 May 2015.