Jonathan Kent

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1949-06-19 (76 years old)

Place of Birth

Lewisham, London, England, UK

Jonathan Kent

Biography

Jonathan Kent CBE (born 1949) is an English theatre director and opera director. He is known as a director/producer alongside Ian McDiarmid at the Almeida Theatre from 1990 to 2002. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in February 2016 for his services to the performing arts. Kent was born in England to architect parents. They moved to Cape Town, South Africa, when Kent was one year old. He went to school at Diocesan College, Rondebosch, where he appeared as King Lear in the school play in 1964. He originally thought of taking up the profession of painter, but returned to England to study...

Acting

1985

Love's Labour's Lost

as Ferdinand, King of Navarre

1980

1982

Baal

as Eckart

Production

2011

Tosca

as Director

2022

A German Life

as Director

2022

A German Life

as Producer

2009

Purcell: The Fairy Queen

as Stage Director

2015

2014

Manon Lescaut

as Director

2015

Gypsy

as Director

2018

2015

Gypsy

as Stage Director

2011

2013

2016

Manon Lescaut

as Conductor

2016

Manon Lescaut

as Director

2013

Private Lives

as Stage Director

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