Liam Steel

Director

Liam works as a director, choreographer and performer and directed and choreographed the original production of Knots in 2005 (voted best production in the dublin fringe festival). He is artistic director of his own company Stan won’t Dance, which toured its first piece Sinner through 2004/05 to huge critical and public acclaim and went on to complete a huge tour of North America. For ten years Liam was a core member of Dv8 Physical Theatre as a performer, assistant director and designer for the company. Productions worked on included MSM; Enter Achilles (including the Emmy Award winning film version); Bound to Please; The Happiest Day of my Life (Time Out design of the year Award) and the Cost of Living. Numerous performance credits include work with Nottingham Playhouse; The Royal Court; Manchester Royal Exchange; The Kosh; Volcano Theatre Co; Nigel Charnock and Company; Frantic Assembly; Royal National Theatre; The David Glass Ensemble and 3 tours with Complicité. Other directorial/choreographic work includes Crazy Gary, Bare Bones Dance Company – The 5 Man Show; Jean de Florette, The Venue Leicester Square; Hymns, (revised version: 2005 and original: 1999) Lyric Hammersmith/Frantic Assembly; Dirty Wonderland, Brighton International Festival/Frantic Assembly, Paradise Lost, Northampton Theatre Royal and 2006 Oxford Stage Company retour; Pericles, rsc/cardboard Citizens Theatre Co; Strictly Dandia, (for which he was awarded a Herald Angel Award for outstanding achievment at the Edinburgh International Festival) Tamasha Theatre Co/Lyric Hammersmith; The Shooky, Birmingham Repertory Theatre; Devotion, Theatre Centre; Frankenstein, Blue Eyed Soul Dance Company; Heavenly, Frantic Assembly/Soho Theatre (2002) and off Broadway production, New York [2004); Vurt, Contact Theatre Manchester (nominated for 5 Manchester Evening News Awards, including best production); The Fall of the House of Usher, Graeae Theatre Company; Look at Me, Theatre Centre; Sparkleshark, Royal National Theatre; The Flight Restless Dance Co. (Adelaide Festival-Australia); 15 Degrees and Rising, Circus Space; Knots, CoisCéim Dance Theatre [voted best production at Dublin International Theatre Festival); The Secret Garden; Beauty and the Beast; The Ghosts of Scrooge; Tom’s Midnight Garden (tma award – best production for children and young people); and Oliver Twist, all for the Library Theatre, Manchester and as a guest director on Saltimbanco for Cirque du Soleil.