Jez Bond

Jez Bond is an English theatre director who lives in London.
Life and Career
Bond was born in Kingston, Surrey and attended Milbourne Lodge, Oundle School and Dulwich College. Oundle proved a major influence as despite originally attending due to its unbeaten swimming team (which Bond went on to captain) it was his heavy involvement with the Stahl Theatre, rigging and operating lighting and sounds as well as building and painting sets, that proved to be a major influence. It was sitting in the auditorium here, he reports, where he developed the director's eye to oversee all the relevant departments on an entire production. For the sixth form he then moved to Dulwich College, where he was in the same year as actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, he embraced all of the extra curricular activities at the school's Edward Alleyn Theatre. At the age of 16 he wrote, directed and produced his first play at the Edward Alleyn. At the age of 17, while still attending Dulwich, he directed and produced a play at the Drill Hall London, which formed his professional debut. After attending Hull University where he gained a BA (Hons) in Drama he joined Y Touring Theatre Company (then in Lennox Road, Finsbury Park) where he company managed and co-directed a number of national tours. He was one of the youngest recipients of the Channel Four Theatre Director Award and, under the bursary, trained with Lawrence Till at the Watford Palace Theatre.
Work
Fame Game (Tour of Austria)
You Have Been A Wonderful Audience (Barons Court)
The Twits (Tour of Switzerland)
Sleeping Beauty (Salisbury Playhouse)
Oliver! (starring Rowan Atkinson, Oxford)
I Have Been Here Before (Watford Palace Theatre)
The Max Factor (Barons Court)
Shot of Genius (Leicester Square)
Hot Property (Old Red Lion)
Canaries Sometimes Sing (Kings Head/France)
Misconceptions (Hong Kong Arts Centre),
Risk Everything (Old Red Lion)
A Season in South Africa (Old Vic)
Big Boys (Croydon Warehouse - Time Out Critic’s Choice)
The Fulham Jesus (Barons Court)
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All For Your (Barons Court)
Mr Newman's Fear of Trees (Old Red Lion)
Pig in the Middle (Tour of UK and Holand)
Current
Bond is leading a project to convert an office building in Finsbury Park into a 200 seat main house and 90 seat studio venue. Due to open in 2012, The Park Theatre will be "a new theatrical powerhouse for north London"
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