GUY MASTERSON (DRAMATURG)

Guy Masterson is an Olivier Award-winning Producer, Director, Actor, Voice Artist and Writer. He is also a busy Dramaturg, Performance & Executive Coach. Educated at Christ's Hospital School and then Cardiff University, he graduated BSc Joint Honours in Biochemistry & Chemistry (Magna Cum Laude) in 1982. He studied drama at UCLA before starting as an actor in Hollywood in 1985. After returning to the UK in 1989 to study further at LAMDA, he formed his own theatre company – Guy Masterson Productions – in 1991 to produce his first solo play, The Boy’s Own Story, by Peter Flannery. This led to a 9-month stint in the West End with Robert Lindsay’s Cyrano de Bergerac in 1992 during which Guy created his highly successful solo interpretation of Under Milk Wood (1993). The success of this venture led to Animal Farm (1995). He has since become globally renowned as a solo artist, having given over 5,000 performances worldwide. He formed Theatre Tours International Ltd (TTI) in 2000 and has sinceproduced, presented, written, directed and/or performed in over 150 productions, mostly new works, mostly premiering at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and many of which since toured extensively in the UK and internationally. Over 32 consecutive seasons at the Edinburgh Fringe since 1994, TTI has become the most highly awarded and nominated independent theatre producer at the Fringe originating a string of notable hits including 12 Angry Men (famously starring stand-up comedians including Bill Bailey), One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (starring Christian Slater and Mckenzie Crook), and The Odd Couple (starring Bill Bailey and Alan Davies). His 2009 production of Morecambe transferred to the West End and won the Olivier Award for Best Entertainment in 2010. In 2014, he adapted and directed an epic 30-actor production of Animal Farm with the Tumanishvili Film Actors Theatre Company of Tbilisi (Georgia) which won The Stage Best Ensemble Award at Edinburgh 2014. In 2018, he premiered The Marilyn Conspiracy to strong acclaim which was due to transfer into London but interrupted by Covid-19. It eventually played at the Park Theatre in 2024. In 2019, Guy presented and directed The Shark Is Broken, which transferred to the Ambassadors Theatre, West End, for 24 weeks and received an Olivier nomination for Best New Comedy. The Shark Is Broken transferred to Broadway in August 2023 for a hit 18-week run. Guy continues to champion new artists and new work and is thrilled to be working with Kayla and Michael on Call Me Elizabeth given his connection to the source material! (He was twice Elizabeth Taylor’s nephew by marriage to his uncle Richard Burton!) He is married to Brigitta and father to Indigo & Tallulah and lives just north of London.