Tim Baker is a multi-award winning theatre director and playwright based in Wales. Tim has directed for the National Theatre (London) and twice for the Theatr Genedlaethol (National Theatre of Wales). Tim works in both English and Welsh, and has directed productions as far afield as Japan, Oregon and Catalonia. Currently Tim is Associate Director of Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Wales’ largest producing theatre, and also Artistic Director of the National Youth Theatre of Wales. Amongst Tim’s awards are Best Director from the Liverpool Daily Post in 2001, and a major Welsh Arts Council Creative Wales Award of £25,000 in 2007, enabling him to travel worldwide exploring theatre in small nations. Tim will be travelling to Patagonia in April on a major research project, in collaboration with Menter Patagonia.
As a playwright, Tim has written and adapted extensively for the stage, including adaptations of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and Dickens’s Great Expectations (both published by Josef Weinberger). The Grapes of Wrath is being produced by Bolton Little Theatre in March 2011.
Tim has also adapted Dickens's Hard Times, George Eliot’s Silas Marner, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas and Morality Play by Barry Unsworth. All of Tim’s adaptations are available by contacting Tim directly here.
In July 2011 Tim will direct a major production for the National Eisteddfod based on James Mollinson's amazing collection of pictures of children from all over the world and where they sleep.
Tim will be working with 150 young people from North Wales and the project will connect with up to 12 countries from all corners of the world.
This website is currently being overhauled – to come very soon will be Tim’s production archive and details of current projects.
See more about Great Expectations and Grapes of Wrath here.
Best Director - Liverpool Daily Post 2001
Manchester Evening News Best Visiting Production 2002: To Kill a Mockingbird
Wales Theatre Awards 2001 Best Production: To Kill a Mockingbird
Liverpool Daily Post 2001 Best Production: To Kill a Mockingbird
Liverpool Daily Post 1997 Best Production: Rape of the Fair Country
"This wonderfully fresh production justifiably raised a full house to a standing ovation... '
***** A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 2008
The Independent
'…lives up to Baker’s deserved reputation….a tight, well crafted musical play '
***** Great Expectations, 2009
Adapted by Tim Baker pub. Josef Weinberger
The Western Mail
'A wonderful piece – taut, well structured, fast paced and riveting.'
***** Festen, 2009
The Western Mail
'A classic novel adaptation, ...magnificently theatrical and true to the book and Dickens.'
Hard Times, 2000
The Stage
