John Burrell (theatre director) then executive artistic director for CBS TV in New York, and was credited with revolutionizing design on television. His final post was as a drama professor at the University of Illinois." John Burrell (theatre director) John Percy Burrell (6 May 1910–28 September 1972) was an English theatre director. John Burrell was educated at Shrewsbury School in Shropshire, England and he led a successful theatre career afterwards. He was appointed as a co-director of the Old Vic Theatre in London, England, with Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson in 1948. He later moved to the USA and worked on Broadway, New York.
Michael Boyd (theatre director) Director a year later. In 1982 he joined the Sheffield Crucible as an Associate Director, and three years later became founding Artistic Director of the Tron Theatre in Glasgow, where he staged a production of "Macbeth" starring Iain Glen, an adaptation of Janice Galloway’s "The Trick is to Keep Breathing" and Michel Tremblay’s Quebec plays, "The Real World?" and "The Guid Sisters". Boyd joined the RSC in 1996 as an Associate Director, staging the three parts of "Henry VI" together with "Richard III" at the Young Vic in London in April 2002, as part of the "". During this time