Dominic Dromgoole was appointed Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe in 2006. Since 2006 the Globe has increased its diet of new work, has begun a small scale touring operation, which now travels all over the UK and Europe, has done two large scale tours of North America and its first across England, has initiated winter performances, and has filmed many of its productions for distribution in cinemas and on DVD. Dominic has directed Shakespeare’s Hamlet (2011), Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 (2010), Love’s Labour’s Lost (2007 and 2009), Romeo and Juliet (2009), King Lear (2008), Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra (both 2006) for Shakespeare’s Globe as well as Trevor Griffiths’ new play A New World (2009). He was Artistic Director of the Oxford Stage Company, 1999-2005, and the Bush Theatre 1990-96, and Director of New Plays for the Peter Hall Company in 1996/7. In addition Dominic has directed at the Tricycle Theatre, in the West-End, and in America and Romania.  He has written two books The Full Room (Methuen 2001) and Will and Me (Penguin 2006), has had a column in the New Statesman and The Guardian, and has written extensively for many journals, most often the Sunday Times.