Founder and Artistic Director, Jez Bond, graduated Hull University with a BA Honours in Drama and was awarded the Channel Four Theatre Director Bursary. An award-winning director, he has been named in GQ’s 100 Most Connected Men and Evening Standard’s 100 most influential Londoners.
For Park Theatre, directing includes; Shakespeare, Tolkien & You (Ian McKellen’s one man show), the Whodunnit [Unrehearsed] series (involving a different celebrity guest each performance inc. Gillian Anderson, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Benedict Cumberbatch, Harry Hill, Damian Lewis, David Mitchell and Emma Thompson), the first ever English language production of the play La Cage aux Folles (translated by Simon Callow), Madame Rubinstein (starring Miriam Margolyes), Winner’s Curse (starring Clive Anderson), When It Happens To You (starring Amanda Abbington), Building The Wall, Hurling Rubble at the Sun and Adult Supervision.
Outside Park Theatre, credits include; Oliver! (starring Rowan Atkinson), I Have Been Here Before (Watford Palace Theatre), Sleeping Beauty (Salisbury Playhouse), Canaries Sometimes Sing (Kings Head & France), A Season in South Africa (Old Vic) plus tours of Austria, Switzerland and Hong Hong.
As a writer, credits include; Sleeping Beauty, Jack & the Beanstalk, Whodunnit [Unrehearsed] 1, Rapunzel, Whodunnit [Unrehearsed] 2, Whodunnit [Unrehearsed] 3, all co-written with Mark Cameron. He is currently adapting Ross Kemp’s autobiography into a one-man show, is co-writing a new a cappella comedy Dracapella, and is on commission to write a West End spin off of the Whodunnit series using audience members on stage. He has also written over twenty original songs for theatre.
As a dramaturge he has developed a number of plays which have gone on to great success both in London and New York. In addition, having led the capital conversion of Park Theatre, Jez has been a consultant for a number of new build projects and guest speaker at various conferences around the world.
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