Chris Loveless   -  Theatre Director


07737 985 351
chrisloveless@hotmail.co.uk

Artistic Director ~ Fallen Angel Theatre Company
Associate Director ~ White Bear Theatre
Associate Director ~ Stepping Out Theatre Company

Trained ~ Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (Directing, 2007)

 

Forthcoming Productions: Blavatsky's Tower, by Moira Buffini, Brockley Jack Studio Theatre, 16th March - 3rd April 2010

Gifted
,
a new play by Peter Billingham, White Bear Theatre, 27th April - 16th May 2010

Love Bites, a new play by Crysse Morrison, Alma Theatre, 24th - 29th May 2010

Stairway to Heaven, by Steve Hennessy, Blue Elephant Theatre, 15th June - 10th July 2010

The Remains of the Day, Alex Loveless’ musical adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Booker Prize winning novel, Union Theatre,  1st - 25th September 2010

Still Life, by Steve Hennessy, tba

 

 

2009 Director/Producer Normal Fallen Angel/Stepping Out/Simon James Collier Tobacco Factory
2009 Director/Producer Moonshadow Fallen Angel/Stepping Out/Simon James Collier White Bear
2009 Director   Ray Collins Dies On Stage Fallen Angel/Stepping Out Alma Theatre
2009 Director Thursday Coma Stepping Out/Theatre West Alma Theatre
2009 Director Walter’s Monkey Stepping Out/Theatre West Alma Theatre
2009   Director  The Saints of Blasphemy (reh. reading) Fallen Angel White Bear 
2009 Director Basildon (reh. reading) Peter Hamilton  White Bear
2008 Director/Co Producer  Dracula Simon James Collier/Fallen Angel/White Bear White Bear
2008  Intern Various Ambassador Theatre Group West End
2008 Associate Producer Postcards from God: the Sister Wendy Musical   Simon James Collier Hackney Empire Studio
2007-
2008
Director/Producer The Custom of the Country Fallen Angel/White Bear White Bear
2007 Director/Producer* Normal Various Dukes*/White Bear*/ Greenwich Playhouse/
Alma Theatre
2007 Assistant Director Othello Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory Tobacco Factory
2007 Director Wilderness (reh. reading)  Stepping Out Alma Theatre
2007   Director    The Murder Club (reh. reading)   Stepping Out     Alma Theatre
2007 Assistant Director The Demon Box Theatre West/Stepping Out Alma Theatre   

Other:


highly experienced dramaturg; former youth theatre director with 10+ years experience and dozens of credits; former actor in theatre and TV and ex-member of the NYT (1998 - 2002); member of the Directors Guild of Great Britain and Equity; driving licence; CRB cleared.

 

Reviews:

‘The staging and pace of the play are brilliantly eerie… An atmospheric, unsparing and at times unsettlingly funny evening.’
fourbluestars.gif (1347 bytes)  Venue Magazine on Normal


‘This electrifying production… the truly inspired direction of Chris Loveless… resonates long after plangent music has ebbed from the stage.’
Plays International on Normal


‘Adapted stylishly from a production of two years ago by director Chris Loveless… a fine script handled with an all-round graceful touch rendering the violently unpalatable events horribly entertaining.’
Bristol 24-7 on Normal


‘This great production.’
fourbluestars.gif (1347 bytes) (Critics’ Choice & Show of the Week) Time Out on Moonshadow


'Insightful direction by Chris Loveless brings out the bleak realism as well as highlighting moments of wry humour in this powerful play.'
Plays International on Moonshadow


'Convincing acting, under Chris Loveless’ direction, makes us believe in the agonising tension, hope and despair of life at the margins.'
The Stage on Moonshadow


‘Brilliant theatre… theatre and new writing at its most raw.’
Extra! Extra! on Moonshadow


‘Funny, moving, neatly constructed and superbly performed.’
fourbluestars.gif (1347 bytes) Venue Magazine on Ray Collins Dies On Stage


‘Directed with devastating insight and astounding pace by Chris Loveless.’
Plays International on Ray Collins Dies On Stage


‘Crisp direction and therapeutic humour.’
fivebluestars.gif (1397 bytes) Venue Magazine on Thursday Coma and Walter’s Monkey


'Highly enjoyable studio theatre entertainment.'
The Stage on Dracula


'A musical version of Dracula could have gone horribly wrong, but the Fallen Angel Theatre Company have managed to pull off an entertaining evening in this well produced version of the gothic classic... A night of bloody good fun.'
fourbluestars.gif (1347 bytes) What’s on Stage on Dracula


'Directed by Chris Loveless... there is a complete believability of the events that unfold. His attention to detail with text and delivery, along with how far to allow ‘high drama’ to unfold without it falling into laughable melodrama is admirable, as are the performances he has drawn out from his twelve-strong cast.'
Musical Stages Magazine on Dracula


‘This is an alternative to the West End, perhaps not so lavish but certainly not lacking in quality.’
UK Theatre Net on Dracula


‘Chris Loveless’ staging is much better than merely acceptable: in fact, it’s a fresh, gripping and witty mini-epic.’
fourbluestars.gif (1347 bytes) (Critics’ Choice) Time Out on The Custom of the Country


‘The stylized direction is like a finely tooled instrument so precise in its timing and detail that one is impressed to such a degree as to forget the brutality of the content. This is horror that is truly horrible but so well done.’
Blanche Marvin on Normal


‘A superbly deployed directorial device ratchets up the intensity and sense of confinement. This ambitious production achieves what it sets out to.’
fourbluestars.gif (1347 bytes) Bristol Evening Post on Normal