John Caird

John Newport Caird (born 22 September 1948) is a British stage director and writer of plays, musicals and operas. He is an Honorary Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, a regular director with the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain and the Principal Guest Director of the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm (Dramaten). Caird was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada to British subjects George Bradford Caird, Oxford theologian and Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford and Viola Mary Newport, poet and librarian. He lived in Montreal until 1959 where he attended Selwyn House School. His family then moved to Oxford where he attended Magdalen College School from 1959-1967. He studied acting at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre...