David Stuttard is a British theatre director, classical scholar, translator, lecturer on classical literature and history, and author, primarily of historical works on the ancient world.

Biography

Stuttard read Classics at the

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and taught the subject for eleven years. As well as being a professional lecturer and author, in 1993 he founded the touring theatre company ''Actors of Dionysus'', which specializes in classical Greek drama. From 1993 to 2004 he was co-Artistic Director with Tamsin Shasha and directed his own translations and adaptations at venues in the UK and abroad. He has also written dramatic reconstructions of the lost Euripides plays ''Alexandros'' and ''Palamedes'', which were premiered as part of 'The Trojan Trilogy' at the

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in April 2008. He teaches at

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Workshops and at the Ancient and Classical Worlds Summer School at The

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.''Who's Who, 2015''

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Personal website
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