Hal Chambers
Hal trained at Bristol Old Vic and National Theatre Studio.
As a Director, his credits include Jekyll & Hyde (Box Clever); The Ballad of Maria Marten (Stephen Joseph, Eastern Angles, & UK tour); Michael Morpurgo’s Shakespeare Tales (RSC), 13 (Oxford School of Drama), Hansel and Gretel, A Christmas Carol (South Street Arts Centre, Reading), Macbeth, Henry II, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night (Reading Minster Church), Henry V (Barn, Cirencester), The Bear (Polka, UK and world tours), Ruff Guide to Shakespeare (Bristol Old Vic, Tour, & Edinburgh Fringe), Julius Caesar (RADA & Gdansk Shakespeare Festival), Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs: The Magic Cutlass (Southbank Centre, UK tour, & West End), Flare Path, Electra, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo & Juliet (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire), Matilda: The Empress, Henry the First of England, Much Ado About Nothing (St James’ Church), The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (Eastern Angles & UK tour), The Lights (Royal Court & Oxford School of Drama), Leaper: A Fish Tale (Lyric Hammersmith & UK tour), Vanity Fair (Middle Temple Hall), Tommy Foggo: Superhero (Gulbenkian & UK tour), Richard II (Shakespeare’s Globe Higher Education), Ratchet (Soho & Oxford School of Drama), Ragnarok (Eastern Angles), Helver’s Night (York Royal); The Magical Playroom (UK tour), Jackajack, Tim & Light (UK tour); Sam Rose in the Shadows, The Golden Cowpat (Greenwich & UK tour).
Hal has directed multiple R&Ds, including Howl’s Moving Castle (Wales Millennium Centre & Theatr Clwyd), Finding Victoria (Historic Royal Palaces), Iris and the Land of Words (Polka & Winchester Royal), Crack Cocaine (Southwark Playhouse), Prudence Tanner: Publicly Traded Person (Bush).
As Assistant Director his credits include Tales for Winter, The Comedy of Errors (RSC), Huis Clos (Donmar Warehouse), The Caretaker (Octagon), The Lost World (Bristol Old Vic), Metropolis (Royal Bath).
Hal is an Associate Director with RABBLE Theatre in Reading and was previously Artistic Director of touring company, Tucked In Productions. Hal was also Puppetry Director for Knights of the Rose (West End).