Damian Sandys

Damian Sandys


Damian trained at Oxford University (BA, English Literature & Language) and Arts Educational (MA, Creative Practice in Musical Theatre). Most recently, Damian was the Resident Director for the UK tour of Priscilla - Queen Of The Desert. Prior to that he was Resident on Gary Barlow and Tim Firth’s Calendar Girls - The Musical (UK Tour) & The Kite Runner (Playhouse Theatre, London / UK & Ireland Tour).
His directing credits include: When Midnight Strikes (nominated, Best Musical Production, Off West End Awards); Cinderella at Blackpool Grand (nominated, Best Director at the Great British Pantomime Awards 2018); the London revival of Tick, Tick...Boom! (Union Theatre), West Side Story (Theatre Royal Windsor for Bill Kenwright); You Know How To Love Me (The Other Palace); the world premiere of Equally (Cockpit Theatre); Soho Cinders (Stanwix Theatre); Dick Whittington (Beck Theatre; Winner, Best Pantomime, 2014); Sister Act, Betty Blue Eyes (Putney Arts Theatre); six seasons of NewsRevue (Canal Café Theatre); ten years of sell-out seasons of the EdFringe institution, Shakespeare For Breakfast (Winner, Best Comedy, 2017); the world premiere of The Poltergeist of Cock Lane; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (both Edinburgh Festival and subsequent London transfer); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (for HM Queen Elizabeth II’s Birthday Celebrations; Hairspray and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (London Oratory); Sleeping Beauty (Anvil Arts); Twelve Angry Men; A Kind Of Loving. Over a period of sixteen years, he has directed and produced 40 productions at the Edinburgh Festival.
Assistant/Resident credits include: the national tour of Oklahoma! (UK Productions); Associate / Resident on the UK premiere of Little Women the Musical (LOST Theatre); Me And My Girl (London Palladium); Legally Blonde (Aberystwyth Arts Centre); Kiss Of The Spider Woman (ArtsEd with Nikolai Foster & Drew McOnie); Mathilde (Comedy Theatre, London).
 Damian has also worked with the directors on the world premiere of The Witches of Eastwick (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane for Cameron Mackintosh) and Honk! (The Royal National Theatre’s tour). He has been Associate Director on the annual Whatsonstage Awards Concert for the last eleven years.

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