Philip Prowse, Date of Birth

Philip Prowse

British theatre director

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1937

Profession: scenographer, theater director

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Philip Prowse (born 1937) is a stage director and designer, and an actor and was one of the triumvirate of directors at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow from 1970 until 2004. Philip Prowse was trained at the Slade School of Art and since 1970 was a co-director of the Citizens Company with Giles Havergal and Robert David MacDonald, having previously worked with Havergal at the Watford Palace Theatre.
Prowse's last production at the Citizens Theatre was Thomas Otway's Venice Preserv'd in 2004.
He directed and designed over 70 plays with the Citizens Theatre and has worked throughout the world designing and directing for opera, ballet and drama. National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C1173/03) with Hudson in 2005 for its An Oral History of Theatre Design collection held by the British Library.Up to his retirement Prowse also directed and taught on the Theatre Design MFA course at the Slade School of Fine Art, where he had a considerable influence on stage designers and artists like Piers Veness, Philip Witcomb and Simon Zabell.