Mike Bradwell (theatre director)
Mike Bradwell | |
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| Born | Michael John Bradwell 14 June 1948 Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England |
| Died | 7 April 2025 (aged 76) |
| Occupation(s) | Director, writer |
Michael John Bradwell (14 June 1948 – 7 April 2025) was a British theatre director. He founded the Hull Truck Theatre in 1971 and directed all of their shows for ten years including his own devised plays The Knowledge, Oh What!, Bridget's House, A Bed of Roses, and Still Crazy After All These Years. Hull Truck was the first British Fringe Company to be invited to play the National Theatre and to create new drama for BBC Television.
Bradwell was artistic director of the Bush Theatre from 1996 until 2007. His book on alternative theatre, The Reluctant Escapologist, won the Society for Theatre Research's Theatre Book Prize for 2010.
He trained at East 15 Acting School. He played Norman in Mike Leigh's award winning film Bleak Moments and worked as an underwater escapologist and fire eater with Hirst's Charivari and as an actor/musician with the Ken Campbell Roadshow.
Bradwell died on 7 April 2025, at the age of 76.