Adam Spreadbury-Maher

Adam Spreadbury-Maher
Born	Australia
Occupation	Theatre director and producer

Adam Spreadbury-Maher is a multi-award-winning Australian/Irish theatre artistic director, producer and translator. He was the founding Artistic Director of London's Cock Tavern Theatre from January 2009 until the venues closure in April 2011. He became Artistic Director of the King's Head Theatre in March 2010. He is the artistic director of theatre company Good Night Out Presents and joint artistic director of opera company OperaUpClose.

Spreadbury-Maher was born in Australia. He received his initial training as an opera singer at the Canberra School of Music. His debut directorial production of Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing won Spreadbury-Maher an Australian Critics’ Circle Award in 2004. In 2005 Adam moved to the UK, and, after walking out of training at London's Central School of Speech and Drama, made his London directing debut at White Bear Theatre, producing three critically successful shows as the theatre’s Associate Director, including the two world premieres The Ides of March by Duncan Ley and "Studies for a Portrait" by Daniel Reitz. In 2008 Adam founded theatre company Good Night Out Presents which is the parent company of his venues and theatre/opera companies. The company's production of Studies for a Portrait transferred to the Oval House Theatre following its critics' choice sell-out run at the White Bear Theatre. In 2008 Spreadbury-Maher directed Australian actor Mark Little in a production of Così by Louis Nowra, also for Good Night Out Presents. Other notable productions include the first UK revival of Peter Gill’s The York Realist, presented at Riverside Studios to mark Gill’s 70th birthday.

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