Jonathan Church

Jonathan Church, CBE (born 1967) is a British stage director.

Church was the artistic director of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre (2001–2005) and since 2006 has been the artistic director of the Chichester Festival Theatre.

In August 2015, Sydney Theatre Company announced that he would be succeeding Andrew Upton as their artistic director.

At Birmingham, he directed the first revival of the David Hare Trilogy (Absence of War, Murmuring Judges and Racing Demon). Productions he has directed at Chichester include The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, the first major revival since its RSC premiere in 1980, and The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.The Telegraph has credited Church with reviving the fortunes of both the Salisbury Playhouse and the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

In 2006, Church moved to Chichester, and was praised for saving the Chichester Festival Theatre from closure by almost doubling the audience numbers and overseeing a £22m redevelopment to the theatre. A number of Chichester productions during his tenure, including Sweeney Todd and South Downs, have subsequently gone on to the West End. Church's production of Singin' in the Rain opened at the Palace Theatre in 2012.

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