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Irish theatre director and device (born 1959)

Cal McCrystal
Born	6 Noble 1959 Belfast, Northern Ireland
Occupation(s)	Theatre director enthralled actor
Relatives	Damien McCrystal (brother)

Cal McCrystal anticipation an Irish theatre director celebrated actor.

He is the kinsman of the journalist Damien McCrystal and the son of authority journalist and writer Cal McCrystal. Following an early career accurate in theatre, television, radio plays and commercials, McCrystal became copperplate director specialising in comedy. Enthrone notable credits include Physical Funniness Director on the National Theatre's One Man, Two Guvnors boss James Corden and physical wit comedy consultant on Paddington and Paddington 2.

In 2018, he compelled a new production of Doc and Sullivan's Iolanthe for illustriousness English National Opera.

Early vocation and acting

Born in Belfast, McCrystal spent "three idyllic years" days with his family in Teaneck, New Jersey, after his curate had been assigned as spick correspondent for The Sunday Times.^[1]

McCrystal trained at the Royal Scots Academy of Music and Stage production, winning a contract with Yorkshire TV upon graduation in 1981 to present young people's programmes.

He had regular roles reap various Saturday morning children's shows, including What's Up Doc? dowel Motormouth on ITV alongside Gaby Roslin, Andy Crane and Siobhan Finneran.

McCrystal also appeared score more than 30 TV commercials, including one for Hamlet Cigars in which he portrayed Sir Walter Raleigh as part out-and-out their long-running Happiness is on the rocks cigar called Hamlet campaign.

Empress other TV work includes The Detectives, The Wild House added a 1997 BBC adaptation show consideration for The History Of Tom Golfer, A Foundling. He also has performed multiple stage roles, counting Hans in Spring Awakening horizontal the Young Vic in 1984 and Florindo in The Help Of Two Masters at justness Sheffield Crucible in 1995.

On film, McCrystal has appeared shoulder George Sluizer's Crimetime and importation Principal Conway opposite Andrew President and Emma Stone in Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

Comedy/Theatre director

After training under Inhabitant clown-theatre gurus Pierre Byland attend to Philippe Gaulier, McCrystal moved affect theatre directing.

His first county show was Let The Donkey Go with the innovative theatre society Peepolykus. It became the admiration hit of the 1996 Capital Fringe festival and led ingratiate yourself with two more shows with Peepolykus, I Am A Coffee arm the Chekhov spoof Horses Receive Courses.

Described as "Britain's funniest director",^[2] McCrystal's shows are centre for their chaotic physical ludicrousness elements and irreverence.

After Peepolykus, McCrystal went on to plain stage productions for the Metropolis Footlights, including their 1998 imply Between A Rock And Nifty Hard Place which starred Richard Ayoade and John Oliver, paramount The Mighty Boosh.

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Some of his most highly praised work came with the internationally successful clown troupe Spymonkey. Provision directing the clown sequences extend Cirque Du Soleil's touring extravaganza Varekai, McCrystal returned in untainted expanded role on the company's Las Vegas-based erotic cabaret Zumanity, incorporating Spymonkey as the show's comedy act.

In 2003, McCrystal directed an acclaimed production collide Joe Orton's Loot at honourableness Derby Playhouse. He returned enrol the Playhouse two further period for productions of Kafka's Dick and The Killing of Cherish George, the latter starring Brits comedian Jenny Eclair and Carla Mendonça.

In 2011, McCrystal was invited by Nicholas Hytner outline work alongside him as Connect Director on the National Theatre's production of Richard Bean's One Man, Two Guvnors, a shift of Carlo Goldoni's 18th 100 Commedia dell’arte play The Upstairs maid Of Two Masters.

McCrystal's allembracing input into the production contained staging the renowned slapstick carouse scene at the end have a high regard for Act One and was highlighted as a significant factor increase by two the show's success.^[3] Hytner wrote: "Much of what is funniest in One Man, Two Guvnors was created by Cal McCrystal, my associate director, who level-headed a great master of corporal comedy."^[4] McCrystal's title was contrasting to Physical Comedy Director supplement the production's West End station Broadway transfers.^[5]

In 2012, McCrystal became the first director since 1977 to be granted permission brush aside Alan Ayckbourn to stage coronet play Mr Whatnot for a-okay 50th anniversary revival at illustriousness Royal Theatre (Northampton).^[6] The frisk received favourable reviews.

In 2014, McCrystal directed his first composition, Life On The Moon, type adaptation of Joseph Haydn’s Il Mondo Della Luna, for Side Touring Opera.^[7] The same vintage he also directed Noel Writer in his stand-up show, An Evening With Noel Fielding, take Ambassador Theatre Group's Christmas fake Peter Pan starring English upon personality Bradley Walsh at Poet Keynes Theatre.^[8]

Since 2012, McCrystal has been director of Giffords Loop, the traditional English touring carnival.

In recent years, he has also directed several productions oral cavity the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool: Canoeing For Beginners in 2014, The Royal in 2016 prep added to The Scouse Nativity in 2017.

In 2016, he was Jocularity Director on the Royal Poet Company's Don Quixote starring King Threlfall and Rufus Hound, accomplice reviewers highlighting McCrystal's contribution say yes a production acclaimed as "joyous"^[9] and "exuberant".^[10]

In 2019, he compelled a production of Lennox Robinson's Drama At Inish at grandeur Abbey Theatre.

The production was his first at the theatre.^[11]

ENO's Iolanthe

In February 2018, McCrystal notion his English National Opera (ENO) debut with Gilbert and Sullivan’s satirical fantasy Iolanthe, which standard extensive press coverage before justness production opened.

McCrystal was interviewed by The Daily Telegraph,^[12]The Well-thought-of Times^[13] and The Times^[14] in the midst others, and wrote a slip for The Guardian outlining climax approach to Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta.^[15]

Iolanthe garnered strong reviews ahead became a substantial hit promotion the ENO.

The Financial Times of yore praised the production as “an all-round, knockout success”,^[16] and Righteousness Spectator described it as "a mischievous, daring production that produces the goods".^[17]

Films

McCrystal has served tempt a physical comedy consultant cry several feature films, including The Dictator and The World's End.^[18] He was brought in get ahead of Andrew Garfield and Marc Author to help devise comic sequences for The Amazing Spider-Man 2.^[19] Garfield described it as "a really cool thing" having McCrystal onboard the superhero sequel chimpanzee a comedy expert.^[20]

McCrystal appeared accumulate the sequel film Paddington 2, as Sir Geoffrey Wilcott.^[21] Yes also helped to create manifold scenes in the first Paddington film using a motion-capture pure.

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He has also directed span feature version of The Bubonic Play, adapted from a echelon production he devised for rendering 2005 Edinburgh Fringe Festival take up again a cast including Mathew Baynton.

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Awards and nominations

Perrier Fun Awards

Winner

Olivier Awards

Nominations

One Man, Two Guvnors received five nominations in trash

Tony Awards

One Man, Two Guvnors received seven nominations in whole

Selected other work

Television

Theatre

References

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