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'''Sebastian Doggart''' (b. [[6 April]], [[1970]] [[London, England]]) is an [[Emmy Award|Emmy-nominated]] [[producer]], [[director]], [[writer]], [[translator]] and [[cinematographer]]. |
'''Sebastian Doggart''' (b. [[6 April]], [[1970]] [[London, England]]) is an [[Emmy Award|Emmy-nominated]] [[producer]], [[director]], [[writer]], [[translator]] and [[cinematographer]]. |
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Doggart is the grandson of the eminent [[opthalmologist]] and writer [[James Hamilton Doggart]]; son of the former CEO of Flemings Bank Tony Doggart and author/development economist [[Caroline Doggart]]; brother of the conservationist [[Nike Doggart]];<ref>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/06/060624115041.htm</ref> nephew of the cricketer and educator, [[Hubert Doggart]]; and cousin of the headmaster, [[Simon Doggart]]. Doggart was educated at Montessori primary schools, [[Eton College]] and [[King’s College, Cambridge]], where he obtained the top [[First class degree]] in |
Doggart is the grandson of the eminent [[opthalmologist]] and writer [[James Hamilton Doggart]]; son of the former CEO of Flemings Bank Tony Doggart and author/development economist [[Caroline Doggart]]; brother of the conservationist [[Nike Doggart]];<ref>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/06/060624115041.htm</ref> nephew of the cricketer and educator, [[Hubert Doggart]]; and cousin of the headmaster, [[Simon Doggart]]. Doggart was educated at Montessori primary schools, [[Eton College]] and [[King’s College, Cambridge]], where he obtained the top [[First class degree]] in Social and Political Sciences, [http://www.cantabnyc.org/member.php?member=368]. |
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==Early writing career== |
==Early writing career== |
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==Theatre career== |
==Theatre career== |
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After leaving Cambridge, Doggart trained as a drama director at [[Central School of Speech and Drama]]. His production of ''Ms Lear'' -- which radically re-interpreted [[King Lear]] as a neo-Thatcherite woman -- performed at theatres in London and Amsterdam. On graduating, he directed productions for eminent British companies [[Cheek by Jowl]] (world tour of [[Duchess of Malfi]]); Actors Touring Company; and Creation Theatre Company ([[Romeo and Juliet]]).<ref>http://www.creationtheatre.co.uk/previous_romeo2.html</ref> |
After leaving Cambridge, Doggart trained as a drama director at [[Central School of Speech and Drama]]. His production of ''Ms Lear'' -- which radically re-interpreted [[King Lear]] as a neo-Thatcherite woman -- performed at theatres in London and Amsterdam. On graduating, he directed productions for eminent British companies [[Cheek by Jowl]] (world tour of [[Duchess of Malfi]]); Actors Touring Company ([[Ion] by [[Euripides]]); and Creation Theatre Company ([[Romeo and Juliet]]).<ref>http://www.creationtheatre.co.uk/previous_romeo2.html</ref> |
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Doggart established himself as the pre-eminent translator/director of Latin American plays on the British stage.<ref>http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/top3mset/bc7a0471bca362a4a19afeb4da09e526.html</ref> His production of ''Mistress of Desires'', on which he collaborated directly with [[Mario Vargas Llosa]], premiered in 1993. He worked directly with [[Carlos Fuentes]] on the British premiere of ''Orchids in the Moonlight'', a dream play about the love between two Mexican actresses exiled in Hollywood's maze of mirrors. Doggart rehearsed the play in [[Cuba]] and opened in the Teatro Nacional, [[Havana]]. The production went on to perform at the [[Edinburgh Festival]]. According to ''Scotland on Sunday'', the production was "rich in language and movement, fantasy and reality, sensuality and cruelty; as iconoclastic as the magic realist boom of the 1960s." In 1994, Doggart translated and directed ''Night of the Assassins'', by the Cuban author [[Jose Triana]], staging it at the Technis theatre in London and at the [[Edinburgh Festival]]. According to ''[[The Scotsman]]'': "Brilliant, at times almost unbearable to watch, the British premiere of this award-winning Cuban play is utterly compelling... The atmosphere of oppression is almost tangible as the audience feel themselves entangled in the hysteria and power games of three siblings enacting or re-enacting the murder of their parents." In 1996, Doggart translated and directed a double bill of plays at The Gate theatre: ''Saying Yes'', by [[Griselda Gambaro]] and ''[[Rappaccini's Daughter]]'', by Nobel Laureate [[Octavio Paz]], with whom he collaborated on the translation. [[Sarah Alexander]] played the leading role of Beatrice. That same translation has been staged internationally, including a production by the Santa Fe Playhouse in July 2006. Doggart has since translated the only plays of two other leading Latin American writers: ''Diatribe of Love against a sitting man'', by [[Gabriel Garcia Marquez]], and ''The Kings'' by [[Julio Cortazar]]. |
Doggart established himself as the pre-eminent translator/director of Latin American plays on the British stage.<ref>http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/top3mset/bc7a0471bca362a4a19afeb4da09e526.html</ref> His production of ''Mistress of Desires'', on which he collaborated directly with [[Mario Vargas Llosa]], premiered in 1993. He worked directly with [[Carlos Fuentes]] on the British premiere of ''Orchids in the Moonlight'', a dream play about the love between two Mexican actresses exiled in Hollywood's maze of mirrors. Doggart rehearsed the play in [[Cuba]] and opened in the Teatro Nacional, [[Havana]]. The production went on to perform at the [[Edinburgh Festival]]. According to ''Scotland on Sunday'', the production was "rich in language and movement, fantasy and reality, sensuality and cruelty; as iconoclastic as the magic realist boom of the 1960s." In 1994, Doggart translated and directed ''Night of the Assassins'', by the Cuban author [[Jose Triana]], staging it at the Technis theatre in London and at the [[Edinburgh Festival]]. According to ''[[The Scotsman]]'': "Brilliant, at times almost unbearable to watch, the British premiere of this award-winning Cuban play is utterly compelling... The atmosphere of oppression is almost tangible as the audience feel themselves entangled in the hysteria and power games of three siblings enacting or re-enacting the murder of their parents." In 1996, Doggart translated and directed a double bill of plays at The Gate theatre: ''Saying Yes'', by [[Griselda Gambaro]] and ''[[Rappaccini's Daughter]]'', by Nobel Laureate [[Octavio Paz]], with whom he collaborated on the translation. [[Sarah Alexander]] played the leading role of Beatrice. That same translation has been staged internationally, including a production by the Santa Fe Playhouse in July 2006. Doggart has since translated the only plays of two other leading Latin American writers: ''Diatribe of Love against a sitting man'', by [[Gabriel Garcia Marquez]], and ''The Kings'' by [[Julio Cortazar]]. |
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-''[[Project Runway]]'' for [[Bravo (television network)|Bravo]], described by ''[[The New York Times]]'' as "the Prada of reality shows", and nominated for a 2005 Primetime Emmy,<ref>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437741/awards</ref>; |
-''[[Project Runway]]'' for [[Bravo (television network)|Bravo]], described by ''[[The New York Times]]'' as "the Prada of reality shows", and nominated for a 2005 Primetime Emmy,<ref>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437741/awards</ref>; |
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[[Image:DoggartClarkson.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Sebastian Doggart directing Kelly Clarkson on MTV's 'Damage Control']] |
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-''[[15 Films About Madonna]]'' for [[A&E Network|A&E]] -- 15 films of totally different genres (animation, documentary, drama, mock political campaign ads, comedy etc) |
-''[[15 Films About Madonna]]'' for [[A&E Network|A&E]] -- 15 films of totally different genres (animation, documentary, drama, mock political campaign ads, comedy etc) |
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*''Purple Homicide: Fear and Loathing on Knutsford Heath'', John Sweeney, 1998, Bloomsbury Press, ISBN: 0747539707d |
*''Purple Homicide: Fear and Loathing on Knutsford Heath'', John Sweeney, 1998, Bloomsbury Press, ISBN: 0747539707d |
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==Newspaper & Journal |
==Newspaper & Journal articles== |
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*'Bellissimo! How we won Tatton', by Sebastian Doggart, ''New Statesman'', pp.28-30 |
*'Bellissimo! How we won Tatton', by Sebastian Doggart, ''New Statesman'', pp.28-30 |
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*'Ultra-patriotic USA is dreaming of a star-spangled Christmas', by Sebastian Doggart & Oliver Poole, ''The Daily Telegraph'', December 24, 2001 |
*'Ultra-patriotic USA is dreaming of a star-spangled Christmas', by Sebastian Doggart & Oliver Poole, ''The Daily Telegraph'', December 24, 2001 |
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Revision as of 04:39, 9 March 2007
Sebastian Doggart (b. 6 April, 1970 London, England) is an Emmy-nominated producer, director, writer, translator and cinematographer.
Doggart is the grandson of the eminent opthalmologist and writer James Hamilton Doggart; son of the former CEO of Flemings Bank Tony Doggart and author/development economist Caroline Doggart; brother of the conservationist Nike Doggart;[1] nephew of the cricketer and educator, Hubert Doggart; and cousin of the headmaster, Simon Doggart. Doggart was educated at Montessori primary schools, Eton College and King’s College, Cambridge, where he obtained the top First class degree in Social and Political Sciences, [1].
Early writing career
Doggart began his career as a journalist in Latin America, working as a reporter on the Lima Times during two years he took off before going up to Cambridge. Within three months on the job, he was promoted to co-Editor of the newspaper. At 19, he was the youngest editor the paper had had. In 1990, he moved to Argentina, where he became Finance and Economics Editor for the Buenos Aires Herald,[2] chronicling an extraordinary period of hyperinflation, wholescale privatizations, and deregulation under President Carlos Menem's neo-liberal government.
Doggart parlayed his journalism work into a book, Investment Opportunities in Argentina, which had a foreword by Menem himself. Published in 1990, a month after he went up to Cambridge, Doggart's own own tutor, Dr. David Lehmann, reviewed the book in Professional Investor: "As the first optimistic economic report on Argentina to have been produced for some 20 years, this study acts as a clear indicator of the international business community's growing interest in the region."
Theatre career
After leaving Cambridge, Doggart trained as a drama director at Central School of Speech and Drama. His production of Ms Lear -- which radically re-interpreted King Lear as a neo-Thatcherite woman -- performed at theatres in London and Amsterdam. On graduating, he directed productions for eminent British companies Cheek by Jowl (world tour of Duchess of Malfi); Actors Touring Company ([[Ion] by Euripides); and Creation Theatre Company (Romeo and Juliet).[2]
Doggart established himself as the pre-eminent translator/director of Latin American plays on the British stage.[3] His production of Mistress of Desires, on which he collaborated directly with Mario Vargas Llosa, premiered in 1993. He worked directly with Carlos Fuentes on the British premiere of Orchids in the Moonlight, a dream play about the love between two Mexican actresses exiled in Hollywood's maze of mirrors. Doggart rehearsed the play in Cuba and opened in the Teatro Nacional, Havana. The production went on to perform at the Edinburgh Festival. According to Scotland on Sunday, the production was "rich in language and movement, fantasy and reality, sensuality and cruelty; as iconoclastic as the magic realist boom of the 1960s." In 1994, Doggart translated and directed Night of the Assassins, by the Cuban author Jose Triana, staging it at the Technis theatre in London and at the Edinburgh Festival. According to The Scotsman: "Brilliant, at times almost unbearable to watch, the British premiere of this award-winning Cuban play is utterly compelling... The atmosphere of oppression is almost tangible as the audience feel themselves entangled in the hysteria and power games of three siblings enacting or re-enacting the murder of their parents." In 1996, Doggart translated and directed a double bill of plays at The Gate theatre: Saying Yes, by Griselda Gambaro and Rappaccini's Daughter, by Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz, with whom he collaborated on the translation. Sarah Alexander played the leading role of Beatrice. That same translation has been staged internationally, including a production by the Santa Fe Playhouse in July 2006. Doggart has since translated the only plays of two other leading Latin American writers: Diatribe of Love against a sitting man, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and The Kings by Julio Cortazar.
In 1998, Doggart produced 'Lorca Fiesta', a major festival in Newcastle-upon-Tyne to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca. The event included an academic conference of international scholars and translators of Lorca and a dramatization of Lorca's Poet in New York, which Doggart adapted and directed. He was also producer and dramaturg for The Moon Comes Out, Federico, a collaboration between Northern Stage and the Seville-based company Octubre Danza, which fused story-telling, contemporary dance and live cante jondo to enact Lorca's long poem 'Lament to Ignacio Sanchez Mejias'.[4]
Political career
In 1997, Doggart was a campaign manager on Martin Bell’s successful bid to become the first Independent MP to be elected to the British Parliament since 1945. [5] [6]
Film and Television career
In 1999, Doggart branched into television production, where he produced and/or directed for the BBC (Tomorrow's World & Arena); Channel Four (Living on the Line), and ITV and Bravo (South Bank Show and Two Thousand Years). The Financial Times wrote of Two Thousand Years: "Well made and highly informative, the first series truly to deserve the 'Millennium label'." His interview profiles included Germaine Greer, Kenneth Branagh and Nobel prize-winning Octavio Paz.
American career
In 2000, Doggart moved to the USA where he produced/directed major TV series including:
-Project Runway for Bravo, described by The New York Times as "the Prada of reality shows", and nominated for a 2005 Primetime Emmy,[7];
-15 Films About Madonna for A&E -- 15 films of totally different genres (animation, documentary, drama, mock political campaign ads, comedy etc)
-Two series of Damage Control (TV series) for MTV, directing celebrities including Kelly Clarkson and Hulk Hogan,[8];
-30 Days for FX, hosted by Oscar-nominated Morgan Spurlock and nominated for a Producers Guild of America award,[9];
-American Candidate for Showtime Network, a reality show about aspiring presidential candidates
-Hollywood Vice for E4, a documentary series following the lives of policemen and criminals on both sides of the moral divide in Los Angeles. According to The Express: "This warts-and-all series gives a shocking insight into what goes on after dark on the back streets of LA."
-Raid Gauloises for Channel 4/TF1, an adventure race over Vietnam
-History of Movie Genres for Film4/Bravo
Doggart also wrote and directed two short fictional films, Hole in the Wall and Three and a Bed.
The film, Courting Condi, a musical docu-comedy which he wrote and directed, told the story of one man's attempt to win the heart of Condoleezza Rice, and screened at the Film Collection at the IFC Center in New York in 2007[10] Doggart has written one other unproduced screenplay, Casanova’s Return.
He is a voting member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
Writing Career
Doggart has had three books published, one on Federico Garcia Lorca[11] one on Latin American theatre[12] and the third on the Argentine economy. [3] [13] He has been a principal contributor to four other books – Purple Homicide: Fear and Loathing on Knutsford Heath (Bloomsbury, 1998), Raymond Chandler: A Biography (Atlantic, 1997), Reflections in a Family Mirror (Red House, 2002), and Time Out: Havana (Penguin, 2001, 2005, 2007) – and has written for The New Statesman, the The Guardian, The Independent and The Sunday Telegraph. [14]
References
- ^ http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/06/060624115041.htm
- ^ http://www.creationtheatre.co.uk/previous_romeo2.html
- ^ http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/top3mset/bc7a0471bca362a4a19afeb4da09e526.html
- ^ http://www.garcia-lorca.org/reino.htm
- ^ http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-19693133.html
- ^ http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5000473321&er=deny
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437741/awards
- ^ http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/damage_control/series.jhtml
- ^ http://imdb.com/title/tt0765856/fullcredits
- ^ http://www.filmcollection2007.com
- ^ http://www.dur.ac.uk/dmls/DMLSwebpages/HM6C.html
- ^ http://www.frontlist.com/detail/1854592491
- ^ http://www.amazon.co.uk/Investment-Opportunities-Argentina-Sebastian-Doggart/dp/0951714406/sr=1-3/qid=1171829009/ref=sr_1_3/203-7857706-6256764?ie=UTF8&s=books
- ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/12/24/wusa24.xml
Publications
- Fire, Blood and the Alphabet: One Hundred Years of Lorca, Sebastian Doggart & Michael Thompson, 1999, University of Durham, ISBN: 0-907310-44-3
- Stage Labyrinths: Latin American Plays, edited, translated and introduction by Sebastian Doggart, 1996, Nick Hern Books, ISBN: 1-85459-249-1
- Time Out: Havana, Sebastian Doggart (contributor), 2001, ISBN: 0-14-100029-5
- Time Out: Havana, Sebastian Doggart (contributor), 2005, ISBN: 1904978-83-5
- Time Out: Havana, Sebastian Doggart (contributor), 2007
- Investment Opportunities in Argentina, Sebastian Doggart, 1991, Southern Development Trust, ISBN: 0951714406
- Cary Grant: A Class Apart, Graham McCann, 1998, Columbia University Press, ISBN: 0-231-10885-0
- Raymond Chandler: A Biography, Tom Hiney, 1999, Grove Press, ISBN-10: 0802136370; ISBN-13: 978-0802136374
- Purple Homicide: Fear and Loathing on Knutsford Heath, John Sweeney, 1998, Bloomsbury Press, ISBN: 0747539707d
Newspaper & Journal articles
- 'Bellissimo! How we won Tatton', by Sebastian Doggart, New Statesman, pp.28-30
- 'Ultra-patriotic USA is dreaming of a star-spangled Christmas', by Sebastian Doggart & Oliver Poole, The Daily Telegraph, December 24, 2001
- 'The new Millennium starts here', by Sebastian Doggart, The Sunday Telegraph, December 12, 1999, p. 19
- 'Talking Latin', by Sebastian Doggart, Scotland on Sunday, August 30, 1992
- 'All rise for a girl king', by Sebastian Doggart, The Guardian, March 3, 1997
- 'Innocent Erendira', by Sebastian Doggart, Time Out, Sep 29-Oct 6, 1993
- 'Foxed by the Carnival,' by Sebastian Doggart, The Guardian, August 28, 2000, p. 15
- 'The relentless rise of offshore centres', by Caroline Doggart & Sebastian Doggart, Impact, Jan/Feb 1998, issue 5, pp.4-5
Reviews of work
- 'Catwalks and Catfights', by Sean Smith, Newsweek, February 28, 2005, p. 61
- 'Hemlines on the Stand', by Alessandra Stanley, The New York Times, February 16, 2005, p.1
- 'Opportunities in Argentina challenges a few investors, International Herald Tribune, March 23-24, 1991
- 'Argentinian investment, anyone?', ABA Banking Journal, American Bankers Association, June 1991, p. 9
- 'Argentina's great investment potential', The Indepedent, April 27, 1991, p. 22
- 'El lector como Edipo Rex,' by Jorge Lagos, Cronica Latina, March 1997,
- 'Review: Fire, Blood and the Alphabet', Forum For Modern Language Studies 37/3, 2001
- 'Reviews', by Sarah Leggott, A.U.M.L.A., May 2001
- 'Steps Argentina towards stability?', Friso End't Business Report, Vol VI, Apr 19, 1991
- 'Few takers for lone venture', The Daily Telegraph, March 20, 1991
- 'Investing in the gaucho club', by Dr. David Lehmann, Professional Investor, 1991
- 'Argentina steps towards stability', by Martin Barrow, The Times, March 18, 1991
- 'Argentina: petrochemical paradise?', Chemistry and Industry, number 10, 20 May 1991
- 'Night of the Assassins', by Thea Jourdan, The Scotsman, August 29, 1994
- 'Orchids in the Moonlight', Scotland on Sunday, August 23, 1992
- 'Love, Fidelity and cats', by James Verini, Los Angeles Times, November 28, 2002
- 'Hollywood Vice', Metro, January 24, 2002, p. 22
- 'Two Thousand Years', Financial Times,, April 28, 1999, p. 22 (Arts)
- 'How we became what we are', by Stephen Pile, Daily Telegraph,
- 'TV review: Living on the Line', by Sue Greenway, Western Daily Press, December 31, 1999, p. 22
- 'Time to forget those old TV acquaintances', by Paul Hoggart, The Times", December 31, 1999
- 'Living on the Line (C4)', by Christopher Matthew, Daily Mail, December 31, 1999
- 'Hollywood Vice', by Charlotte Civil, The Express, August 8, 2002, p. 49
- 'Hollywood Vice', Daily Record, August 8, 2002, p. 37
- '30 Days', Hollywood Reporter, June 15, 2006
- 'A search for self in the secret garden', The New Mexican, July 21-27, 2006