Laurence Boswell
Laurence Boswell (born 1959) is an acclaimed theatre director, whose credits include Ben Elton's Popcorn, a roll-call of Hollywood's hippest young stars in This Is Our Youth, Madonna in her London stage debut and Eddie Izzard in a revival of A Day in the Death of Joe Egg.
Over the past 10 years, Boswell has become Hollywood's favourite theatre director, grooming a succession of screen stars - including Matt Damon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Freddie Prinze Jr and Anna Paquin - for West End debuts in This Is Our Youth, which, in 2002, ran concurrently with Up for Grabs, featuring superstar Madonna.
Boswell was appointed an associate director at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2003, for whom he opened an expanded version of his children's Christmas show, Beauty and the Beast.