Di Trevis

Trevis was born in Birmingham and educated at Sussex University.{{cite web|url=http://www.watfordtheatre.co.uk/pl89crew.html |accessdate=6 October 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080218142440/http://www.watfordtheatre.co.uk/pl89crew.html |archivedate=18 February 2008 |title=Watford Palace Theatre | an English Tragedy }}

After eight years as an actress, which included appearances in The Professionals and The Sweeney,{{Cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0872418/ | title=Di Trevis| website=IMDb}} Trevis began directing in 1981.{{cite web|url=http://courses.csm.arts.ac.uk/drama/staff.asp?level%3D1 |accessdate=6 October 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090205141753/http://courses.csm.arts.ac.uk/drama/staff.asp?level=1 |archivedate=5 February 2009 |title=Drama Centre London }}

She was the first woman to run a company at Britain's Royal National Theatre.{{Cite web | url=http://www.irondale.org/londoncries.html | title=Irondale Ensemble Project | access-date=6 October 2009 | archive-date=26 July 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726190140/http://www.irondale.org/londoncries.html | url-status=dead }} Between 1986 and 1993, she directed Happy Birthday Brecht, The Mother, The School for Wives, Yerma, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui and Inadmissible Evidence for the National.{{cite web|url=http://www.nt-online.org.uk/7058/archive/the-archive.html |accessdate=6 October 2009 }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} In 2000 she adapted for the stage, with Harold Pinter, Pinter's unfilmed cinema adaptation of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. The production, which transferred to the Olivier stage in 2001,{{cite web|url=http://d1wf8hd6ovssje.cloudfront.net/documents/remembrance_things_past.pdf|title=NT Education Workpack: Remembrance of Things Past|publisher=National Theatre|accessdate=8 September 2013}}{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} was described as "ravishing" by critic Nicholas de Jongh in the Evening Standard{{Cite web |url=http://www.haroldpinter.org/plays/plays_remembrance.shtml |title=Archived copy |access-date=6 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613214134/http://www.haroldpinter.org/plays/plays_remembrance.shtml |archive-date=13 June 2011 |url-status=dead}} and won an Olivier Award.{{citation needed|date=May 2014}}

Trevis has also worked extensively at the Royal Shakespeare Company, with productions of Happy End, The Taming of the Shrew, The Revenger's Tragedy, Much Ado About Nothing and Elgar’s Rondo.{{citation needed|date=May 2014}} In 1991 she mounted a production of Harrison Birtwistle's opera Gawain at the Royal Opera House. She also directed The Merry Widow for Scottish Opera and The Voluptuous Tango for the Almeida.

Trevis has had a long-standing affiliation with the US, directing and teaching in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Pittsburgh. Her American productions include: As You Like It, The Duchess of Malfi, Human Cannon, Le Grand Meaulnes and Silverland. In December 2008 she directed London Cries at the Irondale, Brooklyn, featuring Jenny Galloway and Richard Poe. Trevis directed a production of The Beaux' Stratagem at The Pennsylvania State University in the spring of 2011.

For over a decade, Trevis has been teaching actors and directors in her international workshops. She has taught in the UK, the US, France, Germany, Austria and Cuba.{{dead link|date=May 2014}} Gary Oldman, Kenneth Branagh and Rupert Everett have all passed through her workshops and she has a following of young actors in London who regularly attend her Sunday workshop. Between 2003 and 2007, Trevis was Head of Directing at Drama Centre London.{{dead link|date=May 2014}}

A friend of Ian Charleson, Trevis contributed a to the 1990 book, For Ian Charleson: A Tribute.Ian McKellen, Alan Bates, Hugh Hudson, et al. [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0094702500 For Ian Charleson: A Tribute]. London: Constable and Company, 1990. pp. 21–32.

Trevis published her own book, Being a Director: A Life in Theatre in 2011.

Since 1986, Trevis has been married to composer Dominic Muldowney.{{citation needed|date=April 2018}} They live in Putney, south-west London.

• Trevis, Di. [https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0415609240 Being a Director: A Life in Theatre]. Routledge, 2011.

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20130517222342/http://ditrevis.co.uk/ Official Site]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-xNI6rI_lU Di Trevis interviewed on Conversations from Penn State]
• [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0872418/ Internet Movie Database]

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