Guy is a freelance theatre director and writer working in the UK and internationally. He grew up in Southport, Lancashire, and after studying Industrial Economics at the University of Nottingham, trained as a theatre director at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Guy worked as Assistant and Associate Director on numerous productions in the West End and at the Royal Shakespeare Company. His award winning career now spans a wide range of genres, from new musicals to Shakespeare to theatre films.
BA Industrial Economics (University of Nottingham); Postgraduate Diploma Theatre Directing (Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts); Associate Diploma Music Theatre (London College of Music).
Director of Joyride the Musical (Malmö Opera), Miss Saigon (Folketeatret, Oslo); A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar (Fort Canning Park, Singapore); Stumped (Screen, Lords, Hampstead, UK Tour); Bring It On (Southbank Centre); The System (Screen); My Fair Lady (Grange Festival Opera & The Liceu, Barcelona); Being Mr Wickham (Screen, Jermyn Street, Queen Mary 2, UK Tour, New York); Of Mice and Men (UK Tour); Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em (UK Tour); Hand To God (Singapore Repertory Theatre); Moving Stories (Haymarket, West End and Houses of Parliament); The Food of Love (Cadogan Hall, Royal Festival Hall); Cool Rider (Lyric & Duchess, West End); The Collector, Death and the Maiden (English Theatre Frankfurt); Cinderella (Manchester Opera House, Nottingham Theatre Royal); Peter Pan, Jack and the Beanstalk, Snow White (Manchester Opera House); A Night with Bonnie Langford (London Hippodrome, Richmond Theatre); Farragut North (Southwark Playhouse); Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Cockpit).
Other credits include Sweet Smell of Success, Company, Marguerite, Fresher the Musical, Play-in-a-Day Series, Metamorphosis, The Bear Who Paints, Proof, Made in Dagenham, Billy, The Ghost Train, Into the Woods, Humble Boy, Disco Pigs, Guys and Dolls, Merrily We Roll Along, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Lucky Stiff and The Laramie Project.
He has also trained actors and directors at ArtsEd, RADA, British American Drama Academy, Mountview, Liverpool Theatre School, Trinity Laban, Tisch NYU, The Urdang Academy, and Italia Conti.
Guy has worked as Associate Director on Much Ado About Nothing & Love's Labour's Lost (Royal Shakespeare Theatre and West End); Associate on Spamalot (West End); Producer for the 70th Birthday Celebrations for HRH Prince Charles (Buckingham Palace); Associate Director on The 90th Birthday Celebrations for Her Majesty the Queen (Windsor Castle); Associate on Travels With My Aunt (Menier Chocolate Factory); Resident Director on Dandy Dick (UK Tour); Creative Associate on Megan Mullally and Supreme Music Program (West End); Assistant Director on The Beggar’s Opera (Regent’s Park), tick, tick…BOOM! (Duchess, West End), and Oleanna (Octagon).