A Conversation with Phil Willmott

[Editor's Note: Director Phil Willmott is a multi-award-winning director, artistic director, playwright, composer, librettist, teacher, dramaturg, arts journalist, and performer. He trained as an actor at Rose Bruford in the 1980s and was made a fellow of the college in 2012. Alongside his innovative reinterpretations of the classics, musical theater revivals, and new musical development, his notable productions of contemporary and recent drama include F**cking Men (Finborough Theatre, Kings Head Theatre, and West End), Billy Liar, Athol Fugard's Master Harold … and the Boys (Liverpool Playhouse), Angels in America, and Kiss of the Spider Woman (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield), The American Clock, The Notebook of Trigorin, Crime and Punishment, The Lower Depths, The Grapes of Wrath, and Loyalties (Finborough Theatre), Arturo Ui (Bridewell Theatre), Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, Three Sisters in a version by Tracy Letts (Union Theatre), and Encounter, a new...