THE CENSUS IS NOW CLOSED.  A HUGE THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO COMPLETED IT!     We are delighted to launch the UK Stage Directors Census 2022.  We encourage all UK based stage directors, both members and non-members, of SDUK to complete the census and to spread the word...

03 February, 2022

  SOLT and UK Theatre have released an updated version of their 10 Principles for creating safe and inclusive working spaces in the theatre industry, to prevent and challenge bullying, harassment and discrimination. We at SDUK along with 20 other leading industry trade bodies, membership organisations, unions...

02 November, 2021

We are delighted to announce that the SDUK board have appointed Matthew Dunster and Pooja Ghai as Co-Chairs, taking over from Kate Saxon as outgoing Chair Pooja and Matthew’s collective experience as directors, their knowledge and links to partner organisations, and their ambitions for SDUK mean that...

16 December, 2020

Piers Haggard, Chief Executive of Stage Directors UK and Directors UK board member, has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s New Years Honours List for services to Film, Television and Theatre. Piers is an accomplished, award winning (Pennies From Heaven BAFTA 1978) director of television,...

30 December, 2015
SDUK officially launched 25th October 2014.  It was covered in The Stage.  Read the article below or on the stage website here. First industry body representing UK stage directors launched
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  Leading theatre figures including Marianne Elliott, Matthew Warchus, Vicky Featherstone and Jeremy Herrin have launched the industry’s first body aimed at representing stage directors. Increasing fees in the sector is one of Stage Directors UK’s first priorities. It will also represent directors on issues such as royalties, contracts, digital rights and copyright, as well as leading on training initiatives. Directors can become members of Equity, but SDUK says the lack of an organisation dedicated to the needs of opera and theatre directors has “led to an increasing sense of anger and frustration” in the sector. “There has never been an organisation that fully represented UK stage directors, to their considerable cost,” the body claims, adding that agents have “found it hard to stand up for a new or unknown client, or argue for change in contractual practices, or for a rise in rates that have not increased for years”.
30 October, 2014