Rupert Goold is an English theatre director who currently serves as artistic director of the Almeida Theatre. Previously, Goold was the artistic director of Headlong Theatre Company (2005–2013).

After studying English at Trinity College, Cambridge, Goold directed at the Salisbury Playhouse and the Royal and Derngate Theatres, Northampton, until 2005, before joining Headlong the following year. In 2007 he directed Pete Postlethwaite in King Lear, worked with Harold Pinter and Michael Gambon on No Man’s Land and made his musical-directing debut with Oliver! at the London Palladium. The same year he won an Olivier Award for best director for his production of Macbeth, starring Patrick Stewart. (A film of the production, also directed by Goold, will be aired on BBC Four in December.) Since then Goold has directed the musical satire Enron (2009) and Earthquakes in London (2010) at the National, both Headlong productions, and is about to open the RSC season at the Roundhouse with Romeo and Juliet, which runs from November 30 until January 1. He lives in London with his wife, the actress Kate Fleetwood, their son, Raphael, five, and daughter, Constance, four months.

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