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ProducerDavid Pugh & Dafydd Rogers
David Pugh Limited’s first West End theatre production was Steel Magnolias which starred Rosemary Harris and Joely Richardson and was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Comedy. David went on to produce The Blues Brothers, which was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement. The West End production ran for a year and has subsequently toured all over the world. The show returned to the West End for another three seasons, and toured for 15 years. Other West End productions followed, including The Weekend, a comedy by Michael Palin starring Richard Wilson, and A Passionate Woman, a comedy by Kay Mellor starring Stephanie Cole.
David and Dafydd produced Art at Wyndham’s. This subsequently became the most successful play in London for the last 25 years as well as winning every major award. Art opened on Broadway at the Royale Theatre, winning David Pugh the Tony Award for Best Play.
David and Dafydd produced The Play What I Wrote by Hamish McColl and Sean Foley, directed by Kenneth Branagh, at Wyndham’s. It won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy and every review was a rave. The Play What I Wrote opened at the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway and was nominated for a Tony Award for Special Achievement.
Tom Stoppard’s adaptation of Gerald Sibleyras’s play Heroes opened in the West End in 2005 and won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy, whilst Ducktastic opened for a very short and disastrous run at the Albery whilst still managing to be nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Entertainment. Their production of Frank McGuinness’s adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca starring Nigel Havers has toured for over 30 weeks, breaking nearly every box office record in the UK.
In 2007 David and Dafydd produced one of the most successful productions ever in the West End, Equus, which starred Richard Griffiths and Daniel Radcliffe and played for a sell-out season at the Gielgud.
David and Dafydd are also producing Kneehigh Theatre’s production of Noël Coward’s Brief Encounter at the Cinema on the Haymarket.