Sean Mathias
Sean Gerard Mathias (born 14 March 1956) is a British theatre director, film director, writer, and actor born in Swansea, Wales.[1][2]
Mathias has directed numerous stage productions at venues including the Royal National Theatre, West End, and Broadway, with notable works encompassing revivals of classics such as Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya (Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director, 1992), Noël Coward's Design for Living (London Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Director, 1994), and Harold Pinter's No Man's Land alongside Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot in repertory (Broadway, 2013) starring Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart.[3][4][5]
In film, he helmed the 1997 adaptation of Martin Sherman's play Bent, starring Lothaire Bluteau and Clive Owen, which addressed themes of persecution in Nazi Germany.[6][7]
As a writer, Mathias penned the award-winning play A Prayer for Wings and the screenplay for the BBC adaptation of David Leavitt's The Lost Language of Cranes (1991).[3][7]