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Ian MacNeil (born 1960) is a British-based scenic designer. He won the 1994 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design for An Inspector Calls and the 2009 Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Musical for Billy Elliot The Musical. Early life and career The son of news anchor and journalist Robert MacNeil, he became interested in design at an early age, playing with toy theaters and creating puppet shows with his sister in their yard. "I still remember the pleasure I took in creating those little worlds - complete environments with characters I could manipulate", he recalled in a 1995 interview. MacNeil graduated from Trinity College, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut) in 1980 and studied at the Croydon School of Art and later with Ming Cho Lee in New York City. He spent a decade designing productions in Birmingham, Worcester, York, and Manchester before moving to London, where he made his West End debut with Death and the Maiden in 1991. MacNeil has designed for many London venues, including the National Theatre, the English National Opera, the Almeida Theatre, the Young Vic, the Lyric Hammersmith, the Barbican Theatre, and the Royal Court Theatre. He has won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Set Design twice, for An Inspector Calls and Ariodante. In 1999, MacNeil staged the international tour of the Pet Shop Boys promoting the release of their album Nightlife. Personal life Ian MacNeil is openly gay. In 1993, Robert MacNeil spoke publicly about his son's homosexuality at the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association convention, and in a 1994 episode of The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, the two discussed their relationship. "It's terribly important that a public figure say I love my gay son," the younger MacNeil has said. "It needs to be within the sphere of what's everyday and ordinary, and not be gothic." MacNeil and director Stephen Daldry were involved in a relationship for 13 years. They met at an outdoor production of Alice in Wonderland in Lancaster in 1988 and, after seeing each other sporadically, Daldry decided he wanted to make a commitment. MacNeil was more reticent, but eventually the two settled in a bedsit in Camberwell and began collaborating on theatrical productions. References External links Ian MacNeil at the Internet Broadway Database . Discover the Ian Neil popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Ian Neil books.
Best Seller Ian Neil Books of 2024
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Ships Of Heaven
Christopher Somerville‘Somerville is one of our finest gazetteers of the British countryside. He brings his formidable knowledge to bear on his personal quest to explore the cathedrals in this entrancin...
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Watch Him Die
Craig RobertsonNOMINATED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZE 2020 FOR SCOTTISH CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Truly difficult to put down’ Daily Mail 'Highconcept plot keeps the 'tecs and the ...
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Cold Grave
Craig Robertson'Robertson is doing for Glasgow what Rankin did for Edinburgh' Mirror1993. Scotland is in the grip of an icecold winter and the Lake of Menteith is frozen over. A young man and wom...
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Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Ebury PublishingGive it your all. Dare to be all you can be.Graduation day is a pivotal moment. After a lifetime of learning, and at least three years of studying hard in a chosen subject, we are ...
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Souvenir
Michael Bracewell'The best evocation I've read of London in the '80s' Neil Tennant'I loved Souvenir . . . it rescued some things for me a certain aesthetic, a philosophical engagement with time an...
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Great Achievers and Characters in Australian Cricket
Roland PerryFrom the turbulent life of the late Shane Warne to the skill, mentality and character behind Pat Cummins’ newlook captaincy, and through the decades to the wit, wisdom and genius o...
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The Model Occupation
Madeleine Bunting‘A masterly work of profound research and reflection, objective and humane’ Hugh TrevorRoper, Sunday TelegraphWhat would have happened if the Nazis had invaded Britain? How would t...
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Questions for a Dead Man
Alex GrayYour favourite Scottish detective returns in 2023 in an enthralling new mystery'Immensely exciting and atmospheric' ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH 'Move over Rebus' Daily Mail 'Exciting, p...
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The Manager
Barney RonayTHE ABSURD ASCENT OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MAN IN FOOTBALL. THE MANAGER. 'Rich in detail and colour . . . a great read' Observer This book traces the remarkable journey of the footbal...
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A Matter Of Opinion
Alan HansenFootball is a game of opinions. Alan Hansen knows this only too well. In his long, distinguished career with Liverpool he faced some fierce public criticism from the media. Now the...
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Anthems We Love
Steve Baltin"Anthems We Love is not just a tale of artistic adventure, it's also a manual for artists and fans alike. There is no formula. Just these inspiring stories of the heart ....
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Football, My Life
Lou MacariFootball has dominated Lou Macari's life. Taken on as an apprentice by Celtic in the wake of their 1967 European Cup triumph, Macari learnt his football the oldfashioned way. He qu...
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Big Mal
David TossellMalcolm Allison is one of the most controversial figures of the last halfcentury of English football. Leader of the famed 'West Ham Academy', his playing career was cut short by th...
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The Domesday Quest
Michael WoodIn 1086, Domesday Book, perhaps the most remarkable historical document in existence, was compiled. This tremendous story of England and its people was made at the behest of the No...
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Zidane
Patrick Fort, Jean Philippe & Laura BennettGet inside the mind of football's most enigmatic icon‘Zidane is the master’ PeleOne of modern football’s most brilliant players and one of its most iconic and mysterious figures ...
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The Celts
Barry Cunliffe & Nora ChadwickThe Celtic period was one of tremendous expansion, the last phase of European material and intellectual development before the Mediterranean world spread northwards over the Contin...
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Echo of the Dead
Alex GrayTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES Don't miss the latest from Alex Gray. Book 20 in the Lorimer series, QUESTIONS FOR A DEAD MAN, is out now and Book 21, OUT OF DARKNESS, is avai...
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I Never Knew That About Royal Britain
Christopher WinnWith the royal wedding around the corner, there no better time than the present to get acquainted with Royal BritainBestselling author Christopher Winn explores Britain's royal pa...
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In Search Of The First Civilizations
Michael WoodFive thousand years ago there began the most momentous revolution in human history. Starting in Mesopotamia, city civilization emerged for the first time on earth, to be followed i...
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The Pleasure Chamber
Brigitte MarkhamAfter an unsuccessful attempt at seduction by her friend Laura, Mary escapes to the French chateau where her flatmate, Philippe, is spending a holiday. The count at the chateau has...