Andrew Panton is Artistic Director of Dundee Rep Theatre and an award-winning director working across theatre, music and television. He has directed major productions in the UK and internationally.

Recent work includes Make It Happen(Dundee Rep / National Theatre of Scotland / Edinburgh International Festival), the gig-theatre hit No Love Songs, now touring internationally, and the multi-award-winning musical A History of Paper, which earned him the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland (CATS) Award for Best Director. He will direct a new co-production of A History of Paper this summer with Pitlochry Festival Theatre starring Alan Cumming and Shirley Henderson.

His work also includes the Scottish premieres of August: Osage County and The Children, as well as new commissions including Peter Arnott’s Tay Bridge and Noisemaker’s Oor Wullie: The Musical.

Previously for National Theatre of Scotland he directed Out of the Woods (with Alan Cumming and Johnny McKnight) and A Sheep Called Skye.

Andrew has also directed productions for the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, Glasgow Citizens Theatre, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Royal & Derngate and Goodspeed Musicals (USA). Alongside theatre productions he has worked extensively for television, including The Voice and Children in Need for the BBC.

He was Creative Director for the opening ceremony of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games and has collaborated with Susan Boyle on albums, television appearances and international tours.

A former Artistic Director of Musical Theatre at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Andrew now serves there as a Visiting Professor and Fellow.

Andrew lives in Dundee with his husband and their son.