Jez Bond is the Founder and Artistic Director of Park Theatre. He graduated Hull University with a BA Honours in Drama and was later awarded the Channel Four Theatre Director Bursary.
Directing credits include:* I Have Been Here Before* (Watford Palace Theatre), The Fame Game (Tour of Austria), Sleeping Beauty (Salisbury Playhouse), *The Twits *(Tour of Switzerland), *Misconceptions *(Hong Kong Arts Centre), Big Boys (Croydon Warehouse), Shot of Genius (Leicester Square), *Canaries Sometimes Sing *(Kings Head & France) and A Season in South Africa (Old Vic).
For Park Theatre: Ian McKellen with Shakespeare, Tolkien, Others & You, Madame Rubinstein, Building The Wall, Hurling Rubble at the Sun, Adult Supervision plus Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty and Jack and the Beanstalk, which he also co-wrote and composed.
As a dramaturge he began working with writers at Soho Theatre, Royal Court and Young Vic before championing new work at Park Theatre, where he has developed a number of new plays, many of which have gone on to production.
Having led the £2.6m conversion of Park Theatre, Jez has been a guest speaker at the Theatres Trust Conference: Converting Spaces, the RIBA Conference: 150 years of Engineering, Bruford on the Southbank: New Build / ReBuild and The International Theatre Conference in Colombia. He has also consulted on a number of new theatre buildings internationally.
