American Psycho

Duncan was awarded the 2007 Tony Award for Best Orchestration and Best Original Score, and the 2008 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album for Spring Awakening.

For the Almeida: Spring Awakening; American Psycho (also Broadway).

Theatre includes: The Secret Life of Bees (Atlantic Theater Company); Alice By Heart (MCC Theater); The Nightingale (Eugene O’Neill Theater Center); The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Classic Stage Company); Nero (Another Golden Rome) (Powerhouse Theatre); Whisper House (The Old Globe, San Diego); Spring Awakening (Broadway/ West End/ Lyric Hammersmith).

Film includes: Great Expectations; The Saint; Teaching Mrs. Tingle; Three to Tango; What a Girl Wants; Transamerica; A Body Goes Down; A Home at the End of the World.

Sheik’s self-titled debut album, which was an enormous popular and critical success, introduced the hit singles “Barely Breathing” and “She Runs Away,” and spent more than 55 weeks on the Billboard 200. Other albums include Humming, Daylight, Phantom Moon, White Limousine, Whisper House, Legerdemain and Claptrap.

Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre, founding Artistic Director of Headlong (2005 to 2013), Associate Director at the RSC and Artistic Director of Northampton Theatres (2002 to 2005). 

For the Almeida: Women, Beware the Devil; Tammy Faye; Patriots (also West End); Spring Awakening; Albion; The Hunt; Shipwreck; Richard III; Medea; The Merchant of Venice; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot; American Psycho (also Broadway); Ink; King Charles III (also West End/ Broadway). 

Theatre includes: Dear England (National Theatre/ West End); The 47th (The Old Vic); The Effect; Earthquakes in London (Headlong/ National Theatre); Time and the Conways (National Theatre); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Kensington Gardens); The Merchant of Venice; Romeo and Juliet; Speaking Like Magpies (RSC); ENRON (Headlong/ West End/ Broadway); Made in Dagenham; Oliver!; The Glass Menagerie; No Man’s Land (West End); King Lear (Headlong/ Liverpool Everyman/ Young Vic); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Headlong/ West End); Macbeth (Chichester Festival Theatre/ West End/ Broadway). 

Film includes: Judy; True Story. 

Television includes: Macbeth; King Charles III; Richard II. 

Opera includes: Turandot (ENO); Le Comte Ory (Garsington Opera).  

Rupert has received Olivier, Critics’ Circle and Evening Standard awards for Best Director twice and won a Peabody Award in 2011 for Macbeth. Rupert received a CBE in 2017 New Year’s Honours for services to drama.