Calendar Girls - David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers biography

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Producers

David Pugh Limited's first West End theatre production was Steel Magnolias which starred Rosemary Harris and Joely Richardson and was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Comedy of the Year.

David went on to produce The Blues Brothers, which was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement of the Year. The West End production ran a year and has subsequently toured all over the world – the show returned to the West End for another three seasons, and toured for 15 years.

David and Dafydd produced Art at Wyndham's. This subsequently became the most successful play in London for the last 25 years as well as winning every major award. Art opened on Broadway at the Royale Theatre, winning David Pugh the Tony Award for Best Play.

David and Dafydd produced The Play What I Wrote by Hamish McColl and Sean Foley, directed by Kenneth Branagh. The Play What I Wrote, which opened at Wyndham's, won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy, and every review was a rave. The Play What I Wrote opened at the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway and was nominated for the Tony Award for Special Achievement. Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Gerald Sibleyras's play Heroes opened at Wyndham's in 2005 and won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy.

David and Dafydd then produced one of the most successful productions ever in the West End, Equus, which starred Richard Griffiths and Daniel Radcliffe and played for a sell-out season at the Gielgud.

David and Dafydd also produced Kneehigh Theatre's production of Noël Coward's Brief Encounter which played for over 350 performances in the Cinema on the Haymarket before touring the UK.
They have since reunited the creative team behind the award winning show Art in order to produce Christopher Hampton's adaptation of Yasmina Reza's new comedy God of Carnage which starred Ralph Fiennes, Tamsin Grieg, Janet McTeer and Ken Stott, which played an enormously successful season at the Gielgud and won the Olivier Award for Best Comedy. GOD OF CARNAGE opened at the Bernard Jacobs Theatre on Broadway in March 2009, starring James Gandolfini, Marcia Gay Harden, Jeff Daniels and Hope Davis, winning three Tony Awards for Best Play, Best Direction of a Play for Matthew Warchus and Best Actress for Marcia Gay Harden.