Bill Brookman has worked across the entire spectrum of the performing arts, from beginnings as a musician with the London School of Contemporary Dance to building a reconstruction of the Globe Theatre for the Festival of London 1988. He was Special Assistant to Yuri Lyubimov, the renowned Russian theatre director, in the mammoth world tour of his “Hamlet” in 1986. His film credits include “Morons from Outer Space” and he appears on British children’s television. Recent tours have included Japan (10 times), the USA (6 times) and Russia (3 times). He was, for 6 years, been a Guest International Artist with the National Circus Project of America on tours funded by the National Endowment for the Arts (USA), New York State funding and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
Bill Brookman has been continuously involved with projects on human deprivation from the 1980s UK riots in Toxteth and Brixton to consultant to the UN developing theatre techniques for arms collection in 2005.
In recent years Bill has been concentrating on large projects in the UK and abroad. In 1999 he was director of Birmingham’s Christmas light switch-on with Sir Cliff Richard. In 2000 he directed 2 productions at the Millennium Dome as well as performances for 10,000 children for Easington Borough Council. In 2003 he directed an arts festival in Kosovo with the United Nations in front of 3,000. He organised a huge fire festival with war-amputees in Sierra Leone in 2006.
Bill has just concluded directing ‘Caravane de la Paix!” contacting armed gangs in Haiti. You can read about Bill and the projects in Haiti here
