Stephen Howard Davies CBE is a British theatre and television director. Davies, the son of a miner, was born in Durham, County Durham, England and studied at Durham University and Bristol University, where he developed an appreciation for the works of Bertolt Brecht. In the early 1970s, Davies worked extensively with the Bristol Old Vic and the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, and he has served as an associate director for both the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he directed Les liaisons dangereuses, Macbeth, and Troilus and Cressida. He also did much work for the Royal National Theatre, where his projects included Hedda Gabler, The House of Bernarda Alba, Pygmalion, The Crucible, The Shaughraun, and Paul., and where he directed Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard which opened in May 2011 and was broadcast on 30 June 2011 as part of National Theatre Live. At the Almeida Theatre he has directed Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Play About the Baby, whilst at the Hampstead Theatre he directed the 2012 premiere of 55 Days. 

April 26th, 1945 in Durham  /  Died:   Oct 25th, 2016 - aged 71