Meeting Paul in a field in Holland, the early days of working as one half of The Right Size and turning his hand to film directing. All of this and more is discussed in this episode of Regrets I’ve Had A Few, featuring double Olivier Award winning theatre director and performer, Sean Foley.              

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About Sean Foley

A double Olivier Award Winner and Tony nominee, Sean’s work has also been Olivier Award nominated multiple times, including personal nominations in the acting, writing and directing categories. 

He has directed leading talent from Kenneth Branagh to Joan Rivers, from Gemma Arterton to Matthew MacFadyen, and from Tom Hiddleston to Cynthia Erivo.

Theatre directing credits include: Dr Strangelove (director, and co-adaptor with Armando Iannucci), starring Steve Coogan. The show broke the box office record at the Noel Coward Theatre. Spitting Image - The Musical, live version of the infamous satirical puppet show, Phoenix Theatre; The Upstart Crow (director) Olivier nominated comedy starring David Mitchell and Gemma Whelan (at Gielgud/Apollo); The Painkiller, (adaptor and director) in Kenneth Branagh’s West End season at the Garrick Theatre, starring Kenneth Branagh and Rob Brydon; Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense, (director) Olivier Award winning comedy (at Duke of Yorks), starring Stephen Mangan and Matthew MacFadyen; The Miser, (co-writer and director) Olivier Award nominated comedy starring Griff Rhys Jones, (at the Garrick); The Man in the Suit, (adaptor/director) starring Stephen Mangan, (at Wyndhams Theatre); The Play What I Wrote, (co-writer/director), first major revival of the Olivier Award winning comedy, guest starring Tom Hiddleston. Original production (co-writer/lead actor) directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Ralph Fiennes, Glenn Close, Roger Moore, et al; The Ladykillers, (director) 5 times Olivier nominated, including Best Director, starring Peter Capaldi; The Walworth Farce, (director) starring Brendan Gleeson, Domhnall Gleeson, and Brian Gleeson, Olympia Theatre, Dublin; I Can’t Sing! (director) starring Cynthia Erivo at The London Palladium; Do You Come Here Often? (co-writer/lead actor) Olivier Award winning comedy; A Mad World My Masters, (co-adaptor/director) for the RSC, Swan Theatre, Stratford; What The Butlers Saw, by Joe Orton, (director) at the Vaudeville; Arturo Brachetti - Change, (writer/director), Olivier Award nominated theatrical entertainment at The Garrick; Ducktastic, (co-writer/lead actor), Olivier Award nominated comedy, (Noel Coward Theatre).

Sean has also directed the live shows of leading comedians such as Joan Rivers, Armstrong and Miller, and Catherine Tate.

He was Artistic Director of Birmingham Repertory Theatre, 2019-2024, and also directed the feature film Mindhorn.