{"id":2222,"date":"2016-08-23T01:31:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T00:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samyatesdirector.com\/?page_id=2222"},"modified":"2026-06-17T12:56:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T11:56:57","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.samyatesdirector.com\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4826 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/samyatesdirector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-14-at-22.48.22-1-1024x822.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"487\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/samyatesdirector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-14-at-22.48.22-1-1024x822.png 1024w, https:\/\/samyatesdirector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-14-at-22.48.22-1-300x241.png 300w, https:\/\/samyatesdirector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-14-at-22.48.22-1-768x616.png 768w, https:\/\/samyatesdirector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-14-at-22.48.22-1.png 1176w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sam Yates is an Olivier Award-winning director and producer working in theatre, film and television. Yates has been described as &#8220;a major talent&#8221; in The Guardian newspaper and &#8220;a director of unusual flair&#8221; in The Observer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Recent projects include the Olivier, Drama League, and Lucille Lortel Award-winning <strong>VANYA<\/strong> with Andrew Scott, feature debut <strong>MAGPIE<\/strong> starring Daisy Ridley, and mini-series <strong>TOWARDS ZERO<\/strong> featuring Angelica Huston and Matthew Rhys.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>UPCOMING WORK<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>GOLDEN BOY<\/strong> by Clifford Odets, featuring Josh O&#8217;Connor, Almeida Theatre, 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4941\" src=\"https:\/\/samyatesdirector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GoldenBoy_Artwork_Portrait_Title-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/samyatesdirector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GoldenBoy_Artwork_Portrait_Title-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/samyatesdirector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GoldenBoy_Artwork_Portrait_Title-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/samyatesdirector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GoldenBoy_Artwork_Portrait_Title-1.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Yates is an Olivier Award-winning director and producer working in theatre, film and television. Yates has been described as &#8220;a major talent&#8221; in The Guardian newspaper and &#8220;a director of unusual flair&#8221; in The Observer. Recent projects include the Olivier, Drama League, and Lucille Lortel Award-winning VANYA with Andrew Scott, feature debut MAGPIE starring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2222","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samyatesdirector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samyatesdirector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samyatesdirector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samyatesdirector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samyatesdirector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2222"}],"version-history":[{"count":613,"href":"https:\/\/www.samyatesdirector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4953,"href":"https:\/\/www.samyatesdirector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2222\/revisions\/4953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samyatesdirector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}