Sue Dunderdale came from a working-class family and studied Drama and English at Manchester University from 1966 to 1971. She has been a director ever since and, in that time, has founded the touring theatre company Pentabus, been the Artistic Director of the Soho Theatre (1984-88) and Greenwich Theatre (1988-89), a director of many television dramas and films, and the Head of MA in Text and Performance, the MA in Directing, and the MA Theatre Lab at RADA (2004-14). Since leaving RADA she has been a freelance director and writer and has run workshops for directors and actors at the London Film School, Actors Studio, Shanghai University, and Head for Heights Theatre Company.
'A deeply personal confession of a long and tempestuous career in directing theatre and television; a brutally honest working-class manifesto which is as tumultuous and bohemian as any theatrical memoir you might have ever read. Dunderdale's writing shifts from a diligent to a profane tone, with constant bursts of unstoppable surprises, exercises, and interviews with practitioners - Directing the Decades is never didactic, but full of important, necessary, and topical insights on British Directing.' George Rodosthenous, University of Leeds, UK