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Antonia Jane Bird, FRSA (27 May 1951 – 24 October 2013)〔Kate Hardie ("Antonia Bird obituary" ), ''The Guardian'', 28 October 2013〕〔The day she died is given as 25 October 2013 in (Obituary: Antonia Bird ), telegraph.co.uk, 27 October 2013; accessed 30 July 2014.〕 was an English producer and director of television drama and feature films. ==Career== In 1968, at the age of 17, Bird began working in theatre as an assistant stage manager at Coventry Rep. 〔 She worked her way up doing a variety of jobs, including acting, stage management, publicity, theatre administration, and directing in repertory and regional theatres. She directed a season of plays at The Studio at Chester Theatre and later joined Leicester's Phoenix Theatre as a director.〔Simon Farquhar ("Obituary: Antonia Bird, Television director with a flair for gritty realism" ), ''The Independent'', 30 October 2013.〕 Bird was named Resident Director at the Royal Court Theatre in 1978. She was appointed Artistic Director of the Royal Court's Theatre Upstairs, London's leading venue for new writing. Her first television production was ''Submariners'' (1983), an adaptation of one of her Royal Court productions which she directed for the BBC.〔(''Submariners'' ), bfi.org.uk; accessed 30 July 2014.〕〔("Play Not-Quite-For Today" ), TVCream.co.uk; accessed 30 July 2014.〕 She was recruited by the originators and founding producers of ''EastEnders'', Julia Smith and Tony Holland, to direct the series in 1985; she directed seventeen episodes.〔 The creators of a new BBC series, ''Casualty'' (1986) recruited her to be one of the series' first directors. She next directed the six-part adaptation of Ann Oakley's ''The Men's Room'' (BBC 1991.) Her next production was a feature length film adaptation of ''A Masculine Ending'' (1992.) ''Safe'' (BBC 1993,) a story based on the lives of a group of homeless young people in London's West End was awarded the Best Single Drama TV BAFTA. The film also won a British Academy Award and a clutch of festival prizes including the Edinburgh International Film Festival First Film Award and Best British Film at the Dinard Film Festival. The film brought Bird to international attention, but was overshadowed by the success of ''Priest'' (BBC/Miramax 1994), which she directed immediately following ''Safe''. Bird's film ''Care'', broadcast in 2000, dealt with sexual abuse in a children's home, won the Best Single Drama TV BAFTA. She received a BAFTA Children's Award for the 2009 BBC documentary ''Off By Heart'', about a national poetry competition for schoolchildren. She developed feature films with Sony, Columbia, Warner Brothers, Fine Line and some American independent companies. She returned to London to shoot ''Face'' (UIP/New Line 1997), a gangster film. She was back in the U.S. to develop the dark cannibal horror satire ''Ravenous'' with Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle and David Arquette (20th Century Fox 1999).〔 In 2005, she produced ''Faith'', a 4Way Pictures/Company Pictures production about the 1984–85 national miners' strike. She was an executive producer of the 2009 Iraqi film ''Son of Babylon''. In 2010, she and Kay Mellor realised their story about Mellor's mother in ''A Passionate Woman'' (BBC 2010), which the duo directed. In 2012, Bird directed the first four episodes of the first series of Peter Moffat's BBC period drama, ''The Village''.〔 Series 2 episode 1 finishes with the tribute 'For Antonia Bird 1951-2013'. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Antonia Bird」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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