When
Alasdair Cameron died suddenly in 1994 aged 41, his passing robbed Scotland’s
theatre world of one of its sharpest minds. That sharpness fired Cameron’s playfully
creative presence, which influenced and inspired students at Glasgow
University’s Department of Theatre Studies, where he was a senior lecturer.
His students included playwright Nicola McCartney, founders of Clyde Unity Theatre Company, John Binnie and Aileen Ritchie, and John Tiffany, the Tony and Olivier award winning director of west end hit, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Broadway musical, Once. These successes followed tenures as associate literary director at the Traverse Theatre, and associate director of the National Theatre of Scotland working alongside the company’s founding artistic director Vicky Featherstone.
Tiffany’s production of Black Watch put the company on the international map in its first year of existence. He also directed Alan Cumming in a gospel-tinged production of The Bacchae, and again …
His students included playwright Nicola McCartney, founders of Clyde Unity Theatre Company, John Binnie and Aileen Ritchie, and John Tiffany, the Tony and Olivier award winning director of west end hit, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Broadway musical, Once. These successes followed tenures as associate literary director at the Traverse Theatre, and associate director of the National Theatre of Scotland working alongside the company’s founding artistic director Vicky Featherstone.
Tiffany’s production of Black Watch put the company on the international map in its first year of existence. He also directed Alan Cumming in a gospel-tinged production of The Bacchae, and again …