Andrew Panton

Andrew is Artistic Director and Joint CEO of Dundee Rep Theatre. He is an award-winning director, working internationally across theatre, music and television and was previously Associate Director at Royal & Derngate and Perth Theatres and Assistant Director at the Stephen Joseph Theatre.

For Dundee Rep: Scottish Premieres of Tracey Letts’ Pulitzer Prize winning August: Osage County and Lucy Kirkwood’s The Children. Andrew commissioned and directed Tay Bridge (Peter Arnott) and A Christmas Carol, Oor Wullie, The Snow Queen (Noisemaker). He has staged revivals of The Yellow on the Broom, Passing Places, Spring Awakening, Love Song and The Mill Lavvies. For the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Andrew directed A History of Paper (Oliver Emanuel and Gareth Williams), a new musical which had its world premiere in co-production with the Traverse Theatre, winning a Scotsman Fringe First award and Musical Theatre Review’s ‘Best New Musical’ and earned him a CATS Award for Best Director. Most recently, Andrew directed Make It Happen (Dundee Rep Theatre/National Theatre of Scotland/Edinburgh International Festival in association with Playful Productions and Neal St Productions). Andrew also co-directed new gig-theatre musical, No Love Songs (Kyle Falconer/Johnny McKnight/Laura Wilde) which had its Sydney opening in spring 2025 following a Scottish tour and London transfer.

Previously for the National Theatre of Scotland: Out of the Woods (starring Alan Cumming), A Sheep Called Skye, Black Watch (Staff Director - UK & international tours).

In collaboration with Goodspeed Musicals, Connecticut, Andrew directed the world premiere of Hi, My Name is Ben and has directed productions for Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, Citizens Theatre Glasgow, Royal & Derngate, Perth Theatre and The Stephen Joseph Theatre.

Andrew’s work for television includes: Children in Need, The Naked Choir and The Voice (BBC) and he was creative director for the opening ceremony of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. He was creative director for Susan Boyle, collaborating on five of her albums and conceiving and directing her premiere UK and international tours. For Unigram, Andrew directed a new, immersive production of Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, which premiered at the Faena Theatre in Miami.

Andrew was previously Artistic Director of Musical Theatre at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where he is now a Visiting Professor and Fellow and is a previous winner of the Bruce Millar Award for directing.

Andrew lives in Dundee with his husband and their nine-year old son.