Roger Granville is the Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of the New Generation Foundation. Roger has led international theatre productions at the Young Vic Theatre, the Prithvi Theatre in Mumbai and Shakespeare’s Globe, with whom he produced a project in 2012 to encourage the revival of the performing arts in Afghanistan, culminating in an Afghan touring production of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors. Other producing credits include Waiting for Godot at the Arcola Theatre, and Much Ado About Nothing at the Rose Theatre Kingston. For the New Generation Festival, he directed Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore and Mozart’s Don Giovanni. He has directed Sir Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love at the Oxford Playhouse and worked as an assistant director at both St Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Alongside his co-founders, Roger was appointed Honorary Ambassador of the City of Florence and was honoured with the city’s Silver Florin decoration. He was educated at Eton College followed by Christ Church, University of Oxford, where he took a First in Middle Eastern Studies and Modern Languages (M.A. Oxon).
