Roland Jaquarello

Roland Jaquarello, born 14 December 1945, is a British theatre director and radio producer/director. He started his career in Dublin Theatre Festival after graduating from Trinity College, Dublin in 1968. Since then he has directed over 80 theatre and 60 radio productions in the UK and Ireland.

In 1969 he was Assistant Director to Lindsay Anderson on David Storey's The Contractor at The Royal Court Theatre, London. He then went on to direct the successful Irish production of -It's a 2'6" Above The Ground World by Kevin Laffan, a comedy about birth control, which ran for over a year as well as the Irish premieres of two plays by Joe Orton, Loot with Donal McCann as Inspector Truscott and What The Butler Saw. During this period, he showed his interest in European drama by directing Police, the first Irish production of the Polish playwright Sławomir Mrożek's comic satire on political power.

In the early 1970s, at the age of 26, he became one of the few English theatre practitioners to become a resident Director at the Abbey Theatre Dublin. While there, his productions included Richard Brinsley Sheridan's classic comedy of manners The School for Scandal, the witty Shavian drama, King Herod Advises by Conor Cruise O'Brien, the premiere of Hatchet, a play about violence in working class Dublin by Heno Magee, and Irish premieres of continental writers Fernando Arrabal and Michel De Ghelderode.

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