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Andrew Panton

Headshot of Andrew Panton, a man with a beard and glasses wearing a blue blaser and red tshirt looking through a window

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 winningAugust: Osage County and Lucy Kirkwood’sThe 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. Most recently, Andrew directed A History of Paper (Oliver Emanuel and Gareth Williams), a new musical which had its world premiere at the Traverse Theatre as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, winning a Scotsman Fringe First award. Andrew also co-directed gig-theatre musical, No Love Songs (Kyle Falconer/Johnny McKnight/Laura Wilde) which recently transferred to London and will open at Goodspeed Musicals, Connecticut before New York and Sydney in 2025. 

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

In collaboration with Goodspeed Musicals, he directed the world premiere of Hi, My Name is Ben. Andrew 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 and vocal 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’sThe 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 eight year old son.