Lou Stein is a London based Theatre Director/Writer who founded the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill and has worked with such actors as Dame Helen Mirren, Clive Owen, Sir Patrick Stewart, Chris Eccleston, Sir John Mills, and Helena Bonham-Carter in London theatres including the West End, The Royal Court, and for the BBC.

Currently

Lou is writing and producing THE FATHER INSTINCT, a BBC Radio 3 series which will be broadcast every night from 25 April-29 April 2011 at 11pm.  Conceived by Lou, the series looks at the connections between being a father and creativity through the eyes of four living artist-fathers and features his own relationship to his son Ethan, who has Down Syndrome.

[Listen to Lou's final essay]

NEWS

Lou Stein is preparing for the eagerly awaited revival of his smash hit adaptation of FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS,

with designs by iconic cartoonist Ralph Steadman.  

Listen to an extract from Lou's award-winning Spoken Word CD starring Harry Dean Stanton and Jim Jarmusch

[Audio MP3 674kb]

Lou's vivid production of

CROSSING THE SEA, Deirdre Gribbin's

new one-woman opera with a Chinese theme,

using contemporary dance and film, is now available for international touring.

[Click to read a review]

Listen to the opening of Lou's recent play for BBC Radio 3

'CROSSING THE SAME RIVER

TWICE'

[BBC Intro and opening]

DVD and CD clips and scripts are

available for interested producing partners and venues. Excerpts from CROSSING THE SEA..Brian Friel's PERFORMANCES...Dostoevsky's THE POSSESSED...and DOROTHY PARKER LIVES are available on request.

For all enquiries please contact lou@loustein.co.uk