Simon Evans

Simon Evans is an English theatre and television director, writer, and actor.

Evans was raised in Oxford while his parents ran a dental practice in nearby Kidlington. He was educated at The Dragon School and Abingdon School, where his fellow students included Tom Hollander, Toby Jones and members of Radiohead. He studied Education, English, Drama & the Arts at Homerton College, Cambridge.

As a theatre director, his productions include The Dazzle (starring Andrew Scott), Bug (James Norton), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Lenny Henry), Killer Joe (Orlando Bloom) and A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Toby Stephens and Claire Skinner).

As an actor, his early roles include parts in Stig of the Dump (2002) and Lewis (2007).

During the COVID-19 pandemic, he wrote, directed and co-starred in the BBC Television series Staged, playing himself, alongside exaggerated versions of the show's stars, Michael Sheen and David Tennant. The series was notable for being made using video conferencing technology. Evans had been due to rehearse Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing at Chichester when lockdown came into effect. His cinematic directorial debut, Hunter in the Dark, was also postponed.

Following Staged, Evans hosted and directed another lockdown event, a live-streamed Oxford Playhouse fundraiser, A Theatre Near You, starring Stephen Fry, Marcus Brigstocke, and Lucy Porter.
He is the founding director of the theatre company, Myriad Immersive.