About Frank Dunlop (director)
Frank Dunlop (15 February 1927 – 4 January 2026) was a British theatre director. He is best known as the creator of the Young Vic theatre and theatre company, which features young actors and reaches a youthful theatre audience. Dunlop was artistic and administrative director of the Young Vic from 1968 through 1971, and he directed plays for the company throughout the 1970s. His other major administrative theatrical positions included administrative director of the National Theatre from 1968 to 1971, and director of the Edinburgh International Festival from 1984 through 1991. In 1966 he founded The Pop Theatre Company at the Edinburgh Festival, with productions of The Winter's Tale (also seen in Venice and London) and The Trojan Women. Cheyney (1978), During this period he founded and for two years ran the BAM Theatre Company, directing for them The New York Idea, Three Sisters, The Devil's Disciple, The Play's the Thing and Julius Caesar.
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