Background
Warner was born in Oxfordshire, England, to antiquarians Roger Harold Metford Warner and Ruth Ernestine Hurcombe.
Warner was born in Oxfordshire, England, to antiquarians Roger Harold Metford Warner and Ruth Ernestine Hurcombe.
After attending Sidcot School and Saint Clare"s school in Oxford, she studied Stage Management at Central School of Speech and Drama.
In 1980 she founded the KICK theatre company when she was 21. Warner and Shaw have collaborated on plays including Electra (Royal Society of Chemistry ). The Good Person of Sezuan (1989, National ).
Hedda Gabler (1991, The Abbey and BBC2).
The controversial Richard II, with Shaw in the title role, also at the National (1995) and televised by BBC2. Footfalls, whose radical staging so enraged the Beckett estate that the production was pulled during its run.
The PowerBook, at the National, a dramatisation of Jeanette Winterson"s novel. Medea (2000–2001, Queen"s and Broadway).
And Shakespeare"s Julius Caesar, in which Shaw played the small part of Portia.
South. Opera and classical music Warner has also worked extensively in field of opera and classical music, including a production of The Diary of One Who Disappeared by Janáček starring Ian Bostridge. A staging of the Saint John Passion at English National Opera. A controversial staging of Mozart"s Don Giovanni at Glyndebourne.
Wozzeck for Opera North.
Death in Venice and Between Worlds at English National Opera. And Henry Purcell"s Dido and Aeneas with Les Arts Florissants in Vienna, Paris and Amsterdam.
Other notable productions include opening the 2015/15 season at Louisiana Scala, Milan with Fidelio conducted by Daniel Barenboim and Tchaikovsky"s Eugene Onegin at the Metropolitan Opera New York in the 2013/2014 season. Warner was made a commander of the Order of the British Empire (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) on 17 June 2006, "for services to drama".
She frequently collaborates with Irish actress Fiona Shaw. and nominations.