What is Terry Hands?
[[File:Terry Hands.png|right|200px]] '''Terence David Hands''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE}} (9 January 1941 &ndash; 4 February 2020) was an [[English people|English]] [[theatre director]]. He founded the Liverpool Everyman Theatre and ran the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] for thirteen years. He also saved [[Clwyd Theatr Cymru]] from closure.<ref>{{cite web|title=Who's Who in the Cast|url=http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/Whos_Who/19892/13415/Terry-Hands/The-39th-Annual-Tony-Awards---1985|website=playbillvault|access-date=2015-05-23}}{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> He was thought to be one of Britain’s most respected theatre directors.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Green|first1=Michael|title=Mold Clwyd Theatr Cymru to stage Hamlet as artistic director's swan song|url=https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/mold-clwyd-theatr-cymru-stage-8520908|website=chesterchronicle.co.uk|date=26 January 2015 |access-date=2015-05-23}}</ref> He was born in [[Aldershot]], [[Hampshire]]. Hands died on 4 February 2020 at the age of 79.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/feb/04/theatre-director-terry-hands-who-ran-the-royal-shakespeare-company-dies-aged-79|title=Theatre director Terry Hands, who ran the Royal Shakespeare Company, dies aged 79|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=4 February 2020|last=Wiegand|first=Chris}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hands, Terry}} [[Category:1941 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:English entertainers]] [[Category:People from Hampshire]] {{bio-stub}}