Burt Caesar is a British actor, broadcaster and director for stage and television, who was born in St Kitts and migrated to England with his family as a child.
[1] His career has encompassed acting in Bond films (Skyfall, 2012), stage performances including in Shakespearian roles,[2] and many plays for BBC Radio 4.
[29] Caesar's feature Black Students in Red Russia – which among other interviews included one with Jan Carew, author of the 1964 novel Moscow Is Not My Mecca – was chosen by the New Statesman as a "Pick of the Week"[30] when the programme was broadcast on Radio 4 (again produced by Ward-Lowery) in January 2009.
[41] In April 2017, Caesar performed at the Arcola Theatre in The Plague,[42] based on the 1947 novel of the same name (originally La Peste) by Albert Camus, adapted and directed "with great ingenuity" by Neil Bartlett.
[43] Later in 2017, Caesar played the role of Gloucester in King Lear in a production directed by Nancy Meckler at Shakespeare's Globe (10 August – 14 October),[44][45] giving a performance that the Financial Times characterised as "dignified and moving".
In 1986, he directed for the Black Theatre Co-operative (now Nitrobeat) the play Waiting for Hannibal by Yemi Ajibade, which opened at the Drill Hall, followed by a national tour,[49] with Judith Jacobs, Wilbert Johnson and others in the cast.
[6] Film and TV drama he has directed includes, for the NT Archive, Remembrance by Derek Walcott and Welcome Home Jacko by Mustapha Matura, as well as numerous episodes of the BBC One medical soap opera Doctors.
[6] Caesar is an artistic advisor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA),[54] where productions he has directed include Tarell Alvin McCraney's The Brothers Size[55] and Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca.