[1] In August 2015, Sydney Theatre Company announced that he would be succeeding Andrew Upton as their artistic director.
[2] At Birmingham, Church directed the first revival of the David Hare trilogy Absence of War, Murmuring Judges, and Racing Demon).
[3] Productions he has directed at Chichester include The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby,[4] the first major revival since its RSC premiere in 1980, and The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.
[8] A number of Chichester productions during his tenure, including Sweeney Todd and South Downs, have subsequently gone on to the West End.
[9] Church and the executive director of CFT, Alan Finch, both announced in March 2015 that they would stand down from their positions at the end of September 2016, in order to make way for "new ideas and new energies".