Rupert Goold CBE (born 18 February 1972)[1] is an English director who works primarily in theatre.

For his work in the West End he won two Laurence Olivier Awards for Best Director for Macbeth (2008) and Enron (2010).

He was trainee director at Donmar Warehouse for the 1995 season, and assisted on productions including 'Art' and Speed-the-Plow in the West End.

[8] In September 2007, the production transferred to the Gielgud Theatre in London, then the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York and then to the Lyceum Theater on Broadway.

[11] In 2008, he directed the UK premiere of Stephen Adly Guirgis's The Last Days of Judas Iscariot and a radical re-interpretation of Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author at the Chichester Festival which he co-authored with Ben Power.

Produced by Cameron Mackintosh, Goold recreated Sam Mendes' direction for the London Palladium production, which was nominated for three Olivier Awards.

Goold set his Lear in Northern England during the 1970s, fascinated by the fact that during this decade, Britain was enduring the power of women.

[15] Goold returned to Broadway with the transfer of the play, King Charles III which he previously directed in the West End.

[17] In 2019 he directed the Broadway transfer for the James Graham play Ink about the rise of Rupert Murdoch which ran at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.