Terence David Hands, CBE (9 January 1941 – 4 February 2020) was an English theatre director.

[5] He studied at Woking Grammar School and the University of Birmingham before attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, leaving with the gold medal for acting in 1964.

These included the entire History Cycle with Alan Howard, Much Ado About Nothing[1] and Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac with Derek Jacobi and Sinéad Cusack (both productions transferred to Broadway),[1] Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine with Sir Antony Sher, Loves Labours Lost with Ralph Fiennes, Anton Chekov's The Seagull with Sir Simon Russell Beale, A Winter’s Tale with Jeremy Irons, Othello with Sir Ben Kingsley and David Suchet and the award-winning musical Poppy.

[8] His international directing credits include productions in Berlin, Brussels, Chicago, London, New York, Oslo, Paris, Tokyo, Vienna and Zurich.

During an eight-year relationship with actress and dancer Julia Lintott, between 1988 and 1996, he had two sons, Rupert who is also a director, and Sebastian.