Our staff

Richard Digby Day - Artistic Director

Richard Digby Day was Leverhulme Scholar at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and their first student of Direction.

He has been Director of five British regional theatres as well as the Open Air Theatre in Regent’s Park London.

His work has been seen in the West End and in Canada, Denmark and Ireland. From 1990 – 1998 he was Director of the National Theatre Institute at the O’Neill Centre in the USA.

He has directed many of the UK’s leading actors and is credited with giving Ralph Fiennes, Hugh Grant and Imelda Staunton their first professional work. He has been LDA’s Director since fall 2003.

Kate Stein - Programme Co-ordinator

“The experience of going abroad to study had a profound effect on me. The sense of adventure and independence in discovering London and other parts of England and Europe opened my mind and encouraged an interest in cultural exchanges.

I have watched London develop into a truly international city in my 30 years here, and have been thrilled to be included in that process.”

Originally from Washington D.C. Kate is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Cambridge University. During her junior year abroad at University College, London she met her English husband.

In 1979 she began her career in international student exchange working at the Fulbright Commission in London. She continued in this field while living back in the US for a couple of years, including working at the British Embassy in Washington D. C.

In recent years Kate has experienced even more of the UK education system through her two children and her own work at a local school.