Toby Gough

Toby Gough is a British theatre director, writer, actor and teacher. He is known for devising multi-cultural adaptations of Shakespeare plays and creating international music theatre shows from Cuba, Colombia, Ireland, India and Brazil.

His musical theatre productions from India include The Merchants of Bollywood produced by Harvey Goldsmith choreographed by Vaibhavi Merchant, Taj Express choreographed by Shruti Merchant. Bollywood Masala-the Indian Riverdance is choreographed by Mahesh Poojary and pays tribute to the music of A.R.Rahman and the films of Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Irish Celtic-Spirit of Ireland has been on tour since 2011 and has performed to over 300,00 audiences worldwide. Salsa Revolution from Colombia features dancers from Swing Latino, who performed with Shakira and Jennifer Lopez at the 2020 Superbowl halftime show.

Gough is Director of IFTA (The International Foundation for Training in the Arts) founded by Brian Cox. He is also Director of The World Festival production company that produces shows for the Edinburgh Fringe festival and Singapore Grand Prix.

He has won five Scotsman Fringe First Awards, two Herald Archangel awards, and two Jack Tinker Spirit of the Fringe lifetime achievement awards. The album he co-produced Small things fall from the Baobab Tree by the Zawose family of Tanzania was nominated for a Grammy Award.