The Royal Shakespeare Company appoints its first female artistic director

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The Royal Shakespeare Company to have a woman as permanent artistic director for the first time in 60 years of history.< /p >

Tamara Harvey, who currently runs Theatr Clwyd in Mold, North Wales, will share the work with Daniel Evans, who runs the Chichester Festival Theatre.

The two new co-artistic directors will replace Gregory Doran, who stepped down earlier this year after a decade.

The pair will join Stratford-upon-Avon-based RSC next June.

Harvey said in a statement: “We bring a shared belief in all that the RSC can be – a home for radical and relevant theater made by artists from the UK and around the world. A global community inspired by Shakespeare, bringing together a myriad of voices to tell the stories of our time - and of all time."

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Harvey's first professional theater job was as an assistant director for Shakespeare's Globe under Mark Rylance, and she took over Theatr Clwyd in 2015.

Under his leadership, the venue has staged shows ranging from Olivier Award-winning Home, I'm Darling, to a musical called The Assassination of Katie Hopkins.

She is now...