By Angela Green: Bryn Williams announces latest opening.
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Today, Theatr Clwyd announces that internationally-acclaimed chef Bryn Williams, will launch a restaurant at the North Wales venue.
Williams, a Michelin award-winning chef and restaurateur, is regarded as one of the UK’s top chefs. His restaurants have included the acclaimed Odette’s in London, Colwyn Bay’s Porth Eirias, a beach-front restaurant, café & bar on the North Wales Coast, The Cambrian in the stunning Swiss Alps, and The Touring Club in Penarth.
Speaking of the new opening Williams said: “I am thrilled to be returning home to my native Wales, to work in partnership with Theatr Clwyd, an organisation I have known and loved since being a child growing up locally. I can’t wait to share my culinary passion for our distinct and dynamic region and its produce with my community.”
Liam Evans-Ford, Theatr Clwyd’s Executive Director reciprocated Williams’ enthusiasm saying: “We are deeply excited to be working in partnership with Bryn on our food and drink offer at Theatr Clwyd – including restaurants, bars, and in all our event and retail spaces. We always aim to work with people who are world class at what they do, who share our values, and who have strong links to our locality. Bryn delivers on all these, and we look forward to working with him to make Theatr Clwyd known as a food and drink destination, as well a venue for world-class culture and communities work.”
The new restaurant will open in 2025 in Theatr Clwyd’s building following completion of the redevelopment project.
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About Theatr Clwyd
The award-winning Theatr Clwyd is Wales’ biggest producing theatre. Since 1976 Theatr Clwyd has created exceptional theatre from its home in Flintshire, North Wales. Driven by the vision and dynamism of Executive Director Liam Evans-Ford and Artistic Director Kate Wasserberg, Theatr Clwyd pushes theatrical boundaries creating world-class shows.
In 2021 Theatr Clwyd was named as The Stage’s ‘Regional Theatre Of The Year’. Major recent successes have included The Famous Five: A New Musical with Chichester Festival Theatre, Home, I’m Darling with the National Theatre, which won Best New Comedy at the Olivier Awards and was nominated in five categories, the UK Theatre Award-winning musical The Assassination of Katie Hopkins, and the site-specific, immersive Great Gatsby.
Theatr Clwyd is one of only four theatres in the UK to build sets and props, make costumes and paint scenery in-house. Their impressive team of workshop, wardrobe and scenic artists, props makers and technicians ensure the skills vital to a vibrant theatre industry are nurtured right in the heart of Wales, developing the theatre makers of the future. In addition to this, Theatr Clwyd hosts an artist development programme, trainee technicians’ scheme and an eighteen-month traineeship for directors and designers, to develop the Artistic Directors of the future.
Theatr Clwyd works in the community across all art forms and is recognised as a cultural leader for its cross generational theatre groups, work in youth justice and diverse programme of arts, health and wellbeing. Award-winning Community Engagement projects include Arts from the Armchair, in partnership with Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, which uses theatrical making skills to help people with early onset memory loss and their carers, and Justice In A Day, working in schools and the law courts to help at risk children to realise the consequences of crime.
Theatr Clwyd Music was established in 2020, adopting the council-run Music Service to ensure that this vital community asset wasn’t lost. They provide music lessons throughout schools and community settings for all ages. Since 2022 Theatr Clwyd has run Wrexham’s William Aston Hall in partnership with Wrexham University. Ensuring that the people of Wrexham and North Wales have access to the best in Welsh, UK and international entertainment.
Theatr Clwyd is currently undergoing a major capital redevelopment project which will reimagine the theatre’s public spaces and create a greener, more efficient and sustainable building where world-class art can thrive and social action is rooted for generations to come. The venue has remained open throughout the development, continuing to offer world class theatre and community engagement.
