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Julian Crouch (born 1962 in England) is a British stage and costume designer, theater and opera director. Considered one of the eminent exponents of the Fringe movement, he has been working on major established stages and Broadway since the early 2000s. He lives in Brooklyn, New York City.

In 2013, together with Brian Mertes, he was responsible for the new production of Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival. This production is on the festival schedule at least until 2016.

Crouch was born in England and grew up in Scotland. He began his career as a mask and doll maker in large outdoor spectacles. In 1996, together with Phelim McDermott, Lee Simpson and Nick Sweeting, he founded the Improbable Theater, whose plays were described as "a bastard of puppetry and improvisation". This group was inspired by cultural history, from Pieter Breughel and Hieronymus Bosch to Tex Avery, the Goons and Joan Littlewood. Crouch took over equipment and co-direction, often creating props and dolls live on stage. In 1997, he designed a stage set for a Midsummer Night's Dream production, which consisted of 56 rolls of Tesa film - and nothing else. It was awarded.

A grotesque-macabre stage adaptation of Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter with a lot of black humor was performed by Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch with their "Junkopera" Shockheaded Peter. The music is by Martyn Jacques of the London cult band The Tiger Lillies. The piece premiered in 1998 and performed successfully in 2001 at the Wiener Festwochen. Since then, it has been played on numerous stages in Germany and Austria in the version translated back into German by Andreas Marber. Other works for the Improbable Theater included Philip Glass' Satyagraha, a coproduction with the English National Opera (ENO) and the Metropolitan Opera in New York (2008), as well as Spirit, a co-production with the Royal Court Theater, Coma, Stocky, The Hanging Man and the award-winning production 70 Hill Lane, shown in the United Kingdom and the United States, and the 2005 co-production with the National Theater. His most recent production for this troupe in 2011 was The Devil and Mister Punch, a tragicomedy about manslaughter and love. 

In 2003, he served as a set designer and associate director on the premiere of Jerry Springer's The Opera, a musical by Richard Thomas and Stewart Lee. The production of the National Theater was so successful that the piece moved to London's West End in November 2003 and ran there until February 2005. It was the first musical ever to win all four prestigious London awards for Best Musical (What's On Stage, Olivier, Evening Standard, Critics Circle). Due to his vulgar language, his heartfelt jokes and surreal imagery, like a band of tap-dancing Ku Klux Klan members, the musical evoked massive protests from Christian fundamentalists and right-wing political groups, such as the Christian Voice, especially after his BBC Two broadcast in early 2005 or the British National Party. The BBC received 55,000 complaints and a theater in Birmingham, which wanted to take over production, was threatened with injunctive relief. Due to the protests, nine stages in the UK canceled the guest performance, but the UK tour in 2006 was a great success with the public and the press.

In 2009, he staged, along with Phelim McDermott, the musical version of the Addams Family, which referred more to the original cartoon series, as the later film and television versions. Already the Tryout series in Chicago became a success with public and press, from April 2010 to December 2011 the production ran on the Broadway in New York. The stage design of Julian Crouch has received both the Drama Desk Award and the Outer Circle Critics Award.

On New Year's Eve of 2011, he co-created - again with Phelim McDermott - The Enchanted Island baroque pasticcio for The Met in New York, conducted by William Christie, David Daniels, Danielle de Niese, Joyce DiDonato, Plácido Domingo and others Luca Pisaroni. In the following month, the staging was broadcast live via satellite to movie theaters worldwide, and Virgin Classics released a DVD recording. Two seasons later, the production was resumed because of the great success, this time with Susan Graham instead of the prevented Joyce DiDonato, but otherwise in the original cast.

In 2013 he was invited by Alexander Pereira and Sven-Eric Bechtolf, director and director of the Salzburg Festival, to work with Brian Mertes on a fundamental new version of Hofmannsthal's Jedermann at the Salzburg Cathedral Square. The new production split the theater criticism, but was enthusiastically received by the audience with standing ovations. The Hamburger Abendblatt stated: "If Brian Mertes and Julian Crouch have gone for simple immediacy, then they have achieved this goal, and dedusted the 'Everyman' in a way that is breathtaking for Salzburg conditions." 2015 conceived and Crouch realized together with the musician Martin Lowe (and with Bechtolf as co-director) a new version of Brecht's Threepenny Opera for the Felsenreitschule.

As a stage designer Crouch worked on, among other things, a new production of John Adams' Doctor Atomic at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and ENO in London (2009), a Magic Flute for the Welsh National Opera in Cardiff (2010), an opera version of Le Petit Prince in Lausanne Lille, was shown at the Grand Théâtre de Genève and at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, furthermore a Merry Widow for Met and Lyric Opera of Chicago. Crouch was Artist-in-Residence at New York's Park Avenue Armory and the first artist to be inducted into the BRIC House's Fireworks Residency Program in Brooklyn.

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