Timothy Sheader (born 23 November 1971 in Scarborough, North Yorkshire) is a British theatre director.[2] After directing at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre in 2005, he was appointed artistic director for the venue in November 2007, responsible for productions from the 2008 season.In 2008, A Midsummer Night’s Dream re-imagined for everyone aged six and over was the first of many Shakespeare plays specially adapted for younger audiences.In the summer of 2020 it was reconceived as Jesus Christ Superstar: The Concert, the first West End production to re-open during the coronavirus pandemic.Other productions Sheader has directed include: Imagine This (New London); Hobson's Choice, The Clandestine Marriage, Love in a Maze (Watermill Theatre); Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, The Three Musketeers (Bristol Old Vic); The Star Throwers, Unless (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough); Misconceptions (Derby Playhouse); Streetcar to Tennessee (Young Vic); Achilles (Edinburgh Fringe First); Wild, Wild Women (Orange Tree); Arms and the Man (National Tour) Piaf, Sweet Charity (Sheffield Crucible).