Roland Jaquarello, born 14 December 1945, is a British theatre director and radio director/producer. He started his career in Dublin Theatre Festival after graduating from Trinity College Dublin in 1968. Since then he has directed over 80 theatre and 60 radio productions in the UK and Ireland. The 1960s In 1969 he was assistant director to Lindsay Anderson on David Storey's The Contractor at The Royal Court Theatre, London. He then went on to direct the successful Irish production of It's a 2'6" Above The Ground World by Kevin Laffan, a comedy about birth control, which ran for over a year as well as the Irish premieres of two plays by Joe Orton, Loot with Donal McCann as Inspector Truscott and What The Butler Saw. During this period, he showed his interest in European drama by directing Police, the first Irish production of the Polish playwright Sławomir Mrożek's comic satire on political power. The Abbey Theatre Dublin In the early 1970s, at the age of 26, one of the few British theatre practitioners to become a resident Director at the Abbey Theatre Dublin. While there, his productions included Richard Brinsley Sheridan's classic comedy of manners The School for Scandal, the witty Shavian drama, King Herod Advises by Conor Cruise O'Brien, the premiere of Hatchet, a play about violence in working class Dublin by Heno Magee, and Irish premieres of continental writers Fernando Arrabal and Michel De Ghelderode. Half Moon Theatre London He later successfully redirected Hatchet, regarded as one of the best Irish plays of that period at Half Moon Theatre, London, with Colm Meaney in the title role. The Welsh Drama Company Cardiff In the mid-1970s he ran an enterprising season for the Welsh Drama Company at The Sherman Theatre, Cardiff where he directed productions of August Strindberg's Miss Julie, Bertolt Brecht's The Exception and the Rule and Fernando Arrabal's The Car Cemetery. Green Fields and Far Away From 1977 to 1981, he ran his own touring company Green Fields and Far Away. It was the first company of its kind in Britain. Based in London, the company produced 12 productions of Irish and Irish-related work and toured the UK. It also toured Ireland and its production of Jack Doyle – The Man Who Boxed Like John McCormack! by Ian McPherson, about the celebrated Irish boxer and entertainer, featured at the Lyric Hammersmith, London in the 1980 'A Sense