British director Julian Amyes first visited Davis in the Fall of 1982 when he taught graduate directing classes and staged Chekhov’s Three Sisters for the University Theatre Season. Since then he has directed a four-part television version of Jane Eyre for the BBC (which recently aired on the Arts and Entertainment Network in the United States), a new drama by Scottish playwright Alma Collen, Winter Sunlight, and the television serial Charters and Caldicott for the BBC.

During his stay in the Dramatic Art Department, and whilst staging the lively production of You Never Can Tell, he also taught Special Problems in Directing.