Roy Limbert (1893–1954) was a prominent London West End theatre director and producer between the 1930s and the 1950s.
The son of Charles Limbert and Florence Strahan Campbell, Roy Limbert was born in 1893 and educated at Bedford School.
In 1929, Limbert established the Malvern Festival, at the Festival Theatre, Malvern, with Sir Barry Jackson. He was joint director of the festival with Jackson until 1938, when he assumed sole control. Between 1929 and 1949, the Malvern Festival was primarily a festival of the work of George Bernard Shaw, producing twenty-two of his plays, six of them for the first time in England, one a world premiere.
Between 1932 and 1952, Limbert directed and produced a large number of highly successful London West End theatre productions.
Roy Limbert died on 29 November 1954.
London West End stage productions directed and produced by Roy Limbert
The School for Husbands, Royal Court Theatre, 1932She Shall Have Music, Saville Theatre, 1934Barnet’s Folly, Haymarket Theatre, 1935The Last Trump, Duke of York's Theatre, 1938Geneva, Saville Theatre, 1938, and St James's Theatre, 1939Worth a Million, Saville Theatre, 1939Music at Night, Westminster Theatre, 1939In Good King Charles’s Golden Days, New Theatre, 1940Rookery Nook, St Martin's Theatre, 1942Mr Bolfry, Westminster Theatre, and subsequently Playhouse Theatre, 1943It Depends What You Mean, Westminster Theatre, 1944The Forrigan Reel, Sadler's Wells Theatre, 1945Dr Angelus, Phœnix Theatre, 1946School for Spinsters, Criterion Theatre, 1947The Anatomist, Westminster Theatre, 1948Miss Mabel, Duchess Theatre, subsequently Royal Strand Theatre, 1948Two Dozen Red Roses, Lyric Theatre, 1949Lady Audley’s Secret, Princes Theatre, 1949Buoyant Billions, Princes Theatre, 1949Black Chiffon, Westminster Theatre, 1949, 1950Background, Westminster Theatre, 1950Journey’s End, Westminster Theatre, 1950Lace On Her Petticoat, Ambassadors Theatre, 1950Beauty And The Beast, Westminster Theatre, 1950The Martins’ Nest, Westminster Theatre, 1951Taking Things Quietly, Ambassadors Theatre, 1951Winter Sport, on tour, 1951The Day’s Mischief, Duke of York's Theatre, 1951–52
