Sam Walters
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"Sam Walters" Order of the British Empire/MBE is a British theatre director who retired in 2014 as Artistic Director of the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, London, specialising in theatre-in-the-round productions. He also directed in the West End and at Ipswich, Canterbury and Greenwich, as well as at LAMDA, RADA and Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art/Webber Douglas. After 42 years Walters, the United Kingdom's longest-serving artistic director, and his wife and associate director, Auriol Smith, stepped down from their posts at the Orange Tree Theatre in June 2014.

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