My partner, Ted Craig, who has died aged 86, was for more than 25 years the artistic director of the Warehouse theatre, Croydon, in south London, which he transformed into a champion of new writing after founding the International Playwriting festival.
An Australian who had worked for many years in television, Ted settled permanently in Britain in 1979 after having helped the director Lindsay Anderson stage a production at the Theatre Royal in Sydney. Anderson then recommended Ted to direct a production of Look Back in Anger in New York in 1980, and he then assisted Anderson on his 1981 film Britannia Hospital.
