In 1990 Dromgoole became artistic director of the
Bush Theatre, London, and stayed there until 1996. During this time, he premiered many new plays, including the original production of
Helen Edmundson's
The Clearing in 1993, and
Samuel Adamson's first play,
Clocks and Whistles in 1996, which won rave reviews. After a period in charge of new plays for
Sir Peter Hall's company at the
Old Vic, he ran the
Oxford Stage Company from 1999 until 2005. In 2008, he signed a new three-year contract to continue in the role until 2011. At the Globe, he directed
Coriolanus and
Antony and Cleopatra for the 2006 season, ''
Love's Labour's Lost for the 2007 season, King Lear in 2008, Romeo and Juliet and the new play A New World
by Trevor Griffiths in 2009, Henry IV Part I and Henry IV Part II in 2010, a touring production of Hamlet in 2011, Henry V in 2012 and Gabriel
by Samuel Adamson with Alison Balson in 2013. In January 2014 he directed The Duchess of Malfi'', the opening production at the
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse (the Globe's indoor counterpart). Between these two spaces Dromgoole then went on to direct:
Julius Caesar in 2014,
The Changeling and
Romeo and Juliet again and
Measure for Measure in 2015,
Pericles and his final production
The Tempest in 2016. In 2012, he also organised, as part of the
2012 Cultural Olympiad, the theatre festival
Globe to Globe, where 38 companies from around the world each brought one of Shakespeare's plays staged in their own language to The Globe stage. This inspired the Globe to Globe tour of
Hamlet, directed by Dromgoole in 2016, which toured to 197 countries around the world, and is the subject for Dromgoole's second book. July 2013, Shakespeare's Globe announced that Dromgoole would leave the post in April 2016. He was replaced by
Emma Rice Following his departure from the Globe, two of his productions,
Farinelli and
Nell Gwynn, transferred to the West End. His other directing credits include revivals of ''Someone Who'll Watch Over Me'' at the New Ambassadors Theatre in London,
Noël Coward's
Present Laughter, with
Rik Mayall,
George Bernard Shaw's ''John Bull's Other Island'' at London's Tricycle Theatre, and
Eric Schlosser's
Americans at the Arcola Theatre. He has also directed plays in the US and Romania. and produced four further films
Benjamin written and directed by
Simon Amstell,
Pond Life,
Undercliffe and
The Man In The Hat. Dromgoole also founded the
Classic Spring theatre company, which presented a season of Oscar Wilde plays at
The Vaudeville Theatre, where he directed
A Woman of No Importance in 2017. In 2019 Classic Spring announced that Dromgoole would be adapting and directing a double bill production of Frankenstein and Dracula at the
Hackney Empire in 2020. In 2023 he directed
Jordan Harrison's play, once filmed,
Marjorie Prime at London's the
Menier Chocolate Factory described by the Guardian as 'elegant'. ==Writing==