
He succeeded Michael Grandage as artistic director of Sheffield Theatres from 2005–2007. In 2002, West made his stage directorial debut with The Lady's Not for Burning at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester. West made his London stage debut in February 1989 at the Orange Tree Theatre, playing Michael in Cocteau's Les Parents Terribles, of which critic John Thaxter wrote: "He invests the role with a warmth and validity that silences sniggers that could so easily greet a lesser performance of this difficult role, and he lets us share the tumbling emotions of a juvenile torn between romantic first love and filial duty." Since then, West has appeared frequently on stage he played Valentine in the first ever production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia at the National Theatre in 1993 and later spent two seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company playing the title roles in Richard II and Hamlet, both directed by Steven Pimlott. He was educated at Alleyn's School and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where he studied English Literature and was president of the Experimental Theatre Club. West was born in London, the elder son of actress and actor Prunella Scales and Timothy West, and the grandson of the actor Lockwood West.

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let me tell you all about the Rutter wedding day! And before I get off on a tangent about my newfound love for the desert and all the beautiful plant life out there….

Not only are they just the sweetest and I knew their wedding would reflect that, but their big day was going to be in ARIZONA!!! A place I have always dreaming of visiting. KJ was in the wedding so one way or another, this trip was happening! But it was the sweetest thing in the world when they said “yes Jess, you can do our wedding!!” Wade and Penny are both friends of ours, though this is the first time I had ever met Penny! I felt like I had known her for years the first time I had hugged her after landing in Arizona, and maybe that’s just the best part about social media!! Wade and my husband, KJ, went to college together and became best buds, eventually working together in the hotel business in North Carolina.

But, I am hoping that the opportunity I received to serve Wade and Penny will open many other doors!! if I can do just one wedding across country, that would be enough for me by the end of my career as a wedding photographer. I did it, guys!! I traveled beyond the East Coast for a wedding!!! I’ve always said.
