Theater Director, Producer and Writer. He was twice artistic director of England's Chichester Festival Theatre and directed major productions in London's West End, on Broadway and for the Royal Shakespeare Company. At one point, he became the only director to have four productions running concurrently in the West End. Among his best-known work were the original production of Alan Bennett's "Forty Years On," his adaptation of John Aubrey's "Brief Lives" and the Broadway revival of "My Fair Lady" starring Rex Harrison. His television production "The Snow Goose" won a Golden Globe Award and received Emmy and BAFTA nominations.

Born Patrick Ewart Garland in Southampton, England, he studied English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he served as president of both the Oxford University Dramatic Society and the Oxford University Poetry Society. After beginning his professional career as an actor, including appearances in the BBC Shakespeare series "An Age of Kings," he became a producer and director in the BBC's Music and Arts Department. His work there included documentaries and programs devoted to Noël Coward, Stevie Smith, Marcel Marceau and Philip Larkin.

Garland established his theatrical reputation with "Brief Lives," a one-man play created from the writings of 17th-century antiquarian John Aubrey and originally performed by Roy Dotrice. The production played extensively in Britain and internationally and was later revived with Michael Williams. He directed John Gielgud in Bennett's "Forty Years On," Eileen Atkins in his adaptation of Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own," and Simon Callow in Peter Ackroyd's "The Mystery of Charles Dickens." His other productions included the musical "Billy," "Hedda Gabler," "A Doll's House," "Don Giovanni" and the York Mystery Plays.

As artistic director of the Chichester Festival Theatre from 1981 to 1985 and again from 1990 to 1994, he directed more than 20 productions. He also directed the motion-picture adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House," starring Claire Bloom, Anthony Hopkins and Ralph Richardson.

With Ted Hughes and Charles Osborne, Garland founded Poetry International, which became a major international literary festival. His books included "The Incomparable Rex," a memoir of Rex Harrison, and the essay collection "Abstract and Brief Chronicles." He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Southampton and was made an honorary fellow of St Edmund Hall. His wife was actress and animal-welfare advocate Alexandra Bastedo.