Question: What English director directed the film An Awfully Big Adventure?

Context articles: Takao Miyoshi
Manchán Magan
Big Top Pee-wee
Mike Newell (director)
Rita Tushingham
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Nicola Pagett
An Awfully Big Adventure (novel)
Tim Burton
An Awfully Big Adventure

Takao Miyoshi (見吉 隆夫 , Miyoshi Takao ) is a former game producer at Sega.
 Miyoshi joined in 1990 and first worked on the Sega Meganet minigames for the Genesis and then had design roles for , Sonic 3D Blast, Burning Rangers and Sonic Adventure.
 His debut as director was Phantasy Star Online, he then produced for Phantasy Star Universe, succeeding Yuji Naka.
 Similar to a Sega Meganet game, he produced a smaller scale downloadable called Pole's Big Adventure in 2009.
 He left Sega afterwards after spending his last years at the company as senior producer, and let Satoshi Sakai succeed him as producer for the "Phantasy Star" franchise.
Manchán Magan is an Irish writer, traveller and television programme maker.
 He has made over 30 travel documentaries focusing on issues of world cultures and globalization, 12 of them packaged under the Global Nomad series with his brother Ruán Magan.
 He presented "No Béarla", a documentary series about traveling around Ireland speaking only Irish.
 He writes a travel column for "The Irish Times" and his show "The Big Adventure", on RTÉ Radio 1 explores adventure holidays.
 He has written two books in Irish, "Baba-ji agus TnaG" (Coiscéim 2005) and "Manchán ar Seachrán" (Coiscéím 1998), and his English travel books include "Angels & Rabies: A Journey through the Americas" (Brandon, 2006), "Manchán's Travels: A Journey through India" (Brandon, 2007) and "Truck Fever: A Journey through Africa" (Brandon, 2008).
Big Top Pee-wee is a 1988 American comedy film and the sequel to "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" (1985), and stars Paul Reubens as Pee-wee Herman, with supporting roles done by Susan Tyrrell, Kris Kristofferson, and introducing Valeria Golino as Gina Piccolapupula.
 The original music score is composed by Danny Elfman (although he also scored "Pee-wee's Big Adventure", he could not use any themes from that movie due to "Big Top Pee-wee" being produced by another studio).
Michael Cormac "Mike" Newell (born 28 March 1942) is an English director and producer of motion pictures for film and television.
 Newell won the 1994 BAFTA Award for Best Direction for "Four Weddings and a Funeral".
Rita Tushingham (born 14 March 1942) is an English actress.
 She is known for her starring roles in 1960s films including "A Taste of Honey" (1961), "The Leather Boys" (1964), "The Knack …and How to Get It" (1965), "Doctor Zhivago" (1965), and "Smashing Time" (1967).
 For "A Taste of Honey", she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, and Most Promising Newcomer at both the BAFTA Awards and Golden Globe Awards.
 Her other film appearances include "An Awfully Big Adventure" (1995), "Under the Skin" (1997), and "Being Julia" (2004).
Pee-wee's Big Adventure is a 1985 American adventure comedy film directed by Tim Burton in his full-length film directing debut and starring Paul Reubens as Pee-wee Herman with supporting roles provided by Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton, Diane Salinger, and Judd Omen.
 Reubens also co-wrote the script with Phil Hartman and Michael Varhol.
 Based on the 1948 Italian classic "The Bicycle Thief", it is the tale of Pee-wee Herman embarking on a nationwide adventure in search for his stolen bicycle.
Nicola Pagett (born Nicola Mary Scott, 15 June 1945) is a British actress.
 She is known for her role as Elizabeth Bellamy in the 1970s TV drama series "Upstairs, Downstairs" (1971–73).
 Her film appearances include "Anne of the Thousand Days" (1969), "Operation Daybreak" (1975), and "An Awfully Big Adventure" (1995).
An Awfully Big Adventure is a novel written by Beryl Bainbridge.
 It was short listed for the Booker Prize in 1990 and adapted as a movie in 1995.
 The story was inspired by Bainbridge's own experiences working at the Liverpool Playhouse in her youth.
Timothy Walter Burton ( ; born August 25, 1958) is an American film director, producer, artist, writer, and animator.
 He is known for his dark, gothic, eccentric, and quirky fantasy films such as "Beetlejuice" (1988), "Edward Scissorhands" (1990), the animated musical "The Nightmare Before Christmas" (1993), the biographical film "Ed Wood" (1994), the horror fantasy "Sleepy Hollow" (1999), and later efforts such as "Corpse Bride" (2005), "" (2007), "Dark Shadows" (2012), and "Frankenweenie" (2012).
 He is also known for blockbusters such as the adventure comedy "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" (1985), the superhero films "Batman" (1989) and its first sequel "Batman Returns" (1992), the sci-fi film "Planet of the Apes" (2001), the fantasy drama "Big Fish" (2003), the musical adventure film "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (2005), and the fantasy film "Alice in Wonderland" (2010), which garnered a worldwide gross of over $1 billion.
An Awfully Big Adventure is a 1995 British coming-of-age film directed by Mike Newell.
 The story concerns a teenage girl who joins a local repertory theatre troupe in Liverpool.
 During a winter production of "Peter Pan", the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth as she becomes drawn into a web of sexual politics and intrigue.