cast and creative

Emily is a director and writer.

She directed Vogue World 2023, Jack Absolute Flies Again at the National Theatre in 2022, The Comeback at the Noël Coward theatre in 2020, produced by Sonia Friedman Productions and has adapted Romeo and Juliet for film for the National Theatre, which was released in 2021.

Emily is an Associate of the Bridge Theatre and of the National Theatre.

Frankie Bradshaw is an award-winning designer for theatre, dance and opera. Most recently she was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Costume Design for her work on Blues For an Alabama Sky at the National Theatre. She won the Best Creative West End Debut at the Stage Debut Awards 2019 jointly with director Lynette Linton for Sweat at the Gielgud Theatre and the Off West-End Best Set Design award in 2016.

Her many theatre credits include; Blues for An Alabama Sky (Lyttleton/ National Theatre), Retrograde (Kiln Theatre), Mad House (West End/Ambassadors Theatre), Local Hero (Minerva Theatre/ Chichester), Unexpected Twist, Two Trains Running (Royal & Derngate), House of Ife (Bush  Theatre), Hamlet (Dorfman/National Theatre Tour),  We Started to Sing (Arcola Theatre), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Leicester Curve/UK Tour), A Christmas Carol,Beauty and the Beast (Rose Theatre, Kingston), The Long Song (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Lemon Table (MGC/Wiltshire Creative), Piaf, Skellig (Nottingham Playhouse), Assembly (Donmar Warehouse), Sweat (West End/Donmar Warehouse), Cinderella (Lyric Hammersmith), A Christmas Carol (Theatre Clwyd), Napoli Brooklyn (UK Tour/Park Theatre), Trying It On (UK Tour/RSC/Royal Court), Kiss Me Kate, Jerusalem, Nesting, Robin Hood (Watermill Theatre), Cookies (Theatre Royal Haymarket), On The Exhale (Traverse), Hansel (Salisbury Playhouse).

Opera designs include Macbeth, Idomeneo and Elizabetta (English Touring Opera) and for Dance, Pinocchio (Northern Ballet).

www.frankiebradshawdesign.com

Jai trained at RADA and won the 2016 Association of Lighting Designer’s ETC Award.

Theatre design includes Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Haymarket Theatre/Lyric Hammersmith/Sheffield Theatres); Cuckoo, Graceland (Royal Court); Othello (National Theatre); The Trials (Donmar Warehouse); Chasing Hares (Young Vic); Wuthering Heights (St Ann’s Warehouse/National Theatre/US Tour/Wise Children); Uncanny: I Know What I Saw (UK Tour); The Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man (Nottingham Playhouse/UK Tour); My Son’s A Queer (But What Can You Do?) (Ambassadors Theatre/Garrick Theatre/Underbelly/Turbine Theatre. WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off-West End Production); Birthmarked (Bristol Old Vic/Assembly Rooms); Scissors (Sheffield Theatres); Cruise (Duchess Theatre); August in England, House of Ife, Lava (Bush Theatre); Worth (Arcola Theatre/Chester Storyhouse/New Earth); The Cherry Orchard (The Yard/HOME/ETT); Cherry Jezebel (Liverpool Everyman); Big Big Sky, The Hoes (Hampstead Theatre); The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (Northern Stage); Out of the Dark (Rose Theatre Kingston); Shuck’n’Jive, Whitewash (Soho Theatre); Anansi the Spider (Unicorn Theatre); I’ll Take You To Mrs. Cole (Complicite); Glory (Duke’s Theatre/Red Ladder); Cuzco (Theatre503); Losing Venice (Orange Tree Theatre); 46 Beacon (Trafalgar Studios with Rick Fisher); Out There on Fried Meat Ridge Road (White Bear Theatre/Trafalgar Studios 2); Acorn (Courtyard Theatre. Off-West End Award nomination for Best Lighting).

Theatre includes: Mates in Chelsea, Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp., a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun), Escaped Alone, The Sewing Group, hang, Love & Information (& Minetta Lane, NYC), Kin, Aunt Dan & Lemon, Bliss, Free Outgoing, The Arsonists, Serious Money, Road (Royal Court); Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Complicite); Brokeback Mountain (West End); The Crucible, Paradise, Hansard, Antony & Cleopatra, Julie, John, Twelfth Night, Here We Go, The Beaux Stratagem, Man & Superman, The James Plays (I & II), From Morning to Midnight, Strange Interlude, Timon of Athens, The Last of the Haussmans, The White Guard, Burnt by the Sun, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other, War Horse (& West End), Happy Days, Thérèse Raquin, The Seagull, Burn/Chatroom/Citizenship, Coram Boy, A Minute Too Late, Play Without Words, Machinal (National); Aristocrats, Saint Joan, Faith Healer, St Nicholas, Privacy, Philadelphia Here I Come!, Piaf, The Man Who Had All the Luck (Donmar); Nightfall (Bridge); Wild, A Human Being Died That Night, And No More Shall We Part, For Once (Hampstead); The Merchant of Venice (Globe); The Entertainer, The Winter’s Tale (West End); The Father (& Theatre Royal, Bath/ West End), The Caretaker (& Crucible, Sheffield) (Kiln); Hamlet (Barbican); Bull (Young Vic); The Playboy of the Western World, All About My Mother, Life x 3 (Old Vic); The Clinic, Ruined, Judgement Day (Almeida); Desire Under the Elms, Blasted (Lyric, Hammersmith); Thyestes (Arcola); Shoes (Sadler’s Wells); Julius Caesar (Barbican); Oppenheimer (& West End), Macbeth, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Wendy & Peter Pan, Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors, The Tempest, King Lear, Romeo & Juliet, Noughts & Crosses (RSC); Macbeth (Manchester International Festival/New York); Drum Belly (Abbey); Crave/4:48 Psychosis (Sheffield Theatres); Far Away, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bristol Old Vic); Good (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Man of Aran (Druid, Galway); Murder on the Orient Express, Country Girls, The House of Special Purpose (Chichester Festival); Little Otik, The Bacchae (National Theatre of Scotland); Riders to the Sea (ENO); A Disappearing Number, The Elephant Vanishes, Mnemonic, The Noise of Time, The Street of Crocodiles, The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol, The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Complicite); A Human Being Died That Night, Macbeth, All My Sons, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Happy Days, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Coram Boy, Humble Boy, Not About Nightingales, Mnemonic (Broadway).

Awards include: Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Play (War Horse); New York

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design (Mnemonic, Not About Nightingales).

Asaf Zohar is a composer and sound designer for theatre, film and Television.

Previous theatre credits include God of Carnage (Lyric Hammersmith), Disruption (Park Theatre), The Shape of Things (Park Theatre), Waiting for Anya (The Barn), Here (Papatango Theatre Company / Southwark Playhouse), Bright Half Life (David Adkin Limited / King’s Head Theatre), The Bit-Players (Southwark Playhouse), Dennis of Penge (Guildhall School of Music and Drama), SORRY, YOU’RE NOT A WINNER (Paines Plough / Bristol Old Vic / Theatre Royal Plymouth), Wild Country (Camden People’s Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Southwark Playhouse), SESSIONS (Paines Plough / Soho Theatre), The Silence and the Noise (Papatango Theatre Company), Peter Pan Reimagined (Birmingham Repertory Theatre), WHITEWASH (Soho Theatre), Dennis of Penge (Albany Deptford / Ovalhouse), Peter Pan and the Battle for Neverland (Ruined Theatre), The Goose Who Flew (Half Moon Theatre) and The Shadowpunk Revolutions (Edinburgh Fringe).

Previous TV credits include: Reggie Yates: Extreme Russia, Race Riots USA, Reggie Yates: Extreme UK, Dispatches: Taliban Child Fighters, Reggie Yates: Extreme South Africa, in addition to in-house work for Virgin Media and various media companies. Previous film work was shown at Cannes, BAFTA, Edinburgh and Encounters festivals.

Asaf studied classical composition at the Royal College of Music after years of professionally playing rock guitar. He has written scores in a multitude of genres and forms on commission, while specialising in contemporary production techniques.

Sam is a director of Sound Quiet Time, who has provided Sound Design and Engineering for Musicals and Plays around the Globe. Projects include STRANGER THINGS, THE FIRST SHADOW (Pheonix, London); MANIC STREET CREATURE (Edinburgh & London); LA BAMBA (UK Tour); LIFE OF PI (London, Boston & New York & UK Tour); DONMAR AT 30 – ANNIVERSARY SHOW (Donmar Warehouse, London); FROZEN THE MUSICAL (London); ANASTASIA THE MUSICAL (Japan); 9to5 (UK Tour); FANTASTICALLY GREAT WOMEN WHO CHANGED THE WORLD (UK Tour); WAR HORSE (UK & International Tours); HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (Palace, London); MURDER BALLAD (Arts, London). www.soundquiettime.com

Lucy was a movement practitioner in the inaugural Movement Department at the Royal  Shakespeare Company where she was also RSC/Warwick University Creative Fellow in  Residence. She was the dance repetiteur for Matilda the Musical on the original production  and into the West End. She has an MA in Movement Studies from The Royal Central School  of Speech and Drama.

Recent theatre includes: Medea (@sohoplace); The Father and The Assassin (National  Theatre); Hamlet (Bristol Old Vic); All of Us (National Theatre); Bridgerton (Secret Cinema);  Constellations (Vaudeville Theatre, winner of two Olivier Awards); Anything Is Possible if you  think about it Hard Enough, Nominated for Whatsonstage Award (Small Things Theatre);

RSC productions include: The Taming of The Shrew, Measure for Measure, Don Quixote (RSC, Garrick Theatre); Coriolanus (RSC, Barbican); Motion Capture Production of The  Tempest (RSC, Barbican); The Jew of Malta (Swan Theatre); Snow in Midsummer (Swan  Theatre), A Tender Thing (RSC/Northern Stage).

Other Theatre includes:

Top Girls, Alice In Wonderland (Liverpool Playhouse); Constellations (Royal Court,  Manhattan Theatre Club, Trafalgar Studios and UK national tour); The Wizard of Oz (Leeds  Playhouse); Anansi (Unicorn Theatre); The Scottsboro Boys, A Season in the Congo, (Young  Vic); The Importance of Being Earnest (Watermill Theatre); The Remains of the Day (Northampton Theatres, Out of Joint, Oxford Playhouse); Abigail’s Party (ATG); A Christmas  Carol (Leeds Playhouse); Table (New Vic Theatre); Mountains (Manchester Royal  Exchange); The Winter’s Tale (National Theatre & tour); The Shadow Factory (Nuffield King  Lear (Minerva Theatre/Duke of York Theatre); Jenufa (Grange Park Opera); East is East (Northern Stage/Nottingham Playhouse); Of Mice and Men (Birmingham Rep).

Kate has been an Equity Registered Fight Director since 2001, directing fights for theatre, TV & film. She has worked for many of the UK’s major theatres including the National Theatre, Royal Court, RSC, Donmar, The Globe and in the West End. She is also a qualified boxing coach, coaches at Rathbone Amateur Boxing Club and is a development coach on the England Boxing Performance Pathway.

Theatre includes: The Father and the Assassin; The Effect; Small Island; Much Ado About Nothing (National Theatre); The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time (National Theatre/ West End); Cyrano de Bergerac; Tina – The Tina Turner Musical; The Windsors: Endgame; (West End); Portia Coughlan; The Secret Life of Bees; The Tragedy of Macbeth (Almeida); Private Lives; Sweat; Constellations (Donmar); Guys & Dolls; A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bridge Theatre); Rock Follies; Assassins; Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads (CFT); Hamnet (RSC); As You Like It (@sohoplace); Henry V (Globe & Headlong); Jesus Christ Superstar (Palace Theatre, Manchester).

TV includes: Coronation Street, Hollyoaks, Emmerdale (ITV) all as a regular fight director.

Film includes: My Policeman (Amazon Studios); Death of England (Sky Arts & National Theatre – BAFTA Nominee for Best Single Drama); Romeo and Juliet (Sky Arts, PBS America & National Theatre); Pond Life and Making Noises Quietly (Open Palm Films).

Recent theatre includes: Lyonesse (Harold Pinter); Hamnet (RSC & Garrick); La Cage aux Folles (Regent’s Park); The Pillowman (Duke of York’s); Good (Harold Pinter); Jerusalem (Apollo); Leopoldstadt (Wyndham’s); Uncle Vanya (Harold Pinter Theatre); The Son (Duke of York’s/Kiln Theatre); The Night of the Iguana (Noël Coward Theatre); Sweat (Gielgud/Donmar Warehouse); Rosmersholm (Duke of York’s); True West (Vaudeville); The Ferryman (Royal Court/ Gielgud/Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre); The Birthday Party, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Harold Pinter Theatre); Consent (National Theatre/Harold Pinter Theatre); The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Hangmen (Royal Court/Wyndham’s/Atlantic Theatre Company); Berberian Sound Studio (Donmar Warehouse); Portia Coughlan; Women Beware the Devil, Daddy, The Hunt, Shipwreck, Dance Nation, Albion (Almeida); Stories, Exit the King (National Theatre); White Noise, A Very Very Very Dark Matter (Bridge); The Brothers Size (Young Vic) and Maryland, ear for eye, Girls & Boys, Cyprus Avenue and many further shows for the Royal Court.

Recent film includes: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry; Maryland; Ballywalter

Theatre credits include: Witness for the Prosecution, Adrian Mole, Killer Joe (West End); And Then There Were None, The Mirror Crack’d, Macbeth, Dusty, Turn of The Screw, French Without Tears, Handbagged, Arcadia, The Swearing Jar, A Splinter of Ice, The Good Enough Mums Club, The Night Watch, The Croft, Caroline’s Kitchen, Wait Until Dark, Night Must Fall, French Without Tears, As You Like It (UK tours); The Hypochondriac (Sheffield Crucible); They Don’t Pay? We Won’t Pay! (Mercury Theatre); Blue Remembered Hills, Playhouse Creatures, Fred’s Diner (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Girl Who Fell, A Guide for the Homesick, 3 Women (Trafalgar Studios); Dancing at Lughnasa (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); The Glass Menagerie (Nuffield); Dirty Great Love Story (Arts Theatre); Fool for Love (Found111); The Permanent Way, Ages of the Moon (Vaults); Broken Lad, Eldorado (Arcola); Hansel and Gretel (Rose Theatre Kingston); The Wider Earth (Natural History Museum); The Secret Garden (York Theatre Royal); Ladies Day (Wolverhampton Grand); Gaslight (Ed Mirvish, Toronto); Wordsworth, Two Way Mirror, After the Dance, Handbagged, Remarkable Invisible, Miss Julie (Theatre by the Lake); Romeo & Juliet, Doubt, A Lie of the Mind (Southwark Playhouse); Mythosphere (Stonenest); Madame Rubinstein, The Gathered Leaves (Park Theatre); Sideways (Other Palace); The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, GH Boy (Charing Cross); The Gunpowder Plot, The War of the Worlds (Immersive).

Children’s casting: The King and I, Wind in the Willows (London Palladium); Doctor Dolittle (UK tour).

Ellie previously worked as Casting Associate for the Ambassador Theatre Group.

Jeannette has worked extensively as a voice coach in theatre, film and TV. At the

National Theatre from 1992 to 2001, returning in 2007 as Head of Voice until 2022; at

Shakespeare’s Globe for 1997,1998,1999 and 2001 seasons; at the Royal Shakespeare Company from 2001 to 2005; at Sydney Theatre Company for a year in 2006. Other voice and dialect coaching in London and the UK includes work with the Royal Court, Young Vic, Donmar Warehouse, Shared Experience, Out of Joint, Complicite, Sheffield Theatres, Bristol Old Vic, Birmingham Rep, Liverpool Everyman/Playhouse, English Touring Theatre, Oxford Stage Company, The Bridge Theatre and the West End. Recent productions include Medea at Soho Place, Robin Hood and The Tempest at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, The Father and the

Assassin at the National Theatre and Lyonesse at The Harold Pinter Theatre.

Jeannette’s books, The Voice Exercise Book and Keeping it Active are published by the National Theatre and Nick Hern Books. Her forthcoming book, Centre Stage, will be

published by Penguin Random House.

Alice trained at Birkbeck on the MFA in Theatre Directing. Alice is Resident Director for ‘Amsterdam on Stage’ and was Resident Assistant Director at the Unicorn Theatre 2019/20. Alice most recently was Assistant Director to Ivo Van Hove on A Little Life.

Other recent work:

As Co-Director, Anansi The Spider (Unicorn Theatre, 2023).

As Director, Duizend Schepen, We’re All Mad Here, Love Stories (Amsterdam on Stage); An Intervention (Riverside Studios).

As Associate Director, An Hour & A Half Late (Theatre Royal Bath & National Tour staring Griff Rhys Jones & Janie Dee).

As Assistant Director, Gulliver’s Travels, Maggot Moon, The Canterville Ghost, The Bee in Me (Unicorn Theatre); Love on the Links (Salisbury Playhouse).

Ceci is a set and costume designer based in London. She trained at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and has since worked across the UK and Europe.

Her Set & Costume designs include: Farm Hall (Jermyn Street, Theatre Royal Bath & UK Tour); The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas and A Skull In Connemara (Dailes Teātris Riga, Latvia); Othello (Watermill Theatre);  Love & Information (Clapham Omnibus); Breeding (Kings Head);  Under The Black Rock (Arcola); Orlando (Jermyn Street); Warrior Queens (Sadler’s Wells); Tapped (Theatre503 & UK Tour); To Have And To Hold (The Hope Theatre);  Rocky Road (Jermyn Street/Stream.Theatre); One Million Tiny Plays About Britain- nominated for Offie Award: Best Set Design (Jermyn Street/ Watermill Theatre); Five Green Bottles, Tithonus R&D (Sherman Theatre); Cheer and Mydidae (The Other Room); Not Now (Nominated for Standing Ovation Award), Yes So I Said Yes (Winner of Standing Ovation Award: Best Production, Nominated for Offie Award: Set Design) , How To Survive An Apocalypse, Not Quite Jerusalem and The Wind of Heaven (Standing Ovation award: Best Rediscovery/Adaptation) (Finborough);  Twelfth Night (Kew Gardens); The Cut (LAMDA & Lion And Unicorn); Waiting for Anya and The Mozart Question (Barn Theatre, Cirencester) and Yellow Moon (LAMDA).

Previous Associate Design credits include: Anything Is Possible If You Think About It Hard Enough (Southwark Playhouse)

Olivia has worked in theatrical costume for the last 12 years in running wardrobe on shows such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Dreamgirls, Old Times, The Audience and for many other productions. She has just completed a years maternity cover as Head of Costume at the Young Vic theatre.

As assistant supervisor: Hamlet (Young Vic) Plenty (Chichester Festival Theatre)

As supervisor: The Second Woman (Young Vic Theatre) Beneatha’s Place (Young Vic Theatre) The Trials (Donmar Theatre) We Started To Sing (Arcola Theatre) Kabul Goes Pop (Brixton House Theatre) Daddy (Almeida Theatre) The Collaboration (Young Vic Theatre) Young Company Season (Almeida Theatre)

As Associate Lighting Designer, theatre includes: The Ocean at the End of the Lane (UK Tour), A Strange Loop (Barbican), Cuckoo (Royal Court & Liverpool Everyman), Bat out of Hell The Musical (UK Tour), Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake (UK & International Tour), Les Miserables The Staged Concert (Gielgud), Elf (Dominion) and The Grinning Man (Trafalgar Studios).

As Assistant Lighting Designer: Bat out of Hell The Musical (Manchester & London), Chess (ENO).

As Casting Director, theatre includes: Blue Mist, Hope has a Happy Meal, Black Superhero, Graceland, Jews. In Their Own Words, That Is Not Who I Am, two Palestinians go dogging, The Glow, A Fight Against…, Maryland, Poet in da Corner (Royal Court); The Contingency Plan (Sheffield Crucible); Barefoot in the Park (Pitlochry Festival Theatre / Royal Lyceum); Returning to Haifa (Finborough Theatre); The Ugly One (Park Theatre); The Mountaintop (Young Vic).

As Casting Associate, theatre includes: Lyonesse (Duke of York’s Theatre), The Pillowman (Duke of York’s Theatre); Hamnet (RSC); Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Complicité – UK & European tour); Jerusalem (Apollo Theatre); Leopoldstadt (Wyndham’s Theatre); Uncle Vanya (Harold Pinter Theatre); The Night of the Iguana (Noel Coward Theatre); Rosmersholm (Duke of York’s Theatre); True West (Vaudeville Theatre); The Ferryman (Royal Court / Gielgud Theatre / Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, New York); Shipwreck, Albion (Almeida Theatre); A Very, Very, Very Dark Matter (Bridge Theatre); Hangmen (Royal Court / Wyndham’s Theatre / Atlantic Theatre Company, New York).

Film includes: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Maryland, Ballywalter.

With a career spanning slightly more than a decade, Alex has established himself as a seasoned fight director, seamlessly navigating the realms of both theatre and film. Originally training as an actor at East 15 Acting School, Alex made a swift transition to the art of fight directing shortly after completing the Acting and Stage Combat course. In addition to crafting intricate fight choreography, Alex showcases versatility by contributing to the world of film and television as a skilled stunt performer. Beyond the battlefront, Alex’s artistic endeavours extend to Mostar, Bosnia, and Herzegovina, where he lends his directorial talents to Shakespearean productions for the non- profit organisation, Youth Bridge Global.

Theatre includes: Rumble in the Jungle (Dock X); Bridgerton, Stranger Things, Star Wars, Saturday Night Fever, Casablanca, Victoria (Secret Cinema); Musketeers (BBC Worldwide); Il Tabarro (The Royal Opera House); Saxon Court, A Lie of The Mind (Southwark Playhouse); The Armour (The Langham); A Sherlock Carol (Marylebone Theatre); WB 100 Years Anniversary (Warner Bros, Abu Dhabi); Titus Andronicus, Macbeth (Wimbledon Studio); Excluded, Love Me to Death, Rise and Fall (Intermission Theatre).

TV/Film includes: Vikings seasons 4-6 (MGM, Amazon); Vikings: Valhalla (Netflix); Mary Queen of Scots (Focus Features, Universal Pictures) all as a stunt performer.

Music Videos include: Wolf Alice (Academy Films); Bandokay feat. Headie One (Cellar Door); Brian Fallon, Rak-Su (Kode).

Wessex Grove is a theatrical production company set up by Benjamin Lowy and Emily Vaughan-Barratt in 2020.

Current and upcoming productions include: Ivo van Hove & Rufus Wainwright’s new musical Opening Night with Sheridan Smith (Gielgud Theatre); Thomas Ostermeier’s An Enemy of the People with Matt Smith (Duke of York’s Theatre); Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! (Edinburgh Fringe, Bristol Old Vic & HOME, Manchester); Quiz UK Tour; and Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Playhouse Theatre and August Wilson Theatre, Broadway.

Recent productions include: Simon Stephen’s Vanya starring Andrew Scott at The Duke of York’s Theatre; The Old Man & The Pool at Wyndham’s Theatre; Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life directed by Ivo van Hove at the Harold Pinter Theatre & Savoy Theatre; One Woman Show at Greenwich House Theater, New York & Ambassadors Theatre, West End; Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons at the Harold Pinter Theatre & UK Tour; Best of Enemies at the Noël Coward Theatre; Constellations at the Vaudeville Theatre, winner of the Olivier Award for Best Revival; A Strange Loop at the Barbican Theatre; A Doll’s House at the Hudson Theatre, New York; A Streetcar Named Desire at the Phoenix Theatre; Mother Goose at The Duke of York’s Theatre & UK Tour; The Doctor at the Duke of York’s Theatre; Mad House at the Ambassadors Theatre; The Seagull at the Harold Pinter Theatre; Cyrano de Bergerac at the Harold Pinter Theatre, Glasgow Theatre Royal & Brooklyn Academy of Music; and The New Tomorrow Festival at the Young Vic.

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Producers: Benjamin Lowy & Emily Vaughan-Barratt

General Manager: Tom Powis

Production Coordinator: Hugh Summers

Production Coordinator: Sarah Alford-Smith

Production Coordinator: Jack Sterne

Administrator: Eloise Kenny-Ryder

Executive & Production Assistant: Max Hoffman

Office & Production Assistant: Lily Ford

Underbelly is a UK-based live entertainment company founded in 2000 by Ed Bartlam and Charlie Wood that specialises in producing and programming ground-breaking theatrical productions and the creation of city-centre cultural events and festivals from theatres to roundabouts from London to Asia.

Most recently, Underbelly, alongside ATG Productions, transformed The Playhouse into the Kit Kat Club for the Olivier Award winning Cabaret. Underbelly has just opened Underbelly Boulevard, their first permanent venue, in Soho.

Underbelly is currently producing The McOnie company’s Nutcracker at the Tuff Nuts Jazz Club at Southbank Centre, in 2024 The McOnie company’s The Artist and the trailblazing cabaret show La Clique in London.

One of the largest producers at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Underbelly has previously presented Fleabag in 2013 and Six in 2018.

Directors:  Ed Bartlam & Charlie Wood

Production Director: David Watson

Head of Programming: Marina Dixon

Executive Producer, Productions: Holly Reiss

Head of Operations: Ryan Beattie

Head of Finance: Jace Subramoney

Head of Brand Partnerships: Mary Gleeson

Head of Bars: Jonny Brown

Head of Marketing: Lauren Carroll

Head of Ticketing:  Natalie Norman

Senior Event Producer: Rachel Sivills-McCann

Senior Event Producer: Ruth Fisher

Production ManageR: Kenny Easson

Warehouse Manager: Steven Kilpatrick

Festival Programmer: Aisling Galligan

Festival Programmer & Producer: Áine Flanagan

Personal Assistant to Directors: Lauren Manning

Marketing Manager: Keir Shields

Marketing Officer: Hope Martin

Programme Co-ordinator: Alex Colfield

Production Assistant: Joe Ewing

Payroll & Accounts Receivable Accountant: Karen Johnson

Senior Accounts Payable Clerk: Sandy Bahra

Accounts Payable Assistant: Victor Adeboye

Gavin Kalin Productions is an award-winning theatrical production company that specialises in producing theatre in the West End, on Broadway, and internationally.

Recent West End credits include: A Little Life, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cabaret, Back to the Future, Cyrano, Betrayal, 9 to 5 The Musical, Pretty Woman The Musical, Come From Away, the Pinter at the Pinter season, Oslo, and The Ferryman.

Recent Broadway credits include: A Doll’s House, Plaza Suite, Betrayal, Leopoldstadt, Funny Girl, Sea Wall/ A Life, and The Ferryman.

Other entertainment: Monopoly Lifesized on Tottenham Court Road, London, now into its third year; the Paddington Bear Experience set to open on the Southbank, London later this year; and a new permanent immersive theatre with restaurant and bar underneath Waterloo Station named Labyrinth Waterloo.

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Gavin is also the founder of Totally Theatre Productions Ltd, a TV/Video production company that specialises in producing broadcast and online content for theatre and live entertainment. Clients are worldwide with many in the West End and on Broadway.

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Eilene Davidson is an international theatre producer working in the USA, UK and Europe.

Current co-productions include: The Shark is Broken on Broadway, A Merchant of Venice (RSC, tour & London); A Christmas Carol (Alexander Palace); The Enfield Haunting (Ambassadors Theatre); and The Motive and the Cue (Noel Coward Theatre).

Recently produced plays on Broadway and in London’s West-End include: the award winning Prima Facie, A Doll’s House, Leopoldstadt and Wagatha Christie. In 2022, EDP produced the premiere of Edna O’Brien’s Joyce’s Women at the Abbey theatre in Dublin, the Broadway sensation Plaza Suite, and the award-winning Anything Goes.

Former West-End plays include: Uncle Vanya, Admissions, The Grinning Man, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Starry Messenger, and the Olivier-winning new play Emilia.

Eilene formerly worked as an actress and writer in Europe and the USA.  Her main interest is in new work and she was a founder of Stage Traffic, a UK/USA company specialising in producing new plays. She is currently developing new work for production in the UK and USA. She is in the President’s Circle at BAFTA, is a member of Society of London Theatre (SOLT), and sits on the Board of the Huntington Theatre in Boston, USA

MarketStall is a theatre industry producer and investor, set up in 2023 by John Brant.

Current projects: The Enfield Haunting at the Ambassdors Theatre.

Richard Winkler and Dawn Smalberg, with nine Tony Awards and six Olivier Awards, individually and collectively they have been represented in the West End and Broadway with such shows as: Dear England, Dr. Semmelweiss, Nutcracker, Patriots, Leopoldtstadt, Life of Pi, The Lehman Trilogy, Come From Away, Merrily We Roll Along, Ocean At The End Of The Lane, The Doctor, Mad House, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella, Magic Mike Live, Mother Goose, Diana – The Musical, The Inheritance, The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, The Ferryman, Memphis: A New Musical, 1984 and A Night With Janis Joplin.

Cultura is delighted to be supporting this amazing production.  We have enjoyed supporting theatre both in the UK and on Broadway for a number of years, as well as film making in the Nordics.

This represents the successful collaboration between UK producer Sir Rupert Gavin (Incidental Colman) and US producer Mallory Factor (Hill Street Productions). They specialise in ground-breaking new theatre projects, especially those with transatlantic potential.

Sir Rupert Gavin has successfully produced/co-produced 200 shows in London, New York and around the world, generating 21 Olivier awards for the productions alone, and multiple Tony and Evening Standard awards.  His notable recent West End credits include: The Ferryman, Jerusalem, Mojo, The Pinter at the Pinter season, The Inheritance, The Jungle, Betrayal, Dreamgirls, Funny Girl, Tina Turner – The Musical, Pretty Woman, Cyrano de Bergerac, and Leopoldstadt.

Mallory Factor’s productions on Broadway have included: Enron, The Miracle Worker, and the Tony nominated The Merchant of Venice. He is an honorary trustee of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a former trustee of the American Theatre Wing, and served on the Tony Awards Nominating and Administration Committees, and on Tony Awards Productions. In the West End, with Sir Rupert Gavin, he has been co-producer of Uncle Vanya, Equus, The Starry Messenger, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Constellations, Dreamgirls (UK tour), Anything Goes, and Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons.

Current and recent credits as co-producers include:  Cabaret, Patriots, A Little Life, Jersey Boys, The King and I, The Rocky Horror Show, The Wizard of Oz, Quiz, Lyonesse, Dr Semmelweiss, Hello Dolly, and A Christmas Carol.

Echo Lake Entertainment, based in Los Angeles, has been producing and financing

award-winning films, television and theatre since 1998. Credits include: Oscar-nominated

films Tsotsi, Water, Away from Her and Nebraska, the Emmy-nominated television

series The Great, and the Olivier Award-winning play Prima Facie. Echo Lake is also a

global production and management company, representing writers, directors and

actors.

https://www.echolakeentertainment.com/

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Kater is an Emmy-Award winning writer (Mad Men), a mediocre cook, and an amateur portrait painter.

Recent projects include: Vanya (Duke of York’s); 2:22 A Ghost Story (Noël Coward Theatre, Gielgud Theatre, Criterion Theatre, Lyric Theatre, Apollo Theatre, Ahmanson Theatre, Her Majesty’s Theatre Melbourne & UK Tour); Broadway’s A Doll’s House (Hudson Theatre); Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons (Harold Pinter Theatre); Disney’s Newsies (Troubadour Wembley Theatre); One Woman Show (Greenwich House Theater, New York); and Kathy and Stella Solve A Murder! (Roundabout, Underbelly, Bristol Old Vic & Manchester HOME).

Patrick has produced, co-produced, or general managed over 40 plays and musicals in the West End, on Broadway, and in Australia.

West End: Dr Semmelweis, Bleak Expectations, A Little Life, Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons, Good, The Human Voice, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Leopoldstadt, Uncle Vanya, Summer & Smoke, Venus in Fur, and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.

Broadway: Leopoldstadt, Constellations, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Death of a Salesman.

As general manager of the Donmar, Patrick supervised over a dozen productions, including the Donmar West End season of Ivanov, Twelfth Night, Madame de Sade, and Hamlet.

Patrick is a Board Member of the Society of London Theatre and a Trustee of the Theatre Development Trust.

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Sayers & Sayers Productions was founded by Michael and Amanda Sayers in 2021 to produce theatre in the West End.

Current and previous productions: The Enfield Haunting (Ambassadors); The Pillowman (Duke of York’s); The Unfriend (Criterion).

Lisa Alexander-Taylor, Kevin Ryan, and Rosemary and Kenneth Willman, with multiple Olivier and Tony-winning productions among them, are honoured to be involved in this unique and important production. Lisa Alexander-Taylor: Co-Producer of or investor in several Broadway productions, including The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (Tony nomination); Prima Facie, and Ohio State Murders. Kevin Ryan: Co-founder of one of Broadway’s largest charity events, the ‘Stage & Screen Sleep Out’, which supports housing at Covenant House for children and youth facing homelessness. Broadway credits include: Parade (Tony award); Into the Woods (Drama League Award & Tony nomination); The Piano Lesson (Drama Desk Award & Tony nomination); The Sign In Sidney Brustein’s Window (Tony nomination). Kenneth and Rosemary Willman: Co-Producers of or investors in dozens of West End and Broadway productions, including Come From Away (Olivier award); Hadestown (Tony award); and Parade (Tony award); national and international tours, and works in development.

Tulchin Bartner Productions is a Tony and Olivier award-winning production company currently

represented in the West End by Hamnet, Cabaret and The Book of Mormon, and on Broadway by Moulin Rouge!

Upcoming West End: The Motive and the Cue, Dr. Strangelove, and Sister Act.

Past West End highlights include Dr. Semmelweis, Patriots, To Kill A Mockingbird, Leopoldstadt, TheFerryman, The Drifters Girl, Get Up, Stand Up!, Come From Away, Life of Pi, The Inheritance, King Charles III, Sunny Afternoon and Jerusalem.

Past Broadway highlights include: The Lehman Trilogy, A Raisin in the Sun, La Cage aux Folles, The Norman Conquests, Boeing-Boeing, and Company.

Upcoming UK Tour: Come From Away.

Roast Productions is a live entertainment company founded by Bonnie Royal and Michael Stevens, based in London and working internationally, focusing particularly on theatre, concerts and family entertainment, as well as offering general management and marketing consultancy services in the West End and beyond. As well as Macbeth, current and recent projects include: Christmas Actually curated by Richard Curtis (Southbank Centre); Vanya starring Andrew Scott (West End); 2:22 A Ghost Story (West End, Australia, & UK Tour); and The Paddington Bear Experience (London).

Alan Shorr is a multiple Tony award and Olivier recipient. His most recent credits include

Leopoldstadt, The Lehman Trilogy, Ain’t Too Proud and Cabaret. His newest original musical 3 Summers of Lincoln is set to premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse next year.

Christopher Ketner is a 2 time Tony Award, Olivier Award, and 3 time Drama Desk Award Winning Producer.

Broadway productions: Company (Tony & Drama Desk Awards),The Ferryman (Tony & Drama Desk Award), The Prom (Tony nom & Drama Desk Award), The Great Comet of 1812  (Tony nom).

London productions: Cabaret Kit Kat Club, Company (Olivier Award) Gielgud Theatre, Heisenberg Wyndham’s Theatre, Working: A Musical Southwark Playhouse & The Prince of Egypt the Musical Dominion Theatre.

Currently: Heather McMahan’s The Comeback Tour. Ketner also produced Heather McMahan’s Netflix special Son I Never Had.

Events: 3 Super Bowls, 5 US Open Tennis Tournaments, Women’s Tennis Association World Finals Singapore, College Football National Championship & concerts with Lenny Kravitz, Ariana Grande, Nick Jonas, Carrie Underwood, Blake Shelton, Elvis Costello, and others.

Co-founded by Sir Howard Panter and Dame Rosemary Squire in 2017, Trafalgar Entertainment (TE) is a premium international live entertainment platform. TE’s range of activities include Trafalgar Theatre Productions, Trafalgar Releasing (distributors of specialised content to over 13,000 cinemas in more than 132 countries worldwide), its performing arts education business Trafalgar Education, with over 61,000 global participants that engage weekly, London Theatre Direct (one of the UK’s leading ticket retailers and distributors), Jonathan Church Theatre Productions, Imagine Theatre (one of the UK’s biggest pantomime producers), and The Chiswick Cinema with exclusive Private Members’ Club. TE will also open the ground-breaking Olympia Theatre, the biggest new permanent theatre to open in London since the 1970s.

Trafalgar Theatre Productions produces new shows and classic musicals in London and

internationally including the Tony and Olivier award-winning smash hit musical Jersey Boys, now playing at London’s newly renovated Trafalgar Theatre; a National Theatre co-production of Michael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize and multi award-winning A Strange Loop at London’s Barbican Theatre in the summer of 2023; Broadway’s favourite multi award-winning musical, Alanis Morrisette’s Jagged Little Pill, which opened at Trafalgar Theatre’s Royal Sydney in December 2021; a major revival of the classic musical Anything Goes at London’s Barbican Theatre in the summers of 2021 and 2022; The Merchant of Venice 1936 (in partnership with Watford Palace Theatre and the RSC); the tenth anniversary UK & Ireland tour of the acclaimed National Theatre production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; the hilarious new comedy Death Drop (London and UK Tour); the current 50th Anniversary World Tours of The Rocky Horror Show; the Lincoln Center’s award-winning production of The King and I at the London Palladium and worldwide; and a co-production of War Horse with The National Theatre in Australia and Asia-Pacific.

Trafalgar Theatre Productions is led by Creative Director Sir Howard Panter and Executive Producers Daniel Brodie and Matt Parritt.

Located in Washington, D.C., the Tony Award-winning Shakespeare Theatre Company has become recognized as the nation’s premier classical theatre. Classical plays are realized best not by originalism but by following the path of Shakespeare, who created works that spoke to his own contemporary audience. STC tells vital stories in audacious forms, stories that are Shakespearean in the deepest sense, even if (and especially when) they are not written by Shakespeare. By focusing on works with profound themes and complex characters, STC’s artistic mission is to bring to vibrant life groundbreaking, thought-provoking, and eminently accessible theatre.