This is Joey’s theatrical debut.
TELEVISION INCLUDES: “The White Queen,” “Whitechapel” and “Murder on the Home Front.”
FILM INCLUDES: Posh.
THEATRE INCLUDES: Duke of Orleans in Henry V (RSC); Henry VIII in The Prince and the Pauper (Unicorn); Elyot in Private Lives, Charles II in Restoration, Dali in Hysteria, Harlequin in The Double Inconstancy and Lord Goring in An Ideal Husband (Salisbury Playhouse); Forlipopoli in Mirandolina (Royal Exchange); Jack Absolute in The Rivals and Hortensio in The Taming of the Shrew (national tour); Touchwood Jr in A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and Kiril in Platonov (Almeida); Marc in M. Butterfly (Singapore Rep); Young Marlowe in She Stoops to Conquer (Northcott, Exeter); Head of Admin in After the Rain (Gate); Valentine in Arcadia (Haymarket) and Antonio in Antonio’s Revenge (Chelsea Arts).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: “Midsomer Murders,” “Hustle,” “Doctors,” “Doc Martin,” “Jonathan Creek,” “Heroes and Villains - Attila the Hun,” “Doctor Who,” “Firma,” “Broken News,” “Heartbeat,” “Life Begins,” “The Infinite Worlds of H G Wells,” “Sword of Honour,” “Wonderful You” and “Kavanagh QC.”
FILM INCLUDES: Deadly Descent, Arn: the Knight Templar, The Kovak Box, Topsy-Turvy and Shakespeare in Love.
RADIO INCLUDES: Sword of Honour, Antony and Cleopatra, The Seagull, King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Three Musketeers, Vanity Fair, An Ice Cream War, The Luck of the Bodkins, Talking It Over, Love Etc and Amerika; winner of the BBC Carleton Hobbs Award for Radio. Nicholas is the voice of Garrett Hawke in the popular video game Dragon Age II.
THEATRE INCLUDES: Top Girls (Chichester Festival Theatre/Trafalgar Studios/Out of Joint); Behud (Soho); Bedroom Farce and Miss Julie (Rose, Kingston); Private Fears in Public Places and Just Between Ourselves (Royal Theatre, Northampton); Ivanov (Donmar at Wyndham’s); Sexual Perversity in Chicago (Norwich Playhouse); Some Kind of Bliss (a one-woman show written for Lucy by Samuel Adamson - Trafalgar Studios/Brits off Broadway); Ship of Fools (Theatre503); Catch (Royal Court); The Voysey Inheritance (National Theatre); Musik (Arcola); The Solid Gold Cadillac (West End); Spike (Nuffield, Southampton); Cloud Nine, Teeth ‘n’ Smiles, Don Juan and As You Like It (Sheffield Crucible); Electra (Gate); The Winter’s Tale (Southwark Playhouse); The Entertainer (Birmingham Rep); Henry IV Parts one and two (Old Vic/English Touring Co) and The Rivals (Nottingham Playhouse).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: “Count Arthur Strong,” “Our Girl,” “DCI Banks,” “The Thick of It,” “The Night Watch,” “Midsomer Murders,” “Twenty Twelve,” “Broken News,” “Casualty,” “Einstein and Eddington,” “Wives and Daughters,” and BBC’s “Pride and Prejudice.”
FILM INCLUDES: Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa and Children of Men.
RADIO INCLUDES: With Great Pleasure, The Making of a Marchioness, Zazie dans le Métro, Henry IV parts one and two, The Woman in Black and The Recruiting Officer.
THEATRE INCLUDES: Pride and Prejudice (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Doctor Faustus (West Yorkshire Playhouse/Glasgow Citizens); People Like Us (Pleasance); Euphoria (Ensemble 52); DNA (Hull Truck/UK tour); The Kitchen Sink (Bush); Sum Zero (Lyric Studio); Product Replacement (Nabokov Theatre Co); Time Warner Ignite two and four (Waterloo East) and 24 Hour Plays 2010 (Old Vic New Voices).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: “Doctors and Vera.”
FILM INCLUDES: Jess//Jim.
RADIO INCLUDES: Leah is a BBC Carleton Hobbs Award winner and has played numerous roles for the BBC Radio Rep Company. Highlights include: The Archers, I, Claudius, The Big Sleep, Danton’s Death, The Far Pavilions, An Incident at the Border, Show Boat, Pilgrim, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Miss Mackenzie.
THEATRE INCLUDES: Pride and Prejudice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macbeth (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); A Marvellous Year for Plums (Chichester); A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Glasgow Citizens); Accolade and The Rat Trap (Finborough); All My Sons (Apollo); Artist Descending a Staircase (Old Red Lion); As You Like It and The Little Fir Tree (Sheffield Crucible); Hay Fever (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Arms and the Man (Salisbury Playhouse); Much Ado About Nothing and Private Lives (Bath Theatre Royal); Vincent in Brixton (Manchester Library Theatre); Northanger Abbey (York Theatre Royal); The Importance of Being Earnest and The Taming of the Shrew (Bath) and Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Bristol Old Vic).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: “Titanic,” “Marple,” “Doctors,” “Hughie Green,” “Most Sincerely,” “Agatha Christie: a Life in Pictures” and “The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.”
FILM INCLUDES: Death Defying Acts.
RADIO INCLUDES: Two Girls and Lost in Mexico.
THEATRE INCLUDES: The Tempest, The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, Marat/Sade, Cardenio, The City Madam, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, King John, The Tempest and Henry V (RSC); The Lyons (Menier Chocolate Factory); The History Boys (Sheffield Crucible); The Beaux’ Stratagem, Racing Demon, Murmuring Judges, The Absence of War, Johnny on the Spot, Dealer’s Choice and Tartuffe (National Theatre); An Inspector Calls (national tour); Dealer’s Choice (Vaudeville); The Crucifer of Blood and The Country Wife (Theatre Royal Haymarket); The Country Girl (Apollo); The Taming of the Shrew (British Actors’ Theatre Co); Night Must Fall (Greenwich); Ask for the Moon (Hampstead); The Iceman Cometh (Almeida/Old Vic); Hecuba (Donmar) and The Shallow End and Boy Gets Girl (Royal Court).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: “Ripping Yarns,” “Minder,” “After the War,” “The Lakes,” “The Absence of War,” “Drop the Dead Donkey,” “Trouble in Mind,” “Shelley,” “Goodnight Sweetheart,” “In Defence,” “The Bill,” “Daniel Deronda,” “The Inspector Lynley Mysteries,” “Cambridge Spies,” “New Tricks,” “Doc Martin,” “Kavanagh QC,” “Margaret,” “The Take,” “Garrow’s Law,” “Midsomer Murders,” “Foyle’s War” and “Poirot.”
FILM INCLUDES: The Human Bomb, The Golden Bowl, Amazing Grace, Les Poupées Russes, The Wolfman, Eliminate: Archie Cookson, A Dark Reflection and Pleasure Island.
Mathew trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. His first professional engagement was in 55 Days (Hampstead Theatre).
OTHER THEATRE INCLUDES: Chatroom and Fret (National Theatre Studio); Breakout (Cockpit
Theatre); Cynthia’s Revels (Shakespeare’s Globe); Dido, Queen of Carthage and Lear (Lazarus Theatre Company); The Ring Cycle (the British Library); Orion’s Hat (Tristan Bates Theatre); Sitting With Thistle (Lion and Unicorn Theatre); The Supposes (Greys Inn/Globe Education) and Blue Remembered Hills (New Diorama Theatre).
TELEVISION/FILM INCLUDES: Hold On (short); An Adventure in Space and Time and “The Tractate Middoth (BBC)”
Trained at Central School of Speech and Drama.
THEATRE INCLUDES: Chariots of Fire (Hampstead/Gielgud); Oh, to Be in England (Finborough); Orpheus: the Mythical (Royal Opera House); After Lydia (Watermill) and Bachelor Boys (Jermyn Street).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: “Doctors” and “Holby City.”
FILM INCLUDES: The Patrol, Scar Tissue and Lab Rats.
Theatre includes: Macbeth (Park Avenue Armory, NYC), Henry V (Noel Coward Theatre, West End), The Rivals (Theatre Royal Haymarket, West End), Cyrano de Bergerac (US Tour), Taming of the Shrew (US Tour), Henry IV Part One and Part Two (Theatre Royal Bath), Time and the Conways (Nottingham Playhouse), Joking Apart (Salisbury Playhouse), Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down (Greyfriars, Edinburgh Festival), Othello and Cyrano (Grovesnor Park Open Air Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lord Chamberlains Men UK Tour), Noises Off, Neville’s Island, Accidental Death of An Anarchist and Norman Conquests (Torch Theatre), Dangerous Liaisons and She Stoops to Conquer (Mappa Mundi UK Tour).
Television: “Doctor Who”, “Doctors” and “The Slammer” (BBC).
Film: Brandoing (Virgin Media Shorts Finalist), Wreckers.
Radio: Confessions of Dorian Gray Series 3 (Big Finish).
THEATRE INCLUDES: Being Human (Midlands Creative Projects); The Mermaid of Zennor (Moon on a Stick); Equus, Much Ado About Nothing and Angels in America (Article 19 Theatre Co); Antony and Cleopatra (Infinity Theatre Co); The Caucasian Chalk Circle (3Bugs Theatre Co); Julius Caesar (Crescent Theatre Co) and Anatomy of a Murder (For Short).
THEATRE INCLUDES: Hamlet, The Seagull, Round 2 and The Odyssey (the Factory); Richard III and Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Love & Madness); Troilus and Cressida (Dogs With Crowns); Three Sisters, The Tempest, Pinocchio and Cymbeline (Peripeteia); Othello (Downstage); King Lear (Auckland Theatre Company) and Macbeth (the Large Group).
OTHER: Madeleine sings with Dexys on their recent album, One Day I’m Going to Soar.
THEATRE INCLUDES: Pandarus in Troilus and Cressida, Gravedigger in Hamlet, King Henry in Henry VIII, Shakespeare in Bingo, Prospero in The Tempest, Enobarbus in Antony and Cleopatra, Polixenes in The Winter’s Tale, Peachum in The Beggar’s Opera, Northumberland in Richard II, John Ryder in Two Shakespearean Actors and Ulysses in Troilus and Cressida (RSC); Maurice in Travelling Light, Lord Burleigh in Mary Stuart, Anderson in The Devil’s Disciple, Horatio in Hamlet, Lovberg in Hedda Gabler and Gooper in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (NT); Love and Information, Cock, Shamrayev in The Seagull, Felix in The Normal Heart (Olivier Award) and Falkland Sound (Royal Court); Gloucester in King Lear and Toby Belch in Twelfth Night (Donmar and New York); Gayev in The Cherry Orchard and Camillo in The Winter’s Tale (New York and Old Vic); Myron in Awake and Sing!, Kent in King Lear and Tesman in Hedda Gabler (Almeida); Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman (Scottish Critics’ Award nomination) and Sorin in The Seagull (Edinburgh) and Shrewsbury in Mary Stuart, Mr Braddock in The Graduate and Irving in Goose Pimples (West End).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: “Margaret,” “Foyle’s War,” “Rome,” “Midsomer Murders,” “The Rivals,” “Cymbeline” and “Richard III.”
FILM INCLUDES: Mr Turner, Coriolanus, Vera Drake and All or Nothing.
THEATRE INCLUDES: Onassis (Novello); Time and the Conways (National Theatre); Let There Be Love (Tricycle); Frost/Nixon (Gielgud/ Donmar); Hecuba (RSC) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bristol Old Vic).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: “Lucan,” “Ambassadors,” “Da Vinci’s Demons,” “Whitechapel,” “Law & Order: UK,” “Spooks,” “Casualty 1909,” “The 39 Steps,” “Ashes to Ashes,” “Margaret Thatcher,” “Casualty 1907,” “The Line of Beauty,” “Jericho,” “Rome,” “Foyle’s War” and “Midsomer Murders.”
FILM INCLUDES: The Fifth Estate, Legendary, Born of War, Archipelago, True and True Lie.
RADIO INCLUDES: Sword of Honour, Arms and the Man, The Seagull, Our Country’s Good and Shylock. Lydia was a winner of the BBC Carleton Hobbs Bursary.
THEATRE INCLUDES: Blurred Lines (Young Vic); Kindness of Strangers (Southwark Playhouse); Play (Watford Palace); Situation Room (Hull Truck); Babel (Lyric); Ignite (Waterloo East); John Bull (Theatre Royal Bury); XY, Hearts and Minds, Panem et Circenses (Theatre503); You Me Bum Bum Train (Barbican); Remembrance and Spring (Orange Tree); Million (Latitude); Inherit the Wind and 24 Hour Plays (Old Vic); Brief Encounters (Old Red Lion); Trouble in the Works and Eden End (King’s Head); An Enemy of the People (Arcola); Return to Akenfield (Eastern Angles); Deptford (Albany); Sons of Bond (Haymarket); Wyatt (Riverside Studios); Machinal and Home Correspondent (BAC) and The Emperor Jones (National Theatre)
FILM INCLUDES: Great Expectations, World War Z, Baron, Ashenden, Kapital and Outcast.
TELEVISION INCLUDES: “Lewis,” “Doc Martin,” “Made in Chelsea,” “World Without End,” “Researchers” and “Revealed - Britain’s Nazi King.”
THEATRE INCLUDES: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Have, Ispanka and Cymbeline (RSC); Love Love Love and My Child (Royal Court); Betrayal (Harold Pinter Theatre); Measure for Measure and The Tower (Almeida); The Norman Conquests and Richard II (Old Vic); The Cherry Orchard, The London Cuckolds, Mary Stuart and Macbeth (National Theatre); The Winter’s Tale (Young Vic) and The Tempest (Phoebus Cart).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: “Dracula,” “The Suspicions of Mr Whicher,” “Zen,” “Pulse,” “The Promise,” “Trial & Retribution,” “Lark Rise to Candleford,” “Freezing,” “Sea of Souls,” “BonVoyage,” “After Thomas,” “Under the Greenwood Tree,” “Mr Harvey Lights a Candle,” “A Thing Called Love,” “Prime Suspect,” “The Project,” “The Forsyte Saga,” “Cold Feet,” “Coupling” and “The Government Inspector.”
FILM INCLUDES: Five Years, Ninja Assassin, Speed Racer, V for Vendetta, Click, Three Blind Mice, Affair of the Necklace, Keep the Aspidistra Flying and The Wings of the Dove.
THEATRE INCLUDES: The Spring Tide (Old Red Lion).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: “Casualty,” “Lewis,” “First Kiss” and “Bouquet of Barbed Wire.”
FILM INCLUDES: City of Life.
THEATRE INCLUDES: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Storm, Every Man in His Humour, The Winter’s Tale, Richard II and The Rover (RSC); The Audience (Gielgud); Quartermaine’s Terms (Richmond); Speed-the-Plow (Duke of York’s); 50 Revolutions (Whitehall Theatre); The Merchant of Venice (Phoenix/New York) and Romeo and Juliet (Young Vic).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: “The Inspector Lynley Mysteries,” “Me and Mrs Jones,” “Still Life,” “Merlin,” “Injustice,” “Lewis,” “The Land Girls,” “Hotel Babylon,” “A Class Apart,” “Nuremburg,” “Bleak House,” “Pretending to Be Judith,” “Trust,” “McCallum,” “Vanity Fair,” “Far From the Madding Crowd,” “Death on Everest,” “David,” “Wizards,” “A Village Affair,” “Dangerous Games,” “Heroes II: the Return,” “The Black Candle,” “Without Walls - For One Night Only: Errol Flynn,” “The Vision Thing,” “Awayday,” “Look at It This Way,” “Absolute Hell,” “Poirot,” “Never Come Back,” “Inspector Morse” and “Piece of Cake.”
FILM INCLUDES: The Chronicles of Narnia - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Miss Irena’s Children, The Perfect Host, Malice in Wonderland, Flawless, Stardust, Fade to Black, The Haunted Mansion, Lover’s Prayer, Beverly Hills Ninja, Othello, Unsigned, The Bodyguard, Indian Warrior, Wide Sargasso Sea, Hamlet and War Requiem.
THEATRE INCLUDES: Edward II and This House (National Theatre); Midsummer (Tricycle/ Soho/Traverse/tour); Much Ado About Nothing and The Globe Mysteries (Shakespeare’s Globe); Caledonia, The Wonderful World of Dissocia and Realism (National Theatre of Scotland); The Cherry Orchard, The Man Who Had All the Luck, Vanity Fair, The Wizard of Oz and Pinocchio (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh); Kyoto (Traverse/ Òran Mór); The Tempest (Glasgow Tron); The Wonderful World of Dissocia (Edinburgh Festival); The Nest (Traverse); 8000m (Suspect Culture/Glasgow Tramway); The Lying Kind (Royal Court) and Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness (Theatre Royal Plymouth).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: “Fiona’s Story,” “Casualty,” “Holby City,” “Taggart” and “This Morning With Richard Not Judy.”
FILM INCLUDES: A Shot at Glory, State and Main and The Winslow Boy.
RADIO INCLUDES: Midsummer, The Cloths of Heaven, Kyoto, The Black Sheep, Devastated Areas, Kaffir Lilies, McLevy, The Holly and the Ivy, The Lion of Chechnya and Mary Stuart.
THEATRE INCLUDES: The Merry Wives of Windsor; Pedro, the Great Pretender; The Dog in the Manger; Hamlet; Epicoene and Have (RSC); The Physicists and Good (Donmar Warehouse); The Low Road (Royal Court); 66 Books, Little Dolls and Flooded Grave (Bush); Much Ado About Nothing (Wyndham’s); The Deep Blue Sea (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Cherry Orchard, The Swineherd Prince and Uncle Vanya (Birmingham Rep); The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (Traverse); Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Haymarket); A Christmas Carol (Rose, Kingston); Tartuffe (Liverpool Playhouse); Ring Around the Moon (Playhouse); Nicholas Nickleby and King Lear (Chichester Festival Theatre); And Then There Were None (Gielgud); Twelfth Night (Royal Exchange); The Green Man (Plymouth Drum/Bush); The Golden Ass, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Cymbeline (Shakespeare’s Globe); Buried Alive (Plymouth Drum/Hampstead) and Measure for Measure (Barbican). For the National Theatre of Brent: The Messiah (Bush); Love Upon the Throne (Bush/Comedy Theatre); Shakespeare: the Truth (tour) and The Mysteries of Sex (Nottingham Playhouse/National Theatre).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: “It’s Kevin (pilot),” “Twenty Twelve,” “Midsomer Murders,” “Doctors,” “Kröd Mändoon” and “The Flaming Sword of Fire,” “My Family” and “Foyle’s War.”
FILM INCLUDES: Love Punch, Food of Love and Shakespeare in Love.
THEATRE INCLUDES: John Rutherford Jr. in Rutherford & Son, and Hamlet in Hamlet (Northern Broadsides); Joe in Lighthearted Intercourse (Bolton Octagon); What You Will (Mark Rylance/2012 Festival); Pandemic (Slung Low/Singapore Arts Festival); Misail Polosnev in A Provincial Life (National Theatre Wales); Hippolytus in Phaedra’s Love (Arcola); Soranzo in ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore and Charlie O’Neill in Anthology: We Sing Faster in the City (Liverpool Everyman/Slung Low); Lysander in The Fairy Queen (Glyndebourne/Opéra Comique/BAM, NY); Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice and Friedrich Engels/John Wolstenholme in Holding Fire! (Shakespeare’s Globe) and Benjamin in Easter (Oxford Stage Company - Ian Charleson Award Commendation).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: “Land Girls,” “Foyle’s War,” “All About Me,” “Goldplated,” “The Romantics,” “Afterlife,” “The Rotters’ Club,” “Heroes and Villains,” “Heartbeat,” “Dalziel and Pascoe” and “Doctors.”
FILM INCLUDES: The Torment.
Joshua trained at RADA.
THEATRE INCLUDES: A Tale of Two Cities (Northampton); A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Blue Stockings (Globe) and Trelawny of the Wells (Donmar).
THEATRE INCLUDES: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merchant of Venice and Talk of the City (RSC); Being Friends (RSC Fringe); This House and After the Dance (National Theatre); The Way of the World and The Music Man (Chichester Festival); The Importance of Being Earnest and Travesties (Birmingham Rep); The Secret Garden and The Wizard of Oz (West Yorkshire Playhouse/Birmingham Rep); Blithe Spirit (Nottingham Playhouse); Waste (Almeida); Othello and Relative Values (Salisbury Playhouse); Macbeth, Lady Be Good, Twelfth Night, Cymbeline, HMS Pinafore, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Longitude (Greenwich); Neville’s Island and Dreams From a Summerhouse (Watermill, Newbury); Summer Lightning, Dangerous Corner and Ruling Passions (Northampton); The Hinge of the World (Yvonne Arnaud); The Duchess of Malfi (New Victoria, Stoke); The Pirates of Penzance (tour); Whenever (Stephen Joseph, Scarborough); Theodora (Glyndebourne Opera) and Wuthering Heights (York Opera House).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: “The Musketeers,” “Doctors,” “Foyle’s War,” “Stuart: a Life Backwards,” “Friends and Crocodiles,” “Secrets of the Physics,” “Sentenced,” “Karaoke,” “Wycliffe,” “The Scarlet and the Black” and “Is That All There Is?”
FILM INCLUDES: Tom & Viv and Orlando.
Trained at RADA.
THEATRE INCLUDES: I Heart Peterborough (Soho); A Clockwork Orange (Glasgow Citizens); Troilus and Cressida and Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare’s Globe); Sh*t-Mix (Trafalgar Studios); and JOE/BOY (the Last Refuge).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: “Silk,” “Sirens,” “Midsomer Murders,” “Tea Boys,” “Consuming Passions,” “Daphne,” “The Fixer,” “The Bill,” “Casualty” and “Holby City.”
FILM INCLUDES: A Fantastic Fear of Everything, Red Tails, Donkey Punch, Release, Promise, Rise of the Footsoldier, Good Night and Blooded.
RADIO INCLUDES: The Russian Gambler and The Minister of Chance.
is the author of eleven novels, two short story collections and a memoir, Giving Up The Ghost. She writes both historical and contemporary fiction, and her settings range from a South African township under apartheid to Paris in the Revolution, from a city in twentieth century Saudi Arabia to rural Ireland in the eighteenth century. Her novel Wolf Hall is about Thomas Cromwell, chief minister to Henry VIII. It won the 2009 Man Booker prize, the inaugural Walter Scott prize, and in the US won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Bring Up The Bodies won the 2012 Man Booker Prize and the Costa Book Award. Taken togther Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies have sold over three million copies and have been translated into thirty-six languages. She is working on The Mirror & The Light, the third book in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy. In 2014 she was created a Dame.
RECENT PRODUCTIONS INCLUDE: A Tale of Two Cities (2014, Royal Theatre, Northampton); Fortune’s Fool (2013/2014, the Old Vic); Anjin: the Shogun and the English Samurai (RSC with Horipro, Sadler’s Wells, in 2013 and previously in Tokyo and Osaka); Uncle Vanya and Judgement Day (Lucy Bailey’s Print Room); Luise Miller (Donmar); Bacchae (Royal Exchange, Manchester) and Dance of Death (New York).
OTHER PRODUCTIONS INCLUDE: Morte d’Arthur, The Canterbury Tales part one, The Canterbury Tales part two and Saint Erkenwald (RSC); The York Millennium Mystery Plays (York Minster); Mary Stuart and The Cherry Orchard (Clwyd Theatr Cymru); Il Sindaco, Wallenstein, The Father, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, Fortune’s Fool and King Lear (as dramaturg in 2013) (Chichester Festival Theatre); Don Carlos (Sheffield Crucible and West End); Don Carlos (Aarhus City Theatre, Denmark); Don Carlos (Gothenburg City Theatre, Sweden); The Lady From the Sea and Three Sisters (Birmingham Rep); ION, The Seagull, The Three Sisters, Uncle Vanya and The Dance of Death (Mercury Theatre); Ghosts (Theatre Royal Plymouth and King’s Head); Liars (Old Fire Station); Uncle Vanya (Broadway) and Fortune’s Fool (Broadway).
is Artistic Director of Headlong, and studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He trained at both the National Theatre and Royal Court, where he became Deputy Artistic Director in 2009 until 2012. Between 2000 and 2008 he was Associate Director at Live Theatre in Newcastle upon Tyne. Jeremy’s first production for Headlong was the European Premiere of Jennifer Haley’s Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winning play, The Nether, in co-production at the Royal Court. Jeremy has also recently directed the world premiere of Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies in two parts for the RSC, which transferred to the West End in May 2014. Jeremy has directed several productions at the Royal Court, including That Face by Polly Stenham, which transferred to the Duke of York’s Theatre in the West End. He was nominated for an Evening Standard Best Director Award for Stenham’s second play, Tusk Tusk, in 2009. Other work at the Court includes Stenham’s No Quarter, E V Crowe’s Hero and Kin, Anya Reiss’s first play Spur of the Moment, Richard Bean’s The Heretic, Michael Wynne’s The Priory, which won an Olivier award for Best Comedy and David Hare’s The Vertical Hour. Other theatre directing credits include Another Country (Chichester/West End), the critically acclaimed This House by James Graham at the National Theatre (for which he was nominated for an Olivier award for Best Director) The Tempest at the Globe, David Hare’s South Downs at Chichester Festival Theatre (subsequently transferring to the Harold Pinter Theatre) Uncle Vanya with Roger Allam at Chichester, Absent Friends at the Harold Pinter and Much Ado About Nothing with Eve Best and Charles Edwards at the Globe. Jeremy was also named as one of The Stage Top 100 in 2014.
Recipient of the Tony, Olivier, Evening Standard, Critics Circle, Garland and Ovation awards for his work both here in the U.S. and in the U.K. Recent work on Broadway includes the scenic and costume designs for The Cripple of Inishmann (Cort), Evita (Marquis), Cat on a Hot Tin roof (Richard Rogers) and the Donmar Warehouse productions of Red (Golden), Hamlet with Jude Law (Broadhurst) and Frost/Nixon (Jacobs). Also, Macbeth with Kenneth Branagh (Park Avenue Armoury), King Lear with Derek Jacobi (BAM), and the Glyndebourne production of Billy Budd (BAM)
Paule is an Associate of the National Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith and for Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures.
THEATRE INCLUDES: As You Like It, The Prince of Homburg, The Seagull, Tales From Ovid, The Dispute, Uncle Vanya, Beckett Shorts and The Mysteries (RSC); The Light Princess, Table, This House, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Olivier Award for Best Lighting 2013), Danton, The Power of Yes, Phèdre, Death and the King’s Horseman, War Horse (West End/Broadway - 2011 Tony Award for Best Lighting), Some Trace of Her, Women of Troy, Saint Joan, Attempts on Her Life, Waves, Paul, Coram Boy, His Dark Materials (2005 Olivier Award for Best Lighting), Play Without Words, The Three Sisters, Jumpers and Ivanov (National Theatre); The Cripple of Inishmaan (also Broadway), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Peter and Alice, and Privates on Parade (Michael Grandage/Coward); Luise Miller and Ivanov (Donmar at Wyndham’s); The Chalk Garden (2009 Olivier Award for Best Lighting), The Man Who Had All the Luck, Othello, Proof and Little Foxes (Donmar Warehouse); Clybourne Park, The City, Krapp’s Last Tape, Forty Winks, The Country and Dublin Carol (Royal Court); The Weir (Royal Court/West End/Broadway); Happy Days, Feast, The Good Soul of Szechuan, Generations and Vernon God Little (Young Vic); Blasted, Three Sisters and Oliver Twist (Lyric Hammersmith) and Don Carlos (Sheffield Crucible/West End – Olivier Award for Best Lighting).
OPERA INCLUDES: productions for the ROH, ENO, Glyndebourne, the Metropolitan Opera, Vienna Staatsoper, Bregenz, La Monnaie etc.
RSC DEBUT SEASON: Bring Up the Bodies.
THEATRE INCLUDES: Mrs Lowry & Sons, Stacy/Fanny and Faggot (Trafalgar Studios); This is My Family (Sheffield Crucible Studio); Beautiful Thing (West End/tour); Neighbors (Hightide Festival/Southampton Nuffield); Quiz Show (Edinburgh Traverse); Black War Letters (ROH2); The Silence of the Sea (Donmar at Trafalgar Studios); Twelfth Night, Richard III, What You Will, 13 the Musical, Jason Robert Brown in concert (Apollo); Macbeth (Sheffield Crucible); The Chair Plays, What You Get and What You Expect (Lyric Hammersmith); Richard II, Frame 312, Three Days of Rain, Morphic Resonance, Splash Hatch, Summer Begins, Badfinger (Donmar Warehouse); Mixed Marriage (Finborough); Animal Farm, Company (Derby Playhouse); Dancing at Lughnasa, My Night with Reg (New Vic, Stoke); The Arab/Israeli Cookbook (Tricycle/Gate); A Thousand Yards, The Double Bass, Blackbird, Mongoose, Trip’s Cinch, Eskimo Sisters (Southwark Playhouse); References to Salvador Dali (Arcola); Loyal Women (Royal Court Theatre Downstairs); When We Are Married (York Theatre Royal); Amy’s View (Yvonne Arnaud); Dark Tales (Arts); What Now Little Man (Greenwich); Love on the Dole (Oldham Coliseum); Girls Were Made to Love and Kiss (Old Fire Station, Oxford); Oliver! (Edinburgh); The Relationship (Riverside).
SOUND DESIGN INCLUDES: A Life of Galileo, Richard III and Dunsinane (tour/National Theatre of Scotland/RSC); The Drunks and God in Ruins (RSC); The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas, Open Court, Narrative, Get Santa! (co-creator), The Vertical Hour, The Priory and Relocated (Royal Court); Bank on It (Theatre-Rites); Othello (National Theatre); ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Cheek by Jowl); 27 and The Wheel (National Theatre of Scotland); Lord of the Flies and The Crucible (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Falstaff (Spanish National Theatre); Paradise (Ruhrtriennale, Theatre-Rites); Penumbra (Animalario, Madrid); Urtain (Spanish National Theatre - Animalario Award for Best Musical Composition for Scenic Arts, Premios Max, 2010); Tito Andronico (Animalario, Madrid); Panic (Improbable); The Family Reunion (Donmar Warehouse); Bonheur (Comédie Française); Realism and Marat/Sade (Edinburgh International Festival - Premios Max Award for Best Production); The Wonderful World of Dissocia (National Theatre of Scotland - TMA and Scottish Theatre awards for Best Production) and The Wolves in the Walls (National Theatre of Scotland/Improbable - TMA Award for Best Show for Young People). Nick is half of Oskar, who have released two albums, Air Conditioning and LP:2, and have produced installations for the V&A and CCA, as well as written live soundtracks for Prada in Milan.
THEATRE INCLUDES: Othello and Alice in Wonderland (Barbican); Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, Cymbeline, The White Devil and The Cherry Orchard (Albery/tour); The Taming of the Shrew (RSC); Mojo, Old Times and Death and the Maiden (Harold Pinter Theatre); The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Othello and Pericles (Shakespeare’s Globe); Uncle Vanya and Swimming With Sharks (Vaudeville); The Silver Tassie, This House, The Veil, Season’s Greetings, Welcome to Thebes, The Power of Yes, Mrs. Affleck, The Hothouse, The Villains’ Opera and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (National Theatre); The River, Haunted Child, Jerusalem, The Seagull, The Winterling, Alice Trilogy, Fallout, The Night Heron, Boy Gets Girl, Mouth to Mouth, Dublin Carol, The Glory of Living and The Lights (Royal Court); Bingo, Hamlet (Young Vic); Betrayal and The Children’s Hour (Comedy Theatre); A Flea in Her Ear (Old Vic) and Measure for Measure, Parlour Song, When the Rain Stops Falling, Cloud Nine and Dying for It (Almeida).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: “Henry IV” parts one and two (for which he won BAFTA), “A Young Doctor’s Notebook,” “Just William,” “12 Days,” “Skellig,” “A Christmas Carol,” “Prime Suspect” and “Bramwell.”
FILM INCLUDES: Keeping Rosy, La Marche, Down to Earth, Flawless, Papadopoulos and Sons, Polisse, Un Balcon sur la Mer, Killing Bono, The Other Man, Flawless, Two Brothers, On a Clear Day, Proof, Charlotte Gray, Birthday Girl, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Billy Elliot, Quills, Very Annie Mary, Shakespeare in Love (for which he won an Academy Award) and Mrs Brown.
Siân founded the Kosh Dance Theatre Co with Michael Merwitzer. She has worked as choreographer for Shakespeare’s Globe since 1999, and is a member of the Factory Theatre Co.
CHOREOGRAPHY INCLUDES: The Mouse and His Child and The Merchant of Venice (RSC); The Duchess of Malfi, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, The Malcontent, Hamlet and Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare’s Globe); Twelfth Night and Richard III (Belasco Theatre, New York, for Sonia Friedman Productions/Shakespeare’s Globe); Mother F (Articulate Elbow); flashmob dance (Mark Rylance’s Pop-Up Shakespeare); The Glass Slipper and Oh! What a Lovely War (Northern Stage); The Snow Queen (Rose, Kingston); You Can’t Take It With You (Royal Exchange); The Storeroom and Café Chaos (the Kosh); Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Globe Education); Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (Rho Delta); The Magic Flute and The Rake’s Progress (Royal College of Music).
DIRECTION INCLUDES: productions for the Kosh and The Handsomest Drowned Man (Circus Space).
THEATRE PERFORMANCES INCLUDE: the Kosh productions; The Odyssey (the Factory); La Traviata (Opera North); The Tempest, The Storm, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Timon of Athens (Shakespeare’s Globe).
THEATRE INCLUDES: Candide (RSC); Talk Show, The Low Road, No Quarter, Belong, In
Basildon, Wastwater, Remembrance Day and Our Private Life (Royal Court); A Season in the Congo (Young Vic); The Cripple of Inishmaan (Noël Coward); Chimerica and Children’s Children (Almeida); Strange Interludes, Moon on a Rainbow Shawl and Double Feature: Paintframe (National Theatre); Public Enemy (Young Vic); The Tempest and Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare’s Globe); Cannibals, Three Birds, Orpheus Descending and The Country Wife (Manchester Royal Exchange); Purple Heart (Gate); God’s Property (Soho/tour); Fences (Bath Theatre Royal/West End); Hitchcock Blonde (Hull Truck); Jack and the Beanstalk, Dangerous Lady, Shalom, Baby and A Clockwork Orange - the Musical (Theatre Royal Stratford East); The Serpent’s Tooth (Talawa); but i cd only whisper (Arcola); Reigen (Residenz, Munich); The Alchemist, The Norman Conquests and A Streetcar Named Desire (Liverpool Playhouse); The Rover (Hampton Court Palace); The Physicists and The Recruiting Officer (Donmar); Posh (Duke of York’s); 9 Out of 12 (Trafalgar Studios); Soul Sister (Hackney Empire); Absent Friends, and Death and the Maiden (Harold Pinter Theatre) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Leicester Curve).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: “Quick Cuts” and “Against All Odds.”
FILM INCLUDES: Troy (Assistant Swordsmaster), Vampire Endz, Deathless, The New Girl and Fuel of the Dead.
Stephen has been working with the RSC since 2006. He has been involved with the London seasons and in New York as part of the Lincoln Center Festival residency. His coaching work on new writing includes: The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes, The Cordelia Dream, Arabian Nights, Dunsinane, Little Eagles, and he also coached the National Theatre of Scotland’s production of Dunsinane. Most recently, he worked on Candide; Titus Andronicus; A Mad World; My Masters; The Merry Wives of Windsor; A Life of Galileo; A Soldier in Every Son; King John; Richard III and The Heart of Robin Hood.
THEATRE INCLUDES: Stephen’s acting career has spanned more than 30 years and, along with theatre, film and television, has included a huge amount of voice-over work. Text and voice coaching has now become a significant part of his life, working in theatre and with individuals from all walks of life. He has a particular interest in voice for microphone and has helped develop voice-over training in several drama schools. The Voiceover Book: Don’t Eat Toast which he co-authored has just been published.
RSC: Helena has been Casting Director at the RSC since 2008.
THEATRE: Previously Helena has worked at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester and the National Theatre. Freelance projects include productions for Theatre Royal Bath, the Nuffield Theatre, Northcott Theatre and Glasgow Tramway.
TELEVISION & FILM: Previously, Associate at Cannon Dudley and Associates, working on a variety of US and European screen projects. Freelance projects include numerous episodes of The Bill.
have been producing theatre together for the past 15 years, and this will mark their 40th production. The pair are currently represented on Broadway with You Can’t Take It With You, and the upcoming productions of The Heidi Chronicles, and Fiddler on the Roof. Past productions include Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, All the Way (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Tony Awards), The Realistic Joneses, The Glass Menagerie, Glengarry Glen Ross, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Tony Awards), The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Drama Desk/Outer Critics Circle noms. and Tony Award), Gore Vidal’s The Best Man (Drama Desk Award), The Merchant of Venice (Drama Desk and Tony noms.), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Race, Superior Donuts, reasons to be pretty (Drama Desk and Tony Award noms.), Hair (Drama Desk and Tony Awards), Blithe Spirit (Drama Desk nom.), You’re Welcome America (Tony Award nom), Speed-the-Plow, November, The Homecoming (Tony Award nom.), August: Osage County (Drama Desk and Tony Awards), Radio Golf (Tony and Drama Desk noms.) Talk Radio (Drama Desk and Tony Award noms.), and Spring Awakening (Drama Desk and Tony Awards) among others.
As Producer and General Manager Playful’s productions include: The Audience Broadway opening 8 March, 2015, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies (Aldwych Theatre), The Weir (Wyndham’s Theatre), The Audience (Gielgud Theatre) which was also a record breaking, worldwide digital broadcast with NT Live, South Downs/The Browning Version (Harold Pinter Theatre), Sweeney Todd (Adelphi Theatre), Hay Fever (Noël Coward Theatre), The King’s Speech (UK tour and Wyndham’s Theatre), Flare Path (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Yes, Prime Minister (Gielgud Theatre, Apollo Theatre, Trafalgar Studios and three UK tours), Krapp’s Last Tape (Duchess Theatre), Red (Broadway) and Enron (Noël Coward Theatre) and the forthcoming Shrek The Musical UK & Ireland Tour (July 2014). As General Manager, productions include: Blithe Spirit (Gielgud Theatre), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Wicked (Apollo Victoria Theatre, UK and Ireland tour), Dirty Dancing (Aldwych Theatre, UK tour and Piccadilly Theatre), Shrek The Musical (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Million Dollar Quartet (Noël Coward Theatre) and Clybourne Park (Wyndham’s Theatre).
Prior to Playful, productions include: Mary Stuart (Apollo Theatre and Broadway), Legally Blonde The Musical (Savoy Theatre), Hamlet (Broadway), Spring Awakening (Lyric, Hammersmith and Novello Theatre), Don Carlos (Gielgud Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Roundhouse, UK tour, US tour and Australia tour), Sinatra at the London Palladium (London Palladium and UK tour), Humble Boy (Gielgud Theatre, UK tour and MTC), Anything Goes (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Boeing-Boeing (Comedy Theatre, UK tour and Broadway) and Frost/Nixon (Gielgud Theatre and Broadway).