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Lucian Msamati

Lucian Msamati

Estragon

Lucian Msamati

Lucian Msamati

Estragon
Theatre credits include: Master Harrold and the Boys (National Theatre), Amadeus (National Theatre), Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (National Theatre), A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes (The Tricycle), Othello (RSC), Little Revolution (The Almeida), The Amen Corner (National Theatre), If You Don’t Let us Dream We Won’t Let You A Sleep (Royal Court), Belong (Royal Court), Comedy of Errors (Royal National Theatre), Clybourne Park (Royal Court/West End), Ruined (Almeida Theatre), Death and The Kings Horsman (Royal National Theatre), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Lyric Hammersmith), 1807- The First Act (The Globe), Pericles (RSC), The Overwhelming (National Theatre), Walk Hard (Tricycle), Fabulation (Tricycle), Gem Of The Ocean (Tricycle), Who Killed Mr Drum (Riverside), President of An Empty Room (National Theatre), Twelfth Night (Sheffield Crucible), Mourning Becomes Electra (National, Lyttelton), I.D. (Almeida), Romeo & Juliet (The Dancehouse, Manchester), The Taming of the Shrew (Bath Shakespeare Festival), Born African (Arthur Seaton Theatre, New York), Twelfth Night (Neuss Globe Theatre, Germany), Fade to Black (Harare International Festival of Arts), Eternal Peace Asylum (American Repertory Theatre), Loot, Urfaust (Reps Theatre), Rocky Horror Picture Show (Seven Arts Theatre) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (NTO Zimbawbe).

Television credits include: Gangs of London (2 Seasons), Chemistry of Death, Dark Materials, Black Earth Rising, Kiri, Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams, Taboo, George Gently, Luther, Game of Thrones, Death in Paradise, Richard III, No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, Dr Who, Ashes To Ashes, Spooks, Just Like Ronaldinho, Ultimate Force ,Too Close for Comfort, The Knock, Heads and Tales.

Film credits includes: Conclave, Breaking Point, The Good Liar, The Seekers, The International, Coffin, Legend of the Sky, Kingdom, Dr Juju and Lumumba.

Radio credits include: An Elegy For Easterly, Mugabe: God’s President, The Jero Plays, The Homecoming, Seventh Street, Alchemy and Colours.

Lucian is a founder member of Zimbabwe’s Over the Edge theatre company and former Artistic Director of Tiata Fahodzi.
Ben Whishaw

Ben Whishaw

Vladimir

Ben Whishaw

Ben Whishaw

Vladimir
Ben is a multi award-winning British actor.

His notable film credits include the role of Q in Skyfall, Spectre and No Time To Die; the voice of Paddington in Paddington and Paddington 2; Perfume: The Story of a Murderer; Jane Campion’s Bright Star; Cloud Atlas; Tom Hooper’s multi award-winning The Danish Girl; The Lobster; in the role of Mr. Banks in Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns; Armando Iannucci’s The Personal History of David Copperfield; Alice Englert’s Bad Behaviour with Jennifer Connelly; and Passages with Franz Rogowski and Adèle Exarchopoulos. We last saw Ben in Sarah Polley’s Women Talking, alongside Claire Foy and Frances McDormand, for which he was nominated for a Satellite Award, a Hollywood Critics Association Film Award and longlisted for a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor.

It has been announced that he will reprise his role as the voice of the titular bear in Paddington in Peru and last year, he wrapped filming Limonov, The Ballad of Eddie in Russia and Latvia, in which he stars as Eduard Limonov. He’ll star in the short film, Good Boy, the directorial debut of Tom Stuart with the support of Gia Coppola.

Ben’s TV credits include his role as Norman Scott in the mini-series A Very English Scandal opposite Hugh Grant. This performance saw Ben recognised with a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries, or Motion Picture Made for Television, along with a Primetime Emmy Award and a BAFTA. Criminal Justice, The Hour, Fargo and a BAFTA award-winning performance in The Hollow Crown. He starred in the lead role of This Is Going To Hurt, the series adaptation of Adam Kay’s bestselling novel, for which he won Leading Actor in the 2023 BAFTA TV Awards along with Outstanding Performance in a New Series at the 2022 Gotham Awards and winning in the Best Actor category at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards. Ben was nominated for numerous awards as well including Best Actor by the TV Choice Awards; a Critic’s Choice Awards for Best Actor In A Limited Series or Movie Made For Television and a Gold Derby Award for Limited/Movie Actor.

He is currently filming Black Doves (Netflix) and is starring alongside Keira Knightley and Sarah Lancashire.

Ben’s theatre credits have included Mojo (Harold Pinter Theatre), Peter and Alice (Noel Coward), Some Trace of Her and The Seagull (National Theatre), Leaves of Glass (Soho Theatre), Hamlet (Old Vic), Julius Caesar (The Bridge Theatre) and The Crucible (on Broadway).
Tom Edden

Tom Edden

Lucky

Tom Edden

Tom Edden

Lucky
Theatre credits include:  The Merry Widow (Glyndebourne); Crazy For You (West End/Chichester Festival); Cyrano de Bergerac, The Pinter Season and Doctor Faustus (West End/Jamie Lloyd Company); Matilda (West End/RSC );The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui (Donmar); Amadeus (National Theatre); Our Town (Regents Park Theatre), Measure for Measure (Young Vic); Peter Pan Goes Wrong (West End, Apollo));  Les Miserables (West End, Queens Theatre); A Little Hotel on the Side (Theatre Royal Bath); Hamlet, Betrayal & Summer Lightning (Royal Theatre Northampton); Oliver! (Sheffield Crucible (UK Theatre award nominee Best Actor in a musical) and  One Man Two Guvnors (National Theatre, West End, Broadway; (Drama Desk Award for Best Actor in a Featured Role and nominated for a Tony and Critic’s Circle Award).

Television credits include:  Starstruck, Singapore Grip, Upstart Crow, The Scandalous Lady W, Doctor Who, Stuart a Life Backwards, Spartans, The Wolf Man.

Film credits include: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, Mr Turner and Cinderella.
Jonathan Slinger

Jonathan Slinger

Pozzo

Jonathan Slinger

Jonathan Slinger

Pozzo
Recent screen credits include a series regular in Alex Rider (Amazon), all three episodes of the critically-acclaimed Salisbury Poisonings, as well as Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You (both for BBC), The Sixth Commandment (BBC) and A Gentleman in Moscow (Paramount Plus). Before the pandemic, Jonathan was starring in the West End transfer of the Olivier Award-winning production City of Angels; between lockdowns he starred in the critically-acclaimed run of Crave at Chichester Festival Theatre and in David Mamet’s Oleanna at the Arts Theatre in the West End, to great critical acclaim. Last year he appeared in a guest role on Shadow and Bone for Netflix, and later that year starred as Eddie Carbone in A View From The Bridge, a co-production with Headlong, Octagon Theatre Bolton and Rose Theatre.  He is currently filming a regular role in Haven (Amazon).
Dean Graham

Dean Graham

U/S Vladimir & Lucky

Dean Graham

Dean Graham

U/S Vladimir & Lucky
Theatre credits include: Quiz (UK Tour), The Great Gatsby (Gatsby’s Mansion), Money Heist: The Experience (Netflix, Fever), Romeo & Juliet (Secret Cinema), Electra (The Bunker), We Raise Our Hands in The Sanctuary (The Albany) and A Boy Named Sue (Kings Head Theatre).

Television credits include: Liar (ITV), We Are Lady Parts (Channel 4) and Confessions of a Hitman (Sky).

Dean also hosts his own podcast The Actors Yard Podcast.
David Lee-Jones

David Lee-Jones

U/S Estragon & Pozzo

David Lee-Jones

David Lee-Jones

U/S Estragon & Pozzo
Theatre credits include: PlayAI (Metatheto, Riverside Studios), The Tempest (RSC), The Seagull (, Playhouse, Harold Pinter Theatre), Summer Rolls (Park, Bristol Old Vic), Skin in Flames (Park), #aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei (Hampstead), Richard III, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It (Festival Players UK tours), the 50th anniversary production of Noël Coward’s Waiting in the Wings (WYNI), Chicken (Hackney Empire) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Southwark Playhouse).

Film credits include: The Complex, The Backseat, Apeiron and Elevator Gods.
Luca Fone

Luca Fone

Boy

Luca Fone

Luca Fone

Boy
Luca is 13 years old and trains in performing arts at Berkshire Theatre School (BTS) and dance at Hawthorne School of Dance. He has achieved Grade 6 from Trinity College of London Acting with Distinction.  Theatre Credits include: Les Misérables (Sondheim Theatre), Peter Pan (The London Palladium).  Luca would like to thank his agent Daisy and Dukes and his family; especially his big sister who was the one who inspired his love of the performing arts and his younger sister, who is his biggest fan!
Alexander Joseph

Alexander Joseph

Boy

Alexander Joseph

Alexander Joseph

Boy
Alexander has trained with Blue Elephant Theatre, Theatre Peckham, Flow Dance and BFI Young Filmmakers. Theatre credits include: Cowbois (Royal Court), A Christmas Carol (Old Vic), A Christmas Carol (RSC) and The Wonderful (Theatre Peckham). Television credits include: Odd Squad UK Season 4, Children In Need 2021 Announcement (BBC) and Scrambled (CiTV). Alexander is thrilled to be back on stage as a part of the Waiting For Godot team.
Ellis Pang

Ellis Pang

Boy

Ellis Pang

Ellis Pang

Boy
Ellis is a recipient of a drama scholarship at Whitgift School and has been a student at the Whitgift Academy of Visual and Performing Arts (WAVPA) since 2022. He is thrilled to be making his professional stage debut in Waiting for Godot and thanks his family, friends, and teachers for their continued support.

Samuel Beckett

Writer

Samuel Beckett

Writer
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) is widely recognised as one of the greatest dramatists of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.   Beckett is most renowned for his play Waiting for Godot which launched his career in theatre. He then went on to write numerous successful full-length plays, including Endgame in 1957, Krapp’s Last Tape in 1958 and Happy Days in 1960. Beckett received his first commission for radio from the BBC in 1956 for All That Fall. This was followed by a further five plays for radio including Embers, Words and Music and Cascando. Like no other dramatist before him, Beckett’s works capture the pathos and ironies of modern life yet still maintain his faith in man’s capacity for compassion and survival no matter how absurd his environment may have become.

James Macdonald

Director

James Macdonald

Director
James was an Associate and Deputy Director at the Royal Court for 14 years and was also a NESTA fellow from 2003 to 2006.

Theatre credits for the Royal Court include: What If If Only, Glass. Kill. Imp. Bluebeard, One For Sorrow, The Wolf from the Door, Circle Mirror Transformation, Fewer Emergencies, Lucky Dog, Blood, Blasted, Hard Fruit, Real Classy Affair, Cleansed, Bailegangaire, Harry & Me, Simpatico, Peaches, Thyestes, Hammett’s Apprentice, The Terrible Voice of Satan and Putting Two & Two Together.

Theatre credits for the Royal Court and Broadway include: The Children, Escaped Alone, Love & Information, Cock, Drunk Enough to Say I Love You, Dying City and 4.48 Psychosis.

Other theatre credits include: Infinite Life, Night of the Iguana, John, Dido Queen of Carthage, The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other, Exiles (National Theatre), Boys on the Verge of Tears (Soho Theatre), The Cherry Orchard (Yard), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Changing Room (West End), The Tempest, Roberto Zucco (RSC), Sea Creatures, Wild, And No More Shall We Part, #aiww – The Arrest of Ai Weiwei (Hampstead Theatre), The Father (Theatre Royal, Bath, Tricycle, Wyndham’s Theatre), Bakkhai, A Delicate Balance, Judgment Day, The Triumph of Love (Almeida), A Doll’s House Part 2, The Way of the World, Roots (Donmar Warehouse), The Chinese Room (Williamstown Festival), Cloud Nine (Atlantic Theater NY), A Number (NYTW), King Lear, The Book Of Grace (Public Theater NY), Top Girls (MTC, Broadway), John Gabriel Borkman (Abbey, Dublin, BAM, NYC), Troilus Und Cressida, Die Kopien (Schaubuehne, Berlin), 4.48 Psychose (Burgtheater, Vienna), Love’s Labour’s Lost, Richard II (Royal Exchange, Manchester), The Rivals (Nottingham Playhouse), The Crackwalker (Gate Theatre), The Seagull (Crucible, Sheffield), Miss Julie (Oldham Coliseum), Juno & The Paycock, Ice Cream, Hot Fudge, Romeo & Juliet, Fool For Love, Savage, Love, Master Harold & The Boys (Contact, Manchester) and Prem (BAC, Soho Poly).

Opera credits include: A Ring A Lamp A Thing (Linbury), Eugene Onegin, Rigoletto (Welsh National Opera), Die Zauberflöte (Garsington), Wolf Club Village, Night Banquet (Almeida Opera), Oedipus Rex, Survivor from Warsaw (Royal Exchange, Manchester, Hallé) and Lives Of The Great Poisoners (Second Stride).

Film credits include: A Number (HBO, BBC).

Rae Smith

Set and Costume Design

Rae Smith

Set and Costume Design
Present and upcoming design work includes: War Horse – Olivier Award for Best Set Design, Tony Award for Best Scenic Design (UK and World Tour), The Importance of Being Earnest (National Theatre), Oedipus (Old Vic), Le Nozzi de Figaro (Volksoper), The Book of Grace (Arcola), Hansel & Gretel (Globe Theatre) and Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead (Theatre de Complicité, Barbican, World Tour).

Other theatre credits include: Hello, Dolly! (London Palladium), A Doll’s House: Part 2 (Donmar Warehouse), Paradise and Translations (National Theatre), Uncle Vanya (Harold Pinter Theatre: South Bank Sky Arts Award & Olivier Nominated, Set Design), Rosmersholm (Duke of York’s Theatre: Olivier Nominated, Set Design), Girl From The North Country (US Tour, Broadway, Gielgud Theatre, Noël Coward Theatre, Old Vic), Barber Shop Chronicles (BAM, Roundhouse, National Theatre, World Tour), The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (Bridge, Leeds Playhouse), The Night Of The Iguana (Noël Coward Theatre), This House (Garrick Theatre, National Theatre, UK Tour), Stella (Brighton Festival, Hoxton Hall, Holland Festival), The Light Princess (National Theatre) and A Little Night Music (Châtelet, Paris).

Opera credits include: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (Volksoper, Wien), Rigoletto – Southbank Sky Arts Award for Most Outstanding Opera (Opera North), Le Nozze di Figaro (Aix-en-Provence), Pelléas et Mélisande (Scottish Opera), Cavalleria rusticana , Pagliacci (Metropolitan Opera), Benvenuto Cellini (ENO), Rusalka (Glyndebourne) and The Ring Cycle ­- Grand Prix Aware for Outstanding Achievement in Opera (Opéra National du Rhin, Strasbourg).

Dance credits include: The Tempest and Prince of The Pagodas (Birmingham Royal Ballet), The Rite of Spring and Petrushka (Fabulous Beast).

Bruno Poet

Lighting Design

Bruno Poet

Lighting Design
Theatre credits include: The Devil Wears Prada (Theatre Royal, Plymouth, Shaftesbury Theatre), 42 Balloons (Lowry Theatre), Surfacing, The Witches, Frankenstein – Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design and Knight of Illumination Award, London Road, Timon of Athens, Stories, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire and Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (National Theatre), Miss Saigon (Prince Edward Theatre, Broadway), TINA – The Tina Turner Musical (Aldwych Theatre, Broadway), Gary Barlow: A Different Stage (Duke of York’s Theatre, UK Tour), Uncle Vanya (Duke of York’s Theatre), Oklahoma! (Grange Park Opera), Bad Cinderella (Broadway), Julius Caesar and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bridge Theatre).

Music credits include: Alicia Keys (US Tour), Pet Shop Boys Dreamworld (International Tour), Sigur Rós ­– Knight of Illumination Award (all tours since 2012) and Billie Eilish (Steve Jobs Theatre).

Opera credits include: The Hours (Met Opera), Amadeus (Danish Opera), Salome (Houston Opera), Don Giovanni, Otello and Mahagonny (Royal Opera House), Akhnaten (ENO, Met Opera), Carmen (Bregnez) and Alcina (Glyndebourne).

Other credits include: Gucci Cosmos (180 Strand) and United Arab Emirates 49th, 50th, 51st, and 52nd National Day.

Ian Dickinson & Niamh Gaffney for Autograph

Sound Design

Ian Dickinson & Niamh Gaffney for Autograph

Sound Design
Ian has been a member of the Autograph team since 2009.

Ian is an award-winning sound designer with extensive credits in the UK and internationally.

Ian’s theatre credits include: Alma Mata (Almeida), The Witches (National Theatre), 42nd Street (Leicester Curve, UK Tour), 2:22 A Ghost Story (West End, Los Angeles, UK Tour), The Ocean At The End Of The Lane (UK Tour, Duke of York’s Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare North Playhouse, Northern Stage), COCK (Ambassadors Theatre), Jerusalem (Apollo Theatre), Company (Broadway, Gielgud Theatre), Hangmen (Broadway, Wyndham’s Theatre), Uncle Vanya (Harold Pinter Theatre), The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe (Bridge Theatre, Leeds Playhouse, West End, UK Tour), Translations, Small Island, Angels in America (National Theatre, Broadway), Husbands and Sons (National Theatre), Camp Siegfried (Old Vic), Europe, Elegy, Roots, The Weir (Donmar Warehouse), True West (Vaudeville Theatre), Heisenberg (Wyndham’s Theatre), Fatherland (Lyric Hammersmith, Royal Exchange, Manchester), Junkyard (Bristol Old Vic, UK Tour), Before the Party, Uncle Vanya, Children’s Children and Mrs Klein (Almeida Theatre), This House (Garrick Theatre, UK Tour), Absent Friends (Harold Pinter Theatre), Love’s Sacrifice (RSC), The Nether (Duke of York’s Theatre), The River (Broadway), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, All My Sons, To Kill a Mockingbird (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) and The Machine (Manchester International Festival, New York). Ian was the recipient of both an Olivier and Drama Desk Award for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night–Time, which played at the National Theatre and toured venues worldwide.



Niamh is a member of the Autograph sound design team.

Niamh’s theatre credits as Associate Sound Designer include: Cabaret (KitKatClub Playhouse Theatre, Broadway), Jerusalem (Apollo Theatre), Bridgerton and Guardians of the Galaxy (Secret Cinema), Peaky Blinders: The Rise (Camden Stables Market), Once on This Island and La Cage Aux Folles (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre).

Niamh’s theatre credits as Sound Designer: Pride & Prejudice*sortof (UK Tour), These Demons (Theatre503), The Fair Maid of the West (RSC), A Child Of Science (Bristol Old Vic) and The Producers (Menier Chocolate Factory).

Campbell Young Associates

Hair & Make-up Design

Campbell Young Associates

Hair & Make-up Design
Theatre credits include: Hello, Dolly! (London Palladium), The Devil Wears Prada (Dominion Theatre), Starlight Express (Troubadour Wembley Park), The Hills of California (Harold Pinter Theatre), Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Phoenix Theatre), Rock Follies (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Sound of Music (UK Tour), 42nd Street (Sadlers Wells), Groundhog Day (Old Vic), Guys & Dolls (Bridge Theatre), Crazy For You (Gillian Lynne Theatre), The King and I (UK Tour, London Palladium), As You Like It (@sohoplace), Good (Harold Pinter Theatre), Eureka Day (Old Vic), Into The Woods (Theatre Royal Bath), Back to the Future (Adelphi Theatre), Cinderella (Gillian Lynne Theatre), Anything Goes (Barbican), Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical (Lyric Theatre), The Drifters Girl (Garrick Theatre), Rosmersholm (Duke of York’s Theatre), All About Eve (Noël Coward Theatre), Funny Girl (Savoy Theatre), St. Joan (Donmar Warehouse), One Night in Miami (Nottingham Playhouse, Donmar Warehouse), City of Angels (Garrick Theatre), The Young Chekhov Trilogy (Chichester Festival Theatre), High Society (Old Vic), Gypsy and Guys and Dolls (Savoy Theatre) and The Bodyguard (Dominion Theatre).

Broadway credits include: Bad Cinderella, A Beautiful Noise, Almost Famous, Funny Girl, The Music Man, Carousel, Head Over Heels, Three Tall Women, Hello, Dolly!, Head Over Heels, The Crucible, Misery, Sylvia, A Delicate Balance and Les Misérables.

Credits on Broadway and in the West End include: Leopoldstadt, To Kill a Mockingbird, Company, A Christmas Carol, TINA – The Tina Turner Musical (Drama Desk Award 2020 for Outstanding Wigs and Hair), The Ferryman, The Girl from the North Country, Farinelli and the King, Groundhog Day, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Matilda, Ghost the Musical and Billy Elliot.

Film and television credits include: The Gilded Age, Downton Abbey and Deadpool & Wolverine.

Opera credits include: Don Carlos, L’enfant et les sortilèges (Bolshoi Opera Moscow) and Anna Nicole (BAM).

Amy Ball CDG

Casting

Amy Ball CDG

Casting
Theatre credits include: Slave Play, Night of the Iguana (Noël Coward Theatre), Hamnet (Garrick Theatre), Jerusalem (Apollo Theatre), Leopoldstadt (Wyndham’sTheatre), The Hills of California, Uncle Vanya, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Harold Pinter Theatre), Rosmersholm, The Pillowman (Duke of York’s Theatre), True West (Vaudeville Theatre), The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, (Theatre Royal Haymarket), The Son (Kiln Theatre, Duke of York’s Theatre), Sweat (Donmar Warehouse, Gielgud Theatre), The Ferryman (Royal Court, Broadway, Gielgud Theatre), The Moderate Soprano (Hampstead Theatre, Duke of York’s Theatre), The Birthday Party, Consent (National Theatre, Harold Pinter Theatre),  Hangmen (Royal Court, Wyndham’s Theatre, Atlantic Theater Company), Berberian Sound Studio (Donmar Warehouse), Stories and Exit the King (National Theatre), White Noise and A Very Very Very Dark Matter (Bridge Theatre), The Brothers Size (Young Vic), Maryland, ear for eye, Girls & Boys and Cyprus Avenue (Royal Court), Alma Mater, Cold War, Portia Coughlan, Women, Beware the Devil, “Daddy” A Melodrama, Albion, The Hunt, Shipwreck, Dance Nation and Boy (Almeida).

Max Harrison

Associate Director

Max Harrison

Associate Director
Theatre credits include: Miss Julie and Leaves of Glass (Park Theatre), Vesper Monologues (Arcola Theatre), Tender Napalm (King’s Head Theatre), In Place of Fear, Moonfleece (Pleasance Theatre), Little Pieces of Gold (Southwark Playhouse), Istanbul: You’ll Never Walk Alone (Zoo Venues), Festen, The Oresteia, Copper Beeches (East 15). Assisting credits include: Five Characters in Search of a Good Night’s Sleep (Southwark Playhouse, Mike Alfreds).   Max is Artistic Director of Lidless Theatre. He is on the NT Director’s Course, 2024.   His plays have been nominated for 5 Off-West End Awards including Best Production, Best Ensemble, and 3 Best Lead Performers.

Hazel Holder

Voice Coach

Hazel Holder

Voice Coach
Hazel Holder is a Voice & Dialect coach, Actor and Voice Associate for the National Theatre.

Theatre credits include: The Hot Wing King, The Grapes of Wrath, People, Places & Things, Death of England: Closing Time, Grenfell: in the words of survivors, The Crucible, Death of England: Delroy, Death of England, Small Island, Nine Night, Barber Shop Chronicles and Angels in America (National Theatre), Clydes, A Dolls House Part 2, Marys Seacole and Constellations (Donmar Warehouse), Mlima’s Tale, Retrograde, Wife of Willesden and Pass Over (Kiln), Passing Strange, The Homecoming, Best of Enemies, Fairview and Death of a Salesman (Young Vic), Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner and ear for eye (Royal Court), Jitney (Old Vic), August in England (Bush), Richard II (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), Ulster American (Riverside Studios), Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Sunset Boulevard, The Glass Menagerie, 2:22 A Ghost Story, To Kill a Mockingbird, Cock, TINA: The Tina Turner Musical and Dreamgirls – Resident Director (West End).

Television credits include: Silo (Apple TV), The Power (Amazon Prime), The Baby (HBO) and Small Axe (BBC).

Film credits include: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Aisha, Drift and The Silent Twins.

Lucy Hind

Movement Director

Lucy Hind

Movement Director
As Movement Director: Minority Report (UK Tour); Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (UK Tour); Girl from the North Country (Old Vic, West End, Broadway, Australian & US Tours); Murder on the Orient Express (Chichester Festival Theatre); Hamlet (Young Vic); The Light in the Piazza (Southbank Centre, Los Angeles Music Center, Lyric Opera of Chicago); Macbeth; The House of Bernarda Alba (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Local Hero (Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); The Last Ship (Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto, US Tour); Calendar Girls (UK Tour); Miss Littlewood (RSC); Sleeping Beauty (Theatr Clwyd); The Divide (Old Vic); No’s Knife (Old Vic, Abbey Theatre, Dublin); Ugly Lies The Bone (National Theatre); The Effect; Playing for Time; Twelfth Night; This Is My Family (Sheffield Theatres); Multitudes; The House That Will Not Stand (Tricycle Theatre); Aladdin; Kes (CAST); Refugee Boy; Wind in the Willows (West Yorkshire Playhouse).

As Choreographer: 101 Dalmatians (UK Tour); Oliver! (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Billy Elliot (Leicester Curve); The Last Ship (Northern Stage); Hansel & Gretel, Thumbelina, The Snow Queen, The Assassination of Katie Hopkins (Theatr Clwyd); The Snow Maiden (Opera North); Barnbow Canaries (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare’s Globe, US Tour); The Jacobin (Buxton Arts Festival); Love Your Soldiers (Sheffield Theatres).

As Movement & Intimacy Director: Hope Has a Happy Meal (Royal Court); Secret Life of Bees (Almeida Theatre); Groundhog Day (Old Vic); Kerry Jackson (National Theatre).

Television credits include: The Nutcracker, Peter Pan (BBC); Truth Seekers (Amazon Studios); Awesome Animals & Mini Me (Three Arrows Media for Sky TV).

Enric Ortuño

Fight Director

Enric Ortuño

Fight Director
Enric Ortuño is a Spanish Fight and Intimacy Director based on the UK. He is a Certified Stage Combat Teacher by the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat, a certified Intimacy Director and Coordinator by Intimacy Directors and Coordinators USA and holds an MA in Movement Studies from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Theatre credits include: Machinal, The Birthday Party (Theatre Royal Bath), Sleepova (Bush Theatre), Pandemonium, Boys on the Verge of Tears, Pansexual Pregnant Piracy (Soho Theatre), Othello, Animal Farm (National Youth Theatre), Suckerpunch (National Theatre Connections), ROAD (Northern Stage), Lit (Nottingham Playhouse), ROAD (Oldham Coliseum), Birdsong (Original Theatre), The Good John Proctor, The Laughing Boy and Owners (Jermyn Street Theatre).

Intimacy Coordination credits include productions for and by Warner Bros, AppleTV, BBC, Netflix, Channel 4, Amazon Studios and Sky TV.

He regularly teaches at RADA, Central School of Speech and Drama, Drama Studio London and Italia Conti, and has taught workshops in Spain, USA, Canada and Germany.

Kate West

Production Manager

Kate West

Production Manager
Theatre credits include: The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Assassins, 8 Hotels and The Meeting (Chichester Festival Theatre), Slave Play (Noël Coward Theatre), Nachtland (Young Vic), The Hills Of California (Harold Pinter Theatre), The Unfriend (Wyndham’s Theatre, Criterion Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre), Back Stairs Billy (Duke of York’s Theatre), The Old Man and the Pool (Wyndham’s Theatre), Operation Mincemeat (Fortune Theatre), Aspects of Love (Lyric Theatre), Women Beware the Devil (Almeida), As You Like It (@sohoplace), Orlando (Garrick Theatre), John Gabriel Borkman, Book of Dust, Bach and Sons, The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe, A Midsummer Night Dream, Alys Always, Allelujah!, My Name is Lucy Barton and Julius Caesar (Bridge Theatre), The Blue Woman and Lohengrin (Royal Opera House), The Son (Duke of York’s Theatre), Love and Other Acts of Violence, Blindness, Teenage Dick, Europe, Sweet Charity, St Nicholas, Sweat, Measure for Measure, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The Way of the World (Donmar Warehouse), Imperium (Gielgud Theatre), The Band (UK Tour, Theatre Royal Haymarket), Common (National Theatre), 42nd Street (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Flowers for Mrs. Harris (Sheffield Crucible), The Caretaker (Old Vic) and Hamlet (Barbican).

Niall McKeever

Associate Set Designer

Niall McKeever

Associate Set Designer
Theatre and Opera credits include: Eugene Onegin (Northern Ireland Opera at Grand Opera House Belfast), Peter Pan (Gate Theatre Dublin), Tosca (Northern Ireland Opera at Grand Opera House Belfast), Into the Woods (His Majesty’s Theatre Perth), Yellowman (Orange Tree Theatre) and The Dry House (Marylebone Theatre).

Television and Film credits include: Game of Thrones Season V – VII (HBO), In The Earth and In Fabric (Rook Films).

Niall is a recipient of the Max Rayne Production Design residency at the National Theatre (2018 -2019) where he was Associate Designer on Translations.

In 2021 he designed the JMK Award winning production of Statements after an Arrest under the Immorality Act.

In 2022, Niall designed Northern Ireland Opera’s Into The Woods, which won the Irish Times Irish Theatre Award for ‘Best Production’. He was also nominated for ‘Best Set’. His work on Into the Woods appeared on The Stage’s Top Shows of 2022.

Johanna Coe

Costume Associate

Johanna Coe

Costume Associate
Theatre credits as Costume Designer include: Ugly Lies The Bone (National Theatre), Stella (Brighton Fringe, Hoxton Hall) and Endgame (Donmar Warehouse).

Theatre credits as Associate Costume Designer include: Player Kings (Noël Coward Theatre), The Witches, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Translations and Paradise (National Theatre), Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Complicité, Barbican), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Gillian Lynne Theatre), War Horse (National Theatre, West End, International) and This House (Chichester Festival Theatre, West End).

Theatre credits as Costume Supervisor include: Assassins (Chichester Festival Theatre), A Number (Bridge Theatre), Night of the Iguana (Noël Coward Theatre), Rutherford and Son (National Theatre) and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Donmar Warehouse).

Television credits include:Harlots (Hulu) and The Sound of Music Live (ITV).

Lily Mollgaard

Props Supervisor

Lily Mollgaard

Props Supervisor
Lily’s first show in the West End was The Lion King (Lyceum Theatre). Since then, she has supervised over 250 shows.

Theatre credits include: My Neighbour Totoro (Barbican, Gillian Lynne Theatre), Guys and Dolls (Bridge Theatre), Sunset Boulevard (Savoy Theatre), Free your Mind (Aviva Studios), Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake (Sadlers Wells), Oliver! (Chichester Festival Theatre, West End), Burlesque! (Opera House, Manchester), Hadestown (Lyric Theatre), Score, Voyage Around My Father and Summer 54 (Theatre Royal, Bath), Giant (Royal Court), The Motive and the Cue (Noël Coward Theatre), People, Places and Things (Trafalgar Theatre), The Lehman Trilogy (Gillian Lynne Theatre) and Richard II (Bridge Theatre).

Fictionhouse Limited

Producer

Fictionhouse Limited

Producer
Established by Dominic Cooke and Kate Horton, Fictionhouse is an independent producing company, developing and making drama for television, film and theatre.

While running the Royal Court, Dominic Cooke and Kate Horton produced over 100 new plays, which were nominated for 210 major awards, winning 59 and their partnership saw the discovery and launch of an exciting new generation of playwrights such as Mike Bartlett, Bola Agbaje, Anupama Chandrasekhar, DC Moore, Lucy Kirkwood and the UK launch of Bruce Norris.

They developed the commercial arm of the Royal Court and transferred work to the West End and Broadway with great commercial and critical success, including Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem, Lucy Prebble’s Enron, Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park, Nick Payne’s Constellations, Laura Wade’s Posh, Mike Bartlett’s Cock, April de Angelis’s Jumpy and Polly Stenham’s That Face. They also introduced Theatre Local, a ground-breaking initiative to take work direct to new audiences, firstly at Elephant and Castle shopping Centre and then converting the Bussey Building in Peckham, presenting work by Rachel De-lahay, debbie tucker green, Bola Agbaje, Hayley Squires.

Recent stage projects include: Rock Follies (Chichester Festival Theatre), Euripides’ Medea, adapted by Robinson Jeffers and starring Sophie Okonedo (@sohoplace), C.P. Taylor’s Good, starring David Tennant (Harold Pinter), The Music Man, starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster (Winter Garden Theater, Broadway), The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer (National Theatre) and The Narcissist (Chichester Festival Theatre).

Fictionhouse is in partnership with Ringside Media, the investment arm of television drama production company Ringside Studios.

www.fictionhouse.co.uk

Kate Horton

Producer

Kate Horton

Producer
Kate Horton is the co-founder of Fictionhouse, developing and producing work for theatre, television and film. She was previously executive director of the Royal Court Theatre, commercial director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and deputy executive director of the National Theatre. She has produced over 100 world premieres, which have won many major awards including a Pulitzer Prize and Tony, Olivier and Critics Circle awards. Kate was the originating and commercial producer of Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem, Lucy Prebble’s Enron, Bruce Norris’ Clybourne Park [UK] and Simon Stephens’ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. With Barry Diller and David Geffen, she was the lead producer of The Music Man starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, which ran on Broadway for 420 performances and tout-grossed every other production for every week of its run. She was also the lead producer of Good in the West End, starring David Tennant, which broke the box office house record at the Harold Pinter several times during its 11 week run. She was also part of the design team and the founding executive director of Little Island in Manhattan, which opened in spring 2021.

Access Entertainment

Producer

Access Entertainment

Producer
Access Entertainment is the division of Len Blavatnik’s Access Industries that invests in world-class content and creative ventures—from feature films to live theatre to high growth start-ups.

Access Entertainment, led by President Danny Cohen, is committed to delivering exceptional entertainment and partnering with leading talent to build fast-growing businesses. In 2018, the company acquired the Theatre Royal Haymarket in the West End, internationally recognized as one of the world’s great historic theatres.

www.accessindustries.com/entertainment

Kate Pakenham Productions

Producer

Kate Pakenham Productions

Producer
Kate Pakenham Productions is an independent production and consultancy company run by producer Kate Pakenham.

Previous productions include: Medea directed by Dominic Cooke and starring Sophie Okonedo and Ben Daniels (@sohoplace); Jade Anouka’s debut play Heart (The Minetta Lane, New York and for Audible); Kaleider’s The Money (London’s County Hall); Hamlet directed by Yael Farber and starring Ruth Negga (St Ann’s Warehouse, New York) and the multi Olivier Award-winning Emilia by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm (West End).  Through her company Kate acts as an executive and creative consultant across the cultural sector, including as Consultant Producer for Fictionhouse.

Alongside Phyllida Lloyd, Kate is also Director of KPPL Productions, a theatre and film company with an explicit social justice focus. In Spring 2024, KPPL co-produced the National Theatre’s production, Grenfell: in the words of survivors at St Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn. The production won a Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience.

Kate was previously Executive Producer for the Donmar Warehouse (2012–2018) and Producer at The Old Vic (2001–2011). She started her career in factual television.  Kate serves on the Board of Sheffield Theatres and as a Creative Champion for The Unicorn Theatre

Short Street Productions Ltd

General Manager

Short Street Productions Ltd

General Manager
Established by Mark Rubinstein, Sarah Edwards and Dave McNeilly, who between them bring 50 years of experience in producing and managing commercial theatre, Short Street Productions Ltd was formed in 2023 as an independent theatre production company to continue the work of Mark Rubinstein Ltd.

Between them, the team has produced and general managed over 90 shows and productions on the West End, on tour internationally since 2000.

Current and recent projects include: TINA – The Tina Turner Musical (Aldwych Theatre and about to start the first UK tour), SINATRA (Birmingham Rep), Rock Follies (Chichester Festival Theatre), Murder on the Orient Express (Chichester Festival Theatre and Bath Theatre Royal), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Aldwych Theatre and two UK Tours), Be More Chill (The Other Palace), SWEAT (Gielgud Theatre), Stephen Sondheim’s Company (Gielgud Theatre for Elliott & Harper), La Soirée (on a 10-year rolling International Tour – 2015 Olivier Award: Best Entertainment), Sing Street (London workshops for EON productions), Roman Holiday (London and Shanghai Reading), Monsoon Wedding (musical workshop).

Other projects include: Billy Elliot: the Musical (UK and Ireland Tour), The Miser (Garrick Theatre), The Dresser (Duke of York’s Theatre), Close to You: Bacharach Reimagined (Criterion Theatre), Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense (Duke of York’s Theatre/UK/ India Tours) and Once the Musical (Phoenix Theatre/ Korea), War Horse (UK Tour), A Doll’s House (Duke of York’s Theatre/BAM, New York), Butley (Brighton Festival/Duchess Theatre), Punchdrunk’s The Drowned Man and The Burnt City, the West End transfers of the National Theatre’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and Untold Stories, the European Tour of Fela! and the Isango Portobello Company’s productions of The Magic Flute – Impempe Yomlingo and The Mysteries – Yiimimangaliso.

They have also provided consultancy services to the National Theatre, the Royal Opera House, the Young Vic Theatre, Punchdrunk and the Criterion Theatre.  Mark Rubinstein is a current board member of the Society of London Theatre was elected President from 2011 to 2014 and Vice President from 2014 to 2017.