Production Staff
Stefano Massini
Playwright
Stefano Massini is an Italian writer, essayist and playwright. He was born in Florence in 1975, and studied Literature at the University of Florence. He began his theatrical career at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano, and at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. He is best known for The Lehman Trilogy, which has played in both London and Broadway to great critical acclaim, which was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play. The play was also the basis for his novel Qualcosa sui Lehman, which won multiple awards. His second novel was titled L'interpretatore dei sogni.
His work has been staged in ... read more
Ben Power
Adaptor
Polly Bennett
Movement
POLLY BENNETT is a Movement Director and Choreographer working nationally and internationally. Education: MA in Movement, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Associate Movement Practitioner, Royal Shakespeare Company. Theatre: The National Theatre, Royal Court, The Old Vic and more. She worked as a Choreographer for the Olympic Opening Ceremonies in London and Sochi. Currently, she is movement coaching actor Rami Malek, who is playing Freddie Mercury in the forthcoming film Bohemian Rhapsody. ... read more
Dominic Bilkey
Co-Sound Design
Sound Design credits include: Dr Marigold and Mr Chops, Masterclass, Bath Theatre Royal; Twelfth Night, See How They Run, Dancing At Lughnasa, Original Theatre; Pandora, Standing on the Shoulder of Giants; After Troy, Lifeblood Theatre; Journey’s End, Icarus/Original Theatre; In The Solitude of Cotton Fields, Young Vic; The Space Between My Head and My Body, Gin in the Tea; The Only Girl in the World, Fractured Venus; The Railway Children, Sevenoaks Playhouse; Wagstaffe the Wind-up Boy, Rapunzel, Kneehigh Theatre; Souterrain, Cornwall, WildWorks. Associate Credits include: The Government Inspector, Young Vic; The Hound of The Baskervilles, Ian Fricker; Voyage Round My ... read more
Zoe Ford Burnett
Associate Director
Candida Caldicot
Music Direction
Jon Clark
Lighting Design
Jon is an Olivier Award winning and double Tony Award nominated lighting designer, based in the UK.
Theatre includes
NATIONAL THEATRE: The Lehman Trilogy (also Park Avenue Armory, New York and Piccadilly Theatre, West End), Manor, I’m Not Running, Absolute Hell, Amadeus, As You Like It, The Beaux Stratagem, Hamlet, Othello, The Effect, Collaborators, A Woman Killed With Kindness, Greenland, Pains of Youth, Our Class, Damned by Despair, Women of Troy, The Cat in the Hat, Beauty and the Beast, Hansel and Gretel.
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (RSC): Hamlet, The Tempest, The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, The Winter’s Tale, ... read more
Es Devlin
Scenic Design
ES DEVLIN IS AN ARTIST AND DESIGNER.
SHE IS KNOWN FOR CREATING LARGE-SCALE PERFORMATIVE SCULPTURES AND ENVIRONMENTS THAT FUSE MUSIC, LANGUAGE AND LIGHT.
MEMORY PALACE (PITZHANGER MANOR, LONDON 2019) MAPPED A HISTORY OF SHIFTS IN HUMAN PERSPECTIVE OVER 73 MILLENNIA.
MIRRORMAZE (PECKHAM, LONDON 2016), EXPLORED IDENTITY THROUGH REFLECTIVE LABYRINTHINE GEOMETRIES.
HER FLUORESCENT RED FIFTH LION ROARED AI-GENERATED COLLECTIVE POETRY TO CROWDS IN LONDON’S TRAFALGAR SQUARE IN SEPTEMBER 2018.
SINGING TREE, A COLLECTIVE CHORAL INSTALLATION AT THE V&A, LONDON MERGED MACHINE-LEARNING WITH SOUND AND LIGHT IN 2017;
DEVLIN COLLABORATED WITH THEORETICAL PHYSICIST CARLO ROVELLI ON AN INTERPRETATION OF THE ORDER OF TIMEREAD BY BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH IN 2018.
SHE ... read more
Luke Halls
Video Design
Luke Halls is an Award Winning international Video Designer whose work crosses a range of disciplines including opera, theatre, dance, film, TV and worldwide sellout music tours.
Luke received a Knight of Illumination Award for Don Giovanni at The Royal Opera House London and a BAFTA for his work on The Cube.
Theatre includes Miss Saigon (Prince Edward Theatre and Japan), Man and Superman (National Theatre), Hamlet, starring Benedict Cumberbatch (London's Barbican Theatre), Mary Poppins (UK tour), Linda, The Nether and 2071 (Royal Court) and Master and Margarita (Complicite/ Barbican).
Luke made his debut at The Metropolitan Opera in New York with Otello, ... read more
Charmian Hoare
Voice
Katrina Lindsay
Costume Design
Katrina Lindsay's recent costume design credits include Bend It Like Beckham at the Phoenix Theatre (Olivier nomination for Best Costume Design), wonder.land for MIF and the National Theatre and American Psycho for the Almeida Theatre and Broadway (Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk nominations for Best Costume Design). She designed costumes for Lyndsey Turner's production of Hamlet at the Barbican with Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role. She has also designed costumes for many operas including Terry Gilliam's productions of Damnation of Faust and Benvenuto Cellini for the ENO, which have been performed around the world. As a set and ... read more
Sam Mendes
Director
Sam Mendes founded and ran the Donmar Warehouse in London for ten years. He was the founding director of The Bridge Project and Neal Street Productions.
His work has been seen at the National Theatre, RSC, Royal Court, Old Vic, Young Vic, BAM, the West End and on Broadway. Films include American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Jarhead, Revolutionary Road, Away We Go, Skyfall, Spectre, and 1917.
Awards include Academy Award Best Director, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award Best Director, 2 Tony Awards, 5 Olivier Awards, the Olivier Special Award, 3 Evening Standard Awards, Empire Inspiration Award, Directors Guild of America Award ... read more
Nick Powell
Composer and Sound Design
Videos
