Writer & Director Stephen Poliakoff
Design Lez Brotherston
Lighting Oliver Fenwick
Sound & Music Ben and Max Ringham
Casting Andy Pryor
Assistant Director Laura Farnworth
Stephen Poliakoff
Writer & Director
Award-winning playwright, director and scriptwriter Stephen Poliakoff began his career in the theatre becoming resident playwright at the National Theatre at the age of 23. He won the Evening Standard most promising playwright award in 1976 for Hitting Town and City Sugar and has since written over 20 plays which have premiered in the UK. He wrote and directed his first feature film Hidden City which was selected for the Venice Film Festival in 1987.
Theatre includes: Pretty Boy; Heroes; Strawberry Fields; Breaking the Silence; Coming In To Land; Sweet Panic; Blinded by the Sun; Talk of the City; Remember This.
Television includes: Caught on a Train; She's Been Away Shooting The Past; Perfect Strangers; The Lost Prince; Friends and Crocodiles; Joe's Palace.
Film includes: Glorious 39; Close My Eyes; Century; Bloody Kids.
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Lez Brotherston
Design
For the Almeida: Measure for Measure; Duet for One (West End transfer); In a Dark, Dark House; Dying For It; Brighton Rock; The Lightning Play.
Theatre includes: Women Beware Women; Really Old Like 45; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (National Theatre); Design For Living; The Real Thing; Dancing At Lughnasa (Old Vic); Sister Act (West End / Germany / Broadway); Umbrellas of Cherbourg; The Rise and Fall of Little Voice; Under The Blue Sky; Dickens Unplugged; In Celebration; French and Saunders Live; Victoria Wood At It Again (West End); Much Ado About Nothing (RSC); The Dark, Little Foxes (Donmar Warehouse).
Opera includes: L’Elisir d’Amore (Glyndebourne Festival Opera); Maria Padilla (Buxton Festival); La Somnambula (Teatro Municipale, Rio de Janeiro); Hansel and Gretel (Opera Zuid / Opera Northern Ireland).
Dance includes: Lord Of the Flies; Cinderella (Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance for Set and Costume); Dorian Gray; Edward Scissorhands (New Adventures); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Japan / Sadler’s Wells); Play Without Words ( National Theatre / New Adventures); The Car Man; Swan Lake (Tony Award winning); Highland Fling (Adventures in Motion Pictures); Dracula; Romeo & Juliet; Carmen; Giselle; Swan Lake (Northern Ballet).
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Oliver Fenwick
Lighting Designer
For the Almeida: Ruined.
Theatre includes: The Holy Rosenburgs; Happy Now? (National Theatre); Disconnect (Royal Court); A Number (Chocolate Factory); Julius Caesar; The Drunks; The Grain Store (RSC); The Kingdom of Fabrication (The Print Room); The Beggars Opera (Regents Park Open Air Theatre); Ghosts; Kean; The Solid Gold Cadillac; Secret Rapture (West End); The Contingency Plan; If There is I Haven’t Found It Yet (Bush Theatre); Private Lives; The Giant; Glass Eels; Comfort Me With Apples (Hampstead theatre); Restoration (Headlong); Much Ado About Nothing; Mary Stewart (Hipp Theatre, Sweden); Far From the Madding Crowd ( English Touring Theatre); Lady From The Sea; She Stoops To Conquer (Birmingham Rep); Realism; Mongrel Island; Pure Gold ( Soho Theatre); Hamlet; The Caretaker; Comedy of Errors; Bird Calls; Iphigenia (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); The Chairs (Gate Theatre); Hedda Gabler ( Gate Theatre, Dublin); The Elephant Man (Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield / tour); Henry V; Mirandolina; A Convseration (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); My Fair Lady (Cameron Mackintosh / National Theatre); Tis Pity She’s a Whore; The Doll’s House; Hay Fever (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Endgame (Everyman Liverpool); Sunshine on Leith (Dundee Rep / tour); Jack and the Beanstalk ( Barbican Theatre); Heartbreak House (Watford Palace); A Model Girl (Greenwich theatre); Noises Off; All My Sons; Dr. Faustus (Liverpool Playhouse); The Picture; Hysteria; Children Of A Lesser God (Salisbury Playhouse); Follies; Insignificance; Breaking the Code (Theatre Royal, Northampton); Tartuffe; The Gentleman From Olmedo; The Venetian Twins; Hobson’s Choice; Dancing at Lughnasa; Love in a Maze (Watermill Theatre); Cinderella (Bristol Old Vic).
Opera includes: The Merry Widow (Opera North & Sydney Opera House); Samson et Delilah; Lohengrin (Royal Opera House); The Trojan Trilogy; The Nose; The Gentle Giant (Royal Opera House); The Threepenny Opera (The Opera Group); L’Opera Seria (Batignano Festival).
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Ben and Max Ringham
Sound and Music
Theatre and dance includes: Little Eagles; American Trade (RSC / Hampstead Theatre); The Infidelity Project; Episode (The Place); Racing Demon; Hamlet; An Enemy Of The People (Sheffield Crucible); Les Parents Terrible (Trafalgar Studios); Electric Hotel (Sadler’s Wells / Fuel); Salome (Headlong); The Man From Stratford (Ambassadors); The Author ( also touring); The Pride (Olivier Award for Best Overall Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre); Remembrance Day (Royal Court); Polar Bears; Phaedra (Donmar Warehouse); Piaf (Donmar Warehouse / Vaudeville Theatre / Buenos Aires);The Little Dog Laughed (Garrick Theatre); Three Days Of Rain (Apollo Theatre / West End); The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice (Vaudeville Theatre); Really Old Like Forty Five; Henry IV Parts I & II (National Theatre); Branded; All About My Mother (Old Vic); Contains Violence (Lyric Hammersmith); The Lover / The Collection (Comedy Theatre / West End); The Caretaker (Sheffield Crucible / Tricycle Theatre / Touring), Amato Saltone; What If…?; Tropicana; Dance Bear Dance; The Ballad Of Bobby Francois (Shunt); The Pigeon (BAC).
Ben and Max are associate artists with the Shunt collective and two thirds of the band Superthriller.
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Andy Pryor
Casting Director
Theatre includes: That Day We Sang (Manchester Opera House)
Television includes: Doctor Who; Marchlands; Upstairs Downstairs; Whitechapel 1 & 2; Moses Jones; Survivors ;Stuart – A Life Backwards; The Chatterley Affair; Life on Mars; Cutting It; Life Begins; The Long Firm; Cracker; In a Land of Plenty; The Scarlet Pimpernel; 40; I’m Alan Partridge; Othello; Murphy’s Law; Bedtime; Linda Green; Our Friends in the North; Shooting the Past; Perfect Strangers; The Lost Prince; Friends & Crocodiles; Gideon’s Daughter; Joe’s Palace; Capturing Mary.
Film includes: United; Longtime Dead; Bent; Different for Girls; Beautiful Thing; Trainspotting; Glorious ’39.