Matthew Lloyd - Director
Matthew Lloyd is Artistic Director of The Actors Centre. Previously he was an Artistic Director at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre where his productions included An Experiment with an Air-Pump and Waiting for Godot. Lloyd was Associate Director at Hampstead Theatre where his work included The Fastest Clock in the Universe, Slavs! and the award-wining The Lucky Ones. He has directed over twenty premieres of new plays for the Bush Theatre, as well as productions for the Theatre Upstairs and the Glasgow Citizens Theatre.
Lez Brotherston - Design
Lez Brotherston has previously designed for Almeida productions Dying For It, The Lightning Play and Brighton Rock as well as the upcoming production of In a Dark Dark House. Other recent theatre work includes Dickens Unplugged and In Celebration (West End), Much Ado About Nothing for the RSC, The Dark and Little Foxes for the Donmar Warehouse, Playing with Fire at the National Theatre, and Cabaret and The Crucible for Sheffield Crucible. His design for dance includes Into The Woods and A Soldier’s Tale for Royal Opera House, Seven Deadly Sins for the Royal Ballet, Matthew Bourne’s Edward Scissorhands, The Car Man, Cinderella and Swan Lake; Carmen, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Giselle for Northern Ballet, and nIght LiFe and Just Scratchin’ The Surface for Scottish Ballet. His design for opera includes L’elisir d’amore for Glyndebourne, Hansel and Gretel for Opera Zuid/Opera Northern Ireland, and Le Roi Malgre Lui for Opera North.
Jason Taylor - Lighting
Jason Taylor’s extensive credits for lighting design include the West End productions of Rainman, Absurd Person Singular, The Letter and Some Girl(s), High Society, Abigail’s Party, And Then There Were None and Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern, Broadway productions of Pygmalion and Journey’s End, and national tours including Flashdance, Crown Matrimonial, Blackbird and Lady In The Van. His other lighting design includes BCC (National Theatre), God of Hell (Donmar Warehouse), Year of the Rat, Madness of George 3rdand Little Shop of Horrors (West Yorkshire Playhouse), National Anthems (Old Vic), Us and Them and The Dead Eye Boy (Hampstead Theatre), Iolanthe, The Mikado and Yeoman of the Guard (Savoy Theatre),twenty seasons at the Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park, and productions at all the major regional theatre venues.
John Leonard - Sound and Music
John Leonard has previously worked on sound design at the Almeida Theatre for Waste, The Homecoming, Big White Fog, Dying For It, Hedda Gabler, Macbeth, Brighton Rock, Whistling Psyche, Five Gold Rings, The Mercy Seat, and I.D. He has also worked extensively on productions for the National Theatre including the recent Much Ado About Nothing and The Enchantment, productions for the RSC including Antony and Cleopatra, The Prisoner's Dilemma, and Romeo and Juliet, and extensive work for the Druid Theatre Galway/Dublin, Soho Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, Birmingham Rep, Oxford Playhouse and Liverpool Playhouse. His work in the West End and on Broadway includes In Celebration, Kean, Glengarry Glen Ross and Translations.