Neil LaBute - Writer

Neil LaBute’s plays include Filthy Talk for Troubled Times, bash: latter-day plays, The Shape of Things, The Distance From Here, The Mercy Seat (performed at the Almeida in 2003), Autobahn, Fat Pig, This Is How It Goes, Some Girl(s), and Reasons To Be Pretty, currently on Broadway. His films include In The Company of Men, Your Friends and Neighbors, Nurse Betty, Possession, The Wicker Man, and the forthcoming Lakeview Terrace. He has also written fictional pieces for several American publications, and a collection of short stories. 

Michael Attenborough - Director

As Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre Company Michael Attenborough has previously directed Neil LaBute’s The Mercy Seat as well as Five Gold Rings, Brighton Rock,The Late Henry Moss, Enemies, Frank McGuinness’ There Came A Gypsy Riding, Theodore Ward’s Big White Fog, Clifford Odets’ Awake and Sing! and most recently his critically acclaimed production of Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming.  On leaving the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he was Principal Associate Director, he was invited to become an Honorary Associate Artist.  In 2005 Michael Attenborough directed the world premiere of David Edgar’s Playing with Fire in the Olivier at the National Theatre.

Lez Brotherston - Design

Lez Brotherston has previously designed for Almeida productions Dying For It, The Lightning Play and Brighton Rock. 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.
 
Howard Harrison - Lighting

Howard Harrison has worked on extensive theatre projects both on the West End and on Broadway including Glengarry Glen Ross, Macbeth, Love Song, Guys and Dolls, Donkey’s Years, and Heroes (West End), Mary Poppins, (West End/Broadway), Mamma Mia! (West End/Broadway/international tour), The Vertical Hour (Royal Court) and Nutcracker! and Edward Scissorhands for Sadler’s Wells and on tour in the UK and the US. He has also worked on numerous opera and dance productions including Il Trovatore and Otello  for the Royal Opera House, Swan Lake and Romeo and Juliet for English National Ballet, and The Makropulos Case and Nabucco for the Metropolitan Opera, New York.