Christopher Hampton - Translator

Christopher Hampton’s version of Yasmina Reza’s Conversations After a Burial was presented by the Almeida in 2000.  He has also collaborated with Reza on Art and God of Carnage.   He has previously adapted von Horváth’s Tales from the Vienna Woods, Faith Hope and Charity and Don Juan Comes Back from the War. In his own play, Tales from Hollywood, von Horváth features as a major character.   Hampton’s other plays include White Chameleon and The Talking Cure both for the National Theatre where his version of An Enemy of the People was also staged.  More recently his adaptations of The Seagull and Three Sisters were produced in London.   His other theatre work includes Les Liaisons Dangereuses - for which he also wrote the Academy Award winning screenplay, and Sunset Boulevard.  His film work includes Carrington, Mary Reilly, The Quiet American and Atonement.

James Macdonald - Director

James Macdonald last directed The Triumph of Love for the Almeida.  His other more recent directing credits include Top Girls on Broadway with Marisa Tomei and Martha Plimpton, The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other for the National Theatre and Glengarry Glen Ross at the Apollo Theatre.  His other credits include Drunk Enough to Say I Love You and Dying City, both for the Royal Court, and Exiles for the National Theatre.  Previously he has directed Love’s Labour’s Lost and Richard II for the Royal Exchange Theatre, Roberto Zucco and The Tempest for the Royal Shakespeare Company and Blasted, The Changing Room, Cleansed and A Number all for the Royal Court.  His opera credits include Eugene Onegin and Rigoletto for Welsh National Opera, Wolf Cub Village/Night Banquet for Almeida Opera and Lives of the Great Poisoners for Second Stride/Riverside Studios.  James Macdonald’s production of Caryl Churchill’s A Number, starring Tom Wilkinson and Rhys Ifans, has recently been shown on BBC2. 

Miriam trained in costume design at Akademie für Kostüm Design in Hamburg and in theatre design at Central Saint Martins. She was the overall winner of the 1999 Linbury Prize.
For the Almeida: When the Rain Stops Falling.

Other theatre design (set and costume) includes: Everybody Loves A Winner (Manchester International Festival);In the Red and Brown Water; The Good Soul Of Szechuan; Generations(Young Vic); Six Characters In Search Of An Author(Chichester Festival Theatre/West End); The Bacchae (National Theatre of Scotland/Lyric Hammersmith); Realism (National Theatre of Scotland); Relocated; My Child; The Wonderful World of Dissocia; Way to Heaven (Royal Court Theatre); Red Demon(Young Vic/Japan); The Bee(Soho Theatre/Japan); Long Time Dead, pool (no water)(Theatre Royal Plymouth); Unprotected(Traverse/Liverpool Everyman); Trade (RSC/Soho Theatre); Guantanamo;Honor Bound to Defend Freedom (Tricycle Theatre/West End/New York/San Francisco).

Dance (set and costume) includes: Frame Of View (Didy Veldman in New York); Cinderella (Göteborg Opera Ballet Company);Dalston Songs(Royal Opera House);Hartstocht(Introdans, Netherlands);Sacrifice (Welsh National Opera); Tenderhooks (Canadian National Ballet).

Moritz Junge - Costume Design

Born in Germany, Moritz studied at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, and at the Slade School of Fine Art and was the overall winner of the Linbury Prize for Stage Design in 2001.

Costume designs include Wayne McGregor’s Infra and Chroma (Royal Ballet); Dido, Queen of Carthage and The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other (National Theatre); All About My Mother (Old Vic); La Cenerentola (Glyndebourne Festival Opera & Deutsche Oper Berlin); Vivaldi’s Ottone in villa (Kiel Opera); Rigoletto (Hanover State Opera); Die Zauberflöte (Lucerne). 

Costumes and co-set designs include the world premiere of Thomas Adès’s The Tempest (Royal Opera House) and set and costumes for the Bater Dance Project (Beirut).
Future projects include costume designs for The Messiah (English National Opera) and Aida (Royal Opera House).

Neil Austin - Lighting

Previously for the Almeida:The Homecoming; Marianne Dreams; Dying for It; Tom and Viv; Romance; Macbeth. Other Theatre includes: The Observer; England People Very Nice; Mrs Affleck; Oedipus; Her Naked Skin; Afterlife; The Emperor Jones; Philistines; The Man of Mode; Thérèse Raquin; The Seafarer (also Broadway); Henry IV Parts 1 and 2; Fix Up; The Night Season; A Prayer For Owen Meany; Further Than the Furthest Thing; The Walls - For the National Theatre
Hamlet (also Denmark & Broadway); Madame de Sade; Twelfth Night  - Donmar West End
A Streetcar Named Desire; Piaf (also West End & Buenos Aires); Parade; John Gabriel Borkman; Don Juan in Soho; Frost/Nixon (also West End & Broadway); The Cryptogram; The Wild Duck; Caligula; After Miss Julie; Henry IV; World Music; The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman he once Loved in the Former Soviet Union - Donmar Warehouse. King Lear; The Seagull; Much Ado About Nothing; King John; Romeo and Juliet; Julius Caesar; Two Gentlemen of Verona - RSC
No Man’s Land; Dealer’s Choice; A Life in the Theatre; Japes – West End. Dance includes:
Rhapsody - Royal Ballet; The Soldier's Tale - ROH2 at the Royal Opera House & Japanese Tour; The Canterville Ghost - English National Ballet; Pineapple Poll - Birmingham Royal Ballet; Darkness & Light - Miyako Yoshida, Tokyo

Opera includes: Chorus!  - Welsh National Opera; The Silent Twins; As I Crossed the Bridge of Dreams; Love Counts; Man and Boy: Dada; The Cricket Recovers; The Embalmer - Almeida Opera; Pulse Shadows - Queen Elizabeth Hall; L’Orfeo - Opera City, Tokyo. 

Matthew Herbert - Music

Matthew is an artist, film composer, performer, producer, writer, owner of Accidental Records, remixer, and DJ. He is currently making a record out of a pig, while also remixing Mahler’s 10^th Symphony for Deutsche Grammaphon and continuing to produce a number of emerging artists, including the acclaimed Eska. He has worked with the director James Macdonald before on two Caryl Churchill plays for the theatre and also wrote the score for James' HBO film of Churchill's A Number

Music production and co-production includes: Mercury Prize nominated album The Invisible (The Invisible); Jewellery (Micachu); The Bachelor (Patrick Wolf); Butterflies (Finn Peter); The Crying Light Live Show (with Antony Hegarty); Ruby Blue (Roisin Murphy); Hidden Place and Pagan Poetry on Bjork’s album Vespertine.

Film/TV composition: Human Traffic; Le Defi; Vida y Color; Agathe Clery; The Intended;  La Confiance Regne; A Number and Gomorrah.

As an artist:Matthew has recorded numerous albums under the names Doctor Rockit, Wishmountain, Radio Boy, Herbert, The Matthew Herbert Big Band and Matthew Herbert. Albums include: Scale; Around The House; Second Hand Sounds; Bodily Functions; There’s Me And There’s You; Goodbye Swingtime; The Mechanics of Destruction; Plat Du Jour; Let’s All Make Mistakes.

Christopher Shutt - Sound

Christopher trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and has been Head of Sound at Bristol Old Vic, the Royal Court, and the National Theatre. Theatre includes: War Horse; Burnt by the Sun; Every Good Boy Deserves Favour; Gethsemane; Happy Days (world tour); Coram Boy; Dream Play; Humble Boy;  Play Without Words; Albert Speer; Not About Nightingales; Machinal (National Theatre); Disappearing Number; Elephant Vanishes; Mnemonic; Street of Crocodiles; Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol (Complicite); All My Sons; Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui; Moon for the Misbegotten; Coram Boy; Elephant Vanishes; Humble Boy (New York); Bacchae; Little Otik (National Theatre of Scotland); Aunt Dan & Lemon; Arsonists (Royal Court); Nocturnal (Gate Theatre);Moon for the Misbegotten; All About My Mother (Old Vic): Much Ado About Nothing; King John; Romeo and Juliet (RSC): Piaf; The Man Who Had All The Luck, Hecuba (Donmar Warehouse). Radio includes : Tennyson’s Maud; A Shropshire Lad. Christopher has won the NY Drama Desk award for Not About Nightingales and Mnemonic, and received Olivier Award nominations for Coram Boy, War Horse, and Piaf.