Nicholas Wright - Writer

 

Plays include: Treetops and One Fine Day (Riverside Studios), The Gorky Brigade (Royal Court), The Crimes of Vautrin (Joint Stock), The Custom of the Country and The Desert Air (Royal Shakespeare Company), Cressida (Almeida Theatre at the Albery), Mrs. Klein, Vincent in Brixton and The Reporter (all National Theatre). Adaptation: His Dark Materials (National Theatre). Versions: Naked and Lulu (Almeida), John Gabriel Borkman, Three Sisters (National Theatre), Thérèse Raquin (Chichester and National Theatre). Opera libretti: The Little Prince (Houston Grand Opera) and Man on the Moon (Channel 4). Other television includes Armistead Maupin’s More Tales of the City (Channel 4) and three episodes of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (HBO/BBC). Books: 99 Plays and Changing Stages, co-written with Richard Eyre.

 

Thea Sharrock - Director

 

Previously for the Almeida: Cloud Nine

Credits include: As You Like It at the Globe Theatre. Equus, starring Daniel Radcliffe, ran at the Gielgud Theatre, London and more recently finished a run on Broadway. Heroes ran at the Wyndhams Theatre and more recently at the Geffen Playhouse, Los Angeles, to great acclaim. Thea was the Artistic Director of Southwark Playhouse for three years. She trained at the Anna Scher Theatre and Market Theatre Johannesburg. Thea was the Artistic Director for The Gate Theatre.

Recent credits include: Happy Now? (National Theatre) Emperor Jones (National Theatre) Voyage Round My Father (Donmar Theatre). Previous credits include: Private Lives, Don Juan, Blithe Spirit and Betrayal (Bath Theatre Royal) Tejas Verdes (The Gate) A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen (Southwark Playhouse), The Deep Blue Sea by Terrence Rattigan (Bath Theatre Royal), The Fight for Barbara by DH Lawrence (The Peter Hall Season, Bath Theatre Royal), Mongoose by Peter Harness (Southwark Playhouse), Trip’s Cinch by Phyllis Nagy (Southwark Playhouse), Free by Simon Bowen (Loft, NT), Top Girls by Caryl Churchill (BAC, UK tours, Aldwych West End), The Sleepers Den by Peter Gill, (Southwark Playhouse) and as Associate Director, Art by Yasmina Reza (West End and UK Tour) and Betrayal by Harold Pinter and Design for Living by Noel Coward (The Peter Hall Season, Bath Theatre Royal).

Thea was the recipient of the James Menzies-Kitchin Memorial Trust’s Young Director of the Year Award 2000 for which she directed Top Girls at the BAC.

 

Tim Hatley - Design

 

Tim Hatley trained at Central St Martin's School of Art and Design London, and won the Linbury Prize for Stage Design commission in 1989.
Theatre includes: Endgame; The 3 Lives of Lucie Cabrol; Out of a House; The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Complicite); Present Laughter; Rafta, Rafta; Henry V; Humble Boy; The Talking Cure; Vincent in Brixton; Stanley (Olivier Award winner); Hamlet; Flight; Sleep with Me; Darker Face of Earth (National Theatre); Richard III; Goodnight Children; Talk of the City (RSC); Private Lives; What the Night is For; Another Country; Suddenly Last Summer; Moscow Stations; Puntilla & His Man Matti (West End); Shrek the Musical (Tony winner 2009); Spamalot (Olivier & Tony Award nominated); The Crucible; Private Lives (Olivier & Tony Award winner) (Broadway).
Film includes: Stage Beauty; Closer; Notes on a Scandal.

 

Neil Austin - Lighting

 

Previously for the Almeida:

Judgment Day; 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 - National Theatre

Hamlet (also Denmark & Broadway); Madame de Sade; Twelfth Night  - Donmar West End

Red; Life is a Dream; A Streetcar Named Desire; Piaf (also West End & Buenos Aires); Parade (also Los Angeles); 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

The Priory; Tusk Tusk; Fix-Up; Trust – Royal Court

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. 

 

Ian Dickinson (for Autograph) - Sound

 

This will be Ian’s first sound design for the Almeida. Other theatre includes Our Class, All’s Well That Ends Well, Death and the King’s Horseman, Harper Regan, The Hothouse and Pillars of the Community at the National; and for the Royal Court, Jerusalem, Wig Out!, Now or Later, Gone Too Far!, Rhinoceros, My Child, The Seagull (also Broadway), Krapp's Last Tape, Drunk Enough To Say I Love You, Piano/Forte, Rock 'n' Roll (also Duke of York's and Broadway; Olivier & Tony Award nominations), Motortown, The Eleventh Capital, Rainbow Kiss, The Winterling, Alice Trilogy, Fewer Emergencies, Way to Heaven, The Woman Before, Stoning Mary (& Drum Theatre, Plymouth), Breathing Corpses, Wild East, Dumb Show, Shining City (also Gate, Dublin), Lucky Dog, Blest Be the Tie (with Talawa), Ladybird, Notes on Falling Leaves, Loyal Women, The Sugar Syndrome, Blood, Playing the Victim (with Told By an Idiot), Fallout, Flesh Wound, Hitchcock Blonde (also  The Lyric, West End), Black Milk, Crazyblackmuthafuckin'self, Caryl Churchill Shorts, Push Up, Fucking Games, Herons.
For the RSC, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing (redesign) Night of the Soul; Testing the Echo, King Of Hearts (Out of Joint); Love and Money , Senor Carras Rifles (Young Vic); A Few Good Men (Theatre Royal, Haymarket); Dr Faustus (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Magic Carpet (Lyric Hammersmith); Port, Prizenight, As You Like It, Poor Superman, Martin Yesterday, Fast Food and Coyote Ugly (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Eyes of the Kappa (Gate); Crime & Punishment in Dalston (Arcola); Search & Destroy (New End); The Whore's Dream (RSC/Edinburgh).