Jez Butterworth - Writer

Jez Butterworth’s first play, Mojo opened at the Royal Court 1995 and subsequently won five drama awards including the Evening Standard and Critics’ Circle Awards for Most Promising Playwright Award and the Olivier Award for Best Comedy. He returned to the Royal Court in 2002 with The Night Heron and The Winterling (2006). Parlour Song received its world premeire at the Atlantic Theater in New York, directed by Neil Pepe with a cast including Jonathan Cake, Chris Bauer and Emily Mortimer. His films Mojo, starring Harold Pinter, and Birthday Girl, starring Nicole Kidman, were both shown at the Venice Film Festival. In 2007 he received the E.M. Forster Award from The American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Ian Rickson - Director

Ian Rickson has previously directed Jez Butterworth’s The Winterling, The Night Heron and Mojo. Rickson was Artistic Director of the Royal Court from 1998-2007 where his many productions included The Seagull, Krapp’s Last Tape (which he also directed for BBC4), Fallout which he directed as a film for Channel 4, The Weir that transferred to the West End and Broadway, Mojo which also transferred to the West End and then New York, and Dublin Carol.  For the National Theatre he has directed The Hothouse and The Day I Stood Still.

Jeremy Herbert - Designer
 
Jeremy Herbert has previously designed for the Almeida working on design and video for Michael Nyman's Opera Man and Boy: DADA, and The Triumph of Love. His other extensive theatre credits include Ashes and Sand,The Lights (site specific design in the gutted theatre) and Alice Trilogy all for Ian Rickson at the Royal Court; Cleansed, 4.48 Psychosis, Thyestes,The Ugly One and Bliss at the Royal Court; Imber – a site-specific collaboration on Salisbury Plain with Artangel and composer Giya Kanchelli; the premiere of John Taverner’s opera Mary of Egypt for the Aldeburgh Festival; The Tempest, Roberto Zucco, and Beauty and the Beast for the RSC; and This is Our Youth, Treats, Up For Grabs and Sexual Perversity in Chicago in the West End. Most recently he has designed for Fuenteovejuna in Madrid and on national tour, and Britten’s opera Death in Venice for the Staatsoper, Hamburg.

Peter Mumford - Lighting
 
Peter Mumford has previously worked with the Almeida on Rosmersholm, Cloud Nine, Hedda Gabler and The Goat or Who is Sylvia?. His recent theatre work includes A View From The Bridge, Carousel, Fiddler on the Roof, Shadowlands and The Girl with a Pearl Earring all in the West End; The Hothouse, The Rose Tattoo, The Reporter and Exiles for the National Theatre; A Doll’s House, Born in the Gardens and Portrait of a Lady for the Peter Hall Season 2008, Bath; Uncle Vanya at the Rose Theatre, Kingston; The Seagull, Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? and Dying City for the Royal Court, The Entertainer and Richard II for the Old Vic, and Brand and Hamlet for the RSC. 
He has also designed for opera productions at the Royal Opera House, Glyndbourne, English National Opera, amongst many other national and international venues.

Stephen Warbeck – Music

Stephen Warbeck has written extensively for theatre, including for Cloud Nine and Dying for It at the Almeida Theatre, and most recently Mrs Affleck for the National Theatre, and Swimming with Sharks and In Celebration in the West End. He has written for many productions at the Royal Court including The Seagull (also on Broadway), The Night Heron, Boy Gets Girl, Mouth to Mouth (also West End), Dublin Carol and The Glory of Living. Other work includes Proof at the Donmar Warehouse; Hothouse, An Inspector Calls, Machinal, Roots, Magic Olympical Games and At Our Table all for the National Theatre; and Alice in Wonderland, The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, The White Devil, The Taming of the Shrew, The Cherry Orchard and Cymbeline all for the RSC.
He has also composed extensively for film and television, including the scores for Shakespeare in Love, Mrs Brown, Billy Elliot and Prime Suspect.

Paul Groothuis - Sound
 
Paul Groothuis has previously worked at the Almeida on Marianne Dreams. His other extensive credits include Dorian Gray, Nutcracker!, Highland Fling, Edward Scissorhands and Carman for New Adventures; Mermaids for CoisCeim; Oliver!,Mary Poppins, Marguerite, Porgy and Bess, Bad Girls, Endgame and Bent in the West End, and over 140 productions for the National Theatre including Present Laughter; Rafta Rafta, The Rose Tattoo, The Man of Mode, The Life of Galileo, The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Once in a Lifetime, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, The House of Bernarda Alba, His Dark Materials, Buried Child, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to the Forum, The Cherry Orchard, Sunday in the Park With George, Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, Anything Goes and My Fair Lady. 

Steven Williams - Video
 
Steven has previosuly worked at the Almeida on video design and animation for Man and Boy: Dada in collaboration with Jeremy Herbert. His other work includes graphic design for Up for Grabs (West End), an animated history of the parachute for the Imperial War Museum, and a short film about the inventor of limelight for a new national museum. As a digital creative director at Leo Burnett, Steven designed, wrote and art directed many TV commercials, as well as devising multimedia campaigns for Kellogg, Sony, Nike and Nintendo. Music collaborations include Caught Still Hanging (Gill Clarke) and the second "Scanner" album for Touch Records in 1993, which he wrote and produced.