Stephen Adly Guirgis - Writer
Stephen Adly Guirgis is a longtime member of New York’s LAByrinth Theatre Company. His plays include Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train directed by Phillip Seymour Hoffman, which after completing a critically acclaimed Off-Broadway run was seen at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Donmar Warehouse and The Arts Theatre in London’s West End. His other plays include Our Lady of 121st Street and In Arabia We’d all Be Kings. His writing for television includes The Sopranos, NYPD Blue, UC Undercover and Big Apple.
Rupert Goold - Director
Rupert Goold is Artistic Director of Headlong Theatre, where his credits include Rough Crossings, Faustus, Paradise Lost and Restoration. His other theatre work includes The Glass Menagerie for the Apollo Theatre, The Tempest and Speaking Like Magpies for the Royal Shakespeare Company as well as Hamlet, Insignificance, Betrayal and Othello all for Northampton Theatre Royal where he was Artistic Director. His production of Macbeth, with Patrick Stewart in the title role, transferred from Chichester Festival Theatre to the Gielgud in the West End and opens at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Feburary. Goold won the 2007 Evening Standard, Critics’ Circle and South Bank Show Awards for Best Director for this production.
Anthony Ward - Design
Anthony Ward previously designed for several Almeida productions, including The Rehearsal, A Hard Heart, Dona Rosita, The Novice and Marianne Dreams. He has also designed extensively for the National Theatre, the RSC, the Donmar Warehouse, the Royal Court, and opera productions both in Britain and internationally, including The Makropulos Case (Metropolitan Opera NY), Tosca (De Vlaamse Opera, Antwerp) Peter Grimes & Gloriana, (Opera North), The Magic Flute (Glyndebourne) and The Carmelites (ENO & WNO). He has produced critically acclaimed work on the West End and Broadway including Macbeth (Gielgud Theatre/Chichester Festival Theatre), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (London Palladium/Broadway), Gypsy (Broadway), Oliver! (London Palladium), and Oklahoma! (Lyceum Theatre/Broadway).
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.
Adam Cork – Composer & Sound
Adam Cork has worked previously on Almeida productions The Late Henry Moss and Tom and Viv; he has designed for West End and Broadway productions including Macbeth, Frost/Nixon, Suddenly Last Summer,Don Carlos and The Glass Menagerie. His other extensive theatre credits include Speaking Like Magpies and The Tempest for the RSC, Caligula, The Wild Duck, Don Juan in Soho, John Gabriel Borkmann and Othello for the Donmar Warehouse, Troilus and Cressida for the Old Vic and Faustus for Hampstead Theatre. His film and television work includes Frances Tuesday, Re-ignited, Imprints,The Three Rules of Infidelity, and Tripletake. His radio credits include Losing Rosalind, The Luneberg Variation and Don Carlos.
Lorna Heavey - Video & Projection Design
Lorna Heavey recently worked with the Almeida on Marianne Dreams; she has provided video, film and set design for a range of other theatre productions, including Macbeth for the Gielgud Theatre and Chichester Festival Theatre, The Caucasian Chalk Circle for the National Theatre, The Tempest for the RSC and the Novello Theatre Michigan, Phaedra for the Donmar Warehouse, Rough Crossings for the Lyric Hammersmith, Faustus for Hampstead Theatre, and Betrayal for Theatre Royal Northampton. Lorna has also designed for opera including Mahabharata for Sadler's Wells, and Dido and Aeneas for Opera North, and her television work includes The Mighty Boosh and The Bendix Report. Lorna has also designed for art exhibitions and has written and directed several film and theatre productions.