Andrew Bovell - Writer
 
Andrew Bovell is an award-winning writer for theatre, film and television. His film, Lantana, adapted from a stage play, won numerous awards including the London Critics’ Circle Best Screenplay Award. His play Speaking in Tongues premiered in Sydney in 1996 and has subsequently been performed across Australia, in London, at the Roundabout Theatre in New York and in over 20 countries world-wide. His other theatre writing includes Shades of Blue, Scenes from a Separation and Distant Lights from Dark Places. Bovell co-wrote the original screenplay of Strictly Ballroom with Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce.
 
Michael Attenborough - Director
 
As Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre Company Michael Attenborough has directed The Mercy Seat,  Five Gold Rings, Brighton Rock,The Late Henry Moss, Enemies, There Came A Gypsy Riding, Big White Fog,Awake and Sing!, Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming, and Neil LaBute's In a Dark Dark House. He was Artistic Director at the Hampstead Theatre for five years (1984-89) and then joined the Royal Shakespeare Company for twelve years. On leaving the RSC, where he was Principal Associate Director, Attenborough was invited to become an Honorary Associate Artist.
 
Miriam Buether - Design

Miriam has designed for a wide range of theatre and dance productions; her most recent credits include In the Red and Brown Water, The Good Soul Of Szechuan and Generations for the Young Vic; Six Characters In Search Of An Author at Minerva Theatre Chichester and in the West End; Cinderella for Göteborg Opera Ballet Company; Dalston Songs at the Royal Opera House; Hartstocht for Introdans, Netherlands; Sacrifice for Welsh National Opera; The Bacchae and Realism for National Theatre of Scotland and Lyric Hammersmith; Relocated, My Child, The Wonderful World of Dissocia, and Way to Heaven for the Royal Court; The Bee for Soho Theatre and in Japan; Trade for RSC and Soho Theatre; Tenderhooks for Canadian National Ballet; and Guantanamo Honor Bound to Defend Freedom for Tricycle Theatre and its West End and US transfers.

Colin Grenfell - Lighting Design

Colin's recent work includes 365, The Bacchae and Black Watch for National Theatre of Scotland; Mine for Hampstead Theatre; Riflemind for Trafalgar Studios; Single Spies for Theatre Royal Bath; Alex at Arts Theatre, London; Theatre of Blood, Spirit, The Hanging Man, Lifegame, Coma, Animo and 70 Hill Lane for Improbable; Kes and Separate Tables for Royal Exchange Manchester; Touched for Salisbury Playhouse; Enjoy at Watford Palace Theatre; Unprotected at Liverpool Everyman; and Casanova and Playing the Victim for Told by an Idiot. Opera includes extensive work for Opera Holland Park, Fidelio for Opera Touring Company, Dublin, and La Boheme for English Touring Opera.

Lorna Heavey - Video & Projection
 
Lorna has previously worked at the Almeida on Nocturne, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot and Marianne Dreams. Her other recent video and projection work includes Six Characters in Search of an Author and Macbeth for Minerva Theatre Chichester/West End ; The Tempest and Speaking Like Magpies for RSC/West End; The Glass Menagerie in the West End; The Caucasian Chalk Circle for the National Theatre; Ten Tiny Toes for Liverpool Everyman; Phaedra at the Donmar Warehouse; Rough Crossings, Faustus and Paradise Lost for Headlong Theatre; Dido And Aeneas for Opera North, and Newsnight The Opera at Battersea Arts Centre. She has designed set, costume and video for productions including Branded at the Old Vic and Titus Andronicus and A Stitch In Time for Headfirst at Battersea Arts Centre. Her television work includes The Mighty Boosh and The Bendix Report. Lorna also writes and directs, and has exhibited at several European art shows.

Stephen Warbeck - Music

Stephen 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 Arditti - Sound
  
Paul has previously worked at the Almeida on There Came A Gypsy Riding, Enemies, Blood Wedding and Festen (also West End & Broadway - Evening Standard Award 2005, Olivier Award nomination). His other recent designs include Mary Stuart(Broadway, Donmar, West End); The Cherry Orchard and The Winter’s Tale (Brooklyn & Old Vic); Billy Elliot The Musical (Broadway, London, Australia - 2006 Olivier Award for Best Sound Design & nomination for Helpmann Award 2007); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Roundabout, New York); Nakamitsu (Gate Theatre); The Diver (Soho Theatre); Vernon God Little, The Respectable Wedding, The Member of the Wedding (Young Vic); Herge’s Adventures of Tintin (Barbican & West End); The Year of Magical Thinking (Broadway & National Theatre); The Pillowman (National Theatre & Broadway - Drama Desk Award 2005, Olivier Award nomination); and The Revenger’s Tragedy, Never So Good, Happy Now? and Saint Joan (National Theatre - 2008 Olivier Award).