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Stuart Ash

Ensemble

Stuart Ash

Ensemble

Stuart Ash trained at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. His work in theatre includes Horrible Histories on UK tour; Cinderella and Peter Pan for Hazlitt Theatre; Dr Dolittle on UK tour; The Three Musketeers on tour; Twelfth Night (as Malvolio) on tour; Henry V at Ludlow Castle; Sleeping Beauty at Castle Theatre; Cherry Orchard (as Treplev) for London Theatre; Baby Blues at Cheltenham Playhouse; Bill & Lil: Bill of Burton and Up ‘n’ Under for Old Joint Stock. TV includes Yamlet: The Black Country Hamlet, WW2 Air Crash and Mitre (online series). Film includes Saint Soldier and Shirley (BAFTA award-winning animated short). Video games include Not for Broadcast and Total War.

Jake Ashton-Nelson

Jordan Henderson

Jake Ashton-Nelson

Jordan Henderson

Jake Ashton-Nelson was born in Newcastle and trained at Manchester School of Theatre where he won the Laurence Olivier Bursary. Dear England is his professional theatre debut. TV includes Vera (as PC Billington). Short films include Falling and Attempts at a Relationship.

Luke Azille

Jadon Sancho

Luke Azille

Jadon Sancho

Luke Azille trained at The BRIT School and Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Productions while training include The Hunt, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Earthquakes in London, Six Characters in Search of an Author and the short film, The Not. TV includes Grace and Casualty. Short films include Bi-Nocular Panic.

Ian Bartholomew

Greg Dyke

Ian Bartholomew

Greg Dyke

Ian Bartholomew is a multi-award-winning actor, singer, and musician. His extensive work in theatre includes Guys and Dolls, Pravda, The Government Inspector and The Power of Yes at the National Theatre; Shylock in The Merchant of Venice at the RSC; Ui in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at Nottingham Playhouse; As You Like It, King Lear, Pygmalion (Doolittle; Manchester Evening News Award) and Mogadishu at the Royal Exchange; Half a Sixpence (Olivier nomination), Mrs Henderson Presents (Olivier nomination) in Manchester. Shakespeare in Love, Tommy, Dead Funny, Radio Times (Olivier nomination) and Into the Woods (Olivier nomination) in the West End. TV includes Coronation Street (Geoff Metcalfe; Best Actor and Best Villain, Inside Soap Awards), Endeavour, Marcella, South Riding, Spooks and The Darling Buds of May. Films include Wonka, Operation Fortune, A Prayer for the Dying and Little Dorrit.

Jass Beki

Bukayo Saka

Jass Beki

Bukayo Saka

Jass Beki trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. His work in theatre includes Dear England at the National Theatre and Lowry, Salford. Short films include The Long Way Home, Contact Hours and Between You, I and the Behee.

Natalie Boakye

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Natalie Boakye

Ensemble

Natalie Boakye trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Work in theatre includes 2:22 A Ghost Story on UK tour; Ghosted: Another F***ing Christmas Carol (as Eloisa Scrooge) at The Other Palace; Looking Good Dead on UK tour; Delicacy at The Space; A Midsummer Night’s Dream (as Helena) at RSC’s The Dell and Camden Fringe; and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (as Helena; also Australian tour) and Hamlet (as Ophelia) for Sh!t-faced Shakespeare at Leicester Square Theatre. Online films include The Show Must Go Online’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (as Titania).

Ashley Byam

Raheem Sterling

Ashley Byam

Raheem Sterling

Ashley Byam trained at Oxford School of Drama. His work in theatre includes Absolute Hell at the National Theatre; Romeo and Juliet at Shakespeare’s Globe; Passion Fruit at the Barbican; Limp Wrist & the Iron Fist at Brixton House; The Velveteen Rabbit at the Unicorn and on international tour; and Four Play at Above the Stag. TV includes EastEnders (as Finlay Baker), Death in Paradise and Giri/Haji, as well as upcoming series with Amazon TV and Disney+. Films include The Amateur, The Legend of Tarzan, Legend and the short films Lessons and Different Bayern.

Ebube Chukwuma

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Ebube Chukwuma

Ensemble

Ebube Chukwuma trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and Tring Park School of Performing Arts. Dear England is his professional theatre debut. TV includes The Dumping Ground and My Lady Jane. Short films include Last Song.

Sam Craig

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Sam Craig

Ensemble

Sam Craig trained at the Liverpool Theatre School, where productions included Entertaining Mr Sloane and Through a Glass Darkly. Work in theatre includes Tom, Dick & Harry at the New Vic and Alexandra Palace; and Wild Wing Doves for Alinement Productions. TV includes How to Get to Heaven from Belfast.

Steven Dykes

Sam Allardyce

Steven Dykes

Sam Allardyce

Steven Dykes’ work in theatre includes Machinal and Pygmalion at the Old Vic; Player Kings on UK tour; Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads at Minerva, Chichester; The Spoils at the Arcola; Safety at Traverse, Edinburgh; Richard III at Pleasance, London and on European tour; Uncle Vanya for The Wrestling School and on European tour; Victory, The Castle, Scenes from an Execution, Arcadia and Serious Money at Atlantic Stage II, New York. TV includes FBI: International, Casualty, EastEnders, Judge John Deed, Dalziel and Pascoe, Emmerdale, In Deep and This Is Personal. Film includes Here and Worry Time.

Courtney George

Alex Scott

Courtney George

Alex Scott

Courtney George’s work in theatre includes Dear England (also at Lowry, Salford) and Ballet Shoes at the National Theatre; A Christmas Carol at The Dukes, Lancaster; The Borrowers at Theatre by the Lake, Keswick; Shake the City at Leeds Playhouse and Greenwich; 101 Dalmatians at Regent’s Park; Wave Me Goodbye at Theatr Clwyd; Grease at Leicester Curve; Mamma Mia! and Thriller Live on UK and international tours; and 42nd Street and Fame in the West End. TV includes Doctors. Films include Wonka.

Oscar Gough

Harry Kane

Oscar Gough

Harry Kane

Oscar Gough trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, graduating in 2025. Dear England is his professional theatre debut.

Jayden Hanley

Marcus Rashford

Jayden Hanley

Marcus Rashford

Jayden Hanley’s work in theatre includes Revealed (as Luther) at the Belgrade, Coventry. TV includes Phoenix Rise (as Darcy) and Small Axe. Film includes The Tale of the Fatherless and The Girl with All the Gifts.

Connor Hawker

Harry Maguire

Connor Hawker

Harry Maguire

Connor Hawker trained Guildford School of Acting and East 15 Acting School, where productions included Journey’s End, Cyrano de Bergerac (title role) and From Zenith to Horizon. Dear England is his professional theatre debut.

Miles Henderson

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Miles Henderson

Ensemble

Miles Henderson trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. His work in theatre includes Dear England (also at Lowry, Salford) at the National Theatre; Nurture at the Hope; A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Comedy of Errors for Scoot Theatre; A Christmas Carol for Antic Disposition; and Mamma Mia! at Novello, West End. TV includes Barracuda Queens (season two) and Mamma Mia! I Have a Dream. Film includes Delicious, Gladiator II and Wonka.

Ian Kirkby

Gary Lineker

Ian Kirkby

Gary Lineker

Ian Kirkby trained RADA. Extensive work in theatre includes Two Gentlemen of Verona for the RSC and in the West End; Straight Line Crazy at the Bridge, London; Gaslight in Harrogate and Eastbourne; What the Butler Saw, The Duchess of Malfi, Richard III, The Provok’d Wife, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Crucible, The Recruiting Officer, The Caretaker, Dancing at Lughnasa, Arsenic and Old Lace and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning at Colchester Mercury; Peaches at the Royal Court; No Way Out at Latchmere; The Long and the Short and the Tall at Man in the Moon; Premier of The Darling Buds of May in Northampton and on tour. TV includes Casualty, Coronation Street, Scoop, Shine on Harvey Moon, Uncle Max, Nuzzle and Scratch, The Toys That Built America, Charity Shop Sue, Pete vs Life (as Terry McIlroy), Dick and Dom in da Bungalow (various roles across 265 live televised shows), The Legend of Dick and Dom, Diddy Movies, Diddy TV, Crackerjack! (2020 revival), The Slammer (as Frank Burgess) and Harry Batt (title role and co-writer).

Tom Lane

Eric Dier

Tom Lane

Eric Dier

Tom Lane trained at Mountview. His work in theatre includes Dear England (also at Lowry, Salford) at the National Theatre; Romeo and Juliet at Stafford Gatehouse; Macbeth at The Attic, Stratford-upon-Avon; The Cherry Orchard at Drayton Arms; An Acquired Taste for Patch Plays; Beauty and the Beast for Polka Dot. Films include Lies on the Line and short films The Storm Drain and The Red Ball. Voice work includes The Forsaken Children.

Jack Maddison

Jordan Pickford

Jack Maddison

Jordan Pickford

Jack Maddison trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and The London Meisner Company. Productions while training include Enron, The Oresteia, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Comedy of Errors, and The Kilburn Passion with Tricycle Young Company. Dear England is his professional theatre debut. TV includes I Fought the Law, Generation Z and Doctors. Work for video games includes Baldur’s Gate III, which won Game of the Year at all five major video game awards ceremonies.

Liam Prince-Donnelly

Dele Alli

Liam Prince-Donnelly

Dele Alli

Liam Prince-Donnelly trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. His work in theatre includes London Tide for the National Theatre; (un)Packing, Macbeth, The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window and One Man, Two Guvnors for Richard Burton Company. TV includes Doctor Who and Pennyworth. Short films include Breaking The Silence and The Nose. Liam Prince-Donnelly was the recipient of the 2022 Laurence Olivier Bursary Award and part of Almeida Young Company between 2019 and 2020.

George Rainsford

Mike Webster

George Rainsford

Mike Webster

George Rainsford trained at LAMDA. His work in theatre includes All’s Well That Ends Well (Ian Charleson Award Commendation) and Chatroom / Citizenship at the National Theatre; Days of Significance for the RSC; Peter James’ Picture You Dead on UK tour; 2:22 A Ghost Story on UK tour; Peter James’ Wish You Were Dead on UK Tour; Love, Love, Love and The Changing Room at the Royal Court; Roald Dahl’s Twisted Tales at Lyric Hammersmith and Liverpool Playhouse; James Graham’s The Man and Men Without Shadows at the Finborough; Carrot/Playlist and Miles to Go at Latitude Festival; Polar Bear at Birmingham Rep; The Three Musketeers at Bristol Old Vic; The 24 Hour Plays at the Old Vic; and Murder in the Cathedral for the National Youth Theatre. TV includes Casualty (as Ethan Hardy; Inside Soap Award Best Drama Star 2017 and Best Actor nominations for National Television Awards and TV Choice Awards), Father Brown, Holby City, Call the Midwife (as Jimmy), Law & Order UK, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Waking the Dead and Doctors. Film includes Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger, The Monkey’s Paw, Waiting for Dawn, Wild Target and Souvenirs.

David Sturzaker

Gareth Southgate

David Sturzaker

Gareth Southgate

David Sturzaker’s work in theatre includes Cosroe in Tamburlaine, Timon of Athens and Bracciano in The White Devil for the RSC; Nineteen Gardens at Hampstead; The Cutting Edge at the Arcola; Creditors and Bloody Poetry at Jermyn Street; Frost/Nixon at Sheffield Crucible; Eternal Love and Henry VIII in Anne Boleyn for Shakespeare’s Globe and ETT; Torvald Helmer in A Doll’s House at the Royal Exchange, Manchester; As You Like It at the Rose, Kingston; Kingdom of Earth at Print Room; Four Knights in Knaresborough at Southward Playhouse; War and Peace for Shared Experience; The Merchant of Venice, Richard II, Liberty, A Comedy of Errors, Titus Andronicus, The Winter’s Tale, Measure for Measure and Troilus and Cressida at Shakespeare’s Globe; Future Me at Theatre503; Visiting Mr Green and Shakespeare’s R+J on UK tours; Henry V and Much Ado About Nothing for Tour De Force; and To Kill a Mockingbird (original cast) Nell Gwynn, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Cool Hand Luke, Bash and Captain Stanhope in Journey’s End in the West End. TV includes Talamasca, Miss Scarlet, Medici, Da Vinci’s Demons, Endeavour, Father Brown, Murder on the Homefront and Doctors. Film includes Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die.

Alex Wadham

Ensemble

Alex Wadham

Ensemble

Alex Wadham trained at Guildford School of Acting (Postgraduate Acting Prize Winner) and Aberystwyth University. His work in theatre includes Hamlet at Stafford Gatehouse; Dick Whittington at King’s Lynn Corn Exchange; Trompe L’Oeil (Offie nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical) at The Other Palace; Cinderella at Stratford East; Aladdin at Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch; Little Shop of Horrors, Avenue Q and The Full Monty(Broadway World UK nomination for Best Actor in a New Production of a Musical) for Old Joint Stock; Next to Normal at Vienna’s English Theatre; 42nd Street, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story and High Society Upstairs at the Gatehouse; A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Oddsocks; Mob Wife: A Mafia Comedy at the Cockpit; Beauty and the Beast at Salisbury Playhouse; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change at the English Theatre of Hamburg ; V for Victory at Stockwell Playhouse; Company and Cabaret at Aberdeen Arts Centre; Eyes Closed, Ears Covered at Bunker; Sunny Afternoon on tour; The Mousetrap on tour; Beauty and the Beast at The Capitol, Horsham; A Christmas Carol at Lichfield Garrick; and Rapunzel and the Rascal Prince at Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds. TV includes The Toys That Built America, Locked Down & Dating(online short film series), Paratrooper (pilot) and The Science of Attraction. Films include The Expert, Reading for Survival and One More Kiss, Dear.

Samantha Womack

Pippa Grange

Samantha Womack

Pippa Grange

Samantha Womack’s work in theatre includes Nellie in Bartlett Sher’s South Pacific at the Barbican and on UK tour; 42nd Street for Jonathan Church, The Addams Family and Earth and Sky on UK tours; Hope at Liverpool’s Royal Court; Emma in Peter Hall’s Betrayal at Theatre Royal Bath; Rachel in The Girl on the Train at the Duke of York’s and on UK tour; Adelaide in Guys & Dolls for Michael Grandage at the Piccadilly; and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe at Gillian Lynne. TV includes Sharman, Liverpool 1, Game On, Strange, Imogen’s Face, Babes in the Wood, Body & Soul, Mount Pleasant (seasons four to six), EastEnders as Ronnie Mitchell, Accused, Forgiven, The Last Detective, Judge John Deed, Pie in the Sky, The Grimleys and Silent Witness. Film includes Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Up ’n’ Under, One Night in Istanbul, Lighthouse Hill, The Baby Juice Express and Breeders.

JAMES GRAHAM

Writer

JAMES GRAHAM

Writer

James Graham is a playwright and screenwriter. His work in theatre includes Dear England and This House at the National Theatre and in the West End; Privacy at the Donmar Warehouse and the Public, NY; Finding Neverland on Broadway and US tour; Best of Enemies (Critics’ Circle Award, Olivier nomination) at the Young Vic and in the West End; Ink at the Almeida and in the West End and also on Broadway (nominated for six Tony Awards® and Best Play winner at Evening Standard Awards); Tammy Faye at the Almeida and in the West End; and Labour of Love (Olivier award) in the West End. TV includes Sherwood (RTS Best Series Award winner), Quiz and Brexit: An Uncivil War (Emmy nomination, BAFTA). Film includes X+Y (Toronto International Film Festival selection 2014). James Graham received an OBE in 2020 for services to drama and young people.

RUPERT GOOLD

Director

RUPERT GOOLD

Director

Rupert Goold is the Artistic Director of the Almeida. He was founding Artistic Director of Headlong 2005–2013, Artistic Director of Northampton Theatres 2002–2005 and is an Associate Director at the RSC. As director, work for the Almeida includes Women, Beware the Devil, Tammy Faye, Patriots, Spring Awakening, Albion, The Hunt, Shipwreck, Richard III, Medea, The Merchant of Venice, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, American Psycho (also Broadway), Ink and King Charles III (also in the West End and on Broadway). Other productions include The Effect and Earthquakes in London for Headlong and the National Theatre; Time and the Conways at the National Theatre; The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet and Speaking Like Magpies for the RSC; The 47th at the Old Vic; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe at Kensington Gardens; King Lear for Headlong at Liverpool Everyman and the Young Vic; ENRON (also on Broadway) and Six Characters in Search of an Author for Headlong in the West End; and Made in Dagenham, Macbeth (also at Chichester and on Broadway), Oliver!, The Glass Menagerie and No Man’s Land in the West End. Opera includes Turandot for English National Opera; and Le comte Ory for Garsington Opera. TV includes Macbeth, King Charles III and Richard II. Film includes Judy and True Story. Rupert Goold has twice received Olivier, Critics’ Circle and Evening Standard awards for Best Director and won a Peabody Award in 2011 for Macbeth. He received a CBE in 2017 New Year’s Honours for services to drama.

ES DEVLIN

Set designer

ES DEVLIN

Set designer

Artist and designer Es Devlin’s recent works include the large-scale choral sculpture ‘Come Home Again’ outside the Tate Modern which fused drawings and voices of 243 endangered London species; Conference of the Trees, which brought together 197 trees at COP26 in Glasgow; Memory Palace at Pitzhanger Manor which mapped shifts in human perspective over 73 millennia; Forest of Us which forms part of the inaugural exhibition at Superblue Miami alongside new works by TeamLab and James Turrell. Her recent theatre work includes The Motive and the Cue (also in the West End), The Lehman Trilogy (also in the West End and on Broadway), The Crucible (also in the West End), Light Shining in Buckinghamshire and Ugly Lies the Bone at the National Theatre; A Number at the Old Vic; Girls and Boys and The Nether at the Royal Court; Faith Healer at the Donmar; Hamlet at the Barbican; and Chimerica at the Almeida. Es Devlin has conceived stage sculptures with Beyoncé, The Weeknd, U2, Kanye West, Saint Laurent, Dior and the 2021 and 2022 Super Bowl halftime shows featuring Dr Dre, Kendrick Lamar and Eminem, as well as Olympic Ceremonies in London and Rio. She was the first woman to design the UK Pavilion at EXPO 2020 and her practice was the subject of the Netflix documentary series Abstract: The Art of Design. Her design for The Lehman Trilogy won the 2022 Tony Award® and she has previously been awarded The London Design Medal, three Olivier awards, doctorates from the universities of Bristol, Kent and UAL, and a CBE.

EVIE GURNEY

Costume Designer

EVIE GURNEY

Costume Designer

Evie Gurney studied at Central Saint Martins, graduating with a BA in Fashion Communication and Promotion and at the Royal College of Art, graduating with an MA in Curating Contemporary Art. Her work in theatre includes Dear England (also in the West End), Much Ado About Nothing and Antony and Cleopatra at the National Theatre; Women, Beware the Devil and The Hunt at the Almeida; The Vortex at Chichester; Måsen / The Seagull at Dramaten, Stockholm; and The 47th at the Old Vic. She won the Stage Debut Award for Best Designer in 2019.

Jon Clark

Lighting Designer

Jon Clark

Lighting Designer

Jon Clark is a Tony and Olivier award-winning lighting designer. He has designed extensively in the West End, on Broadway, for the National Theatre, Royal Opera House, Royal Shakespeare Company and with many other companies in the UK and internationally. His work in theatre includes The Motive and the Cue (also in the West End), The Lehman Trilogy (also on Broadway and in the West End), The Effect, Amadeus, ANNA, Othello and Hamlet at the National Theatre; The Book of Dust and A German Life at the Bridge; Evita at Regent’s Park; The Lorax at the Old Vic, in the US and in Toronto; The Jungle at St Ann’s Warehouse and the West End; Betrayal, King Charles III and The Inheritance (also at the Young Vic) in the West End and on Broadway; Cyrano de Bergerac at BAM, NY and in the West End; Aspects of Love and Stranger Things: The First Shadow in the West End; and A Doll’s House on Broadway. Opera includes Hamlet at the Metropolitan Opera and Glyndebourne; The Exterminating Angel at the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House and Saltzburg Festival; Macbeth in Copenhagen and Valencia; Król Roger at Royal Opera House and Sydney Opera House; and Written on Skin at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Royal Opera House, Lincoln Center and internationally. Jon Clark won a Tony Award® for The Lehman Trilogy on Broadway, an Olivier Award for The Inheritance, a Green Room Award for King Roger in Australia and a Knight of Illumination award for Three Days of Rain.

Ellen Kane

Co-Movement Director

Ellen Kane

Co-Movement Director

Ellen Kane’s work in theatre includes Legally Blonde at Regent’s Park; A Chorus Line and West Side Story at Leicester Curve; Groundhog Day The Musical (co-choreographer; Tony and Olivier award nominations) at the Old Vic and on Broadway; Pieces of String at the Mercury, Colchester; Matilda the Musical (as worldwide associate choreographer) for the RSC in Stratford, the West End, on Broadway, US, Australia, New Zealand, UK and international tours; Billy Elliot the Musical (as international choreographic supervisor and associate) in the West End, on Broadway, in Chicago and on US, Australia, Holland and UK tours; and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and, as associate choreographer, Charlie and the Chocolate Factor, Sister Act and The Lord of the Rings in the West End. TV includes Gangsta Granny Strikes Again and Children in Need’s Musical in a Week. Film includes Matilda and Cats. Music videos include Elton John’s ‘Electricity’.

Hannes Langolf

Co-Movement Director

Hannes Langolf

Co-Movement Director

Hannes Langolf is a German-born physical theatre artist, based in London. His independent stage productions include DANDELION with Ermira Goro for The Onassis Cultural Center, Athens; UNRUHE for the Susanne Linke Dance Company, Germany; and THE FALL with Joy Alpuerto Ritter for Orsolina28, Italy, among others. Recent work includes choreographing for the film Catherine Called Birdy, and duetting with Akram Khan in Breathless Puppets, an animated film produced by Manchester International Festival. Langolf was DV8 Physical Theatre’s first Creative Associate and formed part of the original cast of the critically acclaimed stage productions To Be Straight with You (Olivier Award nomination), Can We Talk About This? and JOHN, in which he performed the title role. All three productions, conceived and directed by Lloyd Newson, toured internationally and were performed at the National Theatre. He continued his role as Creative Associate as well as tour director for the much-anticipated recreation of DV8’s Enter Achilles in 2019–20, produced by Rambert and Sadler’s Wells. Langolf has collaborated with numerous artists and companies, including William Forsythe, Wayne McGregor, Lost Dog and Punchdrunk. He works as creator and educator for institutions and organisations across the globe and was nominated as one of the 100 most influential and innovative people working across Britain’s creative industries by The Hospital Club, London. In 2022, Langolf founded MOONWALKING BEAR PRODUCTIONS, a home for his creative ideas, a hub for innovation and collaboration, and a launch pad to support new talent.

ASH J WOODWARD

Video Designer

ASH J WOODWARD

Video Designer

Ash J Woodward specialises in video and projection design for live performance. Woodward has designed and animated content for large-scale shows in the West End, on Broadway and around the world. Work includes hand drawn, 2D and 3D animation, cinematography, visual effects and design work for other live performance genres such as live music, exhibitions, and art installations. Woodward is an Associate Artist at Squint Theatre Company. Woodward’s work in theatre as video and projection designer includes Hex at the National Theatre; Harry Potter and the Cursed Child worldwide; Local Hero at Chichester; Famous Five the Musical at Theatr Clwyd; The 47th at the Old Vic; The Glass Menagerie at Duke of York’s; Can I Live? for Complicité; The Beauty Parade at Wales Millennium Centre; Bletchley Park Hut 11A at Bletchley Park; Armadillo at The Yard; Molly for Squint; and Patriots in the West End.

DAN BALFOUR

Co-Sound Designer

DAN BALFOUR

Co-Sound Designer

Dan Balfour is a sound designer. Recent work includes I AM KEVIN for Wildworks; How to Break Out of a Detention Centre and Wipe These Tears for Bezna Theatre; One of Them Ones for Pentabus; Assembly for Wayward Productions; Les Dawson: Flying High for So Television, Edinburgh Fringe and on UK tour; The Dance of Death at Theatre Royal Bath and on UK tour; The Misfortune of Others and Sugar Syndrome at the Orange Tree; LAVA on UK tour; The Tempest at the Pleasance; Private Peaceful at Nottingham Playhouse and on UK tour; The Hatchling (a large-scale event) for Trigger Productions; Two Character Play and Wilderness at Hampstead; Can I Live? and Voices of the Earth for Complicité; Pavilion at Theatr Clwyd; HOME at the Young Vic; hang for Sheffield Crucible; and Operation Mincemeat at New Diorama and Southwark Playhouse. He has been nominated for three Off-West End Awards for Best Sound Design, for his work on Operation Mincemeat, Great Apes and Blood Wedding.

TOM GIBBONS

Co-Sound Designer

TOM GIBBONS

Co-Sound Designer

Tom Gibbons is a sound designer and composer for theatre, musical theatre, film and live installation. Work includes After Life, The Antipodes, Home, I’m Darling (also at Theatr Clwyd and in the West End), Hedda Gabler, Sunset at the Villa Thalia, The Red Barn and People, Places and Things (Olivier Award for Best Sound Design) at the National Theatre; White Devil and As You Like It for the RSC; Cabaret at Göteborg Opera; Oresteia and Hamlet at the Park Avenue Armory, New York; Animal Farm on UK tour; Judas at Internationaal Theatre, Amsterdam; The Doctor (also at Internationaal Theatre, Amsterdam, Burgtheater and in the West End), Oresteia, Mr Burns, 1984 (also in the West End and on Broadway) and Hamlet (Olivier Award nomination for Best Sound Design; also in the West End) at the Almeida; The End of History, Pah-La, The Woods and Love Love Love at the Royal Court; Oedipus at Toneelgroep Amsterdam; Fanny and Alexander and The Lorax at the Old Vic; A View from the Bridge (Olivier nomination for Best Sound Design), Life of Galileo, Happy Days, A Season in the Congo and Disco Pigs at the Young Vic; Les Misérables at Wermland Opera, Sweden; The Crucible on Broadway; The Moderate Soprano and Elephants at the Hampstead; Translations at Sheffield Crucible; The Absence of War and Romeo and Juliet for Headlong; Lion Boy for Complicité; Henry IV and Julius Caesar at the Donmar and St Ann’s Warehouse; and All About Eve and Best of Enemies (also at the Young Vic) in the West End.

MAX PERRYMENT

Additional Music

MAX PERRYMENT

Additional Music

Max Perryment’s work in theatre includes Jitney for Headlong at the Old Vic; Sunset Shift for PoliNations; Corrina, Corrina for Headlong at Liverpool Everyman; Living Newspaper and Is God Is at the Royal Court; Romeo and Juliet at Shakespeare’s Globe; Miss Julie for Chester Storyhouse and on UK tour; Shipwreck at the Almeida; The Convert, In a Word and The Tide at the Young Vic; The Sweet Science of Bruising (also at Wilton’s Music Hall), Last of the Boys and Dear Brutus at Southwark Playhouse; The Rise and Fall of Little Voice at Park Theatre; Utility at the Orange Tree; Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 at the Gate, Notting Hill; Romeo and Juliet at the Orange Tree; Hair at the Vaults, Hope Mill, Manchester and on UK tour; Broken Dreams and Blood and Water at Kestrel Theatre: HMP Springhill and the Royal Court; Start Swimming at the Young Vic and Summerhall, Edinburgh; Replay (also at 59E59, New York) and Goodbear at Soho Theatre; Landmines at the BRIT School, Ovalhouse and the Otherplace, Brighton; Skin of the Teeth at the Vaults and Ophelia Theatre, New York; Nest at the ArtsDepot, Brighton Fringe and on UK tour; Dust at New York Theatre Workshop, Trafalgar Studios and Soho Theatre; and Rasheeda Speaking and A Guide for the Homesick at Trafalgar Studios; and One Woman Show on UK tour and in the West End. TV includes Footsteps of Tagore. Film includes 7 Keys, David vs. Goliath, Buddy Goes to Nollywood and the short films The Everlasting Club, Ma’am and Waiting for Fukushima. Audio includes People Who Knew Me, Skyscraper Lullaby and The Half Life of Joshua Jones.

CONNIE TREVES

TOUR REVIVAL DIRECTOR

BRYONY JARVIS-TAYLOR

casting director

BRYONY JARVIS-TAYLOR

casting director

Bryony Jarvis-Taylor is Deputy Head of Casting at the National Theatre. Work at the National Theatre includes The Witches, The Odyssey, Dear England, Dixon and Daughters, Romeo and Julie, Much Ado About Nothing, Trouble in Mind, Hex (2021/2022), After Life, Dick Whittington, The Visit, or the old lady comes to call, My Brilliant Friend and Peter Gynt. Freelance projects include The Enormous Crocodile for Roald Dahl Storytelling Company, Leeds Playhouse and Regent’s Park; What It Means at Wilton’s Music Hall; and The Importance of Being Earnest for English Touring Theatre. Films for TV include Romeo and Juliet.

RICHARD RYDER

Dialect Coach

RICHARD RYDER

Dialect Coach

Richard Ryder has been working as a voice coach for more than 20 years and he has an accent app for actors called ‘The Accent Kit’, a free download for iPhone and Android. His work for the National Theatre includes Our Country’s Good, Jane Eyre, Waste, One Man, Two Guvnors, A Taste of Honey, Blurred Lines, Protest Song, 50 Years on Stage, Emil and the Detectives, Home, Romeo and Juliet, Untold Stories, Table, This House, Port, Cocktail Sticks and Hymn. Other work includes The Southbury Child, Allelujah!, A Christmas Carol and The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage at the Bridge; Greek (the Opera) at Hannover Opera House; My Fair Lady at Cologne Opera House; Street Scene at Teatro Real, Madrid and Cologne Opera House; Richard III for Headlong; Sons of the Prophet, Cell Mates, iHo, Race and Hysteria at Hampstead; Holy Sh!t, The Invisible Hand, The House That Will Not Stand, Multitudes, A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes, Red Velvet and One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show at Kiln; Ah, Wilderness! and A Streetcar Named Desire at the Young Vic; and The Moderate Soprano, Labour of Love, Glengarry Glen Ross, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Orlando, The Entertainer, Kinky Boots, Red Velvet, The Elephant Man, Fatal Attraction, Uncle Vanya and Barking in Essex. TV includes Black Cab, Alex Rider, Henpocalypse, Pennyworth, Raised by Wolves and Cradle to the Grave. Film includes Allelujah!, 6 Minutes to Midnight, Holmes and Watson, Lady in the Van and Set Fire to the Stars. www.richardrydervoice.com

Alice Hallifax

Associate Set Designer

BEN JACOBS

Associate Lighting Designer

BEN JACOBS

Associate Lighting Designer

Ben Jacobs trained in lighting design at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. His work has been nominated for the Off West End Award for Best Lighting Design four times, as well as winning the award in 2018 and 2022. Work as a lighting designer includes Dawn French is a Huge Twat on UK tour and in the West End; Evita at Parque Villa-Lobos, Sao Paulo; King Hamlin at Park Theatre; Salome, Seussical and Bring it On at Southwark Playhouse; A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Wilton’s Music Hall; Caterpillar at Stephen Joseph; The Sorrows of Satan at Brocket Hall; Dolphins & Sharks, Melting Pot, Maggie & Pierre and The Retreat at Finborough; NoMad, Lord of the Flies and Edward II at Greenwich; Nora: A Doll’s House, H.R.Aitch, Heartbreak House, Carmen, Twang, Privates on Parade and Imagine This at the Union; Midlife Cowboy and Freefall at Pleasance; Sister at Ovalhouse; People We Didn’t Quite Meet, Red and Are We Stronger Than Winston at The Place; Proud, Southern Belles, Stripped and The Stones at King’s Head; Caterpillar, In Event of Moone Disaster, The State We’re In, Elexion and Red Like Embers at Theatre503; Blood Wedding, The Lower Depths, Hamlet, Burial at Thebes, Love and Information and Secret Circus at RCSSD; Cuncrete and Mrs Armitage and the Big Wave on UK tour. Work as associate lighting designer includes Les Misérables on UK tour, in the West End and internationally; ANNA at the National Theatre; Le nozze di Figaro at Glyndebourne; Sondheim’s Old Friends at the Sondheim and Gielgud; Ostalgie at National Theatre Studio; Project O at Southbank Centre; and Crave at Prague Quadrennial.