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Ava Pickett is a writer and performer; she graduated from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2018 and was also a member of Soho Theatre Writers’ Lab of that year. In 2020 Ava was a resident Playwright at The Mercury Theatre in Colchester.

Ava is also currently developing ideas with Calamity, Big Talk, and Drama Republic with whom she is currently writing a pilot script of her original 60 min show Molly for BBC One. Her half hour comedy The Great Brittons is being developed with Golden Path and has been optioned by Channel 4. She is also writing on Danny Brocklehurst’s latest show Ten Pound Poms for Eleven.

Ava is adapting 90’s film Pret-A-Porter into a TV Series for Miramax and Paramount Plus. She will go on to adapt the first in M.A Bennett’s series of S.T.A.G.S novels for Annapurna and Urban Myth, and then John Wyndham’s The Trouble With Lichen for Route 24.

Radio includes: Roots (Radio 4).

Theatre includes: Anna Karenina; A Long Day’s Journey Into Night; Crime and Punishment; A Streetcar Named Desire; Orpheus Descending (Bunkamura Theatre, Tokyo); Jekyll & Hyde (Reading Rep Theatre); The Comedy of Errors; The Shoemakers Holiday; The Merry Wives of Windsor (RSC); Noises Off (Lyric Hammersmith/ West End); Sydney and the Old Girl (Park Theatre); All My Sons (The Old Vic/ Headlong Theatre); Meek (Headlong Theatre); Close Quarters (Out Of Joint/ Sheffield Theatres); Love and Information; Queen Coal (Sheffield Theatres); The House They Grew Up In (Chichester Festival Theatre/ Headlong Theatre); Trainspotting (Citizens Theatre); The Hypocrite (RSC/ Hull Truck Theatre, Hull); Pride and Prejudice (Regents Park Theatre/ UK tour); The York Mystery Plays (York Minster); The Crucible; Brilliant Adventures; Miss Julie (Royal Exchange Theatre); The Little Shop of Horrors; Educating Rita; Glengarry Glen Ross; Bruised; A Dolls House; Blackthorn (Theatre Clwyd); Blasted (The Other Room, Cardiff); The Broken Heart; The Tempest (Shakespeare’s Globe); Play Strindberg (Ustinov Theatre, Bath); True West (Citizens Theatre/ Tricycle Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (NPAC, Japan); Of Mice and Men (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Contractions (Chapter Arts Centre/  Iain Goosey); Pride and Prejudice; A Winters Tale (Re-Imagined) (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre).

For the Almeida: The Tragedy of Macbeth; Chimerica (also West End, Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design).

Theatre includes: Back To The Future: The Musical; Fiddler On The Roof; Life of Pi (UK Theatre Award for Best Design and Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design); Four Quartets; Big; Noises Off; Elf; Quiz; The Girls; The Go Between; Close To You; Impossible; Strangers On A Train; The Full Monty (West End); The Crucible; Under Milk Wood; Anthony & Cleopatra; Salomé; Les Blancs (National Theatre); Timon Of Athens; The Rover; Candide; All’s Well That Ends Well (RSC); Lungs; Present Laughter; The Crucible (The Old Vic).

Other work includes: The Lion King; Mickey & The Magician; Marvel Superheroes; Frozen Celebration; Disney Junior Dream Factory (Walt Disney Imagineering).

Theatre includes:

As Arranger/ Orchestrator: My Neighbour Totoro (Barbican, Olivier Award nomination for Best Original Score or Orchestrations); Good; The Drifters Girl; West End Men (West End); The Corn is Green (National Theatre); Wicked; Amélie the Musical (Stage Entertainment Germany); The Band Plays On; Guys and Dolls (Sheffield Theatres); Committee… (Donmar Warehouse); King Pit (Sage Gateshead); Noises Off (Theatre Royal Bath).

As Musical Supervisor: Guys and Dolls; The Band Plays On (Sheffield Theatres); From Here to Eternity (US tour); A Christmas Carol (Broadway).

As Musical Director: The Drifters Girl; West End Men (West End); The Band Plays On; Standing at the Sky’s Edge (Sheffield Theatres); A Christmas Carol; Mood Music; The Divide (The Old Vic).

Opera includes: Stjärnorna i baren gnistrar igen (Wermland Opera, Sweden).

Other work includes: Sali Mali (S4C); Paris Fashion Week.

 Will has performed in many orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Big Band, Hamburg Symphoniker and Stockholm Sinfonietta.

For the Almeida: Otherland; Look Back in Anger; Roots; The Years (also West End); Alma Mater; Cold War; Portia Coughlan; Women, Beware the Devil; “Daddy” A Melodrama; Albion; The Hunt; Shipwreck; Dance Nation; Boy.

Theatre includes: Hamnet (RSC); Unicorn; Slave Play; Lyonesse; The Hills of California; Jerusalem; Leopoldstadt; Uncle Vanya; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; The Night of the Iguana; Rosmersholm; True West; The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?; The Pillowman (West End); The Son (Kiln Theatre/ West End); Sweat (Donmar Warehouse/ West End); The Ferryman (Royal Court/ Broadway/ West End); The Moderate Soprano (Hampstead Theatre/ West End); The Birthday Party; Consent (National Theatre/ West End);  Hangmen (Royal Court/ West End/ Atlantic Theater Company); Berberian Sound Studio (Donmar Warehouse); Stories; Exit the King (National Theatre); White Noise; A Very Very Very Dark Matter (Bridge Theatre); The Brothers Size (Young Vic); Maryland; ear for eye; Girls & Boys; Cyprus Avenue (Royal Court).

For the Almeida:

As Associate Fight Director: House of Shades; Hamlet (also at Park Avenue Armory, New York).

Theatre includes:

As Fight Director: Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812; Fear of 13 (Donmar Warehouse); The Other Place; Coriolanus (National Theatre); 101 Dalmatians (UK tour); £1 Thursdays (Finborough Theatre); Dick Whittington (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); Gunpowder Plot (Tower of London); Candida (Orange Tree Theatre); The Omission of the Family Coleman (Theatre Royal Bath); Nothello (Belgrade Theatre).

As Associate Fight Director: Les Misérables; Sister Act; Phantom of the Opera (West End); Till the Stars Come Down (National Theatre); Heathers (The Other Palace Theatre); Mother Goose (Hackney Empire); Edward II; Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare’s Globe); Merry Wives of Windsor (RSC).

Film includes:

As performer: Bugonia; Bad Day at the Office; In the Grey; The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare; Jackdaw; The Marvels.

Television includes:

As performer: Black Doves; Red Eye; Masters of the Air.

As Fight Coordinator: London Kills; The Pact; Pobol y Cwm; Hidden/Craith.

Games include:

As performer: Norse; Elder Scrolls Online.

Theatre includes: English (RSC/ Kiln Theatre); The Witches (National Theatre); And Then There Were None (UK tour); Baghdaddy (Royal Court); My Fair Lady (ENO); Oleanna (Theatre Royal Bath/ West End); The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Lyric Hammersmith/ Chichester Festival Theatre); Love, Love, Love; A Doll’s House (Lyric Hammersmith); When the Crows Visit; Approaching Empty (Kiln Theatre); The Other Boleyn Girl; Hedda Tesman (Chichester Festival Theatre); Hobson’s Choice (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Switzerland; King Lear (Theatre Royal Bath); Witness for the Prosecution (County Hall) Lions and Tigers (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Graduate (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Anita and Me (Birmingham Rep); East is East (West End); The Rover; Volpone; Wendy and Peter Pan; What Country Friends Is This; The Homecoming; I’ll Be The Devil (RSC). 

Film includes: Far from the Madding Crowd; The Door; The Anomaly; Kajaki. 

Written works include: How To Do Accents. 

Edda has also worked on over 20 seasons as Head of Voice and Dialect at the Shaw Festival Theatre, Ontario. 

Sabia studied Costume Construction and Supervision at RADA.  

Theatre includes: Next to Normal (Donmar Warehouse/ West End); Duchess of Malfi; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Hakawatis: Women of the Arabian Nights; Midsummer Mechanicals (Shakespeare’s Globe); Ulster American (Riverside Studios); Robin Hood: The Legend. Re-written. (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Inquiry (Chichester Festival Theatre); Favour (Bush Theatre); Love and Other Acts of Violence (Donmar Warehouse); Noises Off (West End); Whodunnit [Unrehearsed] (Park Theatre); The American Clock (The Old Vic); Twelfth Night (Wilton’s Music Hall); We’re Stuck! (Shoreditch Town Hall). 

Opera includes: Aleko; Gianni Schicchi; Gods of the Game: a Football Opera;  La Gioconda; The Life and Death of Alexander Litvinenko; Falstaff; Don Carlos (Grange Park Opera); Zauberland (Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord/ Royal Opera House/ La Monnaie / De Munt/ Opéra de Lille/ Lincoln Center, New York/ Opéra de Rouen); The Marriage of Figaro (Royal Academy of Music). 

Film includes: Nation Down.

Television includes: Gods of the Game: A Football Opera.

Dance includes: Anne of Green Gables (Sadler’s Wells); Message In A Bottle (Sadler’s Wells/ International tour).