A Mirror

Theatre includes: Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox (Nuffield Southampton Theatres); Rules for Living; The Wardrobe; Edgar & Annabel (National Theatre); Dancing Bears (Soho Theatre/ Latitude Festival); While You Lie (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh); Pink (Tricycle Theatre); Vanya (Gate Theatre); Cockroach (Traverse Theatre, Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland nomination for Best Play and shortlisted for the John Whiting Award).

Opera includes: The House Taken Over (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence/ Académie Européenne de Musique).

She received the Tom Erhardt Award in 2009, was the Pearson Writer-in-Residence at the Traverse Theatre, 2009–10, and the Writer-in-Residence at the National Theatre Studio from 2013–14. In 2014, she received a Windham Campbell Prize for Literature in the drama category.

Jeremy Herrin was previously Artistic Director of Headlong and is a Founding Director of Second Half Productions.

For the Almeida: Children’s Children.

Theatre includes: Best of Enemies (Young Vic/ West End, South Bank Show Award for Best Theatre Production); All My Sons (The Old Vic); The Visit, or the Old Lady Comes to Call; The Plough and the Stars; Statement of Regret (National Theatre); People, Places and Things (National Theatre/ Headlong/ West End/ UK tour/ St Ann’s Warehouse, New York); This House (National Theatre/ Chichester Festival Theatres/ West End); Labour of Love (Olivier Award for Best Comedy); The Nether; That Face; South Downs; Absent Friends; Death and the Maiden; The Glass Menagerie (West End); Wolf Hall; Bring Up the Bodies (RSC/ West End/ Broadway, Evening Standard Award for Best Director); Junkyard; The Absence of War; The Nether (Headlong); Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (International tour); The Tempest; Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare’s Globe); Almost Famous (Old Globe, San Diego); Noises Off (Lyric Hammersmith/ West End); Haunted Child; The Heretic; Kin; Spur of the Moment; Off the Endz; The Priory (Olivier Award for Best Comedy); Tusk Tusk; The Vertical Hour; That Face (Royal Court); South Downs; Uncle Vanya (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Moderate Soprano (Hampstead Theatre); Marble (The Abbey, Dublin); The Family Reunion (Donmar Warehouse);  Blackbird (Market Theatre, Johannesburg).

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).

Azusa has been creating lighting design for a range of live performances and art forms for many years. She trained in fine arts in Japan and lighting design at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London.

Theatre includes: The Sleeping Tree (Brighton Dome); Henry V (Shakespeare’s Globe/ UK tour); Watch on the Rhine; A Doll’s House, Part 2 (Donmar Warehouse); COP27 Health Pavilion (Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt); Much Ado About Nothing (RSC); Can I Live?; Copyright Christmas (Barbican); Walden (West End); Blue Orange; Concubine (Birmingham REP); Lao Can Impression (Southbank Centre); Love Lies Bleeding (The Print Room); Thick As Thieves (Clean Break/ UK tour); Aurora (Toxteth Water Reservoir, Liverpool); Abandon (Lyric Hammersmith); Smack That (Barbican/ UK tour); Effigies of Wickedness (Gate Theatre); Yvette (Royal Festival Hall / UK tour); Cuttin’ It (Young Vic/ UK tour); Killer (Shoreditch Town Hall); Darkness Darkness (Nottingham Playhouse); I Know All The Secrets In My World (Derby Theatre/ UK tour); Dot, Squiggle and Rest (Royal Opera House); Peddling (59E59, New York/ UK tour); We Are Proud to Present…(Bush Theatre); The Love Song of Alfred J Hitchcock (Curve Theatre, Leicester / UK tour); Fanfare (Sheffield Theatres).

Opera includes: Kairos Opera (V&A Museum).

Other work includes: Tate Live Exhibition – Joan Jonas (Tate Modern).

Theatre includes: Mary; Raya (Hampstead Theatre); The Glass Menagerie; The Mirror and the Light; The Nether (West End); The Glow; Living Newspaper: Editions 1&3; The Prudes; Bad Roads; Unreachable; X (Royal Court); The Ferryman (Royal Court/ West End/ Broadway, Tony Award nomination for Best Sound Design of a Play, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design in a Play); The Tell-Tale Heart (National Theatre); Julius Caesar (Bridge Theatre); Beginners (Unicorn Theatre); Peter Pan; Running Wild; Lord of the Flies; Peter Pan (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); People Places and Things (Stockholms Stadsteatern AB); Running Wild (Chichester Festival Theatre); Cold Calling: The Artic Project (Birmingham Rep/ City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra); City of Glass (HOME, Manchester/ Lyric Hammersmith); The Inn at Lydda (Shakespeare’s Globe); Alice in Wonderland (The Lyceum, Edinburgh); The Tempest (Norfolk & Norwich Festival); The Haunting of Hill House (Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse/ Sonia Friedman Productions); Lanark (Citizens Theatre/ Edinburgh International Festival, Critic’s Award for Theatre in Scotland nomination for Best Music and Sound); Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies (RSC/ West End/ Broadway); The King’s Speech (Chichester Festival Theatre/ UK tour); Secret Theatre: Show 6 (Lyric Hammersmith); Of Mice and Men (Birmingham Rep/ UK tour).

For the Almeida: A Streetcar Named Desire (West End); Romeo and Juliet; The Duchess of Malfi; Machinal; Summer and Smoke.

Theatre includes: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Cabaret; Ghost Stories; Summer and Smoke; Killer Joe; The Spoils; Strictly Ballroom; (West End); Orfeus (Young Vic); Waitress; The King and I (West End/ UK tour); The Way of the World (Donmar Warehouse); Oslo (National Theatre/ West End); Oliver Twist (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Wild Party (The Other Palace); The Trial of Jane Fonda (Park Theatre); Romeo and Juliet; Hamlet; Twelfth Night; The Tempest; Macbeth; A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre, York); Private Peaceful; Holes; Lit; Coram Boy; The Madness of George III; The Memory of Water (Nottingham Playhouse); Richard II (The Vaults Theatre); The Be All and End All; Robin Hood (York Theatre Royal).

Film Includes: Black Dog; Tuesday; Tiny Dancer; Swing for the Fences; Amaranthine; The Mother, the Son, the Rat and the Gun; Damned; Protectors of the Dawn; My Mother; Work.

Theatre includes: Pygmalion; The Dumb Waiter; Faith Healer; Endgame/ Rough for Theatre II; A Christmas Carol; Lungs; A Very Expensive Poison; Present Laughter; All My Sons; The American Clock;  Sylvia; A Monster Calls; Mood Music; Fanny and Alexander; Woyzeck; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; King Lear; The Caretaker; The Master Builder; Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax; The Hairy Ape; Future Conditional (The Old Vic); Girl From the North Country (The Old Vic/ West End); The Divide (The Old Vic/ Edinburgh International Festival).

Film includes: Mickey 7; Queer; Longbourn; Rumpelstiltskin; Emma; The Kid Who Would Be King.

Television includes: True Detective: Night Country; The Amazing Mr Blunden.

Clare works as an actor as well as an intimacy coordinator.

Theatre includes:  Best of Enemies (Young Vic/ West End); The Realistic Joneses (Theatre Royal Bath); Consent; Avenue Q; The Far Pavilions; We Will Rock You (West End); Travesties; Merrily We Roll Along (Menier Chocolate Factory/ West End); Guys & Dolls; The Master and Margarita; Out of This World (Chichester Festival Theatre); Separation; Duet for One; Love On The Dole; A Streetcar Named Desire (Octagon Theatre, Bolton); Crazy for You (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre/ West End); The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Sweet Charity (Sheffield Theatres).

Film includes: Heads of State; Seacole; Holmes & Watson; Les Misérables; Black Forest.

Television includes: Delia; Nolly; The Ex-Wife; Dark Heart; Sherlock; Taboo; Galavant; Ripper Street; The Crown.

Originally from South Wales, Alice is a voice and dialect coach working with professional performers and productions, as well as being Head of Voice at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. She trained as an actor at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland before studying on the MA Voice Studies at Central School of Speech and Drama.

For the Almeida: The Clinic.

Theatre includes: Yippee Ki Yay (Seabright Productions); Freedom (March on Selma); Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown; This is Not A Coup; Consent; Macbeth; Edward II; Sunday in The Park with George; Moon Licks (Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama); Made in Dagenham; Spring Awakening; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (The Factory Playhouse Hitchin); Boudica (Unicorn Theatre/ Rose Bruford College); Richard III; Henry VI (Wales Millennium Centre).

Film includes: Morning Star.

Cáit trained at TU Dublin Conservatoire.

For the Almeida:

As Costume Supervisor: The Hunt (St. Ann’s Warehouse, New York); A Mirror.

As Assistant Costume Supervisor: The Doctor (Park Avenue Armory, New York).

As Running Wardrobe: Nine Lessons and Carols: stories for a long winter; The Duchess of Malfi; Vassa; The Doctor (also Adelaide Festival/ UK tour/ West End); The Hunt; Three Sisters; Shipwreck; The Tragedy of King Richard the Second; The Wild Duck; Dance Nation; Summer and Smoke; Albion.

Theatre includes:

As Costume Supervisor: Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) (Kiln Theatre/ West End); The Homecoming; Further than the Furthest Thing (Young Vic); Dear England (West End).

As Assistant Costume Supervisor: Boys on the Verge of Tears (Soho Theatre).

As Running Wardrobe: Kinky Boots; Di and Viv and Rose; Dirty Dancing; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Aladdin (West End); Network; Amadeus (National Theatre); The Lion King; Oliver; Mamma Mia!; Madam Butterfly; Dirty Dancing; 9 to 5 the Musical; Swan Lake (Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin).

Molly is a theatre and comedy director, and founder of The Man Presents: Women, a comedy monologue incubator for women and non-binary writer-performers.

Theatre includes:

As Director: John Tothill: The Last Living Libertine; Laugh, Why Don’t You? (Edinburgh Fringe); Jinkies! (Camden Fringe, Offie nomination for Best Short Run); Pillow Talk (Edinburgh Fringe/ North American tour); Pen Pals; The Man Presents: Women (ADC Theatre, Cambridge); Two Parallel Columns (Old Theatre Royal, Bath).

As Assistant Director: Peter Pan (The Shipwright); Dick Whittington (West End); Four Go Off On One! (Edinburgh Fringe); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (ADC Theatre, Cambridge); Chester Tuffnut (Polka Theatre).

Ruth’s work in UK and international theatre includes traditional set and costume design, site-specific and new writing. She also has a special interest in community and education projects.

For the Almeida:

As Associate Designer: A Streetcar Named Desire; The Writer.

Theatre includes:

As Designer: Sydney and the Old Girl (Park Theatre); The Permanent Way (The Vaults); The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru); Anna Karenina (East 15 Acting School); Sonny (ArtsEd); 46 Beacon (Trafalgar Studios); Macbeth (Caerphilly Castle); Blackbird (Tor Theatre); A Tale of Two Cities (Royal & Derngate Northampton); Play Strindberg (Theatre Royal Bath); Contractions (Chapter Arts Centre); Fijiland (Southwark Playhouse); Little Shop of Horrors; Salt, Root and Roe (Theatr Clwyd); Noah (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Road to Mecca (Arcola Theatre).

As Associate Designer: Two Palestinians Go Dogging (Royal Court); Blue/Orange (Royal & Derngate Northampton); The Comedy of Errors; The Hypocrite; The Shoemakers Holiday; Henry VI Trilogy; Romeo and Juliet; The Tempest; The Winter’s Tale; Pericles (RSC); Home, I’m Darling (National Theatre/ Theatr Clwyd); Anna Karenina; Crime and Punishment; A Streetcar Named Desire (Theatre Cocoon, Tokyo); Shakespeare in Love (Theatre Royal Bath); Mystery Plays (York Minster); Of Mice and Men (West Yorkshire Playhouse); London Road (National Theatre); Zorro (West End).

Film includes:

As Art Department Assistant: London Road.