A Moon for the Misbegotten

Born in New York City on October 16, 1888, Eugene O’Neill was the first great American playwright. His father was James O’Neill, the famous dramatic actor, and during his early years O’Neill often traveled with his parents. Beyond the Horizon (1920), the first of his plays to reach Broadway, won a Pulitzer Prize (he eventually won four) and opened the way for serious theatre in this country. In 1936 he became the only American playwright ever awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. His major works include The Emperor Jones (1920); The Hairy Ape (1922); Desire Under the Elms (1924); The Great God Brown (1926); Strange Interlude (1928); Mourning Becomes Electra (1931); Ah, Wilderness! (1933); A Moon for the Misbegotten (1957); Hughie (1964); A Touch of the Poet (1967); and what most authorities consider his two greatest plays, The Iceman Cometh (1964) and Long Day’s Journey into Night, completed in 1941 but unproduced until three years after his death on November 27, 1953.

Rebecca is a multi-Olivier Award-winning director, who has directed in the UK and internationally. She is Associate Director at the Almeida Theatre and was previously on the Almeida’s Resident Director scheme supported by the Eranda Rothschild Foundation.

For the Almeida: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Romeo and Juliet; A Streetcar Named Desire (also West End/ BAM, New York, Olivier Award Winner for Best Revival and Olivier Award nomination for Best Director); Nine Lessons and Carols: stories for a long winter; The Duchess of Malfi; Three Sisters; Summer and Smoke (also West End, Olivier Award for Best Revival and Olivier Award nomination for Best Director).

Theatre includes: Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club (West End/ Broadway, seven Olivier Awards including Best Director and Best Musical Revival, nine Tony Award nominations including Best Revival of a Musical and Critics’ Circle Award for Best Director); Julie (ITA); The House of Bernarda Alba (National Theatre); Sanctuary City (New York Theatre Workshop, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play); Julie (Northern Stage).

For the Almeida: Summer and Smoke (also West End); King Charles III (also West End/ Broadway, Outer Critics’ Circle Award for Best Costume Design); Nine Lessons and Carols: stories for a long winter; The Merchant of Venice; Mr. Burns; Through a Glass Darkly; King Lear.

Theatre includes:

As Set Designer: Fiddler On The Roof (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre/ Barbican/ UK tour, Olivier Award for Best Set Design); Cabaret (West End/ Broadway, Tony Award for Best Scenic Design); A Very Expensive Poison (Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Best Designer); Woyzeck (The Old Vic); Fairview (Young Vic); Jesus Christ Superstar (Barbican/ US tour); Little Shop of Horrors; Jesus Christ Superstar; Carousel (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Julie; Deep Blue Sea; Medea; 13 (National Theatre); Constellations (Royal Court/ West End).

Opera includes:

As Set and Costume Designer: Carmen (Met Opera); Die Walküre (Royal Danish Opera); Lear (Staatstheater Hannover); Tosca (Opera North); Cunning Little Vixen; Wozzeck (ENO); The Flying Dutchman (Scottish Opera).

Dance includes:

As Set and Costume Designer: Outwitting the Devil (Akram Khan Company); Grand Finale (Hofesh Shechter Company).

Live events include:

As Set Designer and Director/Creative Director: Self Esteem: A Complicated Woman (Duke of York’s Theatre); Pet Shop Boys: Dreamworld The Greatest Hits Live Tour; Berberian Sound Studio (Donmar Warehouse); Christine and the Queens (Salle Pleyel, Paris); Alexander McQueen S/S25 & A/W25 (Paris).

Moi is a multi-disciplinary artist, designer, cultural worker and educator with a dual practice across contemporary art and design for live performance.

For the Almeida:

As Costume Designer: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Theatre includes:  

As Designer:

Dealer’s Choice; In the Blood (Donmar Warehouse); The Homecoming; Chasing Hares (Young Vic); A View from the Bridge (Headlong/ Octagon Theatre, Bolton/ Chichester Festival Theatre/ Rose Theatre Kingston); A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction (Headlong/ Barbican); The Herring Girls Protest Song Cycle (HighTide); Worth (New Earth Theatre/ Storyhouse, Chester); The Tempest (Shakespeare’s Globe); Henry V (Headlong/ Shakespeare’s Globe); Baghdaddy; Rare Earth Mettle; White Pearl (Royal Court); Corrina Corrina (Headlong/ Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse); Raya; Deluge (Hampstead Theatre); Dear Elizabeth; The Letters Project (Gate Theatre); Chiaroscuro (Bush Theatre); Summer Rolls (Park Theatre).

As Set Designer: Why Am I So Single? (West End)

As Costume Designer: The Hunger Games: On Stage (Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre).

Opera includes: Falstaff (Opera Berbiguieres, France); The Imperfect Pearl (Corn Exchange Newbury/ St George’s Bristol/ Kings Place/ UK tour).

Dance includes: Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby (Rambert); Human Wall (V&A); Beats’n’Shine (Mudam).

Jack trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

For the Almeida: 1536; Patriots (also Broadway/ West End); Spring Awakening; Nine Lessons and Carols: stories for a long winter; The Duchess of Malfi; Three Sisters; Shipwreck; Machinal; They Drink It In The Congo; Boy; Carmen Disruption; Game.

Theatre includes: Sunset Boulevard (Broadway/ West End, Olivier, WhatsOnStage, and Tony Awards for Best Lighting Design); Much Ado About Nothing; Hamlet; Venice Preserved (RSC); Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) (American Repertory Theater/ Kiln Theatre/ West End); London Tide; Romeo and Julie; Top Girls; Barber Shop Chronicles (Knight of Illumination Award); Cleansed (National Theatre); Long Day’s Journey into Night; Best of Enemies; The Importance of Being Earnest (West End); Caroline, or Change (Broadway/ West End/ Chichester Festival Theatre); Beginning (West End/ National Theatre); Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp; The End of History; Instructions for Correct Assembly (Royal Court); Private Lives; Committee (Donmar Warehouse);  Light Falls; The Producers; Happy Days; Our Town; Wit (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Julie (Internationaal Theater Amsterdam); Salt of the Earth (Venice Biennale); Mary Stuart; The Beacon (Die Staatstheater Stuttgart); 4.48 Psychosis; Happy Days (Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg).

Peter is a freelance Sound Designer for Theatre & Short Film. He is a Senior Lecturer of Sound Design and Production at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Chair of the Association for Sound Design and Production, Sound Associate for NYX Electronic Drone Choir, and a founder member of Stage Sight. Peter also produces and presents the podcast ‘Conversations with Sound Designers’.

For the Almeida: Look Back in Anger; King Lear; A Streetcar Named Desire (also West End/ BAM, New York); The Tragedy of Macbeth; The Tragedy of King Richard II; Oil.

Theatre includes: House of Bernarda Alba; Deep Blue Sea; On The Shore Of The Wide World (National Theatre); Jesus Hopped The ‘A’ Train; Yellowman; It’s All Kicking Off Everywhere; Trade; Barbarians; Fireface (Young Vic); This Is Not Who I Am; Gundog; Nuclear War (Royal Court); A Streetcar Named Desire; Hamlet; Scuttlers; The Last Days of Troy; Blindsided; That Day We Sang; Cannibals; Orpheus Descending; Saturday Night/Sunday Morning; Black Roses (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Masque Of Anarchy (Manchester International Festival); Miss Julie; Black Comedy (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Fruit Trilogy (Southbank Centre/ West Yorkshire Playhouse); Romeo and Juliet (Sheffield Theatres); The Funfair (HOME, Manchester).

Film includes: Fellow Creatures; Snapshots; Drown; Grin; Swansong; G.O.D.; Glue.

NYX is a London-based collective of artists working at the intersection of choral music and electronic music performance. Led by music director Sian O’Gorman, their work explores connections between the body, architecture, and nature to create music that bridges the ancient and the futuristic.

A self-managed collective, NYX has performed at London Design Festival, the Pompidou Centre, Rewire Festival, Roundhouse, Queen Elizabeth Hall, and Dark Mofo. Their 2020 collaborative album Deep England with Gazelle Twin was named one of The Guardian’s top ten contemporary albums, and they received Film London’s Breakthrough Talent Award in 2021. They also contributed to the Diablo IV Official Soundtrack and debuted their first TV score for the BBC and Bad Wolf’s Dope Girls in 2025.

Sian O’Gorman’s background informs much of NYX’s work. A former member of the New Zealand Opera Chorus and National Youth Choirs, she holds a Bachelor of Music in Performance Voice and a Bachelor of Applied Sciences in Design. Her compositions combine precise vocal direction with electronic tools, shaping NYX’s operatic, psychedelic, and deeply human sound.

For the Almeida:  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; King Lear; Romeo and Juliet; A Streetcar Named Desire (also West End); The Clinic; The Tragedy of Macbeth; The Duchess of Malfi; The Doctor (also West End); Three Sisters; The Wild Duck; Machinal; The Writer; Summer and Smoke (also West End); The Twilight Zone (also West End); The Treatment; Hamlet (also West End/ Park Avenue Armory, New York); Mary Stuart (also West End/ Park Avenue Armory, New York); Oil; Uncle Vanya; Medea; Oresteia (also West End); Game; Mr Burns; Chimerica (also West End).

Theatre includes: Oedipus; Player Kings; Opening Night; A Little Life; The Shark is Broken; All About Eve (West End); Kyoto (RSC); Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York) (Kiln Theatre/ West End); The Wife of Willesden (Kiln Theatre/ BAM, New York); Pass Over (Kiln Theatre); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (West End/ Broadway); The Inheritance; A View from the Bridge (Young Vic/ West End/ Broadway); The Jungle (Young Vic/ West End/ St. Ann’s Warehouse, New York/ Curran Theater, San Francisco); Yerma (Young Vic/ Park Avenue Armory, New York).

Film includes: Hamlet; Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere; The Exception; Departure.

Television includes: Together (BAFTA for Best Single Drama); The Trial; A Murder in the Family.

For the Almeida:

As Costume Supervisor: “Daddy” A Melodrama; The Wave (Young Company); (This Isn’t) A True Story (Young Company).

Theatre includes:

As Costume Supervisor: The Collaboration; The Second Woman; Nachtland; Beneatha’s Place (Young Vic); Kabul Goes Pop (Brixton House); We Started to Sing (Arcola Theatre); Othello (Shakespeare’s Globe); Hamlet (RSC); John Gabriel Borkman (Bridge Theatre); The Trials (Donmar Warehouse).

As Assistant Supervisor: Plenty (Chichester Festival Theatre); Hamlet (Young Vic); Ballet Shoes (National Theatre); Shucked (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre).

As Associate Costume Designer: Macbeth (Wessex Grove); A Face in The Crowd (Young Vic).

Rebecca has worked on over thirty productions at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival as Head of Voice.

For the Almeida: The Comeuppance; A Streetcar named Desire (also West End).

Theatre includes: All the Way (Oregon Shakespeare Festival/ American Repertory Theater/ Broadway); Spring Storm; Beyond the Horizon (Royal & Derngate, Northampton/ National Theatre); Cocoanuts (Guthrie Theater); Oedipus (American Players Theatre); Julius Caesar;  Murder for Two (Utah Shakespeare Festival); Cambodian Rock Band; August: Osage County; A Long Day’s Journey Into Night; Roe; The Great Society (Oregon Shakespeare Festival).

Publications include: The Vocal Arts Workbook; The Dramatic Text Workbook and Video; The Shakespeare Workbook and Video (co-authored with David Carey).

For the Almeida:

As Fight Director: 1536; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

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

Theatre includes:

As Fight Director: Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe); Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812; Fear of 13 (Donmar Warehouse); The Other Place; Coriolanus (National Theatre); Macbeth (Lyric Hammersmith); 101 Dalmatians; Tambo & Bones (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).

As Associate Fight Director: Les Misérables; Sister Act; The 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); The 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: MobLand; 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; The Elder Scrolls Online.

Theatre includes:

As Associate Director: Oedipus (West End); Player Kings (West End/ UK tour).

As Assistant Director: Macbeth (RSC); Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial (West End/ UK tour); Maria Stuart (Schauspiel Stuttgart, Germany); The Two-Character Play; The Dumb Waiter; The Tyler Sisters; Unknown Rivers (Hampstead Theatre); A New and Better You (The Yard).

As Director: Lord of the Flies (LIPA); Bible John (Edinburgh Fringe / VAULT Festival, Pleasance Theatre Charlie Hartill Award); The Woman Who Gave Birth to a Goat (Camden People’s Theatre); WAGGO (Edinburgh Fringe); And Then… (Latitude Festival).

This position is supported by the Almeida Makers programme, which is made possible by Jerwood Foundation.

Additional support is provided by the Theatre Development Trust.