American Psycho

Roberto is a screenwriter, award-winning playwright, and comic book writer.

For the Almeida: American Psycho (also Broadway).

Theatre includes: Abigail/1702 (New York Stage and Film); Doctor Cerberus (South Coast Repertory);  The Picture of Dorian Gray (Round House Theatre, Bethesda); King of Shadows (The Working Theater, New York); Good Boys and True (Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago/ Second Stage Theater, New York/ Pasadena Playhouse); Based on a Totally True Story (Manhattan Theatre Club); The Mystery Plays (Second Stage Theater, New York/ Yale Repertory Theatre); The Velvet Sky (Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Washington); The Muckle Man (City Theatre, Pittsburgh); Dark Matters (Rattlestick Theater, New York); Rough Magic (Hangar Theatre, New York); The Weird (Dad’s Garage Theatre, Atlanta); Golden Age; Say You Love Satan (GLAAD media award nominations); It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s SUPERMAN (Dallas Theater Centre/ Broadway); Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark (Broadway).

Film includes: Carrie; The Town that Dreaded Sundown.

Television includes: Riverdale; Chilling Adventures of Sabrina; Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin; Katy Keene; Big Love; Looking; Glee; Supergirl.

Duncan launched his career in 1996 with his Grammy nominated self-titled debut album.  Sheik is the composer for the critically acclaimed musical Spring Awakening (winner of eight Tony Awards including Best Orchestrations and Best Original Score, and a Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album).

For the Almeida: The Secret Life of Bees; Spring Awakening; American Psycho (also Broadway).

Theatre includes: The Secret Life of Bees (Atlantic Theater Company); Noir; Lover, Beloved (Alley Theatre, Houston); Alice by Heart (MCC Theater); Because of Winn Dixie (Goodspeed Opera House, Connecticut).

Music includes: Claptrap; Legerdemain; Duncan Sheik (Grammy Award nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance).

Bret is a best-selling author, screenwriter, and social commentator.

He is the author of six novels, including The Shards, American Psycho, and Less Than Zero, as well as a collection of short stories, and a work of nonfiction. His work has been translated into 27 languages. He lives in Los Angeles and is the host of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast.

Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre, founding Artistic Director of Headlong (2005 to 2013), Associate Director at the RSC and Artistic Director of Northampton Theatres (2002 to 2005). In 2026, he will take up the position of Artistic Director at The Old Vic.

For the Almeida: Cold War; Women, Beware the Devil; Tammy Faye (also Broadway); Patriots (also West End); Spring Awakening; Albion; The Hunt (also St Ann’s Warehouse, New York); Shipwreck; Richard III; Medea; The Merchant of Venice; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot; American Psycho (also Broadway); Ink; King Charles III (also West End/ Broadway).

Theatre includes: Hamlet (RSC/ UK tour); Dear England (National Theatre/ West End/ UK tour); The 47th (The Old Vic); The Effect; Earthquakes in London (Headlong/ National Theatre); Time and the Conways (National Theatre); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Kensington Gardens); The Merchant of Venice; Romeo and Juliet; Speaking Like Magpies (RSC); Enron (Headlong/ West End/ Broadway); Made in Dagenham; Oliver!; The Glass Menagerie; No Man’s Land (West End); King Lear (Headlong/ Liverpool Everyman/ Young Vic); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Headlong/ West End); Macbeth (Chichester Festival Theatre/ West End/ Broadway).

Film includes: Judy; True Story.

Television includes: Macbeth (with Patrick Stewart); Richard II (with Ben Wishaw); King Charles III; Dear England. 

Opera includes: Turandot (ENO); Le Comte Ory (Garsington Opera).

Rupert has received Olivier, Critics’ Circle and Evening Standard awards for Best Director twice and won a Peabody Award in 2011 for Macbeth. Rupert received a CBE in 2017 New Year’s Honours for services to drama.

Lynne is a British choreographer working internationally in film and television, opera, theatre and the music industry.

 For the Almeida: Tammy Faye (also Broadway); Spring Awakening; Ink (also West End/ Broadway); American Psycho (also Broadway); There Came a Gypsy Riding; The Late Henry Moss.

Theatre includes: Stranger Things: The First Shadow (West End/ Broadway); Standing at the Sky’s Edge (Sheffield Theatres/ National Theatre/ West End, Olivier Award nomination for Best Theatre Choreographer); The 47th (The Old Vic); La Cage aux Folles (West End/ Broadway, Tony, Olivier and Drama Desk Award nominations for Best Choreography); A Little Night Music (Menier Chocolate Factory/ Broadway); Little Shop of Horrors (Menier Chocolate Factory); Company (Sheffield Theatres); Funny Girl; The Grinning Man; Tell Me on a Sunday (West End).

Opera includes: Death in Venice (Royal Opera House); Medea (ENO/ Paris Opera); Marnie (Metropolitan Opera); Les Troyens (La Scala); Andrea Chénier (Bregenzer Festspiele).

Film includes: Four Weddings and a Funeral; Judy; Fred Claus.

Television includes: The Crown; So You Think You Can Dance.

Dance includes: Lyssa (The Royal Ballet).

Music includes:

As Choreographer: Stormzy; Jess Glynne (BRIT Awards); Kanye West; Ellie Goulding; Imogen Heap; Duffy.

As Director and Choreographer: The Pet Shop Boys – Inner Sanctum (Dreamworld tours/ Glastonbury).

British contemporary artist Es’ practice is documented in An Atlas of Es Devlin at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum (2023), the Design Museum, London (September 2026) and in a landmark, sculptural Thames & Hudson monograph.

She has won multiple Emmy Awards, an Ivor Novello Award, a London Design Medal, three Olivier Awards, a Tony, and doctorates in arts from the universities of Bristol, Kent and UAL, and a CBE. She’s a fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Oxford University.

For the Almeida: American Psycho (also Broadway); The Hunt (also St Ann’s Warehouse, New York); Chimerica.

Theatre includes:  Dear England (National Theatre/ West End/ UK tour); The Lehman Trilogy (National Theatre/ West End/ Broadway); Coriolanus (National Theatre); The Nether (Royal Court); Hamlet (RSC).

Art installations include: Library of Us (Faena Beach, Miami); Congregation (St Mary le Strand/ The Courtauld); Come Home Again (Tate Modern); Library of Light (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan); I Saw the World End (Imperial War Museum); Singing Tree (V&A); PoemPortraits (Serpentine Gallery).

Architecture includes: Poem Pavillion (UK Pavilion, World EXPO 2021).

Concerts include: Formation; Renaissance (Beyoncé); U2:UV (Sphere, Las Vegas).

Ceremonies include: Super Bowl halftime shows (Dr Dre, Kendrick Lamar and The Weeknd, 2021/ 2022); Olympic Ceremonies (London/ Rio).

Katrina is Tony and Olivier winning set and costume designer working internationally in theatre, opera, ballet and film, and a member of the theatre design collective Scene/Change. She is a recipient of an Arts Foundation Award for costume design, and was an Associate of the National Theatre and the RSC. Katrina is also an advocate for the Linbury Prize, as well as previously being on the committee and a judge.

For the Almeida: Tammy Faye (also Broadway); American Psycho (also Broadway); Blood Wedding; I.D..

Theatre includes:

As Costume Designer: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (West End/ Broadway/ International tour, Tony and Olivier Awards for Best Costume Design); The Motive and The Cue (National Theatre/ West End); The Lehman Trilogy (National Theatre/ West End/ Broadway/ International tour); Mean Girls (West End); Wild Rose (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); Burn (National Theatre of Scotland/ Edinburgh International Festival); Hamlet (Barbican); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Broadway, Tony, Outer Critics’ Circle and Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Costume).

As Set and Costume Designer: London Road; Hex; Small Island; Three Sisters; Mosquitoes; Behind the Beautiful Forevers; Death and the King’s Horseman (National Theatre).

Opera includes: Damnation of Faust; Benvenuto Cellini (ENO/ International tour).

Film includes:

As Production Designer: London Road.

Jon is an Olivier Award and two-time Tony Award-winning lighting designer.

For the Almeida: Richard III; American Psycho; King Charles III (also West End/ Broadway); King Lear; The House of Bernarda Alba.

Theatre includes: Waiting for Godot (Broadway); The Maids; The Fear of 13 (Donmar Warehouse); Evita; Mrs. Warren’s Profession; Much Ado About Nothing; The Tempest; Hello, Dolly!; Romeo & Juliet (West End); Cyrano de Bergerac (West End/ BAM, New York); Stranger Things: The First Shadow; Betrayal (Broadway/ West End); The Inheritance (Young Vic/ West End/ Broadway); The Jungle (Young Vic/ West End/ St  Ann’s Warehouse, New York); The Importance of Being Earnest; Dear England; The Motive and the Cue (National Theatre/ West End); The Effect (The Shed, New York/ National Theatre); The Lehman Trilogy (National Theatre/ Broadway/ West End/ International tour); Amadeus; As You Like It; The Beaux’ Stratagem; Hamlet; Othello; The Effect; The Cat in the Hat (National Theatre).

Opera includes: Pique Dame (Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich); Hamlet (Met Opera/ Glyndebourne); The Exterminating Angel (Saltzburg Festival/ Met Opera/ Royal Opera House); Written on Skin (Aix-en-Provence Festival, France/ Royal Opera House/ International tour); Lucia di Lammermoor (Royal Opera House).

Dance includes: LORE (La Scala, Milan); The Cellist (The Royal Ballet).

Dan has six Tony Award nominations, five Drama Desk Awards, an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence, and a Lucille Lortel Award. He is a Fellow of MacDowell.

For the Almeida: American Psycho (Broadway).

Theatre includes:

As Sound Designer: Floyd Collins; The Iceman Cometh; Falsettos; The Visit; Radio Golf; Gem of the Ocean; A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder; Waiting for Godot; West Side Story; Gypsy; Sondheim On Sondheim; A Little Night Music; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street; Assassins; Pacific Overtures; Topdog/Underdog; Into The Woods; The Diary of Anne Frank; Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk (Broadway); Fiddler On The Roof/ Fiddler Afn Dakh (Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York); Cyrano (Daryl Roth Theatre, New York); Miss Universal Happiness (Performing Garage, New York); The Bathrobe of George Bataille (Festival d’Automne, Paris); Three Acts of Recognition; Egyptology; Penguin Touquet (Public Theater, New York); Don Juan (Delacorte Theater, New York); Where’s the Beer Fritz (IRT Theater, New York).

As Composer: The Merchant of Venice; Julius Caesar; The Glass Menagerie; Major Barbara; The Tempest (Broadway); Film is Evil, Radio is Good (NYU Tisch School of the Arts).

Finn has won two Olivier, one Tony, three Drama Desk & four WhatsOnStage Awards. He is an Honorary Fellow of The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

For the Almeida: Tammy Faye (also Broadway); Spring Awakening; Chimerica (also West End); American Psycho (also Broadway).

Theatre includes: BOOP! The Musical (Broadway); Hello Dolly! (West End); My Neighbour Totoro (RSC); Back to the Future (West End/ Broadway); Frozen the Musical; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (West End/ Broadway/ International tour); Les Misérables (West End/ International tour); Mean Girls; Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (West End/ Broadway); The Master and Margarita; All My Sons; Shun-kin (Complicité)

Opera includes: The Hours (Metropolitan Opera); Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Royal Opera House); Benvenuto Cellini; The Death of Klinghoffer; The Damnation of Faust (ENO); Hänsel und Gretel; Rinaldo (Glyndebourne).

Dance includes: Cinderella (The Royal Ballet); Anna Karenina (The Joffrey Ballet); The Nutcracker (Atlanta Ballet).

Music includes: Glass Animals; Lewis Capaldi; Rolling Stones Exhibitionism (International tour); Sodagreen (Asia tour); Coldplay – Music of the Spheres; Sam Fender – 17 Going Under; Foals – Life is Yours; Mark Ronson – Midnight Feeling.

David is a composer, orchestrator and conductor with MAs in Dramaturgy from Goldsmiths University and Strategic Communication from King’s College London. In 2017 he won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revue for Life if for Living: Conversations with Coward.

For the Almeida: American Psycho (also Broadway).

Theatre includes: London Road; The Father and the Assassin; The Great Wave; The Threepenny Opera; Table; The White Guard; Major Barbara; The Enchantment; The Alchemist; My Fair Lady (National Theatre); Miss Saigon; Ragtime; The Wind in the Willows; Epitaph for George Dillon (West End); The Ballad of Hattie and James; Holy Sh!t; Wife (Kiln Theatre); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street; Sunshine on Leith; The Crucible; Europe; Dr Korczak’s Example; Martin Guerre (Leeds Playhouse); The Great Wall (Singapore Drama Centre); A Chorus Line; Assassins; Ain’t Misbehavin’; Amadeus (Sheffield Theatres); Something Wicked This Way Comes (Broadway); You Are Here (Goodspeed Opera House); Just So (Chichester Festival Theatre); Of Mice and Men (Mercury Theatre, Colchester); Total Eclipse (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Three Musketeers; Troilus and Cressida (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Gaslight (The Old Vic); A Streetcar Named Desire (Theatr Clywd).

Ellen is a Musical Director, pianist and arranger. She trained in Musical Direction at Mountview.

Theatre includes:

As Musical Director: The Parent Agency (Storyhouse, Chester); Cable Street (Southwark Playhouse); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Leeds Playhouse/ UK and Ireland tour); Waitress (UK and Ireland tour); Talent (Sheffield Theatres); Sleeping Beauty (King’s Lynn Corn Exchange); Aladdin (Ferneham Hall); Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (88 London Road, Brighton)

As Assistant Musical Director: 13 Going On 30 the Musical (Manchester Opera House).

As Arranger: The Pirates of Penzance – Rebooted (Brighton Fringe); Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (88 London Road, Brighton).

Other includes:

As Musical Director and Arranger: Puma launch of Ladies UEFA Cup 2022 football strips;  The Starr Trust Charity Winter Ball (Hilton Hotel, Brighton).

Ellen has worked as a pianist at Brighton Fringe, Parabola Arts Centre, Streatham Festival and The Cockpit.

For The Almeida: Tammy Faye; Spring Awakening (WhatsOnStage Award for Best Casting Direction); American Psycho; Decade.

Theatre includes: The Greatest Showman (Bristol Hippodrome); Paddington The Musical; Hercules; MJ the Musical; The Book of Mormon; The Lion King; Dear Evan Hansen; Mean Girls; Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812; Hello, Dolly!; Ain’t Too Proud; Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical; Beauty and the Beast; On Your Feet! The Musical; Dreamgirls; Motown; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Memphis; Legally Blonde; Wicked; Billy Elliot the Musical; Top Hat; We Will Rock You (West End); Top Hat (Chichester Festival Theatre/ UK tour); Moulin Rouge!; Come From Away (CDG Award for Best Casting in Musical Theatre); TINA: The Musical (West End/ International tour); Sunny Afternoon (West End/ UK tour); Here Lies Love; Fela! (National Theatre); Legally Blonde; The Sound of Music; Porgy and Bess; Into the Woods; Ragtime; Lord of the Flies (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Sound of Music; Rock Follies; Gypsy; Guys and Dolls; Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street; The Pajama Game (Chichester Festival Theatre/ West End); Mandela; Tree; Twelfth Night; Been So Long (Young Vic).

Film includes:

Dancer casting: Rocketman; Wonka; Snow White.

Eleanor is a freelance Costume Supervisor.

For the Almeida:

As Costume Supervisor: Patriots (West End).

As Assistant Costume Supervisor: Chimerica; Ink (also West End).

Theatre includes:

As Costume Supervisor: Oh Mary! (West End/ Wessex Grove); Small Hotel (Theatre Royal Bath); In Praise of Love (Orange Tree Theatre); GIANT (West End/ Royal Court); Richard II; Guys and Dolls; Bach & Sons; A German Life; A Christmas Carol (Bridge Theatre); Inter Alia; Mnemonic (National Theatre); Medicine (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh/ Galway Festival/ St. Ann’s Warehouse, New York); Walking with Ghosts (Gaiety Theatre, Dublin/ West End/ Broadway); Grief is the Thing with Feathers (Complicite/ Galway Festival/  Barbican/ St Ann’s Warehouse, New York).

After graduating from Wimbledon School of Art followed by two years working with ENO, Darren started his company, The Wig Room in 1993. He has worked with Grange Park Opera for 19 years and on The Rocky Horror Show UK tour for 28 years.

For the Almeida: American Psycho; Measure for Measure; The Original Chinese Conjuror; Platonov.

Theatre includes: Wicked (Stage Theater Neue Flora, Hamburg); Tanz der Vampire (Stage Apollo Theater, Stuttgart); Ghost; Sister Act (Stage Theater des Westens, Berlin); Le Bal des Vampires (Théâtre Mogador, Paris);  School for Scandal (Barbican); Abigail’s Party; Umbrellas of Cherbourg; Marguerite; The Sea; The Country Wife; Hay Fever; Acorn Antiques; Flashdance; High Society; Calamity Jane; Mack & Mabel; Cabaret (West End); Sister Act (West End/ Europe tour); On Your Toes; Follies (Southbank Centre); West Side Story; Maskerade; Greek Passion (Bregenz Festspiele); Oliver! (Tivoli Gardens); The Rocky Horror Show (UK tour); The Rocky Horror Show (Grange Park Opera).

Dance includes: The Snow Queen; The Nutcracker; Hansel & Gretel; Highland Fling (Scottish Ballet); Midnight Bell; The Red Shoes; Sleeping Beauty; The Car Man; Swan Lake; Cinderella (UK tour).

For the Almeida: Ruined; Through a Glass Darkly; The Turn of the Screw; Measure for Measure; Rope; Mrs Klein; Judgement Day; When the Rain Stops Falling; Parlour Song; Duet for One; In a Dark Dark House; Waste.

Theatre includes:

As Props Supervisor: The Maids; Dealer’s Choice; Backstroke; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812; The Cherry Orchard; Knives in Hens; Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Donmar Warehouse); The Other Place; The Hot Wing King; Nye (National Theatre); Blood Wedding (Young Vic); A Streetcar Named Desire (Young Vic/ St Ann’s Warehouse, New York); NSFW; Tribes (Royal Court); Snowflake; Holy Sh!t (Kiln Theatre); Tiger Country (Hampstead Theatre).

As Props Buyer: The Land of the Living; The Witches; The Odyssey: The Underworld; Grenfell: In the Words of the Survivors; Dear England; The Motive and the Cue; Dancing at Lughnasa; Phaedra; Kerry Jackson (National Theatre); The Hills of California (West End); & Juliet (Broadway/ UK tour).

Bethany is a director and dramaturg specialising in collaborative and devised work, new writing and adaptations. She was the Resident Assistant Director at Shakespeare’s Globe and sits on the National Theatre script panel. After working as a producer for the Royal Court, Bristol Old Vic and MAYK, she trained on the MFA in Theatre Directing at Birkbeck.

Theatre includes:

As Director: A Minor Theft (Edinburgh Fringe/ Theatre503); Faustus: That Damned Woman; Machinal (LIPA); Man of Mode (Mountview); Heritage (ArtsEd); Paddington (Histrionic Productions); Submarine (The Wardrobe Theatre/ Edinburgh Fringe).

As Associate Director: My Master Builder (West End); Birdsong (Alexandra Palace Theatre).

As Assistant Director: Hamlet; Henry VI; Richard III (Shakespeare’s Globe); Love Letters to a Liveable Future (Wellcome Collection); Antigone (Guildhall School of Music & Drama).

Theatre includes: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Birmingham Rep/ West End); Groundhog Day (The Old Vic); Legally Blonde (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Saturday Night Fever (Sadler’s Wells); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat; Billy Elliot the Musical; Les Misérables (West End); Matilda the Musical (International tour); Cats (German and International tour); Kiss Me, Kate (Théâtres de la Ville de Luxeumbourg); Mamma Mia! (West End/ International tour).

As Resident Choreographer: Miss Saigon (UK tour).

As Assistant Choreographer: A Face in The Crowd (Young Vic).

As Movement Director: Running Free (Short Street Productions).

As Associate Movement Director: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (Leeds Playhouse).

Opera includes: SMOOSH! (Paraorchestra).

Film includes: The Man Who Cried.

Television includes: We Might Regret This; Royal Variety Performance; All Star Musicals; Sadie Jones; Big Day Out.

Victoria is an architect trained at ETSAM and an Associate Designer at Es Devlin Studio. Prior to joining Es Devlin, Victoria worked as an Associate to set designer Chiara Stephenson across theatre, opera, ballet, and music set design. She also spent over three years at Studio Tomás Saraceno, contributing to large-scale installations and exhibitions.

Theatre includes:

As Associate Designer: Portia Coughlan (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); Dancing at Lughnasa (Gate Theatre, Dublin).

Opera includes: 

As Associate Designer: Peter Grimes (Welsh National Opera).

Dance includes:

As Associate Designer: La Fille Mal Gardée (Theater Basel, Switzerland).

Music includes:

As Associate Designer: Lorde – Solar Power.

Zoe is a set designer and architect, working as an associate designer at Es Devlin Studio. She graduated from Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her personal work has been exhibited in Ars Electronica and BFI London Film Festival.

Theatre includes: Hamlet (RSC)

Other work includes: Inhibition (BFI LFF); Liminal; Flows (Greek National Opera).

Theatre includes:

As Costume Designer: Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Musical (Theatre Royal Bath); Close-Up: The Twiggy Musical (Menier Chocolate Factory); Identical (Nottingham Playhouse); Fiddler on the Roof (Menier Chocolate Factory/ West End/ Olivier Award nomination for Best Costume Design); Violet; Harold and Maude; The Woman in White; The Knowledge; The Braille Legacy; Death Takes a Holiday; Ragtime; In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel; The Mikado (Charing Cross Theatre); Summer in London (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Allegro; Grey Gardens (Southwark Playhouse); The Country Girl (West End/ UK tour); Lark Rise to Candleford; Keeler; The Haunting; The Handyman; Jekyll & Hyde; Blockbuster The Musical (UK tour); La Fanciulla del West; Un Ballo in Maschera; Die Fledermaus (King’s Head Theatre/ UK tour/ West End); Vieux Carré; Quasimodo; A Tale of Two Cities (King’s Head Theatre); Candide (Bergen National Opera, Norway).

As Associate Costume Designer: Merrily We Roll Along (Broadway); Richard III (Old Vic/ BAM, New York/ International tour); Dr Dee (Manchester International Festival/ ENO).

Film includes:

As Costume Designer: Case 237; Original Sin; Beshert; Aunty Ji; Seed of Doubt; Spoor; The Effects of Lying; Prisoner C33; Joy; Rose; Sunlight; The Houdini Girl; The Monkey’s Paw.

Joshua is a sound and systems designer based in New York, and has worked extensively on Broadway, Off-Broadway, national tours, international productions and sound system installations. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Sound Design at Western Michigan University.

Theatre includes:

As Sound Designer: The Tale of the Gifted Prince; Legally Blonde; Million Dollar Quartet; Ragtime; The Louder We Get (Theatre Calgary); The Preacher’s Wife (Alliance Theatre, Atlanta); Rent (Stratford Festival); A Christmas Carol (Broadway, Tony Award nomination for Best Sound Design of a Play, Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Sound Design – Play or Musical); West Side Story (Teatro Lirico di Cagliari); Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical (US National tours); A Christmas Carol (Geffen Playhouse, Los Angeles, L.A. Ovation Award and Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Sound Design – Large Theatre); Jerry Springer: The Opera (Signature Theatre, New York); A Time Like This: Music for Change (Carnegie Hall).

Opera includes:

As Sound Designer: Rent; La Boheme (The Atlanta Opera); The Sound of Music; A Little Night Music; El Milagro del Recuerdo (Arizona Opera).

Brett is a graduate of the MA Voice Studies programme at Central School of Speech and Drama in London.

For the Almeida: Portia Coughlan; Tammy Faye (also Broadway); “Daddy” A Melodrama; Shipwreck; Dance Nation.

Theatre includes: The 47th (The Old Vic).

Opera includes: Candide (ENO); Let Them Eat Cake/Of Thee I Sing (Opera North).

Film includes: Eternity; Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy; Bob Marley: One Love; The Boys in the Boat; Dune; Judy; Aladdin; A Royal Night Out; Dracula Untold; Gambit; Belle; No Country for Old Men.

Television includes: The Next Level; Masters of the Air; The Crowded Room; Alias Grace.

Mary trained in singing and piano at the Royal Academy of Music. She then worked for 25 years as a session singer in a range of styles, from opera at Covent Garden to stadium concerts with groups including Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Roxy Music, John McCarthy and the Ambrosian Singers, and The Nigel Brooks Singers. She was Head of Musical Theatre at the Royal Academy from 1993 to 2012.

She is particularly interested in the research and practice of voice science and vocal techniques, and her work as vocal coach totals over 120 productions, including at the National Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre, and regional theatres. She has also been a singer on over 40 television shows.

Theatre includes: Les Misérables; Miss Saigon; Cats; Jesus Christ Superstar; Mamma Mia!; Rent; Phantom of the Opera; Billy Elliot the Musical; Funny Girl; A Little Night Music; Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (West End).

Television includes: The Voice; The Good Morning Programme; Choir of the Year; The Victoria Wood Show.

Radio includes: Voice of Musical Theatre.

Music includes: Coldplay; The Kaiser Chiefs; Arcade Fire; Dido; Adele; Arlo Parks; Katherine Jenkins; Graham Norton; Kimberley Walsh; Yung Blud.

For the Almeida:

As Fight Director: A Moon for the Misbegotten; 1536 (also West End); 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; Deep Azure (Shakespeare’s Globe); Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812; Fear of 13 (Donmar Warehouse); The Other Place; Coriolanus (National Theatre); The Spy Who Came In from The Cold (Soho Place); Paranormal Activity (West End); 101 Dalmatians; Tambo & Bones (UK tour); Gunpowder Plot (Tower of London); Candida (Orange Tree Theatre).

As Associate Fight Director: Stranger Things: The First Shadow; Les Misérables; Sister Act; The Phantom of the Opera (West End); Till the Stars Come Down (National Theatre); Heathers (The Other Palace Theatre); 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: Vikings: Bloodaxe; 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.

For the Almeida as Additional Vocal Arrangements: American Psycho.

Theatre includes:

As Music Director, Vocal Arrangements & Additional Orchestrations: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (The New Group, New York).

As Musical Director & Vocal Arrangements: The Secret Life of Bees (Atlantic Theater Company); Alice by Heart (MCC Theater); Noir (Alley Theatre, Houston).

As Musical Director & Orchestrations: Lover Beloved (Alley Theatre, Houston).

As Musical Director: American Psycho (Broadway); Whisper House (The Old Globe, San Diego).

As Music Supervisor, Orchestrations & Vocal Arrangements: Because of Winn Dixie (Goodspeed Opera House, East Haddam).

Jason has toured and recorded as keyboard player for Rufus Wainwright, Antony and the Johnsons, Duncan Sheik, Suzanne Vega, Aimee Mann, Renaissance and Camel and leads his own progressive rock project, I and Thou.