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Miranda Cromwell’s directing credits include as co-director Death of a Salesman (Young Vic Theatre/West End transfer) for which she received an Olivier Award for best director and the production received a Black British theatre award for best production. As director Rockets and Blue Lights (Manchester Royal Exchange/ BBC radio 3) Oncomm winner for best Audio production. Half Breed (BBC iPlayer, Talawa Theatre/Soho Theatre/Edinburgh Fringe Festival/India tour), Magic Elves, Hey Diddle Diddle, Sense (Bristol Old Vic), Pigeon English (Edinburgh Fringe Festival/Bristol Old Vic), The Rest of Your Life (Bush Theatre) and Death and Treason (Bristol Old Vic/UK tour). As Associate Director her credits include Company - Olivier award for Best Musical Revival, Critics Circle Award for Best Musical (Gielgud Theatre), Angels in America - Olivier and Tony Award for Best Revival (National Theatre/Neil Simon Theatre, Broadway), A Monster Calls - Olivier Award for Best Entertainment and Family (Old Vic/ Bristol Old Vic), and Coram Boy (Colston Hall). As Assistant Director her credits include, Strife, An Enemy of the People (Chichester Festival Theatre), hang (Royal Court Theatre), and Swallows and Amazon and Far Away (Bristol Old Vic).

Paule is an Associate Director of the National Theatre where her credits include: The Visit; The Ocean at the End of the Lane; 'Master Harold'...and the boys; Follies; Pericles; Nine Night (also West End); Pinocchio; Mosquitoes; Common; Angels in America (also Broadway); The Red Barn; The Threepenny Opera; wonder.land; Behind the Beautiful Forevers; The Light Princess; Table; This House (also West End/ UK Tour); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (also West End/ Broadway); Phèdre; Death and the King’s Horseman; Waves; War Horse (also West End/ Broadway/ International Tour); Saint Joan and His Dark Materials.

Other theatre includes: Wolf Hall (RSC/ West End/ Broadway); ear for eye; How to Hold Your Breath; Clybourne Park; The Weir (Royal Court); A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Cripple of Inishmaan; Peter and Alice; Privates on Parade (Michael Grandage Company/ West End); Teddy Ferrara; The Chalk Garden; Othello (Donmar Warehouse); Happy Days; Feast; Vernon God Little (Young Vic); 17; Herons and Blasted (Lyric Hammersmith).

Opera includes: Benvenuto Cellini; Satyagraha; Medea; Dr Dee (English National Opera); Billy Budd; Entführung aus dem Serail (Glyndebourne); Roberto Devereux and Cav and Pag (Metropolitan Opera, New York).

Dance includes: Romeo and Juliet; Swan Lake; The Red Shoes; Sleeping Beauty; Play Without Words and Dorian Gray (Matthew Bourne).

Paule Constable was awarded the Olivier Award for Best Lighting in 2005 (His Dark Materials), 2006 (Don Carlos), 2010 (The Chalk Circle), 2013 (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) and 2020 (The Ocean at the End of the Lane). She was awarded the Tony Award for Best Lighting in 2011 (War Horse) and 2015 (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time). She is also an associate Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures and a founding member of Freelancers Make Theatre Work.

Theatre as Sound Designer includes: Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical; The Wild Party; Bumblescratch (West End); From Here (Chiswick Playhouse); Gin Craze! (Royal & Derngate Theatre); Titantic – The Musical (Guildford School of Acting); The Living Newspaper; Shoe Lady (Royal Court); Poet In Da Corner (Royal Court and Tour); Beautiful & Disaster (Deafinitely Youth Theatre); Salad Days (UK tour); West Side Story (Bishopsgate Institute); Songs For Nobodies (Wiltons Hall, co – design with Justin Teasdale); Lazarus (Kings Cross Theatre); The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Arts Ed); Candide (Bridewell Theatre); Floyd Collins (Wilton’s Music Hall) and On The Line (audio play).

Theatre as Associate Sound Designer includes: Dear Evan Hansen (West End); The Girl From The North Country (The Old Vic/ West End); Matilda The Musical (international tour); Tina Turner The Musical (West End/ Hamburg & Utrecht); Jersey Boys (UK tour); Here Lies Love (National Theatre/ Seattle Repertory Theatre); Groundhog Day (The Old Vic); Disney’s Aladdin (West End/ Germany); Beautiful (West End/ UK tour); The Book Of Mormon (West End/ UK tour); American Idiot (UK tour) and Spring Awakening (Lyric Hammersmith/ West End).

Tony Gayle is a Sound Supervisor/Consultant for Bird College, Urdang Academy, London School Of Musical Theatre, American Musical Theatre Academy, Narin Gylman and Old Vic Events.

Theatre includes: Crave (Film Design and Immersive Broadcast Film, Chichester Festival Theatre); Josephine & I (Bush Theatre / Public Theater, New York) and Raj Packet (New National Theatre, Tokyo)

Other recent work includes: Launch Artist for ITV Creates campaign 2019; Legacy (Royal Opera House Olympic Gala Ceremony); BRIT Awards Opening 2016 sequence in collaboartion with Wayne McGregor (O2 Arena); Gain Line (Gallery Film Installation in partnership with FVU).

Dance includes: Atomos (Studio Wayne McGregor/ Random Dance); The Raven Girl; Woolf Works; Qualia (Royal Opera House/ Wayne McGregor); Deloitte Ignite Festival 2014; Quartett (Royal Opera House); Genus (National Ballet of Canada/ Paris Opera House/ Wayne McGregor); MitoSys (Film) (Shobana Jeyasingh Dance); Eden : Eden (Atlanta Ballet/ Wayne McGregor); Entity (Sadler's Wells/ Wayne McGregor); Dido and Aeneas (La Scala, Italy/ Wayne McGregor); Nemesis (Sadler's Wells/ Tour/ Wayne McGregor);

Exhibitions/Installations/Commissions include: The Voice and The Lens (IKON Gallery); The Gain Line Film and Video Umbrella (Rugby Art Gallery and Museum/ ICIA Bath/ Leicester Phoenix); Perspectives (Birmingham Cathedral/ Magnum Photos); Michael Clark, Monologue (Violette Editions); Union (The Public, West Bromwich); Pure Cinema (PM Gallery London/ Wolverhampton Art Gallery); Inside Out (Royal Opera House/ Deloitte Ignite Festival); Patriots (Guangzhou Photography Festival); One Love: The Football Art Prize (The Lowry, Manchester); Museum (Museum of Lost Heritage); Runner (Dance City/ Tyneside Cinema); A Tale of (ICA); 22 (Worcester Art Gallery); Tremor (Channel 4); Only A Game (v Impressions gallery); Spectator Sport; Broken Channek (Cornerhouse); Tyneside Journey (Newcastle Quayside); Still.Moving (Southbank Centre); and Turandot (Edinburgh Festival / Tokyo).

Ravi Deepres is an award-winning artist, photographer, and film-maker with an international reputation for focusing on the intersection of the still and moving image. He collaborates frequently with choreographer Wayne McGregor. He has also worked with other globally renowned choreographers, directors, and musicians, including Saburo Teshigawara, Phyllida Lloyd, Michael Clark, Zoviet France, Shobana Jeyasingh.

Femi Temowo is an award-winning musician and composer who draws on musical influences from both West African and American jazz pioneers. His phenomenally successful collaborations with alto saxophonist Soweto Kinch culminated in a nomination for the Mercury Music Prize, a BBC Jazz Award for Best New Group, and several MOBO awards. In 2003, singer Amy Winehouse appointed Femi music director of her band and he was featured on her debut, Frank (Island, 2003).

Theatre as composer includes: Death of a Salesman (Young Vic/ West End).

Solo albums include: Quiet Storm (Femitone, 2006); Orin Meta (Femitone, 2011).

Albums as guitarist/musician include: An Ordinary Day In An Unusual Place, Us3 (Universal, 2001); Frank, Amy Winehouse (Island, 2003); Conversations With The Unseen, Soweto Kinch (Dune, 2004 – nominated for Mercury Prize); A Life In The Day Of B19: Tales Of The Tower Block, Soweto Kinch (Dune, 2006).

For the Almeida as Designer: Hymn; Shipwreck; Machinal; Albion; Boy; Game; When the Rain Stops Falling; Judgement Day.

Theatre and Dance as Designer includes: King Lear; To Kill a Mockingbird; Three Tall Women; A Doll’s House 2; The Children (Broadway); The Jungle (Young Vic/ West End/ New York); The Trial; Public Enemy; Wild Swans; The Government Inspector; In the Red and Brown Water; The Good Soul of Szechuan; Generations, Measure for Measure (Young Vic); Glass.Kill.Blubeard.Imp; Sucker Punch; Cock; In the Republic of Happiness; Get Santa! (Royal Court); The Children; Escaped Alone; Love and Information (Royal Court Theatre/New York); Wild, Sunny Afternoon (also West End); Chariots of Fire (Hampstead Theatre/West End); Bend it Like Beckham (West End); The Father (Theatre Royal Bath); The Effect; Earthquakes in London (National Theatre); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Chichester Festival Theatre/ West End); Red Demon; The Bee (Young Vic / Japan); Guantanamo: “Honor Bound to Defend Freedom” (Tricycle Theatre/ West End/ New York/ San Francisco); Frame of View (Cedar Lake, New York); The Cherry Orchard (Amsterdam); Toot (Oper Leipzig).

Opera as Designer includes: La Fanciulla Del West (ENO and Santa Fe Opera); Turandot; Wozzeck (ENO); Suor Angelica, Il Trittico – Suor Angelica (Royal Opera House, as Set Designer); Anna Nicole (Royal Opera House and New York); Boris Godunov (Berlin Opera); The Death of Klinghoffer (Edinburgh Festival/ Scottish Opera).

Miriam trained in costume design at Akademie für Kostüm Design in Hamburg, and in theatre design at Central Saint Martin’s, London. She won The Linbury Prize for Stage Design in 1999 and received the Evening Standard Best Design Award in 2010 for Earthquakes in London and Sucker Punch, and in 2018 for The Jungle.

Claire is Head of Costume at the Almeida Theatre, and during her time here has supervised many productions including: Albion; Boy; Hamlet; Oil; Against; Dance Nation; The Wild Duck; The Tragedy of King Richard II. Prior to her time as Head of Costume, Claire was a freelance Costume Supervisor, working at venues such as The National Theatre, The Royal Court and the Young Vic to name a few.

Theatre includes: Death of England: Delroy; Death of England; Small Island; Nine Night; Barber Shop Chronicles; Pericles; Angels in America; Les Blancs; Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (National Theatre); Uncle Vanya (West End); Pass Over (Kiln); Death of a Salesman (Young Vic/West End); Richard II (The Globe); Dreamgirls (West End - as Resident Director); Ear for Eye; Poet in Da Corner; Father Comes Home from the Wars (Royal Court)

Film includes: Small Axe; Silent Twins; Death on the Nile

TV includes: The Power

Ewa Dina is a director, facilitator, actor, voiceover artist & poet. She is currently associate director at Nouveau Riche and one fifth of Theatre Peckham’s resident in-house theatre company: No-Table. As a facilitator, Ewa regularly works for Company Three and has worked with the Kiln Theatre, Central School of Speech and Drama, The Pleasance, The Damilola Taylor Centre and has co-created & facilitated a workshop on music, movement and storytelling for Talawa Theatre Company. Music and movement are integral parts of Ewa’s process; she is a confident mover.

Theatre as Assistant Director includes: Sunnymead Court - Assisting James Hillier (The Actors Centre).

Theatre as Director includes: The Kola Nut Does Not Speak English (VAULT Festival 2020); Omish (Courtyard Theatre); Route (Tristan Bates Theatre/ Bread & Roses Theatre/ The Hope Theatre).

Theatre as Curator includes: Pleasance Fringe Future’s Festival Week One: The Future is Noir.

Work as Actor-Mover includes: BAFTA Craft Awards 2021; How We Love (VAULT Festival 2020); One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (The English Theatre, Frankfurt); Custody (UK tour) (Prime Theatre & The Art Machine); Run It Back (Talawa Theatre Company).

Ewa graduated from the Rose Bruford BA Acting course in 2019.

For the Almeida: Mary Stuart (also West End).

Theatre includes: Don Juan in Soho (West End); Pigeon English (Bristol Old Vic/ Edinburgh Fringe); Romeo and Juliet (Riverside Studios); Ghosts (Theatre Bankside).

Television includes: Industry; Deep State; Endeavour.