Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, where his grandfather was the Episcopal clergyman. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. He stayed there for two years, spending the evenings writing. He entered the University of Iowa in 1938 and completed his course, at the same time holding a large number of part-time jobs of great diversity. He received a Rockefeller fellowship in 1940 for his play Battle of Angels, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for A Streetcar Named Desire and in 1955 for Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. Tennessee Williams died in 1983.

Theatre includes: Battle of Angels; A Streetcar Named Desire; Cat On A Hot Tin Roof; Summer and Smoke; The Rose Tattoo; Camino Real; Baby Doll; The Glass Menagerie; Orpheus Descending; Suddenly Last Summer; The Night of the Iguana; Sweet Bird of Youth; The Two-Character Play.

Rebecca 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: A Streetcar Named Desire (also West End); 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).

Theatre includes: Cabaret (West End, Olivier Awards for Best Director and Best Musical Revival, Critics’ Circle Award for Best Director); Sanctuary City (New York Theatre Workshop, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play); Steel (Sheffield Theatres).

For the Almeida: The Duchess of Malfi; 1984 (also Headlong/ West End/ Broadway).

Theatre includes: 

As Designer: Phaedra; Othello; The Antipodes (also Co-Director); John; Amadeus; Rules for Living; The World of Extreme Happiness (National Theatre); Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical (West End); Europe; Teenage Dick (Donmar Warehouse); Hilary and Clinton (Broadway); The American Clock (The Old Vic); Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (National Theatre of Scotland/ West End); Hexenjagd (Theater Basel); Shakespeare’s Last Play; Atmen; Ophelias Zimmer (Schaubühne, Berlin); Hamilton Complex (Schauspielhaus, Bochum);  De Maiden (Internationaal Theater Amsterdam); The Cane; Pity; Gun Dog; Road; Victory Condition; B; Unreachable; The Twits; God Bless the Child; How to Hold Your Breath; Circle Mirror Transformation; Teh Internet is Serious Business; 2071; Open Court (Royal Court); Disco Pigs (Young Vic).

As Co-Designer: TRAPLORD (180 Strand); J’OUVERT (West End).

Opera includes: Innocence (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence/ Finnish National Opera/ Royal Opera House); Rusalka; Theodora (Royal Opera House); La bohème (ENO); The Handmaid’s Tale (Royal Danish Opera); Innocence; Ariadne auf Naxos (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence/ Finnish National Opera); Pelléas & Mélisande (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence/ Polish National Opera).

For the Almeida: King Lear; Romeo and Juliet; A Streetcar Named Desire (also West End); Summer and Smoke (also West End); Dance Nation.  

Theatre includes: Constellations (West End/ Broadway/ Royal Court); Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre/ US tour/ Barbican); Next to Normal (West End/Donmar Warehouse); Player Kings (West End/ UK tour); Henry V; Berberian Sound Studio (Donmar Warehouse); The House of Bernarda Alba; The Welkin; Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear – The Musical; Protest Song (National Theatre); Britannicus (Lyric Hammersmith); The Song Project; Gundog; Road; Nuclear War; a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun); X; Linda (Royal Court); The Glass Menagerie; West Side Story (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester/ UK tour); Nora: A Doll’s House (Young Vic/ Citizens Theatre, Glasgow); The Two Character Play (Hampstead Theatre); Harm (Bush Theatre); Burgerz (Hackney Showroom); Julius Caesar; Doctor Faustus (RSC).  

Dance includes: Cycles, Blak Whyte Gray (Blue Boy Entertainment); The Limit (Royal Opera House); We Are As Gods (James Cousins Company); Enowate (Dickson Mbi); Clowns; Sun; Political Mother; In Your Rooms; Uprising (Hofesh Shechter Company); Don Quixote (Royal Danish Ballet); Untouchable (Royal Ballet); Grey Matter; Tomorrow; Frames (Rambert).  

Opera includes: Orphée et Eurydice (Royal Opera House/Teatro alla Scala); Aida; Fidelio; Nothing (Royal Danish Opera); Tosca (Opera North/Opera Australia); Phaedra (Royal Opera House).   

Angus recently composed the prologue for the West End production of Cabaret and has also released several albums including Vivarium, MMXIX and Cry Wolf.

For the Almeida: Three Sisters; Summer and Smoke.

Theatre includes: Cabaret (West End); Swive (Shakespeare’s Globe); 공·空·Zero: Restriction, Body and Time (ARKO Arts Theatre Seoul); Out Late (UK tour); The Mountaintop (New Vic Theatre); Kite (Soho Theatre); The Curing Room (Edinburgh Fringe); The Father (Trafalgar Studios); I am A Camera (Southwark Playhouse); Dream of Perfect Sleep (Finborough Theatre).

Dance includes: exisTence (Hessische Staatsballett); What the Moon Saw; From Above (2Faced Dance Company/ International tour); Vestige (The Place); Traces Imprinted (Ballet Cymru).

Film includes: When I’m Done Dying; Fighting For A City; Little; The Snail Man; Confection; Lost Boy; The Listener; Interlude.

Television includes: Gypsy’s Revenge; The Trials.

For the Almeida: A Streetcar Named Desire; Three Sisters; The Wild Duck; Machinal; The Writer; Summer and Smoke; The Twilight Zone; Mary Stuart (also West End); The Clinic; The Tragedy of Macbeth; The Duchess of Malfi; The Doctor; The Treatment; Hamlet; Oil; Uncle Vanya; Medea; Oresteia (also West End/Park Ave Armory, New York).

Theatre includes: Tambo & Bones (Theatre Royal Stratford East); School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play (Lyric Hammersmith); A Little Life (West End); Sons of the Prophet (Hampstead Theatre); The Wife of Willesden (Kiln Theatre/ BAM, New York/American Repertory Theatre); Girl on an Altar; Pass Over (Kiln Theatre); The Shark is Broken (West End/Toronto); All About Eve (West End); 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/ San Francisco); Yerma (Young Vic/ Park Avenue Armory, New York); A Doll’s House (Young Vic/West End/ BAM, New York);  Life of Galileo; The Government Inspector; The Glass Menagerie (Young Vic);

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

Television includes: The Read (BBC/Rural Media); Together (BAFTA for Best Single Drama); A Murder in the Family.

Cáit trained at TU Dublin Conservatoire, graduating with a BA in Drama (Performance) and began her career in costume at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin, before relocating to London.

For the Almeida: Nine Lessons & Carols; 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 (also West End); Albion.

As Costume Supervisor: Further than the Furthest Thing (Young Vic).

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

Theatre includes: Kinky Boots; Aladdin; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Di and Viv and Rose; Dirty Dancing (West End); Network; Amadeus (National Theatre); Touch; Bits of Me Are Falling Apart (Soho Theatre); The Lion King; Oliver; Mamma Mia; Madam Butterfly; Dirty Dancing; 9 to 5; Swan Lake (Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin).

Justina Kehinde is a theatre-maker. She was a recipient of the 2017 Damsel Productions Directorial Development scheme.

Theatre includes:

As Director: Till Death Do Us Part (Theatre503, London Pub Theatre Award for Best New Production); For The Culture; Sweet Tamarind (Tamasha Theatre Company); The Flower, The Moon and I (Theatre N16/ WoLab); UMUADA (King’s Head Theatre/ Bunker Theatre); The Records (Theatre Royal Stratford East).

As Assistant Director: The Sun, The Moon, and The Stars (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Monkey Bars (Southwark Playhouse); Frontline (The Place).