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. Other plays include 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 and The Two-Character Play. Tennessee Williams died in 1983.

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: Romeo and Juliet; A Streetcar Named Desire (also West End, Olivier Award for Best Revival, 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, Olivier Award nomination for Best Director).

Theatre includes: Cabaret (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 (Internationaal Theater Amsterdam); The House of Bernarda Alba (National Theatre); Sanctuary City (New York Theatre Workshop; Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play).

For the Almeida: Romeo and Juliet; 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); Next to Normal; 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: L’Orfeo (Zurich Opera House); 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).

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

Theatre includes:

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

As Set and Costume Designer: 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); In the Blood (Donmar Warehouse); Chiaroscuro (Bush Theatre); Summer Rolls (Park 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).

For the Almeida: Roots; Look Back in Anger; 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).

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).

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).

Carolyn is a Tony and Olivier award-winning sound designer working in a variety of fields, in the UK & internationally.

For the Almeida: Summer and Smoke (also West End, Olivier Award nomination for Best Sound Design); Chimerica (also West End, Olivier Award nomination for Best Sound Design); Carmen Disruption; Blood Wedding.

Theatre includes: Life of Pi (West End/ American Repertory Theater/ Broadway, Tony Award, UK Theatre Award and Olivier Award nomination for Best Sound Design); Never Let Me Go (Rose Theatre, Kingston); The Enfield Haunting (West End); Fantastically Great Women (UK tour); Downstate (National Theatre/ Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago); The Normal Heart; The Welkin; As You Like It; (National Theatre); Death of a Salesman (Young Vic/ West End); All My Sons (The Old Vic); Gypsy; The Producers (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Me and My Girl; Fiddler on the Roof (Chichester Festival Theatre); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Donmar Warehouse/ Broadway); BLANK; Fathers and Sons; (Donmar Warehouse); The Low Road; Choir Boy (Royal Court); Ben And Imo; Anthony & Cleopatra; Coriolanus; (RSC); The Believers; Beautiful Burnout; Love Song (Frantic Assembly).

Events & Exhibitions include: Sweet Dreams (Aviva Studios); Commonwealth Games Birmingham 2022 Opening Ceremony (Alexander Stadium); Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure (New York/ Los Angeles).

Angus recently composed the 75-minute original prologue for the West End and Broadway productions of Cabaret. He has released several albums, including Vivarium, MMXIX and Cry Wolf.

For the Almeida: A Streetcar Named Desire (also West End); Three Sisters; Summer and Smoke (also West End).

Theatre includes: Coriolanus (National Theatre); Cabaret (West End/ Broadway); Swive (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Mountaintop (New Vic Theatre); Kite (Soho Theatre); The Father (West End); I am A Camera (Southwark Playhouse); Dream of Perfect Sleep (Finborough Theatre).

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.

Dance includes: exisTence (Hessische Staatsballett); 공·空·Zero: Restriction, Body and Time (ARKO Arts Theatre, Seoul); Out Late (UK tour); What the Moon Saw; From Above (2Faced Dance Company/ International tour); Vestige (The Place); Traces Imprinted (Ballet Cymru).

For the Almeida:  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.

Theatre includes:

As Associate Casting Director and Children’s Casting Director: Mamma Mia! (West End/ UK & International tour); Back to the Future; Aspects of Love; Cinderella; Elf (West End); My Fair Lady (UK & Ireland tour); The Time Traveller’s Wife (Storyhouse, Chester/ West End); Sinatra the Musical (Birmingham Rep); Starter For Ten (Bristol Old Vic) for Grindrod Burton Casting.

As Children’s Casting Director: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (UK tour); MJ the Musical; Matilda the Musical (West End) for Jessica Ronane Casting.

Film includes: Hamnet for Nina Gold; Matilda The Musical; Disenchanted; Zombies 4 for Grindrod Burton Casting.

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).

For the Almeida: The Chairs; Summer and Smoke (also West End); Chimerica (also West End).

Theatre includes: Cabaret; Standing at the Sky’s Edge; Crazy for You; A View from the Bridge; The Man in the White Suit; The Importance of Being Earnest; Everybody’s Talking About Jamie; Neville’s Island; South Downs/The Browning Version; Country Girl; Motown: The Musical; Memphis; Hairspray; Love Never Dies (West End); Dixon and Daughters; Oslo; The Beaux’ Stratagem; The History Boys; Market Boy; Caroline, or Change; The Alchemist; The Rose Tattoo; Playing with Fire (National Theatre); The Hypocrite; Hecuba; Oppenheimer (RSC); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Theatre Royal Bath); Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Leeds Playhouse); Orpheus in the Underworld; Pagliacci (ENO); The Crucible (The Old Vic); Knives in Hens (Donmar Warehouse); Guys and Dolls; The Last King of Scotland; Steel; The Wizard of Oz (Sheffield Theatres); The Narcissist; A Damsel in Distress; She Loves Me (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Brothers Size; The Glass Menagerie; Eurydice (Young Vic); truth and reconciliation; Love, Love, Love (Royal Court).

Film includes: The Last Swim; Everybody’s Talking About Jamie; Cosi; Broken; Omar; Brimstone; Exam.

Television includes: Bodies; Zero Chill; Happy Valley; Doctor Who; Odyssey; Grantchester; Midsomer Murders; Millie Inbetween.

For the Almeida:

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

Theatre includes:

As Fight Director: Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812; Fear of 13 (Donmar Warehouse); The Other Place; Coriolanus (National Theatre); 101 Dalmatians (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); Nothello (Belgrade Theatre).

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

Justina is a theatre-maker. Her directorial debut Til Death Do Us Part (Theatre503) won Best New Production at the 2022 London Pub Theatre Awards.

For the Almeida: Romeo and Juliet.

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 Associate Director: Long Day’s Journey Into Night (West End).

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

As an actor: The Mountaintop (Curve Theatre, Leicester/ Theatre Royal Stratford East); Girl from the North Country (UK & Ireland tour); Best of Enemies (Young Vic).

Television includes:

 As an actor: Sandman.