House of Games

For the Almeida: Measure For Measure; Awake and Sing; The Late Henry Moss; The Iceman Cometh (Almeida Productions Old Vic).

Theatre includes: Arcadia (Duke of York’s Theatre); The Tempest; Lone Star; Winding the Ball; Twelfth Night (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Playing With Fire; Accidental Death of an Anarchist (National Theatre); A Night at the Dogs (Soho Theatre); By the Bog of Cats (Wyndhams Theatre); Soldiers (Finborough Theatre); The Lieutenant of Innishmore; King John; The Prisoners Dilemma (RSC); Snake in the Grass (The Old Vic); The Crimson Island (Gate Theatre, London); American Buffalo (The Duke’s Theatre, Lancaster); Shallow End; Live Like Pigs (Royal Court); According to Hoyle (Hampstead Theatre); Zenobia (RSC at the Young Vic); Absurd Person Singular; Julius Caesar; Great Expectations; Cymbeline (Royal Exchange Theatre); Strange Snow (Teatro Technis); The Three Musketeers (Bristol Old Vic); Court in the Act (Phoenix Theatre); Hamlet (Barbican).

Television includes: Spooks; Outnumbered; Inspector George Gently; Tess Of The D’Urbevilles; The Ruby in the Smoke; Midsomer Murders; The Singing Detective; Our Friends in The North; Frank Stubbs; An Ungentlemanly Act.

Film includes: Somers Town; Until Death;Happy Go Lucky; Elizabeth: The Golden Age; Vanity Fair; Gangs of New York; The Emperor’s New Clothes; Drowning By Numbers.

Radio includes: Dr Zhivago; The Laxian Key; Old Peter’s Russian Tales; Dead Souls; The Rover; The Fosdyke Saga; Master Class.

Theatre includes: Breakfast At Tiffany’s (Haymarket); Calico (West End); The Weir (Duke of York’s / Gate Theatre, Dublin / Walter Kerr Theatre, Broadway); Translations (Biltmore Theatre, Broadway); Juno (New York City Centre Theatre); Two Men of Florence (Huntingdon Theatre Company, Boston); A Christmas Carol (McCarter Theatre, Princeton); Dealer’s Choice (Manhattan Theatre Club, New York); Stuff Happens; Scenes from the Big Picture; His Girl Friday; The Double Dealer; Undiscovered Country; As You Like It; Brand; Richard III; The Woman; Macbeth; The Plough and the Stars; Amadeus (National Theatre): The Hostage (RSC); The Memory of Water; Ancient Lights; Hedda Gabler; Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Hampstead Theatre. Received Time Out Best Supporting Actor Award); Exiles; The Government Inspector; Translations (The Bristol Old Vic); Summerfolk (Chichester Festival Theatre).

Television includes: Luther; Margaret; New Tricks; Foyle’s War; Midsomer Murders; Bleak House; Kingdom; Spooks; Dead Gorgeous; Murder Rooms; A Touch of Frost; Trial and Retribution; Rebel Heart; Falling For a Dancer; Father Ted; Jonathan Creek; The Sculptress; Kavanagh QC; Poirot; Blue Money; Echoes; Empty Nest.

Film includes: Holy Water; Babel; Before You Go; The Legend of Bagger Vance; Staggered; The March; Son of The Pink Panther; The Misadventures of Mr Wilt; Little Dorrit; The Doctor and the Devils; Octopussy; Star Wars: Return of the Jedi; Giro City.

Radio includes: BBC Book of the week; The Last Matchmaker; William Trevor’s Love; Summer; The Story of Lucy Gault for Book at Bedtime.

For the Almeida: Parlour Song; A Chain Play; Enemies; Dona Rosita the Spinster.

Theatre includes: ENRON (Chichester Festival Theatre / Royal Court / West End); The Stone; Faces in the Crowd; The Ugly One; Mr Kolpert; The Man of Mode; The Libertine (Royal Court); Otherwise Engaged (Criterion); Blithe Spirit (Savoy); Damages (The Bush); Breakfast With Emma (Lyric Hammersmith); The House of Bernada Alba (Young Vic) - both for Shared Experience; Eastward Ho!; The Malcontent; The Roman Actor (RSC / West End); The Memory of Water (RSC Fringe); Jubilee; Love in a Wood (RSC); Top Girls (New Vic); Pericles; John Gabriel Borkman; The Way of the World; Hove (National Theatre).

Television includes: Midsomer Murders; Holby Blue; Eastenders; Golden Hour; The Bill; No Angels; MIT; Men Behaving Badly; Tough Love; Paul Calf’s Video Diary; Soldier Soldier; Between The Lines; The Maitlands.

Film includes: The Other Man; This Year’s Love; Mrs Dalloway.

Theatre includes: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Novello Theatre); Darker Face Of Earth; Troilus & Cressida; Merchant Of Venice; War and Peace (National Theatre); Macbeth (Odyssey); Hamlet (Cheek By Jowl); Romeo & Juliet; Macbeth (US Tour); Richard III; A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Open Air Theatre); Someone To Watch Over Me (Theatre Clwyd); The Illusion (Royal Exchange); Wuthering Heights (No 1 Tour).

For the RSC: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Hamlet; Believe What You Will; Sejanus; A New Way To Please You; Last Days of Don Juan; King Lear; Troilus and Cressida; Richard II; As You Like It; The Odyssey; Merry Wives of Windsor; Anthony and Cleopatra.

Television includes: Instinct; Sugar Rush II; New Tricks; Dalziel & Pascoe; The Bill; Waking The Dead; Doctors; Holby City III, IV & V; Trial and Retribution IV; Urban Gothic – Cry Wolf; The Choir.

Film includes: Hamlet; Out of Depth; The Bank Job.

Theatre includes: When Harry Met Sally (Theatre Royal Haymarket); If Memory Serves (Pasadena Playhouse, USA) American Bullfighter (Mark Taper Forum, USA); Brighton Beach Memoirs (Laguna Playhouse, USA).

Television includes: Last Days of the Lehman Brothers; Material Girl; New Tricks; Hotel Babylon; Boston Legal; My Boys; The Wedding Bells; Ghost Whisperer; CSI Miami; Love Soup; Miss Marple: 4.50 From Paddington; CSI: Crime Scene Investigation; Special Unit 2; Lois & Clark: New Adventures of Superman; Thirtysomething; The Wonder Years.

Film includes: Just Wright; My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend; Homecoming; Last Chance Harvey; Possession; Lakeview Terrace; College Road Trip; Final Destination 2; Hart’s War.

For the Almeida: A Chain Play; The Hypochondriac.

Theatre includes: The Emporer Jones; Market Boy; Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads (National Theatre); The Dark Side of the Buffoon (Belgrade Theatre Coventry / Lyric Hammersmith); Annie Get Your Gun; The Good Soul of Sezchuan; Street Car To Tennessee (Young Vic); Twins; Local; Mother Teresa is Dead (Royal Court); Anniversary (Garrick); Baby Doll (Albery / National Theatre); Snow Bull (Hampstead Theatre); Alice; Comedy of Errors; Iphigenia; Sweet Charity (Sheffield Crucible); A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Coffee Shop (Chichester Festival Theatre); From Morning to Midnight (ENO Coliseum

Television includes: Doc Martin (Series 3 & 4); Gunrush; Hotel Babylon; Ronnie Ancona & Co; Suburban Shootout; Blair; Holby City; The Man and the Mouse; Gods and Goddesses; Eastenders; Black Books; Crossroads; The Bill; Jonathan Creek; Soldier Soldier; Killing Me Softly.

Theatre includes: Toyer (Arts Theatre); How To Curse (Bush Theatre); The Waltz of the Toreadors (Chichester Festival Theatre); What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks (Soho Theatre); Coram Boy; Red Hot Promise (National Theatre); Malvolio and His Masters (Southwark Playhouse); All The Ordinary Angels (Manchester Royal Exchange); Hamlet (The Old Vic); Catalogue of Misunderstanding (Young Vic Studio).

Television includes: Nativity; Sherlock Holmes; Five Daughters; Survivors; Personal Affairs; The Devil’s Whore; Five Days; Viva Blackpool; Planespotting; Inspector Lynley.

Film includes: Honeymooners; Powder; Me and Orson Welles; Unmade Beds; Marie Antoinette; Doom; The Merchant of Venice; Colour Me Kubrick; The Story Of…; Islands Of The City.

Author of the plays: Race; Keep Your Pantheon; School; November; Romance; Boston Marriage; Faustus; Oleanna; Glengarry Glen Ross (1984 Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle Award); American Buffalo; The Old Neighborhood; A Life in the Theatre; Speed-the-Plow; Edmond; Lakeboat; The Water Engine; The Woods; Sexual Perversity in Chicago; Reunion and The Cryptogram (1995 Obie Award).

Translations and adaptations include: Faustus and Red River by Pierre Laville; The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekov.

Films include: The Postman Always Rings Twice; The Verdict; The Untouchables. As writer / director: House of Games; Oleanna; Homicide; The Spanish Prisoner; Heist; Spartan; Redbelt.

Author of: Warm and Cold, a book for children with drawings by Donald Sultan, and two other children’s books, Passover and The Duck and The Goat; Writing in Restaurants, Some Freaks and Make-Believe Town, three volumes of essays; The Hero Pony and The China Man, a book of poems; Three Children’s Plays; On Directing Film; The Cabin; novels The Village, The Old Religion and Wilson. His most recent books include the acting books, True & False and Three Uses of the Knife. Glengarry Glen Ross was awarded the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play in 2005.

For the Almeida: The Hypochondriac.

Stage plays include: The Big Fellah (produced by Out of Joint); team writer of Jack and the Beanstalk (Lyric Hammersmith); Pub Quiz is Life (Hull Truck); England People Very Nice; The Mentalists (National Theatre, Olivier Award Nomination for Best New Comedy); The English Game (produced by Headlong); Up On Roof (Hull Truck. Nominated for TMA Play of the Year); In The Club (Hampstead Theatre); Harvest (Nominated for Evening Standard and Olivier Best New Play Awards. Winner Critics’ Circle Best New Play); Honeymoon Suite (Pearson Play of the Year); Under The Whaleback (George Devine Award); Toast (all at the Royal Court); The God Botherers (Bush Theatre); Smack Family Robinson (Newcastle Live!); Mr England (Sheffield Crucible Theatre).

Radio plays include: Of Rats and Men; Yesterday; Unsinkable; Robin Hood’s Revenge.

Lindsay was associate director at the Royal Court Theatre from 1987 to 1992 where his production of Death and the Maiden won two Laurence Olivier Awards.

For the Almeida: Tom and Viv; The Hypochondriac; Romance; Love Counts.

Theatre includes: A View From The Bridge (Duke of York’s, Nominated for four Olivier Awards); Carousel (Churchill Theatre, UK tour and Savoy); Fiddler On The Roof (Sheffield Crucible and Savoy); 3 Sisters on Hope Street (Hampstead / Liverpool Everyman); Fool for Love (Apollo); The Birthday Party (Duchess); A Life in the Theatre (Apollo); Oleanna (Garrick); Power; Tartuffe (National Theatre); The Caretaker (Bristol Old Vic); Sexual Perversity in Chicago (Comedy); Twelfth Night; The Rivals; Volpone; The Taming of the Shrew (RSC); The Misanthrope; American Buffalo (Young Vic); After Darwin (Hampstead); The Provok’d Wife (Old Vic); The Lady from the Sea (Lyric, Hammersmith / West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Seagull (Gate, Dublin); The Robbers (The Gate).

Opera includes: Jenufa (Opera Theatre Company, Dublin); Dada: Man and Boy (Almeida / Montclair Theatre USA); Tosca (Grange Park); Roberto Deveraux (Holland Park).

For the Almeida: Waste; Cloud Nine; Romance; UK premiere of Michael Nyman’s Love Counts and The Silent Twins (Almeida Opera)

Other designs includes: The 39 Steps (London, New York, Israel, Italy, Australia, South Korea, Russia, Japan, China, UK & US Tours – Tony nominations on Broadway for Best Scenic Design and Best Costume Design); World premieres of the opera The Handmaid’s Tale (Royal Danish Opera / English National Opera / Canadian Opera), The Home Place (Gate, Dublin / London) and Kirikou Et Karaba (Casino de Paris).

For the West End: Love Story; Educating Rita & Shirley Valentine; Prick Up Your Ears; Entertaining Mr Sloane; Fiddler On the Roof; The Dumb Waiter; Summer and Smoke; Donkeys’ Years; The Home Place; The Birthday Party; Ying Tong; A Woman of No Importance; Boston Marriage.

For the RSC: King John; Brand; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Pericles; Alice in Wonderland.

For The National Theatre: Honk!; Widowers’ Houses.

Other theatre includes: Serenading Louie; Be Near Me; The Chalk Garden; John Gabriel Borkman; The Cryptogram (Donmar Warehouse); Hello Dolly! (Regents Park – Olivier Award nomination for Best Costume Design); Apologia (The Bush); The Witches of Eastwick (UK tour); Donkeys’ Years (UK tour); Honk! (UK Tour, Boston, Chicago, Tokyo, Singapore); Love Story; The Scarlet Letter; Just So; Pal Joey (Chichester Festival Theatre); Still Life / The Astonished Heart (Liverpool Playhouse); The Black Dahlia (Yale Repertory Company); Romeo and Juliet (Washington DC); Fiddler On the Roof; Assassins; Ain’t Misbehavin’; Guys and Dolls (Sheffield Crucible); Tosca (Grange Park Opera).

Dance includes: Cut To the Chase (English National Ballet).

A founding member of Loose Tubes, Django was a leading light in the 1980s jazz renaissance. The Brodsky Quartet, Dutch Metropole Orchestra, Joanna MacGregor, Absolute Ensemble, Britten Sinfonia and Duisburg Philharmonic have all commissioned new works from Django. In addition to albums for his Lost Marble label, including You Live and Learn (apparently) and Beloved Bird, he has appeared alongside Michael Brecker, Bill Bruford, Dudu Pukwana, Wynton Marsalis, and Ronnie Scott. In 1997 Django was awarded the prestigious Danish Jazzpar prize, dubbed the ‘Nobel Prize of Jazz’ and since 2005 he has been professor at Copenhagen's Rhythmic Music Conservatory.

Work for theatre includes:Baby Doll(Birmingham Rep / RNT / Albery Theatre); The Postman Always Rings Twice (West Yorkshire Playhouse / Whitehall Theatre); Titus Andronicus; Timon of Athens (Shakespeare’s Globe); As You Like It; Julius Caesar (RSC); Campbell Graham’s Out There!

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A Graduate and Associate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

For the Almeida: There Came a Gypsy Riding.

Long associations with Glyndebourne Opera, English National Opera, The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, National Theatre, English National Ballet, The Donmar Warehouse and Northern Ballet Theatre.

Opera work worldwide includes productions in America (Metropolitan Opera, Los Angeles, Houston, Seattle, San Francisco) Australia, New Zealand, Monte Carlo, Israel, Austria, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Italy and Japan.

Recent productions include: Separate Tables (2009 Chichester Festival); Another Door Closed (Peter Hall Company Bath Season); The Secret Garden (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Winters Tale (2009 Bridge Project at the Epidarus Festival in Greece); As You Like It; The Tempest (2010 Bridge Project, New York and London); Waiting for Godot (London and Australia tour); Enjoy (national tour); Measure for Measure (RADA); True West (Sheffield Crucible Theatre); Aspects of Love (Menier Chocolate Factory).

Educated at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen, where he first played with Django Bates' stoRMChaser.

Christian has toured with different groups in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Holland, Portugal and the UK. He has played and composed in projects with The National Film School of Denmark,The Danish National School of Contemporary Dance and The Danish National School of Teatre.

Current projects include: Daniel Herskedals City Stories and music for children with the band MaRiehØnS. Christian Bluhme plays guitar and ukulele on the following releases: Django Bates: Spring Is Here (Shall We Dance?); MaRiehØnS: MaRiehØnS; Ka' IkkeVente; Daniel Herskedal: City Stories.

For the Almeida: As Artistic Associate & Resident Casting Director productions include Festen, (also West End & tour); Blood Wedding; Hedda Gabler; The Goat or who is Sylvia (both of which transferred to the West End); The Mercy Seat; Romance; The Hypochondriac; Enemies; There Came a Gypsy Riding.

Theatre includes: The Bridge Project (Brooklyn Academy of Music & Old Vic); Birdsong; Inherit the Wind; Richard II; Hamlet (Old Vic); Vernon God Little (Young Vic); A Moon for the Misbegotten (Old Vic & Broadway); Cabaret; Dirty Dancing; Summer & Smoke; The Night of the Iguana; (West End); A Month in the Country (Chichester Festival Theatre). Head of Casting at RSC for Adrian Noble; Acting Head of Casting for Trevor Nunn at National Theatre; Casting Chichester Festival Theatre, Artistic Director Steven Pimlott, David Farr at the Lyric Hammersmith and Samuel West at the Crucible Sheffield.

Television includes: Hustle; Nativity; All the Small Things; Framed; Cranford Chronicles (series I & II); Oliver Twist; Lost in Austen; Trinity; Robin Hood; Viva Blackpool; Inspector Lynley; The Family Man; Derailed; Archangel; The Lavender List; A for Andromeda; Number 13; Random Quest; Maxwell; Trial & Retribution; The Commander; The Trial of Tony Blair; Dickens; Pride & Prejudice; Boon; Playing the Field.

Film Includes: Notes on a Scandal; Funny Bones; Carrington.

For the Almeida: Ruined.

Theatre includes: Shraddha, Piranha Heights, This Isn’t Romance (Soho Theatre, London); Babylone (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry); Two Women (Theatre Royal, Stratford East); Disconnect (Royal Court Upstairs, London); The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Curve, Leicester); The Caretaker (Liverpool Everyman / Trafalgar Studios, London); Category B (Tricycle Theatre, London); Annie Get Your Gun (Young Vic, London); The Fastest Clock In The Universe (Hampstead Theatre, London); The House Of Special Purpose (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Harder They Come (Playhouse Theatre, London / Barbican, London / Toronto); Lost Monsters;Ten Tiny Toes (Liverpool Everyman); Bad Blood Blues, Family Man (Theatre Royal, Stratford East); The Great Game (Tricycle Theatre, London); Free Outgoing (Royal Court Theatre, London); Wuthering Heights (Birmingham Rep); The Lover / The Collection (Comedy Theatre, London).

Film and television includes: Troy; The New Girl; Shades of Beige; Against All Odds; Blue Peter.

Trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Recent theatre work includes: Merchant of Venice; Taming of the Shrew; Winters Tale (RSC); Brighton Beach Memoirs (Watford Palace Theatre); I Oughta be in Pictures (Manchester Library Theatre); Dancing at Lughnasa; Arthur and George (Birmingham Rep); Under Milk Wood (Colchester Mercury); Death of a Salesman (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Crucible (The Open Air Theatre, Regents Park); Jerusalem (Royal Court); Taking Sides; The Music Man; Separate Tables; Love Story (Chichester Festival Theatre); Stones in his Pocket; Bus Stop; The Glass Menagerie; Silence; Shining City; Northanger Abbey (Theatre by the Lake, Keswick); Everyone Loves a Winner (Manchester Royal Exchange); The Big Fellah (Out of Joint); The Mountaintop (Trafalgar Studios).

Film includes: Othello; An Ideal Husband; The Butcher Boy.

Charmian has worked for many years at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and is now a professor at Penn State University, USA.

Studied at Trinity College Cambridge.

Theatre includes: As Assistant Director; Love Story (Minerva Theatre Chichester); The Painkiller (Reading, Hampstead Theatre); After the Dance (Pre-rehearsals, National Theatre); The American Capitalism Project (The TEAM / New York). As Director; The Gentleman Usher (MCS Oxford); The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Cambridge American Stage Tour); The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (The Caves, Edinburgh); Richard II; Empty Portrait (ADC Theatre Cambridge); Othello (Swaziland national tour); Loot (St Paul’s School). As actor; The Pillowman; Romeo and Juliet; Motortown (ADC Theatre Cambridge); Henry V (tour).

Future projects include: As Assistant Director; Masterclass (Theatre Royal Bath Productions). As Director: The Shape of Things (The Gallery, Soho).

Tom is the Artistic Director of Rhapsody of Words Productions.