Hymn For Free

For the Almeida: The Writer.

Theatre includes: Botticelli In The Fire (Hampstead Theatre); Women in Power (Nuffield); Bartholomew Fair, The Winter’s Tale, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare’s Globe); Tosca, The Marriage of Figaro (ETO);Titus Andronicus, The Two Noble Kinsmen (RSC); Tartuffe (National Theatre); The Norman Conquests (Chichester); Women in Power, Tonight At 8.30, The Nutcracker (Nuffield Theatre); Noises Off (Nottingham Playhouse); Welcome Home Captain Fox! (Donmar Warehouse); The Oresteia (HOME, Manchester); The Seagull (Headlong); Foxfinder, Accolade, Moliere or The League of Hypocrites (Finborough Theatre); Accolade (St James Theatre), Repentance/ Behind The Lines (Bush Theatre); Ciphers (Out of Joint); The Birthday Party (Manchester Royal Exchange); Liar Liar(Unicorn Theatre); The Only True History of Lizzie Finn, Open Heart Surgery (Southwark Playhouse); The Seven Year Itch (Salisbury Playhouse); When Did You Last See My Mother? (Trafalgar Studios).

Film includes: The Hippopotamus (as co-writer, based on the novel by Stephen Fry).

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

Theatre and Dance 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 (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); Sunny Afternoon; 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 includes: La Fanciulla Del West (ENO and Santa Fe Opera); Turandot; Wozzeck (ENO); Suor Angelica (Royal Opera House); 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.

Theatre includes: The Comeback (Noel Coward Theatre); A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Trafalgar Studios); Swive (Elizabeth); Bartholomew Fair; Richard II (Shakespeare’s Globe); A History of Water in the Middle East; Superhoe (Royal Court); Studio Créole (Manchester International Festival); Things of Dry Hours (Young Vic); Of Kith & Kin (Sheffield Crucible/Bush Theatre); The Hired Man (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch/Bolton Octagon/Hull Truck); Fame (UK tour/Peacock Theatre); East is East (Northern Stage/Nottingham Playhouse); The Importance of Being Earnest (Bolton Octagon); Talking Heads (Leeds Playhouse); Chicken Soup (Sheffield Crucible); Holes; Hercules (Nottingham Playhouse); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Leicester Curve); Mighty Atoms (Hull Truck); A Passage to India (Royal and Derngate/UK tour); A Christmas Carol; The Wizard of Oz (Storyhouse); The York Suffragettes; Murder, Margaret & Me (York Theatre Royal); Love Lies & Taxidermy; Growth; I Got Superpowers for My Birthday (Paines Plough); The Effect (English Theatre of Frankfurt); Coming Up; Jefferson’s Garden; Fourteen (Watford Palace Theatre); The Electric Hills(Liverpool Everyman); The Great Extension (Theatre Royal Stratford East); The Snow Queen (Derby Theatre); The Canterville Ghost; Huddle (Unicorn); Wipers (UK tour).

Dance includes: Bells (Mayor of London 2012); Spill (Düsseldorf); Sufi Zen (Royal Festival Hall); Dhamaka (O2 Arena); Maaya (Westminster Hall).

Events include: A-List Party Area (Madame Tussauds, London).

Prema is Founder of Stage Sight. She is a Trustee of the Unicorn Theatre and an Artistic Associate at the Young Vic.

For the Almeida: Albion; Against; The Merchant of Venice; Cloud Nine.

Theatre includes: A Doll’s House (Lyric Hammersmith); Rosmersholm; The Goat Or Who Is Silvia?; The Truth; Stepping Out; My Night With Reg; Goodnight Mister Tom; The Vortex; A Voyage Around My Father; And Then There Were None; Some Girls; Waiting for Godot; What the Butler Saw (West End); The Beacon; Shelter; Furniture; Richard III (Druid); Twelfth Night (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); Admissions (Trafalgar Studios); The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ (Menier Chocolate Factory/ West End); Orpheus Descending (Theatr Clwyd/ Menier Chocolate Factory); The Boy Friend; The Gronholm Method; Fiddler on the Roof; Spamilton; The Bridges of Madison Country; Lettice & Loveage; The Truth; Dinner With Saddam; Assassins; Two Into One; The Lyons; The Color Purple; Travels With My Aunt; Proof (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Two Noble Kinsmen; The Alchemist; All’s Well That Ends Well;Coriolanus; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Tantalus; Cymbeline; A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC); A Steady Rain; The American Plan (St James’s); Stepping Out; Henry IV Parts I and II; Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell; Blithe Spirit; The Rivals; Hedda Gabler; The Winslow Boy; Balmoral; Peter Hall Company Season (Theatre Royal Bath); Welcome Home Captain Fox!; My Night With Reg; Versailles; The Night Alive; A Voyage Around My Father; The Philanthropist (Donmar Warehouse); The Color Purple (Broadway); The Twits; The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas (Royal Court); Medea; The Doctor’s Dilemma; Misterman; Tristan & Yseult (National Theatre); Clarence Darrow; A Flea In Her Ear; National Anthems; Six Degrees of Separation (Old Vic); Journey’s End (Duke of York’s/New York); Equus (Gielgud /New York); The Wizard of Oz; The Midnight Gang; The Watsons; A Christmas Carol; Mrs Pat; The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Chichester Festival Theatre); Annie Get Your Gun (UK tour); The Birthday Party (Manchester Royal Exchange); The Seagull (Headlong); Donkeys’ Years (Rose Theatre Kingston); Arcadia (English Touring Theatre); King of The Castle; The Irish Shakespeare Project; Brigit; Bailegangaire (Druid Theatre); The Night Alive; The Philanthropist; Pygmalion (New York).

For his work on Journey’s End Gregory won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design. Gregory also won a Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Play for his work on Equus.

Danilo 'DJ' Walde is a composer, musician, consultant, DJ & performer from West London, and is a music graduate of Brunel University.

Theatre as composer includes: Dick Whittington; The Suicide (National Theatre); SYLVIA (Old Vic); The Little Mermaid (as co-composer - Bristol Old Vic); Pericles (RSC) The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party (Royal Opera House/Roundhouse); Some Like It Hip Hop (Sadler’s Wells, UK Tour); Tales of the Turntable (Southbank Centre); Animal Farm (Royal & Derngate); POP Circus at Circus Fest 2016 (Roundhouse).

Music direction and arrangements include: Into The Hoods (Novello Theatre); Into The Hoods Remixed (Sadler’s Wells, UK Tour); Blaze: The Street Dance Sensation (International Tour – Music Supervisor & Editor); Against Time: Flawless & English National Ballet (UK Tour); The Happiness Project (Roundhouse); Big Dance 2006, 2010 (Big Dance); Nora; She Persisted, (English National Ballet – soundscape composition); You & I Know (Greenwich Festivals – Soundtrack Editor & Arranger).

Performance includes: Stadium DJ for Paralympic Opening Ceremony London 2012 Olympics; Downhill: Hitchcock 9, Moscow (British Council Russia); Vocal Orchestra 2013 Canada (Just For Laughs Festival, Montreal).

Film includes: co-composer of ‘Fall into You’ for The Holloway Laundrette (BAFTA/Big Dance); Big Commonwealth Dance 2014

Danilo plays bass and is a founding member of the band Royal Treatment Plant (RTP), who released their debut album Hope Is Not Enough in 2009 & Halfway To The Sun in 2012. He is the leader of the Roundhouse Experimental Choir (REC) and also leads and performs with Some Voices, a London-wide choir.

Robia Milliner is London-based dancer and choreographer who has worked with companies and choreographers including Avant Garde Dance, Still House Dance Company, Hofesh Schecter, and Ivan Blackstock.

Work as choreographer includes: Refresh/Fresh; Young Creatives (The Place & Royal Opera House); Street Stories (Kerry Nichols workshop); East Wall Warm Up (Hofesh Schecter & ELD workshop).

Theatre as dancer includes: Message In A Bottle (Sadler's Wells, also Resident Director); A Harlem Dream (tour); Vicycle (Sadler’s Wells); Of Riders and Running Horses (Still House Dance Company tour).

Film as dancer includes: Beyoncé - Black is King; Booty luv (music video); The Harry Hill Movie; IT.

For the Almeida as actor: Cacophony; From the Ground Up (Almeida Young Company).

Theatre as actor includes: Mother Courage (Royal Exchange Manchester); Run It Back (Hackney Showroom); Homecoming; The Storm (Theatre503); Our Tower; Herons (Arcola Theatre); The Fall (Finborough Theatre).

Theatre as writer includes: Empty (Lyric Hammersmith); Homecoming (Theatre 503).

Theatre includes: Cost of Living (Hampstead Theatre); Othello; Henry V; Sweeney Todd (National Theatre); Red Velvet (Tricycle Theatre/West End /New York); Guys & Dolls (Royal Albert Hall); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (West End); Hamlet (Theatres des Bouffes du Nord/Young Vic); Company (Donmar Warehouse/West End); As You Like It (Cheek By Jowl/West End); Six Degrees of Separation (Royal Court/West End).

Television includes: Life; The Rook; Curfew; Trauma; Riviera; Undercover; London Spy; Hustle.

Film includes: Mary Queen of Scots; Grey Lady; Dust; Doomsday; Loves Labours Lost; The Day After Tomorrow; Primary Colors.

Directing includes: Of Mary (Winner of Best Short Film at PAFF); Hustle and Riviera on television and The Greatest Wealth (The Old Vic) and the forthcoming Calmer (Birmingham Rep).

Adrian won the 2013 Evening Standard Award for Best Actor for Othello and won the Critics’ Circle Award for Best Actor 2012 for Red Velvet. He also won the 1996 Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical for Company. He was recently made a CBE.

For the Almeida: Big White Fog.

Theatre includes: Invisible Cities (Manchester International Festival); Les Blancs; Medea; Home; Moon on a Rainbow Shawl; The Overwhelming; His Dark Materials; Antony and Cleopatra; The Machine Wreckers; Richard II (National Theatre); Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Young Vic); Anderson's English; Macbeth (Out of Joint); Wig Out; Neverland (Royal Court); Radio Golf (Tricycle Theatre); To the Green Fields Beyond (Donmar Warehouse); Julius Caesar (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Silver Lake (Wilton’s Music Hall); Measure for Measure (Nottingham Playhouse); Julius Caesar (Royal Exchange Manchester); Measure For Measure (Cheek by Jowl tour); The Lion (Talawa Theatre Co.); Love At A Loss (Wild Iris); The Beggars New Clothes (Cockpit Theatre); The Honest Whore (Boulevard Theatre).

Television includes: Halo; Killing Eve; Harlots; Mother Father Son; Traitors; Black Earth Rising; The State; Broken; The Crown; Chewing Gum; Danny & The Human Zoo; Bastard Executioner; Penny Dreadful; The Fear; The Town; Blackout; The Jury; Shirley; Casualty; Dr Who; Documental; Garrow's Law; Misfits; Wild at Heart; Place of Execution; The Bill.

Film includes: Black Panther; Taarakaasura; Star Wars: The Last Jedi; The Siege of Jadotville; Singam 2; Trance; Tezz; Mercenaries; Hard Boiled Sweets; The Oxford Murders; Song for a Raggy Boy; Anansi; Timecode II; Going Down The Road.