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Rupert is Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre, and was Artistic Director of Headlong Theatre Company from 2005 to 2013, Associate Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Artistic Director of Northampton Theatres from 2002 to 2005.

For the Almeida: Richard III; Medea, The Merchant of Venice; King Charles III (also West End and Broadway); American Psycho: A new musical thriller; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot.

Theatre includes: Made in Dagenham (West End); The Effect; Earthquakes in London (Headlong / National Theatre); Time and the Conways (National Theatre); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Three Sixty / Kensington Gardens); The Merchant of Venice; Romeo and Juliet; The Tempest; Speaking Like Magpies (RSC); ENRON (Headlong / Chichester Festival Theatre / Royal Court / West End / Broadway); Oliver!; The Glass Menagerie; Art; Speed-the-Plow (West End); King Lear (Headlong / Liverpool Everyman / Young Vic); No Man’s Land (Gate Theatre, Dublin / West End); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Headlong / Chichester Festival Theatre / Bristol Old Vic / West End); Macbeth (Brooklyn Academy of Music / Lyceum Theater / Broadway); Faustus; Restoration; Paradise Lost (Headlong); Hamlet; Summer Lightning; Insignificance; Paradise Lost; Waiting for Godot; The Weir; Betrayal (Theatre Royal, Northampton); Othello (Theatre Royal, Northampton / Greenwich Theatre); Scaramouche (Salisbury Playhouse / Australia, New Zealand, Canada tour); The Wind in the Willows; Privates on Parade (New Vic Theatre); Gone to LA (Hampstead Theatre); Broken Glass (Watford Palace Theatre); Habeus Corpus; Summer Lighting; Dancing at Lughnasa (Salisbury Playhouse); The Colonel Bird (Gate Theatre); Brand (NT Studio); Romeo and Juliet (Greenwich Theatre); The End of the Affair (Bridewell Theatre).

Opera includes: Turandot; On Thee We Feed (English National Opera); Le Comte Ory (Garsington Opera); Gli Equivoci; Il Pomo D’Oro (Batignano Opera Festival).

Television includes: Macbeth (BBC), 2011 Peabody Award, King Charles III (BBC2); BAFTA-winning Richard II (BBC).

Rupert’s first feature film, True Story, was released in 2015, which he wrote and directed, starring James Franco and Jonah Hill for Plan B and Fox Searchlight in New York.

Rupert has twice been the recipient of the Laurence Olivier, Critics’ Circle and Evening Standard awards for Best Director. He won a Peabody Award in 2011 for Macbeth and a BAFTA for Richard II.

Rupert was awarded a CBE in the 2017 New Years Honours for services to drama.

Theatre includes: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time; People, Places and Things (National Theatre/West End); The Red Barn; The White Guard; A Streetcar Named Desire; Baby Doll (National Theatre); Husbands and Sons (National Theatre/Royal Exchange Manchester); Julius Caesar; Henry IV (Donmar Warehouse/St Ann’s Warehouse New York); Made in Dagenham (Adelphi Theatre).

Opera includes: Medea (English National Opera); Tosca; Brief Encounter (Houston Grand Opera).

Film includes: Swansong.

Bunny won an Olivier and Tony Award for Best Set Design for her work on The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time. She has also won an Olivier Award for her work on The White Guard and A Streetcar Named Desire, and an Evening Standard Award for Baby Doll.

For the Almeida: The Treatment; Medea; Children’s Children; Mrs Klein; Judgement Day; The Homecoming; Marianne Dreams; As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams; The Silent Twins; Dying for It; Tom and Viv; Love Counts; Romance; The Cricket Recovers; Macbeth; Man & Boy: Dada; The Embalmer.

Theatre includes: Woyzeck (The Old Vic); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Palace Theatre); Travesties; A Life in the Theatre (Apollo Theatre); The Goat; Great Britain; Japes (Theatre Royal, Haymarket); Three Days in the Country; Evening at the Talkhouse; Our Country’s Good; Rules for Living; Dara; The Silver Tassie; Liolà; Children of the Sun; Port; The Doctor’s Dilemma; She Stoops to Conquer; The Veil; The Cherry Orchard; Women Beware Women; London Assurance; The White Guard; Oedipus; Philistines; The Man of Mode; Thérèse Raquin (National Theatre); Electra (Old Vic); Henry IV; Julius Caesar; The Night Alive; Spelling Bee; King Lear; Passion; The Wild Duck; After Miss Julie; Caligula (Donmar Warehouse); Birdland; The Faith Machine; Tusk Tusk (Royal Court); Travesties; Assassins; Dealer’s Choice (Chocolate Factory); Buried Child; The Hothouse; Dealer’s Choice (Trafalgar Studios); The Dazzle (Found 111); Photograph 51; Shakespeare in Love; Henry V (Coward); The Weir; Hamlet; Madame de Sade; Twelfth Night (Wyndham’s Theatre); The Sunshine Boys (Savoy Theatre ); South Downs; The Browning Version; Death and the Maiden; The Children’s Hour (Harold Pinter Theatre); Piaf; The Prisoner of Second Avenue (Vaudeville); No Man’s Land (Duke of York’s); Frost/Nixon (Gielgud); King Lear; The Seagull (RSC/New London); Bend it Like Beckham (Phoenix); Betty Blue Eyes; Much Ado About Nothing (Novello); Hughie; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Evita; Red; Hamlet; The Seafarer; Frost/Nixon (Broadway).

Neil was the Recipient of the 2011 Laurence Olivier Award for The White Guard, the 2010 Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for Red and the 2017 WhatsOnStage Best Lighting Design Award for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

For the Almeida: Richard III; Medea; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot; The Late Henry Moss.

Theatre includes: London Road; Salome; Les Blancs; Three Days In The Country; Danton’s Death; All’s Well that Ends Well; Phaedra; Time and the Conways (National Theatre); Red; Hamlet; Richard II; Anna Christie; Luise Miller; A Streetcar Named Desire; The Chalk Garden; Othello; Creditors; The Wild Duck; John Gabriel Borkman; Caligula (Donmar Warehouse/Broadway); Ivanov (Donmar Warehouse/West End); King Lear; Anna Christie (Donmar Warehouse); ENRON (Broadway/West End); Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (Harold Pinter Theatre); Don Juan In Soho (Wyndhams Theatre); Travesties (Menier Chocolate Factory); No Man’s Land (Sheffield Crucible/West End; Hughie (Broadway); Henry V (Michael Grandage Company/West End); No Man’s Land; A View From the Bridge (Duke of York’s); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Gielgud Theatre); Don Carlos; Photograph 51 (West End); Romeo & Juliet; The Tempest (RSC); The Glass Menagerie (Apollo Theatre); Faustus (Hampstead Theatre); Paradise Lost (Headlong); The Cherry Orchard (Crucible Theatre).

Television includes: London Road; The Hollow Crown: Richard II; Macbeth; Frances Tuesday; Re-ignited; Imprints.

Film includes: Genius; Bust; The Three Rules of Infidelity; Tripletake.

Radio includes: Losing Rosalind; The Luneberg Variation; The Colonel-Bird; Don Carlos; Othello; On the Ceiling; The Chalk Garden.

Adam's musical London Road won the 2011 Critic's Circle Award 'Best Musical' and in 2012 received an Olivier nomination for 'Best New Musical'. In 2010 he received a Tony Award for the music and sound score for Red, and an Olivier Award in 2011 for King Lear, also receiving the Evening Standard ‘Best Design’ award 2011 for Anna Christie and King Lear. In 2010 he was nominated for the Tony Award ‘Best Score’ (Music & Lyrics) for ENRON.

Adam sits on the board of Mercury Musical Developments, and is an Associate Artist of the RSC.

For the Almeida: Little Eyolf; The Lightning Play; Whistling Psyche.

Theatre includes:3 Winters; King Lear; The Effect; People; The Last of the Haussmans; Travelling Light; Earthquakes in London; Nation; The Power of Yes; All’s Well That Ends Well; The Observer; Gethsemane; Her Naked Skin; Fram; A Matter of Life and Death; The Reporter (National Theatre); The Winter’s Tale; Harlequinade (Kenneth Branagh Company); Mack and Mabel; Separate Tables; The Last Cigarette (Chichester Festival Theatre); Frost/Nixon (Donmar Warehouse); ENRON (Chichester Festival Theatre/Headlong);Richard III; The Prisoner of Second Avenue; Complicit (Old Vic); Brief Encounter (Kneehigh); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Stephen Ward; From Here to Eternity; The King’s Speech; The Wizard of Oz; Love Never Dies; Dirty Dancing; Our House; Up for Grabs; Dance of Death (West End); Ghost the Musical (West End/Broadway); Chaplin the Musical; Finding Neverland (Broadway).

Opera and dance includes: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Royal Ballet); Carmen (Santa Fe Opera).

Concert and Events includes: The Phantom of the Opera (Royal Albert Hall); Blade Runner (Secret Cinema); Kate Bush: Before the Dawn (Hammersmith Apollo).

Jon won the 2014 Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and was nominated for an Olivier Award his work on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Brief Encounter, for which he also won an Obie Award and LA Drama Critics Circle Award. For his work on Ghost the Musical Jon won a Drama Desk Award and was nominated for a Tony Award, and was also nominated for a Drama Desk Award for his work on Chaplin the Musical.

Jon studied Cinematography at the National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield and Theatre Design at Croydon College of Art.

For the Almeida: American Psycho (also Broadway); There Came A Gypsy Riding; The Late Henry Moss.

Theatre includes: Funny Girl; Little Shop of Horrors (Menier Chocolate Factory/UK Tour/West End); My Fair Lady (Lyric Opera Of Chicago); Volpone; The Two Gentlemen Of Verona (RSC); The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice; Bat Boy – The Musical; Tell Me On A Sunday (West End); Company; Assassins (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); The Cherry Orchard; Never So Good; The Merchant Of Venice (National Theatre); La Cage Aux Folles; A Little Night Music (Menier Chocolate Factory/West End/Broadway); Aspects Of Love (Menier Chocolate Factory).

Opera includes: Les Troyens (La Scala/Milan/San Francisco Opera); Medea (English National Opera); Andrea Chénier (Bregenzer Festspiele); Carmen (Opera Holland Park).

Television includes: The Crown.

Film includes: Fred Claus; Hippie Hippie Shake; White Lightnin'; So You Think You Can Dance.

Music & Commercials include: Pet Shop Boys: Inner Sanctum (Royal Opera House); Burberry: Shanghai Launch & Festive Film (2014 & 2015); Kanye West (2009 Festival Tour); Muse Resistance Tour (2009); Music Videos for Ellie Goulding, Imogen Heap, Duffy.

Lynne’s collaboration with GoGo Penguin, Veils, was originally performed at the EFG London Jazz Festival, 2015, and presented on the Sadlers Wells’ stage at Latitude Festival, 2016.

For her work on La Cage Aux Folles Lynne won a 2009 What’s On Stage Award, and was nominated for an Olivier Award, Drama Desk Award and Tony Award.

For the Almeida: Bakkhai; Carmen Disruption.

Theatre includes: The Country Girls; Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Chichester Festival Theatre/Minerva Theatre); No Man’s Land (Noël Coward Theatre) Photograph 51; The Cripple of Inishmaan; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Henry V (Michael Grandage Company); Outside Mullingar (Ustinov Studio Bath); Betrayal (Ethel Barrymore Theatre NY); Macbeth (MIF 2015/New York Armory); Tartuffe; Of Mice and Men (Birmingham Rep); Venice Preserved (Spectator’s Guild); Good People (Hampstead Theatre/Noël Coward Theatre); Afterplay; Translations; Wonderful Tennessee (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield).

Anne was Casting Director at the Donmar Warehouse 1991-2012 and Casting Associate for Manchester International Festival 2017.

As Director, theatre includes: From Morning to Midnight (Bridewell Theatre); Educating Rita (Durham Gala); Julie; What Are They Like?; Idomeneus (Northern Stage); You, Me, and Everything Else (Soho Theatre & Tour); Aftermath (Royal & Derngate); A Streetcar Named Desire - Parallel Production (Young Vic); Something Cloudy, Something Clear (Greenwich Theatre); Summer and Smoke (Southwark Playhouse); Bassett (New Diorama).

As Associate/Assistant Director, theatre includes: James and the Giant Peach; The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; Here is the News from Over There; Cyrano de Bergerac (Northern Stage); The Taming of The Shrew (RSC); From Morning to Midnight; Liola (National Theatre); The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (ThreeSixty Productions); After Miss Julie (Young Vic) Dream Story (The Gate).

Rebecca trained at Goldsmiths, LAMDA, and on the National Theatre Studio’s Directors Course. Upon graduating she received a Jerwood Assistant Director Bursary to train at the Young Vic and in 2015 she won the acclaimed Regional Theatres Young Directors Scheme Bursary at Northern Stage. She was one of the first winners of the Michael Grandage Company Futures Bursary in 2016, was Runner-Up for the Royal Theatrical Support Trust Director Award 2016 and a 2017 finalist, and was a finalist for the 2014 & 2017 Genesis Future Directors Award at the Young Vic.

As Associate Choreographer:

Theatre includes: Love in Idleness (Menier Chocolate Factory).

Television includes: The Crown.

Opera and Events include: London Jazz Festival (Barbican); Pet Shop Boys (Royal Opera House); Latitude Music Festival.

As a dancer:

Ballet includes: The Car Man; Nutcracker; Highland Fling; Edward Scissorhands; Swan Lake (Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures); as a soloist for Gothenburg Ballet.

Gemma has also worked as a dance artist on various contemporary projects for Lynne Page, Arthur Pita, Wayne McGregor, Michael Keegan Dolan, Aletta Collins, Caroline Pope, Liam Steel and Anthony Van Laast.

She trained at the Royal Ballet Upper School and Central School of Ballet. Gemma currently creates her own work under Payne Productions.

For the Almeida: Filumena; Medea.

Theatre includes: Angels in America (National Theatre); Good People; Wonderland; Hapgood (Hampstead Theatre); Sunny Afternoon (Hampstead Theatre/West End/UK Tour); As You Desire Me (Playhouse Theatre, London); King Lear (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Tempest; Henry IV; Julius Caesar; Closer (Donmar Warehouse).

Opera includes: The Rape of Lucretia; La Boheme; St Matthew Passion (Glyndebourne); Agrippina; Orfeo; Salome; Alcina; Child of our Time; Trojans; Ernani; The Mikado; Don Giovanni (English National Opera); Cosi Fan Tutte (English National Opera/Barbican).

Deborah studied Fashion Design at Central St Martins College of Art and then worked in fashion before being lured into the theatre. She has worked as a Costume Supervisor in both Opera and Theatre.

Theatre includes: Crazy for You (Watermill Theatre); Forget Me Not (Bush Theatre).

Television includes: Horrible Histories; Prime Suspect 1973; Clique.

Film includes: Watcher in the Woods; The Professor and the Madman.

Radio includes: A Streetcar Named Desire; X Files: Cold Cases.

Video games include: Need for Speed.

Elspeth regularly makes expert contributions about accents on programmes such as Melvyn Bragg's Matter of the North (BBC) where she recorded a series of short Northern accent lessons, An Immigrant's Guide to Britain (Channel 4) and The Royals (Netflix). She is also the lead Voice Coach for BBC News.

For the Almeida: Bakkhai; Rope.

Theatre includes: The Hairy Ape (Old Vic); Damned by Despair; The Man of Mode; Life of Galileo; Coram Boy;(National Theatre); Doctor Dee (Manchester International Festival); Matilda: The Musical (RSC / West End/Broadway); The Pride (Chichester/ UK tour); Parade (Donmar Warehouse); Faustus (Etcetera Theatre); Professor Bernhardi; Rose Bernd (OSC/Arcola/Dumbfounded Theatre); Macbeth (Union Theatre / En Masse); Revelations (Hampstead Theatre).

Television includes: Doctor Foster; Coalition; The Wrong Mans; Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell; Babylon; Restless; Hidden; The Crimson Petal & The White; Just William; Sherlock; Midsomer Murders; Waking The Dead; Primeval; John Adams; Doctor Who; Holby City; The Genius of Beethoven; Bombshell; Hawking.

Film includes: Les Misérables.

Theatre includes: Macbeth (Park Avenue Armory); Polar Bears; After Miss Julie; Proof (Donmar Warehouse); The Lover / The Collection (West End) Look Back In Anger (Theatre Royal Bath); Don Carlos (Crucible, Sheffield / West End); The York Realist (Royal Court & West End).

Television includes: Hard Sun; Born to Kill; The Fall; The Collection; AD; Crossbones; Life of Crime; Covert Affairs; Going Postal; Whistleblowers; The History of Mr Polly; Ultra; Cracker; The Best Man; Gunpowder, Treason and Plot; Strange; Coupling; Othello; Lorna Doone; Sword of Honour; Hearts and Bones; Up, Rising; Wives & Daughters; The Life and Crimes of William Palmer.

Film includes: The Food Guide to Love; Pusher; Grabbers; W.E.; 5 Days of War; Prince of Persia; Franklyn; A Good Year; The Libertine; Happy Now; Young Blades; Topsy-Turvy; Human Traffic; Zeffirelli's; Jane Eyre.