Look Back in Anger

Atri was previously on the Almeida’s Resident Director Scheme. He is a recipient of the 2022-24 Peter Hall Bursary at the National Theatre, Creative Associate at the Gate Theatre, and previously Trainee Director at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. He is a Trustee of the Regional Theatre Young Directors’ Scheme.    

For the Almeida: Name, Place, Animal, Thing (as part of Six Artists in Search of a Play).   

Theatre includes: Julius Caesar (RSC); The Glass Menagerie (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester/ Rose Theatre Kingston/ UK tour); SHED: EXPLODED VIEW; Hobson’s Choice (The Stage Debut Award for Best Director); Utopia (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Britannicus (Lyric Hammersmith); Kes (Octagon Theatre, Bolton/ Theatre by the Lake); HARM (Bush Theatre); ERROR ERROR ERROR (The Marlowe, Canterbury/ RSC); Into the Woods (Bristol Old Vic Theatre School); Europe (LAMDA). 

Film includes: HARM.  

Theatre includes: Shed: Exploded View; Light Falls; Happy Days (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Hope has a Happy Meal; That Is Not Who I Am/Rapture; Scenes with girls; The Woods (Royal Court); Akedah; The Breach; The Animal Kingdom; Wildefire; Belongings; The Gods Weep (Hampstead Theatre); Fair Play (Bush Theatre); The Convert; The Container; Phaedra’s Love (Young Vic); Romeo and Juliet; As You Like It (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Duchess of Malfi; Doctor Faustus; The White Devil; The Roaring Girl; As You Like It; King John (RSC); The Winter’s Tale (Roma Abbey, Romakloster); Beryl (Leeds Playhouse/UK tour); Kasimir & Karoline; Fanny & Alexander; Love & Money (Malmö Stadsteater); Hotel; Three More Sleepless Nights (National Theatre); Amerika; Krieg der Bilder (Staatstheater Mainz); Scorched (The Old Vic); Mary Shelley; The Glass Menagerie; Speechless (UK tour) State of Emergency; Mariana Pineda (Gate Theatre); Stallerhof; Richard III; The Cherry Orchard; Summer Begins (Southwark Playhouse); If That’s All There Is (Lyric Hammersmith); The Typist (Sky Arts); Attempts on Her Life (Battersea Arts Centre); Home; In Blood; Venezuela; Mud; Trash (Arcola Theatre). 

Opera includes: Madama Butterfly; The Lottery; The Fairy Queen (Bury Court Opera); Madama Butterfly (Arcola Theatre). 

Tomás is an artist and designer who works across theatre, dance, opera and performance art. Tomás trained at The Glasgow School of Art and the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. He is a recipient of the 2021 Linbury Prize for Theatre Design. As an artist, he has created installations and performance pieces for the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Transmission Gallery and Embassy Gallery.

Theatre includes: 

As Set and Costume Designer: Liberation Squares (Nottingham Playhouse) Dreaming and Drowning (Bush Theatre); Blue Mist (Royal Court); The Bacchae (Lyric Hammersmith); My Uncle Is Not Pablo Escobar (Brixton House); Autocue (Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow).

As Costume Designer: Multiple Casualty Incident (The Yard); Julius Caesar (RSC). 

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).   

Peter is a freelance Sound Designer for Theatre & Short Film. He is Course Leader for Sound Design & Production at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Chair of the Association for Sound Design and Production, Sound Associate for NYX Electronic Drone Choir, and a founder member of Stage Sight. Peter also produces and presents the podcast ‘Conversations with Sound Designers’. 

For the Almeida: King Lear; A Streetcar Named Desire (also West End); The Tragedy of Macbeth; The Tragedy of King Richard II; Oil. 

Theatre includes: House of Bernarda Alba; Deep Blue Sea; On The Shore Of The Wide World (National Theatre); Jesus Hopped The ‘A’ Train; Yellowman; It’s All Kicking Off Everywhere; Trade; Barbarians; Fireface (Young Vic); This Is Not Who I Am; Gundog; Nuclear War (Royal Court); A Streetcar Named Desire; Hamlet; Scuttlers; The Last Days of Troy; Blindsided; That Day We Sang; Cannibals; Orpheus Descending; Saturday Night/Sunday Morning; Black Roses (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Masque Of Anarchy (Manchester International Festival); Miss Julie; Black Comedy (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Fruit Trilogy (Southbank Centre/ West Yorkshire Playhouse); Romeo and Juliet (Sheffield Theatres); The Funfair (HOME, Manchester).  

Film includes: Fellow Creatures; Snapshots; Drown; Grin; Swansong; G.O.D.; Glue.  

Imogen is an artist who works with the body. She applies her practice in theatre, film, music, television, performance art and opera. She is a Somatic Experiencing therapist and is currently training in NeuroAffective Touch with Dr. Aline Le Pierre.  

For the Almeida: King Lear; Women, Beware the Devil; The Tragedy of King Richard the Second; Against; Carmen Disruption; Little Revolution; Filumena.  

Theatre includes:
As Creator and Co-Creator: Robin/Red/Breast; They; The Nico Project; The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca; The Striker (Manchester International Festival); The Horse (Edinburgh Fringe/ Barbican/ European tour); Rheinklang – Ein Chorritual (Theater Basel); The Body Remembers (Battersea Arts Centre); Nuclear War (Royal Court);  

As Collaborator: The Confessions (Avignon Festival/ National Theatre/ European tour); Amadeus; Les Blancs; Edward II (National Theatre); Dear England (Barbican/ Southbank Centre); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf; The Birthday Party; Uncle Vanya; Rosmersholm (West End); Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (National Theatre of Scotland/ West End); The Wife Of Willesden; Red Velvet (Kiln Theatre/ BAM, New York); The Crucible (The Old Vic).  

Opera includes: The Handmaids Hale; The Dead City; Powder Her Face; A Winter’s Tale (ENO);  

Film includes: Firebrand; Harm; The Secret Affair; On Chesil Beach; Here.   

Television includes: Dope Girls; Ronja the Robber’s Daughter; Chernobyl; The Power; MotherFatherSon; The Innocents; The Rook; Harlots; The Hollow Crown. 

Imogen is part of the theatre collective company MAAT with Maxine Peake and Sarah Frankcom, Movement Director for NYX Electronic Drone Choir.  

Yarit is a multidisciplinary creative working as a Fight Director, IDC Certified Intimacy Director and Movement Director. She is co-director of Moving Body Arts and an Ensemble Associate Artist of The Shakespeare’s Globe. In 2019 she originated the role of the Intimacy Director in the West End and recently she’s been awarded a Fellow of Rose Bruford College. 

For the Almeida: The Years;“Daddy” A Melodrama. 

Theatre includes: Why Am I So Single; Hamilton; The Shark Is Broken (West End); Hadestown (West End/ National Theatre); A Strange Loop (Barbican); Death Of A Salesman (West End/ Young Vic); Rockets and Blue Lights (National Theatre); Othello; Henry V; The Merchant of Venice; Richard II; Hamlet; As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Band’s Visit, Love & Other Acts Of Violence (Donmar Warehouse); The Homecoming; The Second Woman; Changing Destiny (Young Vic); A View From The Bridge (Headlong); This Is Not Who I Am (Royal Court); Old Bridge (Bush Theatre).

Film includes: Wicked. 

Television includes: Daisy Jones and The Six; Mood; The Rings of Power. 

Dance includes: Weather Is Sweet; Death Trap; Peaky Blinders (Rambert Dance Company); The Burnt City (Punchdrunk).

For the Almeida: The Years; Alma Mater; Cold War; Portia Coughlan; Women, Beware the Devil; “Daddy” A Melodrama; Albion; The Hunt; Shipwreck; Dance Nation; Boy.  

Theatre includes: Hamnet (RSC); Lyonesse; The Hills of California; Jerusalem; Leopoldstadt; Uncle Vanya; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf; The Night of Iguana; Rosmersholm; True West; The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?; The Pillowman (West End); The Son (Kiln Theatre/ West End); Sweat (Donmar Warehouse/ West End); The Ferryman (Royal Court/ Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre/ West End); The Moderate Soprano (Hampstead Theatre/ West End); The Birthday Party; Consent (National Theatre/ West End);  Hangmen (Royal Court/ West End/ Atlantic Theater Company); Berberian Sound Studio (Donmar Warehouse); Stories; Exit the King (National Theatre); White Noise; A Very Very Very Dark Matter (Bridge Theatre); The Brothers Size (Young Vic); Maryland; ear for eye; Girls & Boys; Cyprus Avenue (Royal Court).   

Sabia studied Costume Construction and Supervision at RADA.  

Theatre includes: Next to Normal (Donmar Warehouse/ West End); Duchess of Malfi; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Hakawatis: Women of the Arabian Nights; Midsummer Mechanicals (Shakespeare’s Globe); Ulster American (Riverside Studios); Robin Hood: The Legend. Re-written. (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Inquiry (Chichester Festival Theatre); Favour (Bush Theatre); Love and Other Acts of Violence (Donmar Warehouse); Noises Off (West End); Whodunnit [Unrehearsed] (Park Theatre); The American Clock (The Old Vic); Twelfth Night (Wilton’s Music Hall); We’re Stuck! (Shoreditch Town Hall). 

Opera includes: Aleko; Gianni Schicchi; Gods of the Game: a Football Opera;  La Gioconda; The Life and Death of Alexander Litvinenko; Falstaff; Don Carlos (Grange Park Opera); Zauberland (Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord/ Royal Opera House/ La Monnaie / De Munt/ Opéra de Lille/ Lincoln Center, New York/ Opéra de Rouen); The Marriage of Figaro (Royal Academy of Music). 

Film includes: Nation Down.

Television includes: Gods of the Game: A Football Opera.

Dance includes: Anne of Green Gables (Sadler’s Wells); Message In A Bottle (Sadler’s Wells/ International tour). 

Theatre includes: English (RSC/ Kiln Theatre); The Witches (National Theatre); And Then There Were None (UK tour); Baghdaddy (Royal Court); My Fair Lady (ENO); Oleanna (Theatre Royal Bath/ West End); The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Lyric Hammersmith/ Chichester Festival Theatre); Love, Love, Love; A Doll’s House (Lyric Hammersmith); When the Crows Visit; Approaching Empty (Kiln Theatre); The Other Boleyn Girl; Hedda Tesman (Chichester Festival Theatre); Hobson’s Choice (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Switzerland; King Lear (Theatre Royal Bath); Witness for the Prosecution (County Hall) Lions and Tigers (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Graduate (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Anita and Me (Birmingham Rep); East is East (West End); The Rover; Volpone; Wendy and Peter Pan; What Country Friends Is This; The Homecoming; I’ll Be The Devil (RSC). 

Film includes: Far from the Madding Crowd; The Door; The Anomaly; Kajaki. 

Written works include: How To Do Accents. 

Edda has also worked on over 20 seasons as Head of Voice and Dialect at the Shaw Festival Theatre, Ontario. 

Chloe is an award-winning, multidisciplinary director, working across theatre, musical theatre and opera. Their first production, Child’s Play, was awarded New Diorama’s Emerging Company 2018. In 2020, they were awarded the English National Opera Studio Live Commission for their conceptual pitch of Judith Weir’s Blond Eckbert.  

Theatre includes:  

As Director: Mirrorball; GRILLS (Camden People’s Theatre); Without That Certain Thing (VAULT Festival); When Five Years Pass (Cervantes Theatre); Child’s Play (New Diorama Theatre).  

As Associate Director: Julius Caesar (RSC); Cock (West End); The Valkyrie; Carmen; Orpheus in the Underworld; War Requiem (London Coliseum); Light in the Piazza (Southbank Centre); Paul Bunyan (Wilton’s Music Hall/ Alexandra Palace); Musical Differences (Sheffield Theatres). 

Rhys is a choreographer, movement director and facilitator based between London and Brazil.  

Theatre includes: REP (The Sainsbury Theatre); After Life (Courtyard Theatre); PlayFight (Pleasance Theatre/ Seven Dials Playhouse); Eve and Cain (Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch). 

Dance includes: Out of Many (The Place/ Trinity Laban); Black Is… (Sadler’s Wells/ Victoria & Albert Museum); Into Orbit (Latitude Festival); …in silent company (Theater Bellevue/ Amsterdam & Netherlands tour); Light Night Leeds (Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre); Friday Late (Victoria & Albert Museum); RISE: Brent Opening Ceremony 2020 (Wembley Stadium). 

Other work includes: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra x FUBUNATION. 

Wabriya is a qualified dramatherapist (Roehampton University), actress (The Oxford School of Drama), creative facilitator and Reiki practitioner. She combines her experience to support creatives alongside the rehearsal and performance period.    

For the Almeida: Alma Mater; Romeo and Juliet; The Secret Life of Bees. 

Theatre includes: Shifters; August In England (Bush Theatre); Samuel Takes A Break (The Yard); Beautiful Thing; Tambo & Bones (Theatre Royal Stratford East); A Strange Loop (Barbican); Cowbois; Falkland Sound; The Empress; Julius Caesar (RSC); School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play (Lyric Hammersmith); Matthew Bourne’s Romeo & Juliet (International tour); Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Complicité); For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy (New Diorama Theatre/ Royal Court/ West End); Blue (ENO); Further than the Furthest Thing (Young Vic); Family Tree (Actors Touring Company); Bootycandy (Gate Theatre); Blues for an Alabama Sky (National Theatre); Hamilton; Moulin Rouge (West End).