European Premiere
A post-electric play by Anne Washburn
Directed By Robert Icke
Tickest £9 - £36
It’s the end of everything in contemporary America. A future without power. But what will survive?
Mr Burns asks how the stories we tell make us the people we are, explodes the boundaries between pop and high culture and, when society has crumbled, imagines the future for America’s most famous family.
Following the phenomenal success of 1984, Almeida Associate DirectorRobert Icke directs Mr Burns in its European Premiere.
“When was the last time you met a new play that was so smart it made your head spin?... Mr Burns has arrived to leave you dizzy with the scope and dazzle of its ideas... with depths of feeling to match its breadth of imagination.”
The New York Times
Previews Thu 5 - Wed 11 Jun
Press Night Thu 12 Jun (7pm)
Evening performances 7.30pm
Wednesday matinees 2.30pm on 25 Jun & 9 Jul
Saturday matinees 2.30pm from Sat 14 Jun
Special Events
Happy Mondays Mon 9 Jun
Talkback Tue 8 Jul (post performance)
Supporters' Evening Mon 30 Jun
Captioned Performances
Thur 19 Jun 7.30pm
Sat 5 Jul 2.30pm
Audio Described Performances
Sat 28 Jun 2.30pm
(Touch Tour at 12.45pm)
Thu 3 Jul 7.30pm
(Touch Tour at 6pm)
Gibson
Theatre includes: The Sweetest Thing in Baseball; Boy Gets Girl (Royal Court); His Girl Friday; A Prayer for Owen Meaney; Finding The Sun (National Theatre).
Television includes: Nixon’s The One; Episodes; Twenty Twelve; Souvenir; The Special Relationship; The Hill; Torchwood; MI-5; The Path To 9-11; Numb3rs; Cracker; Gallipoli; Search; Baddiel’s Syndrome; Breaking News; The New Addams Family; Viper; Millennium; The Sentinel; Smudge; Prisoner of Zenda; Two; Highlander.
Films includes: Rush; Good Vibrations; Austenland; X-Men: First Class; Acts Of Godfrey; The Whistleblower; Genova; A Mighty Heart; Road To Guantanamo; Thundrbirds; Sky Captain & The World Of Tomorrow; That Deadwood Feeling; Spy Game; The Bourne Identity; Saving Private Ryan; House Arrest; Excess Baggage; Little Women.
Matt
Theatre includes: Sweet Smell of Sucess (Arcola); Road Show (Chocolate Factory); Rocky Horror Show, La Cage Aux Folles (ATG) The Woman in White; Bombay Dreams (Really Useful Group); The Infant (Les Infants Terrible); Love and Understanding (Trident Theatre).
Television: includes W1A; The Galaghan Directories.
Chorus Leader
Adey is a soprano, lyricist, animateur, writer, vocal consultant, conductor and historian.
She has created numerous roles in contemporary operas for major British composers and was a founding member of The Shout. She has worked for most of the leading opera companies in the UK and appeared as a concert soloist and recitalist in most major British venues.
Her latest history book was published in 2012 and her first full-length opera libretto was produced in 2011. She is a programme advisor to the Spitalfields Festival, a member and trustee of the writers’ laboratory Book, Music & Lyrics and a mentor for Music For Youth. She works regularly in education and outreach work for the BBC and is part of the delivery team for Big, Big Sing.
Jenny
Theatre includes: Gastronauts; The Stone (Royal Court); Detroit; Children of the Sun; The White Guard; The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other; Philistines; The Coram Boy; The House of Bernarda Alba; The Night Season (National Theatre); Twelfth Night (RSC); King Lear (Donmar Warehouse); Uncle Vanya (Young Vic); Boston Marriage; Nocturnal (Gate Theatre);Hedda Gabler; Footfalls; Pride and Prejudice; Blithe Spirit; Bash (Gate Theatre, Dublin); Three Sisters; Aristocrats; The Shape of Metal; She Stoops to Conquer; The House of Bernarda Alba; All My Sons (The Abbey, Dublin); A Midsummer Night's Dream; Dear Brutus (Nottingham Playhouse); The Way of All Fish (Bewley’s Theatre); A Streetcar Named Desire; The Importance of Being Earnest; Hayfever; A Voyage Round My Father (Pitlochry Rep); A Christmas Carol (Communicado); The Misanthrope (Borderline).
Television includes: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher II; Harry and Paul; Amber; Wild at Heart; Psych Ward; Your Bad Self; Sleep With Me; Waking the Dead; Doctors; Afterlife 2; New Tricks; Joyball; The Painted Lady.
Film includes: The Stag; I Want Candy; A Cock and Bull Story; Imagine Me and You; Inside I'm Dancing; Citizen Verdict; The Honeymooners; Goldfish Memory; Conspiracy of Silence.
Radio includes: Regenerations; Seasons of Fear.
Justine received The Irish Times/ESB Theatre Award 2002 for Best Supporting Actress in Bash and Blithe Spirit at the Gate Theatre, Dublin.
Quincey
Theatre includes: Truth and Reconciliation; The Vertical Hour (Royal Court); Katrina (The Bargehouse); Mules (Young Vic); Rough Crossings (Headlong/Lyric Hammersmith - National Tour).
Television includes: In The Flesh II; Truckers; Le Grand: Cop In Paris; Dancing on the Edge; The Fuse; Vera II; Body Farm; Stolen; 32 Brinkburn Street; Vera; Law and Order II; One Night in Emergency; Silent Witness; Father and Son; Moses Jones; The Bill; Never Better; Sold.
Film includes: Philomena; Music's In The Bones; Patience; Citadel; I Am Slave; Honeymooner; Womb
Radio includes: Mary Queen of Scotts; Amazing Grace; Bad Faith; Voice.
Maria
Theatre includes: Passion Play (Duke of York); Antigone (National Theatre); Richard III (Old Vic / BAM / World Tour); The Rivals (Theatre Royal Haymarket / UK Tour); Charley’s Aunt (Royal Exchange, Manchester); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Rose Theatre, Kingston); The House of Special Purpose;Wallenstein (Chichester Festival Theatre); Hamlet; Taming of the Shrew (Bristol Tobacco Factory); Hobson’s Choice (Chichester Festival Theatre / UK Tour);The Cherry Orchard (Sheffield Crucible); Troilus and Cressida (RSC / Kings Theatre / Edinburgh International Festival); The Real Thing (Theatre Royal Bath / UK Tour).
Television includes: Very Few Fish; Family Tree; Personal Affairs; Being Human; Jane Eyre; Eastenders; Holby City; Poirot: After the Funeral.
Film includes: Walking On Sunshine; Light; Meeting Anna.
Radio includes: All Passion Spent; Under Milkwood.
Annabel was runner up in the BBC Carlton Hobbs Radio Competition 2005.
Sam
Theatre includes: Godchild (Hampstead Theatre); Open Court: Friday Night Sex (Royal Court); Table; London Road (National Theatre); Merry Wives of Windsor; Twelfth Night (Stafford Castle); All About My Mother (Old Vic); Restoration (Oxford Stage Company); Of Mice and Men (Mercury Theatre); Hamlet (Northampton Royal Theatre); Dreams From A Summerhouse (Watermill, Newbury); The Threepenny Opera (National Theatre Tour); Macbeth (Southwark Playhouse); The Beautiful Game (Cambridge Theatre); Jesus Christ Superstar (National Tour); One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Billy (Bibbet ICA Theatre); Live Like Pigs; Romeo and Juliet (The Barn Theatre) Titus Andronicus (Cambridge Arts Theatre) The Tempest (Saffron Shakespeare Festival).
Television includes: Foyles War 2014; Luther; Black Mirror: The Waldo Moment; Mrs Briggs; Parades End; Game Of Thrones; Silent Witness; MI High; Kings and Queens; Eastenders; World in Arms - Navies.
Film includes: London Road; Broken; Anna Karenina; Trance; Gulliver's Travels; Breaking & Entering; Kingdom of Heaven; The Storeroom; The Headstrong; Matinee Queen; The Sea; The Stain; The Sandwich.
Colleen
Theatre includes: Urinetown (St James Theatre); Merrily We Roll Along (Menier Chocolate Factory / West End); Soho Cinders (Soho Theatre); Season's Greetings, Metropolis Kabarett(National Theatre); Into the Woods (Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park); Sunday in the Park with George (Roundabout Theater Company, New York); Amy's View (Theatre Royal, Bath);Sunday in the Park with George (Menier Chocolate Factory); Guys and Dolls (ATG / Donmar Warehouse); High Society (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); As You Like It; Antony and Cleopatra; The Winter’s Tale; Misha's Party; Wildest Dreams; The Beggar’s Opera (RSC); Three Sisters (Royal Court); Hunting Scenes...Bavaria (The Gate); Kiss The Sky (The Bush); A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Carda (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Landslide (West Yorkshire Playhouse and Birmingham Rep); I Have Been Before (Royal Exchange, Manchester); The Gingerbread Lady (Dundee Rep); Into The Woods (Donmar Warehouse); Martin Guerre (Prince Edward Theatre); Hello Again; On A Clear Day...Forever (Bridewell); Follies (Shaftesbury Theatre); Just So (Tricycle Theatre); Girlfiends (Playhouse Theatre); Les Miserables (Palace Theatre).
Television includes: Call The Midwife; The Ladies Paradise; Holby City; Minder; Born and Bred; Men Only; Peak Practice; Picking Up The Pieces; On The Up; Home To Roost; Missing Persons; Purple People Eater; Better Class Of Person; The Bill; Saracen; Sister Catherine; The Party; Your Place Or Mine; QPR Askey Is Dead; Coming Out.
Film includes: Mortdecai; The Fear; P'tang Yang; Kipperbang; Sacred Hearts.
Radio includes: Friday Night Is Music Night - Frank Loesser Special; Flamingoes; Proms 2010.
Awards: 2007 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for Sunday in the Park with George; 2008 Theatre World Award for Broadway Debut Performance.
Nominations: 2014 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for Merrily We Roll Along; 2008 Tony Award for Leading Actress in a Musical for Sunday in the Park with George;2008 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical for Sunday in the Park with George; 2008 Drama League for Distinguished Performance Award for Sunday in the Park with George; 2006 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for Guys and Dolls.
Musician
Fiona is an Australian-born multi-faceted percussionist and music educator currently based in the Netherlands. She has enjoyed a wide-ranging freelance career over the last ten years, performing in solo, ensemble, and theatrical settings in Australia, China, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, England, and the United States. As an avid proponent of new music, she has commissioned various percussion works from composers across the globe and has been involved in many new music ensembles; most recently co-founding the Rotterdam New Music Ensemble through the Codarts conservatory.
Fiona has performed with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble 64.8 (USA), Het Zuiderlijk Toneel and Diamantfrabriek theatre companies (NL), and as a soloist at Club Zho (AUS) and the launch of the Totally Huge New Music Festival (AUS), she has also directed the UAF undergraduate percussion ensemble (USA), Plectra guitar ensemble, and Defying Gravity percussion Ensemble (AUS). She holds both performance and education degrees, and will continue to California later this year to commence her doctoral studies at The University of California, San Diego.
Musician
Michael is a London-born composer, vocalist, musical director and clarinettist. His musical education began at London’s Centre for Young Musicians and continued at the Royal College of Music, studying clarinet and composition.
Music Directorial positions include: The Amen Corner; Emperor and Galilean; FELA!; Death and the King’s Horseman (National Theatre), FEAST (Young Vic).
Michael has provided live backing vocals for George Michael, Chaka Khan, Barry Manilow, Will Young, Jamelia and The Pet Shop Boys (for whom he was also vocal director), studio vocals for Diana Ross, Robbie Williams, Billy Bragg, Chrissy Hynde, and Michael Ball, classical performances for Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Glyndebourne and Ensemble Modern of Frankfurt. Michael was also a featured soloist in Scott Walker’s Drifting and Tilting at London’s Barbican in 2008.
Recent compositions include the opera Circus Tricks for Tete a Tete, the Rocket Symphony for 500 voices and fireworks for Linz: European Capital of Culture 2009 and Stand for 16 voices (BBC PROMS).His clarinet quartet Birdwatching is performed regularly in the US and Japan. Other recent engagements include vocal animateur & conductor for the BBC Horrible Histories Prom and vocal director, arranger and performer on the soundtrack for science fiction webisode series RCVR (“Receiver”). Michael is presently vocalist, composer
and arranger in acapella groups Flying Pickets and The Shout.
Writer
Theatre includes: The Internationalist, A Devil at Noon, Apparition, The Communist Dracula Pageant, I Have Loved Strangers,The Ladies, The Small and a transadaptation of Euripides' Orestes.
Anne's work has been produced by 13P, Actors Theater of Louisville, American Repertory Theatre, Cherry Lane Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, The Civilians, Dixon Place, Ensemble Studio Theater, The Folger, London's Gate Theatre, NYC's Soho Rep, DC's Studio Theater, Two River Theater Company, NYC's Vineyard and Woolly Mammoth.
Awards include a Guggenheim, a NYFA Fellowship, a Time Warner Fellowship, Susan Smith Blackburn finalist, residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo, and an Artslink travel grant to Hungary to work with the playwright Peter Karpati. She is an associated artist with The Civilians, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, and is an alumna of New Dramatists and 13P. Current commissions include MTC, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, and Yale Rep.
Director
Robert is the Associate Director of the Almeida.
For the Almeida: 1984 (also Headlong).
Theatre includes: Boys; Romeo and Juliet; Decade (Headlong); The Alchemist (Liverpool Playhouse); Catalysta(Ovalhouse).
Robert was Associate Director of Headlong from 2010 - 2013, Artistic Director of the Arden Theatre Company in Stockton-on-Tees from 2003-2007 and of the Swan Theatre Company in Cambridge from 2005-2008, where he was awarded the Susie Guatier-Smith Prize for his contribution to theatre.
Design
For the Almeida: King Charles III, King Lear; Through A Glass Darkly.
Theatre includes: The Weir (Donmar Warehouse / West End); Constellations (Royal Court / West End); Medea; 13(National Theatre); A Number (Nuffield Theatre); Absent Friends (West End); South Downs / The Browning Version(Chichester Festival Theatre / West End); The Djinns of Eidgah; The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas; No Quarter; Remembrance Day (Royal Court); The Life of Galileo (RSC / Birmingham Rep / UK Tour); Romeo and Juliet;The Merchant of Venice (RSC); A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness(Headlong Theatre); The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (Kensington Gardens); Hamlet (Sheffield Theatres);Mogadishu (Manchester / Lyric Hammersmith); Cinderella; Jack and the Beanstalk; Aladdin; Dick Whittington (Lyric Hammersmith); Uncle Vanya;Unbroken; The Internationalist (Gate Theatre); Bay (Young Vic); The Merchant of Venice (Octagon Theatre, Bolton); Metropolis (Theatre Royal, Bath).
Opera includes: How The Whale Became (Royal Opera House); Wozzeck (Set – English National Opera); The Flying Dutchman (Scottish Opera); Rigoletto (Opera Holland Park).
Tom received the Linbury Biennial Prize for Stage Design in 2007 for his work with Headlong Theatre, the Jocelyn Herbert Award 2007 and the Whatsonstage Award for Best Set Designer in 2013 for Constellations and The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Tom is Associate Designer for the Nuffield Theatre.
Composer & Musical Director
Orlando is an associate artist of the Royal Opera House.
Orlando Gough writes music mostly for the theatre – operas, plays, dance pieces, musictheatre. He also directs largescale site-specific work, and is the artistic director of the choir The Shout, which he founded in 1998 with Richard Chew. Recent work includes the opera Imago, libretto by Stephen Plaice, for Glyndebourne; the opera Road Rage, libretto by Richard Stilgoe, for Garsington Opera; the sitespecific piece Foghorn Requiem, for ships’ horns, brass bands and the foghorn of the Souter Lighthouse, South Shields; the choral piece Hand over Hand, for the Hilliard Ensemble, and the song cycle Stroke Odysseys for Derry/ Londonderry City of Culture 2013. He is currently creating a largescale choral piece Stemmer for the Bergen Festival.
Composer & Musical Director
Michael is a London-born composer, vocalist, musical director and clarinettist. His musical education began at London's Centre for Young Musicians and continued at the Royal College of Music, studying clarinet and composition.
Music Directorial positions include: The Amen Corner (National Theatre 2013); FEAST (Young Vic); Emperor and Galilean (National Theatre); FELA!; Death and the King's Horseman (National Theatre)
Michael has provided live backing vocals for George Michael, Chaka Khan, Barry Manilow, Will Young, Jamelia and The Pet Shop Boys (for whom he was also vocal director), studio vocals for Diana Ross, Robbie Williams, Billy Bragg, Chrissy Hynde, and Michael Ball, classical performances for Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Glyndebourne and Ensemble Modern of Frankfurt. Michael was also a featured soloist in Scott Walker's Drifting and Tilting at London's Barbican in 2008.
Recent compositions include the opera Circus Tricks for Tete a Tete, the Rocket Symphony for 500 voices and fireworks for Linz: European Capital of Culture 2009, and Stand for 16 voices (BBC PROMS). His clarinet quartetBirdwatching is performed regularly in the US and Japan.
Other recent engagements include vocal animateur & conductor for the BBC Horrible Histories Prom and vocal director, arranger and performer on the soundtrack for science fiction webisode series RCVR (“Receiver”).
Michael is presently vocalist, composer and arranger in acapella groups Flying Pickets and The Shout.
Lighting Designer
For the Almeida: Before The Party.
Other Theatre includes: The World of Extreme Happiness; Love The Sinner (National Theatre);
The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas; No Quarter; Oxford Street; Kebab (Royal Court); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bristol Old Vic/Barbican/USA); Miss Julie (Schaubühne, Berlin); LIMBO
(Southbank/Australia/Edinburgh); If Only (Chichester Festival Theatre); Further than the Furthest Thing (Dundee Rep, Winner CATS Best Design); Every Last Trick; One For The Road; God of Carnage (Royal & Derngate); Hairspray; Chicago; Obama The Mamba; Gypsy (Leicester); Happy Days; Radio Times; The King and I (UKTour); Twist of Gold (Polka); Small Hours (Hampstead); Park Avenue Cat (West End); Five Guys Named Moe (Underbelly/Theatre Royal Stratford East); Terminus (Winner of Scotsman’s Fringe First Award, Abbey, Dublin/Australia/Young Vic); Cinderella; Aladdin (Lyric); Mogadishu; Punk Rock (Lyric/UK tour); Too Clever By Half; You Can’t Take It With You; Nineteen Eighty- Four; Macbeth (Royal Exchange, Manchester); My Romantic History (Bush/Sheffield/Edinburgh); The Fahrenheit Twins (Told by an Idiot); For Once; Origins (Pentabus); The Member of the Wedding; Ghosts (Young Vic); Testing the Echo (Out Of Joint);The Spire; Design For Living (Salisbury); Pastoral; The Boy Who Fell into a Book (Soho); Radio Times; Thoroughly Modern Millie; Relatively Speaking (Watermill); I’m With The Band; Ciara; The Arthur Conan Doyle Appreciation Society (Traverse); Mother Courage and Her Children (Nottingham /UK tour).
Opera includes: Rigoletto; La Wally (Opera Holland Park); After Dido (ENO/Young Vic); Cosi Fan Tutte (WNO); Il trittico (Opera Zuid); Falstaff (Grange Park).
Sound Design
For the Almeida: 1984.
Theatre includes: White Devil; As You Like It (RSC); Translations (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); A View From the Bridge; Happy Days; A Season in the Congo; Disco Pigs (Young Vic); Romeo and Juliet (Headlong); Lion Boy (Complicite); Julius Caesar (Donmar Warehouse / St Ann’s Brooklyn); Grounded (Gate Theatre); The Spire (Salisbury Playhouse); London (Paines Plough); The Roundabout Season (Shoreditch Town Hall / Paines Plough); The Rover (Hampton Court Palace); Love, Love, Love (Royal Court); Island (National Theatre / Tour); Dead Heavy Fantastic (Everyman Theatre, Liverpool); Plenty (Crucible Theatre Studio, Sheffield); Wasted (Paines Plough / Tour); Chalet Lines; The Knowledge; Little Platoons; 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover (Bush Theatre); Hairy Ape; Shivered; Faith, Hope and Charity; The Hostage; Toad (Southwark Playhouse); Sold (Theatre 503); The Chairs (Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath); The Country; The Road to Mecca; The Roman Bath; 1936; The Shawl (Arcola Theatre); Utopia; Bagpuss; Everything Must Go; Soho Streets (Soho Theatre); Hitchcock Blonde (Hull Truck).
As Associate Designer, theatre includes: Choir Boy (Royal Court); Broken Space Season (Bush Theatre).
Tom trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Choreographer
Recent projects include: Birdland (Royal Court); Urinetown (St James Theatre), The Commitments (Palace Theatre); The Color Purple (Menier Chocolate Factory); Wozzeck (ENO); Titus Andronicus (RSC); Macbeth (Trafalgar Studios); Berenice; Philadelphia, Here I Come (Donmar Warehouse); Julius Caesar, (Donmar Warehouse & St Ann’s Warehouse, NY); The Acrington Pals; The Country Wife (Royal Exchange Theatre); Torch Song Trilogy (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Duchess of Malfi (Old Vic); After Miss Julie (Young Vic); She Stoops to Conquer; The Comedy of Errors (National Theatre).
Other credits include: A Soldier in Every Son (RSC); God of Soho (Globe Theatre); Orpheus & Eurydice (NYT / Old Vic Tunnels) American Trade; Silence (RSC at Hampstead Theatre); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee(Donmar Warehouse); King Lear (RSC New York, London & Stratford); Novocento (Donmar at the Trafalgar Studios); The Secret Garden (Birmingham Rep); Ingerland (Royal Opera House), Salome (Headlong/Hampstead Theatre);Pericles (Regent’s Park); Behud, Philip Ridley’s Piranha Heights; Shraddha (Soho Theatre), Dance Radio; Mates (Latitude festival for Drywrite); Much Ado About Nothing (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); This Isn’t Romance (Soho Theatre); Eric’s (Liverpool Everyman); Romeo and Juliet (Middle Temple Hall); Oxford Street (Royal Court);The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe; The Secret Garden (West Yorkshire Playhouse / Birmingham Rep Theatre); Bad Girls The Musical (Garrick Theatre); Angels in America (Lyric Hammersmith / UK tour); Bent (Trafalgar Studios);Hair (The Gate Theatre); Woyzeck (St Anne’s Warehouse, New York / The Gate Theatre); The Odyssey (Lyric Hammersmith / Bristol Old Vic); The Magic Carpet (Lyric Hammersmith); Big Love (The Gate Theatre); Food (Traverse Theatre / UK tour) Sex, Chips and Rock and Roll (Royal Exchange, Manchester).
Future work includes: Therese Raquin (Theatre Royal Bath); & her own co-devised piece for the NT Studio.
Casting
For the Almeida: Chimerica; Before the Party; The Turn of the Screw; King Lear; Children’s Children; Filumena; The Knot of the Heart; Through a Glass Darkly; Measure for Measure; When the Rain Stops Falling; In a Dark Dark House; The Homecoming; Nocturne; Awake and Sing!; Dying for It; Out of the Fog.
Theatre includes: A View from the Bridge; Happy Days; Public Enemy; The Shawl; Blackta; A Doll’s House (and West End/BAM); Wild Swans; After Miss Julie; Government Inspector; The Glass Menagerie; Joe Turner’s Come and Gone; Annie Get Your Gun; In The Red and Brown Water; Lost Highway; The Good Soul of Szechuan (Young Vic); The Nether; Adler & Gibb; Birdland; The Mistress Contract; Khandan; The Pass; Gastronauts; Clybourne Park; The Heretic; Get Santa!; Kin; Red Bud; Tribes; Wanderlust; Spur of the Moment; Sucker Punch; Ingredient X (Royal Court); The Events; The Golden Dragon; Bad Jazz; A Brief History of Helen of Troy (ATC); Spring Awakening; The Seagull; Edward Gant’s Amazing Feat of Loneliness (Headlong); Another Country (CFT/West End); The Winslow Boy (Old Vic); A Chorus of Disapproval; South Downs / The Browning Version; Absent Friends; Backbeat; Arcadia; Swimming with Sharks; As You Like It; Antarctica; The Weir (West End); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Chichester Festival Theatre / West End / Sydney Festival); Pool (no water) (Frantic Assembly); Gaddafi; A Living Myth (English National Opera); Othello (Cheek by Jowl); The Girl on the Sofa (EdinburghInternational Festival / SchaubuhneTheatre, Berlin).
Television includes: Adha Cup; Parliamo Glasgow; Harvest; The Verdict; The Bill; The Badness of George IV.
Julia Horan CDG
Casting
For the Almeida: Mr Burns; Chimerica; Before the Party; The Turn of the Screw; King Lear; Children’s Children; Filumena; The Knot of the Heart; Through a Glass Darkly; Measure for Measure; When the Rain Stops Falling; In a Dark Dark House; The Homecoming; Nocturne; Awake and Sing!; Dying for It; Out of the Fog.
Theatre includes:Man; A View from the Bridge; Happy Days; Public Enemy; The Shawl; Blackta; Wild Swans; After Miss Julie; Government Inspector; The Glass Menagerie; Joe Turner’s Come and Gone; Annie Get Your Gun; In The Red and Brown Water; Lost Highway; The Good Soul of Szechuan (Young Vic); A Doll’s House (Young Vic / West End /BAM); Teh Internet is Serious Business; The Nether; Adler & Gibb; Birdland; The Mistress Contract; Khandan; The Pass; Gastronauts; Clybourne Park; The Heretic; Get Santa!; Kin; Red Bud; Tribes; Wanderlust; Spur of the Moment; Sucker Punch; Ingredient X (Royal Court); The Events; The Golden Dragon; Bad Jazz; A Brief History of Helen of Troy (ATC); Spring Awakening; The Seagull; Edward Gant’s Amazing Feat of Loneliness (Headlong); Another Country (Chichester Festival Theatre / WestEnd); The Winslow Boy (Old Vic); A Chorus of Disapproval; South Downs / The Browning Version; Absent Friends; Backbeat; Arcadia; Swimming with Sharks; As You Like It; Antarctica; The Weir (West End); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Chichester Festival Theatre / West End / Sydney Festival); Pool (no water) (Frantic Assembly); Gaddafi; A Living Myth (English National Opera); Othello (Cheek by Jowl); The Girl on the Sofa (Edinburgh International Festival / Schaubuhne Theatre, Berlin).
Television includes: Adha Cup; Parliamo Glasgow; Harvest; The Verdict; The Bill; The Badness of George IV.
Associate Director
Whitney is currently the Director in Residence at the Almeida and a graduate of Princeton University and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
For the Almeida: King Charles III, American Psycho: A new musical thriller.
As Director, credits include: Faster Higher Stronger Straighter (Dominion Theatre Studio); Scratch Me, I Bleed (Camden People's Theatre); Bacchanalia (Greece / USA); M. Butterfly (RADA MA Showcase / GBS Theatre);Throwing Your Voice; Exit Johnny Clarke; Szinhaz (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Stage Blood (Princeton Shakespeare Company); The Goat or Who is Sylvia?; Valentine at Bellevue (Theatre Intime).
As Assistant Director, credits include: The Common Pursuit (Roundabout Theatre Company); A Month in the Country (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Cockroach (RADA / GBS Theatre); Too Clever By Half (Told By An Idiot, R&D Workshop).
As Assistant to the Writer, credits include: The Nightingale; Alice by Heart; Prometheus Bound; Some Lovers.
This production will include strong language, smoking on stage and some loud gun shot noises.
Mr Burns is approx. 2 hours, 45 minutes including two intervals.
Latecomers will not be admitted until the first interval.