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Plays include: Standing At The Sky’s Edge; The Last Noël; The Assassination Of Katie Hopkins; Pericles and Steel. Her other plays include The Changing Room; Scenes From The End Of The World; A Declaration From The People; A Dream; The Sheffield Mysteries; Dickensian; Goodwill To All Men; We’re All In This Together and 20 Tiny Plays About Sheffield; Larksong; Cards On The Table; Tony! The Blair Musical; Sleight & Hand; Poking The Bear; The Bureau Of Lost Things; Odd; and Wolf.

She has won awards at the UK Theatre Awards two years in a row, the National Young Playwrights’ Festival, Perfect Pitch, Sunday Times Edinburgh Competition, and a Brit Writers’ Award.

Maimuna is a Lancashire born actor, musician and songwriter.

Maimuna recently performed in and composed the music and lyrics for Electrolyte, a piece of gig theatre that had a sell-out run at The Edinburgh Fringe 2018/2019 and then toured nationally. She also composed the music and co-wrote the lyrics for State Of The Arts, a music video written for Signal Fires. Maimuna was the musical director for Macbeth at the Watermill Theatre. She is also currently recording her EP which is to be released next year.

Theatre as Actor includes: Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Ghost Quartet (Boulevard Theatre); Hobson’s Choice; Into the Woods (Royal Exchange Manchester); Standing at the Sky’s Edge (Sheffield Theatres); Macbeth (Watermill Theatre); Electrolyte (Wildcard/Pleasance Dome); The Assassination of Katie Hopkins (Theatr Clwyd/Paines Plough); Winnie & Wilbur (Birmingham Rep); Lazarus (King’s Cross Theatre); The Busker’s Opera (Park Theatre).

Television as Actor includes: Unforgotten; Doctors.

For the Almeida: Summer and Smoke (also West End); King Charles III (also West End/Broadway); Mr Burns, a Post-Electric Play; The Merchant of Venice; King Lear; Through A Glass Darkly.

Theatre includes: Sanctuary City (New York Theatre Workshop); Fairview (Young Vic); A Very Expensive Poison, Woyzeck (Old Vic); Jesus Christ Superstar (Lyric Opera Chicago/Barbican/US Tour); Little Shop of Horrors; Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Berberian Sound Studio; Belleville; The Lady from the Sea; Elegy (Donmar Warehouse); The Weir (Donmar Warehouse/Wyndham’s); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Donmar Warehouse/Booth, New York); Julie; Deep Blue Sea; Medea; 13 (National Theatre); Dijinns of Eidgah; Hope; The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas; No Quarter; Remembrance Day (Royal Court); Constellations (Royal Court/Duke of York’s); A Number (Nuffield Theatre); On Off (Aarhus, Denmark); The Life of Galileo; Romeo and Juliet;The Merchant of Venice (RSC); Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness (Headlong/Nuffield); The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (Kensington Gardens); East is East (Trafalgar Studios/UK Tour); Seventeen (Lyric Hammersmith); Mogadishu (Lyric Hammersmith/Royal Exchange, Manchester).

As Director: Berberian Sound Studio (Donmar Warehouse)

Opera and dance includes: Outwitting the Devil (Akram Khan Company); Tosca (Opera North); Grand Finale (Hofesh Shechter Company); How the Whale Became (ROH); Wozzeck (ENO); The Flying Dutchman (Scottish Opera); Rigoletto (Opera Holland Park).

Exhibitions include: Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up (V&A)

Music includes: Liam Gallagher MTV Unplugged (Hull City Hall); Christine and the Queens (At Salle Pleyel, Paris); Sam Smith with Apple Music (At the Tate Modern).

In 2015 and 2016 Tom provided the production design for the MTV Video Music Awards.

He was nominated for a Tony and an Outer Critics’ Circle Best Costume Design Award for King Charles III. In 2019 he won the Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Designer for A Very Expensive Poison. He has also won the WhatsOnStage Best Set Design award in 2013 for Constellations (Royal Court) and in 2019 for Little Shop of Horrors (Regent’s Park)

For the Almeida: The Duchess of Malfi; Three Sisters; Shipwreck; Machinal; They Drink it in the Congo; Boy; Carmen Disruption; Game.

Theatre includes: Caroline, or Change (Chichester Festival Theatre/Hampstead Theatre/Playhouse Theatre); Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp; The End of History; Instructions for Correct Assembly; 2071 (Royal Court); Light Falls; The Producers; Death of a Salesman; The Greatest Play in the History of the World; Happy Days; Parliament Square; Our Town; Twelfth Night; A Streetcar Named Desire; Wit; The Skriker; There Has Possibly Been An Incident (Royal Exchange Theatre); Venice Preserved (RSC); Top Girls; Cleansed (National Theatre); Caroline, or Change (Chichester Festival Theatre/ Hampstead Theatre/ West End); Barber Shop Chronicles (National Theatre/ World Tour); Steel (Crucible Theatre); Good Vibrations (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); The Importance of Being Earnest (West End); Circle Mirror Transformation (HOME); Wonderland (Nottingham Playhouse/ Northern Stage); Beginning (National Theatre/ West End); Committee (Donmar Warehouse); 4.48 Psychosis; Reisende auf einem Bein; Happy Days (Schauspielhaus, Hamburg); Junkyard; Pygmalion (Headlong); The Forbidden Zone (Salzburg Festival/Schaubühne, Berlin/ Barbican); The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary! (Liverpool Everyman/ Peepolykus); The Haunting of Hill House (Liverpool Playhouse);Phaedra (Enniskillen International Beckett Festival); A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (Vienna Burgtheater); Lungs; Yellow Wallpaper (Schaubühne, Berlin); Moth (Hightide/Bush Theatre); Say it with Flowers (Hampstead Theatre); Night Train (Schauspiel, Köln/Avignon Festival/ Theatertreffen).

Opera includes: La Bohéme (Gothenburg Opera).

Jack trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. He was awarded the 2018 Knight of Illumination Award for Barber Shop Chronicles.

Theatre includes: Life of Pi (Sheffield Crucible); Death of a Salesman (Young Vic/West End); The Welkin; Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear – the Musical!; As You Like It; Our Country’s Good; The Motherf***er With The Hat; Dara; Protest Song; Double Feature (National Theatre); All My Sons (Old Vic); Downstate (Steppenwolf Chicago/National Theatre); Fiddler On The Roof; Me And My Girl; Copenhagen (Chichester Festival Theatre); A Woman of No Importance (Vaudeville Theatre); Coriolanus; Julius Caesar; Antony and Cleopatra; King John (RSC); House Of Bernada Alba; The Producers; Gypsy (Royal Exchange); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Donmar Warehouse/Broadway); Fathers and Sons; Dimetos; Absurdia (Donmar Warehouse); The Believers Beautiful Burnout; Love Song (Frantic Assembly); Hope; The Pass; The Low Road; Choir Boy (Royal Court); The House That Will Not Stand; Handbagged (Tricycle Theatre/West End); All My Sons (Schoenfeld Theater, New York); Angels in America (Headlong); Thérèse Raquin (Theatre Royal, Bath); Twelfth Night (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); Much Ado About Nothing; To Kill a Mockingbird (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Kasimir & Karoline; Fanny och Alexander (Malmö Stadsteater); Tre Kronor (Dramaten, Stockholm).

Opera includes: Benjamin Dernière Nuit (Opera Lyon); How the Whale Became (ROH); American Lulu (Opera Group); After Dido (ENO).

Exhibitions include: So You Say You Want A Revolution? Records & Rebels 1965-70 (V&A); Exhibitionism: The Rolling Stones (Saatchi Gallery); Collider (Science Museum); Louis Vuitton: Series 3.

Carolyn has also created sound design elements for Shawn Mendes Illuminate Tour 2017 and Louis Vuitton: Spring/Summer 2015, Fall 2015, Spring/Summer 2016, Spring/Summer 2017 Ready To Wear Collection shows at The Louis Vuitton Foundation & The Louvre, Paris.

Carolyn won an Olivier Award in 2014 for Best Sound Design for her work on Chimerica and was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Sound Design in 2019 for Summer & Smoke.

Tim is a composer and musical director for theatre and radio.

Theatre includes:

As Musical Director/Supervisor: Dusty (Theatre Royal, Bath); Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (National Theatre); Memphis (Shaftesbury Theatre); The Frogs (Jermyn Street Theatre); The Amen Corner (National Theatre).

As Composer: Pericles; As You Like It; Titus Andronicus; Two Noble Kinsmen; Women Beware Women (RSC); The Omission of the Family Coleman (Ustinov, Bath); The Cherry Orchard (Central School of Speech and Drama); Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Young Vic); The Secret Garden (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Dreamfighter (Lichfield Festival); The Bacchae (National Theatre of Scotland); As YouLike It; As You Desire Me (West End); Cinderella (Royal and Derngate Northampton); The Skin of OurTeeth (Young Vic); A Wedding Story (Birmingham Door/ Soho Theatre); A Fool and His Money… (Nottingham Playhouse, Birmingham Rep).

Radio includes: Alexei Sayle’s Imaginary Sandwich Bar Series 1, 2 & 3; Just a Minute Does Panto; The Now Show.

Tim collaborated with poet Ian McMillan on the community opera Cycle Song, which won the Royal Philharmonic Society Learning & Participation Award 2012. He was the recipient of the Stiles and Drewe Best Song Award in 2013 for That Once-in-a-Lifetime Feeling. He was the Musical Director of the UK and International tour of War Horse. He is writing The Chain with librettist Nicola Baldwin, and Bus Boycott with Roy Williams. He is an Associate Member of the Inner Magic Circle. Tim is also committed to the development of new musical theatre, and has mentored aspiring writers on the Book, Music and Lyrics course since its inception in 2011.

Helena Morais previously appeared in the Almeida Young Company productions of Cacophony and From The Ground Up. Her other theatre credits include Peter Pan and Smee and Singular (Theatre503); Astronaut’s Wives Club and World’s Wife (National Youth Theatre); Firecracker (Ovalhouse); Dick Whittington (Lyric Hammersmith); Sandra Bland’s Interrogation (Bush Theatre) and The Matchgirls (Dumbwise). She appeared in the web series Chicken Palace.

Claire is the Head of Costume at the Almeida Theatre, and during her time here has supervised the following productions: Boy; Hamlet; Oil; Against; Dance Nation; The Wild Duck; The Tragedy of King Richard II.

Prior to her time as Head of Costume, Claire was a freelance Costume Supervisor, working at venues such as the National Theatre, the Royal Court and the Young Vic to name a few.

Theatre includes: Fairview; Feast; Been So Long (Young Vic); Caroline, or Change (Hampstead Theatre/West End); Pericles; I Want My Hat Back; The Amen Corner; Caroline, or Change (National Theatre); King (Hackney Empire); Touch, Fury (Soho Theatre); A Pacifist's Guide to the War on Cancer (Complicite/National Theatre); The Oresteia; Measure for Measure; The Frontline (Shakespeare's Globe); Made In Dagenham; Avenue Q (West End); Little Shop of Horrors (New Wolsey Theatre).

Film includes: Ready Player One.

Television includes: The Wheel of Time; Enterprise; GameFace; Hard Sun; Cuffs; The Future WAG’s of Great Britain.

Radio includes: Gone.

For The Almeida: King Charles III (also West End); American Psycho.

Theatre includes: Girl From The North Country (West End & Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto); Honour (Park Theatre); A Walk On The Moon (American Conservatory Theater, San Fransisco); The Spoils (Trafalgar Studios); Beautiful; Mamma Mia!; My Mother Said I Never Should (West End); Joking Apart (Nottingham Playhouse); A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Ragtime (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); 13 (National Theatre); Company (Southwark Playhouse); The Great British Country Fete (Bush Theatre); Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (Lyric Hammersmith/ UK Tour).

Television includes: Luther; The Alienist; Doctor Who; Charles III; Vera: Changing Tides.

Film includes: A Serial Killer’s Guide to Life.

Katie won Best Actress in a Musical at the 2015 Olivier Awards for Beautiful, and was nominated for Best Actress in a Musical for the WhatsOnStage Awards, as well as Best Musical Performance at the Evening Standard Awards.

For the Almeida: Three Sisters; Oresteia; Macbeth.

Theatre Includes: Blood Wedding (Young Vic); Roundelay (Southwark Playhouse); The Crucible (The Old Vic); To Kill a Mockingbird (Manchester Royal Exchange); The Golden Dragon (Arcola and UK Tour); Billy Liar (West Yorkshire Playhouse); An Argument About Sex (Tramway/Traverse Theatre); Three Sisters (Manchester Royal Exchange); An Ideal Husband (Manchester Royal Exchange); King Arthur (Arcola Theatre); Ana in Love (Hackney Empire); Separate Tables (Manchester Royal Exchange); Only the Lonely (Birmingham Rep); Becket (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Three Women (Riverside Studios); Wonderful Beast: Maps of Desire (Southwark Playhouse); Dance of Death (Lyric Theatre); Habitat (Manchester Royal Exchange); Maps of Desire (Southwark Playhouse); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Liverpool Playhouse); Henry V (RSC); The Comedy of Errors (RSC); Macbeth (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Much Ado About Nothing (Cheek By Jowl); Orpheus (Actors Touring Company); The Belle Vue (Actors Touring Company); Ion (Actors Touring Company; Celestina (Actors Touring Company); Hedda Gabler (English Touring Theatre); The Invisible Woman (Gate Theatre); A Little Satire (Gate Theatre); The Candidate (Manchester Royal Exchange); The House of Mirth (Cambridge Theatre Company); Postcards from Rome (West Yorkshire Playhouse); A Working Woman (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Tess of the d’Ubervilles (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Winter’s Tale (Acter USA University Tours); Romeo and Juliet (Acter USA University Tours); Mary Stuart (Battersea Arts Centre); God Say Amen (ESC); The Old Devils (Theatre Clwyd); A Handful of Dust (Shared Experience); High Society (Victoria Palace Theatre); The Passion (NT Cottesloe ); Julius Caesar (NT Olivier); The York Mysteries.

Television includes: New Tricks; Les Misérables; Midsomer Murders; Kingdom; Eastenders; Elizabeth I; Doctors; 10th Kingdom; An Evil Streak; Kavanagh QC; Heartbeat; Animal Ark; Surgical Spirit; Boon; Heart of the Country; Growing Rich; Poirot; The Good Guys; Mother Love; Hotel Du Lac; Flesh and Blood; Lillie; The Nearly Man; Crown Court; Persuasion.

Film includes: Star Wars; The Little Stranger; Intriga; In Love with Alma Cogan; Esther Khan; Anna and the King; Strapless; Lionheart: The Children’s Crusade; A Passage to India; The Magic Box; Sunday Bloody Sunday; A Severed Head; Accident; The Servant; Carry on Nurse.

Theatre includes: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Sheffield Crucible, Nominated for the Ian Charleson Award).

Film includes: The French Dispatch.

Television includes: Anthony; The Power; Ted Lasso; London Kills; The Feed.

Toheeb is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

For the Almeida: Three Sisters; Mary Stuart (West End).

Theatre includes: Snowflake (Kiln Theatre); St Joan; Coriolanus (Donmar Warehouse); The Mighty Walzer (Royal Exchange Manchester); The Ruling Class (West End); Kafka’s Dick (Theatre Royal Bath); Canvas (Chichester Festival Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing; Pidgin Macbed (West End); Danton’s Death; The Habit of Art; All’s Well That Ends Well; England People Very Nice; Henry IV parts 1&2; His Dark Materials (National Theatre); The Warp (Ken Campbell Tribute); Beasts and Beauties (Bristol Old Vic); The Comedy of Errors (RSC); How Much Is Your Iron; Monkey (Young Vic); Love’s Work (Gate); On Ego; On Religion (Soho Theatre); Take Flight (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Tempest (British Council Tour/A&BC); Three Sisters on Hope Street (Hampstead Theatre/Liverpool Everyman); Tonight We Fly (Trestle); If I Were Lifted Up From Earth; Arabian Nights (BAC); The Reckless Are Dying Off (Lyric Hammersmith).

Film includes: Murder on the Orient Express; Denial; Fallen; The Master of York; Florence Foster Jenkins; The Lady in the Van; Spooks; Philomena; The Wall; The Queen; Filth and Wisdom; Song of Songs; An Hour in Paradise; Book of John; Judas and Jesus.

Television includes: Life; Truth Seekers; Quiz; Martin’s Close; Anne; State of the Union; Peaky Blinders; Press; Watergate; Black Earth Rising; Silent Witness; Man Down; The Child in Time; Man Down; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Wrong Mans; Ripper Street; Jamaica Inn; New Tricks; Silent Witness; Da Vinci’s Demons; Parade’s End; A Touch of Cloth; Amnesia; Beau Brummell; Casualty 1906; Fat Friends; Holby City; Hotel Babylon; Lump In My Throat; Robin Hood; Sex, The City and Me; Sirens; Grantchester; Monday Monday; Jason and the Argonauts.

Theatre includes: Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Ghost Quartet (Boulevard Theatre); Hobson’s Choice; Into the Woods (Royal Exchange Manchester); Standing at the Sky’s Edge (Sheffield Theatres); Macbeth (Watermill Theatre); Electrolyte (Wildcard/Pleasance Dome); The Assassination of Katie Hopkins (Theatr Clwyd/ Paines Plough); Winnie & Wilbur (Birmingham Rep); Lazarus (King’s Cross Theatre); The Busker’s Opera (Park Theatre).

Television includes: Unforgotten; Doctors.

For the Almeida: Albion (Nominated for the Evening Standard Emerging Talent Award).

Theatre credits include: Leopoldstadt (West End); Present Laughter (Old Vic); Family Voices & The Room (Jamie Lloyd/West End); Cock (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Inheritance (Young Vic); Misalliance (Orange Tree Theatre); Bent (National Theatre).

Film credits include: The Favourite.

Radio Credits include: The USA trilogy.

Luke trained at Guildhall where he was awarded the Michael Bryant Award 2017 and the Laurence Olivier Bursary Prize.