Principal Partner
By Thornton Wilder
Directed By David Cromer
Tickets £9 - £36
Award-winning US actor-director David Cromer directs this intimate version of Wilder’s iconic American play.
This deceptively simple story exposes the stark truth of human existence as two people fall in love, marry, and live out their lives as a small American town becomes an allegory for everyday life.
“David Cromer’s rethinking of Thornton Wilder’s masterpiece is a landmark”
Wall Street Journal
For more information about Thornton Wilder go to www.thorntonwilder.com
Previews Fri 10 - Thu 16 Oct
Press Night Fri 17 Oct (7pm)
Evening performances 7.30pm
Saturday matinees 2.30pm from 25 Oct
Wednesday matinees 2.30pm on 29 Oct, 5 Nov & 12 Nov
SPECIAL EVENTS
Talkback Thu 30 Oct (post performance)
Supporters' Evening Mon 17 Nov
OUR TOWN IN SCHOOLS
Mon 10 Nov Dormers Wells High School Ealing
Mon 17 Nov Cleeve Park School, Bexley
Si Crowell
Television includes: The Damnation of Darwin.
Film includes: Colour; Attack the Block.
Michael attends the BRIT School.
Joe Stoddard
Theatre includes: The 39 Steps (West End); Love on the Tracks (Big Olive Productions / Watermill Theatre, Newbury); Uncle Vanya (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry / Arcola Theatre); Peter Pan (360 Degrees / O2); The Ring of Truth; Factors Unforeseen (Orange Tree Theatre); The Lady in the Van (Theatre Royal, Bath); Breaking the Code (Theatre Royal, Haymarket); One Way Pendulum (Old Vic); The Madness of George Dubya (Arts Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Confusions (Salisbury Playhouse); Our Country’s Good (Mercury Theatre, Colchester); The Merry Wives of Windsor; A Comedy of Errors (Wild Thyme Productions); The Good Times Will Come; Baal (Sturdy Beggars Theatre Company); Laurel and Hardy (Harrogate Theatre / Watermill Theatre, Newbury).
Television includes: The Hour; Doctors; Hustle; Vanity Fair; The Fast Show; My Hero; Men Behaving Badly; There’s a Viking in My Bed; Maigret; Grange Hill; Sunburn; The Paul Merton Show; No Signal; Just a Gigolo; Midsomer Murders.
Film includes: Shakespeare in Love; Shackleton; Sharpe; Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence; Highlander 4; Piccadilly Jim.
Paul is a volunteer at the Brooklands Museum at Weybridge, helping maintain the collection of classic, vintage and veteran motorcycles.
Professor Willard
As Musical Director, theatre includes: The Events (UK Tour / Young Vic / Queen Elizabeth Hall); Assassins (Pleasance Theatre); Just Another Love Story (Battersea Barge / Brighton Fringe); Side by Side by Sondheim (The Headliners Club).
As Assistant Musical Director, theatre includes: West End Recast (Duke of York’s); Follies (Pleasance Theatre).
As Pianist / Vocal Coach, theatre includes: Gone Fishing (Royal Opera House Linbury Studio); Woodwose: a Community Chamber Opera (Wigmore Hall).
Joe is part of the music faculty at Millennium Performing Arts, and teaches on the acting course at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He has worked as a Musical Director / Vocal Coach for the National Youth Music Theatre and the Royal Opera House Youth Opera Company, and is the Director of Barnes Community Choir.
This is Joe’s professional acting debut.
Wally Webb
Arthur made his stage debut as Jeremy Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the Bristol Hippodrome in 2007. Since then he hasappeared in regional, national, international and West End productionswhile trainingat Sylvia Young Theatre School in London.
Theatre includes: Matilda(RSC / Stratford-Upon-Avon); Singing in the Rain (West End); Oliver (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); The Sound of Music (Kuala Lumpar / tour); Peter Pan; Half a Sixpence; Never Forget; Abba Mania (Bristol Hippodrome); Oliver!; Fame (Weston Playhouse); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Bristol Hippodrome / Bath Theatre Royal).
Television includes: I’d Do Anything; Grandpa in My Pocket; Poirot; X-Factor.
Film includes: The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box; The Woman in Black; Tits.
Arthur has been characterised in multi-format video games including Castlevania: Lord of Shadows 2. He can also be heard on the original cast recordings of Oliver and Matilda.
Constable Warren
Theatre includes: The Man in the Green Jacket (Jermyn Street Theatre); The Full Monty (West End / UK tour); Macbeth (Out of Joint / world tour), Jack and the Beanstalk; Peter Pan (Theatre Royal, Norwich); The Queen and I (Out of Joint); Ripped (Soho Theatre); The Merchant of Venice (Manchester Library Theatre); A Jamaican Airman Forsees His Death (Royal Court); The Snow Queen (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); Colours (Leeds Playhouse); The Canal Ghost (Birmingham Rep); Black Poppies (National Theatre Studio/L’Odeon, Paris); Topokana’s Maryrs Day; Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Sailsbury Playhouse); The Shelter; The Balcony; Two Noble Kinsmen; The Great White Hope; Every Man in his Humour; The Rover (RSC).
Television includes: Beautiful People; Silent Witness; Primeval; The Amazing Mrs Pritchard; Jonathon Creek; Casualty; Brookside; Insiders; Class Act II; The Bill; French and Saunders; Absolutely Fabulous; Black & Blue; Prime Suspect 2; Black Poppies; Arrivederci Millwall.
Film includes: Common People; The Great Ghost Rescue; Boogie Woogie; Felicia’s Journey; The Legend of 1900; Shopping; The Hawk; Three Kinds of Heat.
Mrs Webb
Theatre includes: Aalst (National Theatre Scotland / UK & Australia tour); Any Given Day (Traverse Theatre); Electra (Theatre Cryptic).
Film includes: Red Road; The Witch; Couple in a Hole; For Those in Peril; Filth; Prometheus; Not Another Happy Ending; Shell; Now is Good; Outcast; Donkeys; Somers Town; Summer.
Television includes: Game of Thrones; The Escape Artist; Pillars of the Earth; Five Daughters; Injustice; Dive; New Tricks; Garrow’s Law; He Kills Coppers; Taggart; The Vice; Tinsel Town.
For her performance in Red Road, Kate won Best Actress at the British Independent Film Awards 2007, Best Actress at the Montréal Film Festival, and the Scotland Best Actress BAFTA. In recognition of her work, Kate was the UK Shooting Star at the Berlin Film Festival in 2007. She was also nominated for a BAFTA for Tinsel Town, as Best Actress at the UK TMAs for Aalst, as Best Actress C.A.T.S 2011 for Any Given Day, and Best Actress at the 1999 Edinburgh Fringe Stage Awards for Electra.
Kate trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
Stage Manager
David is an award-winning actor and director. His critically-acclaimed production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town ran for more than a year at Barrow Street Theatre in New York City, garnering a 2009 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Revival, as well as a 2009 Obie Award for Best Director.
As an actor, theatre includes: Our Town (New York / Chicago / LA / Boston); A Raisin in the Sun (Broadway).
As a director, theatre includes: Women or Nothing (The Atlantic); Nikolai; When the Rain Stops Falling (Lincoln Center Theatre); Really Really (MCC, NYC); Sweet Bird of Youth (Goodman Theater, Chicago); Tribes (Barrow Street Theatre, New York); House of Blue Leaves; Brighton Beach Memoirs (Broadway); A Streetcar Named Desire (Williamstown Theatre Festival / The Writers Theatre, Chicago); Picnic; Orson’s Shadow (Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago); The Grapes of Wrath (Ford’s Theatre, Washington DC); The Clean House; Farnsworth Invention; Santaland Diaries (Alley Theatre).
David was Artistic Director of Big Game Theatre from 1991-93. His productions in Chicago have won a total of 16 Joseph Jefferson Awards including Best Production and Best Director for The Cider House Rules, The Price, and Angels in America. David is a 2010 recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship.
Emily Webb
Theatre includes: Macbeth (Manchester International Festival / The Armoury, NYC); The Only Way is Chelsea’s (Theatre Royal, York / Soho Theatre); Cooking with Elvis (Derby Theatre); The Accrington Pals (Royal Exchange, Manchester); The Kitchen Sink; Spacewang (Hull Truck Theatre); Wedding This, Wedding That (Old Vic Tunnels).
Television includes: Doctors; Fresh Meat.
Film includes: Testament of Youth; Cinderella.
Mrs.Gibbs
Theatre includes: That Day We Sang; A View From the Bridge (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Mare Rider; How the World Began; The Wolves at the Window; Anatol (Arcola Theatre); Victor/Victoria (Southwark Playhouse); Onassis (Novello Theatre); Taking Steps (Orange Tree Theatre); The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Royal & Derngate Theatre, Northampton / Edinburgh); Awaking Beauty;Spittin’ Distance (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Wolves at the Window (Arcola/59E59 New York); Three Sisters on Hope Street (Everyman Theatre, Liverpool / Hampstead Theatre); Alphabetical Order (Salisbury Playhouse); In the Club (Hampstead Theatre); Into the Woods (Royal Opera House); Caroline, Or Change (National Theatre); Six Pictures of Lee Miller; 5/11; (Chichester Festival Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (English Touring Theatre); The Ballad of Little Jo; Floyd Collins; Saturday Night (Bridewell Theatre); Daisy Pulls It Off (Lyric Theatre); Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight (Soho Theatre); Mahler's Conversion (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre); The Tempest (A&BC Theatre Group); Mahler’s Conversion (Aldwych Theatre); Merrily We Roll Along; Company (Donmar Warehouse); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Oxford Stage Company); Oliver! (London Palladium).
Television includes: Vera; New Tricks; Portrait; Holby City; Eastenders; Pixelface; Doctors; Live! Girls!; Rome; Lie With Me; Down to Earth; This is Dom Joly; Jonathan Creek; Company; Mash and Peas Do the USA.
Film includes: The Christmas Candle; The Final Curtain; Topsy Turvy; The Barn; Z.
Radio includes: Imagining Some Fear; David Golder; The Dogs and the Wolves; Publish and be Damned.
Anna received the TMA Award for Best Performance in a Play for her role in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and an Olivier Award nomination for her performance in Caroline, Or Change.
What’s your previous experience of Our Town
I have been in two productions of Our Town, both in my mid teens. Once for my school and the other for my local Youth Theatre in Bristol. Both times I played Emily Webb. It has genuinely stayed with me all these years. I quote Emily’s ‘goodbye’ speech often (generally when I’m saying a casual goodbye and I don’t think anyone has ever understood why on earth I am bidding coffee and clocks ticking a farewell), and I bought heliotrope for my garden because so many people talk about its smell. But more than that it has had a deep and lasting effect on me that I don’t think I truly realized until I revisited it as an adult for this production. We talk a lot about not noticing life as we live it and I think subconsciously I have made an effort all these years to take an extra hold of life’s moments as they speed past, possibly as a result of having experienced this play. I don’t know how much I can credit this to the play of course but I was amazed that when I reread it after more than two decades I remembered speech after speech almost word perfectly. Not bad for a play in which ‘nothing extraordinary happens’.
What’s my favourite daily routine?
I can’t pick one, but getting out of bed to make the first pot of tea for the day brings untold pleasure. I then sit in bed with my 2 and a half year old daughter to read a book and that is a very good way to start the day.
What advice would you give your 12 year old self?
What are you talking about? I’m still 12 years old.
If you could relive one day of your life what would it be and why?
Anytime when it was just me and my Mum. Preferably mucking about in Eastbourne where she grew up. She died in 2006 and I long for those tiny moments when we were just young ladies giggling together. I only hope my daughter will feel the same about her time spent with me.
Joe Crowell, Jr.
Television includes: My Almost Famous Family.
Film includes: Hello Carter; Wankan Tanka.
Howie Newsome
Theatre includes: If You Don't Let Us Dream, We Won't Let You Sleep; Ding Dong the Wicked; Vera, Vera, Vera (Royal Court Theatre); Rosie and Jim (Mob Culture); Chapel Street (Old Red Lion / Liverpool Playhouse); Coalition (Theatre503).
Television includes: Ripper Street; Our World War; Mr Selfridge; Run; Eastenders.
Film includes: Offender; Lovebite.
Sam Craig
Theatre includes: Tory Boyz; Prince of Denmark; Romeo and Juliet (National Youth Theatre / Ambassador’s Theatre); Red Riding Hood (Latitude Festival);Chimera (Wildworks);Occupy (National Youth Theatre / Platform Theatre Islington); Pigeon English (Workshop / Bristol Old Vic); London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremonies; Welcoming the World: Watch This Space (National Youth Theatre).
Television includes: Our Girl.
Simon trained through The National Youth Theatre and Act Up North.
Rebecca Gibbs
Television includes: Doctors; Coming Up; Law and Order: UK.
Mr Webb
Theatre includes: The Fall and Rise of Lenny Smallman (Cloud Ten Productions / Arts Theatre); We Could Be Heroes (Cloud Ten Productions / Bridewell Theatre); Northanger Abbey (Greenwich Theatre); Rat in the Skull (Theatre Exchange, USA); The Glory of the Garden (West End); Hindle Wakes (UK tour); Hamlet; As You Like It; “Master Harold” …and the Boys (Haymarket Basingstoke); Far From the Madding Crowd; Juno and the Paycock (New Vic Theatre).
Television includes: Trollied; Remember Me; Doctors; All at Sea; Holby City; By Any Means; Little Crackers; Midsomer Murders; Vexed; The Impressions Show; Life of Riley; Summer in Transylvania; The Catherine Tate Show; Garrow's Law; Grown Ups; Free Agents; U Be Dead; Eastenders; Suburban Shootout; Casualty; Party Animals; Sugar Rush; Croydon Poisonings; Love Soup; Charles; Hardware; The House That Jack Built; People Like Us; Attila; Dangerfield; Wonderful You; Is It Legal?; Hornblower; Coogan's Run; The Sharp End; First of the Summer Wine.
Film includes: The Heart of Lightness; Downhill; The Sightseers; City Slackers; The Scouting Book for Boys; Morris: A Life With Bells On; The Gospel of John; Silent Cry; Room to Rent; The Avengers; Sense and Sensibility.
Radio includes: Clare in the Community; Sneaky Peeks; Dear Mr Spectator; The Trouble with Caves; The Killing of Dr Morgan; Man in the Moon; A Good Place for Fishing; John Dodd Gets Taken for a Ride.
Mrs.Soames
Theatre includes: Brief Encounter (Kneehigh / Broadway / St Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn / A.C.T., San Francisco / Wallace Annenburg Center for the Performing Arts, L.A. / Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington D.C. / Australia & UK tours); Matilda (Cambridge Theatre); Written on the Heart (RSC / Duchess Theatre); Measure for Measure; 50 Years of the RSC: A Musical Celebration (RSC); She Loves Me (Chichester Festival Theatre); Noises Off (Birmingham Rep); Chicago (Adelphi Theatre / Cambridge Theatre); Anything Goes (National Theatre / Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); Love’s Labour’s Lost (National Theatre); Lenny (Queen’s Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Romeo and Juliet; Henry IV, Part 1; High Society (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Singin’ in the Rain (National Theatre / West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Vagina Monologues (UK tour); How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; 5/11 (Chichester Festival Theatre); Horse and Carriage; Stepping Out (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Damn Yankees (Adelphi Theatre); Crazy For You (Prince Edward Theatre); Beauty and the Beast (Dominion Theatre); Into the Woods (Derby Playhouse); Dreams from a Summerhouse (Watermill Theatre, Newbury); What the Women Did; Handmaidens of Death (Southwark Playhouse); Tomorrow Morning (New End Theatre); Welsh Millenium Centre opening (Cardiff); The Women (Old Vic).
Television includes: Heartbeat; Law & Order UK; Legionnaire; BBC Proms: Sondheim at 80; Lunar IV.
Simon Stimson
Theatre includes: Dr Faustus (Rose Playhouse); Duck, Death and the Tulip; The Making of Moo; Factors Unforeseen; The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles; Flora the Red Menace; Portrait of a Woman; The Memorandum (Orange Tree Theatre); A Door Must Be Kept Open or Shut (Osborne Studio Gallery); King Lear; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Tempest (Tobacco Factory Theatre, Bristol); The Hired Man; Arsenic and Old Lace; The Grapes of Wrath (Mercury Theatre, Colchester); The Tempest (RSC / Little Angel Theatre); She Stoops to Conquer; A Laughing Matter (Out of Joint / National Theatre / tour); Hamlet (National Theatre); Amy’s View (National Theatre / Aldywch Theatre); Leonce and Lena (Gate Theatre); Gross Indecency: The 3 Trials of Oscar Wilde (Gielgud Theatre); Longitude (Greenwich Theatre); The Little Prince (Hampstead Theatre); Blue/Orange (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); The Importance of Being Earnest; Paradise Lost; The Comedy of Errors (Bristol Old Vic); Silence (Birmingham Rep); Three Sisters (Chichester Festival Theatre); Cabaret (Donmar Warehouse).
Television includes: Wolf Hall; Messiah at the Foundling Hospital; Garrow's Law; On Expenses; Survivors 2; Judge John Deed; Casualty; Rosemary and Thyme; Foyle’s War; The Student Prince; Highlander; This Life; The Queen’s Nose; The Ruby Ring; Good Friday 1663; Pride and Prejudice.
Film includes: Mrs Dalloway.
Radio includes: Babel’s Tower; Eye of the Day; Dossier: Ronald Akkerman; The Rose and the Ring; The Decameron; Antigone.
Christopher trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Dr Gibbs
Theatre includes: Love and Information; Clubland (Royal Court); Trance (Bush Theatre); Southwark Fair; The Red Balloon; Sweeney Todd (National Theatre); Simply Heavenly (Young Vic / Trafalgar Studios); The Inland Sea (Wilton's Music Hall); Richard III; Henry VI Parts 1, 2 & 3; Much Ado About Nothing; Hamlet; Camino Real (RSC); A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; The Merry Wives of Windsor (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Present Laughter; The Tempest (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Animal Crackers (Royal Exchange; Manchester); As You Like It (Cheek By Jowl); Five Guys Named Moe (West End).
Television includes: 24: Live Another Day; Bluestone 42; The Smoke; The Home Office; Strikeback II; Strike Back III; City Hall; Silk; Black Mirror; Episodes; The Land Girls; The Lucy Montgomery Show; The Armstrong & Miller; Taking the Flak; Mutual Friends; Outnumbered; Bikesquad; Love Soup; Casualty; Perfect Day; Bodies; The Crouches; The Bill; Fifteen Stories High; Holby City; Picking Up the Pieces; Goodnight Sweetheart; The Detectives; Desmonds.
Film includes: Three and Out; Wondrous Oblivion.
George Gibbs
Theatre includes: War Horse (National Theatre / West End); The London Merchant (Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds); Summer Folk; Hands Across the Sea (Guildhall).
Television includes: The Smoke; Crimson Field; In the Flesh; Belme Sweet Belme; Banished.
David trained at Guildhall.
Writer
A full biography can be read on the Thornton Wilder website.
Director
David's production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town ran for over a year at the Barrow Street Theatre in New York, garnering a 2009 Lortel Award for Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Revival, as well as a 2009 Obie Award for Direction.
As an actor, theatre includes: Our Town (Chicago / New York / Boston); A Raisin in the Sun (Broadway); The Normal Heart; Angels in America; Serenading Louie (Chicago).
As a director, theatre includes: Women or Nothing (Atlantic Theatre) ; Nikolai and the Others; When the Rain Stops Falling (Lincoln Center Theatre); Really Really (MCC , NYC); Tribes (Barrow Street Theatre); The House of Blue Leaves; Brighton Beach Memoirs (Broadway); Sweet Bird of Youth; A Streetcar Named Desire; The Price; The Cider House Rules; Angels in America; Journey's End; Come Back, Little Sheba; Picnic; Cherrywood; The Hot l Baltimore(Chicago).
David is a 2010 recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship.
Set Design
Theatre includesOur Town;(Boston / Chicago / LA); Under My Skin (Little Shubert, New York); Gidion's Knot (59E59 Theatres, New York); Adult (Abrons, New York); The Realists (Here); The Last Will (Abingdon Theatre Company); Bus Stop (Olney Theatre, Washington DC); A Loss of Roses (Arkansas Rep, Arkansas); Dublin by Lamplight (McCarter Theatre, New Jersey); Long Day's Journey into Night (York Shakespeare Company); Holy Crap (laMaMa); Hedwig and the Angry Inch (3STC); Allegro; The Cottage; Blood Brothers; A Hard Wall at High Speed; The Pillowman (Astoria Performing Arts Center, New York).
Opera includes: Un Giorno di Regno; Zanetto; Il Secreto di Susanna (Odyssey Opera); The Bartered Bride; Merry Wives of Windsor; Don Pasquale; The Italian Girl in Algiers (Boston Midsummer Opera) The Play of Daniel (GEMS, the Cloisters).
Costume Design
Theatre includes: Our Town (Kansas City Repertory); All Our Tragic (Hypocrites); Ask Aunt Susan (Goodman Theatre); The How and the Why (Timeline); Anatole (First Stage); The Tennesee Williams Project (Hypocrites); Mikado (Hypocrites); Lord of the Flies (Steppenwolf TYA); Motortown (Steep Theatre); Pirates of Penzance (A.R.T.); Our Town (Barrow Street Theatre); The 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love Suicide (Hypocrites / 59e59).
Alison won the 2010 Equity Jeff Award for The Mystery of Irma Vep and the Non-Equity Jeff Award in 2011 for Cabaret, in 2006 for Time and the Conways and in 2005 for Leonce und Lena.
Alison is a company member of The Hypocrites, an Artistic Associate with Lookingglass and an Associate company member of Steep Theatre. Alison is an undergraduate of Northwestern University.
Composer
Theatre includes: A Midsummer Night's Dream (original music by Elliot Goldenthal); Our Town (The Hypocrites, Chicago / Barrow Street Theatre, NYC / Broad Stage, LA / Huntington, Boston / KC Repertory, Kansas City / also Musical Director / cast); Hit the Wall (Barrow Street Theatre); Paris Commune (The Civilians / BAM Next Wave); The Taming of the Shrew (Theatre For a New Audience).
Jonathan has also worked as Emily Bergl's Music Director at venues including 54 Below, Cafè Carlyle and The Oak Room, and at regional venues and companies including Goodman Theater, Huntington Theater Company, Lookingglass Theater, Kansas City Repertory Theater, Goodman Theater, The Broad Stage and Barrel of Monkeys.
Lighting Design
Heather is a Chicago-based lighting designer.
Theatre includes: Our Town (The Hypocrites, Chicago / Barrow Street, New York / Broad Stage, LA / Huntington Theatre, Boston / Kansas City Rep); A Streetcar Named Desire (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Rent (American Theatre Company / About Face Theatre); The Farnsworth Invention (Alley Theatre); The Mikado; HMS Pinafore; The Pirates of Penzance; Into the Woods; Cabaret (The Hypocrites, Chicago); Mojada; The Whale; Equivocation (Victory Gardens); A Separate Peace; First Look Rep (Steppenwolf Theatre); Pedro Paramo (Goodman Theatre); A Raisin in the Sun (Milwaukee Rep); Dee Snider's Rock-n-Roll Christmas Tale (Alchemy Productions, Chicago); Water by the Spoonful; Home; The Comedy of Errors; The Mystery of Irma Vep; What the Butler Saw (Court Theatre); The Better Half (Lucky Plush Production / MCA Chicago / US tour); The Vandal; Fallow; A Small Fire; Arturo Ui (Steep Theatre);A Streetcar Named Desire; The Caretaker; The Real Thing; The Detective's Wife; The Old Settler (Writers Theatre).
Heather received the NEA/TCG Development Program Award in 1999-2001, and a 3Arts Award in 2012. Heather serves as Head of Lighting Design at Columbia College Chicago.
Heather trained at The Theatre School at DePaul University.
Casting
Television includes: Remember Me; Stella; Undercover; Give Out Girls; Ambassadors; Wizards vs Aliens; Hank Zipzer; 88 Keys; Cockroaches; Run; Top Boy; Coming Up; Officially Special; The Sarah Jane Adventures; Just William.
Film includes: Powder Room; The Last Sparks of Sundown.
As casting associate at Andy Pryor Casting: Doctor Who; Torchwood; Whitechapel; Survivors; Life on Mars.
Casting Assistant
Ross Barratt is casting assistant to Andy Brierley and has worked with him on various projects since 2011.
Television includes: Stella; Undercover; Hank Zipzer; Wizards vs Aliens.
Assistant Director
Rebecca is director in residence at the Almeida. She is also Co-Artistic Director of Unbound Productions, an Associate Director of new writing company Little Pieces of Gold and an Ovalhouse Artist for 2014 as recipient of the Arts Manifesto: A Future for the Arts Award.
As Associate Director, for the Almeida: Little Revolution.
As Director, theatre includes: Travesti (Pleasance Theatre); Two Sisters (Southwark Playhouse); One Time Thing (Park Theatre); Half Way (Ovalhouse).
As Assistant Director, theatre includes: Tender Napalm (UK tour / Southwark Playhouse); World Enough and Time (Park Theatre); King Lear; Dido, Queen of Carthage (Greenwich Theatre).
Also a playwright, Rebecca’s work has been seen at the Swansea Grand Theatre, the Bush Theatre and Ovalhouse Theatre. Her verbatim play Travesti recently won a The Scotsman Fringe First Award and ThreeWeeks Editor's Choice Award at Edinburgh Festival 2014.
Costume Supervisor
Eleanor is the Head of Wardrobe at the Almeida.
As Costume Supervisor, for the Almeida: Chimerica (also West End Co-Supervisor); Little On The Inside (Clean Break / Almeida Festival); Almeida Projects performances.
As Assistant Supervisor, for the Almeida: The Dark Earth and the Light Sky; American Psycho: A new musical thriller.
As Costume Designer, for the Almeida: Mission Drift (The Team / Almeida Festival); Little On The Inside (Clean Break / Almeida Festival).
As Costume Supervisor, theatre includes: Billy the Girl (Clean Break / Soho Theatre).
Associate Musical Director
Theatre includes: Dr Faustus (Rose Playhouse); Duck, Death and the Tulip; The Making of Moo; Factors Unforeseen; The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles; Flora the Red Menace; Portrait of a Woman; The Memorandum(Orange Tree Theatre); A Door Must Be Kept Open or Shut (Osborne Studio Gallery); King Lear; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Tempest (Tobacco Factory Theatre, Bristol); The Hired Man; Arsenic and Old Lace; The Grapes of Wrath (Mercury Theatre, Colchester); The Tempest (RSC / Little Angel Theatre); She Stoops to Conquer; A Laughing Matter (Out of Joint / National Theatre / tour); Hamlet (National Theatre); Amy’s View (National Theatre / Aldywch Theatre); Leonce and Lena (Gate Theatre); Gross Indecency: The 3 Trials of Oscar Wilde (Gielgud Theatre); Longitude (Greenwich Theatre); The Little Prince (Hampstead Theatre); Blue/Orange (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); The Importance of Being Earnest; Paradise Lost; The Comedy of Errors (Bristol Old Vic); Silence (Birmingham Rep); Three Sisters (Chichester Festival Theatre); Cabaret (Donmar Warehouse).
Television includes: Wolf Hall; Messiah at the Foundling Hospital; Garrow's Law; On Expenses; Survivors 2; Judge John Deed; Casualty; Rosemary and Thyme; Foyle’s War; The Student Prince; Highlander; This Life; The Queen’s Nose; The Ruby Ring; Good Friday 1663; Pride and Prejudice.
Film includes: Mrs Dalloway.
Radio includes: Babel’s Tower; Eye of the Day; Dossier: Ronald Akkerman; The Rose and the Ring; The Decameron; Antigone.
Christopher trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Dialect Coach
Theatre includes: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Northern Stage / Royal and Derngate / Royal Exchange, Manchester); A Streetcar Named Desire (Young Vic); Daytona (Theatre Royal, Haymarket); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Savoy Theatre);Top Hat (Aldwych Theatre / tour); Legally Blonde (Savoy Theatre; tour); All New People (Duke of York's Theatre); Fat Pig (Comedy Theatre); South Pacific (Barbican / tour); Crazy for You (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre / Novello Theatre); The Prisoner of Second Avenue (Vaudeville Theatre); Three Days of Rain (Apollo Theatre); Broken Glass;Radio Golf; Moonlight and Magnolias (Tricycle Theatre); The Lyons; The Color Purple; Terrible Advice; Sweet Charity; They’re Playing Our Song; Aspects of Love; The Last Five Years (Menier Chocolate Factory); Intimate Apparel; A Steady Rain; The Big Meal; Fifty Words; Red Light Winter (Ustinov Theatre, Bath); Calamity Jane;Moonlight and Magnolias (Watermill Theatre, Newbury); Glengarry Glen Ross (Clwyd Theatr Cymru); Sister Act; South Pacific; My Fair Lady; Little Shop of Horrors; Oklahoma; Crazy For You (Kilworth House).
Film includes: Spectral; Point Break; Tarzan; The Hunger Games: Mockingjay; Mrs. Brown’s Boys; Edge of Tomorrow; Bad Neighbours; Unbroken; The Hoarder; Monsters: Dark Continent; Beautiful Creatures; The Killing Gene.
Television includes: I Live with Models; Intruders; Elementary; Obsession: Dark Desires; Motive; When Calls the Heart; Nashville; Hacks; Upstairs, Downstairs; Spooks; Doctors; The Wild West.
★★★★ Cromer adds a coup de theatre that elevates it from stunning to sublime…
Time Out
★★★★ An unforgettable evocation of everytown… invigorating…startlingly fresh
The Guardian
★★★★ Cromer's version is for the most part brilliantly unshowy, peeling away the gloss of nostalgia to get at the profound and poignant truths beneath.
Whatsonstage
★★★★ quietly devastating… complete with a scenic coup de théâtre from designer Stephen Dobay
The Arts Desk
Our Town is approximately 2 hours 5 minutes including two intervals