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Omar is a freelance director, dramaturg and theatre-maker. He was the resident Associate Director at the Bush Theatre from 2012 to 2019. Italian of Palestinian descent, Omar trained in Italy before graduating from Lecoq International Theatre School in Paris in 2005.

For the Almeida: The Chairs.

Theatre includes:

As Director: The Long Shadow of Alois Brunner (Factory International); two Palestinians go dogging (Olivier Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre); ECHO (Royal Court); Nowhere (Battersea Arts Centre); As You Like It (RSC); Misty (Bush Theatre/ West End); Nassim (Bush Theatre/ Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh/ International tour); You’re Not Like The Other Girls Chrissy (Olivier Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre); Going Through; Islands (Bush Theatre).

As Co-Creator: The Mill: City of Dreams: City of Dreams (Drummonds Mill, Bradford).

Ana is a Spanish designer based in London. She works extensively in opera, dance, theatre, fine arts, music and film.  She won The Linbury Prize for Stage Design in 2013 and Hechos de Talento in 2015, becoming an ambassador for Spanish design.

Theatre includes:

As Costume and Set Designer: The Fair Maid of the West; As You Like It (RSC); Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of) (West End/ Tron Theatre/ UK tour); The Grand Old Opera House Hotel (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh); The Lovely Bones (Birmingham Rep/ UK tour); The Driver’s Seat (National Theatre of Scotland); Wish List (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester/ Royal Court); Lela & Co (Royal Court); The Echo Chamber (Young Vic); Idomeneus (Gate Theatre).

As Set Designer: Burn (National Theatre of Scotland/ The Joyce Theater, NYC).

Opera includes:

As Costume and Set Designer: Uprising; The Wreckers (Glyndebourne); Breaking The Waves (Theater St. Gallen, Switzerland); In Flagrante (Scottish Opera); The Flying Dutchman (UK tour); Elixir of Love (Waterperry Opera Festival); To See The Invisible (Aldeburgh Festival).

Dance includes:

As Costume and Set Designer: West Side Story Symphonic Dances (Phoenix Dance Theatre/ Opera North); The Art of Violence; Animalis (Dulwich Picture Gallery).

Jackie is a lighting designer for theatre, dance and opera.

For the Almeida: The Chairs; Uncle Vanya; Mary Stuart (also West End/ UK tour).

Theatre includes: Death of England: Trilogy (National Theatre/ West End); Hansard (National Theatre); Ben and Imo; As You Like It (RSC); two Palestinians go dogging; ECHO (Royal Court); The Seagull (West End); The Beloved; Islands (Bush Theatre); Misty (Bush Theatre/ West End); What if Women Ruled the World?; Ceremony (Manchester International Festival); White Noise (Bridge Theatre); Changing Destiny; In the Penal Colony; A Face in the Crowd; Oh My Sweet Land (Young Vic).

Opera Includes: Orpheus (Opera North); Ulysses (Grange Opera); Violet (Aldeburgh Festival).

Dance Includes: Ruination (Royal Opera House); Goat; Cerberus; Death Trap (Rambert); The Ways, The Fortune, The Fall (Chapter, Cardiff); Continual Cry (Jamila Jonson-Small); Picnic; White Hare; Run Mary Run; 8 Minutes (Sadler’s Wells); Beheld; Hot Mess; Let’s Talk About Dis (Candoco Dance Company); The Murmuring; Young Men (BalletBoyz).

For the Almeida: The Chairs.

Theatre includes: A Good House (Bristol Old Vic/ Royal Court/ Market Theatre, Johannesburg); The Legends of Them (Royal Court/ Hackney Showroom); A Tupperware of Ashes; The Hot Wing King; Trouble in Mind (National Theatre); The Wedding Band (Lyric Hammersmith); Sweat; Nora: A Doll’s House (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Liberation Squares (Nottingham Playhouse); Cinderella (Brixton House); The Magic Finger (Unicorn Theatre); Blue Mist (Olivier Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre); Baghdaddy; two Palestinians go dogging; Maryland; Living Newspaper: Edition 2 (Royal Court); As You Like It (RSC); Wuthering Heights (China Plate/ UK tour); Songs From Across the Sueniverse (Sherman Theatre, Cardiff); Misty (Bush Theatre/ West End/ The Shed, New York); seven methods of killing kylie jenner (Royal Court/ Riksteatern, Sweden); Silence (Donmar Warehouse/ Tara Theatre); The Darkest Part of the Night; Reason’s You Should(n’t) Love Me; Snowflake (Kiln Theatre); Rockets and Blue Lights (National Theatre/ Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Antigone; Women of Troy (LAMDA); Open Mic (ETT/ Soho Theatre); We’re Stuck (The New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich); Autoreverse (Battersea Arts Centre).

Television includes: Brainstorm; The Astro Science Challenge; Have Your Circumstances Changed?.

Dance includes: Patrias; Quimeras (Sadler’s Wells).

Radio includes: Duchamp Urinal; The Meet Cute; Twelve Years.

Toby trained at the Jacques Lecoq School in Paris, where he founded The Moving Picture Mime Show, a global innovator of physical theatre. He has worked internationally and extensively in UK theatres such as the RSC, National Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre and Royal Exchange Theare, Manchester. As Director of Movement and Choreography he collaborated with Danny Boyle on Frankenstein (National Theatre), the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony, TV series Pistol and the films 28 Days Later and 28 Years Later.

For the Almeida:

As an actor: The Chairs.

Theatre includes:

As Movement Director: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Complicité); The 39 Steps (West End/ Broadway); War Horse (Global, Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreographer); A Dog’s Heart (De Nederlandse Opera); Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Glyndebourne); The Mill for Ockhams Razor (Royal Opera House/ UK tour).

As an actor: War Horse (National Theatre/ West End); Animal Crackers (West End); The Play What I Wrote (UK tour); Master and Margarita; Out of a House; Help I’m Alive; Light; Noise of Time (Complicité); The Government Inspector (Chichester Festival Theatre).

Film includes: Vacuums; Laissez Passer; Shrooms; Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang; Stan and Ollie; The Buccaneers.

John worked as a classical singer for several years before turning his focus to theatre projects as an actor, composer and sound designer.

Theatre includes: Land behind the Curtain (Junges Ensemble Stuttgart, Germany); Lord of the Flies; Mr Snow; Oliver Twist; A Christmas Carol; Queen of Chapeltown (Leeds Playhouse); Much Ado About Nothing (Sheffield Theatres); Nine Night (Leeds Playhouse/ Nottingham Playhouse); Possible (National Theatre Wales); Frankenstein; The Murder on the Links (L.A. Theatre Works, Los Angeles); The Borrowers; Pinocchio; The Railway Children; Peter Pan; Oliver Twist; Treasure Island (Hull Truck Theatre); Nothing Happens (Twice); The Ladder (UK tour); The Borrowers; Henry V; Twelfth Night; Swallows and Amazons (Storyhouse, Chester); Muckers (Condeduque Madrid/ Theatre Royal Bath); Unconditional (Edinburgh Fringe); Still Waiting (VAULT Festival); The Life and Times of Mitchell and Kenyon (Oldham Coliseum Theatre); The Queen’s Knickers (Southbank Centre/ Theatre Royal Bath); The Gift and The Glory (The Dukes, Lancaster).

Radio includes: Exodus to Shanghai; Cracking; The Willows; Your Call; Ignite Radio Shorts.

Podcasts include: Discover Your Inner Astronaut; Hack Your Body Heal Your Mind; Dead Honest.

For the Almeida: Otherland; Look Back in Anger; Roots; The Years (also West End); Alma Mater; Cold War; Portia Coughlan; Women, Beware the Devil; “Daddy” A Melodrama; Albion; The Hunt; Shipwreck; Dance Nation; Boy.

Theatre includes: Hamnet (RSC); Unicorn; Slave Play; Lyonesse; The Hills of California; Jerusalem; Leopoldstadt; Uncle Vanya; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; The Night of the 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/ Broadway/ 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).

For the Almeida:

As Costume Supervisor: Cold War; Portia Coughlan; Women Beware the Devil; The Hunt.

As Costume Designer: “Daddy” A Melodrama.

Theatre includes:

As Costume Supervisor: Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (Donmar Warehouse); Stories; As You Like It (National Theatre); Julius Caesar (Bridge Theatre); Prisoner of the State; Dead Man Walking (Barbican); People, Places and Things (Headlong/ National Theatre); A Pacifists’ Guide to the War on Cancer (Complicité/ National Theatre).

As Costume Designer: The Snow Queen; Hansel and Gretel; Alice in Winterland (Rose Theatre Kingston).

Opera includes:

As Costume Supervisor: Semele; Trouble In Tahiti / A Quiet Place; Il Trovatore; The Rape of Lucretia; La Forza Del Destino; La Traviata; Salome (Royal Opera House).

Dance includes:

As Costume Supervisor: Flight Pattern; Unearthed; Don Quixote; Sleeping Beauty; The Nutcracker (Royal Ballet); Lest We Forget; Le Corsaire (English National Ballet).

As Costume Designer: Double Murder (Hofesh Shechter Company); Voices and Light Footsteps; Chacony (Richard Alston Dance Company); The Waiting Game (Ballet Black).

Georgia is a director, writer and theatre maker specialising in new writing, devised work and comedy. She was the resident Associate Director at Octagon Theatre and her work has toured the UK and internationally. She trained at Ecole Philippe Gaulier and her most recent comedy Garry Starr: Classic Penguins was among The Guardian’s Best Comedy Shows of 2024.Theatre includes:

As Director: Garry Starr Classic Penguins (UK tour/ International tour); 1 in a Chameleon (Summerhall Festival); Alfie the Elf’s Christmas Rescue; Hibernation; Long Strong Hair; A Christmas Carol (Octagon Theatre, Bolton); The Beauty of Being Herd; Ryan Lane Will Be There Now In a Minute; Frills and Spills; The Astonishing Singing Fish!; Ellie and the Enormous Sneeze; Dr Zeiffal, Dr Zeigal and the Hippo That Can Never Be Caught! (UK tour); Valentina Star Dreamer (The Place); Charlie and the Christmas Cat (Lichfield Garrick Theatre); Totori Zeiffal (Finland tour); SUPERFUNADVENTURETIMES (Camden People’s Theatre).

As Associate Director: Spring and Port Wine; The Book Thief; One Man, Two Guvnors (Octagon Theatre, Bolton); Spymonkey’s A Christmas Carol (Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse).

Opera includes:

As Director: Supermies (Finnish National Opera and Ballet).