Romans

Theatre includes: The House of Bernarda Alba (National Theatre); Orlando (Schaubühne, Berlin); [BLANK] (Donmar Warehouse); Anatomy of a Suicide (Royal Court, winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize); Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. (RSC, co-winner of the George Devine Award); Ophelias Zimmer (Royal Court/ Schaubühne, Berlin).

Film includes: Die, My Love (co-written with Lynne Ramsay and Enda Walsh); The End We Start From; The Wonder (co-written with Sebastián Lelio and Emma Donoghue); Mothering Sunday; Lady Macbeth (BIFA for Best Screenplay and BAFTA nomination for Outstanding Debut).

Television includes: Dead Ringers (winner of the Peabody Award); Normal People (Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series); Conversations with Friends; Succession (Story Editor for season two).

Sam is a theatre director working across the UK and internationally. He was an Associate Director at the Royal Court between 2016 and 2024, where he also ran the theatre’s International Programme working with writers across the world. Sam began his career as the New Writing Associate at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester and won the JMK Award for Directors in 2012.

Theatre includes: all of it (Royal Court/ Festival d’Avignon); A Fight Against… (Una Lucha Contra…) (Royal Court/ Santiago a Mil); The Mysteries (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester/ UK tour); Mates in Chelsea; Pity; Grimly Handsome; B (Royal Court); Pygmalion (Headlong/ Leeds Playhouse/ Nuffield Southampton Theatres/ UK tour); There Has Possibly Been An Incident (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester/ Soho Theatre/ Edinburgh Fringe/ Theatertreffen, Berlin); Fireface (Young Vic); Galka Motalka (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester).

For the Almeida:

As Costume Designer: A Streetcar Named Desire (also West End/ BAM, New York).

As Set Designer: King Lear.

Theatre includes:

As Set and Costume Designer: Ghosts (Lyric Hammersmith); The House of Bernarda Alba; Under Milk Wood; Protest Song (National Theatre); Cock (West End); all of it; The Glow; ear for eye; a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun); X; The Mistress Contract (Royal Court); The Shawl (Young Vic); Arden of Faversham (RSC); Macbeth (National Theatre of Scotland/ Lincoln Center, New York/ Broadway/ Japan tour); Glasgow Girls (National Theatre of Scotland/ Scotland tour); 27; The Wheel (National Theatre of Scotland); Ippolit (Sophiensaele/ Schauspielhaus Zürich/ Münchner Kammerspiele); Der Verlorene (Sophiensaele, Berlin).

As Costume Designer: The Cherry Orchard (Donmar Warehouse/ St Ann’s Warehouse, New York); Top Girls (National Theatre); Macbeth (Young Vic).

As Set Designer: Enemy of the People (Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis); Green Snake (National Theatre of China); Shun-Kin (Complicité).

Opera includes: Die Schöpfung (Bühnen Köln); Until the Lions (Opéra National du Rhin).

Dance includes:

As Set and Costume Designer: Il Combattimento; Contagion (Shobana Jeyasingh Dance); Lovesong (Frantic Assembly).

As Costume Designer: The Barbarians in Love (Hofesh Shechter Company); 8 Minutes (Alexander Whitley Dance Company).

As Set Designer: Sun; Political Mother (Hofesh Shechter Company).

For the Almeida: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Roots; Look Back in Anger; King Lear; Romeo and Juliet; A Streetcar Named Desire (also West End/ BAM, New York); 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); Titus Andronicus; Julius Caesar (RSC); The Song Project; Gundog; X; Linda (Royal Court); The Glass Menagerie; West Side Story (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); The Two Character Play (Hampstead Theatre); This Bitter Earth (Soho Theatre); Harm (Bush Theatre); BURGERZ (Hackney Showroom).

Opera includes: Orphée et Eurydice (Royal Opera House); Aida; Fidelio; Nothing (Royal Danish Opera); Tosca (Opera North/ Opera Australia).

Dance includes: Cycles, Blak Whyte Gray (Boy Blue); The Limit (Royal Opera House); We Are As Gods (James Cousins Company); Enowate (Dickson Mbi); Sun; Political Mother; In Your Rooms; Uprising (Hofesh Shechter Company); Untouchable (Royal Ballet); Grey Matter; Tomorrow (Rambert).

Benjamin studied Theatre Sound at the Central School of Speech and Drama. He is an Associate Artist of The Wardrobe Ensemble.

Theatre includes:

As Sound Designer: Machinal (The Old Vic); A Fight Against… (Una Lucha Contra…) (Royal Court); Michael Kohlhaas (Schaubühne, Berlin); Maggot Moon (Unicorn Theatre); Education Education Education (West End); The War of the Worlds (New Diorama Theatre); Southwestern (Tobacco Factory Theatres); Prurience (Southbank Centre/ The Guggenheim Museum, New York).

As Co-Sound Designer: Death of England: The Plays (National Theatre).

As Co-Sound Designer and Composer: Othello (National Theatre).

As Sound Effects Designer: Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical (West End).

Dance includes: Figures in Extinction Trilogy (Nederlands Dans Theater); The Road Awaits Us (Sadler’s Wells).

Jasmin is a composer & creator working across theatre, dance, film and performance art. She is also Co-Artistic Director of Manchester Collective.

Theatre includes: Pins and Needles (Kiln Theatre); Julius Caesar (RSC); Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare’s Globe); Paradise Now!; Harm (Bush Theatre); Brown Girls Do It Too: Mama Told Me Not To Come (Soho Theatre); Britannicus (Lyric Hammersmith); Red Ellen (Northern Stage); Dorian (Reading Rep Theatre); Missing Julie (Theatre Clywd); Nanjing (Berliner Festspiele: Theatertreffen).

Film includes: History of a Painting; Prisoner C33; send back the echo; Harm; Mechanical Souls (SXSW Jury Award); Barley Fields on the Other Side of the Mountain.

Dance includes: A Single Man (Factory International/ The Royal Ballet); The Spell & The Promise (London Symphony Orchestra).

Other works include:

As Co-Creator: what the dog said to the harvest (Shubbak Festival/ Southbank Centre); nineteen ways of looking (Kakilang/ esea contemporary); Too Big, Too Small (V&A Museum); Somehow (Music Theatre Wales); TRIPTYCH (Shoreditch Town Hall).

Hannes is a German-born, Olivier Award nominated choreographer and movement director based in London. He has performed and collaborated with William Forsythe, Angelin Preljocaj, Wayne McGregor, Akram Khan, Punchdrunk, and Lost Dog. He worked with DV8 Physical Theatre for 17 years, first as a performer and later as the company’s Creative Associate. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of Moonwalking Bear Productions – a hub for visionary artistic projects and for supporting emerging talent.

Theatre includes:

As Choreographer: How About Now (Moonwalking Bear Productions); Dandelion (Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens); Unruhe (Susanne Linke Dance Company, Germany), The Fall (Orsolina28, Italy).

As Movement Director: Hamlet (RSC); Dear England (National Theatre/ West End/ UK tour).

As Performer: JOHN; Can We Talk About This?; To Be Straight With You (DV8 Physical Theatre/ National Theatre/ International tour).

Film includes:

As Choreographer: Catherine Called Birdy, The Edge of Us.

As Performer: Breathless Puppets.

Dance includes: iTMOi (Akram Khan Company/ Sadler’s Wells).

For the Almeida: 1536; Rhinoceros; 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: Mrs. Warren’s Profession; Dr. Strangelove; Hamnet; 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: The Secret Life of Bees; A Streetcar Named Desire (also West End); The Clinic; Little Revolution.

Theatre includes: Till the Stars Come Down; Why Am I So Single?; Amélie; Everybody’s Talking About Jamie; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Lady Windermere’s Fan; Jerusalem; Di and Viv and Rose; A Christmas Carol; The Father; East is East (West End); Romeo and Juliet; The Comedy of Errors; The Tempest; Hamlet; The Taming of the Shrew; As You Like It; The Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare’s Globe); A Midsummer Night’s Dream; King John; Troilus and Cressida; As You Like It; The Two Noble Kinsmen; Salome; The Duchess of Malfi (RSC); Henry V; The Tempest (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Hairy Ape; High Society; The Crucible (The Old Vic); Posh; Jumpy; Clybourne Park; Sucker Punch; What If If Only; The Low Road (Royal Court).

As Costume Designer:

Pinocchio: No Strings Attached! (Above the Stag).

Sophia is an experienced Wardrobe Supervisor, Wigs, Hair and Makeup Artist, Afro Hair Consultant, and Facilitator. Throughout her creative career, she has worked as a dresser and Head of Wardrobe for bands and musicians including George Michael, Lady Gaga, Dolly Parton and Motörhead. She then ventured into the ice-skating industry, touring globally with a variety of different live shows.

In recent years, she has worked in the theatre industry alongside holding workshops teaching the history and importance of afro hair in television, theatre and film at Bristol School of Acting and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She is also a wigs, hair and makeup consultant specialising in afro hair and deeper skin tones, holding workshops for sound and lighting departments.

For the Almeida: The Years (also West End); King Lear.

Theatre includes: Intimate Apparel (Donmar Warehouse); Choir Boy; Cheeky Little Brown (Bristol Old Vic); The Cherry Orchard (Bristol School of Acting); Salty Irina (Edinburgh Fringe); Fawn (UK tour); For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy (Royal Court/ West End); Sound of the Underground (Royal Court).

For the Almeida: The Hunt (also St Ann’s Warehouse, New York); Spring Awakening; Dance Nation; The Treatment; They Drink it in the Congo; Ghosts; Chimerica; Children’s Children; The Knot of the Heart; House of Games.

Theatre includes: Much Ado About Nothing; Twelfth Night (RSC); Speed (Bush Theatre); Fifth Step; Oliver!; Dr. Strangelove; A Little Life (West End); King Lear (West End/ The Shed, New York, Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Fight Choreography); 1984; The Birthday Party; The Deep Blue Sea; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Theatre Royal Bath); The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (Minerva Theatre, Chichester); Abigail’s Party; A Beautiful Thing (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Girl from the North Country; Machinal (The Old Vic); The Hungry Body (Donmar Warehouse); The Witches (National Theatre); Cruel Intentions (The Other Palace Theatre); My Beautiful Laundrette (Curve Theatre, Leicester); Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Crucible (National Theatre/ West End); Mates in Chelsea; Hope has a Happy Meal; Imposter 22 (Royal Court); East is South; The Harmony Test; Between Riverside and Crazy (Hampstead Theatre); A View From the Bridge (Theatre Royal Bath/ West End).

Opera includes: Itch; Lucia di Lammermor (Opera Holland Park); Festen (Royal Opera House); Carmen (Glyndebourne).

For the Almeida: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; The Chairs; Summer and Smoke (also West End); Chimerica (also West End).

Theatre includes: Cabaret; Standing at the Sky’s Edge; Crazy for You; A View from the Bridge; The Man in the White Suit; The Importance of Being Earnest; Everybody’s Talking About Jamie; Neville’s Island; South Downs/The Browning Version; Butley; Country Girl; Motown: The Musical; Memphis; Hairspray; Love Never Dies (West End); Dixon and Daughters; Oslo; The Beaux’ Stratagem; The History Boys; Market Boy; Caroline, or Change; The Alchemist; The Rose Tattoo; Playing with Fire (National Theatre); The Hypocrite; Hecuba; Oppenheimer (RSC); As You Like It; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Theatre Royal Bath); Mamma Mia! The Party (The O2); Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Leeds Playhouse); The Crucible (The Old Vic); Knives in Hens (Donmar Warehouse); Guys and Dolls; The Last King of Scotland; Steel (Sheffield Theatres); The Narcissist; A Damsel in Distress; She Loves Me (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Brothers Size; The Glass Menagerie; Eurydice (Young Vic).

Opera includes: Orpheus in the Underworld; Pagliacci (ENO).

Film includes: The Last Swim; Everybody’s Talking About Jamie; Cosi; Broken; Omar; Brimstone; Exam.

Television includes: Bodies; Zero Chill; Happy Valley; Doctor Who; Odyssey; Grantchester; Midsomer Murders; Millie Inbetween.

Neetu is a writer and director from Hackney, East London. She studied English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and is interested in human dynamics across new writing, classics and revivals.

Theatre includes:

As Director: Our Place (Lyric Hammersmith); Permission (Tara Theatre); The Valley of Queens (Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham); The End (Bush Theatre); Tako (Camden People’s Theatre); Oxford Girls (Mercury Theatre, Colchester).

As Assistant Director: The Playboy of the Western World (National Theatre); The Cherry Orchard (Donmar Warehouse/ St Ann’s Warehouse, New York); Scenes from Lost Mothers (Clean Break); King Troll (New Diorama Theatre); Run, Rebel; Kabul Goes Pop (UK tour); Noor (Southwark Playhouse).

As Writer: The Punjabi Alien Play (Tara Theatre); More Than One Story (Cardboard Citizens).