Principal Partner
World Premiere
By Anne Washburn
Directed By Rupert Goold
★★★★ The Guardian, Sunday Times, The Times, Time Out, Metro
From across the room I saw the President, torchlight playing across his visage.
And the violins began, and the low rumble of the timpani.
I screamed. I ran.
An old farmhouse upstate. Snow is falling. Mountains are falling. Something is breaking apart.
You are formally invited to dinner with the 45th President of the United States.
Anne Washburn (The Twilight Zone, Mr Burns) returns to the Almeida with a sinister and sensational new play, directed by Almeida Artistic Director Rupert Goold.
Previews Mon 11 Feb – Mon 18 Feb
Press Night 7pm Tue 19 Feb
Evenings 7pm
Wed matinees 1.30pm from 27 Feb
Sat matinees 1.30pm from 23 Feb
11 Feb – 18 Feb
£32, £28, £20, £10
20 Feb – 30 Mar
£39.50, £32, £20, £10
On stage seating
There are a limited number of seats integrated around the edge of the stage which will offer a unique close-up view of the production. People seated in these seats will be visible to the rest of the audience.
11 Feb – 18 Feb
£20
20 Feb – 30 Mar
£32
Almeida Rush
Almeida Rush allows audiences to book last minute tickets to popular Almeida shows each week. Tickets released Tuesday at 1pm.
Talkback
Thu 21 Mar
Post-show talk with members of the Shipwreck company. Free to same-day ticket holders.
Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances we are no longer able to offer live subtitles for this Talkback event.
Almeida Questions
Mon 4 Mar 5.30pm
Almeida Questions is an eclectic programme of pre-show discussions which consider some of the questions raised by the work on our stage. An invited panel of speakers discuss the key issues and ideas raised by Shipwreck.
Dialogue Theatre Club
Mon 18 Mar 7.15pm
An open and informal discussion group where you can discuss Shipwreck with fellow audience-members. Find out more.
Captioned performance
Thu 21 Mar 7pm
£5 Captioned tickets are available to those aged 25 and under. Book by calling the Box Office on 020 7359 4404.
Audio Described performance
by VocalEyes
Sat 23 Mar 1.30pm
(Touch Tour 12pm)
£5 Audio Described tickets are available to those aged 25 and under. Book by calling the Box Office on 020 7359 4404.
Islington First
11 Feb - 20 Feb (except 19 Feb)
If you live or work in the Islington area you can book best available seats for £25 for the opening performances, subject to availability. Enter the promo code ISFIRST when booking. For applicable postcodes see here.
Concessions
Customers claiming Jobseekers Allowance and students can book second-price band tickets for £25 on Monday - Thursday evenings and Wednesday and Saturday matinees. Concessions tickets are also applicable for first-price band tickets on Wednesday and Saturday matinees*.
Tickets are subject to availability and not available in the final week of performances. For more information click here.
Over 65s
Customers who are 65 and over can book second-price-band tickets* for £25 on Monday - Thursday evenings & Wednesday & Saturday matinees. Over 65s tickets are also applicable for first-price band tickets on Wednesday and Saturday matinees. For more information click here.
Under 30s
Customers aged 30 or under can book second-price-band tickets for £15 on Monday - Thursday evenings & Wednesday & Saturday matinees*.
Access
Deaf and disabled patrons and a companion can buy tickets for £25 for all performances by calling th eBox Office on 020 7359 4404.
*Concessions are subject to availability and proof of eligibility is required. Concessions in the final week of performances are only valid for Deaf and disabled bookings
25 and under
£5 tickets are available to those age 25 and under for performances on Mon 11 Feb, Tue 12 Feb, Mon 18 Feb, Mon 25 Feb, Tue 26 Feb, Mon 4 Mar, Tue 5 Mar. Enter the promo code 25UNDER to access tickets.
Theatre includes: An Injury (Ovalhouse); Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere (Young Vic); The Suppliants (Battersea Arts Centre); Cue Deadly (Riverside Studios); Tamburlaine (The Rose Theatre); Bedbound (Read Out); The Duchess of Malfi (Cambridge Arts Theatre); The Chairs (Readout); Bloodknot; Bella Vita; Inside the Island; The Zoo Story (KCSTC); Glengarry Glen Ross (ETG); Next Train Approaching (Man in the moon); Othello; Britannicus (ADC); Equus (BATS).
Television includes: Hanna; Moving On; Electric Dreams; Spooks.
Film includes: Undergods; Assassin’s Creed; Tigers; Our Kind of Traitor; The Narrow Frame of Midnight; Birds Like Us; In the Last Days of the City; Green Zone; The Kite Runner; United 93; Detached.
Theatre includes: Antony & Cleopatra; Barbershop Chronicles (National Theatre); The Way of the World; St Joan; The Vote (Donmar Warehouse); Pigs and Dogs; The Crossing Plays (Royal Court); The Tempest (The Globe); Barbarians (Young Vic); As You Like It (New Wolsey Theatre); Refugee Boy; Waiting for Godot (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Neighbours (Hightide).
Television includes: Silent Witness; A Very English Scandal; In the Dark; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Ordinary Lies; Cucumber; Banana; Fresh Meat.
Film includes: The Personal History of David Copperfield; The Girl With All The Gifts; The Isle.
Theatre includes: Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat (Plaines Plough); Mirandolina (Manchester Royal Exchange); Menu; Twelfth Night (National Theatre); Macbeth (Out of Joint); Anna Karenina (Edinburgh Royal Lyceum); Badnuff (Soho Theatre); Sunday Father (Hampstead Theatre); The Flu Season (Gate Theatre); Possible Worlds (Glasgow Tron Theatre); Tree Houses (Exeter Northcott Theatre); Blessings; Threesome (Old Red Lion); The Promise (Liverpool Everyman); Dog’s Barking (Bush Theatre); Othello (Bury St. Edmunds Theatre Royal); The Bone Room (Young Vic); The Censor (Royal Court); Couch Grass and Ribbon (Newbury Watermill Theatre); St James & The Tattoo Man (London New Play Festival); Stealing Souls (The Red Room); The Song from the Sea (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Walking With Mr. Brownstone (Southwark Playhouse)
Television includes: Strangers; W1A; Silent Witness; The Hellenes; The Worst Witch; Downton Abbey; Half Time; Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge; Uncle; Vera; Jonathan Creek; Law and Order; Le Grand; Heading Out; A Touch of Cloth; Midsomer Murders; Hustle; DCI Banks; The Other Child; Doctor Who; Land Girls; On Expenses; New Tricks; Lead Balloon; No Heroics; Casualty; Poirot – Ms Mcginty’s Dead; Up Close and Personal; Moving Wallpaper; Sold; Britz; Party Animals; Comedy Lab; According to Bex; Last Rights; Spine Chillers; Everything I Know About Men; The Worst Week of My Life; Trevor’s World of Sport; Holby City; Red Cap; Teachers; Trust; Table Twelve; Thin Ice; Hearts & Bones; Nature Boy; Peak Practice; The Bill: Lola; Killer Net; Crimewatch; Dent D’Amour.
Film includes: Official Secrets; Cliffs of Freedom; Demain Tout Commence; The Boat People; The Festival; Before You Go; Perdie.
Theatre includes: The Weir (Donmar Warehouse/Wyndham’s Theatre); Juno and the Paycock (National Theatre/National Theatre of Ireland/Abbey Theatre); Pygmalion (National Theatre of Ireland/Abbey Theatre); The Yalta Game (Gate Theatre Dublin/ Kings Edinburgh/Sydney Festival); The Deep Blue Sea; Betrayal; The Eccentricities of a Nightingale; See You Next Tuesday; Blithe Spirit; An Ideal Husband; Arcadia; Cyrano De Bergerac (Gate Theatre); I Keano (Olympia Productions); Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme; Doldrum Bay (also Peacock theatre) (Abbey Theatre); Auntie and Me (Gaiety Theatre); Mojo (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Juno and the Paycock; Same Old Moon (Irish Repertory Theatre Co.)
Television includes: Delicious; Houdini & Doyle; No Offence; The Suspicions of Mr Whicher; Charlie; Apres Match; The Crisis; Chasing the Lions; Bittersweet; The State of Us; The Big Bow Wow.
Film includes: Batman Begins; The Closer You Get.
Theatre includes: Les Blancs; The Revenger’s Tragedy (National Theatre); Women Beware Women (RSC); An Ideal Husband; Frost/Nixon (West End)
Television includes: The Spanish Princess; Krypton; Peaky Blinders; Innocent; Cilla; Critical; Life in Squares; Luther; Da Vinci’s Demons
Film includes: All the Devils Men; Muse; Howl; Narcopolis; Hammer of the Gods; Happy-Go-Lucky; Mark of Cain; Love and Other Disasters; Alexander
For the Almeida: Hamlet (also Broadway)
Theatre includes: The Secret Theatre (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse); Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe); Gaslight (Royal Derngate Northampton); Farewell to Theatre (Hampstead Theatre); Broken Glass (PW Productions); A Doll’s House (Donmar Warehouse); The Misanthrope (Comedy Theatre); And Then There Were None (Gielgud Theatre/West End); A Doll’s House (Birmingham Rep/National Tour); A Streetcar Named Desire (Bristol Old Vic); Antigone (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre/Old Vic); Our Song (Apollo Theatre)
Television includes: Poirot – The ABC Murders; Requiem; The Strike Series; Churchill’s Secret; Death in Paradise; In the Club; The Musketeers; Game of Thrones; The Body Farm; Waking the Dead; U Be Dead; Jane Eyre; The Virgin Queen; In the Name of Love; Frenchman’s Creek; Student Prince; The Woman in White; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
Film includes: The Runaways; Una; Exodus; Legend; Child 44; Five Children and It; In a Dark Place; I Capture the Castle; Secret Passage; Dark Blue World; Rancid Aluminium; Conquest; Childhood; New World Disorder; A Man of No Importance; Brassed Off; Englishman Who Went Up a Hill; Sirens; Hear My Song
For the Almeida: King Charles III (also West End)
Theatre includes: Consent (National Theatre/Harold Pinter Theatre); Girl from the North Country (Old Vic/Noel Coward Theatre); An Enemy of the People; Chimes at Midnight (Chichester Festival Theatre); Bull (Sheffield Crucible Theatre/Young Vic/New York); Rapture, Blister, Burn; Tiger Country (Hampstead Theatre); Don’t Dress For Dinner (Roundabout Theatre); 13; Blood and Gifts; Gethsemane (also Tour) (National Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (Wyndhams Theatre); The Pride (The Lucille Lortel Theatre New York); Now or Later; My Child (Royal Court); Rabbit (Old Red Lion/Trafalgar Studios/New York); French Without Tears (English Touring Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest (Theatre Royal Bath); Original Sin (Sheffield Crucible); Time and the Conways; Snake in Fridge; King Lear; Poor Superman (Manchester Royal Exchange); Glass Menagerie (Minerva Theatre); Lone Star; Private Wars; (Bristol Old Vic); A View From the Bridge (Theatre Royal York); Tamburlaine the Great (RSC); Coriolanus (Bloomsbury Theatre)
Television includes: Deep State; Home From Home; Ernie, Ernie & Me; Dr Foster; King Charles III; Endeavour; Endeavour; 1066: A Year to Conquer England; Drifters; Catherine Tate Nan Special – Knees Up Wilmot Brown; Thicker Than Water; Coalition; Grantchester; The Assets; The Crimson Field; The Game; Adam Wiseman: Life Coach; Churchill’s First World War; Law & Order; Family Tree; Silent Witness; Vexed; Law & Order: Los Angeles; Miranda; Trinny and Susannah From Boom to Bust; Lewis; Foyles War; A Touch of Frost; Sleep With Me; The Execution of Gary Glitter; Theatre Live!; Henry VIII The Mind of a Tyrant; Dr. Who; Hustle; Jonathan Creek; Consuming Passion; Hotel Babylon; Wired; Secret Diary of a Call Girl; Bonekickers; Harley Street; Ashes to Ashes; Extras; Sold; The Commander; The Amazing Mrs. Pritchard; Waking the Dead; Judge John Deed; Desperados; The Rise & Fall of the Roman Empire; Shiny; Love Soup; Casualty; Meucci; England Expects; Reversals; As If; Trust; Murder on the Orient Express; Lost Battalion; Table 12 “After Hours”; Band of Brothers; I Saw You; Let Them Eat Cake; The Tenth Kingdom; Life of the Party; The Bill; Island; Sharpe’s Regiment; Cold Lazarus
Film includes: The Kill Team; Johnny English Strikes Again; Hunter Killer; A Little Chaos; Kilimanjaro; Last Chance Harvey; Broken Lines; Mother of Tears; Road to Guantanamo; Shiny; Prima Dammi Un Bacio; De Lovely; Three Blind Mice; It’s Not You It’s Me; High Heels & Low Lifes; Gregory’s 2 Girls; Forbidden Territory;
For the Almeida: Mr. Burns; Ivanov
Theatre includes: Beginning; The Plough and The Stars; Children of the Sun; Detroit; The White Guard; The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other; Philistines; Coram Boy; The House of Bernarda Alba; The Night Season (National Theatre); Bodies; Gastronauts; The Stone (Royal Court); The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui; King Lear (Donmar Warehouse); Wild Honey (Hampstead Theatre); Love for Love; Twelfth Night (RSC); For Services Rendered (Chichester); Man – 3 Plays by Tennessee Williams; Uncle Vanya (Young Vic); The Rivals (Arcola Theatre); Nocturnal; Hedda Gabler; Footfalls (also Barbican); Pride and Prejudice; Blithe Spirit; Bash; (Gate Theatre); Three Sisters; Aristocrats; The Shape of Metal; She Stoops to Conquer; The House of Bernarda Alba; All My Sons (The Abbey Theatre Dublin); The Way of All Fish (Bewleys Café Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Dear Brutus (Nottingham Playhouse Theatre); A Streetcar Named Desire; A Voyage Round My Father; Hayfever; The Importance of Being Earnest (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Communicado)
Television includes: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher; Harry and Paul; Amber; Your Bad Self; Wild At Heart; Sleep With Me; Waking the Dead; Doctors; Afterlife; New Tricks; Joy Ball; The Painted Lady
Film includes: The Stag; A Cock and Bull Story; Inside I’m Dancing; Imagine Me and You; Citizen Verdict; The Honeymooners; Goldfish Memory; Conspiracy of Silence
Writer
For the Almeida: The Twilight Zone; Mr Burns.
Theatre includes: 10 out of 12 (Soho Rep, NYC); Antlia Pneumatica (Playwrights Horizons, NYC); The Communist Dracula Pageant (ART, Boston); A Devil at Noon (Actors Theater of Louisville, Kentucky); I Have Loved Strangers (Clubbed Thumb Summerworks, NYC); The Internationalist (13P, NYC); The Ladies (The Civilians, NYC); The Small (Clubbed Thumb Summerworks, NYC); Orestes (The Folger, Washington D.C.); Iphigenia In Aulis (Classic Stage Company, NYC).
Anne’s awards include a Guggenheim, an Alpert, and a Laura Pels for an artist in mid-career. Anne is an associated artist with The Civilians, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, and is an alumna of New Dramatists and 13P.
Direction
Rupert is Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre, and was Artistic Director of Headlong Theatre Company from 2005 to 2013, Associate Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Artistic Director of Northampton Theatres from 2002 to 2005.
For the Almeida: Albion; Ink; Richard III; Medea, The Merchant of Venice; King Charles III (also West End and Broadway); American Psycho: A new musical thriller; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot.
Theatre includes: Made in Dagenham (West End); The Effect; Earthquakes in London (Headlong / National Theatre); Time and the Conways (National Theatre); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Three Sixty / Kensington Gardens); The Merchant of Venice; Romeo and Juliet; The Tempest; Speaking Like Magpies (RSC); ENRON (Headlong / Chichester Festival Theatre / Royal Court / West End / Broadway); Oliver!; The Glass Menagerie; Art; Speed-the-Plow (West End); King Lear (Headlong / Liverpool Everyman / Young Vic); No Man’s Land (Gate Theatre, Dublin / West End); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Headlong / Chichester Festival Theatre / Bristol Old Vic / West End); Macbeth (Brooklyn Academy of Music / Lyceum Theater / Broadway); Faustus; Restoration; Paradise Lost (Headlong); Hamlet; Summer Lightning; Insignificance; Paradise Lost; Waiting for Godot; The Weir; Betrayal (Theatre Royal, Northampton); Othello (Theatre Royal, Northampton / Greenwich Theatre); Scaramouche (Salisbury Playhouse / Australia, New Zealand, Canada tour); The Wind in the Willows; Privates on Parade (New Vic Theatre); Gone to LA (Hampstead Theatre); Broken Glass (Watford Palace Theatre); Habeus Corpus; Summer Lighting; Dancing at Lughnasa (Salisbury Playhouse); The Colonel Bird (Gate Theatre); Brand (NT Studio); Romeo and Juliet (Greenwich Theatre); The End of the Affair (Bridewell Theatre).
Opera includes: Turandot; On Thee We Feed (English National Opera); Le Comte Ory (Garsington Opera); Gli Equivoci; Il Pomo D’Oro (Batignano Opera Festival).
Television includes: Macbeth (BBC), 2011 Peabody Award, King Charles III (BBC2); BAFTA-winning Richard II (BBC).
Film includes: True Story; Judy.
Rupert has twice been the recipient of the Laurence Olivier, Critics’ Circle and Evening Standard awards for Best Director. He won a Peabody Award in 2011 for Macbeth and a BAFTA for Richard II.
Rupert was awarded a CBE in the 2017 New Years Honours for services to drama.
Design
For the Almeida: Machinal; Albion; Boy; Game; When the Rain Stops Falling; Judgement Day.
Theatre and Dance includes: To Kill a Mockingbird; Three Tall Women; A Doll’s House 2 (Broadway); Escaped Alone (Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York); The Jungle (also West End and New York); The Trial; Public Enemy; Wild Swans; The Government Inspector; In the Red and Brown Water; The Good Soul of Szechuan; Generations (Young Vic); Get Santa!; Sucker Punch; Cock; In the Republic of Happiness (Royal Court); The Children; Escaped Alone; Love and Information (RCT and New York); Sunny Afternoon; Chariots of Fire (Hampstead Theatre and West End); Bend it Like Beckham (West End); The Father (Theatre Royal Bath); The Effect; Earthquakes in London (National Theatre); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Chichester Festival Theatre / West End); Red Demon; The Bee (Young Vic / Japan); Guantanamo: “Honor Bound to Defend Freedom” (Tricycle Theatre / West End / New York / San Francisco); Frame of View (Cedar Lake, New York).
Opera includes: La Fanciulla Del West (ENO and Santa Fe Opera); Turandot; Wozzeck (ENO); Suor Angelica (Royal Opera House); Anna Nicole (Royal Opera House and New York); The Death of Klinghoffer (Edinburgh Festival / Scottish Opera).
Miriam trained in costume design at Akademie für Kostüm Design in Hamburg, and in theatre design at Central Saint Martin’s, London. She won The Linbury Prize for Stage Design in 1999, and received the Evening Standard Best Design Award in 2010 for Earthquakes in London and Sucker Punch, and in 2018 for The Jungle.
Costume Design
As Designer, theatre includes: Caroline, Or Change (Chichester Festival Theatre/ West End); Pericles; I Want My Hat Back (National Theatre); Beginning (National Theatre/ West End); Macbeth (RSC/Barbican); The Hour That We Knew Nothing Of Each Other; The Winter’s Tale (Royal Lyceum Theatre); The Prudes; Pigeons; Primetime (Royal Court); Othello (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, The Globe); A Tale of Two Cities; Oliver Twist (Regent’s Park Th eatre); Our Town; A Streetcar Named Desire; Scuttlers; Hunger For Trade; Nothing (Manchester Royal
Exchange); Barbarians; Trade; A Streetcar Named Desire; Parallel; Turning a Little Further (Young Vic); The Last Remains of Maisie Duggan (National Th eatre Ireland); The Glass Menagerie (Headlong UK Tour); Opera for the Unknown Woman (Fuel Tour); James and the Giant Peach (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Dissidents (Kiln Theatre); Contractions (Sheffield Crucible); The Crocodile (Manchester International Festival); I’d Rather Goya Robbed Me of My Sleep Than Some Other Arsehole; Image of an Unknown Young Woman (Gate Theatre); Dealing With Clair (Orange Tree).
As Costume Designer, theatre includes: Unreachable (Royal Court).
Lighting
For the Almeida: Machinal; They Drink it in the Congo; Boy; Carmen Disruption; Game.
Theatre includes: Happy Days; The Greatest Play in the History of the World; Parliament Square (and Bush Theatre); Our Town; Twelfth Night; A Streetcar Named Desire; Wit; The Skriker (and MIF); The Producers; Death of a Salesman; There Has Possibly Been An Incident (Royal Exchange); Instructions for Correct Assembly; 2071 (Royal Court); Caroline, or Change (Chichester Festival Theatre/Hampstead Theatre); Circle Mirror Transformation (Home MCR); Wonderland (Nottingham Playhouse); Beginning (National Theatre/Ambassadors Theatre); Barber Shop Chronicles (National Theatre/West Yorkshire Playhouse/Australian Tour); Committee (Donmar Warehouse); 4.48 Psychosis; Reisende auf einem Bein; Happy Days (Schauspielhaus, Hamburg); Junkyard; Pygmalion (Headlong); Winter Solstice (Actors Touring Company); Dan and Phil: Interactive Introverts; The Amazing Tour is Not on Fire (World Tours); Watership Down (Watermill Theatre); The Forbidden Zone (Salzburg Festival/Schaubühne; Berlin/Barbican); Kenny Morgan (Arcola); The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary! (Liverpool Everyman/Peepolykus); Cleansed (National Theatre); 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); In a Pickle (RSC/Oily Cart); Ring-A-Ding-Ding (Unicorn Theatre/New Victory Theatre New York/Oily Cart); Kubla Khan; Land of Lights; Light Show; There Was An Old Woman; The Bounce; Mr & Mrs Moon (Oily Cart).
Jack trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Sound
For the Almeida: Mary Stuart; Little Revolution; King Charles III (also West End/Broadway); American Psycho (also Broadway); Festen (also West End/Broadway).
Theatre includes: Pericles; Absolute Hell; Macbeth; Amadeus (Olivier nomination for Best Sound Design 2017); Beginning (also West End); Mosquitoes; The Threepenny Opera; Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; wonder.land; Everyman; Behind the Beautiful Forevers; London Road; One Man, Two Guvnors; Saint Joan (Olivier Award); The Pillowman (National Theatre); The Jungle (Young Vic/ Playhouse/St Anne’s Warehouse, NY); The Inheritance; Scottsboro Boys (Young Vic/West End); Caroline or Change (Chichester Festival Theatre/West End); Labour of Love; Julius Caesar (Bridge Theatre); Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh Company at RADA); The Glass Menagerie (Edinburgh International Festival/West End); The Emperor (Young Vic/ HOME Theatre/ New York); If You Kiss Me, Kiss Me; Feast; Three Sisters; The Changeling; The Beauty Queen of Leenane; Measure for Measure (Young Vic); A Streetcar Named Desire (Young Vic & St Ann’s Warehouse, NY); The Audience and Skylight (West End & Broadway); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (West End).
Awards include Tony, Drama Desk and Olivier for Billy Elliot The Musical (West End, Broadway, worldwide); Tony nomination for Mary Stuart (Donmar & Broadway); Evening Standard Award for Festen (Almeida, West End, Broadway).
Paul is an associate at the National Theatre.
Video
For the Almeida: Oil.
Theatre includes: Everyone’s Talking About Jami; The Moderate Soprano; Frozen (West End); 2071; The Nether (also West End); Linda; Girls & Boys (Royal Court); Miss Saigon (Japan, New York, UK Tour); The Lehman Trilogy; Antony and Cleopatra; Man and Superman; Ugly Lies the Bone; The Great Wave (National Theatre); My Name is Lucy Barton (Bridge Theatre); Desire Under the Elms (Sheffield Crucible); Elegy for Young Lovers (Theatr an Der Wien); Half a Sixpence (Chichester); Mary Poppins (Tour); Hamlet; The Master and Margarita (Barbican); I Can’t Sing (Palladium).
Opera includes: The Cunning Little Vixen; Don Giovanni; Krol Roger (Royal Opera House); The Cunning Little Vixen; Don Giovanni; Der Freischütz (Danish Royal Opera); Otello (Metropolitan Opera, New York); Zeitgest (Coliseum); Das Liebesverbot (Teatro Real, Madrid); The Flying Dutchman (Finland National Opera); West Side Story (Malmo Opera); Don Giovanni (Barcelona Opera); Marco Polo (Guangzhou Opera House); Carmen (Bergenzer Festspiele); Don Giovanni (Houston Grand Opera); Porgy and Bess (National Opera, Amsterdam).
Ballet includes: Malgorzata Dzierzon (Ballet Rambert); Connectome (Royal Ballet)
Other Work includes: Magic Mike London (London Hippodrome); projections for Adele, Rihanna, Paris Fashion Week, Robbie Williams, Pet Shop Boys, The Sessions, The Band, Olympic and Paralympic 2012 closing ceremonies, ‘Concert for Diana’ at Wembley Stadium, George Michael, Rolling Stones, Genesis, Darren Hayes, Rhianna, Elton John, U2, Muse, and Nitin Sawhney
Awards include: Knight of Illumination awards for 2014, 2015 and 2016; BAFTA for The Cube.
Composition
For the Almeida: Reimagining Uncle Vanya
Theatre includes: The Convert; The Tide (also YV Taking Part); The Surplus (also YV Taking Part); The Remarkable Case of K (also YV Taking Part); Basecamp (also YV Taking Part) (Young Vic); A Guide For The Homesick; Dust; Rasheeda Speaking (Trafalgar Studios 2); The Sweet Science of Bruising; Dear Brutus; Last of the Boys (Southwark Playhouse); The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Park Theatre); Utility; Romeo and Juliet (Orange Tree Theatre); Twilight Los Angeles 1992 (The Gate Theatre); Hair (The Vaults/ The Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester); Broken Dreams; Blood and Water (Kestral Theatre: HMP Springhill and Royal Court); Start Swimming (Young Vic and Summerhall, Edinburgh); Replay (Soho Theatre, Pleasance Edinburgh, 59E59 New York); Goodbear (Soho Theatre and Pleasance Edinburgh); Landmines (The BRIT School/Ovalhouse/Otherplace Brighton); Skin of the Teeth (The Vaults/ Ophelia Theatre, New York); Nest (Arts Depot, Brighton Fringe and National Tour); The Frontline (Arts Educational Schools London); R and D (Hampstead Theatre Downstairs); Four Play; Clickbait; Sense of an Ending (Theatre503); And Then Come the Nightjars (Theatre503/Bristol Old Vic/National Tour); The Three Lions (St. James’ Theatre and National Tour); Black Dog Gold Fish (The Vaults); Attempts on Her Life (LAMDA); Twist of Gold (Polka Theatre); Champagne Breakfast (Arts Depot)
Voice Coach
For the Almeida: Dance Nation.
Opera includes: Candide (English National Opera); Let Them Eat Cake/Of Thee I Sing (Opera North).
Television includes: Alias Grace; 11.22.63.
Film includes: Judy; Aladdin; A Royal Night Out; Dracula Untold; Gambit; Belle; No Country for Old Men.
Brett is a graduate of the MA Voice Studies program at Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
Costume Supervision
As Costume Supervisor: Dealing with Clair (Orange Tree Theatre); Pericles (National Theatre); Caroline, or Change (Hampstead Th eatre/West End); Describe the Night; (Hampstead Theatre); The Rise and Fall of Little Voice; Jumpy (Theatr Clywd); Oliver Twist (Regents Park Open Air Theatre); The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Northern Ballet); Babette’s Feast (Print Room at the Coronet); Othello (Shakespeare’s Globe, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse); Opera for the Unknown Woman (Fuel Productions); The Gruffalo’s Child; Room on the Broom; The Gruffalo (Tall Stories Productions); The Mother (Theatre Royal Bath/Tricycle Theatre); Little Women; A Man of No Importance (Royal Academy of Music); Romeo and Juliet; A Midsummer Night’s Dream {Shakespeare’s Globe & U.A.E. Tour); Intimate Apparel; The Spanish Golden Age Plays (Theatre Royal Bath); Bank on It (Theatre-Rites).
As Associate Costume Supervisor: Endeavour: Bear Grylls Live Arena Tour; Ghost: The Musical (UK Tour & Korean language production, Seoul).
Casting
For the Almeida: Dance Nation; Albion; Boy.
Theatre includes: Sweat (Donmar Warehouse); A Very, Very Dark Matter (Bridge Theatre); Exit The King; Consent (National Theatre); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (SFP/Harold Pinter Theatre); Girls and Boys; The Ferryman; Cyprus Avenue; X; Hangmen; Escaped Alone; Linda; Liberian Girl; The Twits; Violence; Son; How to Hold Your Breath; Constellations; Jumpy; Posh; The River; Love and Information; In Basildon; Love, Love, Love; Choir Boy; Chicken Soup With Barley; Sucker Punch; The Vertical Hour (Royal Court); Jerusalem (Royal Court / West End); Measure for Measure (Young Vic); The Moderate Soprano (Hampstead Theatre).
Associate Designer
For the Almeida, as Assistant Set Designer: Machinal.
Stage Design credits include: Into The Woods; The Three Sisters (Cockpit Theatre); My Land’s Shore (Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre and Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfi l); The Knot (Ipswich DanceEast and UK Tour); Metropolis; 110 in the Shade; Babes in Arms; The Kissing Dance; Face The Music; The Apple Tree; How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre); Christmas; MOJO; Flowers of the Field; The Brothers; The Seagull (White Bear Theatre); The Heart of Things (Jermyn
Street Theatre); The Author (Camden People’s Theatre).
Assistant and Associate Design credits include: The Jungle (Young Vic; Playhouse Theatre, London and St Ann’s Warehouse, NYC); The Haunting of Hill House (Liverpool Playhouse); Idylls of the King (Oxford Playhouse); Carmen (King’s Head Theatre) Carmen (Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Lisbon).
Event credits include: The Last Of Us (Sony Computer Entertainment, London Studio); The Liberty Festival (Olympic Park) and Imaginary Party (Mayfair).
Associate Video Designer
For the Almeida, as Video Designer: The Writer.
Theatre includes: Secret Life of Humans (New Diorama/59E59 Off -Broadway); Occupational Hazards (Hampstead Theatre) ; The Effect; Looking Through Glass; The Mountaintop (The Other Room); A Good Clean Heart (Wales Millennium Centre/tour).
Opera includes: Ariodante (Royal College of Music); Pelléas et Mélisande; The Tales of Hoffmann (English Touring Opera).
As Associate, Theatre includes: Pelle Erobreren (Østre Gasværk Teater); The Lehman Trilogy; The Great Wave; Ugly Lies the Bone (National Theatre); My Name Is Lucy Barton (Bridge Theatre); Girls & Boys (Royal Court/New York); Frozen; Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (West End); The Band (West End/tour); Desire Under The Elms (Sheffield Th eatre).
As Associate, Installation includes: Please Feed The Lions (London Design Festival); MASK (Photo London); Room 2022 (Art Basel, Miami); The Singing Tree (V&A). Nominated for Best Video Design for Secret Life of Humans (Offies 2018).
Zakk is an Associate at Luke Halls Studio.
Resident Director
For the Almeida: Commonwealth.
Theatre includes: Utility (Orange Tree); Brenda; Kettle Of Fish (The Yard); And I And Silence (Signature Theatre, New York); Polar Bears (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Malcontent (Shakespeare’s Globe); A Further Education (Hampstead Theatre); HomeTruths (Cardboard Citizens); Returning to Haifa; Facts (Finborough); One Flea Spare (Sheen Centre, New York); The Children’s Hour (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama).
As Assistant/Associate Direcotr: Love and Information; In Basildon; Love, Love, Love (Royal Court); Strange Interlude (National Theatre); Matchbox (Hampstead); Hamlet (Globe).
Caitlin is Artistic Director of new writing company The Coterie (supported by Sky Academy). She was one of the inaugural Old Vic 12 as well as Trainee Director at the Royal Court Theatre in 2011.
★★★★ An important play that not only examines the Trump phenomenon but also asks why he was elected
The Guardian
★★★★A smart, surreal interrogation of white liberal America's relationship with the tangerine tyrant
Time Out
★★★★ With a wonderfully spry cast, Rupert Goold’s swaggering production contains the mad extremities of Washburn’s imagination
Sunday Times
★★★★ a thrillingly articulate, gripping autopsy on how the old political order died
Metro
The running time is approximately 3 hours including a 20 minute interval.
Please note this production features flickering lights and images.
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Khalid Abdalla
Fisayo Akinade
Raquel Cassidy
Risteárd Cooper
Elliot Cowan
Tara Fitzgerald
Adam James
Justine Mitchell
Writer Anne Washburn
Direction Rupert Goold
Design Miriam Buether
Costume Design Fly Davis
Light Jack Knowles
Sound Paul Arditti
Video Luke Halls
Composition Max Perryment
Voice Brett Tyne
Costume Supervision Lisa Aitken
Casting Amy Ball
Associate Designer Joana Dias
Associate Video Designer Zakk Hein
Resident Director Caitlin McLeod