THE DUCHESS OF MALFI

The Duchess of Malfi is Hadassah's professional stage debut.

For the Almeida: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second.

Theatre includes: Mephisto [A Rhapsody]; Dear Elizabeth (Gate Theatre); Curtains (Rose Theatre Kingston); A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Glass Menagerie (Young Vic); Hamlet; School for Scandal (Barbican); Light Shining in Buckinghamshire; A Woman Killed with Kindness (National Theatre); Secret Theatre (Lyric Hammersmith); The Silence of the Sea (Donmar Warehouse); Posh (Royal Court/ West End).

Television includes: The Long Song; Strike; Taboo; The White Queen; Pramface; The Borgias; Words of Captain Scott; Doctor Who; Home Time; Ashes to Ashes; Lead Balloon; Sense and Sensibility; Jekyll; Bash; A Very Social Secretary; Silent Witness; Messiah III; Beethoven’s Eroica; Canterbury Tales; Spooks; Midsomer Murders; Surrealismo; Attachments II; Crime and Punishment.

Film includes: Rare Beasts; Peterloo; In Fabric; Alice through the Looking Glass; Mr Turner; A Long Way Down; The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; Kinky Boots; Vera Drake; 28 Days Later; Gosford Park.

The Duchess of Malfi is Jersey Blu's professional stage debut.

Theatre includes: Bitter Wheat (West End).

Television includes: Inside No. 9.

Ioanna recently graduated from Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Theatre includes: Valued Friends (Rose Theatre Kingston); The Inheritance (Young Vic/ West End); Two Gentlemen of Verona (RSC); Richard II (Donmar Warehouse); Jumpy (Royal Court); Measure for Measure (Shakespeare’s Globe).

Television includes: War of the Worlds; Siblings; Lucan; Ripper Street; The White Queen; Misfits.

Film includes: Their Finest; The Theory of Everything; The Physician; The Invisible Woman.

Theatre includes: Rutherford and Son; Love and Information (Crucible Theatre); Tumulus (Soho Theatre/ Vault Festival); Abigail’s Party (Theatre Royal Bath/ UK Tour); Disco Pigs (UK and Ireland Tour); The Brink (Orange Tree Theatre); King John (Shakespeare’s Globe); So Here We Are (Royal Exchange Theatre/ High Tide); The Crocodile (The Invisible Dot/ Manchester International Festival); Oh What a Lovely War (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Candide; A Mad World, My Masters; Titus Andronicus (RSC); Mercury Fur (Old Red Lion/ Trafalgar Studios); Our Country’s Good (Out of Joint).

Television includes: Small Axe; Call the Midwife; Washington; Casualty; Krypton; The Last Kingdom; Strike Back; Crazyhead; Arthur and George; Spotless; Wallander III; The Inbetweeners.

Film includes: Red Joan; Where Hands Touch.

Theatre includes: Hobson's Choice (Royal Exchange Theatre); Lions And Tigers (Shakespeare's Globe) The House of in Between (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Macbeth (Tara Arts); Little Stitches (Theatre 503/ Arcola Theatre); Drawing The Line; The House of Bilquis Bibi (Hampstead Theatre); Kabaddi, Kabaddi (Pursued By A Bear/ Arcola Theatre); Snow Queen (Trestle Theatre/ India Tour); The Usual Auntijies (Belgrade Theatre); Lotus Beauty; Zindabad (Tamasha/ Gate Theatre).

Television includes: The Other One; Danny and Mick; Vera; The Athena.

Film includes: Twelfth Night; Justice League; The Huntsman: Winter's War.

Theatre includes: The Inheritance (West End); A View from a Bridge; Macbeth (Bristol Tobacco Factory); Junkyard (Headlong).

Television includes: Poldark.

Film includes: Guns Akimbo; Dunkirk; Journey's End.

For the Almeida: The Hunt.

Theatre includes: Demons (SplitMoon Theatre Company); Cosmic Trigger (Love and Will Productions); Tis Pity She’s A Whore (Shakespeare’s Globe); Twelfth Night; Richard III (West End/ Broadway); The Tempest (Mid-Wales Music Trust); Skäne (Hampstead Theatre); The Odyssey (The Factory and Creation Theatre); A Soldier’s Tale (Mid Wales Chamber Orchestra); Hamlet; The Seagull and Cymbeline (The Factory); subVERSE (Theatre503); Romeo and Juliet (Vienna’s English Theatre); The Snow Queen (Library Theatre Manchester); Many Loves (Lilian Baylis).

Television includes: The Mallorca Files; The Royals; EastEnders; Wire in the Blood; Cold Feet; Coronation Street; The Bill; Peak Practice; City Central; Casualty; Grease Monkeys; The Misfit Soldier.

Film includes: Sign Language; Counting Backwards; First Date; Sh!ft; Replica; Freaky Deaky; Plyus Odin (won Best Actor Award at the Sochi Open Russian Film Festival 2008).

Theatre includes: Blood Knot (Orange Tree Theatre, nomination for Off West End Best Male Performance); Image of an Unknown Young Woman (Gate Theatre); We Are Proud to Present... (Bush Theatre); One Monkey Don't Stop No Show (Kiln Theatre/ Sheffield Theatres/ Eclipse Theatre); There's Only One Wayne Matthews (Sheffield Theatres/Eclipse Theatre); The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui (Lyric Hammersmith).

Television includes: Doctor Who; Doctors; Cucumber; The Dumping Ground; Casualty; Holby City; Dubplate Drama; The Well; Skins.

For the Almeida: King Charles III (also West End/ Broadway).

Theatre includes: Hysteria (Hampstead Theatre); 'Tis Pity She's A Whore (Cheek By Jowl); The Acid Test; The Heretic (Royal Court); Blasted (Lyric Hammersmith); Pains of Youth (National Theatre); The House of Special Purpose (Chichester Festival Theatre).

Television includes: Flack; Requiem; Ripper Street; Misfits; The Making of a Lady; Dirk Gently; Black Mirror: The National Anthem; South Riding; Crimson Petal and the White; Any Human Heart; Pete Versus Life.

Film includes: Lie of You; Dead Birds; Still; Star Trek Beyond; Love is Thicker than Water; About Time; Never Let Me Go.

Rebecca is Associate Director at the Almeida Theatre and was previously on the Almeida’s Resident Director Scheme supported by the Eranda Rothschild Foundation.

As director, for the Almeida: Three Sisters; Summer and Smoke (also West End).

As director, theatre includes: Steel (Sheffield Crucible); From Morning to Midnight (Bridewell Theatre); Educating Rita (Durham Gala); Julie; What Are They Like?; Idomeneus (Northern Stage); You, Me, and Everything Else (Soho Theatre/UK Tour); Aftermath (Royal & Derngate); A Streetcar Named Desire - Parallel Production (Young Vic); Something Cloudy, Something Clear (Greenwich Theatre); Summer and Smoke (Southwark Playhouse); Bassett (New Diorama).

As Resident/Assistant Director, for the Almeida: Ink.

As Resident/Assistant Director, theatre includes: James and the Giant Peach; The wonderful Wizard of Oz; Here is the News from Over There; Cyrano de Bergerac (Northern Stage); The Taming of The Shrew (RSC); From Morning to Midnight; Liola (National Theatre); The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (ThreeSixty Productions); After Miss Julie (Young Vic); Dream Story (The Gate).

Rebecca trained at Goldsmiths, LAMDA, and on the National Theatre Studio’s Directors Course. Upon graduating she received a Jerwood Assistant Director Bursary to train at the Young Vic and in 2015 she won the acclaimed Regional Theatres Young Directors Scheme Bursary at Northern Stage. She was one of the first winners of the Michael Grandage Company Futures Bursary in 2016, was Runner-Up for the Royal Theatrical Support Trust Director Award 2016 and a 2017 finalist, and was a finalist for the 2014 and 2017 Genesis Future Directors Award at the Young Vic. Summer and Smoke won two Olivier Awards, including Best Revival, and Rebecca was nominated as Best Director.

For the Almeida: 1984 (also Headlong/ West End/ Broadway).

Theatre includes: Hilary and Clinton (Broadway); Truth or Dare, Britney or Goofy, Nacht und Nebel, Jesus Christ or Superstar (Het Paleis, Antwerp/ Tour); Het Hamiltoncomplex (Het Paleis, Antwerp); Ophelias Zimmer (Schaubühne Berlin/ Royal Court); ATMEN (Lungs) (Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin); Hexenjagd (The Crucible) (Theater Basel); Victory Condition; B; The Cane; Gun Dog; Unreachable; Pity; Nuclear War; The Internet is Serious Business; How to Hold Your Breath; The Twits (Royal Court); Knives in Hens; My Shrinking Life (National Theatre Scotland); De Maiden (Toneelgroep Amsterdam); John; Amadeus; Rules For Living (National Theatre); Alcina (Grand Theatre Provence/ Festival D'Aix En Provence); Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (National Theatre Scotland/ National Theatre/ West End); Circle Mirror Transformation (Rose Lipman Building).

Opera includes: Miranda (Opera Comique, Paris); Ariadne Auf Naxos, Alcina; Pelleas and Melisande (Aix-En-Provence Festival); The Little Sweep; Let's Make An Opera (Malmo Opera House, Sweden); The Magic Flute (English Touring Opera); War and Peace (Scottish Opera/ RCS); Cunning Little Vixen; Orpheus in the Underworld (Royal College of Music); La Calisto (Early Opera Company).

Chloe is Associate Designer at the Royal Court Theatre, London, and a resident of Somerset House Studios.

Theatre includes: Billy Elliot the Musical (West End/ International Tour); Once in a Lifetime; Measure for Measure; The Trial; Public Enemy; Hamlet; Government Inspector; Vernon God Little; Annie Get Your Gun; The Good Soul of Szechuan; King Lear; Six Characters in Search of an Author (Young Vic); Everyman; The Seagull; A Little Night Music; Mother Clapp’s Molly House; Tales from the Vienna Woods (National Theatre); Jumpers (National Theatre/ West End/ Broadway); Angels in America (National Theatre/ Broadway); Powerbook (National Theatre); In Basildon (Royal Court); The Tempest; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; La Lupa (RSC); By the Bog of Cats (West End); Camille (Lyric Hammersmith); Proverb (Royal Ballet).

Opera includes: The Magic Flute; Don Giovanni; La Fanciulla Del West; Rodelinda; The Magic Flute; Cavalleria rusticana /Pagliacci; Turk In Italy; Boris Godunov; Pelleas and Melisande; Peter Grimes (English National Opera); Wind in the Willows (ROH/ West End); Anna Nicole (Brooklyn Academy of Music); Boris Godunov; Il Trittico; Anna Nicole; The Gambler; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Royal Opera House); Queen of Spades (Royal Opera House/ Naples/ Geneva); Die Zauberflote (Netherlandse Opera/ Festival D’Aix-En-Provence); Rusalka (Copenhagen/ Finland); The Fiery Angel (La Monnaie, Brussels); Pelleas et Melisande (Munich); The Rape of Lucretia; Der Rosenkavalier; Gianni Schicchi; The Miserly Knight; Flight; Don Giovanni (Glyndebourne); La Traviata; Hansel and Gretel; Of Thee I Sing; Pelleas and Melisande; Don Carlos; Wozzeck (Opera North); War and Peace (Paris); Midsummer Marriage (Munich).

Film includes: Institute Benjamenta.

Nicky was nominated for an Olivier award for Best Costume Design for her work on Wind in the Willows for the Royal Opera House. She also won the Gold award for Best Costume Design, Prague Quadrenale 2003 for A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

For the Almeida: Shipwreck, Machinal, They Drink it in the Congo, Boy, Carmen Disruption, Game.

Theatre includes: Top Girls; Cleansed (National Theatre); Caroline, or Change (Chichester Festival Theatre/ Hampstead Theatre/ West End); 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); Barber Shop Chronicles (National Theatre/ West Yorkshire Playhouse/ Australian Tour/ US Tour); Steel (Crucible Theatre); Good Vibrations (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); The Importance of Being Earnest (West End); Dan and Phil: Interactive Introverts; The Amazing Tour is Not on Fire (World Tours); Instructions for Correct Assembly; 2071 (Royal Court); Circle Mirror Transformation (HOME); Wonderland (Nottingham Playhouse/ Northern Stage); Beginning (National Theatre/Ambassadors Theatre); 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).

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: Richard III; Spring Awakening (Headlong); A Slight Ache/The Dumb Waiter; The Lover/The Collection; One for the Road/A New World Order/ Mountain Language/Ashes to Ashes (West End); Sweat (Donmar Warehouse); Nine Night (National Theatre/ Trafalgar Studios); A Very Very Very Dark Matter (Bridge Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest (West End); An Octoroon (Orange Tree Theatre/ National Theatre); Frost/Nixon; Tribes (Crucible Theatre); Baskerville (Liverpool Playhouse); The Secret Garden (Theatre By The Lake/ York Theatre Royal); Poison; German Skerries (Orange Tree); Much Ado About Nothing; Imogen; The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare’s Globe); Guards at the Taj; Visitors (Bush Theatre); Killer; The Pitchfork Disney (Shoreditch Town Hall, co-designed with Ben and Max Ringham); The Homecoming (Trafalgar Studios); The Convert; In the Night Time; Eclipsed (Gate Theatre); Harrogate; Fireworks; Liberian Girl (Royal Court); The Mountaintop; The Island (Young Vic); Noises Off (Nottingham Playhouse/ UK Tour); Mametz (National Theatre of Wales); Moth (HighTide/ Bush Theatre).

For the Almeida: The Doctor; Three Sisters; The Wild Duck; Machinal; The Writer; Summer and Smoke (also West End); The Twilight Zone (also West End); The Treatment; Hamlet (also West End); Mary Stuart (also West End); Oil; Uncle Vanya; Medea; Oresteia (also West End); Game; Mr Burns; Chimerica (also West End); Before the Party; The Turn of the Screw; King Lear; Children’s Children; Filumena; The Knot of the Heart; Through a Glass Darkly; Measure for Measure; When the Rain Stops Falling; In a Dark Dark House; The Homecoming; Nocturne; Awake and Sing!; Dying for It; Out of the Fog.

Theatre includes: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Palace Theatre/ Lyric Theatre Broadway); All About Eve (West End); The Inheritance (Young Vic/ West End); The Jungle (Young Vic/ West End/ New York/ San Francisco); Yerma (Young Vic/ Park Ave Armory); A View from the Bridge (Young Vic/ West End/ Broadway); A Doll’s House (Young Vic/ West End/ BAM); Jesus Hopped the A Train; Fun Home; Yellowman; Wings; Life of Galileo; Once in a Lifetime; Blue/Orange; The Trial; Ah, Wilderness!; Man; Happy Days; Public Enemy; The Shawl; Blackta; Wild Swans; After Miss Julie; The Government Inspector; The Glass Menagerie; Joe Turner’s Come and Gone; Annie Get Your Gun; In The Red and Brown Water; Lost Highway (Young Vic); Obsession; Hamlet (Barbican); The Nether; Clybourne Park (Royal Court/ West End); Adler & Gibb; Birdland; The Mistress Contract; Khandan; The Pass; Gastronauts; The Heretic; Get Santa!; Kin; Red Bud; Tribes; Wanderlust; Spur of the Moment; Sucker Punch; Ingredient X (Royal Court); The Events (ATC/ New York); The Golden Dragon; Bad Jazz; A Brief History of Helen of Troy; Martyr (ATC); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Chichester Festival Theatre/ West End/ Sydney Festival); Pool (no water) (Frantic Assembly); Gaddafi: A Living Myth (English National Opera); Othello (Cheek by Jowl); The Girl on the Sofa (Edinburgh International Festival/ Schaubuhne Theatre, Berlin).

Film and TV includes: Hamlet; Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere; The Trial: A Murder in the Family; The Exception; Departure; Astoria; Adha Cup; Parliamo Glasgow; Harvest.

As Associate Director: Phoenix Rising which took place in the underground of Smithfield Meatmarket was nominated for 3 OFFIE Awards.

As Director: Loose Lips in a site-specific production in the derelict offices of Stoke Newington Town Hall.

In 2017-2018 Sammy was the Associate Director of The Big House, working with care leavers and at risk young people between the ages of 16-25, empowering young people through theatre. Sammy was nominated for a Brighton Fringe Excellence Award for Circleville, CircleValley at The Pleasance, Edinburgh Fringe. During her time at University, Sammy revived the renowned Experimental Theatre Club, directing the first piece of new writing at a professional theatre and was given the Juliet Bernard Prize for her work before touring in Oxford, London and Edinburgh.