By William Shakespeare
Directed By Rupert Goold
Tickets £9 - £45
In a faraway palace, a wealthy heiress is looking for a husband. Back at home, a wealthy merchant is looking for a loan. Everyone’s out to make a killing; but everything comes at a price.
Explosively relocated to Las Vegas, Shakespeare’s most controversial play makes its Almeida debut in a whirlwind of glitter, gambling and greenbacks.
Almeida Artistic Director Rupert Goold brings his groundbreaking production of The Merchant of Venice to the Almeida.
“Among the most exciting productions of the last decade.”
Michael Billington, The Guardian
The Merchant of Venice is presented by arrangement with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Mon to Sat performances 7.30pm
Sat matinee performances 2.30pm from 13 Dec
Wed matinee performances 2.30pm on 17 Dec, 7, 14, 21 & 28 Jan & 4 Feb
Talk Back
Mon 2 Feb (post-performance)
Captioned Performances
Tue 13 Jan 7.30pm
Sat 31 Jan 2.30pm
Audio Described Performances
Fri 16 Jan 7.30pm
(Touch Tour at 6pm)
Sat 24 Jan 2.30pm
(Touch Tour at 12.45pm)
Lancelet Gobbo
Theatre includes: Trelawny of the Wells (Donmar Warehouse); The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare's Globe); Stones in His Pockets (Tricycle Theatre); The Merchant of Venice; Macbeth (RSC); England People Very Nice; A Slight Ache (National Theatre); I, Keano (Olympia Theatre, Dublin); The Flags (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Riverside Drive (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton); The Tempest; The Last Beauty Spot (Corcadorca, Cork); The Winter’s Tale (UK / Dublin / Spain / New York / China tours); Calico (Duke of York’s Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (Theatre Royal, Bath); A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Wind in the Willows; High Society (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Pirates of Penzance (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre / UK tour); The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Theatre Royal, York); The Wizard of Oz (Birmingham Rep).
Television includes: The Borgias; London Irish.
Film includes: PAN; Hanna; Anna Karenina; The Eagle; Atonement; Pudsey; Robin Hood.
Stephanie
Theatre includes: Relative Values; A Chorus of Disapproval (Harold Pinter Theatre); Friday Night Sex (Royal Court); In the Jungle of Citites (Arcola Theatre); West End Recast (Duke of York’s Theatre); Marat / Sade; Song of Songs; The Homecoming; The Merchant of Venice (RSC); Aspects of Love (Menier Chocolate Factory); Far From the Madding Crowd; Widowers’ Houses; Where Have I Been All My Life? (New Vic); Trilby (Finborough Theatre); You Me Bum Bum Train (Barbican).
As a writer, theatre includes: Maxine Carr Has Moved in Round the Corner (Theatre503 / RWR).
Television includes: Jane Eyre; Gil Mayo; Doctors; Girls in Love; All in the Game.
Radio includes: Hobson's Choice.
Rebecca sang at the RSC’s 50th Anniversary concert.
Portia
For the Almeida: American Psycho.
Theatre includes: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (West End); Trelawny of the Wells (Donmar Warehouse); The School for Scandal (Theatre Royal, Bath); All New People (West End / tour); The Merchant of Venice (RSC); An Enemy of the People (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other; Much Ado About Nothing; Philistines; The Rose Tattoo (National Theatre).
Television includes: Death in Paradise; The C Word; Grey Matters; The Great Fire; Drifters; Father Brown; A Nice Arrangement; The Job Lot; Pramface; Jo; Uncle; Pete vs. Life; Midsomer Murders; Doctor. Who; Wallander.
Film includes: The Knot; Kill Keith; 4-3-2-1; Così; She Stoops to Conquer.
Antonio
Theatre includes: Troilus and Cressida; The Merchant of Venice; Macbeth; Victoria; Twelfth Night; The Tempest (RSC); Love the Sinner (National Theatre); Cyrano De Bergerac; Macbeth; Twelfth Night (Chichester Festival Theatre); Son of Man (Northern Stage); The Seagull (Bristol Old Vic); Faustus (Hampstead Theatre); Teeth and Smiles (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); Hamlet (Bouffes Du Nord); Hayfever ( Noel Coward Theatre / tour); The Duchess of Malfi; As You Like It (Cheek By Jowl / West End); An Inspector Calls (Aldwych Theatre).
Opera includes: Turendot (ENO).
Television includes: Ripper Street; The Game; The Village; Hunted; The Courageous Heart of Irene Sandler; The Bill; The Yellow House; The Haunting of Toby Jugg; Midsomer Murders; Love from Colditz; Henry VIII; Newton's Dark Secrets; Mystery! Heat of the Sun; Dangerfield; The Moonstone; True Love; The Merchant of Venice; Heroes and Villains; Poirot; Hands Together.
Film includes: Macbeth; Seach'd; Match Point; The Tulse Luper Suitcase Part 2; The Gospel of John; Skagerrak; Shadowlands; Hamlet; A Knight's Tale.
Conscience
As a dancer, opera includes: Candide (Opéra National de Lorraine); Medea; Parsifal; Turandot (ENO / London Coliseum); Robert le diable (Royal Opera House); The Fairy Queen (Glyndebourne Festival).
As a dancer, live music and dance include: Nutcracker! (New Adventures / Sadler’s Wells & U.K. tour); Electric (Pet Shop Boys / World Tour); Hogmanay New Year’s Eve Concert (Pet Shop Boys / Edinburgh Castle); Museum of the Future (Icon Dance / British Museum); Plunge (NDCWales); Interwoven (LamatDance / Spain & Bulgaria).
As a dancer, television includes: Matthew Bourne’s Christmas Special; Commercials for PJ Tips Taste Explosion; lastminute.com; Debenhams Party Range; 125 Years of Marks and Spencer.
As a dancer, film and music videos include: Elemental; E.N.D. (The Magic Numbers); Thursday (Pet Shop Boys).
Merry trained at London Studio Centre gaining a First Class Honours Degree in Theatre Dance.
Shylock
For the Almeida: The Faith Healer; The Tempest; Ivanov; Tartuffe; The Government Inspector; The Cenci; School For Wives; Kurt Weill Concerts; Volpone; The Saxon Shore; Creditors.
As Director, for the Almeida: The Possibilities; Scenes from an Execution; Lulu; A Hard Heart; Siren Song; Venice Preserved; The Rehearsal (also West End).
Theatre includes: Bakersfield Mist (Duchess Theatre); Life of Galileo; The Merchant of Venice; Destiny; Macbeth; Measure for Measure; The Good Between Us; The Days of the Commune; Schweyk in the Second World War; Dingo; Much Ado About Nothing (RSC); Timon of Athens (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); Emperor and Gailean (National Theatre); The Prince of Homburg; John Gabriel Borkman; Henry IV (Donmar Warehouse); Be Near Me (Kilmarnock Theatre / Donmar Warehouse / National Theatre of Scotland); Six Charachters in Search of an Author (Gielgud Theatre / Chichester Festival Theatre / Australian tour); Jonah and Otto; The Country Wife; Don Carlos; Edward II (Royal Exchange, Manchester); The Faith Healer (Booth Theatre, New York / Gate Theatre, Dublin); Lear (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); Hated Nightfall; Insignificance; Love a Good Man (Royal Court); The Black Prince (Aldwych Theatre); The Danton Affair; Downchild; The Castle; Crimes in Hot Countries; The War Plays (RSC Barbican); The Party; Henry V (RSC / Barbican); Mephisto; Peer Gynt (Oxford Playhouse); Erza; The Worlds (New Half Moon Theatre); Mephisto (Roundhouse Theatre); Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (Mermaid Theatre); Macbeth (Globe / Belgrade Theatre, Coventry); In the Jungle of the Cities (Shakespeare’s Place Theatre); And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers (Open Space Theatre).
As Director, theatre includes: Don Juan (Royal Exchange, Manchester)
Television includes: Utopia; 37 Days; Margaret; City of Vice; Our Hidden Lives; Elizabeth I; Spooks; Charles II; Crime and Punishment; All the King's Men; Great Expectations; An Unsuitable Job for a Woman; Touching Evil; Rebecca; Hillborough; Cold Lazarus; Karaoke.
Film includes: Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith; Star Wars: attack of the Clones; Sleepy Hollow; Star Wars: The Phanthom Menace; Restoration; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Gorky Park; Star Wars: Return of the Jedi; Dragonslayer; Sir Henry at Rawlinson's End; The Awakening; Richard's Things; The Likely Lads.
Ian won a Tony Award for Best Actor in 2006 for The Faith Healer, a Critics’ Circle Award for Best Actor in 2001 for The Faith Healer (Almeida Theatre) and an Olivier Award for Best Actor for Insignificance.
Jessica
Theatre includes: Medea (National Theatre); A Doll's House (Duke of York’s Theatre / Broadway); The Merchant of Venice; Macbeth; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (RSC); Othello (Cheek by Jowl); The House of Special Purpose (Chichester Festival Theatre).
Television includes: Five Days; Foyle's War; He Knew He Was Right; Byron; Poirot; The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.
Film includes: Happy-Go-Lucky.
Prince of Morocco
Theatre includes: Richard III; 125th Street (West End); Mr. Equiano's Visit; Chimps; (Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich); In the Blood (Finborough Theatre); Chimps (Wolsey Theatre); Othello (Icarus Theatre Company / tour); Romeo and Juliet; Pedro the Great Pretender; Tamar's Revenge; The House of Desires; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (RSC); 35 Cents (Crying in the Wilderness); Aladdin (Wilde Theatre); Natural Breaks and Rythms (Northampton / Nottingham / Leicester); To Kill a Mockingbird (West Yorkshire Playhouse / Birmingham Rep / tour); Tamburlaine the Great (Bristol Old Vic / Barbican); Mighty Dread (Gilded Balloon); Millennium Mysteries (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry); The Tempest (Holders Season).
Television includes: Eastenders; Silent Witness; Doctors; Casualty; Shadows; In the Firing Line; The Bill.
Film includes: Red Light Runners; Nine Lives.
Radio includes: Recordings from the House of Leaves; Equiano.
Duke of Venice
Theatre includes: The Shawshank Redemption (Assembly Rooms); The Revenger’s Tragedy (Hoxton Hall); The Kitchen (National Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Zurich); On the Waterfront; Popcorn (West End); Yerma (Arcola Theatre); Pool Death (Salisbury Playhouse); Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight (Soho Theatre); The Magic Toyshop (Shared Experience); The Comedians (Oxford Stage Company); The Comedy of Errors (Shakepeare’s Globe); A View from a Bridge (Theatre Royal, York).
Television includes: Foyle’s War; Hank Zipzer; The Prey; Mr Selfridge; Run; Eastenders; Suburban Shootout; Rome; Spooks; Hustle; Holby City; Box of Slice; Mad About Alice; Real Crime; Twelfth Night; Black Books.
Film includes: Captain Phillips; The Dark Knight; Sixty Six; Rabbit Fever; Enemy of the Unseen; In Love and War; Aliens 3.
Nerissa
For the Almeida: Filumena.
Theatre includes: Strange Interlude (National Theatre); The Merchant of Venice; The Taming of the Shrew (RSC); Double Falsehood (Union Theatre); Moonfleece (Riverside Studios); My Girl 2 (Old Red Lion).
Television includes: Endeavour; Doctors.
Film includes: Rearview; Hollow.
Emily was nominated for a BIFA Raindance Award in 2011 for Hollow.
Lorenzo
Theatre includes: Casualties (Park Theatre); Ring (Fuel / BAC); Strong Arm (Edinburgh Festival Fringe); An Invitation; Hostile Reconnaissance (Soho Theatre); Speed Death of the Radiant Child; Blown (Drum Theatre, Plymouth); Screams from Job (Southwark Playhouse); Riot Pilot (Hackney Empire); DoubleThink (Rotozaza); The Night Heron (Royal Court); The Alchemist (Riverside Studios); Scream If You Want To Go Faster (Unlimited Theatre); Kissing Bingo (Finborough Theatre); The Tempest (Pocketrice Theatre).
Film includes: Cockneys vs. Zombies; I Spit on Your Rave; The Expelled; The Story Of; Be Good; The Disappeared; The Archivist; In a Day; Matinee Queen; Alfie; How Not to Make a Short; The Inbetweeners; Eye Candy; Nice.
Television includes: New Tricks; The Curse of Edgar; Scott and Bailey; Body Farm; Taggart 100; Garrow’s Law; How Not to Live Your Life; Raging; Smith; Doctor Who; Persuasion; Life Begins; Robin Hood; Hotel Babylon; The Bill; Billy the Kid; Survivors: The Sea of Cortez; Doc Martin; The Golden Hour; Ny-Lon; Hear the Silence; Prime Suspect; Peak Practice.
Salerio
Theatre includes: ’Tis Pity She's a Whore (Barbican); A Clockwork Orange (Theatre Royal Stratford East); The Beggar's Opera; Trolls (East 15 Acting School).
Television includes: Trainees; Edge of Heaven; Youngers.
Film includes: Starred Up.
Solanio
Theatre includes: Hero; Pride (Royal Court); Rocket to the Moon (National Theatre); Salome (Headlong); Volpone / The Duchess of Malfi (Greenwich Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); All My Sons (Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool); Silverland (Arcola Theatre); Cigarettes and Chocolate; Hang Up (King’s Head Theatre); Mere Mortals (Old Red Lion); 7 Blows (Pleasance Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest (Theatre Royal, Northampton); Amoeba Project (Out Of Joint); An Inspector Calls (Garrick Theatre); The Cows Are Mad; Election Night at the Courtyard (BAC / The Red Room); Anne Frank (Festival Company); Threepenny Opera (City Centre Theatre, New York).
Television includes: Wolf Hall; The Great Fire; Laid; Fresh Meat; London Irish; The Town; Twenty Twelve; A Young Doctor's Notebook; Garrow's Law; The Bill; Peep Show; Diary of a Somebody; Rhona; Happy Birthday Shakespeare; Poirot; Blonde Bombshell; Holby City.
Film includes: The Imitation Game; Franklyn.
Tim trained at Central School of Speech and Drama
Tubal
Theatre includes: Man in the Middle (Theatre503); One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Curve Theatre, Leicester); Dr Faustus (Royal Exchange, Manchester); The Promise (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond); The Merchant of Venice (Changeling); Brendan at the Chelsea (Riverside Studios); Vertigo (Red Shift Theatre Co.); A View from the Bridge (Birmingham Rep / West Yorkshire Playhouse); Six Degrees of Separation (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); The Merry Widow; School for Scandal (English Touring Theatre / Bristol Old Vic); Patriot for Me; Timon of Athens; The Merchant of Venice; Troilus and Cressida; Richard III; The Love Girl and the Innocent; La Ronde (RSC).
Television includes: The Shadow Line; Murphy’s Law; New Tricks; Foyle’s War; Trail of Guilt; Waking the Dead; Maigret; Cadfael; Anno Domini.
Film includes: The Infidel; Song of Songs; Yentl.
Jonathan has recorded radio plays and serials for the BBC and has been a member of the BBC Radio Drama Company three times.
Gratiano
Theatre includes: Dirty Butterfly; Blackta; The Brothers Size (Young Vic); Nut (National Theatre); Precious Little Talent (Trafalgar Studios); Lower Ninth (Donmar Warehouse); Sucker Punch (Royal Court); Pornography (Tricycle Theatre).
Television includes: The Secrets; Secrets and Words; Waste Paper Bastards; Life’s Too Short; Top Boy; Holby City; The Bill.
Film includes: Second Coming; Starred Up; Dirty Money; My Brother the Devil; Comes a Bright Day; Home; Red Tails.
Bassanio
Theatre includes: Enlightenment (Hampstead Theatre); Translations (Tobacco Factory); Someone Who'll Watch Over Me (Alma Theatre); The Country Wife (Old Vic); The Good Companions (Bristol Old Vic).
Television includes: Copper; World Without End; Nightwatch; Spooks. Film includes: Captain America.Director
Rupert is Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre. He was previously Artistic Director of Headlong Theatre Company, Associate Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Artistic Director of Northampton Theatres.
For the Almeida: King Charles III; American Psycho: A new musical thriller; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot.
Theatre includes: 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).
Film includes: Richard II; Macbeth.
As Writer and Director, film includes: True Story.
Rupert has twice been the recipient of the Laurence Olivier, Critics’ Circle and Evening Standard awards for Best Director.
Design
For the Almeida: Mr Burns; King Charles III; King Lear; Through A Glass Darkly.
Theatre includes: The Weir (Donmar Warehouse / West End); Constellations (Royal Court / West End); Medea; 13 (National Theatre); A Number (Nuffield Theatre); Absent Friends (West End); South Downs / The Browning Version (Chichester Festival Theatre / West End); The Djinns of Eidgah; The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas; No Quarter; Remembrance Day (Royal Court); The Life of Galileo (RSC / Birmingham Rep / UK tour); Romeo and Juliet; The Merchant of Venice (RSC); A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness (Headlong); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Kensington Gardens); Hamlet (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); Mogadishu (Royal Exchange, Manchester / Lyric Hammersmith); Cinderella; Jack and the Beanstalk; Aladdin; Dick Whittington and His Cat (Lyric Hammersmith); Uncle Vanya; Unbroken; The Internationalist (Gate Theatre); Bay (Young Vic); The Merchant of Venice (Octagon Theatre, Bolton); Metropolis (Theatre Royal, Bath).
Opera includes: How The Whale Became (Royal Opera House); Wozzeck (Set – English National Opera); The Flying Dutchman (Scottish Opera); Rigoletto (Opera Holland Park).
Tom received the Linbury Biennial Prize for Stage Design in 2007 for his work with Headlong Theatre, the Jocelyn Herbert Award 2007 and the Whatsonstage Award for Best Set Designer in 2013 for Constellations and The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Tom is Associate Designer for the Nuffield Theatre.
Lighting
For the Almeida: Rope; Betrayal; Moonlight; Ariadne's Afternoon.
Theatre includes: Sunny Afternoon; Chariots of Fire (Hampstead Theatre / West End); Brigit & Bailegangaire (Druid Theatre Company, Ireland); The Merchant of Venice; Othello (Singapore); The Merchant of Venice (RSC); Galileo (RSC / UK tour); Drawing the Line; Raving (Hampstead Theatre); Great Expectations (Bristol Old Vic); The Herd (Bush Theatre); The Audience; An Inspector Calls (West End); Judas Kiss (Hampstead Theatre / West End / tour); Billy Elliot (West End / Sydney / Melbourne / Broadway); Jerry Springer the Opera; Blue/Orange (National Theatre / West End); Far Away (New York); A Number (Royal Court); Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Berlin); Via Dolorosa (Royal Court / Broadway); Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake (London / Los Angeles / Broadway / world tour); Porgy and Bess (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The King and I (Paris).
Opera includes: Falstaff (Japan / Los Angeles); Oscar; La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (Santa Fe); Die Entführung aus dem Serail; Maometto secondo (Garsington Opera).
Rick has won two Olivier Awards for Best Lighting Design and Tony Awards for An Inspector Calls and Billy Elliot.
Music
For the Almeida: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot; The Late Henry Moss; Tom and Viv; Five Gold Rings.
Theatre includes: London Road; Danton’s Death; All’s Well that Ends Well; Phedre; Time and the Conways (National Theatre); Hamlet; Red (Donmar Warehouse / Broadway); Ivanov (Donmar Warehouse / West End); King Lear; Anna Christie; Richard II; Luise Miller; A Streetcar Named Desire; The Chalk Garden; Othello; Creditors; The Wild Duck; John Gabriel Borkman; Caligula (Donmar Warehouse); ENRON (Broadway / West End); Henry V (MGC / West End); No Man’s Land; A View From the Bridge (Duke of York’s Theatre); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Gielgud Theatre); Don Carlos (West End); Romeo and Juliet; The Tempest (RSC), The Glass Menagerie (Apollo Theatre); Faustus (Hampstead Theatre); Paradise Lost (Headlong); The Cherry Orchard (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield).
Film includes: Bust; The Three Rules of Infidelity; Tripletake.
Television includes: The Hollow Crown: Richard II; Macbeth; Frances Tuesday; Re-ignited; Imprints.
Radio includes: Losing Rosalind; The Luneberg Variation; The Colonel-Bird; Don Carlos; Othello; On the Ceiling; The Chalk Garden.
London Road, which Adam co-authored (music and lyrics) won the Critics’ Circle Award for Best Musical in 2011. In 2010 he received a Tony Award for the music and sound score for Red and an Olivier Award in 2011 for King Lear, and also received the 2011 Evening Standard ‘Best Design’ award for Anna Christie and King Lear. Adam is an Associate Artist of the RSC.
Sound Designer
For the Almeida: Cloud Nine.
Theatre includes: Medea; The Doctor's Dilemma; Misterman; Twelfth Night; No Man’s Land; Tristan & Yseult; The Emperor Jones; Earthquakes in London (National Theatre); The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas (Royal Court); My Night with Reg; Versailles; The Night Alive; The Philanthropist (Donmar Warehouse); A Voyage Around My Father (Donmar Warehouse / West End); All’s Well that Ends Well; The Heart of Robin Hood; Great Expectations; Coriolanus; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Tantalus; Cymbeline; A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC); Clarence Darrow; A Flea in Her Ear; National Anthems; Six Degrees of Separation (Old Vic); The Birthday Party (Royal Exchange, Manchester); The Seagull (Headlong); Two Into One; The Lyons; The Color Purple; Travels With My Aunt; Proof (Menier Chocolate Factory); Donkeys’ Years (Rose Theatre, Kingston); Tonight at 8.30 (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton / ETT); Ciphers (Out Of Joint / Bush Theatre / Exeter Northcott Theatre); Solid Air (Theatre Royal, Plymouth); A Steady Rain (Theatre Royal, Bath); The Little Mermaid (Bristol Old Vic); Brigit; Bailegangaire (Druid Theatre); Journey’s End (Duke of York’s Theatre / New York); Equus (West End / New York); The Night Alive; The Philanthropist; Pygmalion (New York); Goodnight Mr. Tom; The Vortex; And Then There Were None; Some Girls;Waiting for Godot; What the Butler Saw; Annie Get Your Gun (West End).
Choreographer
As a performer, theatre includes: The Car-Man (Old Vic / UK / European / US tours); Edward Scissorhands (UK / World tour); Cinderella (West End / L.A.); Swan Lake (Sadler’s Wells / UK tour / L.A. / Broadway / West End); Highland Fling (Donmar Warehouse / UK / European tours); Nutcracker! (Sadler’s Wells / UK tour); Play Without Words (National Theatre / UK / World tour).
As Choreographer, theatre includes: The Phantom of the Opera (US / UK tours); The Lord of the Flies (Theatre Royal Glasgow / UK tour); Wonderland (Hampstead Theatre); The Hostage (RSC / Barbican); Time and the Conways (National Theatre); Enron (Chichester / Royal Court / Noel Coward Theatre / Broadway); Sondheim’s Passion (Donmar Warehouse); Earthquakes in London (National Theatre / UK tour); Merchant of Venice (RSC); Decade (Headlong); Chariots of Fire (Hampstead Theatre / The Gielgud); This House (National Theatre); Der Zigeunerbaron (Stadttheater Klagenfurt); The Arrest of Ai Weiwei (Hampstead Theatre); Candide (RSC).
As Choreographer, dance includes: Boys’ Own (Rambert School); Luther Dances (Moving Visions); Say Something (Testing Ground); A Vicious Rumour (Savage Dance); Flesh Tones (NYDT); I Giganti della Montagne / La Calisto (Batignano); Der Stein die Weisen (Garsington).
As Assistant Choreographer, theatre includes: Peer Gynt (RSC / Barbican); Oliver! (London Palladium); My Fair Lady (National Theatre / Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); South Pacific; Play Without Words (National Theatre).
As Assistant Choreographer, television and film include: The Car Man; Swan Lake; Roald Dahl’s Little Red Riding Hood; Drip: A Love Story; OK2; Richard II; Billy Elliot; Mrs Hartley and the Growth Centre (BBC).
Scott is an Associate Artist of Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures and was nominated for an OIivier Award for Best Choreographer for Chariots of Fire.
Music Associate and Orchestrations
As Composer, theatre includes: A Streetcar Named Desire (Young Vic); The Cripple of Inishmaan (West End / Broadway); Earthquakes in London (Headlong / National Theatre); Hamlet (National Theatre); Fathers and Sons; Salt, Root and Roe; The Dance of Death (Donmar Warehouse); Macbeth; East Is East (Trafalgar Studios); The Masque of Anarchy (Manchester International Festival); Hamlet; The Last Days of Troy (Royal Exchange, Manchester); The EL Train (Hoxton Hall); Henry VI Parts I, II & III (Shakespeare’s Globe); Othello; Betrayal; The Village Bike (Sheffield Theatres); The Sea Plays (Old Vic Tunnels); The Faith Machine (Royal Court); Cornelius (Finborough / 59e59 New York); Herding Cats (Hampstead).
As Music Associate, theatre includes: Frankenstein (National Theatre); The Merchant of Venice (RSC).
Dance includes: 1984 (Northern Ballet); Kes (Sheffield Crucible); Together Alone (Ballet Black / Royal Opera House); Dreaming in Code; In The Dust (2Faced Dance).
Film includes: McCullin; Attacking The Devil; We are Many; Shelter; Making a Killing; Future.Inc.
Alex is a graduate of Paul McCartney’s LIPA. He has collaborated with The xx at the Hollywood Bowl with the LA Philharmonic; The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; The London Metropolitan Orchestra; Peter Hook (Joy Division); and virtuoso violinist Daniel Hope on Spheres, which reached number 1 in the UK Classical charts. Alex received the Music and Sound Award for Best Feature Film Composition for McCullin in 2014 and was nominated for a Tony Award for The Cripple of Inishmaan.
Casting
For the Almeida: 1984 (Headlong / Nottingham Playhouse / West End / tour).
Theatre includes: Fatal Attraction (West End); Scenes from a Marriage (St. James Theatre); Relative Values (Theatre Royal, Bath / West End); Twelfth Night (Everyman Theatre, Liverpool); Ghosts (Rose Theatre, Kingston); Abigail’s Party (Menier Chocolate Factory); The American Plan; In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play (Ustinov Studio, Bath / St. James Theatre); King Lear (Everyman Theatre, Liverpool / Young Vic), The Tempest (RSC).
Ginny has been Casting Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Chichester Festival Theatre, English Touring Theatre, Soho Theatre, Ustinov Studio Bath, and the Rose Theatre, Kingston.
Associate Director
Theatre includes: The Hypochondriac (Theatre Royal, Bath); Showcase (Cambridge University / Tricycle Theatre);Deathwatch (The Print Room); I Didn’t Always Live Here (Finborough Theatre); Ariadne and the Minotaur (National Theatre Studio); The Ivory Keyboard; Let Go; The Bistro (National Theatre); Rapid Response; The Dim; Popbitch (Theatre503); Meteorite (RSC Studio); A Celebration of the Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (RSC); Stumpergasse 31 (Arcola Theatre); Glory Dazed (HMP / YOI Doncaster); Country Music; Routes (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Fine Lines (Hampstead Theatre); Agamemnon; 4.48 Psychosis (Theatre Royal, York).
As Associate/Assistant Director, theatre includes: 30 Million Minutes Tour: Dawn French (UK tour); Other Desert Cities (Old Vic); Henry V (Nöel Coward Theatre); A Little Hotel on the Side (Theatre Royal, Bath); One Man, Two Guvnors (Theatre Royal, Haymarket); Noises Off (Old Vic / Novello Theatre); The Homecoming; The Merchant of Venice (RSC); The History Boys (Theatre Royal, Bath / UK tour); When We Are Married (Garrick Theatre); The Count of Monte Cristo (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Secret Garden (Birmingham Repertory Theatre / West Yorkshire Playhouse); A Man for All Seasons (Theatre Royal, York).
Associate Designer
As Designer, theatre includes: La Scala di Seta (Royal Opera House); The Island (Young Vic); The Prophet (Gate Theatre); Sex with a Stranger (Trafalgar Studios); Lean (Tristan Bates Theatre); East of Berlin (Southwark Playhouse); Eight Songs for a Mad King; Façade; Handel Furiosol; The Sound of a Voice (Arcola Theatre); Die Fledermaus (King’s Head Theatre); Elegy for a Lady; The Yalta Game (Salisbury Playhouse); Fleabag (Underbelly / Soho Theatre); Below the Belt (Pleasance Courtyard); The Cage Birds (LAMDA’s Linbury Studio); Who’s Afraid of Rachel Roberts? (Torch Theatre).
As Assistant Designer, theatre includes: Don Giovanni (Royal Opera House); Life of Galileo; Merry Wives of Windsor; Boris Godunov (RSC); A Provincial Life (National Theatre, Wales).
Holly was shortlisted as one of 12 finalists in the Linbury Prize for Stage Design. She has also spent a year working with the Royal Shakespeare Company as a Trainee Designer.
Associate Musical Director
Theatre includes: This House (National Theatre); Macbeth (National Youth Theatre).
Television includes: Unsafe Sex in the City; Strictly Baby Disco; One Born:Twins and Triplets; One Born: Plus Size Mums.
Film includes: The New Boy; Go On My Son.
Jim is an award-winning songwriter, composer and producer who works in theatre, television and film. He has produced music for publishers including EMI, Universal, West One and Endemol.
Associate Choreographer
As Movement Director, theatre includes: Bird of Pray (Courtyard Theatre); The Situation Room (Shoreditch Town Hall), Idomeneo (Grange Park Opera).
As Movement Advisor, theatre includes: Claustrophobia (Edinburgh Festival Fringe / St. James Theatre).
As Associate Choreographer, theatre includes: Made in Dagenham; Bend It Like Beckham (West End); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Aix en Provence).
As a performer film includes: World War Z; Great Expectations; One Day; Short Order; Swan Lake 3D; The Car-Man; Nutcracker!
As Assistant Choreographer, film includes: The Theory of Everything.
As Assistant Choreographer, opera includes: Anna Nicole (BAM); Magical Night (Royal Opera House); Carmen (Salzburg Osterfestspiele / Summer Festival); La Voix Humane; Dido and Aeneas (Opera North); Lucrezia Borgia;Turandot (ENO); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opera La Scala Milan / Opera de Lyon).
As a performer, dance includes: Ballet Work No. 1020 (Martin Creed / Sadler’s Wells / MCA Chicago / Kaai Theatre Brussles / Barbican); Cinderella; Nutcracker! (AMP); Swan Lake; Edward Scissorhands; The Car-Man; Highland Fling (New Adventures).
Shelby has also worked in the music industry. She has been assistant choreographer and dancer for music videos by Foxes and Hazik and The Giggles.
Costume Supervisor
Theatre includes: The Weir (Donmar Warehouse / Wyndham’s Theatre); Absent Friends (Harold Pinter Theatre); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Kensington Gardens); Soul Sister (Hackney Empire); Papatango New Writing Festival (Finborough Theatre); Cinderella; Dick Whittington and His Cat; Jack and the Beanstalk; Aladdin; Desire Under the Elms; Saved; 1984; Twisted Tales (Lyric Hammersmith); Ghost Stories (Duke of York’s Theatre).
Video
Theatre includes: Usagi Yojimbo (Southwark Playhouse); Rocky Horror Show (Euorpean tour); The Small Hand (Bill Kenwright Ltd.); Minetti (Edinburgh International Festival); Sleepless (Analogue); The Energy Show (Science Museum / UK tour); The Phantom of the Opera (UK tour); Emperor and Galilean (National Theatre); Backbeat with Timothy Bird (West End / Canada / L.A.).
Opera includes: La Traviata; Hippolyte et Aricie (Glyndebourne); La Bohème (WNO); The Flying Dutchman (ENO); Aida (RAH); Faust (Mariinsky Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mariinsky Theatre / Zolotoy Sofit Award); Die Frau Ohne Schatten (Mariinsky Theatre / Ljubljana / Tokyo / Edinburgh Festival Fringe).
Ballet includes: Cleopatra (Northern Ballet).
Video
For the Almeida: The Turn of the Screw.
Theatre includes: Behind the Beautiful Forevers (National Theatre); Flash Mob; I Dreamed a Dream (UK tour); Water Babies (Curve Theatre, Leicester); In the Republic of Happiness; Tribes (Royal Court); Julius Caesar (Donmar Warehouse / St Ann’s Warehouse, NYC); Making Noise Quietly (Donmar Warehouse); Flare Path (Theatre Royal, Haymarket); The Lady from the Sea (Royal Exchange, Manchester); The Coma (Edinburgh Festival Fringe); Chess (UK tour / Toronto).
As Associate Designer, theatre includes: Speaking in Tongues (Duke of York’s Theatre).
As Animator, theatre includes: 42nd Street (Chichester Festival Theatre).
Opera includes: Haunted (Sydney Opera House Studio / 59E59, NYC / UK tour); Vampirette (Manchester Opera House).
Music, Fashion and Broadcast film include: Love is a Bourgeois Construct; 3D Future Fashion; Exclusion Collection; Freerunning at the Science Museum; Cascade Collection.
As Animator, film includes: The New Vanquish; Capital Rocks.
Music includes: Queen & Adam Lambert (World tour).
As Animator, music includes: Armstrong and Miller Live; Katy Brand's Big Ass Tour.
Jack is a founding director of Really Creative Media and has worked all over the world with artists such as the Pet Shop Boys and Goldfrapp.
★★★★ "Exciting and enlivening… an outstanding performance by Susannah Fielding."
Evening Standard
★★★★ Revelatory… What is really startling about this production is its non-stop inventiveness.
The Guardian
★★★★ Goold strikes just the right balance in this problematic play.
Financial Times
The Merchant of Venice is approximately 2 hours 50 minutes including an interval.
Jamie Beamish
Rebecca Brewer
Susannah Fielding
Scott Handy
Merry Holden
Ian McDiarmid
Caroline Martin
Vinta Morgan
Vincenzo Nicoli
Emily Plumtree
Finlay Robertson
Raphael Sowole
Tim Steed
Jonathan Tafler
Anthony Welsh
Tom Weston-Jones
Director Rupert Goold
Design Tom Scutt
Lighting Rick Fisher
Music Adam Cork
Sound Gregory Clarke
Choreography Scott Ambler
Music Associate and Orchestrations Alex Baranowski
Video Nina Dunn and Jack Henry James
Casting Ginny Schiller CDG
Associate Director Lisa Blair
Associate Designer Holly Pigott
Costume Supervisor Joanna Relf
Associate Musical Director Jim Hustwit
Associate Choreographer Shelby Williams
Video Associate Louise Rhoades-Brown
Dialect Coach Rick Lipton
Fight Director Rachel Bown-Williams of RC-Annie Ltd