The Writer

Theatre includes: The Jungle; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Hamlet (Young Vic); Cruel and Tender (Young Vic/Chichester Festival Theatre/Bouffes du Nord/European Tour); A View from the Bridge (Lyceum Theatre, New York); The Audience (Apollo Theatre); ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore; In Extremis; King Lear; The Winter’s Tale; The Maid’s Tragedy (Shakespeare’s Globe); Damned by Despair; Greenland; Earthquakes in London; Our Class; Women of Troy; Attempts on her Life; Waves; The Seagull; Pillars of the Community; The UN Inspector; The Oresteia (National Theatre); A Butcher of Distinction (The Cock Tavern); Marine Parade (Old Market, Brighton); Pressure Drop (Wellcome Collection); Othello; Phoenician Women; Romeo and Juliet; The Painter of Dishonour; Hamlet; Henry IV Parts I & II; The Dybbuk; The Theban Trilogy; A Woman Killed with Kindness; Twelfth Night (RSC); The Ugly One (Royal Court); Other Hands (Soho Theatre); The King of Prussia (Chichester Festival Theatre); Dead Funny (New Vic, Stoke); Descent; The Atheist’s Tragedy (Birmingham Rep); The Tempest; Twelfth Night; If I were lifted up from Earth; Measure for Measure (A and BC Theatre); The Count of Monte Cristo (Royal Exchange, Manchester); The Tempest; Absurd Singular (Salisbury Playhouse).

Television includes: Into the Badlands; The Forgiving Earth; Man Down; The Trial; Decline and Fall; The Conversation; Lucan; Silk; Silent Witness; Mr Sloane; Bletchley Circle; The Thick of It; Secret State; Getting On; Wallander; Free Agents; Ashes to Ashes; Casualty; Grandma’s House; The Long Walk to Finchley; The Bill; Waking the Dead; David Kelly; Green Wing; Wire in the Blood; State of Play; EastEnders; History File; Bliss; The World of Lee Evans.

Film includes: Darkest Hour; Rogue One: A Star Wars Story; Our Kind of Traitor; Crocodile; Room 8; Private Peaceful; Frankenstein.

Radio includes: The Care Takers; Dracula; Silver and Speed; Plenty.

Theatre includes: Misalliance (Orange Tree); Tender Napalm (UK Tour); Persuasion (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Octagon (Arcola Theatre); Even stillness breathes softly against a brick wall (Soho Theatre); The Alchemist (Liverpool Playhouse); 13; Emperor and Galilean (National Theatre); Women, Power and Politics (Tricycle Theatre).

Television includes: Agatha Raisin; Crossing Lines; Life of Crime; Murder; The Shadow Line.

Film includes: Anchor and Hope; Hood; Iron Sky: The Coming Race.

For the Almeida: directed Waste.

Theatre includes: title roles in Hamlet and Richard II (RSC); Arcadia; Antony and Cleopatra; The Sea (National Theatre); ENRON (Chichester Festival Theatre/Royal Court/Noël Coward Theatre); Uncle Vanya (Vaudeville); The Family Reunion and Betrayal (Donmar Warehouse); Julius Caesar (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); A Number (Crucible Studio/Menier Chocolate Factory/Fugard, Cape Town); Present Laughter (Theatre Royal, Bath); The Seagull; Ivanov; The Master and Margarita; Doctor Faustus (Chichester Festival Theatre); Drunk Enough to Say I Love You (Public Theater, New York); Journey’s End and Mr Cinders (King’s Head); Hal in Henry IV Parts I & II (English Touring Theatre).

Television includes: Trust; W1A; Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell; The Hollow Crown II; Mr Selfridge; Fleming; Eternal Law; Any Human Heart; Random Quest; Midsomer Murders; Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley; Cambridge Spies; Longitude; Persuasion; Hornblower; The Chronicles of Narnia.

Film includes: Darkest Hour; On Chesil Beach; Suffragette; The Riot Club; Hyde Park on Hudson; Van Helsing; Iris; Notting Hill; Carrington; Pandæmonium; Jane Eyre; Archipel (in French); Reunion; Howards End.

Radio includes The Effect; Present Laughter; Goethe's Faust; Otherkin; The Homecoming; High Table Lower Orders and Bomber. He has recorded over sixty audiobooks, receiving nine AudioFile Earphones awards for narration.

As a reciter has performed with all the major British orchestras and at the Proms six times, including Walton's Henry V at the 2002 Last Night.

Samuel was Artistic director of Sheffield Theatres from 2005-2007 where he revived The Romans in Britain. He is an associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company and Chair of the National Campaign for the Arts.

For the Almeida: Oil.

Theatre includes: Wendy and Peter Pan (RSC); Boys (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton / Headlong Theatre / HighTide Festival Theatre); Decade (Headlong Theatre / St. Catherine's Dock); The Authorised Kate Bane (Traverse Theatre); Precious Little Talent (Trafalgar Studios / Tantrums Productions); Hot Mess (Arcola Tent / Tantrums Productions); Eight (Trafalgar Studios / PS122, New York / Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh).

Film includes: Hold On Me (Winner Best Short – London Film Festival).

Radio includes: Rightfully Mine; Riot Girls (Radio 4).

Ella was the Pearson Writer in residence at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith in 2011. She is the recipient of the 2013 Catherine Johnson Award.

Theatre includes: The Norman Conquests (Chichester Festival Theatre); Titus Andronicus; The Two Noble Kinsmen (RSC); Noises Off (Nottingham Playhouse); Welcome Home, Captain Fox! (Donmar Warehouse); The Oresteia (HOME, Manchester); As You Like It; The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare’s Globe); Arcadia (English Touring Theatre and Ambassador Theatre Group); Accolade (Finborough Theatre); Tonight at 8:30; The Nutcracker (Nuffield Southampton Theatres); Ciphers (Out of Joint/ Bush Theatre/ Exeter Northcott) The Birthday Party (Manchester Royal Exchange); The Seagull (Headlong / Nuffield Southampton Theatres/ Derby Theatre (winner of Best Director at 2013 UK Theatre Awards); Foxfinder (Finborough Theatre).

Opera includes: Tosca; The Marriage of Figaro (ETO).

Blanche was the winner of the 2011 Critics’ Circle Most Promising Newcomer Award. She will direct The Winter’s Tale at Shakespeare’s Globe later this year.

Anna is a multi-award winning set and costume designer, working internationally in theatre, opera and dance.

For the Almeida: Before the Party.

Theatre and Dance includes: Hangmen (Royal Court, Wyndham’s West End, Atlantic Theatre NYC); Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield; Apollo West End); The Lie (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Exorcist (Birmingham Rep; West End); Much Ado About Nothing (Globe Theatre); Terror (Lyric Hammersmith); Tiger Bay (Artscape Cape Town, Wales Millennium Centre); The Kid Stays In The Picture; Liberian Girl (Royal Court); Don Juan in Soho (Wyndham’s Theatre); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Old Vic); RENT the musical (St James and National Tour); Henry V (Regents Park Open Air Theatre); Beware of Pity (Schaubühne Berlin/Complicité); Two Noble Kinsmen; Cymbeline; Love’s Sacrifice (RSC); The End of Longing (Playhouse); John, Can We Talk About This? (DV8 Physical Theatre); Before I Leave (NTW); Blindsided; Saturday Night and Sunday Morning; Rats’ Tales (Royal Exchange Manchester); Love the Sinner (National Theatre); Troilus & Cressida (Globe); Love and Money; You Can See the Hills (Young Vic/Royal Exchange, Manchester); Coram Boy (Bristol Old Vic); As You Like It (Curve, Leicester); The Love Girl & The Innocent (Southwark Playhouse); Some Voices (Young Vic); Second Coming (Scottish Dance).

Opera includes: Candide (Opera National De Lorraine, France); Don Giovanni; Iphigénie en Tauride; King Priam; Paul Bunyan (ETO); Albert Herring (Royal College of Music); Zaide (Sadler’s Wells).

Anna’s awards include the Olivier, Critics’ Circle and Evening Standard award for her design on Hangmen, and ETO’s King Priam and Paul Bunyan won an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera.

Theatre includes: Coriolanus (RSC & Barbican); Jekyll and Hyde (The Old Vic); Glengarry Glen Ross; Bad Jews (West End); The Homecoming; East is East (Trafalgar Studios for Jamie Lloyd Company); Privacy (Donmar Warehouse & Public Theater, New York); Breaking the Code; A Doll’s House; Little Shop of Horrors (Manchester Royal Exchange); Labyrinth (Hampstead Theatre); The Wild Party (The Other Palace); The Glass Menagerie (Headlong, UK Tour); I See You (Royal Court, Jerwood Theatre Upstairs); The Wizard of Oz; Playing for Time (Sheffield Crucible); The Grinning Man; The Crucible; The Life and Times of Fanny Hill; Snow Queen (Bristol Old Vic); The Madness of George III (Nottingham Playhouse); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Northampton Royal, Northern Stage & Manchester Royal Exchange); Plastic; 4000 Miles; (Ustinov, Bath); Guards at the Taj; The Invisible (Bush Theatre); Project Polunin (Sadler’s Wells); Il Trittico; Flight; Madame Butterfly; La Fanciulla (Opera Holland Park); Madame Butterfly (Danish National Opera).

Theatre includes: The York Realist; The Lady From The Sea; Limehouse; Coriolanus; Berenice; The Physicists; Making Noise Quietly; The Recruiting Officer (Donmar Warehouse); Elizabeth (Barbican); Random/Generations (Chichester Festival Theatre); Sweet Charity (Nottingham Playhouse); The House They Grew Up In; Forty Years On (Chichester Festival Theatre); Titus Andronicus (RSC and Barbican); Julius Caesar; The Effect (Sheffield Theatres); Rita, Sue and Bob Too (Out of Joint, Royal Court); See My Now (Young Vic); Breaking the Code; All My Sons; A Doll’s House; Three Birds; The Accrington Pals; Lady Windermere’s Fan (Royal Exchange); Ghosts; The Oresteia (HOME Theatre, Manchester); Made In Dagenham (Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch, New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich); Boys Will Be Boys (Headlong & Bush Theatre); Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Headlong, UK Tour); Schism; Carthage (Finborough Theatre); Easter Rising and Thereafter (Jermyn Street Theatre); Great Expectations (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Elizabeth (Royal Opera House); 101 Dalmations; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Birmingham Rep); Wuthering Heights; The Merchant of Venice; Consensual (NYT); Henry the Fifth (Unicorn Theatre, Imaginate Festival); All My Sons (Talawa Theatre, UK Tour); Hello/Goodbye; The Blackest Black; #AIWW: The Arrest of AiWeiWei; Lay Down Your Cross; Blue Heart Afternoon (Hampstead Theatre); Each His Own Wilderness; Widower’s House (Orange Tree Theatre); Accolade (St James Theatre);Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Royal Exchange, Royal and Derngate and Northern Stage); Pitcairn (Out of Joint, Chichester Festival Theatre & UK Tour); Saints (Nuffield); The Colby Sisters of Pittsburgh; Pennysylvania (Tricycle Theatre); Pests (Clean Break, Royal Exchange & Royal Court);); Much Ado About Nothing (Old Vic); nut; Men Should Weep; Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat(National Theatre); OMG! (Sadler’s Wells, The Place & Company of Angels); There are Mountains (Clean Break, HMP Askham Grange); The Promise (Donmar Warehouse at Trafalgar Studios); You Can Still Make a Killing (Southwark Playhouse); The Sacred Flame (English Touring Theatre); Black T-Shirt Collection (Fuel UK Tour and National Theatre); Invisible (Transport UK Tour & Luxembourg); Much Ado About Nothing (Wyndham’s Theatre, West End); Precious Little Talent (Trafalgar Studios); Where’s My Seat; Like a Fishbone; The Whiskey Taster; If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet; 2^nd May 1997; Apologia; The Contingency Plan; Wrecks; Broken Space; Season; 2000 Feet Away (Bush Theatre); Charged (Clean Break, Soho Theatre) My Romantic History (Sheffield Theatres and Bush Theatre); Travels With My Aunt (Northampton Theatre Royal); Sisters (Sheffield Theatres); Pornography(Birmingham Rep/Traverse and Tricycle Theatre); Europe (Dundee Rep/Barbican Pit).

As Deputy Head of Sound for the Royal Court: The Westbridge (Jerwood Theatre Upstairs and Theatre Local); The Heretic; Off the Endz!; Tusk Tusk; Woman and a Scarecrow; The World’s Biggest Diamond; Incomplete and Random acts of Kindness; My Name is Rachel Corrie (and Playhouse Theatre, West End and Minetta Lane Theatre, New York and Galway Festival and Edinburgh Festival); Bone; The Weather; Bear Hug; Terrorism; Food Chain.

As Associate Sound Designer: War Horse (National Theatre).

Emma was previously an Associate Artist at the Bush Theatre. She won the Falstaff Award for Best Sound Design/Original Score for her work on Coriolanus at the Donmar Warehouse in 2014.

Sasha works as a choreographer, director, and dramaturg. She trained at École Jacques Lecoq from 2006 - 2008, and was a founding member and Artistic Associate of the Yard Theatre in London. She was awarded the Muci Draškic Award for Best Director in Serbia in 2017/16, and was part of Festival d’Avignon’s Voyages de Kadmos programme for emerging artists.

Theatre/Dance/Opera credits include: Jubilee (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); The Suppliant Women (Royal Lyceum/ATC Theatre/Young Vic); Everything That Rises Must Dance (Complicité/Dance Umbrella); Moja Ti; Constellations (Atelje 212, Serbia); 8 Minutes (Sadler’s Wells); Until The Lions (Roundhouse/Akram Khan Company/Sadler’s Wells); La Bianca Notte (Hamburg Opera); One Side To The Other (Akram Khan Company/the Lowry); The Inquiline (Projekttheater Dresden/ Camden People’s Theatre); The Fifth (Budapest Contemporary Art Festival); The Wasp Factory (Bregenz/ HAU/ROH).

Theatre includes: Secret Life of Humans (New Diorama/59E59 Off-Broadway); Occupational Hazards (Hampstead Theatre); 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/tour).

As Associate, Theatre Includes: The Great Wave; Ugly Lies the Bone (National Theatre); Girls & Boys (Royal Court); Frozen; Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (West End); Desire Under The Elms (Sheffield).

As Associate, Installation Includes: Room 2022 (Art Basel, Miami); The Singing Tree (V&A).

Piers is Artistic Director of Manchester-based company, Ransack Theatre. He trained on the National Theatre Directors’ Course, and is recipient of the John Fernald Award, BBC Alfred Bradley Bursary Award, and JMK Regional Director Award.

As Director, theatre includes: Minus Touch (Royal Exchange); Moth (Hope Mill Theatre); The Dumb Waiter (Site Specific - Lucy Davis Vaults, NSDF and HOME); Solve (Edinburgh Fringe).

As Assistant Director, theatre includes: City of Glass (Lyric Hammersmith and HOME); So Here We Are (Royal Exchange and HighTide Festival); Yen (Royal Exchange).