(This Isn’t) A True Story

Joseph is a director and theatremaker from Dudley. He trained at the Young Vic through the Jerwood Assistant Director programme.

Recent projects includes: Great British Mysteries: 1599?; Great British Mysteries? (Soho Theatre / Pleasance); Emily Brown and The Thing, A Squash And A Squeeze (Discover), Donmar on Design, Take The Stage (Donmar Warehouse); Shell and Davey at the Start and the End (VAULT festival); And Yet It Moves (Young Vic).

For the Almeida: Re-Imagining Machinal.

Assistant/Associate credits include: If You Kiss Me, Kiss (Young Vic); The Hairy Ape, Rise (The Old Vic); It Felt Like A Kiss (Punchdrunk / Manchester International Festival).

He won a JMK Regional Bursary in 2017 to assist Roxana Silbert on Amédée at the Birmingham Rep.

Amelia trained at RADA and was resident assistant designer at the RSC 2014-15.

Current design credits include: One Under (Graeae) and costume design for Sing Yer Heart out for the Lads (Chichester Festival Theatre).

Recent design credits include: Blue/Orange (Birmingham Rep); Good Dog (UK Tour); The Comedy of Errors (RSC); The Fishermen (HOME, Arcola, Trafalgar Studios + UK TOUR), Mountains (Royal Exchange Theatre); Smack That (a conversation) (Barbican); Gastronomic (Theatre Royal Norwich + Shoreditch Town Hall).

Rebecca is a director, choreographer and movement director. She graduated from The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts with a First Class BA Honours in Performing Arts Dance, and has an MA in Text and Performance from RADA and Birkbeck.

She has performed for Lea Anderson (The Royal Vauxhall Tavern), Sweetshop Revolution (The Place, Spring Loaded) and Collision Dance Theatre Company (UK Tour).

She directed Henry V (New Generation Festival, Florence) and was choreographer and movement director on Take the Stage – Berberian Sound Studio (Donmar Warehouse), Reimagining Machinal (Almeida Theatre), And Yet It Moves (Young Vic Taking Part), Happy Home Road (Christchurch Arts Festival NZ) and Laika: A Space Dogyssey (Gilded Balloon). Her own work includes Apples (Underbelly) and Peacocks, Lobsters and Us (C Venues).

She is a founding member of Steelworks Theatre Company and was assistant director of their inaugural production, the world premiere of new play, Grow Up Grandad which has been published by Josef Weinberger.

Valerie Sadoh is a theatre maker, who has produced, written and directed her own work at various London Fringe venues. In January 2016 she founded her own producing company ‘She’s Diverse’ which is dedicated to high quality female- centric work.

Her time at The Almeida has afforded her the opportunity to be the assistant director on two Reimagining projects, both Cacophony and Three Sisters and most recently being the assistant director on both Young Company Almeida shows; (This isn’t) A True Story and The Wave.