Wasps

For the Almeida: The Earthly Paradise.

Theatre includes: Longing; The Rubinstein Kiss (Hampstead Theatre); Found in The Ground (Wrestling School); Strange InterludeThe Creeper; The Importance of Being Earnest (West End); Translations (Broadway);The Caretaker; Frost/Nixon (US Tour); Impossible (Pleasance, Edinburgh); Kingmaker (Arts Theatre); City Stories (St James Theatre) The Tempest (Minack); The Seagull (Culture Project, NY); Cornelius (Finborough Theatre; 59E59).

Television and Film includes : The Auteur Theory; Mrs. Dalloway; An Awfully Big Adventure; Young Sherlock Holmes; A Voyage Around My Father; Not Only But
Always; Housewife 49; John Adams; Margaret; The Good Wife; Lucan.

Since leaving LAMDA, Alan has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre and the Chichester Festival Theatre. He is a regular improviser with Ken Campbell's School of Night.

Theatre includes: Jeeves & Wooster (UK Tour); From Morning to Midnight; Nation; Oddessy – Shoot/Find Treasure/Reload; His Dark Materials; Peter Pan (National Theatre); What The Butler Saw (West End); Beasts and Beauties (Hampstead Theatre); Under Glass; Greed (The Clod Ensemble); Where There’s A Will (English Touring Theatre); A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Library Theatre Manchester); The Magic Carpet (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith); World Cup Final 1966 (Schrannhaus); Monkey (Young Vic); Shoot Me In The Heart, Told By An Idiot (Gate Theatre); Princess Sharon (Scarlet Theatre / Edinburgh Traverse); Grimm Tales (Leicser Haymarket Theatre).

Television includes:The Delivery Man; Poldark; All At Sea; Holy Flying Circus; Hotel Trubble; Doctors; Hounded; Little Dorritt: Coming of Age; Primevil; Trial & Retribution XIII; The Queens Sister; Mitchell & Kenyon; The News Never Sleeps; Rose & Maloney; Wire in the Blood; Sir Gadabout: The Worst Knight in the Land; Casualty; Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story; Goodbye Mr Steadman; Armstrong & Miller; The Bill Christmas Speical; World Without End.

Film includes: Fast & Furious 6; The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz.

Fiona Laird is a freelance theatre director, and writer who has work has been seen at many of Britain’s top theatres including, The National Theatre, The Old Vic, The Royal Court, the Welsh National Opera, the Sheffield Crucible, the Menier Chocolate Factory, the Nottingham Playhouse and the Royal Festival Hall, as well as in the West End, and in Europe and the USA.

Fiona’s translation of Aristophanes' Frogs has been produced at the National Theatre, the Stadsschouwburg in Amsterdam and the Nottingham Playhouse, and her translation/production Clouds has been performed in London, Amsterdam, Delphi, San Diego and New York where The New Yorker described it as, “the single best production of a Greek play we’ve ever seen anywhere.”