Peter Morgan

Writer

Theatre includes: The Audience (West End); Frost/Nixon (Donmar Warehouse/ West End/ Broadway).

Film includes: The Last King of Scotland; The Damned United; Rush.

Television includes: The Crown; The Deal; The Special Relationship; Longford; The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies.

The award-winning and Tony-nominated play Frost/Nixon received critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic before being adapted into a film of the same name. The film garnered five Oscar Award nominations, including Best Screenplay.

Peter is the recipient of BAFTA, Emmy and Golden Globe awards and has received multiple Olivier, Tony and Oscar nominations.

In 2017, Morgan was awarded the BFI Fellowship, the institute’s highest honour and the RTS recognised The Crown with a special award in 2018 for its Contribution to British Television. In November 2019, the American Film Institute honoured him with a tribute to his career at the AFI FEST 2019.

Peter received a CBE in 2016 New Year’s Honours for services to drama.

Rupert Goold

Director

Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre, founding Artistic Director of Headlong (2005 to 2013), Associate Director at the RSC and Artistic Director of Northampton Theatres (2002 to 2005).   For the Almeida: Women, Beware The Devil; Tammy Faye; Patriots; Spring Awakening; Albion; The Hunt; Shipwreck; Richard III; Medea; The Merchant of Venice; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot; American Psycho (also Broadway); Ink; King Charles III (also West End/ Broadway).   Theatre includes: The 47^th (The Old Vic); The Effect; Earthquakes in London (Headlong/ National Theatre); Time and the Conways (National Theatre); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Kensington Gardens); The Merchant of Venice; Romeo and Juliet; Speaking Like Magpies (RSC); ENRON (Headlong/ West End/ Broadway); Made in Dagenham; Oliver!; The Glass Menagerie; No Man’s Land (West End); King Lear (Headlong/ Liverpool Everyman/ Young Vic); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Headlong/ West End); Macbeth (Chichester Festival Theatre/ West End/ Broadway).   Film includes: Judy; True Story.   Television includes: Macbeth; King Charles III; Richard II.   Opera includes: Turandot (ENO); Le Comte Ory (Garsington Opera).   Rupert has received Olivier, Critics’ Circle and Evening Standard awards for Best Director twice and won a Peabody Award in 2011 for Macbeth. Rupert received a CBE in 2017 New Year’s Honours for services to drama.

Miriam Buether

Set Designer & Co-Costume Designer

Theatre and Dance as Designer includes: Spring Awakening; Hymn; Albion; Shipwreck; Machinal; Boy; Game; When the Rain Stops Falling; Judgement Day (Almeida); The 47^th (The Old Vic); King Lear; To Kill a Mockingbird; Three Tall Women; A Doll’s House 2; The Children (Broadway); The Jungle (Young Vic/ West End/ St Ann’s Warehouse); The Trial; Public Enemy; Wild Swans; The Government Inspector; In the Red and Brown Water; The Good Soul of Szechuan; Generations, Measure for Measure (Young Vic); Glass. Kill. Blubeard. Imp.; Sucker Punch; Cock; In the Republic of Happiness; Get Santa! (Royal Court); The Children; Escaped Alone; Love and Information (Royal Court/ Minetta Lane Theatre); Wild, Sunny Afternoon; Bend it Like Beckham (West End); Chariots of Fire (Hampstead Theatre/ West End); The Father (Theatre Royal Bath); The Effect; Earthquakes in London (National Theatre).

Opera as Designer includes: La Fanciulla Del West (ENO/ Santa Fe Opera); Turandot; Wozzeck (ENO); Suor Angelica, Il Trittico – Suor Angelica (Royal Opera House, as Set Designer); Anna Nicole (Royal Opera House/ BAM); Boris Godunov (Berlin Opera).

Miriam won The Linbury Prize for Stage Design in 1999 and received the Evening Standard Best Design Award in 2010 for Earthquakes in London and Sucker Punch, and in 2018 for The Jungle.

Deborah Andrews

Co-Costume Designer

Deborah studied Fashion Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and then worked in fashion before being lured into the theatre. She has worked as a Costume Designer, Associate Designer and Supervisor in both Opera and Theatre.

Theatre includes: Spring Awakening; Filomena; Medea; Ink; The Twilight Zone (Almeida); To Kill A Mockingbird; Prima Facie; Company; The Birthday Party; As You Desire Me (West End); Angels in America; Oslo; Peter Gynt; The Welkin; Afterlife (National Theatre) Good People; Wonderland; Hapgood; Jude (Hampstead Theatre); Sunny Afternoon (Hampstead Theatre/ West End/ tour); King Lear; The Winslow Boy (Chichester Festival Theatre); Shakespeare Trilogy; Closer; Philadelphia Here I Come (Donmar Warehouse).

Opera includes: Otello (Grange Park Opera); Maria Luisa; Vanessa; The Rape of Lucretia; La Bohème; St Matthew Passion (Glyndebourne); Agrippina; Orfeo; Salome; Alcina; Child of our Time; Trojans; Ernani; The Mikado; Don Giovanni (ENO/ Basel/ Oslo); Cosi Fan Tutte (ENO/ Barbican).

Jack Knowles

Lighting Designer

Jack trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Theatre includes: Spring Awakening; Nine Lessons and Carols: stories for a long winter; The Duchess of Malfi; Three Sisters; Shipwreck; Machinal; They Drink it in The Congo; Boy; Carmen Disruption; Game (Almeida); Caroline, or Change (West End/Broadway); Top Girls; Barber Shop Chronicles (National Theatre/ World tour); Beginning (National Theatre/ West End); Cleansed (National Theatre); Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp; The End of History; Instructions for Correct Assembly; 2071 (Royal Court); Venice Preserved (RSC); The Windsors: Endgame; The Importance of Being Earnest (West End); The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (Elliott & Harper); Anna Karenina; Steel (Sheffield Theatres); Light Falls; The Producers; The Greatest Play in the History of the World (Royal Exchange Theatre, Machester/ Traverse Theatre/ West End/ UK tour); Death of a Salesman; Happy Days; Parliament Square; Our Town; Twelfth Night; A Streetcar Named Desire; Wit; The Skriker; There Has Possibly Been An Incident (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Committee (Donmar Warehouse); Piaf; Wonderland (Nottingham Playhouse); Gin Craze! (Royal and Derngate, Northampton); Good Vibrations (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); Circle Mirror Transformation (HOME, Manchester); The Beacon (Staatstheater Stuttgart); 4.48 Psychosis; Reisende auf einem Bein; Happy Days (Schauspielhaus, Hamburg); Junkyard; Pygmalion (Headlong); The Forbidden Zone (Salzburg Festival/ Schaubühne, Berlin/ Barbican); Phaedra (Enniskillen International Beckett Festival); A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (Vienna Burgtheater); Lungs; Yellow Wallpaper (Schaubühne, Berlin); Night Train (Schauspiel, Köln/ Avignon Festival/ Theatertreffen).

Opera includes: La bohéme (Gothenburg Opera).

Awards include Knight of Illumination Award for Barber Shop Chronicles.

Adam Cork

Sound Designer & Composer

Adam is composer and co‐lyricist of the documentary musical London Road which had an extended run at the National Theatre Cottesloe before transferring to the Olivier auditorium. He received a Tony Award in 2010 for his music and sound score for Red (Donmar Warehouse/ Broadway) and an Olivier Award in 2011 for King Lear (Donmar Warehouse). Adam received the 2011 Evening Standard Award ‘Best Design’ for Anna Christie and King Lear (Donmar Warehouse) and the 2011 Critics’ Circle ‘Best Musical’ for London Road. He was also nominated in 2010 for the Tony Award ‘Best Score (Music & Lyrics)’ for ENRON (Broadway/ West End).

Theatre includes: The Hunt; Ink (Almeida, West End/Broadway); The 47^th (The Old Vic); The Shark is Broken; Leopoldstadt; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; No Man’s Land; Photograph 51; Don Carlos; Suddenly Last Summer (West End); Travesties (Menier Chocolate Factory/ West End/ Broadway); Les Blancs; Three Days in the Country (National Theatre); Frost/Nixon (Donmar Warehouse/ West End/ Broadway); Ivanov (Donmar Warehouse/ West End); The Chalk Garden; Creditors; The Wild Duck; Caligula (Donmar Warehouse).

Film includes: Genius; London Road.

Television includes: The Hollow Crown; Macbeth; Frances Tuesday; Re-ignited; Imprints.

Robert Sterne CDG

Casting Director

Theatre includes: Straight Line Crazy; The Southbury Child; The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage; Bach & Sons; Talking Heads; A Number; Two Ladies; A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bridge Theatre); Peggy For You (Hampstead Theatre); Don Juan in Soho; The Audience (West End).

Television includes: The Crown; Chernobyl; Game of Thrones; The Responder; The Serpent; Les Misérables; Wolf Hall; London Spy; Friday Night Dinner.

Joel Trill

Vocal Coach

Theatre includes: Marvin’s Binoculars (The Unicorn Theatre); All My Sons, Love Letters, As You Like It, DNA (Queens Theatre Hornchurch); A Number, Bagdad Cafe (The Old Vic); An Unfinished  Man (The Yard Theatre); The Long Song (Chichester Festival Theatre); Statements After An Arrest Under The Immorality Act (The Orange Tree Theatre);  J’Ouvert (Harold Pinter Theatre); Mirror Mirror, Master Harold & The Boys (National Theatre); Rockets & Blue Lights (Manchester Royal Exchange); Trojan Horse (Battersea Arts Centre); A Taste of Honey (Trafalgar Studios); Two Trains Runnin (The Royal & Derngate Theatre); Red Dust Road (National Theatre of Scotland); Strange Fruit (The Bush Theatre); One Night in Miami (Nottingham Playhouse); Glass Menagerie (The Arcola Theatre); The Half God of Rainfall (Kiln Theatre); Good Dog (Watford Palace Theatre); One Love (Birmingham Rep); Princess & The Hustler (Bristol Old Vic); The Dark (The Tobacco Factory, Bristol); The Wider Earth (The Natural History Museum); Macbeth (Bord Gáis Energy); Yellowman (The Young Vic); Assata Taught Me (Gate Theatre). Film and TV includes: The White Lotus; Riches; The Confessions Of Frannie Langton; Gangs of London (Season 2); The Crown (Season 5&6); Citadel; My Name is Leon; Empire; The Ancestors; Queen & Slim; Mama Ks Team 4; There’s Something About The Movies.

Polly Bennett

Movement Director

Polly Bennett is a movement director, choreographer and director working across the broadest applications of movement. From professional theatre to Academy Award-winning films, Polly creates physical worlds for theatre, dance, live performance and film, as well as doing extensive work as a performance coach, workshop facilitator and mentor. She is an Associate Artist of Bush Theatre and National Youth Theatre, and co-founder of The Mono Box.

Theatre includes: The House of Shades (Almeida); People Places and Things (National Theatre/ West End/ St Ann’s Warehouse); The Lehman Trilogy (National Theatre/ West End/ Broadway); SWEAT (Donmar Warehouse/ West End); Pomona (National Theatre).

Film includes: I Wanna Dance with Somebody; Chevalier; Elvis; Bohemian Rhapsody; No Time to Die.

Television includes: The Crown; The Great.

Sophie Drake

Associate Director

Sophie Drake is a theatre director and dramaturg based in London. She has worked on large scale shows in the West End and at multiple venues around the UK. Theatre includes: As Director: The Society for New Cuisine (R&D); Click Delete (King’s Head Theatre); Sea Wall (Turner Contemporary); I Lived for Art (The Guildhall, Salisbury); The Self Defence Class (Brighton Fringe); Spark (Arcola Theatre); Speak (Chapel Playhouse); Post (Old Red Lion); My Boys (Theatre503); Constellations (Hen & Chickens Theatre/ Banham Theatre); NSFW (Schonell Theatre). As Assistant and Associate Director: Patriots (West End/ Almeida Theatre); Doctor Who: Time Fracture (Immersive Everywhere); Hamlet; The Cherry Orchard; The Chalk Garden (Theatre Royal Windsor); God’s Dice (Soho Theatre); The Weatherman (Park Theatre); Notice (Arcola Theatre); Maggie May (Finborough Theatre); In Lipstick (Pleasance Theatre); A Sticky Season (Tristan Bates Theatre); Homos, or Everyone in America (Finborough Theatre). Film includes: Hamlet