Theatre as assistant director includes Roger Michell's production of Sexual Perversity in Chicago (Sir Richard Steele Theatre) and Keith Hack's production of The Dance of Death starring Alan Bates and Frances de la Tour (Riverside Studios).
Opera includes The Medium and The Lighthouse (BAC), and The Prince and Dutchman (Riverside Studios).
Until recently Robert was the International Representative of the Chekhov Memorial Theatre in Taganrog, Chekhov's birthplace.
Sarah Paulley | Designer
Sarah Paulley started working as a designer at Oxford University where she was supposed to be reading History and went on to postgraduate training at the Motley Theatre Design Course. Throughout the 70s she worked for a range of alternative companies, including Avon Touring and 7:84 England and in 1978 became Head of Design at Theatre Royal Stratford East. Thereafter she combined teaching with freelance design and production management, mainly for site-specific projects. Since 1990 she has lived in Glasgow, and worked in the Tron, the Arches, Tramway and for Bard in the Botanics as well as teaching at the Glasgow School of Art.
Currently she teaches at Queen Margaret University Edinburgh as Lecturer in Scenography and designs shows when she can, most recently Allotment and Threads, both Fringe First winners for Nutshell Productions.
She also runs the summer theatre design course Scenehouse Intro and has a prop and costume warehouse (Theatre Stuff Ltd.) in partnership with Joanna Kennedy.
Conleth White | Lighting Designer
Conleth has been designing lighting in Ireland for some years. Recent work includes Carthaginians, Performances and Translations (directed Adrian Dunbar, Millennium Forum, Derry), the set/lighting/imagery for the 36th (Ulster) Division Memorial committee presentation of From the Shipyard to the Somme in East Belfast, Edna O'Brien’s Country Girls (Red Kettle), Titanic (Scenes from the British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry,1912), by Owen McCafferty, directed by Charlotte Westenra which opened the Mac in Belfast, The Chronicles of Long Kesh (Tron Theatre, Glasgow, and Tricycle Theatre, London) and I Once Knew A Girl… (Teya Sepinuck, Theatre of Witness, The Playhouse, Derry).
Recently for DLR Glasthule Opera, he has lit and designed imagery for La Traviata, The Magic Flute, Weeping Flowers and The Marriage Of Figaro in the Pavilion, Dun Laoire, Dublin.
For Axis-Ballymun he has designed lighting for six plays by Dermot Bolger: From These Green Heights, The Townlands of Brazil (also in Teatr Polksi, Wroclaw), The Consequences of Lightning, Walking the Road (also in Leper, Belgium), The Parting Glass and Tea Chests and Dreams.
Conleth has lit many plays of Belfast playwright Marie Jones, including Weddings, Weeans and Wakes (Lyric Belfast), Blind Fiddler (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh), A Night in November (Trafalgar Studio One London), Lay Up Your Ends and HRT (Grand Opera House, Belfast).
Recent site-specific/installations include Green Street in the Green Street Court House (Percolate, Dublin Fringe 12), This is What We Sang in the Belfast Synagogue and 5 in 1 at the Limavady Workhouse (Kabosh). Other site-specific/installation work includes Macbeth in Crumlin Road Gaol, Belfast, (Replay) and The Tempest in Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin (Island), Binlids, a community theatre piece on five stages in West Belfast & Lower Manhattan (Pam Brighton, Dubbeljoint) and Northern Star by Stewart Parker in the First Presbyterian Church Belfast (Stephen Rea, Tinderbox/Field Day).
He toured to Belgrade, Taiwan and Denmark with Big Telly's swimming-pool production of The Little Mermaid. He was involved in the lighting for the NVA Divali, Eid-al-Fitr and Christmas Festivals of Light in the Hidden Gardens, Tramway, Glasgow 2003. He has also lit quite a few fashion shows for the Glasgow School of Art in the Arches, the Fruit Market and the Tramway.
Conleth was involved in the campaigns in Dublin to release The Birmingham Six and Guilford Four. He teaches lighting in Inchicore CFE in Dublin.
Catherine Lewis | Stage Manager
Catherine Lewis graduated in 2011 from the RSAMD with a BA in Technical and Production Arts. Previous productions include Peter Grimes on the Beach and Les Mamelles de Tiresias for Aldeburgh Music, Project Colony, 4:48 Psychosis and Elephant Man for Fourth Monkey Theatre Company and Madama Butterfly for Grange Park Opera.
Alice Kornitzer | Assistant Director
Alice trained at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh and Bristol University.
Alice has worked with the Berliner Ensemble and toured Europe extensively. Theatre includes Happy New (Trafalgar Studios), Peer Gynt (Berliner Ensemble), The Fever (Theater Unterm Dach), God of Carnage (Landestheater Linz) and Allotment (Nutshell Theatre).
Gillian Argo | Design Assistant
Gillian Argo has just completed her fifth summer with Bard in the Botanics, this year designing Othello and Much Ado About Nothing. Other recent productions include stage design for Snow White at the Byre, adapting her set for Hairy Maclary and Friends for an Australian tour, scenic painting for short fim In Extremis and prop making for Hickory and Dickory Dock. Most recently she was involved in creating The Embassy.
Chris Foxon | Producer
Chris read English at Oxford University and trained at the Central School of Speech & Drama on an AHRC Scholarship.
Theatre as producer includes Happy New (Trafalgar Studios), The Fear of Breathing (Finborough Theatre, transferring to Tokyo in November 2013), The Madness of George III (Oxford Playhouse), I Didn't Always Live Here and Vibrant 2012 – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights (Finborough Theatre), Pilgrims (Etcetera Theatre), Grave Expectations (Compass Theatre, St Albans South Signal Box and South Hill Park) and Old Vic New Voices 24-Hour Plays 2012 (The Old Vic).
Theatre as assistant producer includes Mudlarks (HighTide Festival Theatre, Theatre503 and Bush Theatre), On The Threshing Floor (Hampstead Theatre) and ‘Endless Poem’ for Rio Occupation London (HighTide Festival Theatre and BAC).
Chris is the producer of the award-winning Papatango Theatre Company and New Writing Prize, whose acclaimed productions include Foxfinder by Dawn King and Pack by Louise Monaghan. In 2013 Papatango will develop work with Bristol Old Vic and the Finborough Theatre.
Chris is an interviewer for The Old Vic's T.S. Eliot Commissions.
Special Thanks to
Robbie Coltrane, Judi Dench, Jeremy Irons, Kirsten Rausing, Mrs
Margaret Guido's Charitable Trust and The Coutts Charitable Trust,
whose generous sponsorship made this production possible.
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