Philip Lindley | Designer
At the Finborough Theatre, Philip is Associate Designer, and has designed Mirror Teeth, Drama At Inish, Autumn Fire, The American Clock, Merrie England, The Fear of Breathing, Passing By, Somersaults, Rooms and As Is. Trained as an architect, Philip began his theatre career as a set and lighting designer before joining the BBC TV Design Department. During 25 years at the BBC, he worked on every type of production including Dr. Who, Blackadder, Top Of The Pops, Mastermind, Swap Shop, Play For Today, Play For Tomorrow, 30 Minute Theatre, Lorna Doone, Z For Zacharias, The Tripods, Juliet Bravo, Rings On Their Fingers, The Kamikaze Ground Staff Dinner Party, Goodbye Darling, Tomorrow’s World, the 1981 Royal Wedding and The Scientist. After leaving the BBC, he worked as a freelance theatre consultant before moving to Lisbon where he continued to design sets and lighting for Portuguese theatre including productions of Cymbeline, Saturday Sunday Monday, The Bear, The Proposal, Recklessness, Tone Clusters, One For The Road, A Time For Farewells and Dracula. Since returning to live in the UK, he has designed Nerve, The Good Doctor and Sleeping Dogs (Baron’s Court Theatre), Miss Julie (Theatro Technis), The Three Sisters and Endgame (Bridewell Theatre), Fair Em and Measure For Measure (Union Theatre), The Theban Plays (The Scoop – Time Out best free London event of 2013) and Passing By (Tristan Bates Theatre).
Johanna Town | Lighting Designer
Theatre includes What the Butler Saw, Some Like It Hip Hop, Betrayal, Speaking in Tongues, Fat Pig, Hello and Goodbye, Top Girls, Via Dolorosa and Beautiful Thing (West End), Haunted (New York, Royal Exchange and Sydney Opera House), Rose (National Theatre and Broadway), My Name is Rachel Corrie (Royal Court Theatre, West End and New York), Guantanamo (New York, Tricycle Theatre and West End), Arabian Nights and Our Lady of Sligo (New York), The Steward of Christendom (Out of Joint, Broadway and Sydney), Macbeth (Out of Joint, World Tour and Arcola Theatre) and The Permanent Way (Out of Joint, National Theatre and Sydney). Johanna is an Associate Artist for Theatre503 where recent productions include The Life of Stuff, Man in the Middle, The Final Shot and Ship of Fools. Her many other theatre credits include Fences (Theatre Royal Bath), Smack Family Robinson (Rose Theatre, Kingston), Straight (Bush Theatre and Crucible Theatre, Sheffield), Medea, Romeo and Juliet (Headlong), Moon on A Rainbow Shawl (National Theatre), The Wind in the Willows (Polka Theatre), Blue Heart Afternoon and Lay Down Your Cross (Hampstead Theatre), Llywyth (Sherman Cymru and Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru), Charged (Soho Theatre), Miss Julie, Private Lives, The Glass Menagerie and A Raisin in the Sun (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester) and The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes (RSC).
Johanna has also worked extensively at the Royal Court Theatre where her credits include Rhinoceros, The Arsonists and My Child. She has also lit numerous productions for Out Of Joint including Our Country’s Good, Bang Bang Bang, Dreams of Violence, Our Lady of Sligo, The Permanent Way and King of Hearts.
Opera includes Carmen, Kátya Kabanová, Cinderella, Phaedra & Ariadne Auf Naxos and The Secret Marriage (Scottish Opera), The Marriage of Figaro for Classical Opera Company and Tobias and the Angel for Almeida Opera Festival.
Richard Hammarton | Music and Sound Designer
Theatre includes Sizwe Bansi is Dead and Six Characters Looking for an Author (The Young Vic), The Mountaintop (Theatre503 and Trafalgar Studios), The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare’s Globe), Brilliant Adventures, Edward II and Dr Faustus (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester), Speaking in Tongues (Duke of York’s Theatre), A Raisin in the Sun (Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, and National Tour), I Know How I Feel About Eve (Hampstead Theatre), The Last Summer (Gate Theatre, Dublin), Mudlarks (HighTide Festival, Theatre503 and Bush Theatre), Ghosts (Duchess Theatre), The Pitchfork Disney (Arcola Theatre), Judgement Day (The Print Room), Same Same, Little Baby Jesus and Fixer (Ovalhouse), Cheese (Fanshen Theatre), An Inspector Calls (Theatre by the Lake, Keswick), What Happens in the Winter (Upswing), Persuasion, The Constant Wife, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Real Thing and People at Sea (Salisbury Playhouse), Platform (Old Vic Tunnels), Pride and Prejudice (Theatre Royal Bath and National Tour), The Shooky, Steve Nallon’s Christmas Carol and Dealer’s Choice (Birmingham Rep), Hello and Goodbye and Some Kind of Bliss (Trafalgar Studios), Breakfast with Mugabe (Theatre Royal Bath), Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Theatre Royal Northampton), Inches Apart, Ship of Fools, Natural Selection and Salt Meets Wound (Theatre503) and Blowing (National Tour).
Film includes The Pier, First the Worst, A Neutral Corner, Snow, The Button and Raptured.
Television includes Agatha Christie’s Marple, No Win No Fee, Sex ‘N’ Death, Wipeout, The Ship, Konigsspitz, K2 and The Fisherman’s Wife. Orchestration includes Agatha Christie’s Marple, Primeval, Dracula, Jericho, If I Had You, A History of Britain, Silent Witness, Dalziel and Pascoe, Alice Through the Looking Glass, The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz and Scenes of a Sexual Nature.
Interactive work includes pieces at the Foundling Museum, Moore Outside at Tate Britain, You Shall Go to the Ball at Royal Opera House and Light at BAC.
Susan Kulkarni | Costume Designer
Susan trained at Somerville College, Oxford University, and RADA.
Theatre includes Detroit, Cesario, More Light, The Prince of Denmark and King James’ Bible (National Theatre), Herding Cats (Hampstead Theatre), And Darkness Descended (Punchdrunk), I Didn’t Always Live Here (Finborough Theatre) and The Prince and the Pauper and The Legend of Captain Crow (Unicorn Theatre), Narrative (Royal Court Theatre), Zombie Lab (The Science Museum), Measure for Measure and Marat/Sade (RSC) and The Look Out (Royal Festival Hall). Susan is currently Head of Costume for Future Cinema and Secret Cinema and she designs all of their large-scale immersive productions. Her work includes The Shawshank Redemption, Brazil, Blade Runner, Prometheus, The Red Shoes, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and the interactive premiere of Watchmen.
Television/Film credits include Downton Abbey II, Dancing on the Edge by Stephen Poliakoff, Mrs Dickens’ Family Christmas, Big Ballet, Eye and Mermaid and Three and A Dream (shorts shot in Qatar for the Doha Film Institute).
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Tim Klotz | Fight Director
Tim has been a fight director for almost twenty years and has been resident fight director for the Drama Centre London since 2004. He has worked at Shakespeare’s Globe, Lyric Hammersmith, Gate Theatre, Nashville Ballet,