Roxana Silbert Director Roxana is Artistic Director of Birmingham Repertory Theatre and was an Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Roxana was Artistic Director of Paines Plough Theatre Company (2005-2009); Literary Director at the Traverse Theatre (2001-2004) and Associate Director, Royal Court (1998-2000). In 1997, Roxana was Associate Director of the West Yorkshire Playhouse. Recent credits include Dunsinane (National Theatre of Scotland and Royal Shakespeare Company); A Life of Galileo (Royal Shakespeare Company and Birmingham Repertory Theatre) and Tartuffe (Birmingham Repertory Theatre).
Jamie Vartan Designer Jamie Vartan is an award-winning designer, his current theatre credits include: Ballyturk (Galway Arts Festival 2014 and National Theatre). Previous theatre credits include: Misterman (Galway Arts Festival 2011, National Theatre and St Anne’s Warehouse, New York); The Hostage, Mrs Warren’s Profession and The Playboy of the Western World (National Theatre of Ireland) and Mass Observation (Almeida Theatre). Current work in opera includes: Romeo et Juliette (Herceg Novi Amphitheatre, Montenegro) and Manon Lescaut (Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, Valencia). His design for A Village Romeo and Juliet (Wexford Operai) won the Irish Times Best Set Design Award 2013.
Chahine Yavroyan Lighting Designer Theatre credits include: Tartuffe, Have Box Will Travel and Orphans (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); King Lear, Major Barbara (The Abbey, Dublin); Fuente Ovejuna (Teatros del Canal, Madrid); Three Sisters, A Comedy of Errors (Manchester Royal Exchange); Let The Right One In, The Pass, Narrative, Relocated and Wig Out! (Royal Court); The Vortex (The Gate, Dublin); Fall, Damascus and When The Bulbul Stopped Singing (Traverse Theatre); Mahabharata (Sadler’s Wells); Dallas Sweetman, House of Agnes (Paines Plough).
Giles Thomas Sound Designer Composer/Sound Designer credits include: Prime Time, Untitled Matriarch Play, Mint and Pigeons (Royal Court); Take A Deep Breath and Breathe (Oval House Theatre) and Stop Kiss (Leicester Square Theatre). Sound Designer credits include: Superior Donuts (Southwark Playhouse); Three Men In a Boat (Original Theatre Company, UK Tour); Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat and House of Agnes (Paines Plough). Associate Sound Designer credits include: Henry V (Michael Grandage Company). Music Producer credits include: An Appointment with the Wickerman (National Theatre Scotland).
Nathan Jones Visual & Projection Designer Nat Jones (aka Soopanatural) worked recently with Birmingham Repertory Theatre to create the visuals for The Legend Of Mike Smith, Soweto Kinch’s theatre production directed by Jonzi D. Other artistic collaborations have included Nike, Akala, Charlie Dark, Mark De Clive-Lowe, Boy Blue Entertainment, Brighton Hip Hop Festival and Nu Century Arts. Soopanatural Productions’ work has featured on BBC, at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, Royal Festival Hall, the Tate Modern, The REP, The Albany, Copenhagen Jazz Festival, York Jazz Festival, Cargo in Shoreditch, XOYO in London, The Wardrobe in Leeds, the Rome Coliseum and numerous other theatre venues, music festivals and clubs in Europe. Current projects include Lapetus Records (South Africa), The Legend Of Mike Smith and The Hip Hop Shakespeare Company’s production of Richard II which was at the Southbank Centre earlier this year.
Julia Horan CDG Casting Director Theatre includes: The Nether, Adler & Gibb, Birdland, The Mistress Contract, Gastronauts, Clybourne Park, Wanderlust and Sucker Punch (Royal Court); A View from the Bridge, Happy Days and A Doll’s House (West End/BAM); After Miss Julie, The Glass Menagerie and Annie Get Your Gun (Young Vic); Mr Burns, Chimerica, Through a Glass Darkly, Measure for Measure and The Homecoming (Almeida); The Events, A Brief History of Helen of Troy (ATC); Spring Awakening, The Seagull (Headlong); Another Country (CFT/West End); A Chorus of Disapproval, Absent Friends, As You Like It and The Weir (West End); Gaddafi: A Living Myth (English National Opera); Othello (Cheek by Jowl). Television includes: Adha Cup, Parliamo Glasgow, Harvest (IWC Media); The Verdict (Lionsgate Television); The Bill (Thames Television); The Badness of George IV (Flashback Television). Film includes: Puffins.
Erin Gilley Assistant Director Previous assistant director credits at Birmingham Repertory Theatre include: Twelve Angry Men and A Life of Galileo. She is currently the Artistic Director of elastic future and was also the Artistic Producer of Magic Theatre in San Francisco. Most recently she directed the digital theatre performance Peek A Boo for LIFT. Other credits include: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Deal and Beautiful (elastic future); Wreckage (Crowded Fire) and Equus (Boxcar Theatre). Erin studied theatre as an undergraduate at Princeton University and is currently on secondment at Birmingham Repertory Theatre as a Birkbeck MFA candidate.
Zabarjad Salam Voice & Dialect Coach Theatre credits include: We Are Proud to Present (Bush); Other Desert Cities (Old Vic); Once a Catholic (Tricycle); The Djinns of Eidgah (Royal Court); Sizwe Bansi is Dead (Young Vic); The Commitments, Let It Be (West End); Julius Caesar, The Winter’s Tale, Matilda and Much Ado About Nothing (Royal Shakespeare Company); Goodnight Mr Tom (Chichester Festival); The Veil, 13, The Comedy of Errors, Travelling Light, Collaborators, The Last of the Haussmans, Timon of Athens and This House (National Theatre); Zaide (Sadler’s Wells/UK tour). Television includes: Being Eileen, Blandings (BBC); Cucumber, Indian Summers (Channel 4) and Cilla (ITV).
Gayatri Jani Design Assistant Gayatri Jani is a designer with a multitude of skills, from her early background in Graphic Design, to a degree in Product Design bringing in the 3D world. Her true passion remained on stage and she continued this in her spare time. Her experience in 2D and 3D design has led her to creating and dressing scenery, props and images for live performances and short films. Gayatri is a highly experienced design assistant and her credits include: Women Of Hope – promotional material; October Wild Card (Sadler’s Wells) – set designer; Brood or Thought (short film) – production designer; Michael Jackson 51 (Curve Theatre) – props and promotional material.
REP Patrons
June Brown
Soweto Kinch
Josie Lawrence
David Suchet
Martin Shaw
Dame Janet Suzman
Mark Williams
Directors of Birmingham Repertory Theatre Limited
Johanne Clifton
Jacqui Francis
Guy Hemington
Cllr Narinder Kaur
Kooner
Greg Lowson
Angela Maxwell (Chair)
Rajiv Nathwani
Paul Phedon
Cllr Alan Rudge
Jenny Stephens
Prof Michael Whitby