Workshops includes Bend It Like Beckham, Blitz, Falklands, But I’m A Cheerleader The Musical and X.
Richard Shanks | Chairman / Magistrate / Cooper / Alexander
Trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Theatre includes One Man Two Guvnors, The Revenger’s Tragedy and Major Barbara (National Theatre), Spider Lady (Soho Theatre), The Poetry of Dan Brown (The Roundhouse), The Arden Project (The Old Vic), None But Friends (Rose Theatre, Kingston), The Spanish Tragedy (Arcola Theatre), Almost Near (National Theatre Studio) and Playtime (Hampstead Theatre).
Film includes Pride, Pusher, Last Night, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and Inseparable.
Television includes The Royals, The Last Hours of Laura K, Inspector George Gently, The Borgias, EastEnders, Holby City, The Bill and The Message.
John Osborne | Playwright
John Osborne was born in Fulham in 1929. His best known works include Look Back in Anger (celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2016), The Entertainer, Luther, Inadmissible Evidence, West of Suez, A Sense of Detachment, Watch It Come Down, A Patriot For Me and The Hotel In Amsterdam, his screenplay for the film Tom Jones, which won him an Oscar, and his autobiographies A Better Class of Person and Almost A Gentleman. Osborne died in 1994.
A Subject of Scandal and Concern was originally written for television in 1960 starring Richard Burton and Rachel Roberts and directed by Tony Richardson, and was first seen onstage in Nottingham in the early 1960s. This production, commissioned for the Finborough Theatre, marks the first theatrical staging of the play in over 40 years and its long overdue London premiere.
Jimmy Walters | Director
Direction includes A Naughty Night With Noël Coward (Old Red Lion Theatre), Julius Caesar (Saatchi Gallery and Chelsea Theatre), I The Jury (Hen and Chickens Theatre), Improbable Fiction (Courtyard Theatre), Dear Ray (Edinburgh Festival), Breaded Butler (The Troubadour) and Hamlet (International Tour). Assistant Direction includes Othello (Riverside Studios), Twelfth Night (Bloomsbury Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (National Tour) and Knock Yourself Out (Courtyard Theatre).
Philip Lindley | Designer
Philip is Associate Designer at the Finborough Theatre, and has designed Mirror Teeth, Drama At Inish, Autumn Fire, The American Clock, Merrie England, The Fear of Breathing, Passing By, Somersaults, Rooms, As Is, Lost Boy (and its subsequent transfer to Charing Cross Theatre), The Floeurs o’Edinburgh, The Grand Tour, I Wish To Die Singing and Merit. Forthcoming productions include It Is Easy To Be Dead.
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. The ones most remembered today include Dr. Who, Blackadder, Top Of The Pops and Mastermind. 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 the UK he has designed Nerve (Baron’s Court Theatre), Fair Em, Measure For Measure, Lear’s Widow, Times Square Angels (Union Theatre), The Theban plays (The Scoop – Time Out best free London event of 2013), Passing By (Tristan Bates Theatre), The Keepers Of Infinite Space (Park Theatre), Murderer, Blonde Bombshells of 1943 (Upstairs at the Gatehouse), The Curing Room (Pleasance Edinburgh and London), The Mikado and Dusty (Charing Cross Theatre).
Simon Gethin-Thomas | Lighting Designer
Productions at the Finborough Theatre include Stone Face.
Trained in Lighting Design at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Designs include German Skerries (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond), Eventide (Arcola Theatre), Rent (Birmingham Hippodrome), Visitors (Bush Theatre), Sweeney Todd (Twickenham Theatre), Eye of a Needle (Southwark Playhouse), Pincher Martin (Britten Theatre), Othello: Deconstructed (The North Wall, Oxford), Woman in the Dunies (Theatre503) and Arensky Chamber Orchestra (Queen Elizabeth Hall).
Piers Sherwood-Roberts | Composer
Theatre includes A Naughty Night With Noël Coward (Old Red Lion Theatre), Julius Caesar (Saatchi Gallery and Chelsea Theatre), The Dirty Talk (Jermyn Street Theatre), I The Jury (Hen and Chickens Theatre), Improbable Fiction (Courtyard Theatre), Dear Ray (Edinburgh Festival), Breaded Butler (The Troubadour), Hamlet (International Tour), Othello (Riverside Studios) and Knock Yourself Out (Courtyard Theatre).
Film includes The Date and The Split.
Ste Clough | Choreographer
Theatre includes Gods and Monsters (Southwark Playhouse), Peter Pan (Broadway Theatre, Barking), Snow White (The Brindley, Runcorn) and The Audition Song, When You’re A Wimp, Somewhere Hovering Over Indiana and Anything But Normal (Spirit Young Performers Company).
As a performer, theatre includes Shrek the Musical (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Spamalot (National Tour) and Jersey Boys (National Tour).
Fight Choreography includes Gods and Monsters (Southwark Playhouse).
Alexandra Evans | Production Manager
Theatre includes A Naughty Night With Noël Coward (Old Red Lion Theatre), Julius Caesar (Saatchi Gallery) and Improbable Fiction (Courtyard Theatre).
Film includes Dragons of Camelot, Redistributors, Soho Cigarette, London Fields, Crown for Christmas and The Thompsons.
Television includes The Intern and Silent Witness.
Sofie Arnkil | Stage Manager
Theatre includes Cancel the Sunshine (Hope Theatre, Manchester), 5 Guys Chillin’ (King’s Head Theatre), The Ballad of Robin Hood (Southwark Playhouse), The Killing of Sister George (London Theatre Workshop), The Emperor Jones (LOST Theatre), The Man Who Had All The Luck (King’s Head Theatre), The Marvellous Mechanical Mesmerist (Merlin Theatre, Frome) and EleXion (Theatre503).
Assistant Stage Management includes My Mother Said I Never Should (St. James Theatre) and Macbeth (Omnibus Clapham).
Isabella Kimpton | Lighting Operator
Theatre includes Orphans (Southwark Playhouse), Billy Connolly Live From New York and Lee Evans (37 Arts Theatre), Lewis Black Red, White and Screwed (Carnegie Hall), Escape From Bellevue (Village Theatre), Pogo and Evie A Zydeco Musical and Time Et. Al (New York Festival), Poe A Musical (Metropolitan Opera of New York), Jerry Herman’s Showtune (St. Peter’s Theatre), The Scarlet Pimpernel, Smoky Joes Cafe, West Side Story, Funny Girl, Fiddler on the Roof, Forbidden Broadway, Annie Get Your Gun, Oklahoma and Kiss Me Kate (Gateway Playhouse) and Spirit of the Dance, The Three Irish Tenors, Alice on Ice, Jekyll and Hyde, Ragtime,