Tom McKay Doug & Pete
Tom trained at LAMDA. Theatre includes: Dedication (Nuffield); Julius Caesar (The Globe); The Great Game (Tricycle/US tour/Public Theatre NYC); Greta Garbo Came to Donegal (Tricycle); Frost Nixon (Donmar Warehouse/West End); Rough Cuts (Royal Court); On The Third Day (West End); Gladiator Games (Sheffield Crucible/Theatre Royal Stratford East); Macbeth (Almeida); The Arab Israeli Cookbook (Gate);Romeo & Juliet (Theatre Royal Bath); Henry V (National Theatre); Simplicity (Orange Tree); Elizabeth Rex (Birmingham Rep); Mother Clap’s Molly House (Aldwych Theatre/National Theatre); Macbeth, Lord of the Flies (RSC). Film includes: The Harrow; Kill Command; Wrong Turn 3; Clubbed; The Feral Generation; Imagine Me & You; Chromophobia.
Rose Reynolds Meredith & Alice
Rose trained at Guildhall. Theatre includes: My Children! My Africa! (Tristan Bates/Trafalgar Studios);Twelfth Night (Sheffield Crucible/ETT); Titus Andronicus, Mad World My Masters, Candice (RSC); Tiger Tail (Nuffield). Film includes: The World’s End; Drunk Dialling (short film); On The Edge (short film). Television includes: Crackanory Series 4; Wasted; Poldark 2; Hastings Music Festival; Doctors; Our Zoo.
Mehmet Ergen Director, The Kid
Mehmet has been Artistic Director of Arcola Theatre since founding it in 2000. Previously he was Artistic Director of the Southwark Playhouse (which he co-founded) from 1993 to 1999, and Associate Producer at BAC. Mehmet is also Artistic Director of Arcola Istanbul (Talimhane Theatre), which he founded in 2008. He has won a variety of awards for his work including: the Time Out Award for Outstanding Achievement, a Time Out Award for Best Fringe Production, the Angela Carter Award, the Peter Brook Empty Space Award and the WhatsOnStage Award for Best New Musical. His productions at the Arcola include Clarion, Enemy of the People, Cradle Will Rock, Shrapnel: 34 Fragments of a Massacre, Don Gil of the Green Breeches, Mare Rider, Sweet Smell of Success and The Painter. Other work includes Bastard of Istanbul, After Miss Julie, It Felt Empty..., Pillowman, King Lear, Macbeth, Fool for Love, Betrayal, Ashes to Ashes, Water’s Edge, Dumb Show, Lost in the Stars, In the Jungle of the Cities, Piano - after Platonov. His work has been seen in Netherlands, Germany, Turkey, Sweden, Cyprus and Canada. He has just finished filming Inferno, appearing with Tom Hanks.
Nicolas Kent Director, This Tuesday
Nicolas Kent was Artistic Director of the Tricycle Theatre, London, from 1984 to 2012. He has directed productions at over 100 theatres around the world including the West End, New York, the National Theatre, RSC, Royal Court, Donmar Warehouse, Hampstead Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith and Young Vic. He is known for his political pieces at the Tricycle, where the verbatim plays he directed became known as the Tricycle Tribunal plays. Half the Picture, The Colour of Justice (The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry), Nuremberg, Srebrenica and Bloody Sunday (Olivier Award for Special Achievement) were all broadcast by the BBC, and two were performed in the Houses of Parliament and on Capitol Hill. In 2009, he directed the 9-hour trilogy The Great Game – Afghanistan (nominated for an Olivier) in London, which subsequently toured the USA, and had two command performances for the Pentagon in Washington in 2011. He collaborated with Gillian Slovo on Guantanamo (2004) and The Riots (2012) and most recently on Another World which he directed this year at the National Theatre. He directed The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes at Arcola in 2014.
David Greig Writer, The Kid
David is currently under commission to write new plays for the Royal Court and the National Theatre of Scotland and is developing an original television series with co-creators David Harrower and John Crowley for Sister Pictures. He became Artistic Director of the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh in 2016. Theatre includes: The Suppliant Women (Actors Touring Company/Lyceum); The Lorax (Old Vic); Lanark (The Lyceum, Edinburgh International Festival); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (West End/Broadway (2017)); The Events (Actors Touring Company/Young Vic/Brageteatret & Schauspielhaus Wien); The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (NTS at Tron Theatre/Royal Court/Welsh Centre/CLF Theatre/UK tour); Fragile / Cello (Young Vic/Southwark Playhouse/Latitude Festival);Dunsinane (Hampstead Theatre/UK Tour); Midsummer (Traverse/Soho Theatre/Tricycle/International tour); Miniskirts of Kabul (Tricycle); Damascus (Traverse/Tricycle); Being Norwegian (Shunt Vaults); The American Pilot (The Other Place/Soho Theatre/Manhattan Theatre Club).
Christina Lamb Writer, This Tuesday
Christina Lamb is one of Britain’s leading foreign correspondents and a bestselling author. She has reported from most of the world’s hotspots but her particular passions are Afghanistan and Pakistan which she has covered since an unexpected wedding invitation led her to Karachi in 1987 when she was just 21. Within two years she had been named Young Journalist of the Year. Since then she has won numerous awards including five times being named Foreign Correspondent of the Year and Europe’s top war reporting prize, the Prix Bayeux. She was made an OBE in 2013. Last year she won Amnesty International’s Newspaper Journalist of the Year for reporting from inside Libyan detention centres. Currently Chief Foreign Correspondent for the Sunday Times of London, her postings have included South Africa, Pakistan, Brazil and Washington and she has recently reported on the refugee crisis across Europe and camps for women enslaved by Boko Haram in Nigeria and ISIS in Iraq. She has written eight books including the bestselling The Africa House and I Am Malala and is a patron of Afghan Connection and on the board of the Institute of War and Peace Reporting. Her latest books are Farewell Kabul; From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World and Nujeen; One Girl’s Incredible Journey from War-torn Syria in a Wheelchair.
Ron Hutchinson Writer, This Tuesday
Ron Hutchinson was Writer in Residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company and has had plays performed at the National Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre, the Goodman, the Public Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum and The Old Globe. Other stage plays include Moonlight and Magnolias, The Hook (adapted from Arthur Miller’s screenplay), Says I Says He, and Rat In The Skull, and adaptations of Mikhail Bulgakov’s Flight, and The Master and Margarita, and Carl Zuckmayer’s The Captain of Kopenick. In 2014 he directed his play about Tango, Flying Into Daylight, in its premier production. Its first foreign language production will be in Prague in 2017. Ron is a winner of the John Whiting Award and other awards including the Dramatist’s Circle Award. He is an Emmy winning feature and television writer whose credits include Murderers Among Us, The Simon Wiesenthal Story, The Josephine Baker Story, The Burning Season, The Ten Commandments and Traffic; the miniseries. Currently his six-part series based on corruption in the pharmaceutical industry is shooting in Dublin and Montreal. He lives and works in New York and has taught screenwriting at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, and has recently returned to writing radio plays.
Lucy Sierra Design
Recent credits include: Cathy (Cardboard Citizens Tour); The Grand Journey (Bombay Sapphire Immersive Experience); The Tempest (Royal & Derngate); Giving (Hampstead); Another World: Losing Our Children to Islamic State (Shed, National Theatre); Calculating Kindness (Camden People’s Theatre); Snow White & Rose Red (Rash Dash/Cambridge Arts Theatre); Abyss (Arcola); Benefit, We Are All Misfits (Cardboard Citizens Tour); We Have Fallen (Underbelly); If You Don’t Let Us Dream, We Won’t Let You Sleep (Royal Court);Sign of The Times (Theatre Royal Bury); The Bear (Improbable Tour); Sweeney