The Royal Court has produced new International plays through this programme since 1997. Recent work includes My Name is Rachel Corrie, At the Table and Almost Nothing by Marcos Barbosa, Push Up by Roland Schimmelpfennig, Ladybird by Vassily Sigarev and Terrorism by the Presnyakov Brothers.
WAY TO HEAVEN is produced by the Royal Court International Department:
Associate Director Elyse Dodgson
International Administrator Chris James
International Associate Tiffany Watt-Smith
PROGRAMME SUPPORTERS
The Royal Court (English Stage Company Ltd) receives its principal funding from Arts Council England, London. It is also supported financially by a wide range of private companies, charitable and public bodies, and earns the remainder of its income from the box office and its own trading activities.
The Genesis Foundation supports International Playwrights and the Young Writers’ Festival.
The Jerwood Charity supports new plays by new playwrights through the Jerwood New Playwrights series.
The Skirball Foundation funds a Playwrights’ Programme at the theatre. The Artistic Director’s Chair is supported by a lead grant from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, contributing to the activities of the Artistic Director’s office. Bloomberg Mondays, the Royal Court’s reduced price ticket scheme, is supported by Bloomberg. Over the past eight years the BBC has supported the Gerald Chapman Fund for directors.
ROYAL COURT
DEVELOPMENT BOARD
Tamara Ingram (Chair)
Jonathan Cameron (Vice Chair)
Timothy Burrill
Anthony Burton
Jonathan Caplan QC
Sindy Caplan
Gavin Casey FCA
Mark Crowdy
Cas Donald
Joseph Fiennes
Amanda Foreman
Joyce Hytner OBE
Gavin Neath
Michael Potter
Kadee Robbins
Mark Robinson
William Russell
Sue Stapely
James L Tanner
Will Turner
PUBLIC FUNDING
Arts Council England,
London
British Council
Creative Partnerships
London South
London Challenge
Royal Borough of
Kensington & Chelsea
TRUSTS AND
FOUNDATIONS
American Friends of the
Royal Court Theatre
Gerald Chapman Fund
Cowley Charitable Trust
The Dorset Foundation
The Ronald Duncan
Literary Foundation
The Foundation for
Sport and the Arts
The Foyle Foundation
Francis Finlay Foundation
The Garfield Weston
Foundation
Genesis Foundation
The Haberdashers’
Company
Jerwood Charity
Lynn Foundation
John Lyon’s Charity
The Magowan Family
Foundation
The Rayne Foundation
The Royal Victoria Hall
Foundation
The Peter Jay Sharp
Foundation
Skirball Foundation
The Bruce Wake
Charitable Trust
Michael J Zamkow &
Sue E Berman
Charitable Trust
SPONSORS
Giorgio Armani
Arts & Business New
Partners
Barclays
BBC
Bloomberg
City Inn, Westminster
Coutts & Co
Peter Jones
John Malkovich/Uncle
Kimono
BUSINESS AND MEDIA
MEMBERS
Aviva plc
Bloomsbury
Columbia Tristar Films
(UK)
Hat Trick Productions
Lazard
Pemberton Greenish
Simons Muirhead &
Burton
Slaughter and May
PRODUCTION
SYNDICATE
Anonymous
Ms Kay Ellen Consolver
Mrs Philip Donald
Peter & Edna Goldstein
Richard & Robin
Landsberger
Kadee Robbins
William & Hilary Russell
Kay Hartenstein Saatchi
Jon & NoraLee Sedmak
Ian & Carol Sellars
James & Victoria Tanner
INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS
Patrons
Anonymous
Dr Bettina Bahlsen
Katie Bradford
Marcus J Burton &
Dr M F Ozbilgin
Celeste Fenichel
Tom & Simone Fenton
Jack & Linda Keenan
Duncan Matthews QC
Ian & Carol Sellars
Jan & Michael Topham
Richard Wilson OBE
Benefactors
Anonymous
Martha Allfrey
Varian Ayers & Gary