James Whiteside Lighting Designer
James’ previous designs at the Bush Theatre include Disgraced and Fear.
West End credits include: Dance ‘til Dawn (Aldwych), Midnight Tango (Phoenix, Aldwych), Never Forget (Savoy), Storm in a Flower Vase (Arts Theatre), Footloose (Novello, Playhouse), Holding the Man (Trafalgar Studios), The Female of the Species (Vaudeville) and Calamity Jane (Shaftesbury).
Other recent credits include: Miss Julie / Black Comedy, A Marvellous Year for Plums, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists, Wallenstein, Funny Girl, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Witches, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Alice in Wonderland and The Snow Queen (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Dumb Waiter (The Print Room), The Good Person of Sichuan (Mercury, Colchester), The Jungle Book (Citizens, Glasgow), Stroke of Luck (The Park), Bully Boy (St James, London and Royal, Northampton), April in Paris, The Odd Couple, Moonlight and Magnolias and Twelfth Night (Perth Theatre), A Christmas Carol, Arcadia, Grimm Tales and Gates of Gold (Library Theatre, Manchester), The Absence of Women (Lyric, Belfast), James and the Giant Peach (Birmingham Stage Company), A Voyage Round My Father (Salisbury Playhouse), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Rose Theatre), Salonika (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Animal Farm (Bath Theatre Royal) and Monkee Business (Manchester Opera House). For Tall Stories credits include The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo’s Child, Room on the Broom, The Snail and the Whale, Emily Brown and the Thing and Snow White.
Ed Clarke Sound Designer
Ed has previously worked at the Bush Theatre on Perseverance Drive and Fear.
His other theatre credits include: Beauty and the Beast (Young Vic), Danny Boyle’s Frankenstein (National Theatre – Olivier Award nomination 2012), Backbeat (Duke of York’s Theatre), The Mysteries and The Good Hope (National Theatre), The Railway Children (Waterloo International Station and Roundhouse Theatre Toronto – Olivier Award nomination 2011), Fatal Attraction (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Backbeat (Duke of York’s), Phoenix and Babylon (BigHouse Theatre), 1 hour 18 minutes (Sputnik Theatre), His Teeth (Only Connect Theatre), The Wiz (Birmingham Rep and West Yorkshire Playhouse), Baby Doll (Albery Theatre), Alex (Arts Theatre, UK and international tour), Happy Now? (Hull Truck Theatre), Old Times and A Doll’s House (Donmar Warehouse), Bad Man Christmas (HMP Wormwood Scrubs), The Wizard of Oz and Sandi Toksvig’s Christmas Cracker (Royal Festival Hall), Singular Sensations (Haymarket Theatre), Twelfth Night and A Slice of Saturday Night (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch), The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, Treasure Island, The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, Kindertoten-lieder, Then Again, Angela Carter’s Cinderella, Cause Célèbre, Mrs Warren’s Profession and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lyric Hammersmith), Moti Roti Puttli Chunni, Running Dream and Mike Leigh’s It’s a Great Big Shame! (Theatre Royal Stratford East).
Lucie Pankhurst Movement Director
Lucie trained at the Arts Educational School and the London School of Contemporary Dance.
For theatre, her credits include: Troilus and Cressida at the National Theatre, directed by Sir Trevor Nunn and Assistant Choreographer to Arlene Philips on the original choreography of We Will Rock You, directed by Christopher Renshaw.
TV credits include: Matt Lucas’ Pompidou, Caroline Quentin’s Cracker, Series Choreographer on Bad Education, Horrible Histories, Watson and Oliver and Sadie J.
Other work includes: Love Story (Union Theatre), Dogfight (Southwark Playhouse), Catfish! The Musical (YMT/Lyric), Betwixt (Kings Head), Dancing at Lughnasa, Twelfth Night, Three Men in a Boat and Birdsong (Original Theatre Company), and The Fast Show Live tour, directed by Roxanna Silbert.
Film credits include: scenes in Lady Chatterley’s Lover for Hartswood Films (forthcoming), Snow White and the Huntsman and Maleficent.
Rick Lipton Dialect Coach
Rick is a London-based American who has established himself internationally as a leading dialect, dialogue and voice coach. He has worked in theatre, television and film for the past 18 years. Most recently, he has been coaching the remake of Point Break in Italy, Austria and Berlin, and Unbroken in Australia.
Recent theatre coaching includes: A Streetcar Named Desire (Young Vic), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Savoy Theatre), and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Royal and Derngate, Northampton).
Annelies Henny Wardrobe Supervisor
Annelies is a Dartington College of Arts, ‘Theatre and Visual Arts’, graduate. She lived in Bristol for four years working as a designer and maker for outdoor performance, experimental theatre, circus and festivals. Since moving to London she has been working as a costume supervisor for theatre, including the UK tour of Oh What a Lovely War designed by Lez Brotherston, USA tour of Kneehigh’s Tristan & Yesult and Tall Stories’ Snow Dragon, designed by Polly Sullivan.
She also regularly assists award-winning designer Michelle May for commercials and continues to design her own work for contemporary and experimental performance. Annelies’ previous work for the Bush Theatre includes Perseverance Drive.
Gemma Hancock CDG & Sam Stevenson CDG Casting
Theatre credits include: Accolade, The Vertical Hour, Perseverance Drive, One Man, Two Guvnors, The Humans, King Lear, Our Country’s Good, Henry IV, parts 1 & 2, Where There’s a Will, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Portrait of a Lady, A Doll’s House, The Vortex, Uncle Vanya, Pygmalion, Little Nell, Amy’s View, Habeas Corpus, Measure for Measure, You Never Can Tell, Waiting for Godot, Much Ado About Nothing, The Dresser, As You Like It, Man & Superman, The Herd, 55 Days, Blood and Gifts, Canary, Rutherford and Son, Ring Round the Moon, Waiting for Godot, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, In the Club, Honour, What the Butler Saw, Abigail’s Party, Private Lives, Blithe Spirit, Don Juan, Tejas Verdes, Emperor Jones, The Chairs, The Deep Blue Sea, The Odyssey, Miss Julie, Everything is Illuminated, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Beasts and Beauties, Watership Down and Ghosts.
TV and film credits include: My Baby, Glasgow Girls, Our World War, Nightshift, The Selection, Care, The Snipist, The Minor Character, Nixon’s the One, Money, Emma (nominated for 2010 Primetime Emmy for outstanding casting), Peter Ackroyd’s London, The Bill, Leave to Remain, Private Peaceful, Babel, The New World and The Age of Stupid.
Bush Theatre
| Artistic Director | Madani Younis |
| Executive Director | Jon
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