Installations include: Forgotten Peacock (Design Museum/The Brunswick); Installation 496 (RADA), Goldfish (Paris Fashion Week); Mythological Installation Oedipus (Bucharest Museum of Contemporary Art); Visual Performance in Baroque Spirit (Venice Carnival).
Music Performances includes: Dick Whittington (Gatehouse Theatre), Nicked (HighTide Festival), A Tale of Two Cities (Theatre Royal Brighton), Bloodbath (Edinburgh Festival), Maria Callas – Vissi D’arte, Vissi D’amore (Barbican); Choruses (Ancient Epidaurus/ Frankfurt); The Words of Love (Athens); In the Light of the Night (Ancient Epidaurus); Nikos Skalkotas (Queen Elizabeth Hall).
Film includes: Dreck (feature film), Half Light (short film), Eve (short film).
Ed Clarke Sound Designer and Composer
Ed was nominated for an Olivier Award for his sound design for Danny Boyle’s Frankenstein (Olivier, National Theatre); other sound designs include: Backbeat (Duke of York’s Theatre); The Mysteries and The Good Hope (Cottesloe, National Theatre); The Railway Children (Waterloo International Station and Roundhouse Theatre Toronto); 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, 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, Slice of Saturday Night (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); Moti Roti Puttli Chunni, Running Dream and Mike Leigh’s It’s A Great Big Shame, (Theatre Royal Stratford East); The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, Treasure Island, The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, Kindertotenlieder, Then Again, Angela Carter’s Cinderella, Cause Célèbre, Mrs Warren’s Profession, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lyric Theatre Hammersmith). As Associate Sound Designer credits include: Matthew Bourne’s Early Adventures (UK tour); Mary Poppins (UK national tour, Circustheater Scheveningen and current US tour), My Fair Lady (UK and US national tours), Acorn Antiques (UK national tour), The Witches (UK national tour), Return To The Forbidden Planet (UK national tour), Soul Train (UK tour).
Ed also tours as front-of-house sound engineer for Van der Graaf Generator, and has previously toured with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Blue Man Group, The John Tams Band, Evelyn Glennie, and Talvin Singh.
Forthcoming projects include: Blue Man Group (Monte Carlo theatre, Las Vegas).
James Whiteside Lighting Designer
West End credits include: Midnight Tango (Aldwych); Never Forget (Savoy); Footloose (Novello and Playhouse); Holding The Man (Trafalgar Studios); The Female Of The Species (Vaudeville); Calamity Jane (Shaftesbury).
Other recent credits include: A Marvellous Year For Plums, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Wallenstein, Funny Girl, The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, Alice In Wonderland, The Snow Queen (Chichester Festival Theatre); Moonlight And Magnolias and Twelfth Night (Perth Theatre); A Christmas Carol, Arcadia, Grimm Tales, Gates Of Gold (Library, Manchester); The Absence Of Women (Lyric, Belfast); A Voyage Round My Father (Salisbury Playhouse); Love’s Labour’s Lost (The Rose, Kingston); Salonika (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Animal Farm (Bath Theatre Royal); Monkee Business (Manchester Opera House); Transparency, This Piece Of Earth and The Early Bird (Ransom Productions, Belfast); Over The Bridge (Waterfront Hall, Belfast); Jump! (Live Theatre, Newcastle) and As You Like It (Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre, Chester).
For Tall Stories Theatre Company credits include: The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo’s Child, Room On The Broom, The Snail And The Whale, Mr Benn and Snow White.
Forthcoming productions include: The Odd Couple (Perth Theatre); James And The Giant Peach (Birmingham Stage Company).
About the Bush Theatre
The Bush Theatre is a world-famous home for new plays and an internationally renowned champion of playwrights and artists. Since its inception in 1972, the Bush has pursued its singular vision of discovery, risk and entertainment from a distinctive corner of West London. Now located in a recently renovated library building on the Uxbridge Road in the heart of Shepherds Bush, the theatre houses a 144-seat auditorium, rehearsal rooms and a lively café bar.
At the Bush Theatre
Artistic Director | Madani Younis |
Executive Director | Sian Alexander |
Development Director | Melanie Aram |
Assistant Producer | Sade Banks |
Events Manager* | Nathalie Bristow |
Theatre Manager | Annette Butler |
Marketing Manager | Sophie Coke-Steel |
Associate Director | Omar Elerian |
Theatre Administrator | Cat Gray |
Literary Assistant* | Karis Halsall |
Production Manager | Jessica Harwood |
Marketing Officer* | Simone Finney |
Technical Manager | Neil Hobbs |
Development Officer | Lucy Howe |
Press Representative* | Kate Morley |
Producer | Rachel Tyson |
Associateships, internships and attachments | |
Leverhulme Trust Associate Playwright | Sabrina Mahfouz |
Development and Marketing Intern | Leah Diaz |
Administration Intern | Joe Brown |
Associate Companies and Artists
Caroline Horton, Greyscale, Theatre Ad Infinitum,
Ché Walker, Iron Shoes, Sabrina Mahfouz
Duty Managers and Front of House Staff*
Aaron Gordon, Ava Riby-Williams, Benedict Adeyemi, Chloe Stephens, Devante Anglin, Gareth Walker, Gemma Bergomi, Hannah Barter, Hannah Smith, Keith Thompson, Laura McCullagh, Lily Beck, Lucy Foster-Perkins, Michael McBride, Matt Watson, Nick Blakeley, Roland Szabo, Sophie Howard, Zach Fletcher
Duty Technicians*
William Lewis, Douglas Green
* part time/freelance staff
Board of Trustees
Chair: