Judgment Day - Almeida Theatre

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the Sun; Every Good Boy Deserves
Favour; Gethsemane; Happy Days
(world tour); Coram Boy; Dream Play;
Humble Boy; Play Without Words;
Albert Speer; Not About Nightingales;
Machinal (National Theatre);
Disappearing Number; Elephant
Vanishes; Mnemonic; Street of
Crocodiles; Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol
(Complicite); All My Sons; The Resistible
Rise of Arturo Ui; Moon for the
Misbegotten; Coram Boy; Elephant
Vanishes; Humble Boy (New York);
Bacchae; Little Otik (National Theatre
of Scotland); Aunt Dan & Lemon;
Arsonists (Royal Court); Nocturnal
(Gate Theatre); Moon for the
Misbegotten; All About My Mother (Old
Vic): Much Ado About Nothing; King
John; Romeo and Juliet (RSC): Piaf; The
Man Who Had All The Luck, Hecuba
(Donmar Warehouse).
Radio includes: Tennyson’s Maud; A
Shropshire Lad.
Christopher has won the NY Drama
Desk award for Not About Nightingales
and Mnemonic, and received Olivier
Award nominations for Coram Boy,
War Horse, and Piaf.
Simon Deacon
Musical Director
Simon is a musician, composer and
musical director.
Recent work includes: collaborations
with Neil Bartlett & Struan Leslie –
Everybody Loves a Winner (Manchester
Royal Exchange for the Manchester
International Festival 09); Neil
Bartlett’s adaptation of Oliver Twist
(Lyric Hammersmith & national tour;
American Repertory Theatre, Boston;
Theatre for a New Audience, New York;
Berkeley Repertory Theatre, California);
collaboration with Neil Bartlett on
Twelfth Night (RSC), and Pericles and A
Christmas Carol (Lyric Hammersmith).
Other theatre work includes: A
Midsummer Night’s Dream (Open Air
Theatre, Regent’s Park); Much Ado
About Nothing (Crucible Theatre,
Sheffield/Salisbury Playhouse);
Measure for Measure
(Complicite/National Theatre); As You
Like It (Williamstown Theatre Festival,
Massachusetts); The Taming of the
Shrew (Shakespeare In The Park, New
York); The Miser (Teatro Ornintorrinco,
Sao Paulo).
Commissions include: Fabula Urbis
(Theatre Royal Stratford East);
Giovanni’s Room (Drill Hall) and a
ballet, Poker Game, for Jazz Dance
America.
Simon is pianist, Music Director and
arranger for celebrated New York
performer Justin Bond in London and
New York, and is also a lecturer in
Popular Music at Goldsmiths College,
University of London.
Sam Jones
Casting
Sam was until recently Head of Casting
for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Other theatre includes: After Mrs
Rochester; Bronte; Gone to Earth; Jane
Eyre; Mine; Caucasian Chalk Circle
(Shared Experience); The Firework
Maker’s Daughter (Told By an Idiot);
Nights at the Circus; Brief Encounter
Tour (Kneehigh); Messiah; Scenes from
an Execution (Steven Berkoff); Monkey!
; Cruel and Tender (Young Vic); Forty
Winks (Royal Court); The Royal Family;
Mrs Warren’s Profession; Tantalus;
Cuckoos, first Bath Festival season
(Peter Hall); A Day in the Death of Joe
Egg; Up for Grabs, Dinner; Journeys End
(West End).
Television includes: Occupation (Kudos
for BBC1); several series of Trial and
Retribution and The Commander as well
as Above Suspicion for Lynda La Plante;
Isaac Julien’s Turner Prize entry
Paradise (Omeros); multi awardwinning
Human Cargo for the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation;
and several drama documentaries for
Blast! Films including the highly
acclaimed The Year London Blew Up.
Philip Thorne
Assistant Director
Theatre includes:
As director: Hamletmachine (Cairo
Opera House Studio/Frascati Theatre
Amsterdam/ Laboratorium Teatro
Rome/TNS Strasbourg/Théâtre de la
Vignette Montpellier); Norway Today
(Southwark Playhouse); SATB (BAC).
As assistant director: The Ugly One
(Royal Court); The Hour We Knew
Nothing of Each Other (National
Theatre).
Translations include: Hamlet is Dead;
Black Beast; Faust is Hungry (Royal
Court); Nightblind (Company of
Angels); Blue Sky Green Forest; Buy
Nothing Day (ATC/Arcola Theatre).
Philip is associate artist of Company of
Angels, script reader for German
language plays at the Royal Court’s
International Department and artistic
advisor to the International Theatre
Festival Divadelna Nitra (Slovakia).
Awards include Young Angels
Theatremakers Award 2008 and Premio
Internazionale Claudio Gora 2009
(Rome).
PRODUCTION
THANK YOUS
Reg Davies
Ian Huish
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