CREATIVE TEAM
Philip Franks Director • Colin Falconer Designer • Jason Taylor Lighting Designer
Max Pappenheim Sound Designer & Composer • Ellie Collyer-Bristow CDG Casting Director • Ruth Cooper-Brown for Rc-Annie Fight and Intimacy Director
Carlotta De Gregori for Rc-Annie Associate Fight Director • Barney McElholm Associate Director • Joe Dines Sound Associate
Chrissy Maddison Costume Supervisor • Robyn Hardy Props Supervisor • Darren Ware Wig Supervisor • Matthew Whennell Clark with Leah Vassell Dance
PRODUCTION TEAM
Producers Tom Hackney and Alastair Whatley for Original Theatre • Production Manager Brian Watson
Production Coordinator Lisa Friedrich • Company Stage Manager Ian Slater
Technical Stage Manager Joe Colgan • Deputy Stage Manager Ana Snook
Wardrobe David Morgan • Stage Management Intern Aaric Turner
Production Electricians Alex Hopkins and Dale Driscoll • Re-Lighter Ben Garcia
Scenic Construction by Footprint Scenery Ltd. • Lighting Supplier Storm Lighting Ltd.
Sound Supplier A&M Productions Ltd. • Lighting programmer Gareth Hughes
Production Sound Engineer Aidan Jones • Production Carpenter David Lennon
Draftsman Andy Murrell • Head of Marketing Emma Martin
PR Alison Duguid • Artwork Photographer Michael Wharley
Artwork Designer Rebecca Pitt • Promotional Video Tristan McShepherd
Rehearsal Photographers James Findlay and Alex Stenhouse • Production Photographer Pamela Raith
Social and Content Paul Jennings for Hero Social • Website Aaron Weight
Biographies
Torben Betts
Writer
For Original Theatre: Murder in the Dark, Apollo 13: The Dark Side of the Moon (Original Theatre Online); Caroline’s Kitchen (Park Theatre, UK tour & Brits-off-Broadway); Invincible (UK tour & Brits-off-Broadway).
Theatre: includes The National Joke (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough); Invincible (Orange Tree Theatre and St James Theatre, London, Brits-off-Broadway); What Falls Apart (Live Theatre, Newcastle); Get Carter (Northern Stage); The Seagull (Regent’s Park Open Air); A Listening Heaven (Edinburgh Royal Lyceum, nominated as TMA Best New Play 2001); The Unconquered (Traverse/Tron/Brits-off-Broadway/UK tour, winner of Best New Play at the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland, 2007); Muswell Hill (Orange Tree Theatre and Park Theatre, London); The Company Man (Orange Tree Theatre); It Never Happened (Arts Educational); Eight Little Criminals; The Illusion of Time; Nobody Wants to Kill You (all at the Playground Theatre, London); The Error of their Ways (HERE Arts Center, New York/Cockpit Theatre, London); Lie of the Land (Arcola Theatre, London/Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh); The Swing of Things; Her Slightest Touch (both Stephen Joseph Theatre); Incarcerator (Battersea Arts Centre, London); The Lunatic Queen (Riverside Studios, London); Five Visions of the Faithful (Edinburgh Festival Theatre); Clockwatching (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond and Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough); The Biggleswades (Southwark Playhouse), Silence and Violence (White Bear Theatre, London).
Film: Invincible (Vince Films); Downhill (Crisis Films) and Guillemot (Full Effect).
His plays are consistently performed around the world and to date have been translated into Spanish, French, German, Finnish, Czech, Polish, Slovakian, Greek, Russian, Turkish and Portuguese.
Philip Franks
Director
Philip is an actor and director.
For Original Theatre he has directed: Murder in the Dark, The Mirror Crack’d, The Habit of Art (UK tour and New York) and The Croft.
For Original Online: A Cold Supper Behind Harrods, Barnes’ People and The Haunting of Alice Bowles, which he also wrote. As an actor with Original Theatre and he appeared in Apollo 13: The Dark Side of the Moon and Flare Path. He has directed over sixty plays, in the West End, at the National Theatre, the Chichester Festival Theatre and in most major theatres in the UK.
He has also directed many plays for BBC radio, most recently his own adaptation of the Machine Stops by E M Forster. Philip has been an actor for over forty years, on stage, TV, film, radio and the concert platform. At the moment, Philip is appearing as Mr Brownlow in Cameron Macintosh’s production of “Oliver!” in the West End.
Colin Falconer
Designer
Colin studied Interior and Environmental Design at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, and Theatre Design at Nottingham Trent University.
Theatre credits include: After The Dance, Perfect Nonsense (Theatre By The Lake); Doctor Faustus, Volpone, Richard the Second (Tangle Theatre); Travels with My Aunt (Chichester Festival Theatre); Workshop Negative (Gate Theatre); Cabaret, Urinetown (Arts Educational); The Three Lions (The Other Palace); Rumpelstiltskin (Theatre Royal Bath/MAC Belfast); Travels With My Aunt (Menier Chocolate Factory); Blue/Orange (Theatre Royal Brighton and tour); There We Have Been, Everything and Nothing (Sadler’s Wells Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest, Travesties (Birmingham Rep), Happy Birthday Sunita (Rifco/Watford Palace Theatre); The Constant Wife, The Picture, Private Lives, The Winslow Boy, Restoration, Northanger Abbey (Salisbury Playhouse); Blithe Spirit (Watford Palace Theatre); Outlying Islands (Theatre Royal Bath); The House of Bernarda Alba, Siwan, The Misanthrope, Endgame, Dominos (Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru); Romeo and Juliet, Three Sisters (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Merchant of Venice (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Misanthrope, The Secret Rapture, Hysteria (Minerva Theatre, Chichester); The Blue Room (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Acis and Galatea, Dido and Aeneas, Hansel und Gretel (RSAMD Glasgow); Aladdin (Scottish Ballet) and Twelfth Night (Liverpool Playhouse).
Television: credits include EastEnders (BBC) and Una (BBC4).
Jason Taylor
Lighting Designer
Jason was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Lighting Design for Journey’s End at the Belasco Theatre, Broadway.
For Original Theatre: Birdsong , A Splinter of Ice, Cold Supper Behind Harrods, Into the Night.
West End/London: Journey’s End (Harold Pinter Theatre/Playhouse/ Duke of York’s); Some Girls (Apollo); Fifteen Seasons (Regent’s Park, Open Air Theatre); The Rivals, Daytona (Haymarket); The Letter, Honour (Wyndham’s); Twelfth Night (Noël Coward); Raiman (Lyric); Glorious, Our Boys (Duchess); What the Butler Saw (Criterion); Treason the Musical (Palladium); And Then There Where None (Duke of York’s); Gangsta Granny (Garrick); High Society (Shaftesbury); Pygmalion (Old Vic); Great Balls of Fire (Cambridge); The End of the Night (Park Theatre); The Big Fellah (Lyric, Hammersmith); The American Plan (St James); Six Degrees of Separation, National Anthems (Old Vic); Connections Season (National Theatre); The Empire (Royal Court); Abigail’s Party (Whitehall); Top Girls (Trafalgar); The Lyons (Menier) and Di and Viv and Rose (Hampstead).
UK regional includes: Cats, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Hairspray, Guys and Dolls, West Side Story (Kilworth House Theatre); Copenhagen (Sheffield Theatres); over 20 productions for Alan Ayckbourn (Scarborough); 25 pantomimes and
55 other productions (Nottingham Playhouse as Resident); Fallen Angles (Chichester Festival Theatre); All My Sons (Plymouth); Tell Me on a Sunday (Old Laundry, Bowness); Mrs Pat (Chichester Festival Theatre); Hysteria (Birmingham Rep); Madness of George III (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Dead Funny (Edinburgh); Kafka’s Dick (Bath) and Hansel and Gretel (Grange Park Opera).
UK national tours: Cluedo 2 – The Next Chapter, Looking Good Dead, Horrible Histories, The Syndicate, Treason the Musical, Looking Good Dead, Band of Gold, House on Cold Hill, How the Other Half Loves, The Commitments, Waiting for God, Henceforward, Not Dead Enough, Tom the Musical, Hero’s Welcome, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Single Spies, Stepping Out and Annie Get Your Gun.
International: Journey’s End (Broadway); Pygmalion (Broadway); Mamma Mia! (Antwerp and Brussels, Belgium); Waitress, Evita, Love Never Dies, Billy Elliot the Musical, Anything Goes (Copenhagen, Denmark); Assassins (Bergen, Norway); The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared (Karlstad, Sweden); Matilda the Musical (Helsinki, Finland); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf (Gate, Dublin); The Merry Wives of Windsor (New York/Los Angeles); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the Musical (Antwerp, Belgium); Peter Black (Budapest, Hungary); Rent (Antwerp, Belgium); The Taming of the Shrew (Middle East tour); The Yalta Game/Dumb Waiter (Gate, Dublin); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Larnaca, Cyprus); Blood Brothers( New Zealand/ Australia tour) and A Doll’s House (Galway, Ireland).
Max Pappenheim
Sound Designer & Composer
For Original: ART, Murder in the Dark, Being Mr Wickham, The Mirror Crack’d, End of the Night, The Hound of the Baskervilles, A Splinter of Ice, The Croft, The Habit of Art, Napoli, Brooklyn, Caroline’s Kitchen, The Night Watch. Online: The System, The Red, A Cold Supper Behind Harrods, Barnes’ People.
Theatre: recently includes The Night of the Iguana, Cruise (West End); The Children (Broadway); Noughts and Crosses, Twelfth Night (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); A Raisin in the Sun (Headlong); The Forsyte Saga (Park Theatre); The School for Scandal, Crooked Dances (Royal Shakespeare Company); Coram Boy, Macbeth (Chichester Festival Theatre); Shed: Exploded View (Royal Exchange); A Doll’s House Part 2, The Way of the World (Donmar Warehouse); The Invention of Love, Blackout Songs, Labyrinth (Hampstead Theatre); Village Idiot, One Night in Miami (Nottingham Playhouse); Henry V (Shakespeare’s Globe/Headlong); Hamlet (Bristol Old Vic); Ophelias Zimmer (Schaubühne/Royal Court); Not Your Superwoman, Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen, Old Bridge (Bush Theatre); The Homecoming, My Cousin Rachel (Theatre Royal Bath); Churchill in Moscow, Blue/Heart, The Distance (Orange Tree Theatre); The Talented Mr Ripley, Picture You Dead, The Mirror Crack’d, Wish You Were Dead, The Circle (National Tours).
Opera and Ballet includes Kirsten Flagstad (Bergen International Festival); The Limit (Royal Ballet); The Marriage of Figaro (Salzburg Festival); Miranda (Opéra Comique, Paris); Hansel and Gretel (BYO/Opera Holland Park); Scraww (Trebah Gardens).
Associate Artist of Orange Tree Theatre, The Faction and Silent Opera. Awards include Off West End Award for Sound Design for Old Bridge.
Ellie Collyer-Bristow cdg
Casting Director
For Original Theatre: The Croft, Birdsong, The Mirror Crack’d, Murder in the Dark, The Night Watch, Night Must Fall.
West End: includes Witness for the Prosecution (2017-2025); Killer Joe, Adrian Mole and The Wider Earth.
UK Tours: includes (the) Woman, The Shark is Broken, Frankenstein, And Then There Were None, Macbeth, Handbagged, Arcadia, The Swearing Jar, Dusty, The Good Enough Mums Club, As You Like It.
Regional: includes Romeo & Juliet (Liverpool Everyman); Death and the King’s Horseman, The Hypochondriac (Sheffield Crucible); Little Women, The Secret Garden (York Theatre Royal); This is a Love Story (Birmingham Hippodrome); A Christmas Carol, Welfare, Alice in Wonderland (Derby Theatre); Dancing at Lughnasa (Lyric Belfast); Playhouse Creatures, Blue Remembered Hills, Fred’s Diner (Chichester Festival Theatre); Peter Pan, Hansel and Gretel (Rose Theatre Kingston); They Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay! (Mercury Colchester); The Glass Menagerie (Nuffield); William Wordsworth, Miss Julie, After the Dance (TBTL) and Ladies Day (Wolverhampton Grand).
Other London credits: includes Antigone (on strike); 23.5hours, Madame Rubinstein, The Gathered Leaves (Park Theatre); Ages of the Moon, The Permanent Way (Vaults); Fool for Love (Found111); The Girl Who Fell, A Guide for the Homesick, 3 Women (Trafalgar Studios); Romeo and Juliet, A Lie of the Mind, Doubt (Southwark); Dirty Great Love Story (Arts) and Sideways (St James).
Immersive: Elvis Evolution, The War of the Worlds, The Gunpowder Plot. Children’s casting: The King and I, Wind in the Willows (London Palladium) and Macbeth (UK Tour - Wessex Grove).
Ruth Cooper-Brown for RC-Annie
Fight and intimacy director
Rc-Annie Ltd, established in 2005 by Rachel Bown-Williams and Ruth Cooper-Brown, is the UK’s leading Dramatic Violence and Intimacy Company.
Ruth’s recent Fight and Intimacy credits include: Titus Andronicus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Empress, Julius Caesar, Henry VI: Rebellion, Wars of the Roses, King John (Royal Shakespeare Company); Troilus & Cressida, Cymbeline, Antony & Cleopatra, Richard III, The Duchess of Malfi, Emilia, Othello, Boudica, Much Ado About Nothing, Imogen (Shakespeare’s Globe); Hedda (Theatre Royal Bath); To Kill A Mockingbird (Gielgud Theatre and Leeds Playhouse/UK Tour); Dealer’s Choice, Macbeth (Donmar Warehouse); A Tupperware of Ashes, The Father and the Assassin, The Welkin, When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other, The Threepenny Opera, Cleansed (National Theatre); Bernarda Albas Haus (Schauspielhaus Hamburg/Berlin Theatertreffen); Noughts and Crosses, Twelfth Night (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); 2:22 A Ghost Story (West End/UK Tour); Bronco Billy (Charing Cross Theatre); Great Expectations (Royal Exchange Manchester); The Pillowman (Duke of York Theatre); Noises Off (Theatre Royal Bath/West End); Oklahoma! (Young Vic/West End); As You Like It (CBBC and Shakespeare’s Globe); Lucia Di Lammermoor, Theodora (Royal Opera House); Bindweed (Mercury Theatre) and Minority Report (NottinghamPlayhouse/Lyric Hammersmith).
Carlotta De Gregori for RC-Annie
Associate fight director
Carlotta is an emerging Fight Director with Rc-Annie Ltd.
Recent Fight Direction credits: Eugene Onegin (Royal Opera House); The Baddies (Edinburgh Lyceum/UK Tour); Twine (The Yard Theatre); The Revenger’s Tragedy, Macbeth, Sweeney Todd, Romeo and Juliet (Eton College); Hamlet (Alleyn’s School); Pericles (The Courtyard Theatre); The Watsons (Oxford School of Drama); Ragedom (RCSSD); The Welkin (Battersea Arts Centre); Supernova (Theatre 503/Theatre By the Lake & UK Tour) and OLGA (Film for Reality Distortion Ink).
As Associate Fight Director: Boys From the Blackstuff (Liverpool Royal Court) and Baghdaddy (The Royal Court).
As Fight Captain: The Pillowman (Duke of York’s Theatre).
Barney McElholm
Associate Director
Barney is BA Acting Tutor & Course Leader for CERTHE Foundation in Musical Theatre at ArtsEd. He is co-Artistic Director of EMERGE(ncy) PARTY supported by Arts Council England and the Wellcome Trust.
Directing credits include Beginnings (Riverside Studios); Sticks and Stones (ArtsEd); Heritage (Young Actors Theatre); ArtsEd Foundation Showcase (Crazy Coqs) [BLANK] (Young Actors Theatre); Peter Rabbit (Covent Garden & Blenheim Palace); Rules for Living (ArtsEd); Julius Caesar (Young Actors Theatre); Victoria’s Knickers (ArtsEd); The Man of Mode (Mountview); WILDLIFE (Old Red Lion, rehearsed reading); Percy the Park Keeper (Chiswick House); Richard II (Willow Globe Theatre) and SOFT (Wellcome Trust/Bike Shed Theatre).
Associate/Assistant Director credits include WILD (Unicorn Theatre); Henry VI and Richard III (Shakespeare’s Globe) and Pravda (ArtsEd).
R&D projects include WILDLIFE (Old Red Lion Theatre); BECOMING (EMERGE(ncy) PARTY); 1984 (Histrionic Productions); Cinderella and her Friends (Histrionic Productions) and My Own Private Idaho (Shakespeare’s Globe).
Joe Dines
Sound Associate
Joe is a Sound Designer and Composer for theatre and media, recently winning the award for Best Sound Design at Greenwich Film Festival for Our Charlie and receiving an Offie award nomination for Best Co-Sound Design of Surfacing (UK Tour).
Theatre: Sound Designer credits include Gwenda’s Garage (Southwark Playhouse); Swallow the Lake (Mercury); Trois (Barn); With Courage (Other Palace); Vagina Rex & The Gas Oven (London Performance Studios); Rumble in The Jungle Rematch [immersive] (Dock X); Five Shorts (Young Vic); Sex Ed Musical (UK Schools Tour); Climate Cabaret (National Youth Theatre); Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Complicité R&D); The Dark is Rising (Complicité R&D); Tom Fool (Orange Tree); SAD (Omnibus); Ivanov (Schauspiel, Stuttgart); Chasing Bono (Soho Theatre); Scenes from the End of the World (Yard Theatre); Swallows & Amazons (Creation Theatre).
Theatre: Associate Sound Designer credits include Streetcar Named Desire (West End + NYC); Grapes of Wrath (National); KEIN WELTUNTERGANG + Michael Kohlhaas (Schaubühne, Berlin); All about Eve (Nöel Coward); Kan Yama Kan (Riyadh, Saudi); Best of Enemies (Young Vic/Broadcast); A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hackney Empire); Macbeth (Garrick).
Composition: credits include Snow Queen (Reading Rep), The Maids (Jermyn St/Reading Rep); A Christmas Carol (Reading Rep).
Media and Film: credits include For the Moment; May Day; The Dog and the Sailor.
Joshua Beaumont
Co-producer
Joshua Beaumont is the Co-Founder of The Production Garden, an award-winning theatre and event production company led alongside co-founder Matthew Emeny producing dynamic, high-quality theatre across the UK and internationally.
Its diverse portfolio includes the Tony and Olivier Award-winning ART by Yasmina Reza starring Seann Walsh (with Original Theatre), the critically acclaimed Pride and Prejudice (Sort Of) by Isobel McArthur (North American premiere in Toronto), and the hugely popular Awake My Soul: The Mumford and Sons Story.
Recent highlights include Why I Stuck A Flare Up My Arse For England, winner of multiple awards including an Offie and an Adelaide Fringe Award, and Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks, staged at Alexandra Palace and on UK tour (with Original Theatre. The company also champions new writing and innovative adaptations with titles like A Shoddy Detective and the Art of Deception, Jenny Ryan: Out Of The Box, and Murder at Midnight by Torben Betts (also with Original Theatre).
Forthcoming productions include Parody of The Rings (Edinburgh Fringe), Chaplin starring Seann Walsh, Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo, and the UK premiere of Disenchanted.
TPG also produces immersive theatrical events, including the Garden Theatre Festival and Father Christmas’ Grotto in Bath
Huw Allen
Co-producer
Huw is a theatrical producer who has worked extensively within the theatre, media, and entertainment world for over a decade. He is a founder member of the National Theatre’s Young Studio and has produced work commercially with some of the world’s leading creative visionaries; with names such as Matthew Vaughn, Tom Hooper, Martin Scorsese, Martin Campbell and Tom Ford.
Huw is credited with producing some of the most groundbreaking and commercially successful campaigns for Google, Apple, Samsung, and the BBC over the past 15 years, earning him a D&AD award for creative excellence in 2019.
Huw served as Executive Producer on the European premiere of Steve Schachlin’s The Last Session (London), A Shoddy Detective and The Art of Deception (UK Tour), Motorhome Marilyn (Edinburgh), A Shoddy Christmas Carol (Lichfield Garrick Theatre), the Tony and Olivier Award-winning ART by Yasmina Reza starring Seann Walsh (UK Tour), and the UK premiere of Disenchanted.
He also co-produced, in collaboration with Original Theatre, the UK tours of Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks (including Alexandra Palace), The Croft by Ali Miles, and Murder at Midnight by Torben Betts.