Cast of Characters About Kneehigh
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CAST OF CHARACTERS Paul Crewes Rachel Fine Artistic Director Managing Director The company play everything from villagers to soldiers, evacuees to chickens, AND but selected highlights are… NANDI BHEBHE......................................................................................................TIPS THE CAT / HARRY SEAMAS CAREY.......................................................................................................................MUSICIAN in association with Birmingham Repertory Theatre & Berkeley Repertory Theatre EMMA DARLOW...........................................................................................................MADAME BOUNINE PRESENT NCUTI GATWA..................................................................................................................................ADI KYLA GOODEY........................................................................................................................LILY’S MUM CHRIS JARED..................................................................................GRANDAD PRESENT / VICAR / LILY’S DAD CRAIG JOHNSON.....................................................................LORD SOMETHING-OR-OTHER / MRS. TURNER PAT MORAN.................................................................................................MUSICIAN & MUSIC DIRECTOR KATY OWEN.....................................................................................................................LILY TREGENZA MIKE SHEPHERD...............................................................................GRANDMA PRESENT / GRANDAD PAST ADAPTED BY DIRECTOR ADAM SOPP...................................................................................................................BOOWIE / BARRY Michael Morpurgo & Emma Rice Emma Rice AKOPRE UZOH........................................................................................................BLUES MAN / OLD ADI COMPOSER SET & COSTUME DESIGNER Thanks to: Nick Ferguson, Matt Noddings, Keziah Serreau, Lucinda Allen, David Harraway, David Miller, Ewan Stu Barker Lez Brotherston Wardrop, Alex Shenton-Parkin, Lin Potter and Wrightsure, Dave Cork at PRS, Stage Sound Services, Jedd at White Light, Alice King, Mae Voogd & Louis King and Maureen Rice. LIGHTING DESIGNER SOUND DESIGNER ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Malcolm Rippeth Simon Baker Simon Harvey Special thanks to: Andrew Durand, Giles King, Patrycja Kujawska, Ian Ross and Adebayo Bolaji who were in the origi- nal production at Kneehigh’s Asylum in 2015, and to all the team at Shakespeare’s Globe. MUSIC DIRECTOR ASSOCIATE LIGHTING DESIGNER ASSOCIATE SOUND DESIGNER Pat Moran Alex Shenton-Parkin Jay Jones US immigration services provided by Law Office of Lisa Palter, Mill Valley, CA www.lisasvisas.com CHOREOGRAPHY BY Emma Rice & Etta Murfitt Mike Shepherd ABOUT KNEEHIGH ARTISTIC DIRECTOR STARRING Ali Robertson Kneehigh are a Cornwall based theatre company with a local, national and EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Nandi Bhebhe, Seamas Carey, Emma Darlow, Ncuti Gatwa, Kyla Goodey, Chris Jared, Craig Johnson, Pat Moran, Katy Owen, Mike Shepherd, Adam Sopp, Akopre Uzoh international profile. For over 30 years they have created vigorous, popular and Charlotte Bond challenging theatre and perform with joyful anarchy. GENERAL MANAGER Liz King PRODUCTION MANAGER Kneehigh tell stories. Based in breath-taking barns on the south coast of PRODUCER Aled Thomas Cornwall, Kneehigh create theatre of humanity on an epic and tiny scale. They Steph Curtis work with an ever-changing ensemble of performers, artists, technicians, COMPANY STAGE MANAGER COMPANY STAGE MANAGER STAGE MANAGER SOUND NUMBER ONE administrators, makers and musicians, and are passionate about their multi- Fiona Buxton FINANCE OFFICER Kate Foster Megan McClintock* Charlie Simpson disciplined creative process. Bethany Lyne In 2010 Kneehigh launched the Asylum, a beautiful and flexible nomadic DEVELOPMENT MANAGER CASTING PHOTOGRAPHER Teri Laing structure, which means they now have a venue to call home as well as being COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING MANAGER Sam Jones CDG, Matilda James Steve Tanner one of the leading touring theatre companies in the UK. They have now Dann Carroll presented 6 Asylum seasons and will continue to reinvent the space and COMMUNICATIONS ASSISTANT ORIGINAL PRODUCER explore new locations in future years. Millie Jones Paul Crewes PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Alongside their national and international touring and Asylum seasons, they Taryn Harris run the Kneehigh Rambles, aiming to engage creatively with communities in ADMINISTRATOR ORIGINAL COSTUME SUPERVISOR ORIGINAL COSTUME MAKERS ORIGINAL PROP BUYER ORIGINAL PUPPET MAKERS Cornwall and beyond through event and adventure. Anna Maria Murphy Ed Parry Clare Ramsell, Angelina Peroni Liz Vass Lyndie Wright & Sarah Wright RAMBLES LEAD ARTIST & the team at Shakespeare’s Globe LEARN MORE! Sam McAuley / makesthree.org website: Kneehigh.co.uk | edu site: Kneehighcookbook.co.uk MARKETING CONSULTANT twitter, facebook & instagram: @WeAreKneehigh Clióna Roberts FEBRUARY 9 - MARCH 5, 2017 PRESS Kneehigh are supported by Arts Council England and Cornwall Council. Steve Tanner Bram Goldsmith Theater PHOTOGRAPHY Brett Harvey Kneehigh Board FILM MAKER *Indicates a member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Alan Livingston (CHAIR) Daryl Waller Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Peter Cox, Teresa Gleadowe, Clare Morpurgo, Daphne Skinnard, Simon Williams ILLUSTRATOR PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE 7 About the Artists About the Artists NANDI BHEBHE (Tips the NCUTI GATWA (Adi) trained the Cornish feature film Tin (Dir. Bill Scott). Craig has actor includes: Tristan & Yseult, Steptoe and Son, by Emma Chichester-Clark was published in Light. Television includes: The Cult of the Suicide Cat / Harry) trained at the at the Royal Conservatoire of also created and directed several theatre Midnight’s Pumpkin, The Red Shoes, The Bacchae, September 2013. Many of Michael’s books have Bomber and Beyond Grief. He is also trombonist with Liverpool Institute of Performing Scotland. Previous theatre performances for The Eden Project, Cornwall. As a Cymbeline, The Wooden Frock, A Matter of Life and been adapted for the stage. These include Private C. W. Stoneking & His Primitive Horn Orchestra. Arts. Previous theatre includes: A includes: A Midsummer Night’s solo artist Craig performs under the name Squashbox Death and Don John (Kneehigh). Film includes: Anna Peaceful, Kensuke’s Kingdom, Why the Whales Came, Midsummer Night’s Dream Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe); Theatre, creating marvellous, quirky and inventive Karenina and Pan. Mike is a member of the Globe’s The Mozart Question, and most notably, the National SARAH WRIGHT (Puppet Director) is Artistic (Shakespeare’s Globe); 5,6,7,8 Victoria, Hecuba, The BFG, And shows that incorporate puppetry, storytelling, natural Creative Cabinet and looks forward to Kneehigh’s Theatre’s production of War Horse. This production of Director of Curious School of Puppetry, an Associate (Royal Court); Episodes of Then There Were None, Cars + history, live music and comedy, touring all over the ongoing association with this exciting powerhouse of Michael’s moving and powerful story of survival on Artist of Kneehigh and of Little Angel Theatre. Puppet Blackness (Vocab Dance Company); Fela! (National Boys, A Woman in Mind (Dundee Rep); Romeo and UK. a theatre. the Western Front reached number one in the Direction and Consultation includes: Macbeth Theatre / Broadway / US Tour); A Season in the Congo Juliet (Home, Manchester); Shakespeare in Love Observer’s top ten theatre performances and was also (Shakespeare’s Globe); Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and (Young Vic Theatre); White Out (Barrowland Ballet (West End) and Lines (Yard Theatre). Television PAT MORAN (Music Director / ADAM SOPP (Boowie / Barry) awarded the best design prize in the Evening other love songs), Brief Encounter, The Red Shoes, Dance Company). includes: Bob Servant and Stonemouth. Musician) trained at California trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre Standard Theatre Awards. This production has now Hansel and Gretel, The Wild Bride (Kneehigh); A Very Institute of the Arts, earning a School. Theatre includes: Sunny moved to New York where it has been awarded five Old Man with Enormous Wings, Angelo (Little Angel SEAMAS CAREY (Musician) KYLA GOODEY (Lily’s Mum) Performer/ Composer MFA. Afternoon (Hampstead / West Tony Awards. The film of War Horse by Steven Theatre); The Empress, The Tempest (RSC); The Double is a performer, composer and trained at Desmond Jones Recent credits include Music End); Symphony (Waterloo Spielberg was released in January 2012. In 1976, (Bath Theatre Royal); Silent Tide, Curious Ganz (Silent silent film pianist who grew up School of Mime and Physical Director and multi- Vaults); The El Train (Hoxton Michael and his wife, Clare, started the charity Farms Tide) and Sleeping Beauty (Matthew Bourne’s New in Cornwall. He spent most of his Theatre and Clowning. Theatre instrumentalist in A Midsummer Hall); Backbeat (West End / for City Children. They help to run three farms around Adventures). Work as a Performing Puppeteer childhood watching Kneehigh, includes: A Curious Evening of Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe); Tristan & Yseult World Tour); This Place Means (Greenwich & the country, in Gloucestershire, Pembrokeshire and includes: Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love as his dad - Jim, worked for the Trance and Rap (Brighton (Kneehigh / US Tour); Sleeping Beauty (Bristol Old Docklands