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Paul Crewes Rachel Fine Artistic Director Managing Director CAST OF CHARACTERS

JAMES TYRONE...... in association with Fiery Angel and Pádraig Cusack MARY TYRONE...... PRESENTS EDMUND TYRONE...... MATTHEW BEARD The Old Vic Production of JAMES TYRONE JR...... RORY KEENAN CATHLEEN...... JESSICA REGAN

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JAMES TYRONE...... PHILIP CHILDS MARY TYRONE & CATHLEEN...... DEBORAH BLAKE EDMUND TYRONE & JAMES TYRONE JR...... JACK HARDWICK

ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION TEAM CREDITS PRODUCERS MANAGER Edward Snape, Jon Bath Laura Flowers and Chloé Elwood DEPUTY STAGE MANAGER GENERAL MANAGEMENT DIRECTED BY Sarah Hellicar Jon Bath and Hugh de la Bedoyere AMERICAN STAGE MANAGER MARKETING & SALES MANAGER Sara Sahin Bonnie Royal HEAD OF WARDROBE & WIGS PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Megan Keegan Christabel Holmes PRODUCTION ACCOUNTANT SET & COSTUME DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER SOUND DESIGNER Helen Maddison Peter Mumford John Leonard ADDITIONAL DESIGN ASSISTANT CREATIVE TEAM Megan Huish ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR ASSISTANT PROPS SUPERVISOR Katie Henry Mary Halliday ASSOCIATE DESIGNER SCENIC CONSTRUCTION AND PAINTING ORIGINAL CASTING DIRECTOR WEST END CASTING DIRECTOR Ben Davies Souvenir Scenic Studios , CDG Charlotte Sutton, CDG ASSOCIATE COSTUME DESIGNER CYCLORAMA PAINTED BY Bohan Alistair Brotchie ASSOCIATE LIGHTING DESIGNER COSTUME HIRES SUPPLIED BY Charlotte Burton Cosprop PROPS SUPERVISOR WIG MADE & SUPPLIED BY GENERAL MANAGEMENT PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Lisa Buckley Campbell Young VOICE AND DIALECT COACH WIGS CONSULTANT Fiery Angel Jim Leaver Penny Dyer Helen Keane FIGHT DIRECTOR MAKE UP SUPPLIED BY Kate Waters MAC REHEARSAL & PRODUCTION JUNE 8 - JULY 1, 2018 PHOTOGRAPHY Hugo Glendinning Bram Goldsmith Theater ARTWORK AND DESIGN Running Time: 3 hours and 25 minutes, including a 15-minute intermission SWD

The Actors are appearing with the permission of Actors’ Equity Association. by Hugo Glendinning Photo The American Stage Manager is a member of Actors’ Equity Association.

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JEREMY IRONS (James she won both the Olivier and Critics Circle Award RORY KEENAN (James DEBORAH BLAKE (U/S End); Antonio in (Oxford Stage Cometh (1964) and Long Day’s Journey into , Tyrone) trained at the Bristol for Best Actress. Other includes Grief, Tyrone Jr.) Previously for Richard Mary Tyrone & Cathleen) Helen Company); Killing For Company - a -man completed in 1941 but unproduced until three Old Vic Theatre School and directed by for which she received an Eyre, Rory played the title role in Alving in at the about the mass-murderer Dennis Nilsen (Hen & years after his death on November 27, 1953. joined the Company in 1969, Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress, Her Liola at the National Theatre. Other Theatre. She covered Chickens); Sgt.Match in What The Butler Saw and staying three years. In the West Naked Skin, Pillars of the Community, The theatre credits include The the lead role of Maria Callas in Christopher Riley in Shadowlands (Coventry); Phil RICHARD EYRE (Director) Theatre includes End he played in Godspell and Alchemist and His Dark Materials (all National Kitchen, Damned By Despair (all Terence McNally’s Masterclass in Spear in The Ballroom (Attic, Wimbledon); Snoopy , Kafka’s Dick, Edmond (Royal Court), ’s The Rear Column Theatre); Six Degrees of Separation and All About National Theatre); Saint transfer to the in You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown (Overground, Comedians, , The Beggar’s , The (Clarence Derwent Award), and and My Mother (Old Vic), Top Girls (Royal Court/New Joan, Welcome Home Captain Fox! and Philadelphia West End's . She evolved the Kingston). Other West End credits include , The Futurists, The at the . He played York), , The Popes’ Wedding, Saved, Here I Come! (all ) Carrol comedic role of Lady Virginia in Wilde’s last Hired Man, Casablanca and Arturo Ui. Changeling, The Voysey Inheritance, , in Wild Oats, The Rover, Leontes in The Winter’s Tale Rita, Sue and Bob Too, The Mother, How Now Green (Donmar at Trafalgar Studios), Someone Who’ll Watch attributed play, Constance at The Kings Head. credits includes: The pilot episode for a TV series Richard III, Night of the Iguana, White Chameleon, and the King in Richard II for the RSC. Over sixty film Cow, Falkland Sound, , American Over Me (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Shaughraun Comtesse de Saint Fond & Baronesse de Simiane, called The Trial, in which he portrays the prominent , Napoli Milionaria, , The credits include The French Lieutenant’s Woman Bagpipes and Borderline (all Royal Court). The (Noel Coward Theatre), The Big Fellah (Lyric (covers) in Madame de Sade, for ’s barrister Michael Beloff, Emmerdale, Eastenders, Absence of War, John Borkman, The Prince’s (1981); The Mission (1986); (1988); Cherry Orchard and Some Girls (West End); Miss Hammersmith & UK Tour) and Lakeboat/Prairie du Donmar West End Season; Martha (cover), That Dream Team, Bernard’s Watch, The Bill, Woof, Play, Amy’s View, , , Reversal of Fortune (Golden Globe, Emmy and the Julie (Greenwich); Les Liaisons Dangereuses, As You Chien (). Before moving to he Face, Duke of York’s; Catriona, in The Ride and Betty Backup, Out of Sight, Into The Fire, 2 Point 4 Vincent in , The Reporter, The Observer, Academy Award for best Actor); Damage (1992); Like It, Philistines and The Wives’ Excuse (all had worked extensively in theatre in Ireland appearing Bell in Mary Bell by Mary Bell, at the White Bear, Children, Cracker, Peak Practice, Waiting For God, A Welcome to Thebes, Liolà (National Theatre), The .Butterfly (1993) and (1997). He voiced Scar RSC). She has worked on numerous films with in many Abbey Theatre productions including Six Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Isabella Dark Adapted Eye, Minder, , Sophia Crucible (Broadway), (West End/ in (1994), and played Simon Gruber Mike Leigh, most notably in Another Year, for which Characters in Search of an Author, The School For in , Olivia in , and Constance, Mile High, Murder City and Men Broadway), A Flea in Her Ear (Old Vic), The Last of the in with a Vengeance (1995). His more she won the London Critics Circle Film Award for Scandal, She Stoops to Folly and Saved. Elsewhere in Queen in all for The Original Are Wonderful. Film credits include: Vera Drake Duchess ( Theatre), and recent film work includes Margin Call (2011); Night Best British Actress, National Board of Review Dublin he has played the title roles in Hamlet, Shakespeare Company; Portia, The Merchant of directed by Mike Leigh and The Damned United. The Dark Earth and the Light Sky, his own Train to Lisbon (2013); The Man Who Knew Infinity Award for Best Actress and was nominated for a and Don Carlos as well as many other leading roles in Venice, & National Tour; Protoe adaptations of Les Mains Sales, , (2015) and Sparrow (2018). His television credits BAFTA and British Independent Film Award. Other The , Olympia Theatre, and Gaiety Theatre in Pentheselia at The Gate Theatre, Miss Julie in JACK HARDWICK (U/S Ghosts, Little Eyolf (Almeida), , Betty include Charles Ryder in Brideshead Revisited, and films with Leigh include All or Nothing, for which including Festen, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Miss Julie, tour; Kissinda, A Covent Edmund Tyrone & James Tyrone Blue Eyes, Quartermaine’s Terms, Stephen Ward, Mr Lord Dudley in with for she won the London Critics Circle Award for Best Taming of the Shrew, and . TV credits Garden Tragedy, Tristan Bates Theatre; Sarah, Jr.) trained at the Bristol Old Foote’s Other Leg (West End), Long Day’s Journey which he won a SAG Award, his second Golden Globe British Actress, Mr. Turner, Vera Drake, Topsy Turvy, include:, Come Home, War & Peace, Peaky Blinders, Another World, Production Village Cricklewood; Vic Theatre School. Theatre Into Night (), The Last Cigarette, The and Emmy. In The Borgias (2011) he played Pope Secrets and Lies and High Hopes. Other film credits Birdsong, and Aristocrats (all BBC) Versailles (Canal+/ Mason in also covering Gertrude credits include: Elyot Chase in Pajama Game, The Stepmother (Chichester), My Alexander, and portrayed Henry IV in the BBC’s The include Hampstead, Rupture, , Romeo BBC), Striking Out, The Clinic, On Home Ground, & Mabel Chiltern, & No.1 Private Lives (UK tour); Peter in Name is Lucy Barton (). Opera Hollow Crown directed by Richard Eyre. In Europe he and , Molly Moon, A Five Star Life, Spike Showbands (all RTE), Lucky Man (SKY), Benedict Arnold National Tour; Mary, The Mysteries The Orchard (King's includes La Traviata (ROH), Le Nozze di Figaro (Aix- has been awarded a Cesar and the Premio Europa Island, Ashes, , Sparkle, Milk and (ABC), Primeval (ITV). Film work includes; The Young Theatre; Bella Manningham in Gaslight, Salon Cross Theatre); Joe in Battis Boy (Arcola Theatre, The en-Provence/), , , Per Il Teatro Award. He is an Officier des Artes et High Season. Extensive television credits recently Messiah, Grimsby, The Guard, Take Down, One Hundred Varieties, Malaga. Television: UK News Anchor in Miniaturists); Groom in Blood Wedding (Courtyard Manon Lescaut (Metropolitan Opera). Television Lettres. Additionally, he produced and appeared in include the title role in the BBC series Mum (for Mornings, Second Coming, Zonad, Ella Enchanted, ‘Billionaire Boy’; The Bill; Search BBC; Secrets and Theatre); Hippolito in Revenger's Tragedy (Hoxton includes The Insurance Man, Country, v, TRASHED, Candida Brady’s award-winning which she received a BAFTA nomination) and the Intermission, Pride and Joy and Reign of Fire. Lies. Deborah is also a visual artist, under her given Hall); U/S Gregory, Sergei, Actor One in , , Changing environmental documentary. He played Professor Hulu series Harlots. For the BBC; River (BAFTA Best name Pearse. (National Theatre); Ensign Blades in Stages, Henry IV Parts I and II, and King Higgins opposite Kiri te Kanawa at the Royal Albert Supporting Actress nomination), The Go-Between, JESSICA REGAN (Cathleen) Quality Street (); Adrian in The Lear. Films include The Ploughman’s Lunch, Iris, Hall and sang Noel Coward at the Last Night of the Mayday, Cranford, North and South, The Cazalets, Television includes: Ill Behaviour PHILIP CHILDS (U/S James Tempest (Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory); , Notes on a Scandal, The Other Man Proms. He won a Tony for his performance in Tom Other People’s Children, Real Women, Holding On, (Fudge Park/BBC/Showtime), Tyrone) trained at the Bristol Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Children Act. He is the author of Utopia and Stoppard’s (1983) opposite Glenn The Bite, Goggle Eyes, The Mushroom Picker, Top Nowhere Fast (Deadpan Old Vic Theatre School. He has (Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory). Television & Other Places - a memoir, National Service - a journal Close and played in ’s Embers Girls, The Firm and Grown-Ups and for Pictures/RTE), It Should Have recently played Bob in the UK film credits include: Mark in Misfits (Clerkenwell of his time at the National Theatre, Talking Theatre - (2006) and as Macmillan in the National The Queen, Fleming and Bodily Harm. Been Me (Merman/Sky), Call the and international tour of Films Ltd); PC Nick in Law and Order: UK (Kudos); conversations with theatre people, and What Do I Theatre’s Never So Good (2008). His recording of the Midwife (Neal Street/BBC) and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Tybalt in Verona (Mirror Productions). Know - a collection of essays. He was Director of Complete Works of T.S. Eliot was released in March MATTHEW BEARD Casualty (BBC). As former Series regular Dr Niamh and Dr Dillamond/first cover Nottingham Playhouse from 1973 – 1978, Producer this year. In 2016 he first performed the role (Edmund Tyrone) ’s performance Donoghue in Doctors, she won Best Actress at the Wizard in Wicked in London's West End. Other Creative of for BBC TV 1978 – 1981, and of James Tyrone as part of the Bristol Old Vic’s 250th in And When Did You Last See Royal Television Society Awards (Midlands) 2014 theatre credits include: Malvolio in Twelfth Night in Director of the National Theatre from 1988 – 1997. anniversary. He is Patron of the Prison Phoenix Trust Your Father? gained him and Best Newcomer at the British Soap Awards and New Morden Hall; Alan EUGENE O'NEILL (Writer) Born in New York He has received numerous theatre and film awards and the Hope Foundation, and Chancellor of Bath nominations for both a British 2015; Silent Witness, Eastenders, The Wrong Door Bennett’s People and The Habit Of at the Royal City October 16, 1888, Eugene O’Neill was the first and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He Spa University. Jeremy Irons was last seen on stage Independent Film Award and (all BBC); Peep Show, Ladies and Gentlemen National Theatre, both directed by Sir Nicholas great American playwright. His father was James was knighted in 1997 and was made a Companion in in a special production of Camelot an Evening Standard British (Channel 4); No Signal (FX Channel) Theatre credits Hytner; Stan in Stand Up And be Counted (UK Tour); O’Neill, the famous dramatic actor, and during his of Honour in 2017. performed at The Hollywood Bowl. Film Award as Most Promising Newcomer and was include: Henry V at Regents Park, Liola at the Lord Astor in Keeler (UK Tour); Crichton in Guilty early years O’Neill often traveled with his parents. hailed as A Star of Tomorrow by Screen International. National Theatre, directed by Richard Eyre; The Secret (The Mill at Sonning); Nick Wilmott in On Beyond the Horizon (1920), the first of his plays to ROB HOWELL (Set and Costume Designer) LESLEY MANVILLE (Mary Matthew’s subsequent film work includes Hideo Kitchen, , and Blood and Gifts Your Honour ( Theatre); Lloyd Dallas reach Broadway, won a Pulitzer Prize (he eventually Theatre work includes: The Observer; Her Naked Tyrone) is an award-winning Nakata’s Chatroom, Lone Scherfig’s An Education, (National Theatre); Coalition (Pleasance); Stars in in and Gordon in Neville’s Island (Torch won four) and opened the way for serious theatre Skin, The Reporter, , Chips With stage, screen and television One Day, and Michael Winterbottom’s The Look of the Morning ( Coventry); The Flags (Royal Theatre, Milford Haven); Serge in Art (tour of Gulf in this country. In 1936 he became the only Everything, , Money, Battle Royal actress. Most recently Oscar and Love. His television credits include Rogue opposite Court, Liverpool). Radio and voiceover work States); Jimmy Grimes in Marvin Gaye – The American playwright ever awarded the Nobel Prize and Howard Katz for the National Theatre; Matilda BAFTA nominated for Best Thandie Newton and Labyrinth produced by Ridley includes: A Time to Dance (BBC Radio 4); The Cider Musical written and directed by Kid Creole; Paul for Literature. His major works include The Emperor the Musical (also West End, Broadway, and Supporting Actress for her role Scott. Other film credits include The Riot Club, The Queens (RTE Radio). Jessica is a contributor and Burns in Oh! What a Night! (UK & European Tour); Jones (1920); The Hairy Ape (1922); Desire Under US Tour), The Shakespeare Review, The Painter of as Cyril Woodcock in Paul Imitation Game, alongside performer on hit podcast, The Guilty Feminist. She Romeo in Romeo & Juliet (Oldham); Lenny in the Elms (1924); The Great God Brown (1926); Dishonour, Little Eyolf, Richard III, and The Family Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread, and Olivier and Keira Knightley, and Roland Joffe’s Singularity. trained at RADA. Having A Ball (Cheltenham); Bottom in A (1928); Mourning Becomes Reunion for the RSC; , (also The nominated for Best Actress for her reprisal of Mary Matthew also made his stage debut in Skylight Midsummer Night’s Dream and Sir Toby Belch in Electra (1931); Ah, Wilderness! (1933); A Moon for Gielgud), Simpatico, Hard Fruit, and Real Classy Tyrone in Long Day's Journey Into Night. Previously (West End & Broadway), receiving a Tony Twelfth Night (Canizaro Park, Wimbledon); Bernard the Misbegotten (1957); Hughie (1964); A Touch of Affair for the Royal Court; , The Government for Richard Eyre Lesley has appeared in Ghosts nomination for his performance. in Don’t Dress For Dinner (Northampton); Vincent the Poet (1967); and what most authorities Inspector, Vassa, Conversations after a Burial, (/West End/New York), for which Minelli in Judy (Bristol Old Vic, Greenwich & West consider his two greatest plays, The Iceman (also at the Kennedy Center, Washington), Faith

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Healer, The Lady from and Hedda Gabler The Ring (Scottish Opera); The Midsummer MAGGIE LUNN (Original Casting Director) had Skylight, The Audience (Inc. Broadway), Jackie, The KATE WATERS (Fight Coach) is one of only two during her time as trainee (also at the Duke of York’s Theatre) for the Almeida; Marriage (Chicago Lyric Opera); The Bartered Bride been Head of Casting at the RSC, the Almeida and Lady in the Van, , On An Average Day, women on the Equity Register of Fight Directors. director. As artistic director of Stand Fast Theatre, Fathers and Sons. Philadelphia, Here I Come, (ROH); Faust (Vilnius City Opera); Butterfly, Andrea the National Theatre and her work in film and , Boeing, Boeing, The Kings Speech. Opera Kate has recently worked with Nick Hytner at his Katie is developing a new play with Silva Habeas Corpus, The Fix, , Chénier (Opera North). Dance includes: Corybantic television was acknowledged with an Emmy Award includes: Associate Costume Designer, Manon new theatre The Bridge on & Julius Semerciyan called Motherland which will be , (also at the Games (Royal Ballet); Carmen (Royal Ballet/Texas nomination. Her death last year meant the loss of Lescaut, Le Nozze di Figaro, Werther, Die Caesar and with Ian McKellen at Chichester Festival presented in 2018. She regularly teaches and Theatre), and for the Donmar; Venus Ballet Theater/Queensland Ballet/Carlos Acosta); one of the most influential and respected casting Fleidermaus, Carmen – Metropolitan Opera, Co Theatre on King Lear. For the National Theatre: mentors actors and directors at Mountview, BADA, In Fur, Stephen Ward, Deathtrap, of The King Dances, Faster, E=mc2, Take Five directors of recent years. Costume designer with Maria Bjornson, Ernani - , , Our Country’s Good, Rules the Orange Tree and St Mary’s University. Second Avenue, Private Lives, Tom & Clem, Tell Me ( Royal Ballet); Carmen (Miami City ENO. Dance: ’s Early Adventures, For Living, Dara, Hotel, The Curious Incident of the On A , The Caretaker and Our House in the Ballet/Richard Alston); Ein Reigen (Vienna State CHARLOTTE SUTTON (West End Casting , Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Adam Dog in the Night-Time (also West End), The Comedy BEN DAVIES (Associate Designer) Theatre (as West End; Ghost the Musical in Manchester, the Ballet). Awards include: Olivier Award for Director) Theatre includes: Quiz, The Norman Cooper) , Dorian Gray – Sadlers Wells and UK Tour. of Errors, One Man Two Guvnors (also West End, Associate Designer): (UK West End and Broadway; The Graduate in the West Outstanding Achievement in Dance (The Glass Blew Conquests, The Stepmother, , Costume Supervisor: London, Love Broadway & World Tour), , Season’s Tour) Art, Electra, A Christmas Carol, The Lorax (The End, Australia and on Broadway; Sunset Boulevard In); Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design Sweet Bird of Youth, Caroline, or Change, Strife, Never Dies , Priscilla Queen of the Desert. Musical Greetings, Hamlet, Women Beware Women and Old Vic); Venus in Fur, Beautiful - The Carole King on UK Tour; True West at the Circle in the Square, (Bacchai); Knight of Illumination Award (Sucker (Chichester Festival Theatre); Nell Theatre Associate Costume Designer: The Lord of (also West End). Recent work includes Musical, The Ferryman (West End); Charlie and the New York; Wild Honey, and Little Malcolm and his Punch); Helpmann and Green Room Awards for Gwynn (ETT tour & Shakespeare’s Globe); My the Rings – /London, The Phantom of the Tina the Musical (West End), Hand To God (West Chocolate Factory (West End/Broadway); The Red Struggle Against the Eunuchs (and in the West End) Best Lighting (King Kong). Peter has directed and Brilliant Friend (Rose, Kingston); The Pitchfork Opera – Hamburg/Toronto and Manchester, Sunset End), The Last Goodbye (The Old Globe, San Diego, Lion, Three Days in the Country, King Lear (National at ; at the Theatre designed concert stagings of The Ring Cycle Disney, Killer (Shoreditch Town Hall); trade, Boulevard – Germany/Australia/UK tour. The Wizard ), , Macbeth, Richard III, East Is Theatre). Theatre (as Assistant Designer): Sweeney D'atelier, , and on Broadway; Simply Heavenly (Winner, Opera and Music Theatre – RPS Music Dutchman (Young Vic); Annie Get Your Gun, Lady of Oz – London /Toronto, Our House. Film Includes: East, The Ruling Class, , The Pride Todd, Oliver!, The Audience, The Wizard of Oz, at the Young Vic; Long Day’s Journey Into Night at Awards 2017; Winner, Opera – Sky Arts Chatterley’s Lover, Flowers for Mrs Harris, Waiting for Assistant costume design for The Madness of King ( Company), Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Betty Blue Eyes, The Children's Hour, Shrek the Bristol Old Vic; at the West Yorkshire Awards 2017) and The Flying Dutchman for Opera Godot, Queen Coal ( ); A Pacifist’s ; UK costume supervision for Baz Anthony & Cleopatra, Dr Faustus, Henry V (The The Musical, (West End); Playhouse; at the Manchester Royal North, Fidelio for Orchestre de Chambre de Paris Guide to the War on Cancer (Complicite/NT); Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge. Globe), Liberian Girl (Royal Court), (West End/Broadway) The Trojans (Metropolitan Exchange; tours in 1998 and 2000; and Othello for Bergen National Opera. In addition Sheppey, German Skerries (Orange Tree); (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Opera New York) An American in Paris (Broadway/ at the Albery Theatre, Bash at the to Peter’s lighting design work, he also designed Insignificance, Much Ado About Nothing, Jumpy PENNY DYER (Voice and Dialect Coach) Theatre Musical (St James Theatre & West End), Don Paris); Singing' in the (Paris) A Raisin in the Trafalgar Studios, Boeing Boeing at the Comedy the sets for Dying City at the Royal Court and (Theatr Clwyd); Twelfth Night Re-Imagined (Regent’s includes , The Red Barn, Husbands and Sons, Giovanni (ROH), From Here To Eternity (West End), Sun, Bombay Dreams, (Broadway) Theatre and Broadway, Lord of the Rings at the Carmen at Miami City Ballet. Park Open Air Theatre); The Buskers Opera (Park); This House and Blood and Gifts at the National; Girl Henry IV, Julius Caesar (Donmar Warehouse & St Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and Toronto; A Christmas Hedda Gabler, Little Shop of Horrors (Salisbury from the North Country (also West End), Ann’s Warehouse NYC}, Hamlet, , JIM LEAVER (Production Manager) is a freelance Carol, Groundhog Day (also on Broadway), The JOHN LEONARD (Sound Designer) started Playhouse); Goodnight Mister Tom (Duke of York’s & Groundhog Day, The Caretaker, Other Desert Cities, King Lear, Loves Sacrifice, Dr Faustus, (RSC); Noises Production Manager working across multiple art Caretaker, The Master Builder; The Lorax; Future work in theatre sound 45 years ago, during which tour - for ATG); wonder.land (Manchester Sweet Bird of Youth and Speed-the-Plow at the Old Off (Old Vic and West End); forms. For the National Theatre: Macbeth, Pinocchio, Conditional; A Flea In Her Ear, Inherit The Wind, time he has provided soundtracks for theatres all International Festival & National Theatre); Albion Vic; Heisenberg, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and Sweet Bird of Youth (Old Vic); Peter Pan, Seven Follies, Ugly Lies the Bone, The Beaux’ Stratagem, (also on Broadway), Speed over the world. He has written an acclaimed guide (Bush); The Light Princess, Emil and the Detectives, Gypsy (also CFT), The Ruling Class, Good People, Brides For Seven Brothers, A Midsummer Night’s Everyman, King Lear, The Amen Corner, Othello, the Plow and Complicit at ; The Last to theatre sound, is the recipient of Drama Desk, The Elephantom (National Theatre); One Man, Two The Commitments, Posh, Book of Mormon, Dream, Porgy & Bess and Lord of the Flies People, Cocktail Sticks, Misterman, She Stoops to Cigarette at Chichester Festival Theatre and The LDI Sound Designer of The Year and USITT Guvnors ( recasts); The Rise and the Michael Grandage Season (Regent’s Park Open Air); Disgraced (Bush). Bugsy Conquer, The Veil, The Holy Rosenbergs, The Habit of Trafalgar Studios. His opera credits include Turn of Distinguished Career Awards and is a Fellow of The and Shine of Comrade Fiasco, I’d Rather Goya in the West End; The Cripple of Inishmaan, How to Malone, Saved, Blasted, Herons, (Lyric, Hammersmith). Art, The Birds. For Theatre the Screw for the Welsh National Opera, Sophie's Guildhall School of Music and Drama and an Robbed Me of My Sleep Than Some Other A*sehole, Succeed Without Really Trying on In 2018 Kate will be at the RSC choreographing Company: A Winter’s Tale, Harlequinade, All On Her Choice for House, and for The Honorary Fellow of The Hong Kong Academy of Gruesome Playground Injuries (Gate); Our Big Land Broadway; Linda, The Wolf from the Door, The the fights for Romeo & Juliet and Macbeth. She will Own, Red Velvet, The Painkiller, , Metropolitan Opera in New York; Carmen, Werther, Performing Arts. His most recent theatre includes (New Wolsey, Ipswich, and tour); Forever House Mistress Contract and Mirror Circle Transformation also be working on Tina Turner the Musical directed . For Manchester International Manon Lescaut and (also for Mood Music (The Old Vic) The Retreat (The Park (Drum Theatre, ); (Savoy & at the Royal Court; Teddy Ferrara and Roots at the by Phyllida Lloyd. Television includes: Kate is a Festival: Fatherland, Tree of Codes (Manchester, New The Festspielhaus, Baden Baden). Rob has received Theatre); Cell Mates, Prism, The Firm & Mother National Tour); Desire Under the Elms (Lyric Donmar; The Slaves of Solitude, Labyrinth, Wild, regular fight director for , York, Miami, Paris, Aarhaus, Melbourne, ), numerous Oliver and Tony nominations, and has Christmas (all Hampstead Theatre); The Stepmother Hammersmith); Not Another Musical (Latitude Reasons to be Happy and 55 Days at Hampstead; Emmerdale, Hollyoaks. She also choreographed Macbeth (Manchester, New York), Dr Dee been awarded Oliviers for Best Set Designer in the (Chichester Minerva Theatre), The Real Thing and Festival); Run! A Sports Day Musical (Polka Theatre); Julius Caesar, Noughts and Crosses and The the fights for Coronation Street Live 2015. Kate has (Manchester, ENO), Prima Donna (Manchester, years 2000 and 2006. For Matilda the Musical he (UK Tours); All Our Children (Jermyn Shivered ( Playhouse); The Tour Guide Crucible at the RSC; This House, The Irresistible Rise also been interviewed for Woman’s Hour & been Toronto, New York), Monkey Journey to the West. For won the Oliver award in 2012, and Drama Desk, Street Theatre); Consent, Waste, , Grief, ( Festival); Bunny (Underbelly, of Arturo Ui and Kiss Me Kate at Chichester and in on mid-week radio 4 talking about her work. in the Turbine Hall: I Don’t Know (2014 Outer Critic’s Circle, and in 2013. Untold Stories-Cocktail Sticks, 2000 Years, England Edinburgh//59E59, NY) and First Lady the West End. TV: Hanna, Pure, Kiri, The Woman in an installation for Richard Tuttle), Empty Lot (2015 People Very Nice, Much Ado About Nothing, London Suite (Union Theatre). White, Snatch, Waiting for Andre, The Rack Pack, KATIE HENRY (Associate Director) is currently an installation for Abraham Cruzilevegas), Anywhen PETER MUMFORD (Lighting Designer) Recent Assurance and Rocket to the Moon (all National Code of a Killer, The Last Kingdom, Marvellous, Revival Director for the UK Tour of War Horse, (2016 an installation for Philippe Parreno). For Nica Theatre includes: Long Day’s Journey into Night, Theatre); The Heresy Of Love (RSC); The Dark Earth IRENE BOHAN (Associate Costume Designer) Cilla, , The Girl, The Slap, Mrs Biggs, having been Associate Director in the West End Burns: Medea, Feelgood, A Dangerous Corner, One The Ferryman, , , Stepping and The Light Sky, The Master Builder and Little The National Theatre: Follies, Common, The Small Island, Margaret, , Fantabuloso, and on the SINO-UK collaboration in , Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Out (West End); The Children (Royal Court/ Eyolf (Almeida) as well as Ghosts (also West End Threepenny Opera , Three Days in the Country, The Deal and Blackpool. Film: On Chesil Beach, . Other work as director includes Alice's Woolf? For Bristol Old Vic: A Midsummer Nights Broadway); (Donmar); King and New York); Long Day’s Journey Into Night National Theatre 50 Years On Stage, Robert Lepage’s Euphoria, Zoo, My Cousin Rachel, The Jungle House of Cards and Grandpa Joe's Giant Dream (Bristol, Hong Kong, Seoul), Swallows and Kong (Global Creatures/Australia); Escaped (Bristol Old Vic); (The Royal A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Wind in the Book,The Danish Girl, Florence Foster Jenkins, Storytelling Bed at the both Amazons (Bristol, London), Wild Oats, Far Away. Alone (Royal Court/BAM), Slaves of Exchange); The BFG (Birmingham Rep); Birthday Willows, Arturo Ui, The Madness of George III, Testament of Youth, Blue Jasmine, Pride, Philomena, devised with the company; I Dream Before I Take Solitude (Hampstead); (Old and (Royal Court); Stevie, Farewell To The , Trelawney of the Wells, Volpone, The Nowhere Boy, The Queen, The Damned United, Frost the Stand, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Last CHARLOTTE BURTON (Associate Lighting Vic); Ghosts (Almeida/West End/BAM); Bull (Young Theatre, Lawrence After Arabia, Ken and Mr. Foote’s Pillowman, , Collaborators. The Old Vic Nixon, Dirty Pretty Things, The War Zone, Elizabeth, Train to Nibroc at the Orange Tree Theatre; Iron at Designer) trained at LIPA. There she won the prize for Vic); John, Scenes from an Execution (National). Other Leg (also West End) at Hampstead; Macbeth Theatre Company: A Christmas Carol, The Oscar and Lucinda and Bhaji on the Beach. Arts Centre; and Welcome to Thebes, The Creative & Technical Excellence. Associate credits Opera includes: Werther, Faust, Carmen, Peter (Shakespeare’s Globe); Lady Windermere’s Fan, The Caretaker, Dr Suess's The Lorax, Future Conditional, Good Person of Szechwan, The Grandfathers and include: Jubilee, Lyric Hammersmith; Dick Whittington, Grimes (New York Met); Manon Lescaut (Baden Libertine, Dead Funny, Hand To God, The Duck House, Speed the Plough, The Norman Conquests, Inherit Her Naked Skin for Mountview Academy of Theatre Manchester Opera House. Assistant credits include: Baden/Met); The Damnation of Faust (ENO// Just , Firebird and McQueen (West End). The Wind, Future Conditional, The Caretaker. Arts. Work as assistant director includes Lady in the Young Frankenstein, West End & Newcastle Theatre Palermo/De Vlaamse); Butterfly (ENO/Met); Pelléas Costume Design: Inherit The Wind. The Almeida Van for Hull Truck; The Years Between at the Royal Royal; Sunset Boulevard, UK Tour; Scrooge & Bugsy et Mélisande (Mariinsky); Eugene Onegin (LA Theatre: The Tempest, Lulu, Costume Design: Bash. & Derngate, Northampton; Cling to me like Ivy for Malone, Leicester Curve; , Opera Garnier Opera/ROH); La Traviata (Glyndebourne); Fidelio, The Donmar: Nine (London and Buenos Aires) The Birmingham REP; and The Daughter-in-Law Monte Carlo & Curve Leicester; Annie, West End; The Real Thing, and the Paycock. West End: at Palace; and six productions at the Addams Family, UK Tour; The Wedding Singer, UK

P12 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P13 About the Artists A gift of Gregory Annenberg Weingarten and Family and the Annenberg Foundation Tour; La Cage Aux Folles, UK Tour; , London About Fiery Angel Ltd A SPACE FOR ARTS EDUCATION Palladium; The Children, The Royal Court; Disney’s Broadway Hits, ; Long Day’s Journey Headed by Edward Snape, Marilyn Eardley and Jon Bath, Fiery Angel is a theatrical production company Into Night, Bristol Old Vic; A Christmas Carol, West that produces and manages , , musicals and event theatre in the West End, on tour End; Little Eyolf, Almeida; Mr Foote’s Other Leg, West throughout the and internationally. Current and Upcoming productions include: End & Hampstead. Own design credits include: The Young Frankenstein (West End), Long Day’s Journey into Night (West End, New York and Los Angeles), Blue Road, Vinegar Tom, Posh, Pornography, Café Love From A Stranger (2018 UK tour). Recent productions include: Mary Stuart (West End), Kenneth Crescendo, School Shorts, Hacktivists, Royal & Branagh Theatre Company: The Winter’s Tale, Harlequinade, The Painkiller, Romeo and Juliet, The Derngate; You Boy & The Pier, UK Tour. Charlotte was Entertainer (all ), Ben Hur (Tricycle Theatre), (2016 UK Tour after nine years the inaugural participant of the Lumiere Scheme run at the in the West End, three years on Broadway and presented in over 40 territories by the Association of Lighting Designers. worldwide to date; Olivier, Tony and Moliere winner), To Kill a Mockingbird (UK tour and Barbican), The Scottsboro Boys (Garrick), The Ladykillers (Gielgud, Vaudeville and UK tour – five Olivier nominations), PÁDRAIG CUSACK (Associate Producer, US Ghost Stories (), Private Peaceful (UK tour), The Painkiller (Lyric Theatre, Belfast) and Dial engagements) has produced and toured M for Murder (UK tour). As part of The Children’s Touring Partnership, a joint venture with Chichester productions over four continents winning awards Festival Theatre: The Jungle Book (2018 UK tour), Running Wild (UK tour), The Boy in the Striped in the UK, USA and Australia. Recent projects: Tiger Pyjamas (UK tour), Goodnight Mister Tom (Duke of York, Phoenix and 3 UK tours – Olivier Award winner) Bay the Musical, La Voix Humaine. My Country; a and Swallows and Amazons (Vaudeville and UK tour). As part of Fierylight Productions, a joint venture work in progress, Jeremy Deller’s commemorative with Limelight Productions: Peppa Pig Live! (West End, UK tour, US tour and Australian tour), Ben & piece we’re here because we’re here (with 1418 Holly’s Little Kingdom (UK tour) and Octonauts & The Deep Sea Volcano Adventure (UK tour and US tour). Connecting Artists with Now), The James Plays. International Touring: One fiery-angel.com Man, Two Guvnors, Grief, Phèdre, The Year of PRODUCER & DIRECTOR Edward Snape PRODUCTION COORDINATOR & Magical Thinking, Waves, Happy Days, The History PRODUCER & DIRECTOR Marilyn Eardley HEAD OF TOUR BOOKING Hugh de la Bedoyere Boys, The PowerBook, The Plough and the Stars. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR PRODUCTION COORDINATOR YOUNG AUDIENCES Jon Bath New York/On Broadway: Man to Man, My Eyes EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTORS Zena Choi PRODUCTION ADMINISTRATOR Rachel Francis Went Dark, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, Not I/ The Wallis is proud to welcome K-12 schools Lula Washington Dance Theater, the elementary DEVELOPMENT PRODUCER Hedda Beeby PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Christabel Holmes Footfalls/Rockaby, riverrun, , from across Los Angeles County to see special students were full of questions to understand HEAD OF MARKETING & SALES Bonnie Royal HEAD OF FINANCE Louise Waldron The Pitmen Painters, Waves, Happy Days, Primo, HEAD OF CONCERTS & SPECIAL EVENTS PRODUCTION ACCOUNTANT Helen Maddison student matinee performance each season. This the cruelty African-Americans suffered in the Not About Nightingales. UK & INTERNATIONAL Michael Stevens year we presented 15 performances for 5,750 Civil Right Movement. After seeing the actress PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Sarah Sweeney students. These events connect young people to in a scene struggling with suicide, a young About Bristol Old Vic new possibilities and help them make sense of woman in high school asked playwright Tom the world in new ways. To maximize the impact Dugan if Jackie Kennedy suffered from mental Bristol Old Vic is the oldest continuously working theatre in the United Kingdom and celebrated its of these experiences, we welcome teachers to illness? He responded that any one of us would 250th anniversary in 2016. We aim to create pioneering 21st century theatre in partnership with the people of Bristol, inspired by the history and magical design of our beautiful playhouse. We originate advance workshops to learn about the artists be depressed confronting the tragedies she work in Bristol, which goes on to play both nationally and internationally. Most recently, we are delighted and explore connections to their own classroom endured in her life. We later learned that same to have transferred both Peter Pan and Jane Eyre to the National Theatre and The Grinning Man to curriculum. We also look for opportunities to student had considered suicide and the Trafalgar Studios, and we are thrilled that you are here to see Long Day’s Journey Into Night. We are committed to developing the next generation of artists, providing an ongoing programme of opportunity bring artists into some of the participating experience of the show was incredibly cathartic and support through the Bristol Ferment, helping individual artists and companies from across the classrooms to help prepare students for the and timely for her. When students leave The southwest to find and establish their voices as the theatremakers of tomorrow. Our award-winning experience of the show. Wallis with new understandings and new Engagement strand creates shows and participatory opportunities for people from all over Bristol and the region, and is currently working with young people from every ward of our city. In 2016, work began on questions, we know we have been successful. the final phase of the building’s £25m capital development, a long-awaited plan to transform our front As we wind down this season, a few special of house into a warm and welcoming public space. Designed by Stirling Prize-winning architects Haworth moments stand out. After a powerful piece by Photo: Rachelle Rafailedes and members of LA Dance Project. Tompkins, the project is due for completion in autumn 2018. Our work connects on a local, national and international level. We are proud to use our funding to support experiment and innovation, to allow access to our programme for people who would not otherwise encounter it or be able to afford it, and to keep our extraordinary heritage protected and alive.

CHAIR OF THE BOARD Dame Liz Forgan DBE DEPUTY CHAIR Denis Burn ARTISTIC DIRECTOR CHIEF EXECUTIVE Emma Stenning EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Chloé Elwood PRODUCER Catherine Morgenstern

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