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BOOKING INFORMATION NINE NIGHT a New Play by Natasha BOOKING INFORMATION NINE NIGHT a new play by Natasha Gordon 1 December 2018 – 23 February 2019 Trafalgar Studios, 14 Whitehall, Westminster, London SW1A 2DY nationaltheatre.org.uk / 020 7452 3000 www.atgtickets.com/venues/trafalgar-studios / 0844 871 7632 NOTES TO EDITORS Nine Night premiered in the Dorfman Theatre on 30 April finishing its sold-out run on 26 May 2018. Nine Night is Natasha Gordon’s first play as a writer. As an actor, her work in theatre includes Red Velvet (Tricycle); The Low Road and Clubland (Royal Court); Mules and Exception and the Rule (Young Vic); Luce (Southwark Playhouse); and As You Like It (RSC). Film includes No Dogs and Dough. TV includes Class; Eastenders; Line of Duty; Danny and the Human Zoo; You, Me and the Apocalypse; Secret Words; and Law and Order: UK. Roy Alexander Weise is the 19th annual winner of the James Menzies-Kitchin Award. His work for the NT includes Dead Don't Floss. Other theatre includes Br’er Cotton (Theatre 503); The Mountaintop (Young Vic); Jekyll and Hyde (National Youth Theatre); Heretic Voices (Arcola); The Ugly One (Park Theatre, Buckland Theatre Company); The Dark (Fuel and Ovalhouse); Zero for the Young Dudes (Young & Talented in association with NT Connections); Primetime (Royal Court); and Stone Face (Finborough Theatre). Other theatre as assistant director includes: X, Escaped Alone, Hangmen (also West End); Violence and Son, You for me for you, Primetime 2015, Who Cares, and Liberian Girl (Royal Court); Albion, and We are Proud to Present... (Bush Theatre); The Serpents Tooth (Talawa / Almeida Theatre). For television, Roy was Trainee Director on Invisible for Channel 4. Roy is Associate Director at the Harts Theatre Company and lead acting tutor at Young and Talented School of Stage and Screen. Trafalgar Entertainment Group Trafalgar Entertainment Group is a live entertainment business that owns and operates distinctive, stylish cultural buildings as well as creating, distributing and live-transmitting innovative content to cinemas. Based at Trafalgar Studios in London’s West End, it is the latest venture from Sir Howard Panter and Dame Rosemary Squire DBE – two of the most influential entertainment entrepreneurs of the last 20 years. Launched in June 2017, TEG acquired both Trafalgar Studios and the market leader in event cinema, Picturehouse Entertainment (now Trafalgar Releasing). It has produced a number of critically acclaimed shows for the West End including Apologia starring Stockard Channing and new musical The Grinning Man as well as producing The Rocky Horror Show internationally and co-producing the UK tour of Jersey Boys and Mary Stuart in the West End. Trafalgar Studios currently hosts the hit US production of Killer Joe starring Orlando Bloom. TEG brings the multi award-winning Lincoln Center Theater production of The King and I to the London Palladium in June, prior to a UK national tour. .
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