PRESS RELEASE – TUESDAY 16 JULY 2019 IMAGES CAN BE DOWNLOADED HERE Twitter / Instagram / website #TheWolfOfWallStreet Stratton Oakmont Productions Ltd presents Based on the book by Jordan Belfort Adapted and Directed by Alexander Wright $ FULL CASTING ANNOUNCED AND VENUE LOCATION REVEALED FOR THE WORLD PREMIERE IMMERSIVE PRODUCTION OF THE WOLF OF WALL STREET, BASED ON JORDAN BELFORT’S INFAMOUS MEMOIR $ THE WOLF OF WALL STREET COMES TO CENTRAL LONDON WITH PREVIEWS STARTING FROM 5 SEPTEMBER The Wolf of Wall Street today announces full casting and reveals its venue location for the world premiere immersive production opening this Autumn. The Wolf of Wall Street will be taking over a landmark building situated in the heart of the City of London close to Liverpool Street Station at 5- 15 Sun Street, Central London. The 2000sq metre property, spanning four floors and 25 rooms will undergo a major transformation to recreate ‘90s New York and the world of infamous stockbroker Jordan Belfort, whose life was depicted by Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese’s movie of the same name. This new production, adapted and directed by Alexander Wright (The Great Gatsby, Orpheus & Eurydice), will preview from 5 September 2019, with opening night for press on 4 October. A cast of 16 will play multiple characters as featured in Jordan Belfort’s memoirs, from his Stratton Oakmont players to the FBI, plunging audiences into a world of greed, power and excess, and bringing to life the highs and lows of Belfort’s millionaire lifestyle in a night of Class A entertainment. Oliver Tilney will play Jordan Belfort with Rhiannon Harper-Rafferty as his wife Nadine, and James Bryant as his right-hand man Danny. The full cast also includes: Charlotte Brown, Caroline Colomei, Ivy Corbin, Alan Devally, Sam Donnelly, Fia Houston Hamilton, Samuel Hunt, Naail Ishaq, Andrew Macbean, Olivia Marcus, Jack Matthew, Razak Osman and Gail Sixsmith. The creative team brings together Director Alexander Wright and Designer Ciaran Bagnall with costume design by Heledd Rees, lighting by Rachel Sampley, co-sound design and music supervision by Phil Grainger, co-sound design by Lara Gallagher and movement by Chi-San Howard. The team is completed by Associate Director Aileen Gonsalves, Dramaturg and Assistant Director Rebecca Hanbury, Assistant Director Fiona Kingwill and Safeguarding, Consent and Inclusion Coordinator Brodie Turner. The company, creative and production teams comprises a 50/50 male/female balance with 47% from a BAME background. Jordan Belfort. Stock-market millionaire at 26. Federal convict at 36. By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could. Stratton Oakmont is hiring. The FBI is closing in. You’re either with him or you’re against him. The Wolf of Wall Street is presented by Stratton Oakmont Productions Ltd and comes from the creators and producers behind The Great Gatsby - the longest-ever running immersive show in the UK which continues an open-ended run in London Bridge, as well as playing in cities across Europe. Producers Louis Hartshorn and Brian Hook’s current shows also include Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5 The Musical in the West End and Amelie The Musical UK Tour and in the West End. The Wolf of Wall Street is adapted and directed by Alexander Wright. Tickets are now on sale at www.immersivewolf.com -ENDS- For further information please contact The Corner Shop PR on 020 7831 7657 [email protected] | [email protected] LISTINGS THE WOLF OF WALL STREET Presented by Stratton Oakmont Productions Ltd Original book written by Jordan Belfort Adapted by Alexander Wright Directed by Alexander Wright Location: Immersive Wolf of Wall Street, 5 – 15 Sun Street, London EC2N 2PT First Preview: 5 September 2019 Opening Night: Friday 4 October 2019 Currently booking until: 19 January, 2020 Performance schedule: 5 September to 29 September: Wednesday to Friday 7.30pm, Saturday 2.30pm & 7.30pm, Sunday 6.30pm 30 September to 19 January 2020: Tuesday to Friday 7.30pm, Saturday 2.30pm & 7.30pm, Sunday,6.30pm (no performance Tue 29 Sept, 26 Nov or 24 Dec, Wed 25 Dec, Thu 25 Dec, Wed 1 Jan 2020). Box Office details Website: www.immersivewolf.com Tel: 0203 053 1500 Prices from £59.95 Lottery tickets £10, £25 The Wolf of Wall Street trader scheme for VIP upgrades and free entry – further details via the website. Twitter: @ImmersiveWolf Instagram: /ImmersiveWolf #TheWolfOfWallStreet NOTES TO EDITORS BIOGRAPHIES Stratton Oakmont Productions Ltd c/o Hartshorn - Hook Productions Hartshorn – Hook Productions has produced over 120 productions across 5 continents, including the Olivier and multi-LADCC Award-winning Rotterdam (Arts, 59E59 in New York , Skylight in LA and UK Tour); Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5 the Musical (Savoy, West End), DreamWorks’ Madagascar - the Musical (UK tour); Urinetown (Apollo); American Idiot (Arts and UK tour) and Woody Sez (Arts). Their production of Amelie The Musical will transfer from its critically acclaimed UK tour to The Other Palace, West End this Christmas. Immersive theatre credits include: the UK’s longest-ever-running immersive production, The Great Gatsby (London, Dublin, Brussels); NeverLand (VAULT Festival); West Side Story for the Prince’s Trust 2019 Invest in Futures, the dinner-theatre A Christmas Carol, with food from MasterChef winner Natalie Coleman (various locations) and Richard II, performed in the House of Commons. Louis Hartshorn and Brian Hook hold the positions of Executive Director and Producer at the Arts Theatre in the West End, currently home to the hit musical Six. Jordan Belfort, The Wolf of Wall Street In the 1990s, Jordan Belfort built one of the most dynamic and successful sales organizations in Wall Street history. During that time, he soared to the highest financial heights, earning over $50 million a year, a feat that coined him the name “The Wolf of Wall Street”. As the owner of Stratton Oakmont, Belfort employed over 1,000 stockbrokers and raised over $1.5 billion and started more than 30 million-dollar-companies from scratch. He’s acted as a consultant to more than 50 public companies, and has been featured in virtually every major newspaper and magazine in the world, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The London Times, The Herald Tribune, Le Monde, Corriere della Serra, Forbes, Business Week, Paris Match and Rolling Stone. Along the way to making lots of money, overwhelmed and seduced by the dizzying heights of the Wall Street lifestyle, Jordan endured a spectacular, and well-publicized, fall from grace. Learning invaluable lessons from his mistakes and money lost, he re-emerged to become a globally recognized potent force behind extraordinary business successes for himself and others. Today, his proprietary Straight Line System allows him to take virtually any company or individual, regardless of age, race, sex, educational background or social status, and empower them to create massive wealth, abundance, and entrepreneurial success, without sacrificing integrity or ethics. CREATIVE TEAM Alexander Wright, Writer (adaptation) and Director Alexander Wright is an internationally award-winning director and playwright based in North Yorkshire. He runs The Guild Of Misrule with Brian Hook with whom he adapted and directed The Great Gatsby and NeverLand. He is artistic director of The Flanagan Collective, where his work includes Orpheus, Eurydice, Fable, Babylon, Beulah and Some Small Love Story. He is one of the founding directors of the critically acclaimed Belt Up Theatre, and one half of The Lonely Arts Club. He lives in a water mill, which he is, slowly, turning into an arts and making place. Ciaran Bagnall, Designer Ciaran trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff and was made a fellow of the college in 2017. Credits for set & lighting design include The Magic Flute (Wexford Opera House/The Gaiety, Dublin), A Streetcar named Desire (Lyric Theatre, Belfast), Lady Magma (Atelier de Paris), The Last Yankee (Library Theatre, Bolton), Oliver Twist (Hull Truck), And Did those Feet (Macron Stadium, Bolton), Double Cross (Lyric Theatre Belfast & Abbey Theatre, Dublin), The Mai (Irish Tour/Dublin Theatre Festival), Lovers (Lyric Theatre, Belfast), Hard to be Soft (The MAC, Belfast), RED (Lyric Theatre, Belfast–Winner Best Design Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards), The Train, (Abbey Theatre, Dublin), Ashes, Educating Rita, Two, A view from the Bridge, Twelfth Night, Of Mice and Men, Tull, The Glass Menagerie (Octagon Theatre, Bolton), Cinderella (Hull Truck), Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe), Othello (RSC), Conquest of Happiness (Olympic Stadium, Sarajevo), Shoot the Crow (Opera House, Belfast), Snookered (Bush Theatre, London), The Killing of Sister George (Arts Theatre, London), A Slight Ache and Landscape (National Theatre). Ciaran has also won awards for his designs for Singing in the Rain (UK Tour–Winner Best Design Manchester Theatre Awards) and The Great Gatsby (Gate Theatre, Dublin–Winner Best Design Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards), Heledd Rees, Costume Design Helen trained at The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. For theatre, set and costume design credits include Merched Caerdydd (Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru), Nos Sadwrn o Hyd (Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru) Gladhearts Adventuring (Theatr Clwyd & National Trust), Llew a’r Crydd (Pontio & Theatr Clwyd), Twrw Dan a Dicw (Cwmni Fran Wen), Tabby McTat (Freckle Productions), The Great Gatsby (Theatr Clwyd) and The Guild of Misrule, Estron and La Primera Cena (Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru). For TV Helen has also worked as Assistant Set Designer and Costume Designer for Flood: To the Sea (BBC2). Helen is also an Associate Artist for Christmas at Blenheim (Blenheim Palace) and Assistant Designer for Flood & Fairy Portal Camp (Slung Low). Rachel Sampley, Lighting Rachel Sampley is a London based lighting and video designer. She has previously designed the lighting for The Great Gatsby and NeverLand for Guild of Misrule.