29 January – 09 march 2024

Alice Bailey Johnson

as Lena

TOBY HULSE

CO – WRITER

Toby Hulse is a playwright and director who has made work for Bristol Old Vic; Polka; the egg; Oxford Playhouse; Shakespeare North; Theatr Clwyd; Watermill, Newbury; Derby Theatre; Leeds Playhouse; The Theatre, Chipping Norton; Lakeside Arts, Nottingham; Birmingham Old Rep; Southwark Playhouse; The Theatre Shop, Clevedon; The Point, Eastleigh; ALine Art; Bristol Old Vic Theatre School; and Goat and Monkey.

Toby is one quarter of Roustabout, a Bristol based theatre company that tours new work to theatres, schools, and community venues.  Roustabout’s recent productions include Dinosaurs and All That Rubbish, This Island’s Mine, and The Great Big Story Mix Up, an improvised storytelling show for children, in which he also performs.  Their new show Little Red Riding Could will be touring from August. 

Toby has twice won the Distinguished Play Award from the American Alliance for Theatre and Education, for his plays To Dream Again (2018) and Beowulf (2019).  

Toby is also a teacher of acting, improvisation and clowning at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and Bristol School of Acting. 

ROSS SMITH

CO – WRITER

Under the pen name David Hastings, Ross has written four plays, including The Wright Brothers (2011, produced by Oxford Playhouse) and One Small Step (2008-present, severalUK and international tours produced by Oxford Playhouse). In 2010, One Small Steptravelled to 22 countries, including China, India, Australia and America on an 11-monthworld tour.

As Richard Mathews, he has co-written four feature films, including Mumbo Jumbo (2002) starring Joss Ackland, Brian Blessed and Richard O’Brien, and Greyfriars Bobby (2005) starring Christopher Lee, Gina McKee and Ardal O’Hanlon. For 5 years he was a writer/researcher on 96 programmes for BBC Radio 2, including the one-hour documentary In The Cannes which he also presented. At Radio 2, Ross also conducted over 300 interviews with stars such as Dustin Hoffman, Keanu Reeves and Bruce Willis.

In 2023, Ross produced the London Live documentary, John Kent: Lambeth Boy Forever!, a sequel to Karl Reisz’s 1958 documentary We Are The Lambeth Boys. He is also author of thebook See You at the Premiere: Life at the Arse End of Showbiz which in December 2021 reached Number 1 on Amazon’s ‘Playwriting’ and ‘Screenwriting’ book charts.

Ross’ work on Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Fiend was originally developed with a grant from The Peggy Ramsay Foundation.

ADAM MEGGIDO

DIRECTOR

Adam is co-creator and director of the Olivier award-winning Showstopper! The Improvised Musical, the first improvised show to ever win a major theatre award, which has enjoyed three West End runs, a BBC Radio series, and has played all over the world. He is the director of three other Olivier-nominated shows – Magic Goes Wrong (West End and UK tour); Peter Pan Goes Wrong (West End, Broadway, UK tour, Mexico, Latvia, Italy, Canada, New Zealand, Australia), for which he was also nominated as Best Director for the Broadway run (Critics’ Desk and Outer Circle Awards); and consultant director on Mischief Movie Night (Arts Theatre, UK tour). Other directing credits include: Dark Meaning Mouse (Finborough Theatre); The End of the Sentence (Finborough Theatre); The Lie(King’s Head Theatre); Robin Hood (Creation Theatre); Chaos of Delight (Soho Theatre); Boris III(Edinburgh Pleasance – Scotsman’s Critics’ Choice); The London 50-Hour Improvathons (Wilton’s Music Hall, Hoxton Hall, Park Theatre); Burlesque (Jermyn Street Theatre). He curated and directed The Terror Seasons – the UK’s first annual Festival of Horror Theatre and Grand Guignol – in London 2004-2012, as well as The School of Night (National Theatre, Royal Court Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre); The Society of Strange; and Starship Improvise (Edinburgh Festival). Adam holds the world record for directing long-form improvisation – 55 hours in Toronto (2013), and is the author of Improv Beyond Rules: A Practical Guide to Narrative Improvisation, published by Nick Hern Books.

STEPHANIE LINDWALL

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

JASON DENVIR

DESIGNER

Current commissions: HIGH SOCIETY The Mill at Sonning; RENT, DROWSY CHAPERONE ArtsEd

Recent commissions: GYPSY (The UK Theatres “Best Musical Production”); TOP HATThe Mill at Sonning; WEST SIDE STORY, CHICAGO, EVITA, GREASE, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, HAIR Ljubljana Festival; CHORUS LINE, BEAUTIFUL GAME, THE WEDDING SINGER, NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT, SPRING AWAKENING ArtsEd; LEGALLY BLONDE MountviewAcademy; SERPENT’S TEETH Oxford School of Drama; OEDIPUS THE VISONARY, TARTUFFE The Bridewell; CURTAINS, CINDERELLA, BAKERS WIFE, TITANIC, BABE, THE LITTLE MERMAID, A CHRISTMAS CAROL, COLLETTE COLAGE Guildford School of Acting; A GUIDE FOR THE HOMESICK, WOLFBOY, THIRD FLOOR, WHO’S AFRAID OF VIGINIA WOOLF NEW BOY, LIFE COACH Trafalgar Studios; ASPECTS OF LOVE, GODS AND MONSTERS, MACK AND MABEL Southwark Playhouse; IMAGINARY, ORPHEUS THE MYTHICAL, SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE The Other Palace; THE THREEPENNY OPERA, RAGE, DEPTFORD WIVES, DREAM PLAY, PERICLES, AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, HANSEL & GRETEL, BLOOD WEDDING East 15; MY LITTLE PONY RAINBOW ROCKS Hasbro International – Indonesia & Singapore; OUR HOUSEGreenwich Theatre; THE THREE LITTLE PIGS Palace Theatre, 2 UK tours, Australia, Hong Kong & Singapore; TOY BOY DIARES Hope Mill Theatre; BRASS Hackney Empire; THE SOUND OF MUSIC Malaysia; HONK! Royal and Derngate Theatres; TO KILL A CANARY Kenton Theatre, Henley; BEYOND THE DOOR Simane Theatre & Tokyo; KISSES ON A POSTCARD Queen’s Theatre, Barnstaple; MISTRESS OF THE INN, THE INNOCENTS, A SONG AT TWIGHLIGHT, ANNIE, OKLAHOMA!, CAROUSEL, CINDERELLA, MOTHER GOOSE Perth Theatre; HARDCORE, ALADDIN Pleasance TheatreTrust; BATTLEMENT, TOMBSTONE TAILS, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’SDREAM, MACBETH, OTHELLO, ANTIGONE, INSIDE OUT Royal Academy of Dramatic Art; OLIVER! Sadler’s Wells; WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND; INTO THE WOODS, GUYS AND DOLLS, THE THREEPENNY OPERA, TIN PAN ALI, JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT National Youth Music Theatre.

Jason has lectured in scenography at Middlesex University, Edge Hill University, Kingston University, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Mountview Academy of Performing Arts, Lewisham College, City Literary Institute and Kingston Grammar School.

ALEX MUSGRAVE

LIGHTING DESIGNER

AMANDA PREISTLY

SOUND DESIGNER

CHRISTOPHER REID

SOUND PROGRAMMER