20 nov – 06 jan

Oliver Nazareth Aston

as Doctor

Bryan Hodgson

Director

Bryan has been writing and directing theatre since completing his training at GSA in 2014.

His directing credits include: Beauty and the Beast (Wyvern Theatre); Elf The Musical (PPA); Alright Bitches (Above the Stag Theatre); Murder for Two (Barn Theatre); Merrily We Roll Along (Trinity Laban); Spider’s Web (PPA); Gay Generations (White Bear Theatre); Tommy On Top (Above The Stag Theatre); The Great Pause (Pluck Productions); Jack and the Blingstalk (Harold Pinter Theatre); Elegies for Angels, Punks & Raging Queens (Union Theatre); Teechers (New Wimbledon Theatre Studio); The Importance of Being Earnest (Barn Theatre & The Turbine Theatre); Tainted (The Vaults); Salad Days (Union Theatre, Bath Theatre Royal, & UK Tour); Twang!! The Musical (Union Theatre); Kray Kray (Theatre N16); The Tailor-Made Man (White Bear Theatre); Waiting Room (Upstairs at the Gatehouse); Cymbeline (The Space, London); The Fellowship (Hen and Chickens Theatre & Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Mill Studio); Wind in the Willows (Waterloo East Theatre); Dorothy (Waterloo East Theatre).

As Associate Director; Moby Dick The Musical (Union Theatre).

As Assistant Director; Judy! (The Arts Theatre); Rent (Pleasance Theatre); Casa Valentina (Southwark Playhouse). 

Bryan has written several plays, all of which have been professionally produced around the UK: The Fellowship, Kray Kray, The Road to Oz and King Kong (ish). 

Alfie Heywood

Set & Costume Designer

Alfie trained in Theatre and Performance Design at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, graduating in 2016.

Recent credits as Designer include: The True Adventures of Marian and Robin Hood (Barn Theatre); Adrian Mole the Musical (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); Ellen and Rigby, Lost in Colomendy, Offered Up and Omnibus (Liverpool’s Royal Court); A Monster Call’s (Watermill Theatre); Guys and Dolls, Start (both at Mountview Academy); Nora: A Doll’s House and The Ballad of Maria Marten (Rose Bruford); Lord of the Flies (Greenwich Theatre); Unspoken Spoken (Candoco Dance Company). Alfie is also in the process of designing two new productions at Liverpool’s Royal Court opening later this year. 

Recent credits as associate to designer Christopher Oram include: Turn of the Screw (Garsington Opera); Bitter Wheat (Garrick Theatre); Geisha (Northern Ballet); The Mirror and the Light (Gielgud Theatre); and The Wreckers (Houston Grand Opera). They are currently working on a design for The Artist and a new production for Garsington Opera both opening in 2024. 

Alfie is delighted to have been asked back to design set and costumes for Private Lives after designing Barn Theatre’s recent Christmas production.  

Examples of his work can be found at www.alfieheywood.com

Alex Musgrave

Lighting Designer

Alex designs lighting for theatre, opera and dance and has lit productions of all sizes across the UK. Notably Home at Chichester Festival Theatre, and Anyone Can Whistle and You Are Here at the Southwark Playhouse, London. Alex has been nominated for an Offie Award for Best Lighting Design for You are Here at the Southwark Playhouse.

Design work includes: The Cunning little Vixen (Royal Birmingham Conservitoire); Urinetown (Portsmouth New Theatre Royal); Cinderella (Kings Theatre, Portsmouth); Rapunzel ( The Watermill Theatre); The Sleeping Sword (The Watermill Theatre); Tales of Acorn Wood (National Tour); Alice in Wonderland (Backstage Theatre, Mountview); The Chronicles of Atom and Luna (National Tour); Tasting Notes, Anyone Can Whistle, You Are Here and Romeo and Juliet (Southwark Playhouse); Oppenheimer (Mountview); 13 and Days of Significance (ArtsEd); Widows (GSA) Sweet Smell of Success and Bells are Ringing (GSA); Company (The Backstage Theatre, Mountview); Romeo and Juliet (Southwark Playhouse, London); Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Assembly Hall Theatre, Tunbridge Wells); Dick Whittington (Royal and Derngate, Northampton); Jack and The Beanstalk (Kings Theatre, Portsmouth); Home (Chichester Festival Theatre); Katzenmusik (ArtsED); Fear and Misery of The Third Reich (ArtsEd); The Light Burns Blue (Guildford School of Acting); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Guildford School of Acting); Marriage A La Mode (Chichester University); Fiddler On The Roof  (Chichester University); Babe – The Sheep Pig (Guildford School of Acting); Elegies For Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (Union Theatre); Jekyll and Hyde the Musical  (Alexandra Theatre); Market Boy (Union Theatre); Thoroughly Modern Millie (Tring Park School for Performing Arts); Veterans Day (Finborough Theatre, London),

Associate/Assistant credits: The Magic Goes Wrong  (The Lowry, Salford); West Side Story (The Birmingham Hippodrome for David Howe); Oor Wullie (Dundee Rep for Katharine Williams); Two Ladies (The Bridge Theatre, London for Johanna Town); and The Mask of Orpheus (English National Opera) and Far Away (Donmar Warehouse for Peter Mumford).

Joe Dines

Sound Designer

Joe is a freelance sound designer, musician and composer and trained at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama.

Joe is regularly collaberating on projects across the UK and Europe with such companies as The Young Vic Theatre, Complicité and The Schaubühne, Berlin. 

As sound designer: THE SEX ED MUSICAL (UK tour), RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE REMATCH (Dock X), FIVE SHORTS – (The Young Vic Theatre), CLIMATE CABERET (National Youth Theatre), DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD (R&D, Complicité), TOM FOOL (Orange Tree), SAD & THE DURATION (Omnibus Theatre), IVANOV (Schauspiel Stuttgart), CHASING BONO (Soho Theatre), BEAST ON THE MOON, WHITE GUY ON THE BUS (Finborough Theatre).

As Composer: A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Reading Rep) as well as the critically acclaimed virtual exhibition THE DOG AND THE SAILOR and May Day- (audio play) – part of the Fizzy Sherbet collection. Film composition credits include FOR THE MOMENT and OUR CHARLIE.

As associate Sound: BEST OF ENEMIES (Young Vic), NOT THE END OF THE WORLD (dir. Katie Mitchell, Schaubühne), MICHAEL KOHLHAAS (dir. Simon McBurney, Annabel Arden, Schaubühne), ALL ABOUT EVE (Ivo Van Hove, Noel Coward Theatre); HABIT OF ART (UK Tour); A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS (Hackney Empire).

Joe graduated in Theatre Sound from the Royal Central School of speech and Drama in 2018.

Lee Freeman

Composer / Orchestrator & Musical Arranger

Training: BRIT School & Surrey University

Musical Director credits; Choir Of Man (Arts Theatre, West End), Grease (Royal Caribbean), Noise Boys (NCL), Hairspray (Royal Caribbean), Cool Rider (Lyric/Duchess Theatre, West End), Ushers: the Front of House Musical (Charing Cross Theatre), Copacabana (UK Tour), Spelling Bee (UK Tour), Sleeping Beauty Stratford East).

Composer credits; Proud (Turbine Theatre – which currently in development) Signposts and Diversions (Off-Broadway), Chat! the Internet musical (Edinburgh Fringe), Bent (Landor/Tabard Theatre). Lee was a finalist in the Stiles and Drewe Best Song Prize and was also a finalist for the Stiles and Drewe Mentorship Award 2023.

Orchestrator credits; Cool Rider (Original Cast Recording and Live show), Moby Dick the Musical (Union Theatre), Chat! the Internet musical (Edinburgh Fringe) and West End Bares (London). Lee also regularly orchestrates for Proud Cabaret (West End).

As a vocal coach Lee has worked for the BBC and has taught at Londons top vocational Musical Theatre colleges. His private clients have gone on to shows such as; Matilda, Les Miserables, La Bamba and many more.

@leefreemanmusic

Mark Anderson

Lyricist

Mark is an emerging lyricist and book writer in the world of musical theatre, having written additional lyrics for Lady Chatterley’s Lover which played at the Shaftesbury Theatre, West End. He’s also had pieces performed in new writing events such as From Page To Stage and RE:Act (The Other Palace Theatre) and MTFest (The Turbine). For five years running, Mark wrote lyrics for West End Bares, an annual charity event for the MAD Theatre Trust.

Together with Lee and co-book writer Graham Lappin, Mark is currently developing a new show, Proud, about conversion therapy. The piece was shortlisted for the prestigious Stiles & Drewe mentorship prize earlier this year.

As well as writing lyrics, Mark is an actor appearing in Tina: The Tina Turner Musical at the Aldwych Theatre, London. His other acting credits include School of Rock; The Book of Mormon; Mary Poppins; Legally Blonde; and Disney’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

Alan Pollock

Playwright

Alan Pollock’s 10 plays for stage include The Death Of Cool (Hampstead Theatre) , Pigplay (Traverse Theatre), One Night In November, Too Much Pressure, Godiva Rocks and Meet Me In The Ruins (all Belgrade Theatre). One Night In November is the most successful new play ever produced at the Belgrade, revived three times since 2008.

For TV Alan co-created BBC2’s Attachments (with David Walliams) and he has worked as a writer on a number of long-running drama serials. He was co-winner of the 2008 Writers’ Guild award for Continuing Drama.

Radio includes Philip And Sydney, Every Duchess In England and May There Always Be Sunshine (All BBC Radio 4).

Adaptations include A Christmas Carol (Barn Theatre 2019-2020) and Peter Pan (Barn Theatre 2020). His Brothers Grimm Present Cinderella was first seen at the Barn in 2021, and his large-scale music theatre adaptation of Silas Marner – The Allesley Silas – was featured at City of Culture in 2021 and revived at the Belgrade in July 2022. His True Adventures Of Marian And Robin Hood was seen at the Barn in 2022. Upcoming productions include a stage version of Michael Morpurgo’s Eagle In The Snow and a version of his children’s book The Bear Who Went To War, In 2024.