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CREATIVE TEAM
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Lesley Hart
WRITER
RECENT THEATRE CREDITS
Sherlock: A Study in Lipstick, Ketchup and Blood (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Safe Keeping (Paines Plough), Welcome to Bannockburn (A Play, A Pie & A Pint/Macrobert Arts Centre), World Domination (A Play, A Pie & A Pint/Sherman Theatre), Role Shift (Birds of Paradise), Flame Proof; 3 Seconds (A Play, A Pie & A Pint/Traverse Theatre), Saint One (A Play, A Pie & A Pint /Aberdeen Performing Arts), The Fundraiser (Horsecross Arts).
RADIO CREDITS
Personal Best (BBC Radio Scotland).
AWARD NOMINATIONS / WINS
Playwright Studio Scotland’s New Playwrights Award Winner 2011.
Polina Kalinina
DIRECTOR
RECENT THEATRE CREDITS
As Director:
Smoke; Playboy of the Western World (Southwark Playhouse), Islanders; Flashes (Soho Theatre), Romeo & Juliet (Tobacco Factory Theatre & UK Tour), Julius Caesar (Neuss Globe Theatre), Noble Nine (Vault Festival), Shakespeare in Love (Clifftown Theatre), Gifted (Pleasance London), Overruled (Old Red Lion), Dutchman (Orange Tree Theatre).
As Associate Director:
The Events (Actors Touring Company & Young Vic).
BURSARIES AND AWARD NOMINATIONS / WINS
The James Menzies-Kitchin Young Director Award Finalist 2017, MGCfutures Bursary Recipient 2017.
TRAINED AT
LAMDA, National Theatre Studio, and Lincoln Centre Theatre in New York.
Emma Bailey Designer
RECENT THEATRE CREDITS
Uncle Vanya (Schauspielhaus Dortmund), A Mother’s Song (Macrobert Arts Centre Stirling), A Very Expensive Poison (Burgtheater Vienna), Oliver Cromwell is Really Very Sorry (Xnthony Productions and Chapter Arts Dublin), Six the Musical (Vaudeville Theatre/Lena Horne, Broadway/UK Tour/ World Tour), Dan Daw Show (Sadlers Wells Theatre/Sydney Dance Festival/Kampnagel Hamburg/HOME, Manchester), Pleasure Seekers (Bourgeois & Maurice/Soho Theatre/HOME, Manchester/UK Tour), Little Wimmin (Figs in Wigs/UK Tour), Wedding Singer; Urinetown (Royal Academy of Music), Dirty Crusty (Yard Theatre), Super Duper Close Up (Made in China/Yard theatre), Tonight I’m Gonna be the New Me (Made in China/Soho Theatre), Double Double Act (Made in China, Unicorn Theatre).
AWARD NOMINATIONS / WINS
Drama Desk Award for Best Scenic Design Nominee 2022 (Six the Musical), Linbury Prize for Stage Design Winner 2011, Inaugural Maria Bjornson Fellow for Design at Royal Academy of Music, a 3-time JMK Award Finalist, and an RSC Trainee Designer 2011-2012.
TRAINING
Motley Theatre Design School and Bartlett School of Architecture.
Mark Henderson
LIGHTING DESIGNER
RECENT THEATRE CREDITS
The Bodyguard; Girl From the North Country (UK and International Tours), The Boy in the Dress (RSC), Dancing at Lughnasa; Standing at the Sky’s Edge (National Theatre), Oklahoma (Chichester Festival Theatre), Sweet Charity (Donmar Warehouse), Into The Woods (Theatre Royal, Bath), Newsies (Troubadour, Wembley Park).
OTHER CREDITS
Kate Bush Live: Before the Dawn (2014). Opera credits include designs for English National Opera, Royal Opera, Welsh National Opera, Opera North and Glyndebourne.
Dance credits include designs for English National Ballet, London Contemporary Dance Theatre, the Royal Ballet, Scottish Ballet, Northern Ballet, Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet and Rambert.
AWARD NOMINATIONS / WINS
Tony Award Winner 2006 (The History Boys), WhatsOnStage Award Winner 2013 (Sweeney Todd), Olivier Award Winner for Lighting Design in 1992, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2010 and 2016.
Xana
COMPOSER & SOUND DESIGNER
RECENT THEATRE CREDITS
Galatea (Wildworks/Marlborough Productions), Hamnet (RSC), The Trials; Marys Seacole (Donmar Warehouse), Sundown Kiki; Changing Destiny; Fairview; Ivan and the Dogs (Young Vic), …cake (Theatre Peckham), Who Killed My Father (Tron Theatre/Scottish Tour), as british as a watermelon (Contact Theatre), Hyde and Seek (Guildhall), Sleepova; The P Word; Strange Fruit (Bush Theatre), Burgerz (Hackney Showroom), Black Holes (The Place), Sankofa: Before the Whitewash; Hive City Legacy (Roundhouse), Glamrou: From Quran to Queen; Curious; Half-Breed (Soho Theatre), Blood Knot (Orange Tree Theatre), Living Newspaper (Royal Court), Everyday (Deafinitely Theatre). Performer credits: The Collaboration (Young Vic).
AWARD NOMINATIONS / WINS
Sound Offie Finalist 2019 (Blood Knot, Orange tree Theatre), Sound Offie Nominee 2022 (The P Word, Bush Theatre) and 2023 (Sleepova, Bush Theatre), Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre Winner 2023 (The P Word, Bush Theatre).
Vicki Manderson
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR
LYCEUM CREDITS: Cockpit.
RECENT THEATRE CREDITS
Movement Director/Choreographer credits include: Burn; Orphans; The Enemy; The 306 (National Theatre of Scotland), Moonset (Citizen’s Theatre), Cinderella; Wings Around Dundee (Dundee Rep), The Hope River Girls (Groupwork/Imaginate), Light Falls; Queen Margaret; The Almighty Sometimes (Royal Exchange, Manchester), Last Orders At The Dockside; The Country Girls; Jimmy’s Hall (Abbey Theatre, Dublin), The Afflicted (Summerhall, Edinburgh), Square Go (Edinburgh Fringe/New York & UK Tour), Crooked Dances (RSC), Companion: Moon (Coney), Ear For Eye; Instructions For Correct Assembly; A Profoundly Affectionate, Passionate Devotion To Someone (-Noun); The Children (Royal Court), Br’er Cotton (Theatre 503), We’re Still Here (National Theatre Wales), See Me Now (Young Vic).
Associate Movement Director credits include: The Ocean At The End Of The Lane (National Theatre), Let The Right One In (National Theatre of Scotland/Royal Court/ West End/New York), In Time O’ Strife; Black Watch (National Theatre of Scotland), The Twits (Royal Court), The Curious
Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time (National Theatre/West End).
OTHER CREDITS
Co-founder of Scottish based theatre company, groupwork.
TRAINED AT
The Scottish School of Contemporary Dance, London School of Contemporary Dance.
Debi Pirie
Associate Director
RECENT THEATRE CREDITS
Assistant Director credits: Her (Strange Town Touring Company).
Director credits: IWD monologues (F*Bomb Theatre), Moonlight on Leith (New Celts).
BURSARIES AND AWARD NOMINATIONS / WINS
Federation of Scottish Theatre Bursary (in partnership with Traverse Theatre) for Assistant Directing Recipitent, C Arts Spark Fund Recipitent.
OTHER CREDITS
Debi is a workshop facilitator for Strange Town Youth Theatre and a Traverse Class Act freelancer.
TRAINED AT
Edinburgh Napier University, Queen Margaret University.
