The Scouse Dick Whittington Show Programme

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Welcome To

Welcome to this year’s Royal Court Christmas show – The Scouse Dick Whittington!

Is there anything better at Christmas than getting together with your friends, dancing to 80s’ power ballads and laughing your head off at stupid jokes? Maybe there is but we haven’t found it yet. And that’s why we are all here!

This will be the fifteenth year in a row of the Royal Court’s special Christmas recipe. Fill a stage with a great cast, add an incredible band, stir in some banging tunes and one or two dreadful jokes and leave in front of an audience for about 2 hours. Hopefully the audience will have risen by the end.

More than half a million people have seen a Royal Court Christmas show. If we carry on at this rate then by 2038 half the population of the UK will be members of the Royal Court Christmas audience. That’s not my maths by the way, somebody high up in marketing gave it to me.

This show is a phenomenon and it is made up of phenomenal people. On stage you will be wowed by the talent of Emma, Emma, Jamie, Paige, Lindzi, Adam, Drew, Hayley and Liam. Our band will keep you rocking so huge thanks to Ben, Mike, Chris and Greg and of course to our MD Howard Gray for pulling it all together.

delighted by Ian on the lights and you’ll hear Kate’s gift of sound.

Lucy has got everyone moving in the right direction and Jamie has sprinkled his video magic over the whole process. A special mention to our new Director, Mark Chatterton. He has years of experience in getting actors to make thousands of children laugh until drinks come out of their noses. We can’t wait to see what he will do to you.

Christmas is also a time for reflection as well as celebration and there is someone special whom we never want to forget. Jake Abraham was a huge part of the success of the Royal Court and a firm fixture in our Christmas show cast. Jake sadly passed away this year, far too soon. This will be our first year without “Where’s Jake?” echoing around backstage. He was a part of the family here and we’ll be thinking of him every time the lights come up.

As well as remembering our loved ones, we hope this show will help you to forget your troubles. The difficulties we, and others around the world, have are locked outside. For the next couple of hours our world is just about the singing and dancing and laughter. It’s the Royal Court way to celebrate Christmas.

Thank you all for coming, take care of yourselves, have a great Christmas and let’s hope that 2024 shines brightly for all of us.

You will also see the impact of Olivia on the set - and this year she has definitely been wearing her Christmas hat, you’ll be

Kevin Fearon Executive Producer Liverpool’s Royal Court

Liverpool’s Royal Court presents The Scouse Dick Whittington

by Kevin Fearon Starring Emma-Grace Arends, Emma Bispham, Jamie Clarke, Paige Fenlon, Lindzi Germain, Adam McCoy, Andrew Schofield, Hayley Sheen and Liam Tobin Directed by Mark Chatterton • Musical Direction by Howard Gray Set and Costume Design by Olivia du Monceau • Lighting Design by Ian Scott • Sound Design by Kate Harvey Movement Direction by Lucy Thatcher • AV Design by Jamie Jenkin

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Talent Development

Liverpool’s Royal Court continues on its journey to work towards talent development across the city

Maurice Bessman

Music Access All Areas

Boisterous Stage Write

There is no doubt Liverpool is renowned for its wealth of talent but we, along with the rest of our city’s theatre organisations and institutions, recognise we need to do more to ensure we are accessible, engaging and aspirational if we are to be truly representative and inclusive of the communities we serve. It is a long-term continuing process and funding is key as is working together with the theatres across the region.

Over the past three years we have laid down the foundations, initiating our plans for meaningful and real change. This includes the theatre’s programming, engagement, accessibility and relationships with artistes, communities, creatives, individuals, institutions, organisations, Schools/FE. We are working towards ensuring our talent development programmes are applicable, realistic and robust.

Listening and engaging in the first instance to a wide cross section of creatives and communities – recognising and taking ownership of our failure to be fully inclusive and to take a proactive approach to ensure there is inclusivity and diversity across the sector A brief look at a few of our talent development projects so far:

Community Music AAA (Access All Areas) is a partnership project together with three grassroots organisations: Positive Impact, Capoeira For All, and Catalyst performing arts supported by funding from Youth Music. Children and young people aged 6 – 25 can access free musical instruments, musical theatre, hip hop, dance, singing, drama and performance

Raw Talent Young people from our youth theatre continue to have access to auditions and employment opportunities – during the past 3 years, 6 young people have been cast in Terriers, written by Maurice Bessman touring to schools and venues across the country.

More recently working with Fury films, 120 young people aged 15 – 25 from across the city took part in audition workshops for the film of Terriers at Fire Fit in South Liverpool, MYA’s Space in Bootle and The Vibe in Huyton. 8 young people will be working with the Director to support the script development.

Mentoring This is a pilot programme supported by PH Holt Trust and Curious Minds – eight mentors from the creative industries have been paired with mentees – providing support, guidance and shadowing opportunities in acting, marketing, production, directing, writing, set design, and music skills. This talent development initiative will support eight young black, asian and minority artistes and creatives develop their skills as they progress through the industry.

Programming Our Boisterous Theatre strand of programming brought us a main house production of Bouncers, in August and September introducing four new actors to the main house stage – and new audiences to the theatre.

The Alternative Black Cabaret Showcase – now a regular bi-monthly show presenting some of the best black comedians and singers on the circuit and with a platform to showcase emerging and existing local talent.

Co-production with Red Ladder in September/October, with a cast of professional actors and 20 members of our community choir.

Stagewrite – our new writing classes/workshops to encourage and support new writers to develop their work to full production.

We continue on our journey with a number of other talent development initiatives in progress as a matter of priority to ensure we remain accessible, adaptable and continually listen and learn. It will take time and investment and with your continuing support for all we do. We will make a difference.

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Cast Emma-Grace Arends Emma Bispham Jamie Clarke Paige Fenlon Lindzi Germain Adam McCoy Andrew Schofield Hayley Sheen Keddy Sutton Liam Tobin

Band

Ratette Ben Gladwin Ratette Greg Joy Cat Chris Nicholls Fairy, Ratette Mike Woodvine Holly Head, Mrs Mozart Dick Head King Rat, Lonely Goatherd, Helmut Shine Alice Mayor Joe Bradley Fitzwarren, Mozart

Keys Drums Bass Guitar

Company Kevin Fearon Mark Chatterton Howard Gray Olivia Du Monceau Ian Scott Kate Harvey Jamie Jenkin Marie Jones Lucy Thatcher Sean Gannon

Writer Director Musical Director Set Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer Video Designer Wardrobe Supervisor Movement Director Production Manager

Lizzie O’Sullivan Alicia Southerton Steph Carter Jamie Haining Helena Harvey Meesh Rennie Jono Tringham Liam McGrath Jack Welsh Snowzie Rose Stephen Petit Lloyd Smith

Company Stage Manager Deputy Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager LX Programmer AV Programmer LX & AV Operator Sound Op Sound Op Sound No. 2 Crew Crew Crew

Workshop Workshop Manager John Kavanagh Scenic Art Manager Jen Baron

Carpenters Mick Gunnigle Jonathan Defty Mike Gray David Davies

Painters Hannah Dimelow Rachael Shore

Scenic Artists Abbie Jones Chris McCourt Emma Sharpe Puppet Makers Abbie Jones Ruta Staseviciute

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Cast Biographies

and Half Way.

Emma Grace Arends Ratette Emma Grace is thrilled to be back with her Royal Court Theatre Family enjoying another Christmas run.

Emma Grace theatre credits include : Home I’m Darling (Frinton Summer Theatre); Peppa Pig’s Surprise (Sydney Opera House & Australian Tour); Much Ado About Nothing / Romeo & Juliet (Folksy Theatre / Shakespeare Open Air); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (We Are Butterfly); Peppa Pigs Big Splash (UK No.1 Tour & West End / Fiery Light); Twopence to Cross the Mersey (Liverpool Empire); Troll (Pleasance Theatre); Peppa Pig’s Surprise (No.1 UK & Ireland Tour); Florence Nightingale (Peter Addis); Sleeping Beauty (M&S Arena); Beauty & The Beast (Dorking Halls); Her Benny (Liverpool Empire).

Film & TV Credits Include : Peppa Pig My First Cinema Experience - Daisy ( E1 ); Emmerdale (ITV); Cilla (ITV); Tricyle (Short); A Night with Kylie Minogue (BBC); Across the Pond (Pilot); Galbani (Advert & Radio); Ben & Hollys Little Kingdom / Peppa Pig’s Big Splash (Original Cast Recording).

Emma Grace , her sister Elizabeth and Richard Sanderson shot an extremely low budget feature film in Liverpool and the Isle of Man that will finally be released next year called ‘Longtails’ …!

Emma would like to give a special mention to brave little Nuala Mulholland and her family and the wonderful staff at The Christie & Alder Hey Hosptial looking after her at the moment .

Emma Bispham Ratette Emma is thrilled and extremely grateful to be reunited with her Royal Court theatre family for another glorious year!

Television; The Gathering, Doctors, Tin Star, Clink, The League of Gentlemen, Paranoid, Prey 2, The Mill, Good Cop, Emmerdale, Coronation Street, The Driver, Shameless, Heartbeat, The Royal, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Strictly Confidential and The Bill.

Film; Kelly & Victor (Bafta Winner) Dog Run, Bride Not To Be

Theatre: A Thong For Europe, Jack & The Beanstalk, Macca & Beth (Liverpool Royal Court); TABOO 20th Anniversary Concert (The London Palladium) The Scouse Sleeping Beauty (Liverpool Royal Court) The Scouse Snow White (Liverpool Royal Court) Paint Your Wagon, Othello and The Big I Am (Everyman Theatre Repertory Company 2018) Blood Brothers (Phoenix Theatre, West End) Taboo (The Venue, West End & National tour) Spend Spend Spend (The English Theatre, Frankfurt) Bad Girls –The Musical (West Yorkshire Playhouse) 16 Gobs (Kingshead Theatre, London) Notes Across a Small Pond (Bridewell Theatre, London) Closer Than Ever (Everyman Theatre, Liverpool).

Emma also gigs regularly as a soloist or with Sense Of Sound Singers and has supported and worked with music legends such as Nile Rogers and Paul McCartney. Also appearing in the popular Cream Classical concerts at the Anglican Cathedral.

Finally, to my darlings Doug, Evie and Miles thank you, for your constant support and for being my entire world. I love you with all my heart xxx

Jamie Clarke Cat Jamie studied Acting at LIPA. Her Theatre credits include: Vernons Girls, Royal Court Selection Box, Scouse Snow White and Scouse Pacific (Liverpool’s Royal Court); Revolt, She Said, Revolt Again! (Everyman YEP Festival); Refugee (Theatre Uncut); Mam! I’m ‘Ere! (Life In Theatre Productions); Official History Of Liverpool Football Club (Alterean Media, UK & Ireland Tour); A Nightmare On Lime Street (Liverpool’s Royal Court); A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macbeth (Lodestar Theatre Company); Hound Of The Baskervilles (Greenwich Theatre); You’ll Never Walk Alone (Liverpool’s Royal Court); Grand Opening Ceremony, Royal Shakespeare Theatre (RSC); Tales From The Haunted Liverpool (St George’s Hall); Twopence To Cross The Mersey (Liverpool Empire Theatre); Snow White (New Brighton Floral Pavilion); A Small Family Business,Sweeney Todd and A Chorus Line (LIPA).

TV credits include: Hollyoaks (Channel 4); Doctors (BBC); The Royal (YTV).

She is also a successful session singer having provided lead and backing vocals for numerous bands and companies such as Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Company, ALR Music,Stony Browder Jr, Kid Creole and The Coconuts and is touring the country with The Flynn and Tonics.

Paige Fenlon Fairy, Ratette Training: Bird College.

Actress, singer and dancer Paige hails from Northwest England.

Paige recently appeared in Berlin Berlin as Josephine Baker at Admiralspalast in Berlin.

Further credits include: Identical: The Parent Trap Musical (Nottingham Playhouse, The Lowry) Luisa in Zorro (Charing Cross Theatre); Pretty Woman (Savoy Theatre); Oklahoma!

(Chichester Festival Theatre); and Rafaela/Alma in Elegies for Punks, Angels and Raging Queens (Union Theatre).

TV and film credits include: Tin Star with Tim Roth. Bella in Clink (5Star), The Way We Are (Feature film), Lynda La Plante’s Above Suspicion (ITV), Les’ Liverpool (BBC), Bodies II (ITV), Common As Muck (ITV), Emmerdale (Yorkshire TV), Prime Suspect (ITV), Dave Kirby’s 15 Minutes That Shook The World, Gwladys in Reds & Blues: The Ballad of Dixie & Kenny, Adam (Short film) and Shooting Fish (short).

Writing credits include: The Royal, Mother’s Pride, Lindzi Germain Merseymouth stand up show, Women With Balls. Also penned a new musical for 2024.

Voiceover work includes: Lindzi is the voice of Atomic Olga in the computer game Evil Geniuses 2 and has her own vlog page Mersey Mouth.

Throughout lockdown Lindzi kept herself busy performing live on Facebook with Wake And Shake and Storytime Live.

Paige was the runner up in the Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year Award 2019.

Last year Lindzi also set up a private wall on Facebook called Peri/ Meno Queens - it’s a place for women to learn, educate, laugh and cry to love and to support each other while going threw what can be the most horrendous time of there lives The Menopause.

To date she has over 7.6k members!

Lindzi Germain

Lindzi and her husband Darren are the founders of CNC Nutrition building a happier, healthier community., Form more information check out their Insta @CNCnutritionliverpool

Holly Head, Mrs Mozart

Lindzi would like to dedicate this show to Jake Abraham. Wish you were here mate.

Lindzi is one of our city’s well known character actors and is one of the Royal Court’s regulars - so much so she doesn’t even take her stuff home any more!

Theatre credits include: A Greasy Spoon, A Thong For Europe, Ellen & Rigby Royal Court Selection Box, Night Collar, Council Depot Blues, Lost Soul, Down Our Street, The Royal, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twopence To Cross The Mersey, Alehouse, The Entertainer, Bon Voyage, Beserker Boys, Virgin Express, Desperate Scousewives, Merry Ding Dong, Scouse Pacific, Scouse of the Antarctic, Scouse of the Rising Sun, Pharoah ‘Cross The Mersey, Scouse Nativity, Mam I’m ‘Ere, Sex In Suburbia (tour), YNWA (Royal Court and tour), A Fistful of Collars, Little Scouse on the Prairie, Her Benny, The King & I, King Lear, Our Bessie, Reds & Blues, Scouse Cinderella, Lost Soul 2 and Achy Breaky Bride. Peter Pan, Cinderella, Snow White, Robin Hood and Babes In The Wood.

Adam McCoy Dick Whittington Hi, I’m Adam and I am delighted to be back on stage here at the Royal Court. It’s my first time doing the Christmas show and it’s been a real pleasure to share the experience with this brilliant cast and crew. I would like to dedicate my performance in this show to my cousin, Matthew Daulby. Love you, Math. Hope you all enjoy the show and have a very Merry Christmas!

Training: LIPA Theatre: A Greasy Spoon (Liverpool’s Royal Court) The Snow Queen (The Dukes, Lancaster) Peter Pan (Crossroads Live Entertainment, Liverpool Empire), Masquerade (Liverpool’s Royal Court Studio) Jonathan Harvey’s Boom Bang-a-Bang (Above the Stag London), Crazy Gary’s Mobile Disco (Liverpool

Cast Biographies

Everyman), Lonely Hearts Club (Unity Theatre), Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin (Hope Street Theatre), The King & I (UK Tour, David Ian Productions) and Her Benny (Liverpool Empire/ Royal Court Liverpool).

Television: Doctor Who (BBC), Mobile (ITV), Casualty (BBC), Holby City (BBC), House of Anubis (Nickelodeon), Merseybeat (BBC), Brookside (Mersey TV).

Voicieover/Audio: Ramsey Campbell’s Think Yourself Lucky (Audible), Help (Channel 4), Dragonslayers (XBOX Live).

Adam has also worked as a guest vocalist on board P&O Cruises, Holland America Line and Norwegian Cruise Line and recently played a “Veganbulance” Driver in a KFC commercial.

Andrew Schofield King Rat, Lonely Goatherd, Eric Shun Andrew has appeared in Blood Brothers in 1983 at the Liverpool Playhouse and in the subsequent transfer to the Lyric Theatre in London’s West End. He also appeared as George in Of Mice and Men at the Old Vic, London in 2005.

Theatre credits include: Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels as Dickie Lewis; Smigger in Lost Soul in 2007 and 2008; Brian in Good Golly Miss Molly; Moey in the Alan Bleasdale comedy On The Ledge; Paul Sheldon in Misery; the Traveller in Eight Miles High; Danny in Council Depot Blues; Joe in Night Collar; JJ in The Flags and Mr Briggs in Our Day Out - The Musical. He performed all of these roles at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.

Since then he has appeared in A Life In The Theatre, The Sunshine Boys and Mam I’m ‘Ere (Life in Theatre Productions); Dreaming of a Barry White Christmas (Echo Arena) Royal Court Selection Box,Ellen & Rigby, Making It (with Cath Rice) and Boys From The Blackstuff (Liverpool’s Royal Court).

Film credits include: Sid and Nancy, Distant Voices, Still Lives, Three Businessmen, Hamlet, Revengers Tragedy, Under The Mud and The Partisan.

TV credits include: Scully in Alan Bleasdale’s Scully. He has also appeared in three more Bleasdale series, as Peter Grenville in GBH in 1991, Jake’s Progress in 1995 and in Melissa in 1997.

Other TV credits include Maisie Raine; Sharpe; Murphy’s Law; Boys from the Blackstuff; Liverpool Nativity for BBC Three; Fifteen Minutes That Shook The World; Cilla; Moving On; Loco; Tin Star, Help.

This is for you Jake. Miss you pal x

Hayley Sheen Alice Hi, I’m Hayley and I’m celebrating my 10th Christmas show at the Royal Court! I most recently played Shannon in A Greasy Spoon. My other Theatre Credits include: ‘Fairy Snowdrop’ in The Scouse Sleeping Beauty, ‘Sally’ in Mam I’m ‘Ere, ‘Snow White’ in The Scouse Snow White, ‘Cinderella’ in The Scouse Cinderella, ‘Mary’ in The Scouse Nativity, ‘Faryl’ in Golden Oldies, ‘Eve’ in Adam and Eve & Steve, ‘Blue Girl’ in Shout the Mod Musical. TV Credits include; ‘Gemma’ in Channel 4’s Hollyoaks and ‘Contestant’ in ITV’s Grease Is The Word.

This one is for Emily Chesterton, my beautiful, talented, hilarious friend who I miss with my whole heart. Those were the days Orange Girl x

Liam Tobin Bradley Fitzwarren, Mozart Previous work at the Royal Court: ​Scouse Jack & The Beanstalk, The Scousetrap, Mam I’m ‘Ere, The Scouse Sleeping Beauty, Homebaked, Selection Box, Pete Price is Dead, Lost in Colomendy, The Menlove Avenue Murder Mystery and ​Slappers & Slapheads.

Other Theatre includes: ​Lights On, Lights Off (Shakeshpeare North); Miracle On 34th Street (Liverpool Playhouse), ​Sweeney Todd (Liverpool Everyman), ​Benny (Gilded Balloon Edinburgh Fringe), ​Paint Your Wagon, A Clockwork Orange, The Big I Am, Fiddler on the Roof, Conquest of the South Pole, The Sum, Romeo & Juliet (Liverpool Everyman Rep Company), ​ The Hobbit​(Dukes Lancaster), ​Hamlet (Clwyd Theatr Cymru), ​ Clybourne Park, When the Rain Stops Falling (Unity Liverpool/ Said & Done), ​A View From The Bridge (Liverpool Playhouse), ​ One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest​, ​Brief Encounter​ , ​Dead Funny (Torch Theatre), A ​ Midsummer Night’s Dream &​ She Stoops To Conquer (Torch Theatre/Mappa Mundi), Cider With Rosie & The Merchant of Venice​(Theatre Royal Bury St. Edmonds), ​Gods Official (West Yorkshire Playhouse and, a European tour of ​Pygmalion (American Drama Group). ​ mmerdale, Screen work includes ​Then & Now, Hollyoaks,​ E Coronation Street, The Royal, Heartbeat, The Cops, Seeing Red, The Second Coming​and the feature film Al’s Lads​.

Company Biographies

Mark Chatterton Director Mark works as an actor, writer and director. His big love is panto and he has performed in, co-written and directed many pantos. He and his partner Sarah have written and directed 19 Rock and Roll Pantos for the Liverpool Everyman. Other pantos include Wakefield Theatre Royal, Oldham, Derby and Buxton Opera House. Mark has directed shows at Oldham Coliseum, Cheltenham Everyman, Derby Playhouse, Derby Arena, New Victoria, Bolton and many shows for LipService Theatre Company.

His work as an actor includes work at the Royal Exchange, Library Theatre and Greenwich Theatre.

TV includes: Coronation Street, Hollyoaks, The Cops, Scott and Bailey, All Creatures Great and Small. Foyles War, Last Of the Summer Wine and My Parents Are Aliens.

Films include: Millions and the horror film Christmas Presence.

So chuffed to be back in Liverpool for his first panto at the Royal Court!

Howard Gray Musical Director For the Royal Court, Howard has been the Musical Director for

Homebaked,Lennon, Our Day Out, You’ll Never Walk Alone, Eight Miles High, Sons Of The Desert, Council Depot Blues, Reds And Blues, Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels, The Scouse Nativity, Maggie May, The Scouse Cinderella and Scouse Pacific amongst many others. He has also directed two Royal Court Christmas shows Pharaoh ’Cross The Mersey and Scouse Of The Antarctic and subsequently tours of One Night In Istanbul and Celtic The Musical.

He has been associate artist at the Octagon Theatre in Bolton and was musical director for Blonde Bombshells Of 1943, a co-production with Hampstead Theatre, which won the Manchester Evening News Best Production for 2006. The show has subsequently toured nationally and internationally.

Other work at the Octagon includes: Looking For Buddy, Little Voice, Once Upon A Time In Wigan, Oh What A Lovely War, The Song Of Singapore, Danny, Champion Of The World, and I Just Stopped By To See The Man. At the Coliseum Theatre in Oldham: Bread And Roses, The Ladykillers, Our Gracie, Close The Coalhouse Door, Martha, Josie And The Chinese Elvis, Dick Barton Special Agent, Union Street, Women On The Verge Of HRT,

Private Lives, Feed, The Road To Nab End, Sweet Charity, and Brassed Off. Also a hatful of rock’n’roll muiscals and pantomimes.

At the New Vic in Stoke: A Taste Of Honey, The Admirable Crichton, and Spring And Port Wine amongst many others.

Other work includes any number of pantos at the Liverpool Everyman and Harrogate Theatre.

Howard has worked on two of Dave Kirby’s films, Fifteen Minutes That Shook The World and Reds And Blues.

Plus productions at Opera North, the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Royal Exchange, Theatre Clywd, Coventry Belgrade, Worcester Swan, York Theatre Royal, Lancaster Dukes, Live Theatre Newcastle and Stephen Joseph Scarborough.

Howard is the creative director of Alterean Media.

Olivia Du Monceau Designer Olivia du Monceau is a North West based Set and Costume designer. Alongside theatre she has created designs for exhibitions, events and art installations. Recent theatre collaborations include New Vic Theatre, HOME Mcr, Nottingham Playhouse, Southwark Playhouse, and Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse, Liverpool Culture Company. This is her 8th design for the Liverpool Royal Court with previous shows including Father O’Flaherty, Lonesome West, A Miracle on Great Homer Street, Yellow Breck Road, My Fairfield Lady, Scouse Snow White and Royal Court Selection Box, Scouse Sleeping Beauty and Homebaked. Example of her work can be found at www.oliviadumonceau.com

Ian Scott Lighting Designer Trained at Mountview.

Productions for the Royal Court include: Scouse Pacific, Maggie May, The Miracle of Great Homer Street, The Royal, The Scouse Nativity, Lonesome West, Down The Dock Road and in co-production with Lodestar and the Liverpool Shakespeare Festival; Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Other theatre credits include: Much Ado About Nothing (Sheffield Crucible and Ramps On The Moon); ¡Carpa!, The Hooley and Xanadu (Giffords Circus); By The Waters of Liverpool (Pulse Records); Up ‘n’ Under and Frozen (fingersmiths); Reasons To Be Cheerful, Peeling and Blasted

Company Biographies

(Graeae); Duet for One (Birmingham Rep; Lee Dean & Daniel Schumann); A Skull in Connemara and All My Sons (Nottingham Playhouse); Marco Polo and Messiah (Bergen National Opera); Fish Eye (Theatre Alibi); The Solid Life of Sugar Water (Graeae; Theatre Royal, Plymouth; National Theatre); Owen Wingrave and Where The Wild Things Are (Aldeburgh Festival); Fawlty Towers Live (Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney); Flat Stanley (Polka; West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Drummer Boy of Waterloo and The Happy Prince (Jubilee Opera); The 39 Steps (Criterion Theatre); Our Friends Up North (Northern Stage); The Joke, The Summer House and The Victorian in the Wall (Will Adamsdale; Fuel); My Name is… (Tamasha); Oh! What a Lovely War and Frogs (National Theatre); Curlew River (White Light Festival, New York; UCLA Berkeley; St. Giles, Barbican); Animal Farm (West Yorkshire Playhouse) and Observe The Sons Of Ulster Marching Towards The Somme (Abbey Theatre, Dublin).

and It Runs In The Family (Ray Cooney Comedy Company); Bang Bang (A production for John Cleese at Mercury Theatre, Colchester); Omnibus (Unity Theatre); Judy & Liza National Tour (Produced by Royal Court Liverpool); A Midsummer Nights Dream (Filter Theatre Company/Lyric Hammersmith); Grimm Tales (Dukes Theatre Lancaster).

Kate Harvey

Alan Bleasdale’s Boys From The Blackstuff by James Graham, A Thong For Europe, Willy Russell’s Our Day Out - The Musical, A Fistful Of Collars, Lennon, Ladies Day, Hitchhikers Guide to Fazakerley, Ladies Night, Canoeing for Beginners, The Scouse Nativity, Father O’Flaherty Saves Our Souls, A Miracle On Great Homer Street, Home, Going Halves, The Royal, The Scouse Cinderella, My Fairfield Lady, Bingo Star, Two Of Us, Royal Court Selection Box, Macca & Beth, The Scouse Sleeping Beauty, The Menlove Avenue Murder Mystery, The Scousetrap, The Scouse Jack & The Beanstalk and Girls Don’t Play Guitars (Liverpool’s Royal Court); Masquerade, Knee Deep In Promises, Hey Bunny Get Loose, Stocking Fillers and Cosmic (Liverpool’s Royal Court Studio); Cured (Liverpool’s Royal Court in association with DaDaFest & Unlimited); The Dream Team and VR Family (Liverpool’s Royal Court Youth Theatre); Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Liverpool Shakespeare Festival); Scouse: A Comedy Of Terrors (Dome Liverpool); Judy & Liza (National Tour); YNWA (Alterean Productions, international tour); The Big I Am (Liverpool Everyman); Celtic The Musical (Alterean Productions, Pavilion Theatre Glasgow and SEC Glasgow); Something About George (Something About Productions, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall and national tour); The Salford Docker (Salford Community Theatre, Lighthouse Salford); Our Country’s Good (Hope St Theatre); and Peter Pan (Storyhouse Chester).

Jamie was also Sound Designer on Hey Bunny Get Loose, Offered Up, Stocking Fillers and Cosmic (Liverpool’s Royal Court Studio) and Our Country’s Good (Hope St Theatre).

Sound Designer A list of sound credits include: Corporate/Outdoor : Labour, Conservative, NUT, TUC and many more conferences. Various exhibitions. Symphony in the Park (Hoghton Tower) Liverpool Theatre Festival (Bill Elms Productions).

TV: Stan James World Match Dartsplay (Sky Sports), Strictly Ballroom (ITV), Danny La Rue (BBC), Spirit of Shankly (Granada DVD).

Cruises : P&O World Cruises, Island Cruises, Celebrity.

Arena : Hot Ice (Stageworks Worldwide Productions); You’ll Never Walk Alone (Alterean Media and Liverpool FC).

Music: The Christians, Chesney Hawkes, Sinita, Slade, Bad Manners, Toyah, Limahl, Cream UK Tour, Petula Clarke, Bobby Crush, East 17, Liberty X, Jane McDonald, Coldplay.

Comedy: Jason Mansford, Peter Kay, Roy Walker, Norman Wisdom, Jim Bowen, Brian Conley, Brendan O’Carroll, Paddy McGuiness.

Live Theatre: Aladdin and Sleeping Beauty (King Georges Hall, Blackburn); Mystique (Stageworks); Original TV Comedians (Blackpool Opera House); Paul Zerdin (Paradise Room Blackpool); Flags (Manchester Exchange); Mam I’m ’Ere (Life in Theatre); Eight Miles High, Council Depot Blues, Bouncers, Night Collar, Our Day Out, Shirley Valentine, Reds and Blues, Lennon, Noises Off, Canoeing for Beginners, Lost Soul, Golden Oldies, The Royal, Scouse Nativity, Girls Don’t Play Guitars (Royal Court Liverpool); Twopence To Cross The Mersey and By The Waters of Liverpool (Pulse Records); Shout! (Max Emmerson Productions); Out of Order

Jamie Jenkin Video Designer Jamie is the in-house graphic and video designer at Liverpool’s Royal Court. Starting as marketing assistant at the theatre in 2005, he has been part of the Royal Court since it’s rebirth as a theatre in 2006.

He now designs artwork for all Royal Court productions alongside working on video content for the Royal Court stage and beyond.

Video Designs for Theatre include:

Marie Jones Wardrobe Supervisor Marie studied fashion and then moved on to theatre costume interpretation at Mabel Fletcher College. Marie’s work as a freelance costumier has included costumes for Oldham Coliseum, The Royal Exchange, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Jimmy McGovern’s film Liam, Beyond Friendship for Mersey Television and the many pantomime dames who have appeared on the Everyman stage.

She has worked extensively at the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse and has recently been employed as full time Wardrobe Supervisor at the Royal Court. Most recently Marie’s work at the Everyman and Playhouse has included: Much Ado About Nothing, The Electric Hills, The Flint Street Nativity, The Tempest, Unprotected, Billy Liar, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe, Urban Legend, Fly, Breezeblock Park, The Entertainer, Still Life And The Astonished Heart, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Anniversary, Dr Faustus, The May Queen, Cruel Sea and All My Sons.

Marie’s other credits include: Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels, Lost Soul, Good Golly Miss Molly, Stags and Hens - The Remix, On The Ledge, Misery, Eight Miles High, Council Depot Blues, Night Collar, Dirty Dusting, Shirley Valentine, Our Day Out - The Musical, The Salon, Funny Money, Merry Ding Dong, A Fistul Of Collars, Lucky Numbers, Lennon, Scouse Pacific, You’ll Never Walk Alone, Little Scouse on the Prairie, Reds And Blues - The Musical, Ladies Day, Bouncers, Scouse Of The Antarctic, Pharaoh ‘Cross The Mersey and Down The Dock Road for Royal Court Liverpool, Brouhaha International Street Festival, Working Class Hero on the recent Imagine DVD, Costume Supervisor for many shows at LIPA, The Splash Project at MYPT and Twopence To Cross The Mersey at the Liverpool Empire.

Lucy Thatcher Movement Director Lucy is delighted to be working at Liverpool’s Royal Court.

Lucy graduated from the Arts Educational School of Musical Theatre in 2002 where she won the Harmer-Smith Award for outstanding effort and achievement.

Lucy has worked extensively as an actor and creative in theatre, TV & film.

Choreography credits include: Sleeping Beauty; The Snow Queen; The Little Mermaid, (Liverpool Everyman Theatre); The

Show Must Go On (Bombed Out Church Liverpool); Comedy Of Errors (Changeling theatre company); Hansel & Gretel, (Corby Cube) That’s Amore, (National & international Tour); Icons In London, (The Leicester Square Theatre).

Associate Director credits include: Little Shop of Horrors (StoryHouse Chester).

Theatre credits include: Transitions (Bury Met); Crazy For You (Watermill Theatre, Newbury); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Middle Temple Music Hall); Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs (Radlett Centre, Radlett); U/S Chairy in Barnum (UK Tour); Viva Forever! (Piccadilly Theatre); RSC’s original cast of Matilda (Cambridge Theatre); Comedy Of Errors (Changeling Theatre Company); Hansel & Gretel (The Corby Cube Theatre); Abba Fever (Canadian tour); Oliver! (Municipal Theatre of Larnaca, Cyprus); That’s Amore (US tour); Imagine This (New London Theatre); All Bob’s Women (Arts Theatre); The Rat Pack (Savoy Theatre/ US tour); Icons In London (Leicester Square Theatre); Cabaret (English Theatre Frankfurt); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry V and Camelot (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Babysitter (Regents Park Studio Theatre); Scrooge (National tour); Fiddler On The Roof (National Tour); West Side Story and Hamlet (Cannizaro Park Open Air Theatre Festival); The Apple Tree (Landor Theatre); The Overcoat and The Happiness Of Fish (Bridewell); Pas De Deux (White Bear Theatre); Pendragon and Into The Woods (National Youth Music Theatre).

TV credits include: Ridley (ITV); Emmerdale (ITV); EastEnders (BBC1); Doctors (BBC1) and Doc Martin (ITV).

Lucy has also appeared on the cabaret circuit at venues such as Ronnie Scotts, Pizza On The Park, The Theatre Museum and The Sporting Club Monte Carlo.

Lucy has also performed, written and produced her own onewoman show Smoke & Pearls (Canal Café London) to high critical acclaim.

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