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Hi and welcome to Liverpool’s Royal Court and this production of The Derby-Days.

Whenever I travel around the country and introduce myself as being from Liverpool, the first question that everyone asks is simple: “Red or Blue”. You can’t be neither, you can’t be both.

With the greatest respect to Tranmere fans, you have to be one or the other.

Alfie Heywood agreed to create the family home on stage with his clever set design, Jamie Jenkin has brought it to life with his video wizardry, Ian Scott has designed the lighting (using many colours, not just red and blue) and Kate Harvey is, as ever, sound.

Over the years we have learned that if you make a joke about the reds, then you need to make one about the Toffees straight after.

We know that the audience count them. That was the one piece of advice that I gave to Ian Salmon when he was writing this, make sure that both clubs get the mickey taken out of them in equal amounts. We’ll get letters.

For the cast, we were celebrating like a last minute winner when we got Dominic Carter, Sarah White, Elliott Kingsley and Ellie Clayton. You’ll know Dominic from Boys From The Blackstuff and Game of Thrones on the telly; Sarah from Netherley Hillbillies and Brookie; Ellie as our fantastic lead in Peaceful Hour and Elliott for his versatile run in Stocking Fillers in the Studio last year.

Welcome back to them all.

This show came about because of Ian’s family situation. As well as being a fantastic writer, he is a match going red and his wife is a die hard blue. I said to him: “There’s a play in that”. And there was. You’re going to see it tonight.

All that’s left for you to do is go through your pre-match rituals and superstitions. Grab your scarves and woolly hats and get ready for the main event. In this show, it’s fair to say that it’s about to kick off.

Our Director, Nicole Behan worked on Red Or Dead earlier this year and was seriously impressive. We are delighted that she’s taken on another football show for us. We’ll ask her to do something different next time. Maybe cricket?

Red, Blue or undecided, we hope that you enjoy the show.

Kevin Fearon Executive Producer Liverpool’s Royal Court

Liverpool’s Royal Court presents The Derby-Days Written by Ian Salmon Starring Dominic Carter, Ellie Clayton, Elliott Kingsley and Sarah White Directed by Nicole Behan • Set Design by Alfie Heywood Lighting Design by Ian Scott • Sound Design by Kate Harvey • AV Design by Jamie Jenkin

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Keeping It In The Family

Derby Day in Liverpool, like in most cities, is a big deal. At the local news desks, it often meant trying to find a different story to illustrate Derby Day and give people a sense of the culture at stake.

Because Liverpool and Everton are so intertwined with family, and familial connections, you would often find that it was those kitchen sink dramas that would fill local headlines.

to illustrate their desire to put their favourite team ahead of familial bond. Although that doesn’t mean it isn’t as keenly felt.

The determination to use football fandom to define teenage angst is another long trope.

She shall remain nameless, but there was one woman once interviewed by a newsdesk who had decided to become a Blue in a family of Reds.

One story told depicted two brothers, twins in Her brothers looked in horror as she put posters fact, who took Derby Day especially seriously. One of Duncan Ferguson and Barry Horne on the wall was a Blue, the other a Red. One had a tattoo alongside various pop stars. of Everton on their arm, the other a tattoo of the Liverpool crest. They displayed their sibling rivalry, It was a commitment to being different from the articulated through football allegiance, in a very rest of the family, to adamantly stand out against Scouse way, with gentle joshing but fierce loyalty the rest. Perhaps she truly was a Blue and was to their own team. won over by the particular style of play of the Not every family will commit to the ink, of course, Toffees. But I have heard through mutual friends that her sons are all Reds, and she was on the

Victory Parade when LFC won the Premier League Trophy, so perhaps it was teenage kicks after all.

You’ve got to be careful in the local news environment, with this passion that Derby Day inspires. There was a tradition, in one local news team, to develop April Fools’ Day pranks that would feed into news stories. They’d be fairly gentle and funny but one year, in a planning meeting, the idea was floated about the Derby Day tradition.

Wouldn’t it be funny, the journalist suggested, if we said that the city had decided that on Derby Day, instead of having Red and Blue scarves, they were going to introduce a purple scarf, that would symbolise your love for the city itself, blending the two colours together?

There was a silence.

“But that’s the colour of the wheelie bins”, said one editor. Another, shocked into silence, finally cleared his throat and said, “You can’t even get away with a half and half scarf in Liverpool. How could you possibly get away with a new scarf all together?”

The fact that the prank would be revealed as a joke at midday, as per the tradition, was completely lost, so deep was the sense that this was going a step too far. You don’t mess with family rivalry and Derby Day joshing. It’s too contentious, there’s too much at stake.

Instead, they went with the April Fool that Church Street was going to go one way. Much less controversial!

Rehearsal Photos

Photographs by Liverpool’s Royal Court

Cast Dominic Carter Ellie Clayton Elliott Kingsley Sarah White

Dave Chloe Marc Debbie

Company Ian Salmon Nicole Behan Alfie Heywood Ian Scott Jamie Jenkin Kate Harvey Marie Jones Mitch Fujii-Williams Sean Gannon Jimmi Richardson

Writer Director Set Designer Lighting Designer AV Designer Sound Designer Wardrobe Supervisor Head of Wardrobe Production Manager Head of Lighting

Dan Taylor Phil Dickinson Mark Ellis Kate Eccles Snowzie Rose Laura Spallen Adam Murdoch Holly Freeman Tom Evans Hayden Gallacher

Technical Manager Deputy Technical Manager Senior Stage Technician Company Stage Manager Deputy Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager (rehearsal) LX Programmer LX No 1 AV Programmer Sound No 1

Workshop Workshop Manager John Kavanagh Scenic Art Manager Jen Baron

Scenic Artists Abbie Jones Chris McCourt

Carpenters Mike Gray Shaun Gillespie Connor McLeod

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Barry at Colourcreate

Cast Biographies

Dominic Carter

Elliott Kingsley

Dave

Marc

It’s great to be back at the Royal Court telling the story of our legendary football rivalry. How it splits families and friends, but always we hope, with a laugh and a joke.

Theatre includes Boys from the Blackstuff at Liverpool’s Royal Court;1984 at Hackney Town Hall; Macbeth at the Tricycle; The Chance and Shopping and Fucking for Prime Cut Productions; The Dumb Waiter at The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, Los Angeles; From Bombay to Santa Fe at the Arcola; It’s Now or Never at Chester Gateway; Blue Remembered Hills and Chalk and Talk at Edinburgh Fringe; and If There Was a Time at the Unity, Liverpool. TV includes Legends, Game of Thrones, Coronation Street, The Responder, Around the World in 80 Days, Crossfire, Friday Night Dinner, Endeavour, Casualty, The Irregulars, Moving On, Bed Bugs, Murdered for Being Different, How Many Miles to Bagra?, Guilt, The Case, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Eyes Down, My Family, Derailed, Black Books, The Message, Doctors, Dalziel and Pascoe. Film includes Going Off Big Time, The Children Act, Together, Charlie Noades RIP and Swing

Elliott is “made up to be back at the Court”, this time, working in “the big room”. Elliott also joined the cast of the Liverpool Royal Court’s Boy’s From the Blackstuff (Alan Bleasedale and James Graham) for its London/West End leg back in 2024. Then returning for its UK Tour earlier this year. In his own words - “This building has been a huge part of my life over the past 12 months.

The Royal Court is scouse storytelling at its finest and I can’t wait to share this one with you!

Training: Elliott (he/him) received his training during the Liverpool Everyman’s & Playhouse’s inaugural REP Season (2017) with support from The National Theatre, The Globe, Emma Rice, David Morrisey and Sir Ian McKellen Liverpool’s Royal Court: Stocking Fillers; (2024) Stage: Boys from the Blackstuff; National Theatre, West End and UK Tour, The Tempest; Royal & Derngate, The Wonderful World of Dissocia; Liverpool Playhouse, Fiddler on the Roof, The Story Giant and Romeo & Juliet; Liverpool Everyman, Drag Nativity; Chester Storyhouse TV: Cobra (Sky), Antony (BBC) Socials: @elljkingsley

Ellie Clayton

Sarah White

Chloe

Debbie

Ellie left her hometown of Liverpool to study Musical Theatre at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. She graduated in 2018 and then went on to be the MC of Magic Mike Live, Directed by Channing Tatum at The Hippodrome.

Since 2020 she became a regular role in CBBC’s So Awkward Playing ‘Claire Fox’. Ellie’s most recent role was playing Rita in Willy Russell’s classic ‘Educating Rita’ at the Barn Theatre.

Ellie is so excited to be returning to The Royal Court and would like to thank Mum, Dad, Nan and Michael for their constant help and support.

Other credits include Hollyoaks, Fun at The Beach Romp Bomp a Lomp (Southwark Playhouse), Peter Pan (WendyGordon Craig Theatre), Still So Awkward, So Awkward Academy (Claire- CBBC) Alrawabi School for Girls (Netflix), The Peaceful Hour (Julie- Liverpool’s Royal Court).

Movie Credits- Claire in CBBC’s So Awkward Kids Camp.

Sarah trained at Rose Bruford College.

Her theatre credits include Vignettes ( Hope Mill Theatre), The Salon and The Salon 2 ( St Helens Theatre Royal and The Epstein), The Netherley Hillbillies ( Liverpool’s Royal Court), Janine And Jessie ( 532), The Naked Truth ( national tour), A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg ( Nottingham Playhouse), Drama Queen ( The Unity), Mums The Word ( national tour), The Morris ( Liverpool Everyman), and Abigail’s Party ( The Torch Theatre).

Television credits include Coronation St (ITV), Moving On (BBC), Doctors ( BBC), Edge Of Heaven (ITV),Overlanders (BBC), and Brookside (C4), in which she played Bev McLaughlin for many years.

Sarah’s film credits include Ammonite, Gods Own Country and Tom Cat. Sarah lives in Liverpool with her husband and two children, and is delighted to be back at the Royal Court! ww

Company Biographies Ian Salmon Writer Ian Salmon is the writer of the massively popular Girls Don’t Play Guitars, which appeared at the Royal Court in both 2019 and 2024 to huge acclaim and multiple five star reviews.

His previous work includes ‘Those Two Weeks’ (Unity Theatre, Epstein Theatre), ‘The Comeback Special’, Whatever Happened To Billy Kenny’ (both at the Royal Court Studio), ‘Venus Rising’ (Hope Street Theatre), ‘A Brief Conversation About The Inevitability Of Love’ (Liverpool Theatre Festival) and most recently, ‘Shake It Up Baby!’, a new musical covering the Beatles’ two years in Hamburg which runs at The Epstein Theatre from 26th September to 11th October 2025 (so, at the same time as this show - a happy coincidence) He is a regular contributor to The Anfield Wrap and a Liverpool Football Club season ticket holder. He has been happily married to his Evertonian wife since 1990 and ‘The Derby-Days’ is very definitely not based on their life. In any way at all.

Nicole Behan Director Nicole is a Director from Liverpool and Artistic Director of Paperwork Theatre, with a passion for staging bold narratives which reflect the world today and theatrical experiences for the stage and beyond. Previous theatre credits include: Pass the Parcel (Liverpool’s Royal Court), My Beautiful Laundrette (Leicester Curve & National Theatre’s Theatre Nations tour), Stocking Fillers (Liverpool’s Royal Court), Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons (Liverpool Everyman), Come Closer: Memories Of Partition (Royal Exchange), Qualified (Hope Mill), You, Me & The Goalpost (Octagon), Northern Flight (Liverpool Everyman).

As Artistic Director of Paperwork Theatre, she most recently created and Directed a new immersive multi location production Lovestruck, which toured to Liverpool Everyman, Storyhouse & Shakespeare North Playhouse. Previous credits include; Deep Blue (Liverpool Everyman) and Christmas Countdown; Twisted, Baltic Alight, I Spy A Yeti, How May I Direct Your Call? & Shortcut To Bliss.

Associate Director: Red or Dead (Liverpool’s Royal Court), Alice in Wonderland (Shakespeare North Playhouse), Ghost Caller (Headlong).

Assistant Director: Corrina, Corrina (Headlong/National Theatre workshop): Boys From The Blackstuff (Stockroom/National Theatre workshop) and Tree (Manchester International Festival/ Young Vic).

Co Director for Young Everyman Playhouse: Soapbox (Liverpool

Everyman), Crowd (Liverpool Playhouse), Until They Kick Us Out (Birmingham REP).

Training: Drama & Theatre Studies BA Hons, Liverpool Hope University.

Alfie Heywood Set & Costume Designer Alfie’s recent credits as Designer include: The True Adventures of Marian and Robin Hood, Private Lives, Treasure Island, Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em, Room 13 and Haywire (Barn Theatre), Adrian Mole the Musical (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch), Ellen and Rigby, A Greasy Spoon, Vernon’s Girls, Lost in Colomendy, Netherley Hillbillies, Offered Up, Omnibus (all with Liverpool’s Royal Court), A Monster Call’s and Wendy and Peter Pan (Watermill Theatre), Twelfth Night (Stafford Gatehouse), Guys and Dolls, Start (both at Mountview Academy), Nora: A Doll’s House, The Ballad of Maria Marten (both at Rose Bruford), Lord of the Flies (Greenwich Theatre), Unspoken Spoken (Candoco Dance Company).

Recent credits as associate to designer Christopher Oram include: Turn of the Screw and Platee (both at Garsington Opera), Bitter Wheat (Garrick Theatre, West End), Geisha (Northern Ballet), The Mirror and the Light (Gielgud Theatre, West End), The Wreckers (Houston Grand Opera), Backstairs Billy (Duke of York’s Theatre, West End), The Artist (Theatre Royal Plymouth), Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Goodman Theatre, Chicago), La Traviata (Sante Fe Opera) and most recently Alice in Wonderland (Tulsa Ballet). They are currently working on a design for Norwegian’s National Ballet production of Romeo and Juliet opening in 2026.

Alfie is delighted to be asked to design The Derby-Days which will be his eighth production working for Liverpool’s Royal Court.

Examples of his work can be found at www.alfieheywood.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, Come Together, Two Of Us, Haunted Scouse, Boys From The Blackstuff, Red Or Dead 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

Company Biographies (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 (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).

Jamie Jenkin AV 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: Alan Bleasdale’s Boys From The Blackstuff by James Graham (Liverpool’s Royal Court, National Theatre and Garrick Theatre London), 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, The Scouse Dick Whittington, Haunted Scouse, Sisters Of Mersey, The Netherely Hillbillies, Haunted Scouse, Come Together, Girls Don’t Play Guitars, The Scouse Red Riding Hood, The Peaceful Hour and Red Or Dead (Liverpool’s Royal Court); Masquerade, Knee Deep In Promises, Hey Bunny Get Loose, Stocking Fillers, Cosmic and Pass The Parcel (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); 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); Sunderland The Musical (Alterean Productions, Empire Theatre Sunderland); 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).

Kate Harvey Sound Designer A list of sound credits include: Corporate/Outdoor: Labour, Conservative, NUT, TUC. Symphony in the Park (Hoghton Tower) Liverpool Theatre Festival (Bill Elms Productions), Grimm Tales, Jungle Book, 80 Days Around the World, Alice in Wonderland (Williamson Park, Lancaster) 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.

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

Live Theatre: Aladdin, Sleeping Beauty (King Georges Hall) Mystique (Stageworks) Original TV Comedians (Blackpool Opera House) Paul Zerdin (Paradise Room Blackpool) Flags (Royal Exchange, Manchester) 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 1&2, Girls Don’t Play Guitars, Golden Oldies, Come Together, Vernons Girls, Red Or Dead (Royal Court Liverpool) Twopence to cross the Mersey, Lennons Banjo and By The Waters of Liverpool (Pulse Records) SHOUT! (Max Emmerson Productions) Out of Order 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 and Liza National Tour (Produced by Royal Court Liverpool) Midsummer Nights Dream (Filter Theatre Company/

Lyric Hammersmith) Homebaked (Red Ladder Theatre Company) Something about George (Something About Productions) Insane Animals (HOME MCR) Cinderella (Imagine Theatre, Beck Theatre-Hayes) Beauty and the Beast, Robin Hood, A Christmas Carol (Dukes Playhouse, Lancaster) Cinderella (Imagine Theatre, Crewe Lyceum).

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.

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Royal Court Staff Executive Producer Kevin Fearon Chief Executive Gillian Miller Head of Finance & Administration Gary O’Connor Creative Producer Jess Bolger Head of Marketing Kofi Ohene-Djan Head of Operations Ailsa Morris Executive Chef David Assall HR & Finance Manager Alison Ward Graphic Designer & Brand Manager Jamie Jenkin Assistant Producer Clare Carlucci Marketing Managers Iain Christie and Lily Hagan Workshop Manager John Kavanagh Social Media Manager Clara Mbirimi Head of Technical & Production Sean Gannon Technical Manager Dan Taylor Deputy Technical Manager Phil Dickinson Head of Lighting Jimmi Richardson Lighting Technician Holly Freeman Senior Stage Technician Mark Ellis Scenic Art Manager Jen Baron Box Office & Sales Manager Lauren Macauley Assistant Box Office Manager Laura Lees Head of Community Engagement Miriam Mussa Well Being Training Manager Maria Schumann Head of Wardrobe Mitch Fujii-Williams Costume Supervisor Marie Jones Finance Administrator Izzie Litwin Venue Administrator Phil McLoughlin Assistant Producer - Talent Development Harvey Robinson Stores & Maintenace Technician Gary Currin HR & Payroll Administrator Gilly Taylor Executive Assistant Joe Morris Building Maintenance Technician Bob Smith Box Office Assistants Erica Drummond, Finn Goulden-Jennings, Carl Lees, Scarlet Lees, Anna Miller, Pat O’Neill, Susan Segar, and Angela Simms Fire Officer Sam Massen Stage Door Julia Darcy, Allan Dodd, Sven Key and Izzie Litwin

Kitchen Chefs Thomas Alexander, Keane Pritchard, Jay Quinn, Josh Eglin, Jack While and Nick Watson Kitchen Porters Hezekiah Abramson, Debbie Chisam, Louise Dodd and Luke Dunn Front of House FOH Manager Kathy Hutson Assistant FOH Managers Paul Imrie and Brendon Wright Shift Supervisors Sammie Hunter Bar Supervisors Jordan Barkely Floor Supervisors Michael Hall and Katie Sherman Front of House Staff Hebron Abraha, Beth Baccino, Jordan Barkley, Hazel Bawden, Cameron Brown, Azize Dia, Holly Evans, Charlotte Freyne, Michael Hall, Samantha Hunter, Lily Hutson, Callum Johnstone, Elizabeth Kendrick, Michael James, Charlotte Kendrick Jones, Raia Kiernan, Jackie Kirton, Cherry Kim, Takunda Kudzunga, Hansol Lee, Phil Lyne, Sam Massen, Lukas Matuzevicius, Joseph McGee, Isabella Renshaw, Theo Stock-Best, Joseph O’Neil, Christiano Samuel, Katie Sherman and Mohan Welstand-Keryk.

Cleaners Cleaning Supervisor: Debbie Chisam, Billie Chisam, Joanne Kinsella, Claire Wilson and Julie Wright.

And a big thank you to all of our freelance and security staff for their hard work throughout the year.