Serafinowicz
FLETCHER
Welcome To
Hi and welcome to Liverpool’s Royal Court and this production of The Legend Of Rooney’s Ring.
It was a time for heroes. It was a time for war. It was a time for furry undies and daft jokes…
This show is a journey into the fantasy world of swords and sorcerers, wizards and warlocks, Wayne and Colleen. It’s a show that is very much in the style of our annual Christmas offering, full of jokes, songs and barely believable plot twists but all based in scouse reality.
Helen Serafinowicz is an exceptional writer, with the likes of Motherland and Amandaland making her one of the hottest properties in television. She came home to Liverpool during Eurovision and popped in to see Jonathan Harvey’s A Thong For Europe. We’re glad she did, because she got bitten by the Royal Court bug!
Stephen Fletcher directed Thong, and he has taken Helen’s script and brought it to life. When you add in a creative team of choreographer Carrie-Anne Ingrouille, Kate Harvey as sound designer, Ian Scott as lighting designer, Jamie Jenkin on AV design and Olivia Du Monceau creating an incredible set and costumes, then you end up with more magic than Gandalf on a Saturday night out in Vegas.
We are very lucky to have such a talented cast to call on. John May makes his Royal Court debut as Wayne and he was very flattered (we think) when we told him that he was a great fit for
the role. Emma-Grace Arends is a more familiar face and she shines as Coleen. Lindzi Germain, Adam McCoy, Keddy Sutton and Liam Tobin are regulars from our Christmas shows and they bring the same energy and madness that have people choking on their turkey dinners. Finally, we have two other Royal Court debutants in Jess Smith who has been a brilliant addition to the cast and Terry Mynott, the man of a thousand voices.
One more thank you goes to Wayne and Coleen themselves, for not suing us (correct at time of going to print). This isn’t a show that sets out to be mean or mocking of them and there is a lot of love for two genuine scouse Titans. We hope that they sneak in and watch the show. I think that they might enjoy it. Donald Trump, less so. But he’s pretty busy at the moment so we’re hoping he won’t notice.
Now it’s time to drift off into the fantasy world inhabited by a muscular, heroic Wayne Rooney, a demonical Donald Trump and Coleen, the most beautiful girl in the world. We hope you enjoy it!
Kevin Fearon Executive Producer Liverpool’s
Royal Court
Liverpool’s Royal Court presents The Legend Of Rooney’s Ring by Helen Serafinowicz
Starring Emma-Grace Arends, Lindzi Germain, John May, Adam McCoy, Terry Mynott, Jess Smith, Keddy Sutton and Liam Tobin
Directed by Stephen Fletcher • Musical Director James Breckon
Choreography by Carrie-Anne Ingrouille • Set Design by Olivia Du Monceau
Lighting Design by Ian Scott • Sound Design by Kate Harvey • AV Design by Jamie Jenkin
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A Legendary Scouse Urban Myth?
The Legend Of Rooney’s Ring is based on a Scouse urban myth, but how true is it?
At the core of this fantastical show is a kernel of celebrity folklore, the night a young woman biifed an engagement ring into a bush. Liverpool’s Royal Court has the exclusive scoop on what really happened that night.
If you don’t stick your head out of the window when someone’s having a fight outside your front door, are you even from Liverpool? Art curator James Lawler was settling in for a peaceful weekend at his mum’s when what sounded like a rowing couple outside disrupted the quiet. He’d headed upstairs to bed and said goodnight to his mum when she shouted for him.
“My mum called me into her room and said, there’s someone having a row outside”.
Well, it’d be rude not to have a look, wouldn’t it?
It turned out to be Liverpool’s first couple, Wayne and Coleen, in front of his mum’s toprairy
Carefully hidden behind the curtains, James and his mum watched the action and both gasped as Coleen took off her engagement ring and threw it.
“It went right into Mum’s hedge”, he says.
They went to bed, thinking nothing more of it, but it was only when the police knocked on their front door the following morning they realised it could be valuable.
Emma-Grace Arends and John May in rehearsals as Colleen and Wayne.
“I truly love Coleen. She is the archetype Scouse diva. And I kind of felt sorry for her that she’d been so upset”.
A famously private couple, the story that the press got wind of was that the ring had been thrown to the squirrels, more specifically, into the nature reserve at Formby. The truth of the story has been lost to the winds of time.
James is no stranger to the glitz and glamour of celebrity. Once a makeup artist and magazine editor, he co-founded DuoVision with Martin Green in 2012. The two curate art shows featuring the work of artists too often overlooked. That has included Holly Johnson, Duggie Fields, Caroline Coog and Pam Hogg.
“I’m not surprised they changed the location, otherwise you would have had half of Merseyside out there looking for a diamond ring!”
In fact, the BBC reported at the time, that those searching for the reportedly £25,000 ring were to be banned from the Fomrby Point Nature Reserve, and anyone disturbing the squirrels would be told to leave.
Debbie Peers of the National Trust told the BBC she feared the rare red squirrels in the reserve would be harmed by treasure hunters trawling through the park.
“We really do not want people trampling through the woods and disturbing the squirrels”
“Metal detectors are banned from the reserve anyway and we will enforce this.
“Anybody who is seen disturbing the squirrels will be asked to leave.”
The story itself went into Scouse urban folklore, as stories of celebrity are wont to do. It only returned to the fore when writer Helen Serafinowicz came
to see A Thong for Europe and wanted to explore the myth for her own show.
The show itself is a love letter to Coleen, with Emma-Grace Arends C’leen dubbed “the most beautiful woman in the land”.
“Celebrities can fall into two camps,” says James. “They can lap up the attention and do whatever they can to maintain it. Or they can keep themselves fiercely private and just give people glimpses into their lives. Coleen is the epitome of that. She’s obviously incredibly smart, really savvy and quick witted. It’s about time that was celebrated in its own show”.
Rehearsal
Photographs by Liverpool’s Royal Court
Company
Helen Serafinowicz
Stephen Fletcher
James Breckon
Carrie-Anne Ingrouille
Olivia Du Monceau
Stephen Fletcher
Ian Scott
Jamie Jenkin
Kate Harvey
Marie Jones
Mitch Fujii-Williams
Costume Maker
Dressers
Writer Director
Musical Director
Movement Director
Set Designer
Dramaturg
Lighting Designer
AV Designer
Sound Designer
Waredrobe Supervisor
Head of Wardrobe
Marina Diamantidi
Katie Hinson
Eleanor Cantley
Eden Easterbrook
Workshop Manager
John Kavanagh
Scenic Art Manager
Jen Baron
Workshop
Scenic Artists
Abbie Jones
Chris McCourt
Puppet Maker
Abbie Jones
Thanks to
Gary at Envision
Cast
Emma-Grace Arends
Lindzi Germain
John May
Adam McCoy
Terry Mynott
Jess Smith
Keddy Sutton
Liam Tobin
C’leen
Queen Colette
Wayne
Hench Person
Trump
Hench Person
Nana
King Tony
Sean Gannon
Dan Taylor
Phil Dickson
Lizzie O’Sullivan
Steph Carter
Laura Spallen
Frasier Craig
Holly Freeman
Tom Evans
Jack Walsh
Helena Harvey
Joe Baron
Stephen Petit
Production Manager
Technical Manager
Deputy Tech Manager
Company Stage Manager
Deputy Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
LX Programmer
LX No 1
AV Programmer
Sound No 1
Sound No 2
Crew
Crew
Carpenters
Joe Baron
Dave Davies
Mike Gray
Shaun Gillespie
Connor McLeod
Barry at Colourcreate
Work Experience
Daniel George Zeke
Cast Biographies
Emma-Grace Arends C’leen
Emma-Grace is thrilled to be back joining the Liverpool Royal Court family.
Emma Grace theatre credits include: Railway Sleepers (JB Shorts) 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); Presenter (Uber One) Peppa Pigs Big Splash (UK No.1 UK 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 has recently started singing for the children at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, The Christie and Great Ormond Street which she absolutely adores.
Lindzi Germain Queen Colette
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
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.
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 through what can be the most horrendous time of there lives The Menopause. To date she has over 7.7k members!
Lindzi and her husband Darren are the founders of CNC Nutrition building a happier, healthier community. For more information check out their Facebook and Insta @CNCnutritionliverpool
John May Wayne
John May is a Liverpool-born actor, filmmaker, and comedian known for his grounded performances, raw humour, and strong connection to working-class storytelling. He’s played roles across major British television dramas, independent films, and live comedy stages.
He will soon appear in the upcoming Jimmy McGovern BBC drama Unforgivable, continuing his work in emotionally powerful, socially rooted drama.
Key Television Credits: Doctor Who (BBC) – Kev, in the globally acclaimed series’ “Flux” storyline. Time (BBC) – Appeared in Jimmy McGovern’s BAFTA-winning prison drama. Tin Star (Sky Atlantic) – Bookie, alongside Tim Roth in this noir crime series. Champion (BBC) – Bailiff, in Candice Carty-Williams’ acclaimed music drama. Casualty (BBC) – Wendel Percy. Coronation Street (ITV) – Guest role in the UK’s longest-running soap.
Other appearances: Little Boy Blue, Fresh Meat, Cuckoo, Moving On.
Film Credits: The Two of Us (2025) – Himself / Producer. A documentary following John’s 1,000-mile walk from Land’s End to John o’ Groats with Tim Edwards, father of Elle Edwards. Selected for Raindance Film Festival 2025 and nominated for Best Documentary and Best Cinematography.
The Fall of the Krays – Hennessy, in the cult British gangster film K-Shop – British horror-thriller tackling gentrification and violence. Billy Smith, Scream of the Wolf, Hot Property, Our Eddy – supporting and lead roles in independent UK features and shorts. ‘Will’ alongside Bob Hoskins and Damien Lewis. Beyond the screen, John toured a sold-out one-man comedy show based on his viral character Turkey Teeth, a sharp and hilarious take on Scouse culture that’s earned a cult following online. He also hosts Johny May’s Sunday Service on In Demand Radio, mixing music, stories, and footie chat every Sunday.
He is the founder of Progress Inc, a youth project empowering working-class young people to break into film and performance. Whether acting, producing or mentoring, John is passionate about telling real stories and opening doors for others.
Training: LIPA
Adam McCoy Henchperson
Theatre: Scouse Red Riding Hood, Scouse Dick Whittington, A Greasy Spoon, Masquerade (Liverpool’s Royal Court) The Snow Queen (The Dukes, Lancaster) Peter Pan (Crossroads Entertainment, Liverpool Empire), Boom Bang-a-Bang (Above the Stag London), Crazy Gary’s Mobile Disco (Liverpool 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. He would like to dedicate his performance to his cousin, Matthew.
Terry Mynott Trump
Jess Smith Henchperson
Keddy Sutton Nana
Keddy trained at The Everyman Youth Theatre, Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama and with Ken Campbell’s Improvisational Company - The School of Night.
Royal Court Theatre credits include: A Thong For Europe, The Scouse Red Riding Hood, The Scouse Dick Whittington, The Scouse Jack and The Beanstalk, The Scouse Snow White, The Scouse Cinderella, The Scouse Sleeping Beauty, The Scouse Nativity, Scouse Of The Rising Sun, Scousetrap, Bingo Star, Pete Price Is Dead, Father O’Flaherty Saves Our Souls, Stags And Hens (Directed by Willy Russell and Bob Eaton For Capital Of Culture), Slappers And Slapheads, Terry Titters Summer Special, Selection Box and Mam I’m Ere.
Other theatre credits include: Shirley Valentine (Theatre Royal, Bury St. Edmunds); Keddy was in the Liverpool Everyman Rep theatre 2017/2018, performing in Fiddler On The Roof, Paint Your Wagon, The Big I Am, A Clockwork Orange, The Sum and Conquest Of The South.
Further credits: Dreaming Of A Barry White Xmas (Liverpool M&S Banks Arena), The Queens Knickers (Southbank Centre/ Theatre Royal Bath), Beauty And The Beast (Theatre Royal Wakefield), Robinson Crusoe (Theatre Royal Winchester), Singa-Longa-Eurovision (AJN Productions) That Sketchy Show (The Edge), All The Joy Can Bring (Shakespeare North & Slung Low), 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton), Ken Campbells Improvisational School Of Night (The Globe, Royal Court London, Edinburgh Fringe, Jeremy Beadles Library, National Theatre Everyman).
Television credits: Hollyoaks (Channel 4), Good Cop and Nice Guy Eddie (BBC), Fated (Ace Films). Pot Noodle Advert and Studio One Advert.
Radio/Audio credits: Patterdale (BBC Radio 4), April Ashley Project (Liverpool Museum), Narrator (Chester College), 1000 Feet Deep (Periplum & Culture Knowsley) and Redwall (Brian Jacques).
Keddy has also been a proud member of her choir ‘Handbag of Harmonies’ for 24 years, a lifelong team of great friends.
Keddy appeared in her own driving documentary - Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre.
Writing credits: Tabbard The Musical.
Co-Writing credits: Caz ‘N’ Britney Present Scottie Road The Musical (From Primark to Prison) and Mis Les (A Revolution In Rollers).
Liam Tobin
King Tony
Previous work at the Royal Court: Boys From The Blackstuff, Scouse Red Riding Hood, Scouse Dick Whittington, 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: Boys From The Blackstuff (National/ West End), Jab (Finborough Theatre-Offie Nominated Best Duo Performance), Lights On, Lights Off (Shakespeare 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 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).
Screen work includes Then & Now, Hollyoaks, Emmerdale, Coronation Street, The Royal, Heartbeat, The Cops, Seeing Red, The Second Coming and the feature film Al’s Lads.
Company Biographies
Helen Serafinowicz Writer
Helen Serafinowicz was born in the humble district of Belle Vale, Liverpool, where, on her long perilous walks to Our Lady of the Assumption school or to the swimming baths behind Belle Vale Shopping Centre at the weekends, she would dream of writing hit sitcoms for the BBC. Luckily her dream came true and inspired by her experience of motherhood created the BBC comedy Motherland and more recently Amandaland Her biggest dream though was to write a stage play. A play so powerful it could change the world, stop the endless violence and unite communities. Sadly she couldn’t do that so she wrote this instead.
Stephen Fletcher Director & Dramaturg
Stephen Fletcher is a Director and Writer from Liverpool. He is represented by Jamie Hendry at Creative House Management. Stephen is Associate Writer on The Hook for Spiegelworld in Atlantic City USA, and Associate Director on A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum at The Lido2, Paris He recently directed the critically-acclaimed Liverpool Everyman production of Willy Russell’s Shirley Valentine. It is the first time the production has been staged there since its premiere in 1986. He is about to direct The Derby-Days for The Royal Court, and is co-producer and Director of new musical, Shake It Up Baby!, about the early life of The Beatles, at The Epstein Theatre in September 2025.
He directed the world premiere of Jonathan Harvey’s newest musical-comedy, A Thong For Europe, and also directed Harvey’s 2024 Summer comedy, Sisters Of Mersey.
He was an Artistic Advisor for The Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Theatres, and is a Dramaturg for a number of new plays and musicals, most notably at Liverpool’s Royal Court Theatre.
He is also producer of the award-winning production company, Life in Theatre Productions Ltd and CIC- creating new work and entertaining tens of thousands of people and schoolchildren since 2012.
Other credits include NHS The Musical for Plymouth Theatre Royal, Rent The Musical at LIPA, and some of The Royal Court most successful and popular Christmas shows, including Scouse Jack And The Beanstalk, and Making It. Stephen has worked in the Performing Arts since 2002graduating from LIPA (The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts) with a First-Class BA Honours Degree in Acting. Since then he has worked extensively in Theatre, Radio, TV and Voiceovers. As a performer he has appeared on TV and in numerous stage plays across the UK and the West End.
He has worked alongside Phyllida Lloyd, Jamie Lloyd, Gemma Bodinetz, Mark Da Vanzo, Kevin Fearion, Peter Kosminsky, Jonathan Harvey, Noreen Kershaw, Willy Russell, Ian Talbot, Thelma Holt, Adrian Vinken and more. He is one of the original members of The Old Vic’s New Voices Company, a regular voice on Radio 4 Drama productions and commercial voiceovers.
DIRECTOR / WRITER AWARDS:
WINNER - Theatre Culture Award - Our Bev, The Liverpool Echo
WINNER- Best Comedy, The Sunshine Boys - Liverpool Post Culture Awards
WINNER- Best Comedy Musical - The Last 5 Years - Liverpool Post Culture Awards.
James Breckon
Musical Director
James is thrilled to be back at the Royal Court for The Legend Of Rooney’s Ring, having previously been part of Scouse Pacific, A Thong For Europe and Sisters of Mersey
Based in Liverpool, James is a keyboard player and musical director. His music has taken him all over the world, playing live with artists like Lucy Thomas, China Crisis, Ray Quinn, The Real People, and Natalie McCool. He has also recorded in studios around Europe for artists in the UK, Norway, and Spain. James recently returned from shows in America with Lucy Thomas and is gearing up for performances in Japan later this year.
James graduated with a first-class degree in Music from the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. His session and composing work has taken him around the UK and onto national TV sets, including composing for Britain’s Got Talent and appearing on BBC Sessions. He also provided orchestrations for the opening of the Eurovision Fan Park - Welcome to Eurotopia, featuring Natalie McCool, Stealing Sheep, and the Liverpool Philharmonic Strings. Earlier this year, James toured the UK and Ireland with Something About George - The George Harrison Story.
Carrie-Anne Ingrouille Choreographer
Carrie-Anne Ingrouille is currently represented in the West End and on Broadway with her critically acclaimed choreography for SIX The Musical playing at the Vaudeville Theatre, London and the Lena Horne Theatre, New York. For her work on the show, Carrie has received a Tony and Olivier Award Nomination for Best Theatre Choreographer and WhatsOnStage, OFFIE, and The Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award nominations for Best Choreography.
Notable Choreography and Movement Direction credits include: The Parent Agency (Chester Storyhouse), The Importance of Being Earnest (National Theatre), Dear Evan Hansen (Nottingham Playhouse/UK Tour), Sisters of Mersey (Liverpool’s
Company Biographies
Royal Court), The Merry Widow (Glyndebourne Opera), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Lido2, Paris), Rock Follies (Chichester Festival Theatre), Village Idiot (Theatre Royal Stratford East, Nottingham Playhouse & Ramps on the Moon), The Good Person of Szechwan (Sheffield Crucible, Lyric Hammersmith & ETT), Monsoon Wedding-The Musical (St.Ann’s Warehouse, New York), Antigone (Regents Park Open Air Theatre), Our Generation (National Theatre & Chichester Festival Theatre), Wonderful Town (Opera Holland Park), This is My Family (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Catherine Tate Show Live (UK Tour), Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense (Duke of York’s Theatre), The Suicide (National Theatre), The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party (Royal Opera House, The Roundhouse).
Carrie is the U.K. Associate Choreographer for the West End and touring productions of Hamilton.
Olivia Du Monceau
Set & Costume 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. Her Liverpool Royal Court previous shows include 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, Homebaked and Scouse Dick Whittington
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, 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 (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.
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
Resident Stage Manager Andrew Lock
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
Costume Supervisor Marie Jones
Finance Administrator Izzie Litwin
Venue Administrator Phil McLoughlin
Assistant Producer - Talent Development Harvey Robinson
Daytime Technician Gary Currin
Studio Technician Phil Dickinson
LX Technician Martyn Case
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.