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LIVERPOOL’S ROYAL COURT presents

by Alice Bunker-Whitney

Starring Lindzi Germain, Anthony Gough, Adam McCoy and Hayley Sheen Directed by Francesca Goodridge • Designer Alfie Heywood • Lighting Designer Ian Scott • Sound Designer Kate Harvey

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Written by Kevin Fearon • Directed by Stephen Fletcher • Musical Direction by Howard Gray Set and Costume Design by Olivia du Monceau • Lighting Desing by Ian Scott • Sound Design by Kate Harvey

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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.

Rehearsal Photos

Photographs by LIverpool’s Royal Court

Cast Jamie Clarke Jessica Dives Tasha Dowd Caitlin Lavagna Rebecca Levy Abigail Middleton

Lydia Morales Scully Emma Jane Morton Izzy Neish Siobhan O’Driscoll Lynwen Haf Roberts

Company Karen Brown Bob Eaton Alfie Heywood Marie Jones Jessica Dives Howard Gray Beverley Norris Edmunds Abigail Middleton Ian Scott Kate Harvey Jamie Jenkin Sean Gannon Andrew Lock Alicia Southerton Helena Harvey Jonathan Tringham Liam McGrath Jamie Haining

Writer Director Set Designer Costume Designer Musical Director Musical Supervisor Movement Director Dance Captain Lighting Designer Sound Designer AV Designer Head of Technical and Production Stage Manager Deputy Stage Manager AV Programmer & LX Op Sound Op Sound No 2 LX Programmer

Workshop Workshop Manager John Kavanagh Scenic Art Manager Jen Baron

Carpenters Mick Gunnigle Jonathan Defty Mike Gray

Scenic Artists Abbie Jones Chris McCourt

Cast Biographies

Jamie Clarke Barbara Mitchell Jamie studied Acting at LIPA. Her Theatre credits include: Scouse Sleeping Beauty, Royal Court Selection Box, Scouse Snow White and Scouse Pacific (Liverpool’s Royal Court); Revolt, She Said, Revolt Again! (Everyman Studio); 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).

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.

Jamie would like to thank her partner Joe and her amazing family for their unending support. This one is for Ridley.

Tasha Dowd Marty Wilde, Teddy Girl Anna, Grenfell Tasha Dowd is a multi-instrumentalist Actor Musician based in Liverpool and Leeds. From Drag to Richard III, Tasha’s stage experience is as broad as her musicality. Tasha studied at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and Leeds Conservatoire and has already completed projects with Sky Atlantic, Leeds Playhouse, and the Unity Theatre. With a rich alto voice, Tasha has a strong background in musical theatre as well as singing her original works. Off-stage, Tasha collaborates with theatre companies to compose and musically direct songs for their productions.

Heavily influenced by folk traditions, Tasha has used their skills whilst working for grass-roots companies to tell stories about Climate Change, Class and Identity. This season, Tasha will be playing Lady Macduff in Macbeth and and will be joining the ensemble/band in The Coup Coup Club. Tasha plays: Guitar, Banjo, Double and Electric Bass, Drum Kit and Trumpet.

Caitlin Lavagna Mrs Morgan, Tedy Girl Mary, Kennerley I graduated the Rose Bruford Actor Musician course in 2020 and first appeared in Liverpool Everyman’s Rock ’n Roll Panto, Robin Hood.

I went on to perform in the award winning musical Operation Julie with Theatr na nÓg and appeared in Robin Hood at Theatr Clwyd last Christmas.

I began 2023 by taking part in an exciting new Research & Development workshop for RCT Theatres in Wales and was recently part of the company for Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical national tour. As well as Acting Muso-ing, I self release original music and have two new singles out this summer.

It’s an honour to be making my Royal Court debut in such a special show.

Performing alongside such strong and talented women is so inspiring and I hope you enjoy watching us rock ’n roll your socks off!!

Rebecca Levy Jack Good, Leslie Cooper, Joe Rebecca is a Musical Theatre graduate from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, 2016.

Her credits since training include: Goldilocks/Muffet/Bodgit in Red Riding Hood (Liverpool Everyman Rock n Roll Panto); Cover Kathryn in Mamma Mia! The Party (The O2); Lover in A Letter to Harvey Milk (Waterloo East Theatre); Jesse in Say My Name - The Unauthorised Breaking Bad Parody Musical (Theatre N16); Ella in Cinderella Rocks! (The Garage); Belle in Beauty and the Beast; Peter Pan in Peter Pan; Aurora in Sleeping Beauty (Key Theatre); Jess in 500PCM (Arcola Theatre); and Vocalist in Magic of the Musicals with Magic FM. Credits whilst training include Paulette in Legally Blonde; Ruth in Kiss Me, Kate; Eleanor Roosevelt/Evelyn Lincoln in First Lady Suite.

Rebecca is a Singer/Songwriter and recently released her debut pop album ‘How to Keep Your Girlfriend 101’ to critical acclaim, reaching the top 20 in the iTunes charts and amassing over 5 million streams on Spotify.

Abigail Middleton Peggy Cleary Abigail’s most recent acting credits include: A Christmas Carol at Shakespeare North Playhouse, Policeman and Understudy Lilly/Len and Farmer in What the Ladybird Heard (West End/UK Tour, Olivier Award nominated 2022), Wicked Witch of the West in Wizard of Oz (Epstein Theatre), Lucy in Pig (Royal Court Theatre Liverpool), Sister Mary Gamble/Ensemble in Scouse Pacific (Royal Court Theatre Liverpool),

Nancy in Kiss Me Quickstep (Queens Theatre Hornchurch, New Wolsey Theatre and Theatre Clwyd).

Abigail is so excited to be back working at the Royal Court and hopes you enjoy the show!

Lydia Morales Scully Jean Ryder

Playhouse) and Little Bits of Light (National Theatre).

She made her debut screen performance in the BAFTA nominated film, Blue Jean (BFI/BBC) last year.

Izzy is also a singer-songwriter. She released her debut single, ‘Starlings’, last summer and looks forward to releasing more music in the coming months.

She would like to dedicate her first performance in Liverpool to her little sister, Annie.

Lydia began her studies at Chiltern Dance Studios in Liverpool and went on to study at LIPA Sixth Form College. Lydia will be graduating from The Arden School of theatre this summer and is delighted to be back at the Royal Court Theatre. As a Liverpudlian herself she is extremely proud to be telling a story so close to home in a theatre that is close to her heart.

Credits - You’ll Never Walk Alone “Let’s Talk About 6 Baby” - Tia

Emma Jane Morton Carole, Jo Douglas, Cliff Richard, Barnett Emma grew up locally and is absolutely thrilled to be making her Royal Court debut here in Liverpool at one of her bucket list venues! She’d like to dedicate her performances to the memory of her Grandmother, Irene who attended this theatre often, and to thank her current & past teachers, friends and family for their constant support.

Theatre Credits include: Thursford Christmas Spectacular, cover Swallow in Whistle Down The Wind (The Watermill Theatre), Anna in Some Enchanted Evening (Barn Theatre, Cirencester), Giraffe/Dingo Dog in Just So (Watermill), Ensemble in Camelot (Watermill), u/s Gina/ Amandine/Suzanne in Amelie (The Other Palace, London), Katy in Keep The Home Fires Burning (Tour), Helene in Sweet Charity (Watermill), u/s Patsy & Tess in Crazy For You (No.1 UK Tour), Grace/Dot/Queenie in Honk (Union Theatre), Puck in A Midsummer Nights Dream (Windsor Castle), Mary Weiss in The Leader Of The Pack (Waterloo East Theatre), Lulu in Cabaret (MAC, Belfast), Liz in Blonde Bombshells Of 1943 (Gatehouse, London), Swing in Save The Last Dance For Me (No.1 UK Tour), u/s Laura & Donna in Dreamboats & Petticoats (No.1 UK Tour).

Pantomimes: Swing in Aladdin (Queens Hornchurch), Alice Fitzwarren Dick Whittington (Leytonstone Ballroom), Fairy Virtue in Mother Goose (Drayton Arms),Tommy the Cat in Dick Whittington and Dance Captain Aladdin (Key Theatre, Peterborough).

Other credits; Amelie Cast Recording, Commercials for Skoda & Britain’s Got Talent; Rock And Roll Revolution (UK Tour), Two Singular Sensations (UK Tour), Tie (WEIS/Bluebox Entertainment) and various corporate gigs with The Blue Jays.

For more information about Emma Jane, please visit: www.accessuk.agency

Izzy Neish Joyce Izzy is a north eastern actor-musician. Since graduating Rose Bruford, she has performed in multiple actor-muso shows including: Beauty and the Beast (Theatre Clwyd) and Robin Hood (The Barn). Other theatre credits include: Rapture (The Pleasance), Primary Playmaker (Oxford

Siobhan O’Driscoll Eleanor, Maggie Stredder Siobhan graduated from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts with a First Class BA (Hons) degree.

Credits include: Eponiné in Les Misérables (UK & Ireland Tour), Meghan in The Throwaways (The Other Palace), Heather in American Idiot (UK & Ireland and New Zealand Tour), Choir for Michael Ball & Alfie Boe ’Together Again’ (O2 Arena) and Guest Singer at West End Christmas at Cadogan Hall.

Siobhan is thrilled to be performing at home in Liverpool and would like to dedicate her performances to her late grandmother who was a supervisor at Vernons when she moved to Liverpool from Omeath, County Louth - Ireland, in the 1950’s.

Lynwen Haf Roberts Miss Finegan, Vicki Originally from Montgomeryshire, Mid Wales, Lynwen graduated with a BA in Performing Arts from the University of Trinity St. David, Carmarthen in 2010.

Theatre credits include: Robin Hood, Beauty & the Beast, The Panto that Nearly Never Was, Jack & the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, Sleeping Beauty (Theatr Clwyd), Cranogwen (Mewn Cymeriad), Lloergan (Opening Concert of the National Eisteddfod, also broadcast on S4C), Summer Holiday, Blonde Bombshells of 1943, The Crucible (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), A Berlin Kabaret (Sphinx Theatre), Iesu!, Deffro’r Gwanwyn (Welsh National Theatre of Wales), Arandora Star (Theatr Na N’Og), Fala’ Surion, Hawl/Right (Fran Wen), Lleuad yn Olau, Cysgu’n Brysur (Arad Goch) and Sherman Swingers (Sherman Theatre).

TV credits include: Pobol y Cwm, Rownd a Rownd and R’un Sbit (S4C).

Radio credits include: The News From Nowhere (BBC Radio 4), Rhosod (BBC Radio Cymru) Lynwen is also an emerging composer and musical director. Her credits include Celebrated Virgins (Theatr Clwyd), Santa’s Caravan (a Christmas charity single for local charity North Wales Superkids), Rhyfeloedd y ‘Rona/The Corona Wars (Leeway Academy/Leeway Productions), and most recently Golygfeydd o’r Pla Du produced by Theatrau Sir Gâr which toured Wales in May of this year.

Company Biographies

Karen Brown

Jessica Dives

Writer

Musical Director

Karen is an award winning playwright and screen writer. She has

Jessica trained at RCSSD and has a BA from Royal Holloway University of

been commissioned by Paines Plough and both Liverpool’s Unity and

London.

Everyman Theatres. Her TV work includes Brookside CH4 - Peak Practice

Credits include: Musical Director A Christmas Carol (Shakespeare

ITV - Clink CH5 and Moving On BBC - The Rain has Stopped and The

North Playhouse); Musical Director Comedy of Errors (Mercury

Shrine earned Royal Television Award nominations. She’s written seven

Theatre, Colchester); Musical Director/Composer Merry Wives of

single radio dramas and a comedy-drama series for BBC Radio 4. In 2018

Windsor, A Comedy of Errors and A Christmas Carol (Storyhouse/

she wrote a TV Christmas advert for Liverpool jewellers HM SAMUEL.

Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre); Associate MD The Ballad of Maria

In 2022 she wrote a feature length murder mystery for US TV starring

Marten (Eastern Angles/SJT/UK Tour) Composer/MD Twice Nightly

Kelsey Grammar and Caroline Quentin. She is currently working on a sit

(Frame This Presents Regional Tour); MD/Sound Design Spirit Box

com and a sci fi series. Karen is a lecturer in comedy writing at Falmouth

(Mercury Theatre/); MD/Composer Up and Away (Super Stories)

University.

Bob Eaton Director

Acting credits Include: A Christmas Carol (Shakespeare North Playhouse); Romeo and Juliet (Stafford Shakespeare Festival) Comedy of Errors (Mercury Theatre); Robin Hood Rock n Roll Panto (Liverpool Everyman); Pride and Prejudice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, A Comedy of Errors (Storyhouse/Grosvenor Park Open

Bob’s first job was in 1971 as Assistant Director at the Victoria Theatre Stoke. During the mid 1970s he was a member of Alan Ayckbourn’s Scarborough company as actor, director and writer.

In the late 70s he was Associate Director of Contact Theatre Manchester and in 1981 became Artistic Director of the Liverpool Everyman. His productions here included Alan Bleasdale’s It’s A Madhouse, his own show, Lennon which subsequently transferred to The Astoria Theatre, London and the Entermedia Theater New York, winning the Sunday Times award for Best Musical of 1986, and the stage musical version of Our Day Out on which he collaborated with Willy Russell. In 1984 he became Artistic Director of the London Bubble Theatre and from 1996 to 2003 he was Director of The Belgrade Theatre Coventry. Bob has written many plays and musicals including Good Golly Miss Molly, Three Minute Heroes and the lyrics for Face. His many collaborations with Sayan Kent include The Good Companions, Limestone Cowboy, Silas Marner and Maggie May. Bob is delighted to be back in Liverpool and working at the Royal Court where he has directed Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels, Lost Soul, Good Golly Miss Molly, Two, Stags and Hens, On The Ledge, Slappers And Slapheads, Merry Ding Dong, A Fistful Of Collars, Our Day Out, Lennon, Scouse Pacific, You’ll Never Walk Alone, Little Scouse on the Prairie, Reds & Blues, Shed, Bouncers, Noises Off, The Golden Oldies, Twopence To Cross The Mersey, Father O’Flaherty Saves Our Souls,The Miracle Of Great Homer Street, Yellow Breck Road, Maggie May, Lost Soul 2, Girls Don’t Play Guitars and Scouse Pacific.

Air Theatre) A Christmas Carol (Storyhouse) The Ballad of Maria Marten (Eastern Angles/SJT); Twelfth Night, Henry V and The Borrowers (Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre 2019) Guess How Much I Love You (Selladoor Theatre); The Lost Ones (Bush Theatre/ Theatre Royal Stratford East); Newsrevue (Canal Cafe Theatre); Hamlet and Macbeth (Young Shakespeare Company); Little Red Riding Hood (Liverpool Everyman).

Howard Gray Musical Supervisor 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

Royal Court. Most recently Marie’s work at the Everyman and Playhouse

And The Chinese Elvis, Dick Barton Special Agent, Union Street,

has included: Much Ado About Nothing, The Electric Hills, The

Women On The Verge Of HRT, Private Lives, Feed, The Road To

Flint Street Nativity, The Tempest, Unprotected, Billy Liar, Who’s

Nab End, Sweet Charity, and Brassed Off. Also a hatful of rock’n’roll

Afraid of Virginia Woolfe, Urban Legend, Fly, Breezeblock Park,

muiscals and pantomimes.

The Entertainer, Still Life And The Astonished Heart, Ma Rainey’s

At the New Vic in Stoke: A Taste Of Honey, The Admirable Crichton,

Black Bottom, The Anniversary, Dr Faustus, The May Queen,

and Spring And Port Wine amongst many others.

Cruel Sea and All My Sons.

Other work includes any number of pantos at the Liverpool Everyman

Marie’s other credits include: Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels, Lost

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.

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,

Alfie Heywood Designer

The Splash Project at MYPT and Twopence To Cross The Mersey at the Liverpool Empire.

Ian Scott Alfie trained in Theatre and Performance Design at Liverpool Institute for

Lighting Designer

Performing Arts, graduating in 2016.

Recent credits as Designer include: Ellen and Rigby, Lost in Colomendy,

Trained at Mountview.

Offered Up, Terriers and Omnibus (all at Liverpool’s Royal Court), The True

Productions for the Royal Court include:

Adventures of Marian and Robin Hood andPrivate Lives (Barn Theatre),

Scouse Pacific, Maggie May, The Miracle of Great Homer Street,

Adrian Mole the Musical (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch), A Monster Call’s (Watermill Theatre), Guys and Dolls, Start (both at Mountview Academy), Nora: A Doll’s House and The Ballad of Maria Marten (both at Rose Bruford), Lord of the Flies (Greenwich Theatre), Unspoken Spoken (Candoco Dance Company).

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

Recent credits as associate to designer Christopher Oram include:

(Giffords Circus); By The Waters of Liverpool (Pulse Records); Up

Turn of the Screw (Garsington Opera), Bitter Wheat (Garrick Theatre),

‘n’ Under and Frozen (fingersmiths); Reasons To Be Cheerful,

Geisha (Northern Ballet), The Mirror and the Light (Gielgud Theatre) and

Peeling and Blasted (Graeae); Duet for One (Birmingham Rep; Lee

The Wreckers (Houston Grand Opera). They are currently working on a

Dean & Daniel Schumann); A Skull in Connemara and All My Sons

design for The Artist and a new production for Garsington Opera both

(Nottingham Playhouse); Marco Polo and Messiah (Bergen National

opening in 2024.

Opera); Fish Eye (Theatre Alibi); The Solid Life of Sugar Water

Alfie is delighted to have been asked back to design the set for Vernon’s

(Graeae; Theatre Royal, Plymouth; National Theatre); Owen Wingrave

Girls at Liverpool’s Royal Court this year.

and Where The Wild Things Are (Aldeburgh Festival); Fawlty Towers Live (Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney); Flat Stanley (Polka; West

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

Marie Jones Costume Designer

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);

Marie studied fashion and then moved on to theatre costume

Animal Farm (West Yorkshire Playhouse) and Observe The Sons Of

interpretation at Mabel Fletcher College. Marie’s work as a freelance

Ulster Marching Towards The Somme (Abbey Theatre, Dublin).

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

Kate Harvey 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 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).

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 designed artwork for over 100 shows.

Video Designs for Theatre include: Willy Russell’s Our Day Out - The Musical, A Fistul 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, Royal Court Selection Box, Macca & Beth, The Scouse Sleeping Beauty, The Menlove Avenue Murder Mystery, The Scousetrap, The Scouse Jack & The Beanstalk, The Two Of Us, Bingo Star, A Thong For Europe 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); The Sunderland Story (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).

Beverley Norris-Edmunds Movement Director / Choreographer For the Royal Court: A Thong For Europe, The Scousetrap, YNWA, Scouse Sleeping Beauty, Selection Box, Scouse Snow White, Girls don’t play Guitars, Scouse Pacific, Lost Soul 2, Scouse Nativity, Golden Oldies, The Royal, Father O’Flaherty Saves Our Souls, Sex in Suburbia, Canoeing for Beginners, Bouncers, Special Measures, Our Day Out The Musical by Willy Russell (premiered 2009 and 2010), Ladies Night, Good Golly Miss Molly, You’ll Never Walk Alone, Dirty Dustin’, Nightmare on Lime Street, Little Scouse on the Prairie, Brick up the Mersey Tunnels 1 and 2, Merry Ding Dong, Slappers and Slap Heads, Reds ‘n’ Blues.

Recent choreography includes: Marvelous ( @Soho Place London and New Vic Theatre); Tom Dick and Harry ( Alexandre Palace London and New Vic Theatre); Pride and Prejudice ( Grosvenor Open Air Theatre); The Worst Witch Olivier Award winner 2020 for Best Family Show (UK Theatre Tour and Vaudeville Theatre West End, Royal and Derngate Theatre Northampton); Around the World in 80 Days premiered at The New Victory Theatre on Broadway New York after its UK Tour starting at The New Vic Theatre (Newcastle -under-Lyme).

Over 50 productions for The New Vic Including Alice in Wonderland, The 39 Steps, Beauty and The Beast, Coppellia A Mystery, Sweeney Todd, Oliver, Amadeus.

For Northern Broadsides and Touring: Hard Times, For Love or Money, Loves Labour’s Lost, Much Ado About Nothing and Cyrano (co-production with New Vic).

Oldham Coliseum: Over 50 Productions including Oh What A Lovely War, Up ‘n ‘ Under, Chicago (MEN Theatre Award Winner for Best Ensemble), Stepping Out, Sweet Charity, Laurel and Hardy, Blues in the Night.

Touring credits include: Return To The Forbidden Planet, Carmen.

TV credits include: Disney’s The Evermoor Chronicles, Coronation Street, Hollyoaks, CBeebie’s The Magic Door, Butterfly, Sunny D, Fernando Torres Nike Commercial, September Song, Brookside and the feature film O Jerusalem.

Beverley has also choreographed numerous productions for The Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse theatres, Bolton Octagon, Hull Truck Theatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Birmingham Rep, Liverpool Empire Theatre, Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Stephen Joseph Theatre Scarborough, Haymarket Theatre Basingstoke, Harrogate Theatre, New Perspective Theatre company and for the award winning Tmesis Theatre, Claybody Theatre and Imaginarium Theatre Companies.

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