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• Max Bennett - Read bio

  Max Bennett - Biography

  

  MARAT

  For the Donmar: Luise Miller.
  Theatre: includes Relatively Speaking (Theatre Royal Bath/UK tour), Posh (Royal Court at Duke of York’s), In Basildon (Royal Court), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Headlong), Fabrication [Affabulazione] (The Print Room), Danton’s Death (NT), Mrs Warren’s Profession (Theatre Royal Bath/UK tour/Comedy), Measure for Measure  (Theatre Royal Plymouth/UK tour), Waste (Almeida), Romeo and Juliet (Theatre of Memory at Middle Temple Hall), Thyestes (BAC), Finisterre (Theatre503), The Herbal Bed (Salisbury Playhouse).
  Film: includes The Numbers Station, Anna Karenina, The Sweeney, The Duchess, 99 Francs.

• Gwilym Lee - Read bio

  Gwilym Lee - Biography

  

  LEONIDIK

  Trained: Guildhall School of Music and Drama
  For the Donmar: King Lear, Hamlet (also Elsinore/New York).
  Theatre: includes King James Bible Readings, Danton’s Death, Oedipus (NT), Othello (Sheffield Theatres), The Fairy Queen (l’Opéra-Comique/New York), About Tommy (Southwark Playhouse), Richard III (RSC).
  Film: includes The Tourist, Isle of Dogs.
  Television: includes Fresh Meat, Cloud Chamber, Monroe, Henry V, Land Girls, Doctors, Ashes to Ashes, Waterloo Road, Lewis, Mutual Friends, Animal Ark.

• Joanna Vanderham - Read bio

  Joanna Vanderham - Biography

  

  LIKA

  Trained: The Royal Welsh College
  Film: includes What Maisie Knew.
  Television: includes The Paradise, Dancing on the Edge, Young James, Above Suspicion, The Runaway.

Director

Alex Sims - Read bio

Alex Sims - Biography

Alex was Resident Assistant Director at the Donmar Warehouse in 2007-2008 and is the Associate Director for War Horse at the New London Theatre and the Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto.
As Resident Assistant Director at the Donmar: Othello, Parade, Absurdia, Betrayal, Kiss Of The Spider Woman, John Gabriel Borkman.
Theatre: includes Coalition, Dov and Ali (Theatre503), Jordan (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh). As Assistant Director includes Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, War Horse (NT), King John, Much Ado About Nothing (RSC Complete Works Season), Phaedra’s Love (Young Vic Walkabout Season), Blood Wedding (Almeida). 

Designer

Mike Britton - Read bio

Mike Britton - Biography

For The Donmar: The Late Middle Classes.
Theatre:  includes Abigail’s Party (West End/Menier Chocolate Factory/Theatre Royal Bath), Broken Glass, That Face (West End), The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Antony & Cleopatra, Coriolanus (Globe), Rudolf (Vienna/Tokyo), Romeo & Juliet (Tokyo/Osaka), Tis Pity She’s A Whore, Hay Fever, Dial M For Murder (West Yorkshire Playhouse), A Kind of Alaska, Krapp’s Last Trap, Faith Healer (Bristol Old Vic), The Deep Blue Sea, Nijinsky (Chichester Festival), Statement Of Regret (NT), The Winter’s Tale, Pericles, Madness In Valencia (RSC), Hero, That Face, The Vertical Hour (Royal Court), Period of Adjustment (Almeida), Broken Glass, Walk Hard (Tricycle), Glass Eels, Comfort Me With Apples (Hampstead), The Tales Of Ballycumber, The Three Sisters (Abbey, Dublin), Henry V, Mirandolina (Manchester Royal Exchange), Wuthering Heights, The Lady From The Sea - TMA Award, She Stoops To Conquer (Birmingham Rep), Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Arsenic And Old Lace, People At Sea (Salisbury Playhouse), Don’t Look Now (Sheffield Theatres/Lyric Hammersmith), Comedy of Errors, Bird Calls (Sheffield Theatres).

Lighting Designer

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Malcolm Rippeth - Biography

Theatre: includes London (Paines Plough), Wah! Wah! Girls, Six Characters in Search of an Author, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (West End), Brief Encounter (Kneehigh/West End/New York), Steptoe & Son, The Wild Bride, The Red Shoes, Don John (Kneehigh), Belong, Spur of the Moment (Royal Court), Decade, Faustus (Headlong), West Side Story (Sage Gateshead), Calendar Girls (West End/Australia/Canada), The Dead (Abbey, Dublin), HMS Pinafore (Minneapolis), The Pitchfork Disney (Arcola), Stones in his Pockets (Tricycle), The Winslow Boy (Rose, Kingston), Little Women (Gate, Dublin), The Field (Olympia, Dublin), The Devil Inside Him (National Theatre Wales), His Dark Materials (Birmingham Rep), Copenhagen (Edinburgh Royal Lyceum), The Seven Year Itch (Salisbury Playhouse), Keepers of the Flame (Live Theatre), The Little Prince (Northern Stage), Crash (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Tutti Frutti (National Theatre of Scotland), A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (Little Angel).
Opera: includes Armida, Le Nozze Di Figaro (Garsington), Seven Deadly Sins (WNO).
Dance: includes Rapunzel, Designer Body, La Nuit Intime (balletLORENT).

Sound Designer

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Emma Laxton - Biography

For the Donmar: The Physicists, Making Noise Quietly, The Recruiting Officer.
Theatre: includes The Sacred Flame (ETT), Lady Windermere's Fan (Manchester Royal Exchange), Black T-Shirt Collection (UK tour/NT) Lay Down Your Cross, Blue Heart Afternoon (Hampstead) Invisible (UK tour/Luxemburg), The Westbridge, The Heretic, Off the Endz!, Faces in the Crowd, That Face (also West End), Gone Too Far!, Catch, Scenes from the Back of Beyond, Woman and a Scarecrow, My Name is Rachel Corrie (also West End/New York/Galway Festival/Edinburgh Festival), Terrorism, Food Chain (Royal Court), One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show (Sheffield Theatres/Eclipse), Much Ado About Nothing, Precious Little Talent, Treasure Island (West End), Where’s My Seat?, Like a Fishbone, The Whisky Taster, If There is I Haven’t Found It Yet, 2nd May 1997, Apologia, The Contingency Plan, Wrecks, Broken Space Season, 2,000 Feet Away, Tinderbox (Bush), Charged (Clean Break/Soho), Men Should Weep, Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat (NT), Travels with My Aunt (Theatre Royal, Northampton), Sisters, My Romantic History (also Bush),The Unthinkable (Sheffield Theatres), Ghosts, The Gods Are Not to Blame (Arcola), A Christmas Carol (Chichester Festival), Pornography (Birmingham Rep/Traverse/Tricycle), Europe (Dundee Rep/Barbican Pit), Other Hands (Soho), My Dad’s a Birdman (Young Vic).

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