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CREATIVE TEAM

CAROLINE BIRD – PLAYWRIGHT (AGAMEMNON)

Caroline’s new stage version of The Wizard of Oz will be Northern Stage’s Christmas production. She is currently under commission to the Old Vic, writing the book and lyrics for a musical version of Dennis the Menace.

Previous work includes: Sixty-Six Books (The Bush Theatre, 2011); The Trojan Women (Gate Theatre, 2012) and Chamber Piece, Show 3 (Lyric Hammersmith’s Secret Theatre season, 2013 & UK tour 2013/2014).

Caroline was one of ten finalists for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2014. She was shortlisted for Most Promising New Playwright at the Off-West-End Awards in 2013 and for the Shell Woman of the Future Awards in 2011.

Caroline is an award-winning poet with four poetry collections published by Carcanet Press. She was named one of the five official poets at London Olympics 2012.

ALINE DAVID – MOVEMENT DIRECTOR

Credits include: Nothing (Glyndebourne Opera); First Love Is The Revolution (Soho Theatre); Romeo And Juliet, A Taste Of Honey, Alice (Sheffield Crucible); The Merchant Of Venice (RSC); Of Mice And Men (Birmingham Rep); Romeo And Juliet, A Taste Of Honey, Emil And The Detectives, Romeo And Juliet, Damned By Despair, Antigone, The Kitchen, Greenland, Our Class (National Theatre); DAPHNE (La Monnaie); Anthony & Cleopatra, Much Ado About Nothing, Troilus And Cressida (Shakespeare’s Globe); Proof (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Owl And The Pussycat (Royal Opera House Olympic Project); Waiting For Godot (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The House Of Bernarda Alba (Almeida); Dead Heavy Fantastic (Liverpool Everyman); Wanderlust (Royal Court); How To Be An Other Woman (Gate); Eurydice (with ACT); Elektra, The Brothers Size (Young Vic); 1984, Macbeth (Royal Exchange); A Christmas Carol (Sherman, Cardiff); Tarantula In Petrol Blue (Aldeburgh, Snape Maltings Concert Hall) and Gone Too Far! (Royal Court/Actors Touring Company – Winner of 2008 Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliated Theatre).

YARIT DOR – FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHER

Yarit Dor is a Fight Choreographer and Movement Director. She is a former dancer and dramaturge of Hagit Yakira Dance Company and currently coaches actors in movement, physical skills and stage combat in several drama conservatoires.

She studied dance at Trinity Laban after which she continued her training in theatre directing at Rose Bruford College and Jacques Lecoq physical theatre at LISPA. Yarit has choreographed and coached on a variety of shows from musicals and new writing to classics and devised theatre.

Credits include: Disgraced (English Theatre Frankfurt); Zastrozzi (Norwich Dragon Hall); Dark Tourism (Park Theatre); The Emperor Jones (The Lost Theatre); Titus Andronicus (Greenwich Theatre); Macbeth: Fire Burn (Colchester Shakespeare Festival); Henry V (Peckham Asylum); Kiss of the Earth (Corn Exchange Newbury); Noonday Demons (King’s Head Theatre); Macbeth (RIFT Theatre); A Skull in Connemara (White Bear Theatre); Somewhere Between a Self and an Other (Dance 4 Nottingham); Leah (The Place); 2B (The Place); Lysistrata (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama); The Wind in the Willows (Italia Conti) and Vanity Fair (AUB).

More info at: www.yarit-dor.com

HEATHER DOOLE – PRODUCTION MANAGER

Heather is a freelance production manager.

Past shows include: Firebird (Hampstead Theatre Downstairs and Trafalgar Studios); The Argument, The Meeting, 36 Phone Calls, Sunspots, Deluge, Deposit, Elephants and State Red (Hampstead Theatre Downstairs); 4000 Days and Grounded (Park Theatre); No Villain (Old Red Lion); Four Minutes Twelve Seconds (Trafalgar Studios); The Session (Soho Theatre); Octagon (Arcola Theatre); And Then Came the Nightjars (Bristol Old Vic Studio and Theatre 503); Valhalla, Animals and Cinderella and the Beanstalk (Theatre 503); Women Centre Stage Festival (National Theatre Temporary Space); Radiant Vermin (Soho Theatre and Tobacco Factory, Bristol) and Albert Herring (Upstairs at the Gatehouse). She assisted on Bull (Young Vic).

ELAYCE ISMAIL – DIRECTOR (CHORUS)

Elayce Ismail was awarded the JP Morgan Award for Emerging Directors 2014/2015, under which she was Resident Director at the National Theatre Studio and directed Andrew Whaley’s The Rise and Shine of Comrade Fiasco at the Gate Theatre. She was co-founder/Artistic Director of Offstage Theatre from 2005 – 2009 and trained at LISPA.

As Director: The Rise and Shine of Comrade Fiasco (Gate Theatre); Schools Theatre Production, Simpatico (Young Vic); The Lost Ring (National Theatre/ Deutsches Theater Berlin); Treasure Island: Making a Scene, Alfred Fagon Award: GIRLS, Black Plays Series readings (National Theatre); Struggle (Talawa Firsts, London & Bristol Somali Festivals) and Bed & Breakfast (Brighton Fringe Festival & tour).

As Associate/Assistant Director: The Virtues of Things (Royal Opera House); The Sound of Yellow, A Season in the Congo (Young Vic) and Coming Home (Arcola Theatre).

Puppetry: Dr Korczak’s Example (Unicorn Theatre) and Fast Burn (Kneehigh/ National Youth Theatre).

Performance: The Magic Flute (Complicite/English National Opera); Ring-a-Ding-Ding (Oily Cart); In A Pickle (Oily Cart/Royal Shakespeare Company).

This role is supported by Fenton Arts Trust, supporting emerging talent at the Gate.

SUHAYLA EL-BUSHRA – PLAYWRIGHT (IPHIGENIA)

Suhayla is a Brighton-based screenwriter and playwright.

Previous plays include: Pigeons (The Royal Court Theatre); Cuckoo (The Unicorn Theatre); The Kilburn Passion (The Tricycle Theatre) and Fingertips for Clean Break at Latitude. Her adaptation of Nikolai Erdman’s The Suicide will be staged at the National Theatre in spring 2016.

She is currently writer in residence at the NT Studio and is under commission from Out Of Joint. Suhayla was a core writer on TV soap Hollyoaks and has various film and TV projects in development.

CHRISTOPHER HAYDON – DIRECTOR (AGAMEMNON)

Christopher is Artistic Director at the Gate Theatre and formerly an Associate Director at the Bush Theatre.

Credits include: The Christians (Gate Theatre/Traverse Theatre, Winner: Fringe First); Grounded (Gate Theatre, Traverse Theatre, Studio Theatre Washington DC, national and international tour; winner: Fringe First, Best Production – Off West End Awards); Image of an Unknown Young Woman, The Edge of Our Bodies, Trojan Women, Purple Heart, The Prophet, Wittenburg (Gate Theatre); Twelve Angry Men (Birmingham Rep/West End); Sixty-Six Books; In the Beginning (Bush Theatre/Westminster Abbey); A Safe Harbour for Elizabeth Bishop (Southbank Centre); Grace, Pressure Drop (On Theatre); Deep Cut (Sherman Cymru/National Tour); Monsters, Notes from Underground (Arcola Theatre) and A Number (Salisbury Playhouse).

Short film credits include: Devil in the Detail (Royal Court/Guardian).

As a journalist he has written for: The Scotsman, The Financial Times, The Independent, The Guardian, The New Statesman and Prospect Magazine.

REBECCA HILL – DIRECTOR (IPHIGENIA)

Rebecca is a director and writer. She is Co-Artistic Director of the acclaimed Unbound Productions, was previously Director in Residence at the Almeida Theatre, and was an Ovalhouse Artist of 2014 as recipient of the Arts Manifesto: A Future for the Arts award. Her verbatim play Travesti won a Fringe First Award from The Scotsman and an Editor’s Choice Award from ThreeWeeks Magazine at Edinburgh Festival 2014.

As Director, theatre credits include: Our Kingdom (Vaults Festival, rehearsed reading); Lysistrata: The Sex Strike (Almeida Theatre, rehearsed reading); Travesti (Pleasance Theatre); The Night (RADA Studios, rehearsed reading); Waifu (Southwark Playhouse); Timebomb: 48 Hour Plays (White Bear Theatre); Two Sisters (Southwark Playhouse); One Time Thing (Park Theatre) and Half-Way (Ovalhouse).

As Associate Director: East is East (Jamie Lloyd Productions/ATG, UK Tour) and Little Revolution, Our Town, The Fever (Almeida Theatre).

As Assistant Director: Cymbeline (Sam Wanamaker Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe); Eclipsed (Gate Theatre); Tender Napalm (UK Tour/ Southwark Playhouse); World Enough and Time (Park Theatre); King Lear; Dido, Queen of Carthage (in rep, Greenwich Theatre); Oedipus (Blue Elephant Theatre).

HAZEL HOLDER – DIALECT COACH

As a performer, her theatre credits include: Here We Go, As You Like It, Medea, Death and the King’s Horseman (National Theatre); The Tempest (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Bakkhai (Almeida Theatre); Dart’s Love (Tete-aTete Opera Festival); Zero (Clod Ensemble); Tamba Tamba (Tiata Fahodzi); Dalston Songs (ROH2 for Royal Opera House and Helen Chadwick Song Theatre); The Bacchae (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Headlong); The Bacchae (National Theatre of Scotland, national tour and on Broadway); Fingerprint (ROH2 for Royal Opera House and The Shout); Mercy Fine in Mercy Fine (Clean Break); The Sleeping Beauty (Young Vic, Barbican and on Broadway) and Carmen Jones and Ain’t Misbehavin’ (WestEnd).

As a Voice & Dialect Coach her credits include: Les Blancs and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (National Theatre); RADA, Arts Ed, Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, F*ck The Polar Bears (Bush Theatre); The Rolling Stone (Orange Tree Theatre and the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Eclipsed and The Rise & Shine of Comrade Fiasco (Gate Theatre) and The Initiate (Paines Plough).

Television credits include: Judge John Deed and The Cambridge Spies.

Short film credits include: Dates; The Followed.

Radio credits include: Something Understood and Death and the King’s Horseman.

BEX KEMP – DESIGN ASSISTANT

Bex is a freelance set and costume designer and costume supervisor. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Design credits include: Andy Capp The Musical (Finborough); Circling the Square (Salisbury Arts Centre); Othello (Greenwich Theatre + UK Tour); Becoming Mohammed (The Space); About Miss Julie (King’s Head); As You Like It (UK Tour); Our Space (Lost Theatre); Pentecost, Variations on The Death of Trotsky, Scenes From The Big Picture, Common Chorus, Seventh Continent (Central School of Speech and Drama, Derby LIVE); Kleinkunst 3 (Roundhouse) and Cinderella (Primrose Gardens).

As Costume Designer: F*ck The Polar Bears (Bush Theatre).

As Design Assistant to Miriam Buether: The Haunting of Hill House (Liverpool Playhouse); The Trial, The Government Inspector (Young Vic); Boris Godunov (Royal Opera House); Chariots of Fire (Hampstead Theatre); Decade (Headlong) and Carmen (Salzburg Festival).

Other Design Assistance: The Bodyguard (Tim Hatley/Adelphi Theatre); The Boy Who Climbed Out Of His Face (Rachel Good/ Shunt); Sleeping Beauty (Keith Orton/Salisbury Playhouse) and The Duchess of Malfi (Punchdrunk/ENO).

Costume Supervision: All or Nothing the Mod Musical (The Vaults); The Water Palace (Tete a Tete); Citizen Puppet, Push (New Diorama); Natural Selection, The Low Road, The Man of Mode, The Commune and The Good Person of Setzuan (Central School of Speech and Drama).

More info at: www.bexkemp.com

This role is funded by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, as part of the Jerwood Young Designers Programme at the Gate.

JADE LEWIS – ASSISTANT DIRECTOR (CLYTEMNESTRA & IPHIGENIA)

Jade is an emerging theatre director who has worked at the Southwark Playhouse, the Young Vic and the Bush Theatre as a director as well as an assistant director. She has assisted on a project run by Old Vic New Voices, and currently runs Emende Theatre Company; a youth arts organisation based on the Southbank. Jade is also Programme Project Coordinator at SE1 United where she works with young people in schools in Lambeth and Southwark.

In 2012, she was Boris Karloff Assistant Director on the Young Vic production Blackta directed by David Lan and since then has worked with directors and collaborators such as Rikki Henry, Patrice Etienne, Matthew Xia and Suba Das. She is currently directing a one woman show On The Edge of Me written and performed by Yolanda Mercy; both are Emerging artists at Ovalhouse Theatre.

Jade is currently a Creative Associate at the Gate Theatre.

This role is funded with the help of Unity Theatre Trust.

ED MADDEN – ASSISTANT DIRECTOR (AGAMEMNON & CHORUS)

Ed is a director, Creative Associate at the Gate Theatre, and co-founder of new writing company Walrus. He studied at the University of Warwick.

His production of Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons, Walrus’ first show, premiered at Warwick Arts Centre in January 2015. It has subsequently visited Latitude Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe and Camden People’s Theatre, and will begin a UK tour later this year.

Ed has also worked with Tobacco Factory Theatres, and writes study guides for Digital Theatre Plus.

This role is funded with the help of Unity Theatre Trust.

CHARLOTTE MCBREARTY – STAGE MANAGER

Charlotte trained at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth and is a Freelance Stage Manager who has worked all over the UK, and internationally. She has worked on productions that have received nominations for the Olivier Awards, and won WhatsOnStage and Fringe First Awards. In the past year, she has worked on productions with Paines Plough, Old Vic New Voices, DryWrite, Soho Theatre, Young Vic/Dance Umbrella, and Look Left Look Right. She is delighted to join the Gate Theatre for this production of The Iphigenia Quartet.

KATY MUNROE FARLIE – STAGE MANAGER

Katy graduated from the University of Hull in 2010 with a Degree in Theatre and Performance. From there she became the resident Production Manager for the New End Theatre until August 2011 before becoming a freelance Stage and Production Manager.

Previous credits for the Gate Theatre include: In the Night Time (Before the Sun Rises); The Christians, Image of an Unknown Young Woman, Eclipsed, Chimera, Body of an American (also toured to Royal & Derngate Theatre); Grounded (also toured to Edinburgh Festival, and UK & International Tour) No Place to Go, Dances of Death, Purple Heart and The Trojan Women.

Other theatre credits include: Scene and Heard: The Tasty Plays (Theatro Technis); Zelda, Barbershopera (Trafagar Studios 2); These Trees are Made of Blood, The Illusion, The Hairy Ape, Shivered (Southwark Playhouse); Twelfth Night (Minack Theatre); Herding Cats (Hampstead Downstairs); Blue Surge (Finborough Theatre); Bunny (Soho Theatre Upstairs); Mr Happiness and The Water Engine (Old Vic Tunnels).

Alongside her Stage Management she also has a Diploma in Body Language and works as a freelance technician and production manager with various other venues and theatre companies.

ELENA PEÑA – SOUND DESIGNER

Credits for the Gate Theatre include: The Christians and Unbroken.

Other theatre credits include: Islands (Bush Theatre); Arabian Nights, The Kilburn Passion, The Wardrobe and Storylabs (Tricycle Theatre); Brainstorm (Islington Community Theatre, National Theatre); Soechon Odyssey (Hi Seoul Festival, Korea); Patrias (Edinburgh International Festival); You Have Been Upgraded (Unlimited Theatre); Better Than Life (Coney); Girl’s Guide To Saving The World (HighTide); Not Now Bernard (Unicorn Theatre); Pim and Theo (New International Encounter/Odsherred Teater, Denmark, Unicorn Theatre); Macbeth: Blood Will Have Blood (China Plate); A High Street Odyssey (Inspector Sands, National Theatre Watch This Space Festival); Flashes (Young Vic); Mass Observation (Almeida Theatre); Ant Street and Brimstone and Treacle (Arcola Theatre); Gambling (Soho Theatre); The 13 Midnight Challenges of Angelus Diablo (RSC); Quimeras (Sadlers Wells, Edinburgh International Festival); Plasticine (Southwark Playhouse) and Under Milk Wood (Northampton Theatre Royal).

Sound and performance installation credits include: Yes, These Eyes Are The Windows and Have Your Circumstances Changed (ArtAngel).

Television credits include: Live from Television Centre: Brainstorm (BBC4, iPlayer) and UNSA Astro-science Challenge (Unlimited Theatre, online episodes).

Radio credits include: 12 Years, The Meet Cute and Duchamps Urinal (BBC Radio 4).

More info at: www.elenapena.co.uk

JOSHUA PHARO – LIGHTING DESIGNER

Joshua works across theatre, dance, opera, music, film & art installation.

Recent credits include: La Favorite (Stratford East); Carmen (UK Tour, OperaUpClose); The Rolling Stone (Orange Tree Theatre); In the Night Time (Before the Sun Rises) (Gate Theatre); Medea (Gate Theatre); Glass Menagerie (Nuffield Theatre) as Video Designer; The Merchant of Venice, Wuthering Heights, Consensual (Ambassadors Theatre); The Crocodile (Manchester International Festival); One Arm (Southwark Playhouse); The Trial Parallel (Young Vic); Amadis de Gaulle (Bloomsbury Theatre); Beckett Season (Old Red Lion); The Deluge (UK Tour, Lila Dance); Usagi Yojimbo (Southwark Playhouse); A Streetcar Named Desire Parallel (Young Vic); Pioneer (UK Tour, Curious Directive); I’d Rather Goya Robbed Me of My Sleep (Gate Theatre); Thumbelina (UK Tour, Dancing Brick) and No Place To Go (Gate Theatre).

More info at: www.joshuapharo.com

LULU RACZKA – PLAYWRIGHT (CLYTEMNESTRA)

Lulu Raczka is an award-winning young playwright. She is a Company Director of Barrel Organ Theatre, who she worked with on her play NOTHING, which has toured the UK. Barrel Organ’s next piece Some People Talk About Violence was performed at the Edinburgh Festival 2015, and went on to be performed at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Warwick Arts Centre and Camden People’s Theatre throughout winter. Lulu has also had her work performed at the Sheffield Crucible, and the Soho Theatre. She is currently working on a piece for the Shakespeare in Shoreditch Festival.

SARAH READMAN – PRODUCTION ELECTRICIAN

As Lighting Designer: Macbeth (Southwark Playhouse); The Owls Are Not What They Seem (Theatre Delicatessen); Phenomena (Albany Theatre and Battersea Arts Centre); The Liberation of Colette Simple (Jackson’s Lane); The Earning of Innocence (Yard Theatre); Ghostland Cinema and Awful Things Can Happen At Any Time (Camden People’s Theatre and BE Festival); STARRING JAMES FRANCO and Right Honourable Gentlemen (Camden People’s Theatre, Theatre Delicatessen, Brakke Gronde in Amsterdam and National Theatre Kosovo); Tomorrow (UK tour, Jasmin Vardimon Company); Pages From The Book Of… (Theatre Astorka in Slovakia, Moscow Art Theatre and Gardzienice in Poland).

As Co-Designer with Joshua Pharo: JOAN (Derby Theatre and UK tour); Shelter Me (Theatre Delicatessen) and Werter (Arcola Theatre).

As Associate Lighting Designer: The Red Chair, Red Ladies and An Anatomie in Four Quarters (UK tour, Clod Ensemble); Stilled (Wellcome Collection); I’d Rather Goya Robbed Me Of My Sleep Than Some Other Arsehole (Gate Theatre); Usagi Yojimbo (Southwark Playhouse); Pioneer (UK tour, Curious Directive).

More info at: http://sarahreadman.com

JENNIFER TANG – DIRECTOR (CLYTEMNESTRA)

Jennifer is an award-winning UK and International stage director and theatre-maker. She has recently returned from Sweden, where she directed the Scandinavian premieres of two Nick Payne plays to critical acclaim, consequently winning the Scenokonstguidens award for Arets Karthasis 2015.

As Director: Constellations, One Day When We Were Young (Gothenburg English Studio Theatre); Listening To Hackney (Chatsworth Palace); Fault, Malteaser Falcon (Brixton Library); For The Record (The Lab, Theatre Royal Plymouth); The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other (The Drum, Theatre Royal Plymouth); Blow Out, Feathers, The Forum (Etcetera Theatre); Chasing Beckett (The London Theatre); Neil Diamond Saved My Life (Riverside Studios); Feathers (Bike Shed Theatre); Shelter, Paper Queen (National tour and Bush Theatre) and Crave (Young Vic).

As Associate/Assistant Director: Weaklings (National Tour, Chris Goode & Co); The Edge Of Our Bodies (Gate Theatre); MADMAN (The Drum, Theatre Royal Plymouth); Solid Air (The Drum, Theatre Royal Plymouth); Inside Wagner’s Head (Royal Opera House and Theatre Royal Plymouth); The Magic Flute (Ryedale Festival, The Arcola); #AIWW: The arrest of Ai Weiwei (Hampstead Theatre); The Owl and The Pussycat (ROH2, Royal Opera House); There is a War, The Good Soul of Szechuan (Watford Palace Theatre); Phaedra’s Love (Arcola Theatre); Rodelina (Iford Arts) and Annie Get Your Gun (Young Vic).

This role is supported by Fenton Arts Trust, supporting emerging talent at the Gate.

CHRIS THORPE – PLAYWRIGHT (CHORUS)

Chris was a founder member of Unlimited Theatre and still works and tours with the company. He is also an Artistic Associate of live art company Third Angel. He has worked with, among others, Forest Fringe, Slung Low, Chris Goode, RashDash, Belarus Free Theatre and Portuguese experimental company mala voadora – his fourth piece for the company, Your Best Guess opened in Lisbon in 2015. He also plays guitar in Lucy Ellinson’s #TORYCORE and works with the National Student Drama Festival.

Chris is an Associate at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. His play for the Exchange, There Has Possibly Been An Incident was selected by Simon Stephens for the Stuckemarkt in Berlin, 2014. It has been produced in Denmark and Sweden, on German radio, and elsewhere.

He has an ongoing collaboration with director Rachel Chavkin from New York’s TEAM. Their piece Confirmation, is currently touring internationally and they are developing their next. His other main collaborator is poet Hannah Jane Walker with whom he made The Oh Fuck Moment and I Wish I Was Lonely.

Currently, Chris is touring Confirmation and Unlimited’s Am I Dead Yet? He is writing a version of Beowulf for the Unicorn Theatre, and a new piece Victory Condition for the Royal Court. He is also working on Truck for the Royal Exchange with Sam Pritchard.

Chris’s work is published by Oberon Books. His work with mala voadora is published in English and Portuguese.

CÉCILE TRÉMOLIÈRES – DESIGNER

Born in Paris, Cécile trained in Wimbledon College of Art, graduating with a first class degree in June 2013. Cécile was a Finalist of the Linbury Prize for Stage Design 2013, awarded the Royal Opera House Linbury bursary (2015) and nominated Best Set Designer by the Off West End Theatre awards 2014. She is also a winner of the Ideastap graduate award 2014.

Cécile’s work has been exhibited at the Prague Quadrennial 2015, and at the V&A exhibition Make/Believe: UK Design for Performance 2011-2015.

Credits include: My People (Theatr Clwyd); Impermanent Theatre (Impermanence Dance Theatre tour UK); Invisible Treasure (Oval House); Piranha Heights (Old Red Lion); The Mikvah Project (The Yard); Harajuku Girls (Finborough Theatre) and Madame Butterfly (Arcola Theatre).

More info at: www.ceciletremolieres.com

This role is funded by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, as part of the Jerwood Young Designers Programme at the Gate.