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Creative Team Biographies

Neil D’Souza Writer

Neil has written for Theatre and Radio and has been commissioned to write for the TV.

Radio credits include: Four Beats To The Bar (Radio 4) and the long-running series Westway (BBC World Service). Neil’s first play Small Miracle was produced by the Mercury Theatre, Colchester and subsequently transferred to the Tricycle Theatre, Kilburn. Television commissions include The Bollywoods – a sitcom for the BBC, and a comedy drama for Granada.

Brigid Larmour Director

Brigid is Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Watford Palace Theatre.

Productions directed for the Palace include: Jefferson’s Garden by Timberlake Wertenbaker; Love Me Do (co-directed with Shona Morris) and Von Ribbentrop’s Watch by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran; Fourteen by Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti; Gary Owen’s Perfect Match (part of the Ideal World season), We That Are Left and Mrs Reynolds and the Ruffian; Ronald Harwood’s Equally Divided; Charlotte Keatley’s Our Father and My Mother Said I Never Should; Alan Ayckbourn’s Time of My Life and Absent Friends; Shakespeare’s As You Like It; and pantomimes Mother Goose, Robin Hood and Sleeping Beauty (co-directed with Shona Morris), all by Andrew Pollard.

Brigid is a producer, director, dramaturg and teacher with experience in the subsidised and commercial theatre and television. From 1998 to 2006 she was Artistic Director of West End company Act Productions, and adviser to BBC4 Plays. From 1993 to 1998 she directed a series of promenade Shakespeares, Shakespeare Unplugged, for RNT Education.

From 1989 to 1994 she was Artistic Director of Contact Theatre, Manchester, commissioning the first British plays responding to the rave scene (Excess/XS), and the implications of virtual reality (Strange Attractors, a multimedia promenade production, by Manchester poet Kevin Fegan). She trained at the RSC, and as a studio director at Granada TV.

Shona Morris Movement Director/Associate Director

Shona trained at Ecole Jacques Lecoq.

Shona is currently Lead Movement Tutor at RADA and has just finished working at the Stratford Festival Theatre in Canada as Head of Movement.

Shona’s recent productions for Watford Palace Theatre include: Jefferson’s Garden (Movement Director); Sleeping Beauty by Andrew Pollard and the premier performance of Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran’s play Love Me Do (both co-directed with Brigid Larmour).

Her recent work as Movement Director includes: Oedipus Rex, Hamlet, The Diary of Anne Frank, She Stoops to Conquer (2015), King John, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hay Fever, Mother Courage, King Lear (2014), Romeo & Juliet, Blithe Spirit, Waiting for Godot, The Three Musketeers, Mary Stuart (2013), Peter Pan, Dangerous Liaisons, The Winter’s Tale (2010) and The Birds, The Flies, Agamemnon, Electra, King Lear, Henry VIII (2004 – 2007) (Stratford Festival Theatre); Perfect Match, Override (2013), Our Father, My Mother Said, As You Like It, Lysistrata, The Dresser and An English Tragedy (2009 – 2012) (Watford Palace Theatre); The Snow Spider (2011) (Io Theatre); Atman (2010) (Finborough Theatre); Swine (2009) (National Theatre Studio); Nicholas Nickleby, Twelfth Night (2005 – 2008) (Chichester Festival Theatre); I Caught Crabs in Walberswick (2007) (Eastern Angles/Edinburgh Festival/Bush Theatre).

Shona’s work as an actor includes: Chicken Soup with Barley (Nottingham Playhouse/Tricycle Theatre); Augustine; Big Hysteria, Wax and Crossfire (Paines Plough).

Shona is a Creative Associate of Watford Palace.

Rebecca Brower Designer

Rebecca studied at Central School of Speech and Drama. Rebecca was the winner of The Stage Newspaper Design Award and The Equity Young Members Bursary Award in 2012. Rebecca was on the Design Team for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Rebecca has also designed corporate events and dinners at The National Theatre.

Theatre Credits include: Treasure (Finborough Theatre); Genius Bar (UK Tour); Without Blinking (TestBed1, Goat and Monkey); Pal Joey (Mountview Academy of Arts); Beegu (Arts Depot); Dad Dancing (BAC); Struileag (Glasgow Green); Idylls of The King (Oxford Playhouse); Tender Loving Care (The New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth); Canterbury Tales (Watford Palace Theatre); Pursue Me (The Place); Jack and the Beanstalk (Southwalk Playhouse); This Child (The Bridewell Theatre); Lord of the Flies (Oxford Playhouse); Heartbreak Beautiful (Watford Palace Theatre); Hamlet (The Rose Theatre, Bankside. OffWest End Nomination, Best Set Design); I DO I DO (Riverside Studios); Hello Dolly (Watford Palace Theatre); Gypsy Bible (Opera North, National Tour) and A View From the Bridge (The Embassy Theatre).

Associate Credits include: Peter Pan (Regent’s Park – Associate Designer); Bugsy Malone (The Lyric Hammersmith); The Great North Run Millionth Runner Ceremony (Newcastle, Outdoor Ceremony); The Roof (Fuel, The National Theatre UK tour) and Stuart a Life Backwards (High Tide, UK Tour).

Prema Mehta Lighting Designer

Prema graduated from The Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

She has designed the lighting for over one hundred drama and dance productions, including: Jefferson’s Garden and Fourteen (Watford Palace Theatre); With A Little Bit Of Luck (Paines Plough, Latitude); Bells (The Mayor of London’s outdoor festival, Showtime); Hercules (New Art Club on tour); Sufi Zen (Royal Festival Hall); The Great Extension (Theatre Royal Stratford East); The Electric Hills (Liverpool Everyman); Dhamaka (O2 Arena) and Maaya (Westminster Hall).

Prema recently lit for the launch of a new model in the A-list party area at Madame Tussauds. Prema is currently working with the National Theatre to deliver workshops and talks in lighting design.

Arun Ghosh Sound Designer/Composer

Arun Ghosh is a British-Asian clarinettist, composer and musical director. He has released three critically acclaimed albums, Northern Namaste, Primal Odyssey and A South Asian Suite, on camoci Records.

Other significant works in his repertoire include his re-score of feature-length animation The Adventures of Prince Achmed, contemporary dance work A Handful of Dust and programme symphony, Spitalfields Suite.

A key player on both UK and international jazz scenes, Arun is a renowned innovator of the Indo-Jazz style, and has appeared on the cover of Jazzwise and Jazz UK magazines in recent years. He was awarded ‘Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year’ at the 2014 Parliamentary Jazz Awards.

Arun is a prolific composer, working primarily in the world of theatre and dance. He has worked on over forty professional productions with companies including: Manchester Royal Exchange, Library Theatre, National Youth Theatre, Cardboard Citizens, Kadam, Akademi Dance, Tamasha and Kali Theatre. Coming Up is his second production for Watford Palace, having worked as composer and sound designer on Rifco’s celebrated Deranged Marriage earlier this year.

Arun is an Associate Artist of The Albany Theatre and Spitalfields Music (2014), and recently completed his post as Musician in Residence of Wuhan, China in association with the British Council.

Scott Le Crass Assistant Director

Scott comes from Birmingham and trained as an actor at Arts Ed.

He was a director on the Birmingham Rep’s first Foundry Programme.

Credits include: Director – Sid (Camden Fringe); Open House (Birmingham Rep and libraries tour); In A Better Place (Hotel Pelirocco/Brighton Fringe); The Bad Mood (Rich Mix/TROUPE Collective); Ode to Sid (One Festival/The Space); Diary of a Madman (Omnibus/Jack Studio); Boris Godonov, Marriage, Flight, Mandrake (Jack Studio); The Real Inspector Hound (Upstairs at the Gatehouse/Camden Fringe); My Number 1 Favourite Lesbian by Tom Wells (Arcola/Outbox); La Mastication des Morts (Camden Peoples Theatre) and 35 Black Suits (Hidden Histories/Rep 100, Old Rep, Birmingham).

Assistant Director – The King’s Speech (Chichester/Birmingham Rep/UK Tour); A Christmas Carol (Birmingham Rep); Von Ribbentrop’s Watch (Oxford Playhouse/Watford Palace); Kurt and Sid (Trafalgar Studios) and Henry VI, Part I (The Rose, Bankside).