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CREATIVE TEAM

OLIVER EMANUEL

Writer

Oliver is an internationally award-winning playwright based in Glasgow.

His previous work for the National Theatre of Scotland includes Dragon (with Vox Motus and Tianjin People’s Arts Theatre) and The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish. Dragon won Best Show for Children and Young People at the UK Theatre Awards 2014 and was the first play for young people to be performed at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2015. His English version of Titus won the People’s Choice Victor Award at IPAY 2015. He is a lead writer on Emile Zola: Blood, Sex & Money starring Glenda Jackson for BBC Radio 4. Other recent work includes Prom (Òran Mór/Traverse/Lemon Tree), A History of Paper (BBC Radio 4) and The Lost Things (Tortoise in a Nutshell). Oliver was writer in residence for BBC Radio 4 in 2010 and is a part-time Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of St Andrews.

GARETH WILLIAMS

Composer

Gareth is a Chancellor’s Fellow at Edinburgh College of Art. His work seeks to find new participants, collaborators and audiences for new opera and music theatre.

In 2015 he created Fields of Light for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, commissioned by BBC Radio 3, Let The Dancing Out for the Maxwell Quartet and he composed, and conducted the premiere of Hirda, a new opera he created for NOISE, in collaboration with Shetland fiddler Christopher Stout.

Gareth was Composer in Residence at Scottish Opera from 2011 to 2014. His work there includes Elephant Angel (with libretto by Bernard McLaverty) which toured Scotland and Northern Ireland in 2012 and Last One Out (with libretto by Johnny McKnight) which premiered at the Sound Festival in 2012 in Fraserburgh Lighthouse. His project Breath Cycle, with Gartnavel Royal Hospital, supported by the Wellcome Trust, where he wrote songs and opera specifically for patients with Cystic Fibrosis was shortlisted for a Royal Philharmonic Society Award.

In May 2016, Rocking Horse Winner, a chamber opera (with libretto by Anna Chatterton), will be premiered by Tapestry New Opera in Toronto.

LAURIE SANSOM

Director

Laurie is the Artistic Director and Chief Executive of the National Theatre of Scotland. He joined the Company in 2013 and as well as directing The James Plays trilogy, which has now played across the world, he directed and adapted The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark in 2015.

From 2006 he was Artistic Director of Royal and Derngate, Northampton, and Associate Director to Alan Ayckbourn at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough from 2002 to 2006, where he directed over 20 plays. He was an Arts Council England Trainee Director at the Palace Theatre, Watford, from 1996 to 1997.

He was a member of the National Youth Theatre and the National Student Drama Festival, for whom he has also worked extensively. His productions at Royal and Derngate include; the UK premiere of Spring Storm by Tennessee Williams and Beyond the Horizon by Eugene O’Neill, which were presented at the National Theatre of Great Britain and led to a nomination for Best Director at the Evening Standard Awards and won him the TMA award for Best Director, and The Bacchae, Blood Wedding and Hedda Gabler, which were presented as The Festival of Chaos as part of London 2012 Festival.

BECKY MINTO

Set and Costume Designer

Becky has designed a wide range of productions for main-house and touring productions, aerial and dance performances, and site-specific and large scale outdoor events. Her previous designs for the National Theatre of Scotland include Granite, Truant, A Sheep Called Skye, Transform Fife, The Emperor’s New Kilt, The Recovery Position and Ignition, which, along with her design for the site-specific production White Gold (Iron-Oxide) was chosen for the exhibition Make Believe / UK Design for Performance at the Prague Quadrennial 2015 and the V&A Museum, London. Other theatre work includes designs for The Lyceum Edinburgh, Grid Iron, Visible Fictions, Vanishing Point, Dundee Rep, Fire Exit, 7:84, Walk the Plank, Upswing, Scottish Dance and Citizens Theatre.

Becky was Associate Designer for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. Other work in 2016 includes Hard Times and Para Handy for Pitlochry Festival Theatre.

EDDIE KAY

Movement Director

As a Movement Director, Eddie’s previous work with the National Theatre of Scotland includes Smiler/Hunter. Other theatre and dance Movement Direction work includes The Pass, You For Me For You (Royal Court, London), Brave New World (Touring Consortium/Royal and Derngate), Scuttlers (Manchester Royal Exchange), The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, Dead Born Grow (National Theatre Wales), The Blue Boy, Have I No Mouth, This Beach (Brokentalkers), Othello (Frantic Assembly), Kite (The Wrong Crowd) and Bromance (Barely Methodical Troupe).

As an Associate Movement Director his work includes Once (London’s West End) and The Believers (Frantic Assembly).

As a performer, Eddie’s dance, theatre and opera work includes Beautiful Burnout (with National Theatre of Scotland), Hymns, Dirty Wonderland, Othello (Frantic Assembly), Knots (CoisCéim), Bird With Boy, Five Ways To Drown, The Falling Song (junk ensemble), The Blue Boy, Track (Brokentalkers) and Dr Dee (Rufus Norris and Damon Albarn).

His film work as a performer includes Cost of Living, Round 10 and Motion Sickness.

SIMON WILKINSON

Lighting Designer

Simon’s previous work for the National Theatre of Scotland includes Dragon (with Vox Motus and Tianjin People’s Art Theatre), The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, Roman Bridge, Truant and A Sheep Called Skye.

Other recent theatre work includes The Iliad, The Weir, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Hedda Gabler, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The BFG, Bondagers, A Christmas Carol, Cinderella (The Lyceum Edinburgh), The Infamous Brothers Davenport, The Not-So-Fatal Death of Grandpa Fredo, Bright Black, Slick (Vox Motus), Grounded (Firebrand), Tracks of the Winter Bear (Traverse), Light Boxes (Grid Iron), After the End, Topdog/Underdog (Citizens, Glasgow), This Wide Night (Tron, Glasgow), Kora (Dundee Rep), The Lost Things, Feral (Tortoise in a Nutshell), Thingummy Bob, 13 Sunken Years, Antigone (Lung Ha), Sex and God, Pass the Spoon, Wild Life and After Mary Rose (Magnetic North).

In 2015 he won the CATS award for Best Design for Bondagers (having been nominated in 2009, 2012 and 2014).

RICHARD PRICE

Sound Designer

Richard is currently the Interim Head of Sound at the National Theatre of Scotland. He has previously been Head of Sound at Chichester Festival Theatre, Plymouth Theatre Royal and the Leicester Haymarket. He has also worked extensively with Wildworks Theatre Company and the National Youth Theatre on site specific theatre shows. Richard was Sound Designer for the 2012 Olympic Welcome Ceremonies in the Olympic Village, London and Sound Designer for the Enchanted Palace in Kensington Palace for Wildworks. Other previous sound designs include national tours of Twelfth Night and Measure for Measure, The Shape of Things (London’s West End) and various musicals including Half a Sixpence, Iolanthe, Oklahoma and NHS: The Musical (Theatre Royal Plymouth).

REBECCA HAMILTON

Assistant Set Designer

Rebecca trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama specialising in Set and Costume Design and Scenic Painting. She works as a freelance theatre designer, model maker and scenic artist. She works on a wide diversity of projects from small scale theatre and installation art, to feature films and commercial productions. Rebecca is employed on projects which span theatre, film and television and the visual arts for companies such as National Theatre of Scotland, Vox Motus, Tramway, BBC Scotland, Kelsen and Outland Productions.