Cast
and
Creative
Cast
CJ
Sam Craig
Sam Craig plays CJ. His other theatre credits include Wild Wing Doves (Sign Your Name) at Above the Stag Theatre, London. Sam studied Acting at the Liverpool Theatre School from 2018-2021.
Giesler
David Fairs
David Fairs plays Giesler. At the New Vic he has appeared in The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart. Other theatre credits include Tiger Country (Hampstead Theatre); As You Like It (The Lord Chamberlain’s Men – UK & international tour); Hamlet – Sam Wanamaker Festival (Shakespeare’s Globe); I Know You Of Old (Royal Shakespeare Company’s Dell); The Captain of Kopenick, The Collection, Richard II, Edward Bond’s Lear, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (Edinburgh Festival); The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance (Cambridge Arts Theatre); The Blue Bird (Theatre503 & UK tour); Steven Berkoff’s Messiah (Dalston Bunker); Tomorrow Creeps (The Vaults); Macbeths (Hope Theatre); Is He Earnest? (Katzpace); Othello (Chelsea Theatre); Orion and the Dark (Half Moon Theatre & UK tour); Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest (Drayton Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (West London Sinfonia); Peter Brook’s The Man Who (The Albany); Slave (Broadway Theatre Barking); The Common Touch (The White Bear); Tales from the Tube (Etcetera Theatre); Puddles (R&D workshop for Shoreditch Town Hall). Television and film credits include Comedy Quickies (BBC Three); Byker Grove (BBC One); Be The Business (The Edge Picture Company); For Her (NUA films); Room for Ali (48 Hour Film Project). David’s radio and voiceover credits include Reluctant Persuaders (BBC Radio 4); Samson and Delilah (BBC Radio 3); Rwanda – Places of Memory (Cambridge Film Festival). David is also a founding member of GOLEM! Theatre Company, for which he has written four plays; he co-developed the multi-lingual (English / British Sing Language) script of Icarus for Vault Festival; he recently directed an independent film of The Importance of Being Earnest and adapted and directed Hugo Blick’s television series Up In Town for the stage; his adaptation of Messiah – Scenes from a Crucifixion will be performed at this summer’s Edinburgh Fringe. David trained at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Janacek
Andrius Gaucas
Andrius Gaučas plays Janáček. His theatre credits include Hamlet, A Midsummer’s Night Dream, The Imaginary Invalid, The Beggar’s Opera, Three Sisters (Kaunas National drama Theatre); Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors, Pericles, Ghost Stories, Deep Night Dark Night (Shakespeare’s Globe). As a professional dancer he has also appeared in many performances and Galas. In 2017 Andrius started teaching improvisation and voice at Vytautas Magnus University as a guest lecturer. Andrius is a Lithuanian actor living in London. After receiving classical training at Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre he began his acting career on stage at the National Kaunas Drama Theatre and in 2017 he completed his MA studies at East15 Acting School in London.
Huber / Bob
Michael Hugo
Co-writer Michael Hugo plays Huber / Bob. For the New Vic he has also acted in Marvellous, Tale Trail to Coppelia, The 39 Steps, Around The World In 80 Days (co-production with Kenny Wax Family Entertainment, Simon Friend and Royal Exchange U.S.A tour); The 39 Steps, Astley’s Astounding Adventures, Cyrano (co-production with Northern Broadsides); Peter Pan In Scarlet (co-production with The Oxford Playhouse); The Lady Killers (co-production with Hull Truck); The Borrowers, Far From the Madding Crowd, Where Have I Been All My Life, Alice in Wonderland, The Admirable Crichton, Proof, The Rivals, Peter Pan, The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe, The Wicked Lady, Great Expectations, Stags and Hens, Christmas Carol, Pinocchio, Kes. Michael has also acted at the New Vic, appearing in They Don’t Pay, We Won’t Pay, The Winter’s Tale, The Grand Gesture, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, The Canterbury Tales, Lisa’s Sex Strike, The Tempest, Vacuum (Northern Broadsides).Other theatre credits include Cinderella (Lawrence Batley Theatre); Frozen (Fingersmiths); The Hunt for the Scroobius Pip (Sticks Theatre Co.); Wind in the Willows (Birmingham Rep); Broken Time (Three Stones Media); Peter Pan (Spiller’s); Breaking the Code (Chester Gateway); Babes in the Wood, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Oldham Coliseum). His television and commercial credits include Coronation Street (ITV); Hero Goalie (Abbot Meade Vickers BBDO); I’m With Stupid (BBC); Sir Gadabout (Alibi Productions); A Right Charlie, The Collector.
Fritz
Perry Moore
Perry Moore plays Fritz. For the New Vic he has appeared in Marvellous, Hoard: Rediscovered, Tail Trail to the Prince and the Pauper, Cyrano (co-production with Northern Broadsides), Peter Pan in Scarlet (co-production with Oxford Playhouse), Robin Hood and Marian, Larksong, The Throne, Unearthed, Hard Times (Northern Broadsides). His other theatre credits include Pride and Prejudice; The Merry Wives of Windsor; The Jungle Book (Storyhouse Theatre – Open Air Season); The Old Curiosity Shop (Oxford Playhouse); Stanley at the Beaufort War Hospital; London Road (Bristol Old Vic). Perry’s television and film credits Include You Don’t Know Me (Netflix / BBC); Brassic (Sky One); Doctors, Being Human (BBC); London Road (National Theatre); Unhallowed Ground (Aviary Films); Last Date (Omni Productions). On radio he has appeared in Homefront (BBC Radio 4). Perry trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Lederman / Wings
Andrew Pollard
Andrew Pollard plays Lederman / Wings. Andrew has developed and written Tom, Dick and Harry along with Theresa Heskins and Michael Hugo. He is extremely excited that, from a seed of an idea over 3 years ago, we are now able to see the show come to fruition. For the New Vic he has acted in Around the World in 80 Days, Talent, Diana of Dobson’s, The Ladykillers, Ghosts, Far from the Madding Crowd, Where Have I Been All My Life, Spring and Port Wine, The Admirable Crichton, The Rivals, Alphabetical Order and The Graduate, Educating Rita (co-production with the Dukes Theatre). Also at the New Vic, Andrew has performed in Medea, School for Scandal, Macbeth, King John, and The Merry Wives (Northern Broadsides). Andrew’s other theatre credits include To Sir With Love (Birmingham Rep); Life’s A Drag (Contact Theatre); Hayfever, Sleeping Beauty, Babes in the Wood and Perfect Days (Oldham Coliseum); Arsenic and Old Lace and The Lonesome West (Keswick Theatre by the Lake); The Rivals (Theatre Royal Bath); A Night at the Bijou (Natural Theatre); Whose Dog Is It Anyway? (JB Shorts); Comedy of Errors (Ludlow Shakespeare Festival); Search Light Over the Bemmy (Tobacco Factory), Cinderella (Halifax Victoria); Marat / Sade (Bristol Old Vic); The Picture of Dorian Gray (American Drama Group); Dick Whittington (Theatre Royal Northampton); A Taste of Honey (Moffat Little Theatre Co); Puss in Boots, Robin Hood, Aladdin, Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Mother Goose, Dick Whittington, and Sleeping Beauty (Greenwich Theatre).
Landry
Nicholas Richardson
Nicholas Richardson plays Landry. He has appeared at the New Vic in Beauty and The Beast and Astley’s Astounding Adventures. His television credits include Wu-Tang: An American Saga (Hulu); FBI (CBS); Younger (TV Land); The Looming Tower (Hulu); Genius (National Geographic). Film credits include Goodbye Christopher Robin (Fox Searchlight Pictures) and as writer and performer The Most Powerful Human on Earth, Mr. Fox (HERE Theater in NY). Nicholas trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Ballard
Dominic Thorburn
Dominic Thorburn plays Ballard. His previous theatre credits include Kenneth Branagh’s Macbeth (UK and New York); One Man Two Guvnors (National Theatre at the Haymarket – West End); Our Country’s Good (Out of Joint); Sir Peter Hall’s Henry IV I and II (Theatre Royal Bath); A Month in the Country (Gate Theatre in Dublin); Henry V and The Winter’s Tale (Propeller). Dominic also regularly voices commercial campaigns for well-known brands as well as high profile Video Games, TV shows and Audiobooks. Dominic trained at Drama Centre London.
Lucky Jimmy
Eddy Westbury
Eddy Westbury plays Lucky Jimmy. His theatre credits include Comedy About a Bank Robbery (Mischief Theatre’s tour and West End). Eddy is a graduate of the Acting BA at Arts Ed Drama School.
Understudy
Tom Hardman
Tom Hardman is understudy for Janáček / Huber / Bob / Fritz
Theatre credits include: Frankenstein (Royal Exchange Theatre)
Seagulls (Oldham Coliseum / Manchester ADP); Through the Mill (Hope
Mill); Lionman (Dapertutto); A Wonderland Winterland (Walking Theatre
Company); Heart of Light (Forrest Tribe Dance Theatre); Love Blood or
Water (Up ‘ere Productions); Macbeth (Cream Faced Loons); Bird’s Nest
Billy (Fidget Theatre).
Television credits include: Coronation Street (ITV); Our Zoo (BBC, Big
Talk Productions); Doctors (BBC); Brothers (UCLan, That’s Lancashire TV).
Tom trained at UCLan’s Acting course.
Understudy
Joshua Lyster
Joshua Lyster is understudy for Jimmy / CJ / Landry
Theatre credits include: Glory (Red Ladder Theatre); The Race (Tamasha
Theatre).
Television credits include: EastEnders (BBC); The Real McCoy Sketch
(The One Show, BBC).
Film credits include: Lady of Heaven (Enlighted Kingdom); The
Nightingale (RAaW London).
Joshua trained at NYT Rep Company.
Creative Team
Written by
Theresa Heskins
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Theresa Heskins – Director and co-writer
Director and co-writer Theresa Heskins is Artistic Director of the New Vic. Her previous productions for the theatre include: Marvellous, Beauty and The Beast, The Prince and The Pauper, The 39 Steps, Astley’s Astounding Adventures, Votes for Women, Treasure Island, Around the World in 80 Days (with Kenny Wax Family Entertainment, Simon Friend and The Royal Exchange, winner of the Cameo Page to Stage Award); The Snow Queen (winner of UK Theatre Award for Best Show for Children and Young People 2017); Peter Pan in Scarlet with Oxford Playhouse, Kiss Me Quickstep, Robin Hood & Marian, Unearthed and The Throne in association with the National Theatre Studio, Dracula, The Borrowers, The 101 Dalmatians, Widowers’ Houses, A Christmas Carol, Far From the Madding Crowd, Where Have I Been All My Life?, Alice in Wonderland, The Rivals, The Admirable Crichton, Peter Pan, Bleak House, Humble Boy, The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, The Wicked Lady, A Voyage Round My Father, The Weir, Great Expectations, The Wizard of Oz, Cider With Rosie, Jamaica Inn, The Glee Club. The Worst Witch for Northampton Theatres, Kenny Wax Family Entertainment, Novel Theatre & Nica Burns (winner of the Olivier Award for Best Family Show 2020); White Open Spaces (South Bank Show Decibel Award nominee), Silent Engine (Edinburgh Fringe First), Precious Bane for Pentabus Theatre; Grace for Jade Theatre. Her previous writing has included BBC Women’s Hour radio dramas Lady Audley’s Secret, Wives and Daughters, Gunspowder Women. Shows created for the New Vic at Christmas have been produced all over the UK, including by the Watermill Theatre, Northern Stage, Edinburgh Lyceum, Cardiff Sherman, Kingston Rose and Northampton Theatres.
Theresa trained at Birmingham Rep on the Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme.
Written by
Michael Hugo
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Michael Hugo – Co-writer
Co-writer Michael Hugo’s previous acting credits include Marvelous, Tale Trail to Coppelia, 39 Steps (New Vic Theatre); Around The World In 80 Days (co-production with Kenny Wax Family Entertainment, Simon Friend and Royal Exchange U.S.A tour); The 39 Steps, Astley’s Astounding Adventures, Cyrano (co-production with Northern Broadsides); Peter Pan In Scarlet, The Lady Killers (co-production with Hull Truck); The Borrowers, Far From the Madding Crowd, Where Have I Been All My Life, Alice in Wonderland, The Admirable Crichton, Proof, The Rivals, Peter Pan, The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe, The Wicked Lady, Great Expectations, Stags and Hens, Christmas Carol, Pinocchio, Kes. (New Vic Theatre), They Don’t Pay, We Won’t Pay, The Winter’s Tale, The Grand Gesture, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, The Canterbury Tales, Lisa’s Sex Strike, The Tempest, Vacuum (Northern Broadsides). Cinderella (Lawrence Batley Theatre); Frozen (Fingersmiths); The Hunt for the Scroobius Pip (Sticks Theatre Co.) Wind in the Willows (Birmingham Rep); Broken Time (Three Stones Media); Peter Pan (Spiller’s); Breaking the Code (Chester Gateway); Babes in the Wood, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Oldham Coliseum).
Michael’s television and commercial credits include: Coronation Street (ITV); Hero Goalie (Abbot Meade Vickers BBDO); I’m With Stupid (BBC); Sir Gadabout (Alibi Productions); A Right Charlie, The Collector.
Written by
Andrew Pollard
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Andrew Pollard – Co-writer
Co-writer Andrew Pollard has acted in many productions for the New Vic Theatre including Astley’s Astounding Adventures, Educating Rita, Around the World in 80 Days (2018 US Tour – Asolo Rep, Florida and New Victory Theatre, New York; 2017 co-production with Kenny Wax Family Entertainment, Simon Friend and the Royal Exchange; 2014 – co-production with the Manchester Royal Exchange; 2013 – New Vic Theatre); Peter Pan In Scarlet, Talent, Diane of Dobson’s, The Ladykillers, Ghosts, Far from the Madding Crowd, Where Have I Been All My Life, Spring and Port Wine, The Admirable Crichton, The Rivals, Alphabetical Order and The Graduate. At the New Vic: Medea, School for Scandal, Macbeth, King John and The Merry Wives (Northern Broadsides).
Other theatre credits include:To Sir With Love (Birmingham Rep); Life’s A Drag (Contact Theatre); Hayfever, Sleeping Beauty, Babes in the Wood and Perfect Days (Oldham Coliseum); Arsenic and Old Lace and The Lonesome West (Keswick Theatre by the Lake); The Rivals (Theatre Royal Bath); A Night at the Bijou (Natural Theatre); Whose Dog Is It Anyway? (JB Shorts); Comedy of Errors (Ludlow Shakespeare Festival); The Queen of Hearts, Sleeping Beauty, Robinson Crusoe, Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, Puss in Boots, Robin Hood, Aladdin, Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Mother Goose, Dick Whittington and Sleeping Beauty (Greenwich Theatre); Search Light Over the Bemmy (Tobacco Factory); Cinderella (Halifax Victoria); Marat/Sade (Bristol Old Vic); The Picture of Dorian Gray (American Drama Group); Dick Whittington (Theatre Royal Northampton) and A Taste of Honey (Moffat Little Theatre Co.).
Andrew’s television credits include: Womanhood (BBC); Hollyoaks (Lime Pictures); Trying Again (Sky One/Avalon); Coronation Street and Emmerdale (ITV); Coup (Channel 4); Jodie and Mary (ITN) and Spooks: Liberty (BBC/Kudos Television).
Director
Theresa Heskins
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Theresa Heskins – Director and co-writer
Director and co-writer Theresa Heskins is Artistic Director of the New Vic. Her previous productions for the theatre include: Marvellous, Beauty and The Beast, The Prince and The Pauper, The 39 Steps, Astley’s Astounding Adventures, Votes for Women, Treasure Island, Around the World in 80 Days (with Kenny Wax Family Entertainment, Simon Friend and The Royal Exchange, winner of the Cameo Page to Stage Award); The Snow Queen (winner of UK Theatre Award for Best Show for Children and Young People 2017); Peter Pan in Scarlet with Oxford Playhouse, Kiss Me Quickstep, Robin Hood & Marian, Unearthed and The Throne in association with the National Theatre Studio, Dracula, The Borrowers, The 101 Dalmatians, Widowers’ Houses, A Christmas Carol, Far From the Madding Crowd, Where Have I Been All My Life?, Alice in Wonderland, The Rivals, The Admirable Crichton, Peter Pan, Bleak House, Humble Boy, The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, The Wicked Lady, A Voyage Round My Father, The Weir, Great Expectations, The Wizard of Oz, Cider With Rosie, Jamaica Inn, The Glee Club. The Worst Witch for Northampton Theatres, Kenny Wax Family Entertainment, Novel Theatre & Nica Burns (winner of the Olivier Award for Best Family Show 2020); White Open Spaces (South Bank Show Decibel Award nominee), Silent Engine (Edinburgh Fringe First), Precious Bane for Pentabus Theatre; Grace for Jade Theatre. Her previous writing has included BBC Women’s Hour radio dramas Lady Audley’s Secret, Wives and Daughters, Gunspowder Women. Shows created for the New Vic at Christmas have been produced all over the UK, including by the Watermill Theatre, Northern Stage, Edinburgh Lyceum, Cardiff Sherman, Kingston Rose and Northampton Theatres.
Theresa trained at Birmingham Rep on the Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme.
Movement Director
Beverley Norris-Edmunds
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Beverley has worked on numerous productions at the New Vic including:
Marvellous, Beauty and The Beast, Coppelia – A Mystery, The 39 Steps, The Prince and The Pauper, Handbagged, High Flyers (New Vic Borderlines); Much Ado About Nothing (co-production with Northern Broadsides); Around The World In 80 Days (UK tour, New York and Florida co-production with Kenny Wax Family Entertainment, Simon Friend and Royal Exchange ); Astley’s Astounding Adventures, Playhouse Creatures, Treasure Island, The Snow Queen (winner of UK Theatre Award); Peter Pan in Scarlet, Kiss Me Quickstep, Robin Hood & Marian, I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire, The Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Borrowers, Stones In His Pockets, A Christmas Carol, Where Have I Been All My Life, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Anna of the Five Towns, Laurel and Hardy, The Wizard of Oz, The Glee Club, Sweeney Todd, Oliver, Amadeus, Stepping Out, Privates on Parade, From a Jack to a King, Moll Flanders.
Other recent choreography credits include:
Other recent choreography credits include: The Worst Witch (Olivier Award winner, Vaudeville Theatre West End, Royal and Derngate and National Tour); Pride and Prejudice (Grosvenor Park open air theatre for Storyhouse Chester); NHS the Musical (Theatre Royal Plymouth).
Numerous productions for Oldham Coliseum Theatre includes:
Aladdin, Stepping Out, Sweet Charity, O What A Lovely War, Up ‘n’ Under, Chicago (MEN Theatre Award for Best Ensemble).
Numerous productions for Royal Court Theatre Liverpool includes:
Selection Box, Girls Don’t Play Guitars, Scouse Pacific, Our Day Out the Musical (Royal Court Theatre Liverpool).
Other credits include:
Hard Times, For Love or Money, Cyrano (co-production with the New Vic); A Winter’s Tale, Loves Labours Lost, Lisa’s Sex Strike (Northern Broadsides); As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, Treasure Island, The Tempest (Imaginarium Theatre company in association with Shakespeare North); The D Road (Claybody Theatre); The Man without a past (New Perspectives Theatre Company); Wolf Red (Tmesis Theatre Company).
Touring:
Return to the Forbidden Planet, Carmen.
Television credits include:
Disney’s The Evermoor Chronicles, Coronation Street, Butterfly, Hollyoaks, Cbeebie’s The Magic Door, Sunny D, Fernando Torres Nike Commercial, September Song and O Jerusalem (feature film).
Beverley has also worked on numerous productions for: Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester, Bolton Octagon, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Birmingham Rep, Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse, Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Liverpool Empire, Stephen Joseph Theatre Scarborough, Hull Truck Theatre, Haymarket Theatre Basingstoke and Harrogate Theatre.
Composer and Musical Director
James Atherton
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For the New Vic: Beauty and The Beast, Coppelia
– A Mystery, Hoard: Rediscovered, The Prince and The
Pauper, Astley’s Astounding Adventures, Treasure Island,
Around The World In 80 Days (2017 co-production with
Kenny Wax Family Entertainment, Simon Friend and
Royal Exchange Theatre); Dracula, The Snow Queen,
Peter Pan in Scarlet, Kiss Me Quickstep, Robin Hood
& Marian, The Hoard Festival, The Borrowers, Around
The World In Eighty Days (2014 co-production with
Royal Exchange Theatre; 2013); The Hundred and One
Dalmatians, Stones in His Pockets, Around The World In
Eighty Days, A Christmas Carol, Phoenix From the Flames
(Olympic torch relay); Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan,
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
Theatre credits as composer/musical director
include: When We Started Singing, A Tiger’s Tale
(M6 Theatre); Prom!, When We Built A Rocket Ship
(Oldham Coliseum); The Secret Of Christmas Eve,
Hansel and Gretel (Live@TheLibrary Oldham); The
Visitors Book (Hope Mill Theatre); House Mother
Normal, The Man Without A Past, Harvest, The Giant
Jam Sandwich, The Tiger’s Bones (New Perspectives
– National Tour); Ramshakle House, Bedtime Stories,
Tamburo (Upswing at Stratford Circus).
Television credits as composer include: The
History Of Christianity, Tales From the National Parks,
The Lives of Gandhi, Around the World in 80 Faiths
(BBC); Survivors, Kenny Everett: Licence to Laugh
(ITV1); The Unseen Eric Morecambe (Channel 4);
Roger to the Rescue (Cosgrove Hall); Colleen’s Secrets
(Channel 5); All in the Game, starring Ray Winstone
(Film4).
James is also the Artistic Director of the renowned
Oldham Theatre Workshop.
Set Designer
Laura Willstead
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For the New Vic: Beauty and The Beast, The Prince
and The Pauper, The Wind in the Willows, Astley’s
Astounding Adventures, Treasure Island, The Snow
Queen (winner of the UK Theatre Award for Best
Show for Children and Young People); Robin Hood &
Marian, Dracula, The Borrowers, The Hundred and One
Dalmatians, A Christmas Carol, Alice in Wonderland,
Peter Pan, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe,
Great Expectations.
For New Vic Education and Borderlines: The
Knotty, The Flood, Katy Clay (Education TiE Tour);
All Mixed Up (Borderlines TiE Tour); Cuba, The
Government Inspector (Youth Theatre Main House);
Fright Fest (Youth Opportunity).
Theatre design credits include: The Game
(Northern Broadsides National Tour); Previous
(Geese UK Theatre Company National Tour);
Would Like to Meet (Stoke Rep); On the Home Front,
Singin’ in the Rain, Sticks and Stones (Reveal Theatre
Company); The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Good
Woman of Szechwan (Arden Theatre); Dealing
Dreams (Real Life Theatre Company).
Film and television credits include: Britannic
Street, BT TalkWorks promotion, BP, International
Climate Control, Manchester Mardi Gras (Ric
Mellis Productions); Hollyoaks, Brookside (Mersey
Television).
Laura is Head of Workshops at the New Vic Theatre.
Costume Designer
Lis Evans
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As Resident Designer for the New Vic, Lis has
designed over 120 productions including: Marvellous,
Coppelia – A Mystery, Hoard: Rediscovered, Two,
Much Ado About Nothing (Northern Broadsides coproduction,
and International tour). Costume for
Prince and The Pauper, Beauty and The Beast, The Wind
in the Willows, Treasure Island, Astley’s Astounding
Adventures. Set and Costume designs for Playhouse
Creatures, The Pitmen Painters, Around The World In 80
Days (2017 co-production with Kenny Wax Family
Entertainment, Simon Friend and Royal Exchange
– winner of the Cameo Page to Stage Award); Dial
M for Murder, Cyrano (co-production with Northern
Broadsides); The Snow Queen (winner of UK Theatre
Award for Best Show for Children and Young
People); The Mountaintop, Talent, Diana of Dobson’s,
Robin Hood & Marian, The Hoard Festival, Dracula,
Merry Wives, Around The World In Eighty Days (2014
co-production with the Royal Exchange; 2013); I
Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire!, An August Bank
Holiday Lark, The Hundred and One Dalmatians, Stones
in His Pockets, Talking Heads, A Christmas Carol, Proof,
Spring and Port Wine.
Recently at the New Vic Lis has also worked in
collaboration with the Education department on Tale
Trail to Coppelia and the outdoor Woodland Camp,
and with Appetite on the Newcastle Common pop
up shops projects in Newcastle town centre.
Other Theatre credits include: The Canterbury
Tales, Merry Wives, Romeo and Juliet, Vacuum, The
Tempest (Northern Broadsides UK and China Tour)
and design, painting and making various productions
in Nottingham, Manchester, Bradford, Edinburgh and
London.
Lis has contributed to the National Life Stories
collection for the British Library’s sound archive.
Costume drawings from various New Vic
Productions are currently on display on the New
Vic Front-of-House lampshades.
Lighting Designer
Daniella Beatie
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As Resident Lighting Designer at the New
Vic, productions include: Marvellous, Beauty
and The Beast, Coppelia – A Mystery, The Prince and
The Pauper, Handbagged, The 39 Steps, The Strange
Undoing of Prudencia Hart, Brassed Off (co-production
with Northern Broadsides); Much Ado About
Nothing, The Wind in The Willows, Astley’s Astounding
Adventures, Table, Votes for Women, Treasure Island,
The Pitmen Painters, Dial M for Murder, The Snow
Queen (winner of UK Theatre Award for Best Show
for Children and Young People); Cyrano, Peter Pan in
Scarlet (co-production with Oxford Playhouse); The
Mountaintop, Diana of Dobson’s, Kiss Me Quickstep
(co-production with Oldham Coliseum); Tale Trail to
Robin Hood & Marian, Robin Hood & Marian, Seeing
the Lights, The Hoard Festival, Dracula, Bell, Book
and Candle, The Borrowers, Ghosts, Inherit the Wind,
The Hundred and One Dalmatians, Gaslight, Stones in
His Pockets, Blonde Bombshells (co-production with
Oldham Coliseum); The Thrill of Love (co-production
with St James Theatre); A Fine Bright Day Today, Alfie
(co-production with Stephen Joseph Theatre and
Oldham Coliseum); The Wicked Lady (Best Lighting
Design at the 2009 TMA Awards).
Other Theatre credits include: The Litten
Tree (Fuel Theatre); Macbeth (Queens Theatre
Hornchurch); Ramshackle House (Upswing);
Girls, Girls, Girls (Potboiler); The Ragged Trousered
Philanthropists, We Are the Lions Mr Manager, Dare
Devil Rides to Jarama and Rouse, Ye Women!; Farewell
Leicester Square, Yes Yes UCS (Townsend Productions);
Peter Pan (Halifax Victoria Theatre); Man Up, The
Voyages, You Are Here (Restoke); Dick Whittington
(Rotherham Civic); Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest
(Northern Broadsides); Extra Yarn (Filament).
Daniella trained in theatre design and technology at
Bretton Hall (University of Leeds).
Sound Designer
Alex Day
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Sound Designs for the New Vic: The 39 Steps,
Votes For Women, Beryl, The Mountaintop.
Co-Designs: Hoard Rediscovered, The Prince and The
Pauper, Astley’s Astounding Adventures, Treasure Island,
The Snow Queen (winner of the UK Theatre Award
for Best Show for Children and Young People); Peter
Pan in Scarlet (co-production with Oxford Playhouse);
Kiss Me Quickstep (co-production with Oldham
Coliseum); Robin Hood & Marian, Dracula.
Associate Sound Designer: The Strange Undoing
of Prudencia Hart, Around The World In 80 Days
(2017 co-production with Kenny Wax Family
Entertainment, Simon Friend and Royal Exchange –
winner of the Cameo Page to Stage Award); Around
The World In Eighty Days (2014 co-production with
Royal Exchange Theatre).
Calypso Song Composer
Tobago Crusoe
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Singer Songwriter: Smart Bajan (1971), Don’t
Cry Trinidad (1983), Productivity (1984), South Africa
(1984), Tomorrow’s Children (2001), Brexit (2017);
Music for Tom, Dick and Harry, Geneva Convention and
A Banana, 2022.
Composer for Calypsonians: Nobody Wins a War
(for Singing Sandra, 1992), Die With My Dignity (for
Singing Sandra, 1992), Panorama Without Kitch (for
Luta, 1996).
Performance credits include: Mother’s Day
Calypso Concert at Madison Square Garden, Bringing
Calypso in Turin, Calysonians Interpret the World
War in Berlin, Germany; Black History Month Concert
at the London Assembly; Hull 2017’s City of Culture
(Tilt’s Hull Liming at the BBC’s Contains Strong
Language, Kardomah); Calypso Tent stages in Portof-Spain with Mighty Sparrow, Calypso Rose, Singing Sandra, Mighty Bomber, Ras Shorty I, Rio; Calypso
Lime with Alexander D Great and guests (host).
Film credits as composer and featured artist
include: Paddington, Paddington 2 (Tobago and
D’Lime band).
Awards and accolades: Calypso Monarch award
for Don’t Cry Trinidad, 1983; Sunshine Awards Hall of
Fame for his contribution to Calypso music, 2011; the
first Calypsonian-in-Residence at the British Library,
2018 (Renaissance One’s London Is The Place For
Me Festival).
Crusoe appears courtesy of
www.renaissanceone.co.uk
Projection Design
Illuminos
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For the New Vic: The Hoard Festival, Astley’s
Astounding Adventures and Treasure Island.
Illuminos are brothers Matt and Rob Vale, creating
visually inventive, memorable artworks and
experiences. Their works range from very large
scale illumination to small scale imagery, but always
working to create something unique and specific
to location and viewer. Combining elements of
installation, dance, movement and music through film
and architecture, each project that they approach
develops from an exploration of the emotions of
an environment, aiming to capture the essence
of a place, space or feeling as a shared moment
of time. Brought up in Derbyshire, and coming
from a creative family (their younger sisters are
an actor and a choreographer) they pursued the
arts via degrees in music and Fine Art respectively.
Matt went on to study lighting and sound at Royal
Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), London, with
Rob undertaking an MA in Contemporary Fine Art
Practices at Leeds Met, working as Digital Fine Art
Lecturer at Lancaster University for 3 years. They
have exhibited internationally in France, USA and
Ireland, recently with Les Troyens for Lyric Opera
of Chicago, and for the European Capital of Culture
closing ceremony in Paphos, Cyprus.
Assistant Director
Filiz Ozcan
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Filiz Ozcan is a director of theatre and festivals.
She has directed classical and contemporary plays
working with both emerging and established writers.
For the New Vic: Yizkor, Beauty and The Beast,
All Our Daughters, The Cost of Living which toured
secondary schools in Stoke-on-Trent.
Filiz has assistant directed: Snow White and Seven
Dwarfs (Mercury Theatre); Pericles (Gdansk
Shakespeare Festival); The Mysteries (Tara Theatre).
For Komola Collective, she has directed: Aleya
Twist in Bangladesh, Women of Tagore, Shahrazad,
Women of Shakespeare (cabaret style); Daughter of
the Forest, Of Blood and Fire, and the Offie-nominated
Birangona: Women of War.
Filiz’s previous productions include: Treasure Island,
Lord of the Flies, Romeo and Juliet (site-specific); You
Are Always With Me, Bonbibi at Rich Mix London
(as part of A Season of Bangla Drama); Animal
Farm (Colchester); A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(Newcastle-under-Lyme); The Legends of King Arthur
(for the Without Frontiers Festival – in Poland) and
Rusalka (BAC London).
Assistant Lighting Director
Peter Morgan
Casting Associate
Anji Carroll CDG
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For the New Vic: Over 60 shows including the
award-winning Around The World In 80 Days and The
Snow Queen.
Theatre credits include: My White Best
Friend North – Leeds for Eclipse and Antigone for
Storyhouse; Olivier Award-winning The Worst
Witch (Olivier Award winner, Vaudeville Theatre
West End, Royal and Derngate and National Tour);
Precious Little Talent (Best Play at the London Theatre
Festival Awards 2011 -Trafalgar Studios). Multiple
shows with Hull Truck, Royal & Derngate, New
Perspectives, Storyhouse, Birmingham Old Rep,
Salisbury Playhouse, Northcott Theatre, Ludlow
Festival, Bristol Old Vic, Theatre In The Quarter and
Shooting Fish.
Other media credits include: Television:
BBC2’s comedy drama series The Cup, The Bill (50+
episodes); two series of London’s Burning
(32 episodes); The Knock (4 x 90 minutes).
Feature film: 2.0 Lucy, Papadopoulos & Sons, West
Is West, Mrs Ratcliffe’s Revolution.
Drama-documentary: Curiosity – What Sank
Titanic?, Mayday, Joan of Arc.
Video games: Race Driver.
Anji is a member of the Casting Director’s Guild
(CDG) and BAFTA.
Vocal Coach
Caroline Hetherington
Co-Producer
Kenny Wax LTD
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Kenny is the Vice President of the Society of London
Theatre (SOLT) – the trade organisation for the West
End Theatre industry – after a three-and-a-half-year
term as President.
In 2022, Kenny is opening four family musicals:
Identical, based on the book ‘The Parent Trap’ by
Erich Kastner – a story of twins separated at birth
and brought back together, directed by Trevor
Nunn; Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The
World, based on the book of the same name by Kate
Pankhurst – a pop-fuelled celebration of some of
history’s incredible women and their stories; the first
ever UK tour of Bugsy Malone – the acclaimed Lyric
Hammersmith production, based on the world famous movie
by Alan Parker; and a brand new show
based on the CBeebies smash hit Hey Duggee. This
summer, Kenny is also collaborating with New Vic
Theatre Stoke, to tell the legendary story of The
Great Escape in their new production Tom, Dick
& Harry.
His current success is SIX which is playing to sold out
audiences in the West End; on Broadway; on tour in
the UK, US and Australia; and on Norwegian Cruise
Lines. The show performed at Hampton Court
Palace this summer and will begin two
tours across America, with an international tour also
in the works. The studio album received ‘gold’ status
last year and is consistently in the album charts.
The original Broadway cast album was released in
May 2022.
Kenny has so far produced six shows with Mischief
Theatre: including The Play That Goes Wrong (winner
of the Olivier Award for ‘Best New Comedy’),
which reopened in the West End at the Duchess
Theatre and is currently on a UK tour; Peter Pan Goes
Wrong has played the West End twice; The Comedy
About A Bank Robbery ran for nearly four years at
the Criterion Theatre; Mischief Movie Night gained
Mischief their fourth consecutive Olivier nomination
and was streamed for the first time all over the
world in December 2020; Groan Ups played at the
Vaudeville in autumn 2019 and later toured the UK;
Magic Goes Wrong was made in collaboration with
notorious magicians Penn & Teller and toured the
UK after a wonderful run at the Apollo Theatre.
Recently, Kenny set up Mischief Screen with Mischief
Theatre, having been the Executive Producer of
two Christmas television specials on BBC 1: Peter
Pan Goes Wrong and A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong.
In Spring 2020, Mischief hit the airwaves again with
a comedy series commissioned by BBC1, The Goes
Wrong Show, now available on DVD and to stream.
The second series aired in autumn 2021 and is
available on iPlayer.
Notable productions include the world première of
Top Hat, which won three Olivier Awards including
‘Best New Musical’ (2013). Once on This Island also
won the same award in 1995. In 2020, his production
of The Worst Witch won the Laurence Olivier Award
for ‘Best Family Show’ and his production of Julia
Donaldson’s much-loved book What the Ladybird
Heard was nominated in the same category for the
2021 ceremony.
Kenny is renowned for producing some of the best
family theatre both in the West End and on tour.
Productions include We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, 80
Days Around The World, Mr Popper’s Penguins, Oi Frog
& Friends! and the Olivier Award nominated stage
adaptation of Jacqueline Wilson’s Hetty Feather.
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Production Team
Production Manager
Digby Robinson
Assistant Production Manager
Glynn Dodd
Company Stage Manager on the Book
Kate Wilcock
Assistant Stage Manager
Kayleigh Cooper
Technical Assistant Stage Manager
Kate Buxton
Sound Operator
Alex Day
Wardrobe Supervisor
Christy Reeve