NICK BARNES studied drama at Hull University and theatre design at the Slade School of Fine Art and soon after began incorporating puppets into his designs for opera and theatre, nationally and internationally. Until recently he was joint artistic director of the puppetry company Blind Summit Theatre, which he co-founded. With Blind Summit Nick designed puppets for Madame Butterfly (ENO, Metropolitan Opera, Anthony Minghella), A Dog's Heart (ENO/DNO), Shunkin and Master and Margarita (Complicite, Simon McBurney), El Gato Con Botas (Tectonic Theatre, Moises Kaufman), On Emotion (Soho Theatre, Mick Gordon), Faeries (Royal Opera House, Will Tuckett), His Dark Materials (Birmingham ... read more
Finn is a director, designer and performer; he is co-artistic director of Gyre & Gimble, a theatre company specialising in puppetry. As Gyre & Gimble work as Co-Director/Puppet Designer includes: The Hartlepool Monkey (UK Tour) and The Elephantom (National Theatre & West End). As Puppetry Co-Designer/Director: Running Wild (Chichester Festival Theatre & Regent's Park Open Air Theatre) and The Grinning Man (Bristol Old Vic). Upcoming work includes co-directing/Puppet Designing The Four Seasons (Globe Theatre). Other work includes Angels in America and The Light Princess (National Theatre); Groundhog Day (Additional Movement - Old Vic & Broadway); Dr. Seuss' The Lorax ... read more
National Theatre credits include Pinocchio, Follies, Mosquitoes, Common, Angels in America, The Red Barn, The Suicide, Wonder.land, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Table, This House (also West End and Chichester), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (also West End and Broadway, Olivier Award for Best Lighting 2013, Tony Award for Best Lighting), The Comedy of Errors, Danton, The Power of Yes, Phedre, Death and the King's Horseman, War Horse (also West End and Broadway, 2011 Tony Award for Best Lighting), Some Trace of Her, Women of Troy, Triple Bill, Saint Joan, Attempts on Her Life, The Caucasian ... read more
Recent credits: Heisenberg (Wyndham's); Fatherland (Royal Exchange Theatre); Common (National Theatre); Angels in America (National Theatre); Junkyard (Bristol Old Vic); Fracked! (Chichester and tour); Before I Leave (Cardiff); Elegy (Donmar); Uncle Vanya (Almeida); Husbands and Sons (National); Hangmen (Royal Court and Wyndham's); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Olivier Award and Drama Desk Award - Gielgud, National Theatre, Broadway, and UK and US tours); Jerusalem (Royal Court, West End and Broadway); This House (National Theatre, Chichester and Garrick Theatre); The River (Royal Court and Broadway); The Nether (Royal Court/West End); Love's Sacrifice (RSC); The Days the Nights ... read more
MARIANNE ELLIOTT is Artistic Director of Elliott & Harper Productions, a new theatre company co-founded in 2016 with producer Chris Harper. Elliott & Harper's inaugural production, Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle by Simon Stephens is running at the Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End until 6 January 2018. Future productions include a co-production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, opening in November 2017 as a co-production with West Yorkshire Playhouse and Catherine Schreiber at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds and Company by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth with Rosalie Craig as Bobbi and Patti LuPone as Joanne. Company ... read more
Chris Fisher is a member of The Magic Circle. He works worldwide as International Illusions & Magic Associate for Harry Potter & The Cursed Child.
Theatre credits as Illusion Consultant include: Peter Gynt (National Theatre), Superhero(Tony Kiser Theater, NY); A Very Very, Very Dark Matter (Bridge Theatre); Company(Gielgud); Julie (National Theatre); Angels in America (National Theatre & Broadway); Macbeth (RSC, Swan Theatre & Barbican); Barnum (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Hypocrite (Hull Truck Theatre/RSC, Swan Theatre); Big The Musical (Plymouth Theatre Royal/Dublin Bord Gáis Theatre); No Man’s Land (Wyndham’s); Into the Woods(Royal Exchange); Here We Go, Treasure Island (National Theatre); Xanadu(Southwark Playhouse); ... read more
NICKY GILLIBRAND trained as a fashion textile designer. She works as a costume designer in Theatre and Opera and occasionally as a set designer. Winner of the Gold award for Best Costume Design, Prague Quadrenale 2003 for A Midsummer Night's Dream for the Royal Shakespeare Company. She is a visiting Professor at University of the Arts London (UAL). Theatre credits: Billy Elliot the Musical (worldwide); Once in a Lifetime, Measure for Measure, The Trial, Public Enemy, Hamlet, Government Inspector, Vernon God Little, Annie Get Your Gun, The Good Soul of Szechuan, King Lear, Six Characters in Search of ... read more
ROBBY GRAHAM is a Choreographer and Artistic Director of Southpaw Dance Company, creating dance theatre movement that has been called, "...witty, hardâ€edged, sure in focus, and sizzling in energy" (Clement Crisp, Financial Times). Having created across a diverse number of contexts, from working with disadvantaged young people to movement direction at the National Theatre, Robby tailors the movement to the requirements of his cast to create relevant, thought-provoking, and affective dance theatre that has been described as "fluid movement with an uncanny, gravity-defying poise that is as elegant as ballet" (Eve Stebbing, The Telegraph). To date Robby has presented ... read more
For the National Theatre, Ian MacNeil has designed Angels in America Parts One and Two, Everyman, Machinal (Critics' Circle Award - Designer), An Inspector Calls (also West End and international; Olivier and Critic Circle Awards - Designer) and The Amen Corner. For the Royal Court: Far Away (also West End and New York), A Number, Via Dolorosa (also West End and Broadway), Plasticine (Evening Standard Award - Designer) and In Basildon. For the Young Vic: Afore Night Come, Herge's Adventures of Tintin, Vernon God Little and A Doll's House (West End and BAM). For the Almeida: Medea, Festen (West End ... read more
DRIAN SUTTON is a composer and producer whose scores cross orchestral, chamber and electronic genres, and that have featured in a number of successful theatre productions, including Angels in America (the UK's National Theatre and NT Live), War Horse, Coram Boy and the six-time Tony-nominated The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (National Theatre, Gielgud Theatre West End, Barrymore Theatre Broadway, two UK tours, a US tour and a current international tour). In 2013, he received a joint Olivier Award for Curious Incident's Sound Design, and also produced and released Curious Incidentals, the soundtrack album from the play. ... read more
