King Lear FINAL PERFORMANCE 9 DECEMBER 2023

Trained at RADA

Theatre credits:  Another Country, Henry V, Golden Girls, Hamlet and Love’s Labour’s Lost, Romeo and Juliet (also directed), Public Enemy, As You Like It, Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing, Look Back in Anger, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and King Lear (also directed), Coriolanus, Hamlet, Richard III, Edmond, Ivanov, The Painkiller, Macbeth (also directed), Harlequinade(also directed), The Winter’s Tale (also directed), and The Entertainer (also directed)..

Plays directed:  John Sessions’ The Life of Napoleon and Napoleon, The American Story, Twelfth Night, Uncle Vanya, The Play What I Wrote, Ducktastic, Romeo & Juliet, & Hamlet.

Film Credits: A Month in the Country, High Season, Henry V(also directed), Dead Again (also directed) , Peter’s Friends (also directed) , Much Ado About Nothing (also directed), Swing Kids, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (also directed), Othello, Hamlet (also directed), The Proposition, The Gingerbread Man, Theory of Flight, Celebrity, Wild Wild West, El Dorado, Love’s Labour’s Lost (also directed), How To Kill Your Neighbour’s Dog, Rabbit Proof Fence, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Valkyrie, The Boat that Rocked. My Week with Marilyn, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (also directed), Dunkirk, Murder on the Orient Express (also directed), All is True (also directed), Tenet, Death on the Nile (also directed) Oppenheimer, & A Haunting in Venice (also directed).

Film’s Directed: Swan Song, In the Bleak Midwinter, As You Like It, The Magic Flute, Sleuth, Thor, Cinderella, Artemis Fowl, & Belfast.

Television Credits: The Billy Plays, The Boy in the Bush, Fortunes of War, Shadow of a Gunman, Conspiracy, Shackleton, Warm Springs, 10 Days to War, Wallander & This England.

Writing Credits: plays – Tell Me Honesty and Public Enemy; his autobiography Beginning; screen adaptations- Shakespeare’s Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, Love’s Labour’s Lost, & As You Like It. Screenplays- In The Bleak Midwinter, & Belfast.

Originally trained as a musician at Oxford University and Royal Academy of Music, Jon retrained on the Motley Theatre Design Course graduating as a Linbury Prize finalist in 2000. Since then he has designed extensively in dance, opera and theatre for companies worldwide. 

He designed the opening ceremony of the 2012 Paralympic Games in London, the flame lighting ceremony for the 2014 Winter Paralympics, and has recently been nominated for an Emmy Award for his Production Design for the Redbull parkour film Human Pinball featuring the world’s largest pinball machine.

 Theatre includes: Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods (Theatre Royal, Bath); Bat Out of Hell (London/ Germany/ Toronto/ New York/ Las Vegas); WICKED (Stage Entertainment, Hamburg); Bugsy Malone (Lyric Hammersmith); True West (West End); Miyazaki’s Spirited Away (Toho, Japan); Oedipus (Tokyo); Tree (Young Vic/ Manchester International Festival); The Band- the Take That musical (West End/ UK Tour); The Grinning Man (Bristol Old Vic/West End- Best Design UK Theatre awards); Force Majeur (Donmar); What’s New Pussycat (Birmingham Rep); The James Plays (National Theatre/ National Theatre Scotland/ World tour) and James IV (Scottish tour); Ghost Stories (West End/ Toronto/ Moscow/ Melbourne); Lord of the Flies (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); MAMETZ (National Theatre of Wales- winner best design UK Theatre awards and Wales Theatre awards); You For Me For You (Royal Court- Best Design, Evening Standard Awards). 

 As an associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company he has designed numerous productions including Hamlet, King Lear, The Winter’s Tale and the entire 2012 Shipwrecked season. 

 Dance includes: The Nutcracker (Norwegian National Ballet) several designs for Ballet Rambert, the Royal Opera House and Netherlands Dans Theater, and works by Liam Scarlett for the Royal Ballet, Norwegian National Ballet and English National Ballet. 

 Opera includes: Ainadamar (Scottish Opera, Detroit Opera); Serse, Golden Dragon, Rigoletto, Viktoria & Her Husar, A Midsummer Nights Dream (Halles Opera); Cendrillon (Glyndebourne); Die Walküre  (Bordeaux National Opera); The Knot Garden (Theatre an der Wien); The Lighthouse (Montepulciano) and Agrippina (Grange Park Opera).

 Other work includes the new Arcola Theatre in London and the World Health Organisation’s pavilion for COP27 co designed with Invisible Flock.

Lucy is Director of Actor Training at RADA. She moved to the UK from Australia in 1996,  and has worked on the fringe, off-West End,  West End, Broadway and the National Theatre. She founded Blue Tongue Theatre, producing and directing contemporary Australian plays.

She directed her first RADA production in 2007 and took up her current position as Director of Actor Training in 2014.

At RADA Lucy has directed Gabriel, Moira Buffini;  A Conversation, David Williamson; In Flame, Charlotte Jones;   Unprotected, Wilson, John, Fay and Nunnery;  Speaking in Tongues, Andrew Bovell; Girls and Dolls, Lisa McGee; Mrs Klein, Nicholas Wright; Chicken Shop, Anna Yen; Frozen, Bryony Lavery; and When the Rain Stops Falling, Andrew Bovell.

Nina Dunn is an award-winning video and projection designer who has created work for a wide range of shows internationally. She is the Creative Director at PixelLux and an educator within the industry.

Theatre credits includes: The Shark is Broken (West End & Broadway), Orfeo-Dido (Grange Festival Opera), Le Fantôme de l’Opéra (Shanghai Ballet); Spitting Image Live Bonnie & Clyde, City of Angels, No Man’s Land, Cookies (West End); 9 to 5 The Musical (West End, UK and Australian Tour, Daegu International Festival, Korea); Othello, Manor, Emperor & Galilean (Royal National Theatre); L’Orfeo, Der Freischütz, Macbeth (Wiener Staatsoper); Don Quixote, Lazuli Sky (Birmingham Royal Ballet); Seven Deadly Sins, Bluebeard’s Castle (Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires); A Museum in Baghdad, Venice Preserved, Miss Littlewood, The Seven Acts of Mercy, Volpone (Royal Shakespeare Company); Hamlet, The Mountaintop (Young Vic); The Trials (Donmar Warehouse); Extinct (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Shedding a Skin (Soho Theatre); Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella (Imagine Theatre); Plenty, Copenhagen, Fiddler on the Roof, Forty Years On (Chichester Festival Theatre); Spring Gala, Christmas at ROH (Royal Opera House); Phantom of the Opera (UK, US and Australian tour); The Rocky Horror Show (European tour).

Awards include: Best Video Design for Bonnie & Clyde (Broadway World UK), Best Video and Electronic Content for Alice’s Adventures Underground (Knight of Illumination), Best Design for Cinderella and Beauty and The Beast (UK Pantomime Association Awards), and a nomination for Best Video Design for The Shark is Broken (WhatsOnStage).

Recent lighting designs include: Ainadamar, Gondoliers/Utopia Ltd (Scottish Opera); The Steward of Christendom, Constellations, The Visiting Hour, Hamlet, The Snapper (Gate Theatre, Dublin); Translations (Abbey Theatre, Dublin & Lyric Theatre, Belfast); Tales from the Holywell, Portia Coughlan, On Raftery’s Hill (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); Elektra (also set design, Irish National Opera); Scandaltown, Love Love Love Love, The Plough and the Stars (Lyric Hammersmith); Doubt (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Naked Hand, Shirley Valentine, Double Cross, Here Comes the Night (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); Happy Days, Blood in the Dirt, Postcards from the Ledge (Landmark Theatre Productions, Ireland); Cyprus Avenue (Abbey Theatre, MAC Belfast, Public Theatre NYC, Royal Court).

Composition and Sound Design in Theatre:

Prima Facie (Broadway, Nominated for Best Sound Design at the Tony Awards 2023), A Doll’s House (Broadway, Nominated for Best Sound Design at the Tony Awards 2023), Cyrano de Bergerac (West End, BAM NYC – Drama Desk Best Sound Design Winner), Betrayal (West End/Broadway), Blindness (Donmar, Daryl Roth Theatre, Los Metros Award Winner, Mexico),

As Creators: Exemplar (Radio series written for BBC Radio 4), Reflections (2 Temple Place), ANNA (Created for National Theatre, Olivier Award Nomination, Best Sound Design), The Return (Directed for ETT), Curse Of The Crackles (Created for STH), Looking For Nigel (BBC R and D)

Trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Cymbeline, Imperium part I and II, Richard II, Henry IV Parts I and II, Henry V, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Witch of Edmonton, Loves Sacrifice,The Jew of Malta (RSC);As You Like It 2023, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, Midsummer nights Dream, The Tempest, Swive (Shakespeare’s Globe);Word Play, Inside Bitch, Pigs and dogs, Hang, Routes (Royal Court); The Trials (Donmar Warehouse Theatre); Wings, Happy Days, Galileo, Fun Home, Scotsboro’ Boys, Blue Orange, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Season in the Congo, A Doll’s House,The Mountain,The Changeling, Beloved (Young Vic); A Little Night Music, Street Scene, Kiss Me Kate, Carousel, The Magic Flute,(Opera North); Machinal (Almeida Theatre);Yeoman of the Guard (ENO); Gypsy, Twelfth Night (Royal Exchange Manchester); Tom Fool, 2 Billion Heartbeats, When the Sun Shines, Blood Knot (Orange Tree Theatre); Fishermans friends the Musical (international tour ); The Audience, Glass Menagerie (Nuffield Theatre); The Winter’s Tale, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Macbeth (Cheek by Jowl); Beautiful: the Carole King Musical (UK Tour); Ghost the Musical (West End); Aladdin, Dick Whittington (Lyric Hammersmith); Hello&Goodbye (York Theatre Royal); Pitchfork Disney(Arcola); The School for Scandal (BarbicanTheatre); 11 and 12 (Peter Brook).

Film: CLICQUOT (Working Title); BLACK MIRROR (Netflix); KILLING EVE (BBC); CYRANO (Warner bros/Working Title); DARKEST HOUR (Working Title); JESUS HIS LIFE (History Channel); CHRISTOPHER AND HIS KIND  (BBC).