credits include: Mindhorn (Scottfree/ BBC).
CREATIVE TEAM
CAROLINE BIRD – PLAYWRIGHT (AGAMEMNON)
Caroline’s new stage version of The Wizard of Oz will be Northern Stage’s Christmas production. She is currently under commission to the Old Vic, writing the book and lyrics for a musical version of Dennis the Menace.
Previous work includes: Sixty-Six Books (The Bush Theatre, 2011); The Trojan Women (Gate Theatre, 2012) and Chamber Piece, Show 3 (Lyric Hammersmith’s Secret Theatre season, 2013 & UK tour 2013/2014).
Caroline was one of ten finalists for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2014. She was shortlisted for Most Promising New Playwright at the Off-West-End Awards in 2013 and for the Shell Woman of the Future Awards in 2011.
Caroline is an award-winning poet with four poetry collections published by Carcanet Press. She was named one of the five official poets at London Olympics 2012.
ALINE DAVID – MOVEMENT DIRECTOR
Credits include: Nothing (Glyndebourne Opera); First Love Is The Revolution (Soho Theatre); Romeo And Juliet, A Taste Of Honey, Alice (Sheffield Crucible); The Merchant Of Venice (RSC); Of Mice And Men (Birmingham Rep); Romeo And Juliet, A Taste Of Honey, Emil And The Detectives, Romeo And Juliet, Damned By Despair, Antigone, The Kitchen, Greenland, Our Class (National Theatre); DAPHNE (La Monnaie); Anthony & Cleopatra, Much Ado About Nothing, Troilus And Cressida (Shakespeare’s Globe); Proof (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Owl And The Pussycat (Royal Opera House Olympic Project); Waiting For Godot (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The House Of Bernarda Alba (Almeida); Dead Heavy Fantastic (Liverpool Everyman); Wanderlust (Royal Court); How To Be An Other Woman (Gate); Eurydice (with ACT); Elektra, The Brothers Size (Young Vic); 1984, Macbeth (Royal Exchange); A Christmas Carol (Sherman, Cardiff); Tarantula In Petrol Blue (Aldeburgh, Snape Maltings Concert Hall) and Gone Too Far! (Royal Court/Actors Touring Company – Winner of 2008 Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliated Theatre).
YARIT DOR – FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHER
Yarit Dor is a Fight Choreographer and Movement Director. She is a former dancer and dramaturge of Hagit Yakira Dance Company and currently coaches actors in movement, physical skills and stage combat in several drama conservatoires.
She studied dance at Trinity Laban after which she continued her training in theatre directing at Rose Bruford College and Jacques Lecoq physical theatre at LISPA. Yarit has choreographed and coached on a variety of shows from musicals and new writing to classics and devised theatre.
Credits include: Disgraced (English Theatre Frankfurt); Zastrozzi (Norwich Dragon Hall); Dark Tourism (Park Theatre); The Emperor Jones (The Lost Theatre); Titus Andronicus (Greenwich Theatre); Macbeth: Fire Burn (Colchester Shakespeare Festival); Henry V (Peckham Asylum); Kiss of the Earth (Corn Exchange Newbury); Noonday Demons (King’s Head Theatre); Macbeth (RIFT Theatre); A Skull in Connemara (White Bear Theatre); Somewhere Between a Self and an Other (Dance 4 Nottingham); Leah (The Place); 2B (The Place); Lysistrata (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama); The Wind in the Willows (Italia Conti) and Vanity Fair (AUB).
More info at: www.yarit-dor.com
HEATHER DOOLE – PRODUCTION MANAGER
Heather is a freelance production manager.
Past shows include: Firebird (Hampstead Theatre Downstairs and Trafalgar Studios); The Argument, The Meeting, 36 Phone Calls, Sunspots, Deluge, Deposit, Elephants and State Red (Hampstead Theatre Downstairs); 4000 Days and Grounded (Park Theatre); No Villain (Old Red Lion); Four Minutes Twelve Seconds (Trafalgar Studios); The Session (Soho Theatre); Octagon (Arcola Theatre); And Then Came the Nightjars (Bristol Old Vic Studio and Theatre 503); Valhalla, Animals and Cinderella and the Beanstalk (Theatre 503); Women Centre Stage Festival (National Theatre Temporary Space); Radiant Vermin (Soho Theatre and Tobacco Factory, Bristol) and Albert Herring (Upstairs at the Gatehouse). She assisted on Bull (Young Vic).
ELAYCE ISMAIL – DIRECTOR (CHORUS)
Elayce Ismail was awarded the JP Morgan Award for Emerging Directors 2014/2015, under which she was Resident Director at the National Theatre Studio and directed Andrew Whaley’s The Rise and Shine of Comrade Fiasco at the Gate Theatre. She was co-founder/Artistic Director of Offstage Theatre from 2005 – 2009 and trained at LISPA.
As Director: The Rise and Shine of Comrade Fiasco (Gate Theatre); Schools Theatre Production, Simpatico (Young Vic); The Lost Ring (National Theatre/ Deutsches Theater Berlin); Treasure Island: Making a Scene, Alfred Fagon Award: GIRLS, Black Plays Series readings (National Theatre); Struggle (Talawa Firsts, London & Bristol Somali Festivals) and Bed & Breakfast (Brighton Fringe Festival & tour).
As Associate/Assistant Director: The Virtues of Things (Royal Opera House); The Sound of Yellow, A Season in the Congo (Young Vic) and Coming Home (Arcola Theatre).
Puppetry: Dr Korczak’s Example (Unicorn Theatre) and Fast Burn (Kneehigh/ National Youth Theatre).
Performance: The Magic Flute (Complicite/English National Opera); Ring-a-Ding-Ding (Oily Cart); In A Pickle (Oily Cart/Royal Shakespeare Company).
This role is supported by Fenton Arts Trust, supporting emerging talent at the Gate.
SUHAYLA EL-BUSHRA – PLAYWRIGHT (IPHIGENIA)
Suhayla is a Brighton-based screenwriter and playwright.
Previous plays include: Pigeons (The Royal Court Theatre); Cuckoo (The Unicorn Theatre); The Kilburn Passion (The Tricycle Theatre) and Fingertips for Clean Break at Latitude. Her adaptation of Nikolai Erdman’s The Suicide will be staged at the National Theatre in spring 2016.
She is currently writer in residence at the NT Studio and is under commission from Out Of Joint. Suhayla was a core writer on TV soap Hollyoaks and has various film and TV projects in development.
CHRISTOPHER HAYDON – DIRECTOR (AGAMEMNON)
Christopher is Artistic Director at the Gate Theatre and formerly an Associate Director at the Bush Theatre.
Credits include: The Christians (Gate Theatre/Traverse Theatre, Winner: Fringe First); Grounded (Gate Theatre, Traverse Theatre, Studio Theatre Washington DC, national and international tour; winner: Fringe First, Best Production – Off West End Awards); Image of an Unknown Young Woman, The Edge of Our Bodies, Trojan Women, Purple Heart, The Prophet, Wittenburg (Gate Theatre); Twelve Angry Men (Birmingham Rep/West End); Sixty-Six Books; In the Beginning (Bush Theatre/Westminster Abbey); A Safe Harbour for Elizabeth Bishop (Southbank Centre); Grace,
