and Fringe First Awards. In the past year, she has worked on productions with Paines Plough, Old Vic New Voices, DryWrite, Soho Theatre, Young Vic/Dance Umbrella, and Look Left Look Right. She is delighted to join the Gate Theatre for this production of The Iphigenia Quartet.
KATY MUNROE FARLIE – STAGE MANAGER
Katy graduated from the University of Hull in 2010 with a Degree in Theatre and Performance. From there she became the resident Production Manager for the New End Theatre until August 2011 before becoming a freelance Stage and Production Manager.
Previous credits for the Gate Theatre include: In the Night Time (Before the Sun Rises); The Christians, Image of an Unknown Young Woman, Eclipsed, Chimera, Body of an American (also toured to Royal & Derngate Theatre); Grounded (also toured to Edinburgh Festival, and UK & International Tour) No Place to Go, Dances of Death, Purple Heart and The Trojan Women.
Other theatre credits include: Scene and Heard: The Tasty Plays (Theatro Technis); Zelda, Barbershopera (Trafagar Studios 2); These Trees are Made of Blood, The Illusion, The Hairy Ape, Shivered (Southwark Playhouse); Twelfth Night (Minack Theatre); Herding Cats (Hampstead Downstairs); Blue Surge (Finborough Theatre); Bunny (Soho Theatre Upstairs); Mr Happiness and The Water Engine (Old Vic Tunnels).
Alongside her Stage Management she also has a Diploma in Body Language and works as a freelance technician and production manager with various other venues and theatre companies.
ELENA PEÑA – SOUND DESIGNER
Credits for the Gate Theatre include: The Christians and Unbroken.
Other theatre credits include: Islands (Bush Theatre); Arabian Nights, The Kilburn Passion, The Wardrobe and Storylabs (Tricycle Theatre); Brainstorm (Islington Community Theatre, National Theatre); Soechon Odyssey (Hi Seoul Festival, Korea); Patrias (Edinburgh International Festival); You Have Been Upgraded (Unlimited Theatre); Better Than Life (Coney); Girl’s Guide To Saving The World (HighTide); Not Now Bernard (Unicorn Theatre); Pim and Theo (New International Encounter/Odsherred Teater, Denmark, Unicorn Theatre); Macbeth: Blood Will Have Blood (China Plate); A High Street Odyssey (Inspector Sands, National Theatre Watch This Space Festival); Flashes (Young Vic); Mass Observation (Almeida Theatre); Ant Street and Brimstone and Treacle (Arcola Theatre); Gambling (Soho Theatre); The 13 Midnight Challenges of Angelus Diablo (RSC); Quimeras (Sadlers Wells, Edinburgh International Festival); Plasticine (Southwark Playhouse) and Under Milk Wood (Northampton Theatre Royal).
Sound and performance installation credits include: Yes, These Eyes Are The Windows and Have Your Circumstances Changed (ArtAngel).
Television credits include: Live from Television Centre: Brainstorm (BBC4, iPlayer) and UNSA Astro-science Challenge (Unlimited Theatre, online episodes).
Radio credits include: 12 Years, The Meet Cute and Duchamps Urinal (BBC Radio 4).
More info at: www.elenapena.co.uk
JOSHUA PHARO – LIGHTING DESIGNER
Joshua works across theatre, dance, opera, music, film & art installation.
Recent credits include: La Favorite (Stratford East); Carmen (UK Tour, OperaUpClose); The Rolling Stone (Orange Tree Theatre); In the Night Time (Before the Sun Rises) (Gate Theatre); Medea (Gate Theatre); Glass Menagerie (Nuffield Theatre) as Video Designer; The Merchant of Venice, Wuthering Heights, Consensual (Ambassadors Theatre); The Crocodile (Manchester International Festival); One Arm (Southwark Playhouse); The Trial Parallel (Young Vic); Amadis de Gaulle (Bloomsbury Theatre); Beckett Season (Old Red Lion); The Deluge (UK Tour, Lila Dance); Usagi Yojimbo (Southwark Playhouse); A Streetcar Named Desire Parallel (Young Vic); Pioneer (UK Tour, Curious Directive); I’d Rather Goya Robbed Me of My Sleep (Gate Theatre); Thumbelina (UK Tour, Dancing Brick) and No Place To Go (Gate Theatre).
More info at: www.joshuapharo.com
LULU RACZKA – PLAYWRIGHT (CLYTEMNESTRA)
Lulu Raczka is an award-winning young playwright. She is a Company Director of Barrel Organ Theatre, who she worked with on her play NOTHING, which has toured the UK. Barrel Organ’s next piece Some People Talk About Violence was performed at the Edinburgh Festival 2015, and went on to be performed at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Warwick Arts Centre and Camden People’s Theatre throughout winter. Lulu has also had her work performed at the Sheffield Crucible, and the Soho Theatre. She is currently working on a piece for the Shakespeare in Shoreditch Festival.
SARAH READMAN – PRODUCTION ELECTRICIAN
As Lighting Designer: Macbeth (Southwark Playhouse); The Owls Are Not What They Seem (Theatre Delicatessen); Phenomena (Albany Theatre and Battersea Arts Centre); The Liberation of Colette Simple (Jackson’s Lane); The Earning of Innocence (Yard Theatre); Ghostland Cinema and Awful Things Can Happen At Any Time (Camden People’s Theatre and BE Festival); STARRING JAMES FRANCO and Right Honourable Gentlemen (Camden People’s Theatre, Theatre Delicatessen, Brakke Gronde in Amsterdam and National Theatre Kosovo); Tomorrow (UK tour, Jasmin Vardimon Company); Pages From The Book Of… (Theatre Astorka in Slovakia, Moscow Art Theatre and Gardzienice in Poland).
As Co-Designer with Joshua Pharo: JOAN (Derby Theatre and UK tour); Shelter Me (Theatre Delicatessen) and Werter (Arcola Theatre).
As Associate Lighting Designer: The Red Chair, Red Ladies and An Anatomie in Four Quarters (UK tour, Clod Ensemble); Stilled (Wellcome Collection); I’d Rather Goya Robbed Me Of My Sleep Than Some Other Arsehole (Gate Theatre); Usagi Yojimbo (Southwark Playhouse); Pioneer (UK tour, Curious Directive).
More info at: http://sarahreadman.com
JENNIFER TANG – DIRECTOR (CLYTEMNESTRA)
Jennifer is an award-winning UK and International stage director and theatre-maker. She has recently returned from Sweden, where she directed the Scandinavian premieres of two Nick Payne plays to critical acclaim, consequently winning the Scenokonstguidens award for Arets Karthasis 2015.
As Director: Constellations, One Day When We Were Young (Gothenburg English Studio Theatre); Listening To Hackney (Chatsworth Palace); Fault, Malteaser Falcon (Brixton Library); For The Record (The Lab, Theatre Royal Plymouth); The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other (The Drum, Theatre Royal Plymouth); Blow Out, Feathers, The Forum (Etcetera Theatre); Chasing Beckett (The London Theatre); Neil Diamond Saved My Life (Riverside Studios); Feathers (Bike Shed Theatre); Shelter, Paper Queen (National tour and Bush Theatre) and Crave (Young Vic).
As Associate/Assistant Director: Weaklings (National Tour, Chris Goode & Co); The Edge Of Our Bodies (Gate Theatre); MADMAN (The Drum, Theatre Royal Plymouth); Solid Air (The Drum,
