Head (Royal Opera House and Theatre Royal Plymouth); The Magic Flute (Ryedale Festival, The Arcola); #AIWW: The arrest of Ai Weiwei (Hampstead Theatre); The Owl and The Pussycat (ROH2, Royal Opera House); There is a War, The Good Soul of Szechuan (Watford Palace Theatre); Phaedra’s Love (Arcola Theatre); Rodelina (Iford Arts) and Annie Get Your Gun (Young Vic).
This role is supported by Fenton Arts Trust, supporting emerging talent at the Gate.
CHRIS THORPE – PLAYWRIGHT (CHORUS)
Chris was a founder member of Unlimited Theatre and still works and tours with the company. He is also an Artistic Associate of live art company Third Angel. He has worked with, among others, Forest Fringe, Slung Low, Chris Goode, RashDash, Belarus Free Theatre and Portuguese experimental company mala voadora – his fourth piece for the company, Your Best Guess opened in Lisbon in 2015. He also plays guitar in Lucy Ellinson’s #TORYCORE and works with the National Student Drama Festival.
Chris is an Associate at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. His play for the Exchange, There Has Possibly Been An Incident was selected by Simon Stephens for the Stuckemarkt in Berlin, 2014. It has been produced in Denmark and Sweden, on German radio, and elsewhere.
He has an ongoing collaboration with director Rachel Chavkin from New York’s TEAM. Their piece Confirmation, is currently touring internationally and they are developing their next. His other main collaborator is poet Hannah Jane Walker with whom he made The Oh Fuck Moment and I Wish I Was Lonely.
Currently, Chris is touring Confirmation and Unlimited’s Am I Dead Yet? He is writing a version of Beowulf for the Unicorn Theatre, and a new piece Victory Condition for the Royal Court. He is also working on Truck for the Royal Exchange with Sam Pritchard.
Chris’s work is published by Oberon Books. His work with mala voadora is published in English and Portuguese.
CÉCILE TRÉMOLIÈRES – DESIGNER
Born in Paris, Cécile trained in Wimbledon College of Art, graduating with a first class degree in June 2013. Cécile was a Finalist of the Linbury Prize for Stage Design 2013, awarded the Royal Opera House Linbury bursary (2015) and nominated Best Set Designer by the Off West End Theatre awards 2014. She is also a winner of the Ideastap graduate award 2014.
Cécile’s work has been exhibited at the Prague Quadrennial 2015, and at the V&A exhibition Make/Believe: UK Design for Performance 2011-2015.
Credits include: My People (Theatr Clwyd); Impermanent Theatre (Impermanence Dance Theatre tour UK); Invisible Treasure (Oval House); Piranha Heights (Old Red Lion); The Mikvah Project (The Yard); Harajuku Girls (Finborough Theatre) and Madame Butterfly (Arcola Theatre).
More info at: www.ceciletremolieres.com
This role is funded by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, as part of the Jerwood Young Designers Programme at the Gate.
About the Gate Theatre
‘London’s most relentlessly ambitious theatre’ Time Out
The Gate Theatre sits above the Prince Albert pub in Notting Hill, and has been inspiring audiences and artists alike for 37 years.
In our 75-seat theatre, we confront and debate the biggest questions that face humanity and act as a loudspeaker for unheard voices from across the globe. Inside our ever-transformable space, no two visits to the Gate are ever the same.
We are a home for anarchic spirits, invigorating theatre, and restless creative ambition. As a ‘teaching theatre’, we are a place where exceptional emerging theatre-makers shine, and where audiences see the theatre leaders of tomorrow, today.
Our work is both intimate and epic. We are a small theatre but we always think big.
Artistic Director Christopher Haydon
Executive Director Clare Slater
Outgoing Associate Director* Tinuke Craig
Incoming Associate Director* Lynette Linton
Producer Daisy Cooper
General Manager Chrissy Angus
Development Manager Fiona English
Technical Manager* Andrew Rungen & Richard Lambert
Finance Manager (maternity cover)* Jo Hawkes
Finance Manager* Lindsay Nock
Marketing and Audience Development Officer Natasha Brown
Theatre Administrator Suzy Sancho
*Indicates part-time role
Front of House Rike Berge, Chiara Ciabattoni, Pippa Davis, Chloe France, Eloise Green, Nick Hafezi, Esther Huntington, Susan Keats, Sheena Khanna, Zoe Lambraskis, Kieran Lucas, Alasdair MacLeod, Katy Munroe Farlie, Eleanor Rose, Annabel Williamson, James York, Naomi Wright
The Gate is also supported by the work of its Volunteer Ushers.
Associate Artists Rachel Chavkin, Lucy Ellinson, Ellen McDougall, Clare Slater, Oliver Townsend, Charlotte Westenra
Creative Associates Isabella Van Braeckel, Daisy Bunyan, Caroline Byrne, Jude Christian, Amy Draper, Sean Gibbons, Ela Brunel Hawes, Rebecca Hill, Petra Hjortsberg, Anna Himali Howard, Zoe Hurwitz, Magdalena Iwanska, Bex Kemp, Maria Koutsouna, Lizzy Leech, Anna Lewis, Jade Lewis, Lynette Linton, Bella Loudon, Ed Madden, Sophie Moniram, Anastasia Osei-Kuffour, Kate O’Connor, Alasdair Pidsley, Melanie Spencer, Anne Reid, Tara Robson, Jennifer Tang, Benjamin Walden
The Gate Theatre Board of Trustees Joseph Smith (Chair), Sian Alexander, Natasha Bucknor, Sarah Chappatte Lang, Lauren Clancy, Niki Cornwell, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, David Lakhdhir, Nicole Newman, Charles Prideaux, Mark Robinson
Development Working Group Teresa Alpert, Sarah Chappatte Lang, Lauren Clancy, Richard Grandison, Linda Lakhdhir, Rita Laven, Anne Marie Mackay, Kate Maltby, Nicole Newman, Barbara Prideaux, Mark Robinson, Joseph Smith
As a teaching theatre, the Gate takes great pride in developing its workforce. Only 3 other theatres in the South of England have the Investors in People award.
The Gate Theatre Company is a company limited by guarantee.
Registered in England & Wales No. 1495543 | Charity No. 280278
Registered address: 11 Pembridge Road, Above the Prince Albert Pub, London,
