ghost story and Twin Peaks-style surrealism.
Previous film credits include: Breaking the Waves, The Idiots, Dancer in the Dark, Dogville, Manderlay, Antichrist, Melancholia and most recently Nymphomaniac. His film comedy The Boss of It All was well received critically, and was nominated for two Bodil Awards, three Robert Festival Honours and the Golden Seashell at the San Sebastián International Film Festival.
JACK MCNAMARA
ADAPTER AND DIRECTOR
Jack has been Artistic Director of New Perspectives since 2012.
Productions for the company include The Boss of It All by Lars von Trier (Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh & Soho Theatre); The Lovesong of Alfred J Hitchcock by David Rudkin (Brits off Broadway, New York & UK Tour); and Him With His Foot In His Mouth by Saul Bellow (UK tour).
Previous productions as director include Exterminating Angel (Basement Brighton/Pleasance Edinburgh/UK tour); Texts for Nothing by Samuel Beckett (The Rest is Noise Festival, Southbank Centre); The Word for Snow by Don DeLillo (London Literature Festival, Southbank Centre); Malaise Trio (Camden People’s Theatre); Instructions for John Howell by Julio Cortazar (Nursery Festival); Betrayal by Harold Pinter (Nuffield, Southampton); The Blind by Maurice Maeterlinck (Arcola Theatre); Lucid Dreams for Higher Living (Underbelly, Edinburgh); Valparaiso by Don DeLillo (Old Red Lion); A Cool Million by Nathanael West (Underbelly, Edinburgh); Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (Warwick Arts Centre).
Previously Jack was Assistant Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company and director on attachment at the Nuffield Theatre Southampton under the Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme.
He currently also runs the experimental theatre company Future Ruins.
LILY ARNOLD
DESIGNER
Lily trained at Wimbledon College of Art.
RSC (Resident Design Assistant, 2009 - 2011): King Lear, The Rape of Lucrece, I Cinna (The Poet), The Taming of the Shrew, The Bullet and Ahasverus.
Other theatre and opera credits include: Yellow Face (National Theatre Shed); Peddling (High Tide Festival Theatre); Minotaur (Polka Theatre); World Enough and Time (Park Theatre); Gruesome Playground Injuries (Gate Theatre); The Boss of It All (Assembly Roxy / Soho Theatre); A Season in the Congo (Young Vic, Maria Space); Happy New (Trafalgar Studios); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Cambridge Arts Theatre); Opera Scenes (National Opera Studio); Red Handed (The Place, London); Love Is (Linbury Studio, LAMDA); Alice’s Adventures in the New World (The Old Red Lion); Rush Hour (Shunt Vaults); A Macbeth (Pleasance, Edinburgh); A Picture of Alchemy (Etcetera Theatre).
Forthcoming productions: The Edge of Our Bodies (Gate Theatre) and The Jew of Malta (RSC Swan Theatre).
ANDY PURVES
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Lighting designer working in theatre, circus and educational projects.
Andy trained in sound and lighting engineering at the University of Derby and in lighting design and theatre-making at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Lighting designs include projects made with Frantic Assembly; The Sherman, Cardiff; Secret Cinema; The Young Vic; New Perspectives; Inspector Sands; The Gate; Spymonkey; The Barbican, London; Sydney Theatre Company; Caroline Horton; Northampton Royal; Stan Won’t Dance; Tamasha; Brighton Festival; Annie Siddons; Cartoon de Salvo and the National Theatres of Wales and Scotland.
He designs regularly for The National Centre for Circus Arts, has toured extensively with Propeller and worked on La Clique and La Soiree at The Roundhouse and in the West End.
MANDY IVORY-CASTILE
PRODUCTION MANAGER /
STAGE MANAGER
Mandy began working at New Perspectives in May 2005, having previously worked for Pleasance Theatre Festival, Edinburgh as Production Manager and formerly Stage Manager of Pleasance Theatre London. She has also worked extensively throughout the London Fringe.
For New Perspectives, production management includes The Lovesong of Alfred J Hitchcock (2014 Brits off Broadway, New York & 2013 UK tour); The Boss of It All (Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2013); Entertaining Angels (UK tour 2013), Farm Boy (2012/13 UK tour, 2011 Brits off Broadway, New York, 2010 Edinburgh Festival Fringe & UK tour); A Christmas Carol (UK tour 2012); The Butterfly Lion (Curve Theatre, Leicester & Derby Theatre); The Honey Man (co-production with Derby LIVE); How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup, Those Magnificent Men, Lark Rise To Candleford, Dolly, The Falling Sky, Faith Healer, Wasteland, Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, The Hired Man, The Farm, The Allotment, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, On Saturday This Bed is Poland, In Search of Pontiflunk, The Iron Man and Not Now Bernard, And other Monster Stories.
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