at the Finborough Theatre include The Potting Shed and Outward Bound.
Trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Theatre includes Outside Edge, The Mystery Of Edwin Drood, City Of Angels, The Importance Of Being Earnest (West End), Lady In The Van (Hull Truck Theatre and National Tour), Hot Property (Old Red Lion Theatre), Humble Boy (National Tour), The Shell Seekers (National Tour), The Beastly Chronicles Of Saki (Jermyn Street Theatre), Svejk (Gate Theatre), Me And My Girl (Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham), Charley’s Aunt (Northcott Theatre, Exeter) and most recently How To Build A Better Tulip (Tabard Theatre). His one-man show Wellington continues to tour.
Film includes The Iron Lady, Anna Karenina, Scar Tissue, Orlando, Gangster No1, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Shadowlands, Wimbledon, Mean Machine, Ali G In Da House and The Old Curiosity Shop. Television includes The Thirteenth Tale, Hustle, East Enders, Garrow’s Law, Hiroshima, Cape Wrath, The Lost Prince, Victoria and Albert, Micawber, Mystery Of Men, Vanity Fair, A Dance To The Music Of Time, Holding On, The Alleyn Mysteries, Natural Lies, Countess Alice, Lovejoy, Boon, Coronation Street, Glittering Prizes and Upstairs Downstairs.
Kevin Kautzman | Playwright
Playwright Kevin Kautzman is originally from North Dakota, an alumnus of the University of Minnesota and also holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. His full-length plays include Coyote (Nouveau 47, Dallas), If You Start A Fire [Be Prepared To Burn] (45th Street Theatre, New York), Iris (Red Eye, Minneapolis), Wolf Cry Wolf (New Theatre Project, Ypsilanti), Life Electric, Then Waves and Vasilisa Most Lovely. His short plays include Clifton Mill (Nouveau 47), The Play is Memory, Rosemary (History Theatre), Strike, Solomon the King, and most recently $<0RP!0. Awards for Dream of Perfect Sleep include the Southwest Playwriting Award and The Kernodle New Play Award. Further honours for Kevin include the Jerome and Michener fellowships, the Tennessee Williams and Kenyon Institute scholarships, International Student Playscript Competition and Repertory Theatre Iowa’s Alpha Project Award. He has also received commissions from History Theatre and Red Eye, and his work has been performed and developed around the US.
Max Pappenheim | Director
Productions at the Finborough Theatre include Nothing is the End of the World (Except for the End of the World), nominated for three Off West End Awards, Perchance to Dream and Avow as part of Vibrant 2013 – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights. Directing includes Siegfried (Fulham Opera), Finchley Road (LOST Theatre), Quid Pro Quo (Riverside Studios), San Giuda (Southwark Cathedral). Associate and Assistant Direction includes Feathers in the Snow (Southwark Playhouse) and Kafka v Kafka (Brockley Jack Theatre). Max was a runner-up for Best Director in the 2013 OffWestEnd Awards.
Holly Seager | Designer
Productions at the Finborough Theatre include The Goodnight Bird and Hindle Wakes, nominated for five OffWestEnd Awards including Best Designer.
Designs include The Marriage of Figaro (Hampstead Garden Opera at Upstairs at the Gatehouse), Beats North, winner of the 2013 Northern Stage Title Pending Award (Northern Stage, Newcastle), Harlesden High Street (Tara Arts), Mansfield Park, nominated for Best Opera in the OffWestEnd Awards 2013 (Hampstead Garden Opera at Upstairs at the Gatehouse), Carmen (Epsom Playhouse), The Upstairs Room (King’s Head Theatre), Chapel Street, winner of Old Vic New Voices Edinburgh 2012 (Underbelly at the Edinburgh Festival), Geronimo (Company TSU at the ARC Stockton), Into The Woods (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), Stag (Courtyard Theatre), The Rising (Gecko at the New Wolsey Theatre), Sweeney Todd 2011 (National Youth Music Theatre at the Rose Theatre, Kingston). Holly was Costume Assistant to Kerry Bradley on Tu i Teraz [Here and Now] (Hampstead Theatre), Associate Designer to Mark Friend on the site-specific Sweeney Todd 2010 (National Youth Music Theatre and Village Underground), Costume Supervisor to Jean-Marc Puissant on God’s Garden (Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden), Assistant Costume Designer for A Celebration of Young People in the Performing Arts (National Youth Music Theatre at Buckingham Palace), and Assistant Set and Costume Designer to Jason Denvir on Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, New Boy and Life Coach (Trafalgar Studios), The Revenger’s Tragedy (Rose Theatre, Kingston), All Bob’s Women (Arts Theatre), New Boy (Tabard Theatre), and Model Maker for David Bowie Exhibition (59 Productions at the V&A Museum).
Elliot Griggs | Lighting Designer
Productions at the Finborough Theatre include Facts, Somersaults, The Soft of Her Palm, Crush, Perchance to Dream, Portraits, And I and Silence and Northern Star.
Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Other theatre includes Fleabag (Soho Theatre and Tour), Common Wealth (Almeida Theatre), The Boy Who Kicked Pigs (Jackson’s Lane Theatre and The Lowry, Manchester), MEAT (Theatre503), Belleville Rendez-Vous (Greenwich Theatre), Lagan (Ovalhouse), Folk Contraption (Southbank Centre), Infanticide (Camden People’s Theatre), Bitter Pleasures for a Sour Generation (Soho Theatre), Blues In The Night, Joe/Boy (The Last Refuge), Love Re:Imagined (Only Connect Central), Big Sean, Mikey and Me (Tristan Bates Theatre), The Custard Boys (Tabard Theatre), Brightest and Best (Half Moon Theatre), Dealing With Clair, One Minute, Nocturnal, Dirty Butterfly, Our Town (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art), The Mercy Seat (Royal Shakespeare Company at the Capital Centre, Warwick), The Lady’s Not For Burning, West Side Story, By the Bog of Cats, ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Elephant’s Graveyard (Warwick Arts Centre), Much Ado About Nothing (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry) and Dido and Aeneas (St. Paul’s Church, London and Tour).
His awards for lighting design include the Francis Reid Award from the Association of Lighting Designers and the Show Light Award from the National Student Drama Festival.
Angus MacRae | Composer
At the Finborough Theatre, Angus has composed for Nothing is the End of the World (Except the End of the World), Armstrong’s War, Lee Harvey Oswald and John Ferguson.
Theatre includes Holiday/The Eisteddfod (Bussey Building), Bear (Old Red Lion Theatre), Keepsake (Old Red Lion Theatre), I Am A Camera (Southwark Playhouse), Vessel (the Space in Edinburgh and Tour), This Near Darkness, Near Silence (Workshop at the National Theatre Studio), Meeting (The Place), Kimalia (Bernie Grant Arts Centre), Scarborough (White Bear Theatre), Joseph K (LAMDA) and Out Of Nowhere (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford).
Film includes The Fifth (winner, Raindance 48 hour film competition), The Listener, The Other Side of Home, Thirst and Touch of Blue.
Television includes music for Toyota, Sony and Sky.
Angus is currently working on an EP of his own music, due for release later in 2014.
Lucy Cullingford | Movement Director
Productions at the Finborough Theatre include Nothing is the End of the World (Except for the End of the World), Bed and Sofa and Beating Heart Cadaver.
Theatre includes Constellations (Royal Court Theatre), Dance Repetiteur on Matilda the Musical (Royal Shakespeare Company at the Cambridge Theatre), The Spanish Golden Age, The Double and The Phoenix of Madrid (Ustinov Studio at the Theatre Royal Bath),
