Polymer (Udderbelly at the Southbank Centre), A Room of Her Own with Mimbre Acrobats (WOW Festival at the Southbank Centre), The Man Who Almost Killed Himself (Edinburgh Festival and BBC iPlayer), Ten Women (Ovalhouse), and is currently designing A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theatre Trier).
Commercial work includes Art Direction for FatBoy Slim’s The Collection 30” and McBusted’s Most Excellent Adventure Tour Music Videos.
Simon Gethin Thomas | Lighting Designer
Trained in Lighting Design at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Designs include German Skerries (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond), Eventide (Arcola Theatre), Rent (Birmingham Hippodrome), Visitors (Bush Theatre), Sweeney Todd (Twickenham Theatre), Eye of a Needle (Southwark Playhouse), Pincher Martin (Britten Theatre), Othello: Deconstructed (The North Wall, Oxford), Woman in the Dunies (Theatre503) and Arensky Chamber Orchestra (Queen Elizabeth Hall).
Odinn Orn Hilmarsson | Sound Designer
Trained with an MA in Digital Film Production at the University of York.
Designs include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Pleasance London), Macbeth (Broadway Theatre, Catford), Valkyrie, The Signal Man, The Awkward Ghost and Gentle Tim (VAULT Festival), The Halloween Project (Ugly Duck), The Wondeful World of Dissocia (Bread and Roses Theatre), Vernon God Little (The Space) and The Van Dyck Vanishments (Marine Studios and Milo Wladek Co.).
Film includes composing for his own short film Amusia.
Carla Morris | Casting Director
Trained at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and The Ward Acting Studio, New York. Casting and assisting includes Moth, The Railway Children and The Invisible alongside various readings and workshops. As well as working as a freelance Casting Director, Carla spent two years at the Bush Theatre, working as the Production Coordinator on several productions including From Here To Eternity,Top Hat,Wonderful Town,Our Boys,Journey’s End,Butley, Prick Up Your Ears and Imagine This. Carla has also worked as Literary Assistant for Bill Kenwright Ltd.
Jennifer Jackson | Movement Director
Productions at the Finborough Theatre include Silent Planet. Trained at East 15, Jennifer is an actor and movement director. Movement Direction includes Darknet and Debris (Southwark Playhouse), Why the Whales Came (National Tour), Macbeth (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe), Pericles (Berwaldhallen) and Subterranean Sepoys (New Diorama Theatre). Jennifer was the Assistant Movement Director on the Paines Plough Roundabout Season 2014 (Fringe First Winners) and is an Associate Artist with OpenWorks Theatre.
Theatre includes And Now: The World! (OpenWorks Theatre at Derby Theatre), Scenes from an Execution (National Theatre), Therese Raquin (Theatre Royal, Bath), Death and the Maiden (Harold Pinter Theatre), Humbug and Flathampton (Royal and Derngate Theatre, Northampton, and winner of Argus Angel for Artistic Excellence at the Brighton Festival 2013), Macbeth (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe), Sonnet Walks (Shakespeare’s Globe), Soon Until Forever, Red Shoes (Theatre503), Amphibians (Bridewell Theatre), Drawing Play (The Yard Theatre), The Crunch (Look Left Look Right), Fixer (Ovalhouse), Moshing (Arcola Theatre) and All That Is Solid Melts Into Air (National Theatre).
Bret Yount | Fight Director
Trained at the University of Arkansas. He is a certified teacher in the Society of American Fight Directors and a master teacher at the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat.
Theatre includes X and No Quarter (Royal Court Theatre), Public Enemy (The Young Vic), The Tempest (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Low Road (Royal Court Theatre), Cannibals and Three Birds (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester), Purple Heart (Gate Theatre), God’s Property (Soho Theatre and National Tour), Fences (Theatre Royal, Bath, and National Tour), Hitchcock Blonde (Hull Truck) and Jack and the Beanstalk (Theatre Royal Stratford East).
Film includes Troy, Vampire Endz, Deathless and The New Girl.
David Ralf | Production Manager
David is a current Stage One Producing Apprentice. Production Management includes According To (Burton Taylor Studio, Oxford) and The Graduate (Moser Theatre, Oxford). Company Management includes Harry The King (Edinburgh Festival) and Much Ado About Nothing (International Tour). Producing includes Sea Life, The Window and Blank Pages (Mingled Yarn Theatre Company at the Hope Theatre) and Ad Liberation (Bread and Roses Theatre). Writing includes Ad Liberation which was a Theatre Royal Haymarket Masterclass Pitch Your Play finalist, and his sitcom, Hell (co-written with Rich Rose) will be released by Koto Films later this year. An award-winning theatre critic, he is also a script reader for Hampstead Theatre, writes for The Stage and is a Contributing Editor at Exeunt Magazine.
Matthew Gardner | Stage Manager
Productions at the Finborough Theatre include The One Day of the Year.
Trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Stage Management includes Liberian Girl (Royal Court Theatre), A Kingdom for a Stage (Chelsea Theatre), White (Broadway Theatre, Barking), Tim Key and Liam Williams (The Invisible Dot), Citizen Puppet Workshop (Blind Summit) and Not What I Am (Dogs of War Theatre).
Desara Bosnja for Desara Productions | Producer
Productions include Primadonna (VAULT Festival), Lela and Co. (Royal Court Theatre), And Now: The World! (National Tour) and Debris (Southwark Playhouse)
She was a Stage One Assistant Producer for Seabright Productions working on Showstoppers! (Apollo Theatre), It’s A Wonderful Life and The Only Way is Downtown (National Tour), Dinosaur Park (St. James Theatre) and Outings (The Curve, Leicester). As LTC Apprentice Producer at the Bush Theatre, she assisted in producing Radar Festival and thirteen main house shows including Marco Ramirez’s sell out show The Royale. She has also worked as a Young Producer at BAC and is currently Associate Producer for OpenWorks Theatre. www.desaraproductions.com
Joy Royce | Associate Producer
Joy is Senior Corporate Development Manager at the National Theatre, where she has worked for the last four years. She has also worked for live music producers, as a project manager and fundraiser across a number of projects including London Jazz Festival and BT River of Music, part of the London 2012 Festival and Cultural Olympiad. She has also worked for Live Nation and Brighton Dome and Festival in programming and marketing.
Jasmin Anderson | Assistant Producer
Trained with a Post Graduate Certificate in Applied Theatre with Young People, a joint qualification with The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and the Almeida Theatre. Jasmin is a former member of the Almeida Theatre’s Young Friends Board. She has also participated in The Young Vic’s Introduction to Directing course and BAC’s
