Crabs in Walberswick (2007) (Eastern Angles/Edinburgh Festival/Bush Theatre).
Shona’s work as an actor includes: Chicken Soup with Barley (Nottingham Playhouse/Tricycle Theatre); Augustine; Big Hysteria, Wax and Crossfire (Paines Plough).
Shona is a Creative Associate of Watford Palace.
Rebecca Brower Designer
Rebecca studied at Central School of Speech and Drama. Rebecca was the winner of The Stage Newspaper Design Award and The Equity Young Members Bursary Award in 2012. Rebecca was on the Design Team for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Rebecca has also designed corporate events and dinners at The National Theatre.
Theatre Credits include: Treasure (Finborough Theatre); Genius Bar (UK Tour); Without Blinking (TestBed1, Goat and Monkey); Pal Joey (Mountview Academy of Arts); Beegu (Arts Depot); Dad Dancing (BAC); Struileag (Glasgow Green); Idylls of The King (Oxford Playhouse); Tender Loving Care (The New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth); Canterbury Tales (Watford Palace Theatre); Pursue Me (The Place); Jack and the Beanstalk (Southwalk Playhouse); This Child (The Bridewell Theatre); Lord of the Flies (Oxford Playhouse); Heartbreak Beautiful (Watford Palace Theatre); Hamlet (The Rose Theatre, Bankside. OffWest End Nomination, Best Set Design); I DO I DO (Riverside Studios); Hello Dolly (Watford Palace Theatre); Gypsy Bible (Opera North, National Tour) and A View From the Bridge (The Embassy Theatre).
Associate Credits include: Peter Pan (Regent’s Park – Associate Designer); Bugsy Malone (The Lyric Hammersmith); The Great North Run Millionth Runner Ceremony (Newcastle, Outdoor Ceremony); The Roof (Fuel, The National Theatre UK tour) and Stuart a Life Backwards (High Tide, UK Tour).
Prema Mehta Lighting Designer
Prema graduated from The Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
She has designed the lighting for over one hundred drama and dance productions, including: Jefferson’s Garden and Fourteen (Watford Palace Theatre); With A Little Bit Of Luck (Paines Plough, Latitude); Bells (The Mayor of London’s outdoor festival, Showtime); Hercules (New Art Club on tour); Sufi Zen (Royal Festival Hall); The Great Extension (Theatre Royal Stratford East); The Electric Hills (Liverpool Everyman); Dhamaka (O2 Arena) and Maaya (Westminster Hall).
Prema recently lit for the launch of a new model in the A-list party area at Madame Tussauds. Prema is currently working with the National Theatre to deliver workshops and talks in lighting design.
Arun Ghosh Sound Designer/Composer
Arun Ghosh is a British-Asian clarinettist, composer and musical director. He has released three critically acclaimed albums, Northern Namaste, Primal Odyssey and A South Asian Suite, on camoci Records.
Other significant works in his repertoire include his re-score of feature-length animation The Adventures of Prince Achmed, contemporary dance work A Handful of Dust and programme symphony, Spitalfields Suite.
A key player on both UK and international jazz scenes, Arun is a renowned innovator of the Indo-Jazz style, and has appeared on the cover of Jazzwise and Jazz UK magazines in recent years. He was awarded ‘Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year’ at the 2014 Parliamentary Jazz Awards.
Arun is a prolific composer, working primarily in the world of theatre and dance. He has worked on over forty professional productions with companies including: Manchester Royal Exchange, Library Theatre, National Youth Theatre, Cardboard Citizens, Kadam, Akademi Dance, Tamasha and Kali Theatre. Coming Up is his second production for Watford Palace, having worked as composer and sound designer on Rifco’s celebrated Deranged Marriage earlier this year.
Arun is an Associate Artist of The Albany Theatre and Spitalfields Music (2014), and recently completed his post as Musician in Residence of Wuhan, China in association with the British Council.
Scott Le Crass Assistant Director
Scott comes from Birmingham and trained as an actor at Arts Ed.
He was a director on the Birmingham Rep’s first Foundry Programme.
Credits include: Director – Sid (Camden Fringe); Open House (Birmingham Rep and libraries tour); In A Better Place (Hotel Pelirocco/Brighton Fringe); The Bad Mood (Rich Mix/TROUPE Collective); Ode to Sid (One Festival/The Space); Diary of a Madman (Omnibus/Jack Studio); Boris Godonov, Marriage, Flight, Mandrake (Jack Studio); The Real Inspector Hound (Upstairs at the Gatehouse/Camden Fringe); My Number 1 Favourite Lesbian by Tom Wells (Arcola/Outbox); La Mastication des Morts (Camden Peoples Theatre) and 35 Black Suits (Hidden Histories/Rep 100, Old Rep, Birmingham).
Assistant Director – The King’s Speech (Chichester/Birmingham Rep/UK Tour); A Christmas Carol (Birmingham Rep); Von Ribbentrop’s Watch (Oxford Playhouse/Watford Palace); Kurt and Sid (Trafalgar Studios) and Henry VI, Part I (The Rose, Bankside).
Coming Up cast in rehearsals
Neil D’Souza
Clara Indrani and Mitesh Soni
Clara Indrani, Neil D’Souza and Ravin J. Ganatra
Mitesh Soni and Ravin J. Ganatra
Goldy Notay
Goldy Notay, Neil D’Souza, Clara Indrani and Ravin J. Ganatra
Photography by Richard Lakos
Watford Palace Theatre...
is a 21st century producing theatre, making new work across the art forms of theatre, dance, outdoor arts and digital, and developing audiences, artists and communities through exciting opportunities to participate.
Watford Palace Theatre commissions and produces plays from a range of new and established writers. Recent premieres include Jefferson’s Garden by Timberlake Wertenbaker; Love Me Do by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran; An Intervention by Mike Bartlett (in co-production with Paines Plough); Shiver by Daniel Kanaber; the Ideal World season of three new plays – Perfect Match by Gary Owen, Virgin by E.V.Crowe (in co-production with nabokov), Override by Stacey Gregg; Jumpers for Goalposts by Tom Wells (in co-production with Paines Plough and Hull Truck Theatre); Our Brother David by Anthony Clark; Our Father by Charlotte Keatley; and Family Business by Julian Mitchell.
Creative Associates are central to Watford Palace Theatre’s vision these include Resident Companies Rifco Arts and Tiata Fahodzi; Mahogany Opera Group: Scamp Theatre; Kate Flatt; Shona Morris; Charlotte Keatley; Gary Owen; Alice Birch and Timberlake Wertenbaker.
Jefferson’s Garden
