He has appeared in roles as a swing dancer in Marvel Comics’ Avenger’s sequel, as Señor Gomerez in ITV’s Mr Selfridge and in a collaboration with Strictly Come Dancing’s Nicole Cutler.
Gary McCann
Designer
Originally from County Armagh, Northern Ireland, Gary trained at Nottingham Trent University, and is now based in Greenwich, London.
His design credits for theatre and opera include: The Pitmen Painters (Live Theatre, National Theatre London, Volkstheater Vienna, Friedman Theatre Broadway, Bill Kenwright tour and Duchess Theatre), The Girl in the Yellow Dress (Live Theatre, Market Theatre Johannesburg, Stadttheater Stockholm, Baxter Theatre, Cape Town), The Barber of Seville, La Voix Humaine, L’Heure Espagnole (Nationale Reisopera, Holland), Die Fledermaus (Norwegian National Opera), The Flying Dutchman (Ekaterinburg State Opera, Russia), Three Days in May, Dangerous Corner (Bill Kenwright), 33 Variations (Volkstheater Vienna), Guys and Dolls (Theater Bielefeld, Germany), Fidelio (Garsington Opera), Cosi Fan Tutte (Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna), Norma (National Opera of Moldova), Imeneo (London Handel Festival), Faramondo (Göttingen Festspiele Germany), Owen Wingrave and La Pietra Del Paragone (Opera Trionfo, Amsterdam).
Current engagements include commissions for Vienna State Opera, Santa Fe Opera, New Mexico, Nationale Reisopera Holland, National Opera Bucharest, Dallas Opera and the Hobart Baroque Festival, Tazmania. His work has been exhibited at the V&A Museum in London twice – as part of the Collaborators and Transformation/Revelation exhibitions.
Malcolm Rippeth
Lighting Designer
Malcolm’s previous shows at Live Theatre include Keepers of the Flame, A Nightingale Sang in Eldon Square and Toast.
Other work includes: The Bloody Chamber (Northern Stage), Rapunzel (balletLORENT), West Side Story (Sage Gateshead), The Empress (RSC), The Promise (Donmar Warehouse), Spur of The Moment (Royal Court), Spring Awakening (Headlong), Stones in his Pockets (Tricycle Theatre), The Night Before Christmas (Soho Theatre), The Dead (Abbey, Dublin), The Birthday Party (Royal Exchange Theatre), London (Paines Plough), Ghost From A Perfect Place (Arcola Theatre), Forever House (Theatre Royal Plymouth), The Threepenny Opera (Graeae), Refugee Boy (West Yorkshire Playhouse), His Dark Materials (Birmingham Rep), Moon Tiger (Theatre Royal Bath), Calendar Girls (West End/Australia/Canada), HMS Pinafore (Guthrie Theater Minneapolis), Copenhagen (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh), The Coronation of Poppea (Opera North), Orfeo ed Euridice (Buxton Festival), Le Nozze di Figaro (Garsington Opera) and Seven Deadly Sins (WNO). He is an Associate Artist of Kneehigh Theatre, productions including Tristan & Yseult, The Wild Bride, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and Brief Encounter (West End/Broadway/Australia).
Lucy Jenkins & Sooki McShane CDG
Casting
Live Theatre credits include: Tyne, Cooking with Elvis, Chalet Lines, A Walk On Part, Nativities, Faith & Cold Reading, Inheritance and A Northern Odyssey.
Other theatre credits include: To Kill a Mockingbird (Regents Park and tour), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Desdemona, Bomber’s Moon, Adult Supervision and Casualties (Park Theatre), Our Country’s Good (Out Of Joint), Much Ado About Nothing (Royal Exchange Theatre), Moon on a Rainbow Shawl (Talawa Theatre), War Horse (UK Tour/West End), Solid Air (Theatre Royal Plymouth), Afraid of the Dark (Charing Cross Theatre), Serpent’s Tooth (Almeida Theatre/Talawa Theatre), The Glee Club (Cast Theatre) and several productions for Nottingham Playhouse including The Kite Runner, My Judy Garland Life, Richard III, The Ashes and Diary of a Football Nobody.
Television credits include: Skins (Company Pictures), Wild At Heart (Company Pictures), The Bill (Talkback Thames), Samuel Johnson: The Dictionary Man (October Films) and Family Affairs (Talkback Thames).
Film credits include: Myrrdin (Screenworks), Awaiting (Solar Productions), Containment (Bright Cold Day Films), Five-A-Side (Emerald Films), Entity (Nexus DNA), The Somnambulists (No Bad Films), Desi Boyz (Desi Boyz Productions) and H10 (Dan Films).
About Live Theatre
From its base on Newcastle’s quayside, Live Theatre produces work as varied and diverse as the audiences it engages with. To do this it:
| • | Creates and performs new plays of world class quality |
| • | Finds and develops creative talent |
| • | Unlocks the potential of young people through theatre. |
Founded in 1973, the Theatre was transformed in 2007 with a capital redevelopment. The result is a beautifully restored and refurbished complex of five Grade II listed buildings with state-of-the-art facilities in a unique historical setting, including a 160-seat cabaret-style theatre, a studio theatre, renovated rehearsal rooms, a series of dedicated writers’ rooms as well as a thriving café, bar and pub.
Live Theatre is a national leader in developing new strategies for increasing income and assets for the charity. In 2014 the company announced LiveWorks, a £10 million capital development to purchase and develop quayside-fronted land and buildings adjacent to the Theatre, to create a children and young people’s writing centre, a public park and new commercial office space.
LiveWorks will join the award-winning gastro pub The Broad Chare, online course www.beaplaywright.com and The Schoolhouse (office space for emerging businesses), as one of Live Theatre’s creative enterprises designed to increase income.
For more information see www.live.org.uk
Through the generosity of our Friends Live Theatre is able to continue to nurture and develop new writing talent, and deliver plays of world class quality. Our Best Friends are:
Noreen Bates
Jim Beirne
Michael & Pat Brown
Paul Callaghan
George Caulkin
Michael & Susan Chaplin
Sue & Simon Clugston
Helen Coyne
Chris Foy
Robson Green
Lee Hall
John Jordan
John Josephs
Annette Marlowe
Madelaine Newton
Elaine Orrick
Ian
