Theatre includes:
									1536, Alma Mater, The Doctor (Almeida Theatre),
									The Jungle (St Ann’s Warehouse),
									Glee &amp; Me (The Royal Exchange Theatre),
									Top Girls (National Theatre).
								

								
									Television includes:
									Film Club (BBC),
									Miss Austen (BBC),
									Disclaimer (Apple TV),
									The Serpent Queen (Starz),
									Elizabeth is Missing (STV),
									The Great (MRC, Hulu),
									Snatches – Reclaim the Night (BBC),
									Three Girls (BBC).
								

								
									Film includes:
									The Little Stranger (Potboiler Productions),
									The Fight (Unstoppable Entertainment),
									Jellyfish (Nik Holttum Productions).

Liv Hill

Theatre includes: 1536 (Almeida Theatre); A Doll’s House (Sheffield Crucible, Ian Charleson Award Nominee); That’s Not Who I am (The Royal Court); Force Majeure (Donmar Warehouse); Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (The Curve, English Touring Theatre); Teenage Dick (Donmar Warehouse); Describe The Night (Hampstead Theatre); A Christmas Carol (The Old Vic); On The Town (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre).
								Television includes: Black Mirror (Netflix); Domino Day (BBC); Hit &amp; Run (Netflix); Adult Material (Channel 4, BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress nominee); Temple (Sky); Vanity Fair (Mammoth, Amazon).

Siena Kelly

Theatre includes: A Midsummer Night’s Dream: For One Night Only (Shakespeare’s Globe); 1536 (Almeida Theatre); The Seagull (Barbican Theatre); White Rabbit, Red Rabbit (Soho Theatre); A Mirror (Almeida Theatre, Trafalgar Theatre, Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress nominee); She Stoops to Conquer (Orange Tree); Scenes with Girls (Royal Court).
								Television includes: Decameron (Netflix); The Baby (HBO); Dodger (BBC, NBC Universal); I Hate You (Big Talk, Channel 4); Breeders (Avalon, FX); Sex Education (Netflix, Eleven Film); Delicious (Bandit TV, Sky 1); The Bisexual (Hulu, Channel 4); Outlander (Sony, Starz, Leftbank); Rellik (BBC).
								Upcoming Television includes: The Other Bennet Sister (BBC); Ted Lasso (Apple).
								Film includes: Emma (Autumn de Wilde); Timestalker (Alice Lowe); The Actor (Duke Johnson).

Tanya Reynolds

Ava is a writer for stage and screen. 1536 is her debut play. It won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2024 and received a special commendation from The George Devine Award. It also won her the Best Writer at the 2025 Stage Debut Awards.  1536 was written under commission through the Genesis Almeida New Playwrights, Big Plays Programme.
								She is currently co-writing Baz Luhrman's Jehanne d'Arc film and is the writer in residence at the National Theatre.
								Television includes: Brassic (Calamity Films); Ten Pound Poms (Eleven); The Great (Thruline Entertainment); The Buccaneers (The Forge) and How To Get To Heaven From Belfast (Hat Trick Productions).
								Ava was recently included in the Telegraph’s rising stars to watch in 2026 list.

Ava Pickett

Lyndsey Turner is an Associate of the National Theatre. She returned to the Almeida having previously directed The Treatment, Chimerica (also West End, Olivier Award for Best Director).
								Her other theatre credits include: Roald Dahl’s The Witches, The Crucible, Under Milk Wood, Top Girls, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (National Theatre); After the End (Theatre Royal Stratford East); A Number (The Old Vic); Far Away, Faith Healer, Fathers and Sons (Donmar Warehouse); Hamlet (Barbican) and Girls and Boys, Posh, Contractions (Royal Court).

Lyndsey Turner

Max’s theatre credits included: The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (Chichester Festival Theatre, also West End @SohoPlace); King Lear (Bunkamura, Tokyo); Anna Karenina (Chichester Festival Theatre); 1536 (Almeida); Red or Dead (Liverpool’s Royal Court); Ulster American (West End); Between Riverside and Crazy (Hampstead Theatre); A Mirror (Almeida / Trafalgar Theatre); Anna Karenina; Long Day’s Journey Into Night; Crime and Punishment; A Streetcar Named Desire; Orpheus Descending (Bunkamura, Tokyo); The Comedy of Errors; The Shoemakers Holiday; The Merry Wives of Windsor (RSC); Jekyll &amp; Hyde (Reading Rep Theatre); Noises Off (Lyric Hammersmith/ West End); Sydney and the Old Girl (Park Theatre); All My Sons (The Old Vic/ Headlong); Meek (Headlong); Close Quarters; Love and Information; Queen Coal (Sheffield Theatres); The House They Grew Up In (Chichester Festival Theatre/ Headlong); Trainspotting (Citizens Theatre); The Hypocrite (RSC/ Hull Truck Theatre); Pride and Prejudice (Regents Park Open Air Theatre/ UK tour); The York Mystery Plays (York Minster); The Crucible; Brilliant Adventures; Miss Julie (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Little Shop of Horrors; Educating Rita; Glengarry Glen Ross; Bruised; A Doll’s House; Blackthorn (Theatre Clwyd); Blasted (The Other Room, Cardiff); The Broken Heart; The Tempest (Shakespeare’s Globe); Play Strindberg (Theatre Royal Bath) and True West (Citizens Theatre/ Kiln Theatre).
								Awards: Linbury Prize for Blood Wedding at the Young Vic.

Max Jones

Jack’s recent theatre credits include: Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) (Broadway/A.R.T/Criterion Theatre/Kiln Theatre); Every Brilliant Thing (@sohoplace); A Moon for the Misbegotten, 1536, Spring Awakening, Carmen Disruption (Almeida Theatre); Sunset Boulevard (Broadway/Savoy Theatre); Julie (Internationaal Theater Amsterdam); London Tide, Romeo and Julie, Top Girls, Barber Shop Chronicles, Cleansed (National Theatre); Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Wyndham’s Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, Venice Preserved (Royal Shakespeare Company); Patriots (Broadway/Noël Coward Theatre/Almeida Theatre); Best of Enemies (Noël Coward Theatre); Caroline, or Change (Broadway/Playhouse Theatre); Beginning (Ambassador’s Theatre/National Theatre); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Gillian Lynne Theatre/UK Tour); The Unbelievers, Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp, The End of History (Royal Court); Private Lives, Committee (Donmar Warehouse); Light Falls, The Producers, Happy Days (Royal Exchange); 4.48 Psychosis, Happy Days, Travelling on One Leg (Schauspielhaus Hamburg); Salt of the Earth (Venice Biennale); The Night Train (Schauspiel Köln) and Lungs (Schaubühne Berlin).
								His opera credits include: La bohéme (Göteborgsoperan) and The Seven Deadly Sins/Bluebeard’s Castle (Teatro Colón).
								His Awards include Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical, Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design, Drama Desk Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical, WhatsOnStage Award for Best Lighting Design (Sunset Boulevard); Knight of Illumination Award (Barber Shop Chronicles).

Jack Knowles

Tingying’s theatre credits as sound designer/composer include: Macbeth, Titus Andronicus, Edward II (Royal Shakespeare Company); 1536 (Almeida Theatre); London Tide, Dear Octopus (National Theatre); Black Superhero (Royal Court); Entertaining Mr Sloane, The Little Foxes, Klippies (Young Vic); Make It Happen (National Theatre of Scotland/Edinburgh International Festival); The Crucible (National Theatre/Gielgud Theatre/The Stage Debut Award for Best West End Creative Debut); Watch On The Rhine (Donmar Warehouse); Rock’n’Roll, Peggy For You, Folk (Hampstead Theatre); The Secret Garden, The Tempest (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Lyonesse (Harold Pinter Theatre); Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder (Ambassadors Theatre/Bristol Old Vic/Edinburgh Festival); In The Ruins of the Big House (Factory International); Quiet Songs (Barbican/Théâtres de la Ville); My Son’s A Queer (But What Can You Do?) (New York City Center/West End/UK Tour/Edinburgh Festival/Turbine Theatre/WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off West End Production); Macbeth (ETT/Lyric Hammersmith/International Tour); A Doll’s House, Scissors (Sheffield Theatres); Twine (Yard Theatre); The Beekeeper of Aleppo (Nottingham Playhouse/UK Tour); War &amp; Culture (New Diorama); After The End, The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars (Theatre Royal Stratford East); A Christmas Carol (Nottingham Playhouse/Birmingham Rep/Alexandra Palace/BBC. Composer); Antigone (Storyhouse); Ruckus (Summerhall/Southwark Playhouse); Tsunagu/Connect (Shoreditch Town Hall); Two Billion Beats (Orange Tree Theatre); Jerker (King’s Head Theatre. Nominated for Off West End Award for Best Sound Design).  Radio composition includes Humane; BURP. Short Film composition includes Medea/Worn; My Last Duchess.
								Her work as a creative collaborator and making sound and music include: Walking Cats (Camden People’s Theatre/Vault Festival) and Imaginarium (Online Tour).

Tingying Dong

Anna works across theatre, opera and film as a movement director, director and intimacy coordinator. She has worked on large scale cultural events such as the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony and We’re Here Because We’re Here led by Turner Prize-winner Jeremy Deller.
								For the Almeida, credits include: As Movement Director: Richard III and King Charles III (also West End/Broadway).
								Her theatre credits include: As Movement Director: London Tide, Middle, Translations, ANNA, World of Extreme Happiness (National Theatre); Emilia (Shakespeare’s Globe/ West End, Olivier Award nomination for Best Comedy Production); The Winter’s Tale, Pericles (RSC) and Imperium, Queen Anne (West End).
								Her opera credits include: As Choreographer: Jephtha, Rigoletto, Current Rising (Royal Opera House); Amadigi (Garsington Opera); Macbeth (NI Opera / WNO); Salome, The Flying Dutchman, Noye’s Fludde (NI Opera); Orpheus in the Underworld (Scottish Opera); Manon Lescaut, The Barber of Seville (Opera Holland Park); Hansel and Gretel (Opera North); The Magic Flute (Nevill Holt Opera). As Director: Last Days (Royal Opera House/ LA Philharmonic); The Barber of Seville (Nevill Holt Opera/ Sage Gateshead); Carmen (Waterperry Opera Festival); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Nevill Holt Opera) and Our House is your Home (Royal Opera House).
								Her film credits include: As Lead Artist: All Together Alone (Royal Ballet), as movement Coach: Chuck Chuck Baby (BBC) and as an Intimacy Coordinator: Wildcat.
								Her television credits include: As Movement Coach: The Midwitch Cuckoos (ITV)

Anna Morrisey

Will’s theatre credits as Composer include: 1536 (Almeida); Nye, The Corn is Green (National Theatre); Pygmalion (Old Vic); The Deep Blue Sea, Noises Off (Haymarket) and Good (Pinter).
								As Arranger and/or Orchestrator: My Neighbour Totoro (Gillian Lynne); A Face in the Crowd (Young Vic); The Drifters Girl (Garrick, vocal arrangements); Guys and Dolls; The Band Plays On (Sheffield Crucible); Committee (Donmar Warehouse); Wicked (Hamburg) and Amélie (Munich).
								Other Arranger/Orchestrator credits include: Dame Shirley Bassey, Paloma Faith, Cerys Matthews, Bryn Terfel, Stella McCartney (Paris Fashion Week), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Big Band, Symphoniker Hamburg, Stockholm Sinfonietta.
								His music Supervisor credits include: My Neighbour Totoro (Gillian Lynne); The Drifters Girl (UK tour); The Secret Life of Bees (Almeida); Guys and Dolls, The Band Plays On (Sheffield Crucible) and A Christmas Carol (Associate - Broadway).
								His musical director credits include: The Drifters Girl (Garrick); Standing at the Sky’s Edge (Sheffield Crucible) and A Christmas Carol, Mood Music, The Divide (Old Vic).

Will Stuart

Theatre credits include:  The Years, Alma Mater, Cold War, Portia Coughlan, Women, Beware the Devil, "Daddy" A Melodrama, Albion, The Hunt, Shipwreck, Dance Nation, Boy (Almeida); Hamnet (RSC); Slave Play, The Hills of California, Lyonesse, Jerusalem, Leopoldstadt, Uncle Vanya, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Night of Iguana, Rosmersholm, True West, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, The Pillowman (West End); The Son (Kiln/ West End); Sweat (Donmar/ West End); The Ferryman (Royal Court/ West End/ Broadway); The Moderate Soprano (Hampstead Theatre/ West End); The Birthday Party, Consent (National Theatre/ West End); Hangmen (Royal Court/ West End/ Atlantic Theater Company); Berberian Sound Studio (Donmar); Stories, Exit the King (National Theatre); White Noise, A Very Very Very Dark Matter (Bridge); The Brothers Size (Young Vic) and Maryland, ear for eye, Girls &amp; Boys, Cyprus Avenue (Royal Court).

Amy Ball CDG

Since 2013, the Almeida has been led by Artistic Director Rupert Goold and Executive Director Denise Wood (Dominic Cooke and Ros Brooke-Taylor have now taken over as Artistic Director and Executive Director from the start of 2026). During their tenure, notable productions have included American Psycho: a new musical thriller (transferred to Broadway); Chimerica (transferred to the West End and won five Olivier Awards); 1984 (transferred to the West End, Broadway and Australia); King Charles III (transferred to the West End, won the Olivier Award for Best New Play, transferred to Broadway, toured the UK and Sydney, and was adapted for BBC television); Oresteia and Hamlet (both transferred to Park Avenue Armory, New York after successful West End runs); Mary Stuart (transferred to the West End and toured the UK); Summer and Smoke (transferred to the West End and won two Olivier Awards including Best Revival) and The Hunt (transferred to St Ann’s Warehouse, New York). Recent highlights include The Years (transferred to the West End, winner of two Olivier Awards), A Streetcar Named Desire (won three Olivier Awards including Best Revival; returned to the West End this year followed by a run at Brooklyn Academy of Music); Patriots (transferred to the West End and Broadway) and The Doctor (transferred to the West End and Park Avenue Armory, New York), as well as critically acclaimed productions of Spring Awakening (screened in cinemas UK wide), The Tragedy of Macbeth (screened on BBC Four and available on BBC iPlayer) and Tammy Faye (ran on Broadway last year).
								The Almeida Theatre is a registered charity and is dependent on the support of individuals, companies and trusts and foundations to realise our artistic ambitions, nurture emerging talent and connect with over 4,000 young people and community each year through Almeida Participation. We gratefully acknowledge the generosity of our supporters.
								The Almeida is grateful for the support of Arts Council England.

Almeida Theatre

Sonia Friedman Productions (SFP) is an international production company responsible for some of the most successful theatre productions around the world. Since it was established in 2002, SFP has developed, initiated and produced over 300 productions and has won 67 Olivier Awards, 61 Tony Awards and 3 BAFTAs, with its founder, Sonia Friedman CBE, being described by The New York Times in 2025 as “the most powerful producer working in theater” today and recognised as a Variety500 Honouree for seven consecutive years. At any one time, the company is actively developing, commissioning, and enabling more than 30 new theatrical projects worldwide.
								In 2018, Friedman was named on the TIME 100 list of the world’s most influential people. In 2019, she was awarded Producer of the Year at The Stage Awards for a record-breaking fourth time; in 2024 she was included in The Standard 100, celebrating London’s key power players; and in 2025 she was named one of Vogue’s 25 most influential women working today.
								Current productions include: The Book of Mormon (West End); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (West End, Broadway, Hamburg, Tokyo, The Netherlands and North American tour); Stranger Things: The First Shadow, a co-production with Netflix (West End, Broadway); Paddington The Musical (West End); Oedipus (Broadway); Sunny Afternoon (UK tour); Stereophonic (US tour); the global cinema distribution of Merrily We Roll Along (2025) and A Friend of Dorothy (2025).
								In 2025, Sonia Friedman and Hugh Jackman, alongside director Ian Rickson, launched TOGETHER, a new company dedicated to creating live theatre that is intimate and accessible.
								Forthcoming productions include: 1536 (West End); John Proctor is the Villain (Royal Court); Mean Girls (UK and Ireland tour) and Dreamgirls (Broadway).

Sonia Friedman Productions

Annapurna Theatre is the award-winning live stage division of Annapurna founded by Megan Ellison and run by Skye Optican. Annapurna is an independent multi-platform company focusing on financing and producing high quality original content across film, television, games, animation, and theatre. They recently produced The Motive and The Cue and Dear England in the West End with the National Theatre and Appropriate on Broadway. Additional credits include: Fleabag (West End/New York/Live broadcast); The Lehman Trilogy (West End/Broadway); Beat the Devil (Showtime/Sky Arts); The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Nine Night, Home I’m Darling, Network, Company, A Strange Loop, Betrayal, Macbeth, and David Byrne’s American Utopia.

Annapurna Theatre

LuckyChap is a leading entertainment company, run by Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley, Josey McNamara and Milan Popelka. The company produced the global phenomenon Barbie, which grossed over $1.4 billion at the box office and garnered eight Academy Award nominations. It also produced the critically acclaimed and award-winning films I, Tonya, Promising Young Woman, Saltburn, and My Old Ass, and on the television side, produced the Emmy-nominated limited series Maid and Sirens, and recently wrapped production on Megan Park’s upcoming drama Sterling Point. LuckyChap’s next film Wuthering Heights marks their third collaboration with Emerald Fennell and will be released by Warner Bros. in February 2026. Last year, LuckyChap made their theater debut with the off-Broadway production of The Big Gay Jamboree, co-written by and starring Marla Mindelle. The critically acclaimed production won two Lucille Lortel Awards.

Cast & Creative

Liv Hill

JANE

Siena Kelly

ANNA

Tanya Reynolds

MARIELLA

Creative Team

Ava Pickett

WRITER

Lyndsey Turner

DIRECTOR

Max Jones

SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER

Jack Knowles

LIGHTING DESIGNER

Tingying Dong

SOUND DESIGNER

Anna Morrisey

MOVEMENT AND INTIMACY DIRECTOR

Will Stuart

COMPOSER AND ARRANGER

Amy Ball CDG

CASTING DIRECTOR

Producers

Almeida Theatre

Sonia Friedman Productions

Annapurna Theatre

LuckyChap