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, BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress nominee).
								

								
									Film includes:
									The Little Stranger (Potboiler Productions);
									The Fight (Unstoppable Entertainment);
									Jellyfish (Nik Holttum Productions, BIFA most promising newcomer nominee).

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) and Scenes with Girls (Royal Court).
								Television includes: The Other Bennet Sister (BBC); 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) and Rellik (BBC).
								Upcoming Television includes: Ted Lasso (Apple).
								Film includes: Emma (Autumn de Wilde); Timestalker (Alice Lowe) and The Actor (Duke Johnson).

Tanya Reynolds

Theatre includes: Romans: A Novel (Almeida Theatre); Retrograde (West End); The Real Thing, All My Sons (The Old Vic); Henry V, Duchess of Malfi (Headlong/Shakespeare’s Globe); Imperium, Oppenheimer (RSC/West End); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (ETT); The Haystack (Hampstead Theatre); Tribes (Sheffield Crucible); Cymbeline (RSC/Barbican); King Lear (RSC/Barbican/BAM); Teddy Ferrara (Donmar Warehouse); Spring Awakening (Headlong); Another Country (Chichester Festival Theatre).
								Television includes: Endeavour, Whitechapel, Lewis (ITV); Loaded (Channel 4); The Syndicate (Rollem Productions) and Inspector George Gently (BBC).
								Film includes: The Courier (FilmNation Entertainment); Open (Apex Goat); On Chesil Beach (BBC); The Inbetweeners 2 (Bwark Productions) and Skyfall (MGM).

Oliver Johnstone

Theatre includes: High Noon (Harold Pinter); Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf (Curve, Leicester); Noises Off (New Wolsey/Theatre By The Lake); Jack Absolute Flies Again (National Theatre); The Time Machine: A Comedy (UK Tour); Diary Of A Somebody (Seven Dials Playhouse); Spike (Watermill); The Witchfinder’s Sister, One Man, Two Guvnors (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); The Game Of Love &amp; Chance (Arcola); The Wipers Times (Arts Theatre/UK Tour); Rope (New Wolsey); Emma (UK Tour).
								Television includes: Outlander: Blood Of My Blood (Sony Pictures Television); Bridgerton (Netflix); Ten Percent (BRON Studios) and The Trial Of Christine Keeler (BBC).

George Kemp

Theatre includes: The Mousetrap (St. Martins Theatre); The Play that Goes Wrong (Duchess Theatre, also as Assistant Director); A Thing of Beauty (Tabard Theatre); Cockfosters (Turbine Theatre); Cluedo (UK Tour); A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Twelfth Night; The Taming of the Shrew; Richard III (Pop-Up Globe).
								Film includes: 800; Saving Penelope (Jacco Macacco Films); BROASIS (Tiny Spack Productions) and Fox in the Night (RAW Inventive).

Harry Bradley

Theatre includes: Cymbeline, Romeo and Juliet (The Globe); The Hypochondriac (Sheffield Crucible); The Swell (Orange Tree Theatre – Olivier Award nominated production for “Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre”); Chasing Hares (Young Vic); Electric Rosary (Royal Exchange Theatre); 81 (Life), The Key Workers Cycle: The Social Care Workers Play and Name, Place, Animal, Thing (Almeida Theatre).
								Television includes: Waiting for the Out (BBC); Doctors (BBC); Bravo Two Charlies (BBC Wales).
								Film includes: We Live in Time (StudioCanal); The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde (Maximum Effort).
								Radio includes: My Type on Paper, Wood Wide Web, Dr Dr (Seagull Productions) and D for Dexter (BBC Radio 4).

Saroja-Lily Ratnavel

Theatre includes: Hamilton (UK Tour); The Wizard of Oz (West End, UK Tour); Close-Up: The Twiggy Musical (Menier Chocolate Factory); Scouts! The Musical (The Other Palace).
								Other Credit includes: Magic At The Musicals (Royal Albert Hall).

Sydney Spencer

Ava is a writer for stage and screen. 1536 is her debut play. It was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best New Play 2026, 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 and earned her a nomination for the Most Promising Playwright at the 2025 Standard Theatre Awards and the 2026 Critic’s Circle Theatre Awards. 1536 was written under commission through the Genesis Almeida New Playwrights, Big Plays Programme. Ava is writing an adaptation of 1536 for television which has been commissioned by the BBC and will be produced by Drama Republic.
								She is currently co-writing Baz Luhrman's Jehanne d'Arc film and is the writer in residence at the National Theatre.
								Theatre includes: Emma (The Rose Theatre Kingston); The Manningtree Witches (The Mercury Theatre Colchester)
								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

Directing work at the Almeida includes: 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

Theatre includes: Death of a Salesman (Broadway); Every Brilliant Thing (Broadway/@sohoplace); Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) (Broadway/A.R.T/Criterion Theatre/Kiln Theatre); Sunset Boulevard (Broadway/Savoy Theatre); A Moon for the Misbegotten, Spring Awakening, Carmen Disruption (Almeida Theatre); 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); The Architect, Julie (ITA); 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).
								Opera includes: La bohéme (Göteborgsoperan) and The Seven Deadly Sins/Bluebeard’s Castle (Teatro Colón).
								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).
								Her 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).
								Theatre includes: 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).
								Opera includes: As Choreographer: Jephtha, Rigoletto, Turn of the Screw, Tosca, 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 (co-director, 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).
								Film includes: As Lead Artist: All Together Alone (Royal Ballet), as Movement Coach: Chuck Chuck Baby (BBC) and as an Intimacy Coordinator: Wildcat.
								Television includes: As Movement Coach: The Midwitch Cuckoos (ITV)

Anna Morrissey

Theatre includes: As Composer: When We are Married (Donmar Warehouse); 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, Hamburg Symphoniker and Stockholm Sinfonietta.
								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).
								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

Fight Director theatre credits include: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Other Place, Coriolanus, Here We Are (National Theatre), American Psycho, Moon for the Misbegotten, 1536, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Almeida); Natasha, Pierre &amp; The Great Comet of 1812, Fear of 13 (Donmar Warehouse); Deep Azure, Macbeth (The Globe); The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (@sohoplace); Paranormal Activity (Ambassadors Theatre), Choir Boy (Stratford East), Inspector Morse, 101 Dalmatians (UK tour); Blithe Spirit (Salisbury Playhouse); £1 Thursdays (Finborough Theatre); Dick Whittington (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); Gunpowder Plot (Tower of London); Candida (Orange Tree Theatre); The Omission of the Family Coleman (Theatre Royal Bath).
								Associate Fight Director theatre credits include: Stranger Things: First Shadow, Les Misérables, Sister Act, Phantom of the Opera (West End); House of Shades, Hamlet (Almeida), Till the Stars Come Down (National Theatre &amp; West End); Heathers (The Other Palace Theatre).

Sam Lyon-Behan

Previously at Chichester: The Other Boleyn Girl (Festival Theatre); The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Hedda Tesman (Minerva Theatre).
								Theatre includes: 1536 and Roots (The Almeida); The Witches (National Theatre); Baghdaddy (Royal Court); Sarah (Coronet Theatre); My Fair Lady (London Coliseum); Oleanna (Arts Theatre, West End); Switzerland, King Lear (Theatre Royal, Bath); Love Love Love, A Doll’s House (Lyric Hammersmith); Gaslight (UK tour); When The Crows Visit (Kiln Theatre); Hobson’s Choice (Manchester Royal Exchange); Does My Bomb Look Big In This, Approaching Empty (Kiln Theatre &amp; Tamasha Theatre); Witness For The Prosecution (County Hall), Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express (UK Tour); Lions and Tigers (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Graduate (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Anita and Me (Birmingham Rep); African Gothic, My Children! My Africa! (Two Sheds Theatre); Around the World In 80 Days (St James’s Theatre); East is East (Trafalgar Studios); The 39 Steps (Criterion Theatre); The Price (Bolton Octagon); The Rover, Volpone, Wendy and Peter Pan, What Country Friends Is This?, The Homecoming, I’ll Be The Devil (RSC); and 20 seasons as Head of Voice and Dialect at The Shaw Festival Theatre, Ontario.
								Television includes: Beowulf (ITV); Last Tango (BBC); X Company (Temple Street); Ant and Dec’s Saturday Take Away (ITV) and Gordon Ramsay’s Cookalong Live (Channel 4).
								Films include: Patients of a Saint (Golden CrabFilm Production); Far From The Madding Crowd (BBC); The Door (Mokép); The Anomaly (Unstoppable Entertainment) and Kajaki (Pukka Film).
								Publications: How To Do Accents and How To Do Standard English Accents.
								Other work includes for Digital: The ACCENT Kit app, available for iPhone and Android.

Edda Sharpe

Resident Director: Hamilton (UK Tour)
								Resident Assistant Director: Anna Karenina &amp; Hamlet (Chichester Festival Theatre); Hamilton (West End &amp; UK Tour)
								Associate Director includes: Dracula: Mina's Reckoning (National Theatre Scotland), Mandela (The Young Vic).
								Director includes: Tiny Tim’s Christmas Carol, As You Like It - Primary Shakespeare (The Orange Tree Theatre), La Voisin (VAULT Festival), The Poison Belt (Jermyn Street Theatre), Summer’s Park Adventure (Deptford Park), Her Romeo (Wee Red Bar), Number, Please. (Edinburgh Fringe/UK Tour).
								Assistant Director includes: All My Sons (Wyndham’s Theatre), The Importance of Being Earnest (UK Tour), Cancelling Socrates (Jermyn Street Theatre), The Ballad of Maria Marten (UK Tour), Cabildo (Wilton’s Music Hall).
								Writer includes: Through The Looking Glass, The Girl of Ink and Stars (The Watermill Youth Ensemble).
								Becca is a Playwright in Residence at The Watermill Theatre, was a Creative Associate at Jermyn Street Theatre from 2022-2023, and was nominated for the Evening Standard Future Theatre award.

Becca Chadder

Ruth Hall

Joseph Hornsby

Bryony Blackler

Sabia Smith

Emma Ford for Propsworks

Megan Orton & Jessica Hart

Emily  Brown & Tom Horton

The Almeida Theatre is led by Artistic Director Dominic Cooke and Executive Director Ros Brooke-Taylor, who this year succeeded Rupert Goold and Denise Wood. Recent highlights include American Psycho, 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 last year followed by a run at BAM, New York), Patriots (transferred to the West End and Broadway), The Hunt (transferred to St Ann’s Warehouse, New York), Spring Awakening (screened in cinemas nationwide), The Tragedy of Macbeth (screened on BBC Four) 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); Sunny Afternoon (UK tour); Stereophonic (US tour); Mean Girls (UK and Ireland tour); John Proctor is the Villain (Royal Court) and Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes (Minetta Lane Theatre 2026).
								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: What Happened Was... (Minetta Lane Theatre); New Born (Minetta Lane Theatre); Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (West End); Dreamgirls (Broadway) and The Popinjay Cavalier (West End).

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 that produces and finances high quality original content across film, television, games, animation, and theatre. Currently producing: INTER ALIA (West End). Recent credits include: The Motive and The Cue and Dear England in the West End, Appropriate on Broadway. Additional credits include: Fleabag (West End/New York/Live Broadcast); The Lehman Trilogy (West End/Broadway); A Strange Loop, David Byrne’s American Utopia, Company, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Nine Night, Home I’m Darling, Network.

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

Oliver Johnstone

RICHARD

George Kemp

WILLIAM

Harry Bradley

WILLIAM/RICHARD UNDERSTUDY

Saroja-Lily Ratnavel

MARIELLA/JANE UNDERSTUDY

Sydney Spencer

ANNA UNDERSTUDY

Creative Team

Ava Pickett

WRITER

Lyndsey Turner

DIRECTOR

Max Jones

SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER

Jack Knowles

LIGHTING DESIGNER

Tingying Dong

SOUND DESIGNER

Anna Morrissey

INTIMACY DIRECTOR AND CHOREOGRAPHER

Will Stuart

COMPOSER AND ARRANGER

Amy Ball CDG

CASTING DIRECTOR

Sam Lyon-Behan

FIGHT DIRECTOR

Edda Sharpe

DIALECT COACH

Becca Chadder

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

Ruth Hall

ASSOCIATE SET & COSTUME DESIGNER

Joseph Hornsby

ASSOCIATE LIGHTING DESIGNER

Bryony Blackler

ASSOCIATE SOUND DESIGNER

Sabia Smith

COSTUME SUPERVISOR

Emma Ford for Propsworks

ASSOCIATE PROPS SUPERVISOR

Megan Orton & Jessica Hart

WIGS, HAIR & MAKE UP SUPERVISORS

Emily Brown & Tom Horton

PRODUCTIONS MANAGERS

Producers

Almeida Theatre

Sonia Friedman Productions

Annapurna Theatre

LuckyChap