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CAST

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Jasmin Colangelo

Swing and Assistant Choreographer

Theatre includes: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Birmingham Rep and Gillian Lynne Theatre), Groundhog Day (Old Vic), Legally Blonde (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Saturday Night Fever (Peacock Theatre), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (London Palladium), Matilda (International Tour), Cats (International Tour), Kiss Me Kate (Les Theatre de la Ville de Luxeumbourg), Mamma Mia! (Novello Theatre & International Tour), Cinderella (Hackney Empire), Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace), Les Misérables (Queen’s Theatre). 

TV includes: Matilda – Royal Variety Performance, All Star Musicals, Sadie Jones, Big Day Out.  

Film includes: The Man Who Cried.  

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Andrew Coshan

Ensemble

Theatre includes: Groundhog Day (GWB Entertainment, Australia), A View from the Bridge (Melbourne Theatre Company), Hamlet, The Wind in the Willows (Australia Shakespeare Company), Merrily We Roll Along, Anyone Can Whistle (Hayes Theatre), Into The Woods (Belvoir St Theatre Company), Jersey Boys (New Zealand tour), Thoroughly Modern Millie (The Production Company), Phantom of the Opera (Opera Australia) and A Christmas Carol (GWB Entertainment, Australia). 

TV includes: Neighbours

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Stavros Demetraki

Joey De Palma 

Stavros Demetraki recently played Ali Hakim in the Olivier Award winning production of Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! at the Young Vic and in the West End. 

Theatre includes: Peter Pan (MCR Home), The Vote (Donmar Warehouse), Timon of Athens, Antigone, She Stoops to Conquer, and The Kitchen (National Theatre), Adventures In Wonderland, Supermarket Shakespeare (Teatro Vivo), As You Like It (Dash Arts / Curve), Blood Wedding (Liverpool Everyman), By The Way (Chopped Logic), Gilgamesh (Belgrade Theatre / National Tour), Birds Without Wings (Eastern Angles). 

Television includes: Miss Scarlett & The Duke, Doctor Who, Tyrant, and White Van Man, Doctors

Film includes: The Phantom Warrior, Hampstead, Risen, Dracula Untold, The Hope Rooms, Blush Furiously, and The Simple Equation. 

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Olly Dobson

Mel Miller

Olly received an Olivier Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical as Marty McFly in Back to the Future in the West End. 

Theatre includes: Just for One Day (Old Vic), Bat Out of HellThe Selfish Giant, Matilda (West End), Carrie (Southwark Playhouse). 

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Emily Florence

Betty Lou

Emily Florence graduated from Arts Ed this year and is making her professional stage debut in A Face in the Crowd

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Howard Gossington

Sheriff Hosmer / Ensemble

Theatre includes: Patriots (Gielgud Theatre), Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (Aldwych Theatre), The Lion King (Lyceum Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (Infinite Jest/Hague Shakespeare Festival), The Elephant Man (Sheffield Crucible), The Important of Being Earnest (SJT), Nation (National Theatre), Treasure Island (Haymarket), Hey, Get a Life! (Jermyn St. Theatre), Madame Bovary (Northampton Royal & Derngate), The Rivals (Salisbury Playhouse), Skylight and Mojo (Dukes, Lancaster), The Comedy of Errors, Macbeth and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Oxford Shakespeare Company). 

TV includes: A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story (ITV), The Crown (Netflix), Downton Abbey (ITV), Gina’s Laughing Gear (BBC), Hollyoaks (Channel 4) and The Basil Brush Show (BBC). 

Film includes: The Lawless Heart and Blind Spot

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Chris Jenkins

Ensemble

Theatre includes: Boundless as the Sea, Miss Littlewood (RSC), Titanic the Musical (China Tour), Groundhog Day (Old Vic), Hex, Jack Absolute Flies Again (National Theatre), War of the Worlds (Dominion/UK tour), All That (King’s Head Theatre), The Arcadians (Wilton’s Music Hall), Candide (Opera Della Luna), Tick, Tick...BOOM!, The Burnt Part Boys (Park Theatre), Billy Elliot: The Musical (Victoria Palace), Spamalot (Playhouse), South Pacific (Barbican and UK tour), The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Gielgud), The Cradle Will Rock (Arcola). 
 
TV includes: It’s a Sin, Sanditon. 

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Ramin Karimloo

Lonesome Rhodes 

Stage credits include: Songbird (Washington National Opera), The Addams Family (London Palladium), Funny Girl (August Wilson Theatre, NYC), Rumi: The Musical (London Coliseum), Chess  (Umeda Arts Theatre, Osaka & Tokyo International Forum), Jesus Chris Superstar  (Theatre Orb, Tokyo), Evita (Theatre Orb, Tokyo & Vancouver Opera), Anastasia (Broadway, NYC), The Secret Garden (Lincoln Centre), Les Miserables (Toronto, London & NYC, Tony Award Nominee), The Phantom of the Opera (London, Italy & Monte Carlo) Love Never Dies (London, Olivier Award Nominee), Miss Saigon (UK Tour), Sunset Boulevard (UK Tour), Pirates of Penzance (Regent’s Park).

Film/TV: Your Friends and Neighbors (Apple TV+) Bound (Paralysis Productions), Holby City (BBC1), Jesus: His Life (History Channel), Nativity Rocks (Mirrorball Films), Life’s Too Short (BBC), Blue Bloods (CBS), The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall: 25th AnniversaryLes Miserables in Concert: 25th Anniversary

He has released five solo albums on Sony Records: From Now On, Human Heart, The Road to Find Out: East, The Road to Find Out: South and The Road to Find Out: North.

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Anoushka Lucas

Marcia Jeffries

Previous Young Vic: Rogers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!

Theatre includes: Rogers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! (Wyndham's Theatre, Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical); The Crucible (Sheffield Theatres); Elephant (The Bush, Stage Debut Best Writer Award, nominated for an Evening Standard Theatre Award); Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Henry V (Donmar Warehouse); Afterlife (National Theatre).  

Film includes: Murder on the Orient Express

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Charlotte Riby

Ensemble

Charlotte completed her professional training at Laine Theatre Arts

Theatre includes: Me & my girl (UK tour), Hairspray (Shaftesbury Theatre), Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Place Theatre), Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace theatre), Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent’s Park open air theatre), Waitress (Adelphi Theatre), Carousel (Regent’s Park), Annie Get Your Gun (London Palladium).

Film includes: Wonka (Warner brothers), Snow White (Disney), The Blitz (Apple TV).

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Sadie-Jean Shirley

Ensemble

Theatre includes: Ain’t Too Proud (West End), White Christmas (UK tour), Crazy for You (Chichester Festival Theatre), Bedknobs and Broomsticks Musical (MHE), City of Angels (Garrick), The Astonishing Times of Timothy Cratchit (Hope Mill Theatre),  Aladdin (West End/ Disney), Ghost (UK tour), Dusty (Theatre Royal Bath). 

TV includes: Roisin Conaty’s GameFace, Royal Variety Show

Film includes: Confession 

Sadie-Jean is currently the Associate Director at Punchdrunk Enrichment and previously Associate Choreographer at Birmingham REP. 

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Durone Stokes

Ensemble

Theatre credits include: Groundhog Day (Old Vic Theatre), Jack and the Beanstalk (Catford Broadway), The Lion King (Lyceum), Playboy of the West Indies (Birmingham Rep), A Taste of Honey (National Theatre Tour and Trafalgar Studios), Dreamgirls (West End), Grand Hotel (Southwark Playhouse).  

Workshop: Part of the Plan (K-Squared Entertainment Group) 

 

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Vicki Lee Taylor

Ensemble

Theatre includes: Heathers (The Other Palace), Mrs Doubtfire, A Chorus Line, Matilda, Urinetown (West End), On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, Carousel, Betwixt!, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Listen to the Wind (London Fringe), Groundhog Day, New Voices 24 Hour Plays (Old Vic), Mamma Mia! (West End/International tour), Kiss Me Quickstep, The Witches of Eastwick, Guys & Dolls, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Famous Five (UK Tour), Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol (Royal Festival Hall), Cats (Cyprus), Sunset Boulevard and Sweeney Todd (ENO), Hairspray, Annie!, A Christmas Carol, Stepping Out (regional).

Television/Film includes: Matilda (Netflix Original), Heathers Live Capture (BKL/Village Roadshow), Autopsy (ITV), The Queen’s Nose, If…, Star for a Night (BBC), Big Meg, Little Meg (Granada Kids), Heartbeat and Emmerdale (YTV), The Theatre Channel Cafe 5 (Digital Series) and co-presenter on Sooty (CITV).

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Annie Wensak

Ensemble

Theatre includes: Flowers for Mrs Harris (Riverside Studios), Groundhog Day (Old Vic Theatre), My Fair Lady (London Coliseum & UK Tour), Sleepless the Musical (Troubadour Theatre), The Last Noel (Attic Theatre Company), The Children (English Speaking Theatre, Frankfurt), Moll Flanders (Mercury Theatre Colchester), Rhythm Method (Bush Theatre), Dick Whittington (London Palladium), Half a Sixpence (West End and Chichester Festival Theatre), Beyond the Fence (Arts Theatre), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), The Sound of Music (Leicester Curve).   

TV includes: Beyond the Fence, The Bill, Help Plus, Casualty.  

Film includes: Strictly Body and Soul, Fiddlers Lane. 

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Bobby Windebank

Swing

Theatre includes: The Time Traveller’s Wife (West End); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (West End); Mimma (Cadogan Hall); Rock of Ages (UK Tour); Guys & Dolls (Kilworth House Theatre); Our House (UK Tour); Cats (Cyprus); Thoroughly Modern Millie (UK Tour); West Side Story, Singin’ in the Rain (Kilworth House Theatre); Carmen (O2 Arena and Royal Albert Hall); Hairspray, Chicago (Aberystwyth Arts Centre); Macbeth (UK Tour); Romeo & Juliet (UK Tour); Oliver! (West End)  

TV includes: American Monster (Discovery); The Railway Children, Randall and Hopkirk (ITV); 999, The Mystery of Men (BBC).  

Film includes: Wicked (Universal); Snow White, The Little Mermaid (Disney). 

CREATIVES

Elvis Costello

Music and Lyrics

Elvis Costello is a writer and part-time musician who made a number of records in the 20th Century, some of which are still remembered today. Costello has been performing in public for over fifty years, writing over 500 songs and collaborating with Paul McCartney, Burt Bacharach and his wife, Diana Krall.

Sarah Ruhl

Book

Sarah Ruhl is an award-winning playwright, poet, essayist, and professor. She has received the Tony Award nomination for Best Play and is a two-time Pulitzer Prize Finalist.

Theatre includes: EurydiceThe Clean HouseStage KissIn the Next Room (or the vibrator play)Stage Kissthe Oldest Boy and Letters from Max

 

Kwame Kwei-Armah

Director

Kwame Kwei-Armah is Artistic Director of the Young Vic and Artistic Advisor at MTC. He was Artistic Director of Baltimore Center Stage (2011-18) and the Festival of Black Arts and Culture, Senegal (2010). As a playwright, Kwame was the first African Caribbean to have a play produced in London’s West End (Elmina’s Kitchen). His triptych of plays was produced at the National Theatre, where he later created the online resource The Black Play Archive. Kwame was awarded an OBE for Services to Drama in 2011.

Previous Young Vic: Twelfth NightTreeChanging DestinyThe Collaboration (also Broadway, Manhattan Theatre Club) and Beneatha’s Place.

Theatre includes: Jazz, Marley, Amadeus, Dance of the Holy Ghosts, The Mountaintop; An Enemy of the People, The Whipping Man and Things of Dry Hours (Baltimore Center Stage) Comedy of Errors, Much Ado About Nothing, Detroit’67 (Public Theatre, New York), The Liquid Plain (Signature Theatre, New York and Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Porgy and Bess (Baltimore Symphony Orchestra) and the Olivier Nominated One night in Miami for Best New Play 2016 (Donmar Warehouse).

Anna Fleischle

Production Designer

Previous Young Vic: NachtlandThe Collaboration (& Broadway), HamletThe UnforgottenDeath of a Salesman (West End & Broadway), You Can See the HillsLove & Money (2007 Olivier Award Nominee for Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre & Royal Exchange Manchester).

Other Theatre includesPunch (Nottingham Playhouse); 2:22 A Ghost Story (West End/LA/Tour/Melbourne); A Child of Science (Bristol Old Vic); The Time Travellers Wife (West End); The Pillowman (West End); Red Speedo (OT); Hangmen (Broadway/West End/Royal Court), Tony Award Nominee 2022, Winner of Olivier Award For Best Set Design, Critic’s Circle Award ‘Best Designer’, Evening Standard Award ‘Best Design’); Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (West End/ UK tour/ LA);  A German LifeA Very Very Very Dark Matter, John Gabriel Borkman, Home I’m Darling (National Theatre/ West End/UK Tour - 2019 Olivier Award Nominee For Best Set Design And Best Costume Design); Message In A Bottle (International Tour).

Jackie Shemesh

Lighting Designer

Jackie Shemesh is a lighting designer for Dance, Theatre, Opera, and Performing Arts.

Previous Young Vic: Changing DestinyIn the Penal ColonyMan and Oh my Sweet Land.

Theatre includes: Death of England: Trilogy (National Theatre and West End); Hansard (National Theatre); Ben & Imo, As You Like It (RSC); Two Palestinians Go Dogging, ECHO (Royal Court); The Seagull (West End, Jamie Lloyd Productions); The Beloved, Islands, Misty (also in the West End) (The Bush); What if Women Ruled the World, Ceremony (Manchester International Festival); The Chairs, Uncle VanyaMary Stuart (also in the West End) (Almeida); White Noise (Bridge).

Dance Includes: Ruination (ROH); Goat and Cerberus for (Rambert Dance); The ways, The Fortune, The Fall and Continual Cry (Jamila Jonson-small).

Opera Includes: Orpheus (Opera North); Ulysses (Grange); Violet (Aldeburgh Festival).

Phil Bateman

Musical Supervisor, Musical Director and Arranger

Previous Young Vic: Three Sisters, My Dad’s a Birdman, After Miss Julie, Vernon God Little, Human Comedy.

Currently Supervisor on Burlesque (Manchester/Glasgow).

Theatre as Musical Supervisor/Vocal Arranger includes: Once on this Island (Regents Park), Get Up Stand Up (Lyric, Shaftesbury), Our House (Cambridge), Made in Dagenham (Adelphi), I Can’t Sing! (Palladium), Imagine This (New London), One Love: The Bob Marley Musical (Birmingham Rep).

MD/Arranger includes: Local Hero (Edinburgh Lyceum), Man in the White Suit (Wyndhams), Bugsy Malone (Lyric Hammersmith/UK Tour), The Lorax (Old Vic/Toronto/Minneapolis), As You Like It (Regent’s Park), Present Laughter (Chichester Festival Theatre).

Original MD: Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace).

MD includes: Hello Dolly and Gigi (Regent’s Park), She Loves Me (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Miser (Garrick), Treasure Island (Kingston Rose), Piaf (Sheffield Crucible), Cinderella (Bristol Old Vic), Return to the Forbidden Planet (UK Tour).

Film as Singing Coach/Vocal Arranger includes: Kinky Boots, Cemetery Junction.

Television as Composer includes: Big Performance/Extreme School.

Ben McQuigg

Associate Musical Director

Ben trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts after graduating in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southampton.

Theatre as Music Director includes: The Power of Camelot (BYMT, Exeter Northolt Theatre); Love’s Labour’s Lost, Cymbeline (RSC); Before After (Southwark Playhouse); The Box of Delights (RSC); Harry & Greta (BYMT Workshop, also Co-Arranger); Help We Are Still Alive! (Seven Dials Playhouse); Thrill Me (Jermyn Street Theatre); Cinderella (New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth and Palace Theatre, Newark).

As Assistant Music Supervisor: The Little Big Things (Soho Place Theatre).

As Assistant Music Director: Henry VI: Rebellion, Wars of the Roses (RSC).

As Rehearsal Pianist, Keyboard player and/or Music Assistant: The Little Big Things (Soho Place Theatre); Moulin Rouge! (Piccadilly Theatre), Waitress (UK Tour); Bedknobs and Broomsticks (UK Tour).

As Composer and/or Sound Designer includes: The Winter’s Tale (RADA); Hamlet - Next Generation (RSC); It’s Time (Tangled Feet); When This is Over (Yard Theatre).

Emma Laxton

Sound Designer

Emma trained at Central School of Speech and Drama and has been a Sound Designer for Theatre since 2003. She was the Deputy Head of Sound at the Royal Court from 2002 – 2007. She has also worked as a senior Sound Technician in the Olivier at the National Theatre and was Associate Sound Designer on War Horse in the West End.

Previous Young Vic: The Collaboration, Hamlet, Blood Wedding

Theatre includes: That Face, My Name is Rachel Corrie, Much Ado About Nothing, Emilia – Oliver Award for Best Sound Design (West End); The Collaboration (Broadway); Dancing at Lughnasa (National Theatre); Titus Andronicus, The Merry Wives of Windsor (RSC); Robin Hood, Antigone (Regent’s Park Open Air); Trouble in Butetown, The York Realist, The Recruiting Officer, Measure for Measure, Coriolanus (Donmar); Living Newspaper, A Kind of People, Superhoe (Royal Court).

Theatre as Associate Sound Designer: Equus (West End), A Christmas Carol (Old Vic), War Horse (West End).

Lizzi Gee

Choreographer 

Previous Young Vic: Twelfth Night, Vernon God Little.

Theatre as Director/Choreographer: The Lightning Thief (The Other Palace).

Theatre as Choreographer: Groundhog Day (Old Vic / Melbourne), Here You Come Again (Leeds/UK Tour), A Christmas Carol (Broadway/Old Vic/San Fran/ Melbourne/US Tour), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Old Vic), Little Shop of Horrors (Regents Park), Jack Absolute Flies Again, A Pacifist Guide to the War on Cancer, Rocket to the Moon (NT), The Sound of Music, Present Laughter, Running Wild, Beauty and the Beast, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Goodnight Mr Tom (Chichester FT), The Madness of George III (Nottingham), Frost/Nixon (Sheffield), Sunshine on Leith (Dundee Rep), Dr StrangeloveSpitting Image,  Mother Goose, The Miser, Upstart Crow, The Man in The White Suit, Love Story, Daddy Cool, The Girls, Onassis, An Ideal Husband (West End).

Opera: HMS Pinafore, The Merry Widow, Iolanthe (ENO), Porgy and Bess (Grange Park), Hansel and Gretel (Regents Park/ENO), The Gods of The Game (Sky Arts).

Film: The Grinch (NBC/SKY), Pride (BBC/Pathè), Tap Boy, TicUnderpass (Shorts).

Lizzi is an Associate Artist of The Old Vic Theatre.

Will Stuart

Orchestration 

Will Stuart’s work as a Composer includes: Nye and The Corn is Green (National Theatre); Pygmalion (Old Vic); Noises Off (Haymarket); GOOD (Pinter).

As an Arranger and Orchestrator: My Neighbour Totoro (Barbican); The Drifters Girl (vocal arrangements, Garrick); Committee (Donmar); Guys and Dolls and The Band Plays On (Sheffield Crucible); Wicked (Theater Neue Flora).

Other credits as Arranger or Orchestrator 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.

As Musical Supervisor: The Secret Life of Bees (Almeida); The Drifters Girl (UK tour); and A Christmas Carol (Associate - Broadway).

As Musical Director: The Drifters Girl (Garrick); Standing at the Sky’s Edge (Sheffield Crucible); A Christmas Carol, Mood Music,The Divide (Old Vic).

David Gallagher

Orchestral Manager 

Previous Young Vic: Oklahoma! (also West End).

Theatre includes: Hadestown, Matilda, Dr Semmelweis, 42nd Street, Queen Anne, Girl From The North Country, and From Here To Eternity (West End); My Neighbour Totoro (RSC / Barbican); Groundhog Day, A Christmas Carol, Sylvia, Future Conditional, The Lorax, The Divide, Fanny and Alexander, The American Clock, Future Conditional, The Bridge Project (Old Vic); Cold War, The Secret Life of Bees, Tammy Faye, Spring Awakening (Almeida); White Christmas, Miss Saigon, She Loves Me, Guys and Dolls (Sheffield Crucible); Local Hero (Chichester / Royal Lyceum); Identical (Nottingham Playhouse / The Lowry); NHS The Musical (Plymouth Theatre Royal); The Wizard of Oz (Leeds Playhouse); Burlesque The Musical, The King and I, Bernadette Peters, Play Without Words (UK Tours).

Music Manager, National Theatre 2000 to 2010 and Royal Shakespeare Company 2010 to 2011. Projects with National Symphony Orchestra; AMFAR Cinema Against Aids Gala (Cannes Film Festival). 

Film includes: Robin Hood (Universal).

Heather Basten CDG

Casting Director 

Heather Basten CDG is a Royal Television Society nominated, English casting director for Film, TV & Theatre.

Previous Young Vic: Passing Strange, The Homecoming, Beneatha's Place.

Theatre includes: Barcelona (Duke of York's), Red Pitch (Soho Place), Shifters (Duke of York's), God of Carnage (Lyric Hammersmith), Every Leaf (Regent’s Park Open Air).

Film and television include: Dreaming Whilst Black (A24/BBC/Showtime), Speak No Evil (Universal Pictures/Blumhouse), Hoard (BBC Film).

Awards and recognition include: Royal Television Society Nominee 2023 for "Best Casting". Screen International ‘Star of Tomorrow’; BAFTA Breakthrough Artist; CDG Award Winner; CSA Artios nominee.

Angelica Rush

Associate Production Designer

Angelica is a Set and Costume Designer for live performance and film who trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Angelica is currently the Associate Designer for Anna Fleischle

Theatre includes: A Child of Science (Costume Designer, Bristol Old Vic), Eclipse (Winner of the APDG Emerging Designer 2023, NICA), ONEIRIC (National Institute of Circus Arts), Cactus (Costume Designer, La Mama), After Mrs Rochester (RCSSD). 

Film includes: SLANT (Art Director, Best Australian Film 2022 Monster Fest), Lacerate (Flickerfest International Short Film Festival,), Tadpoles (Internationale Winterthur Kurzfilmtagel).

Associate Design includes : Ghost Stories Australia (Atheneum), 2:22 A Ghost Story Australia (Her Majesty's Theatre), A Child of Science (Bristol Old Vic).

Aaliyah McKay

Jerwood Assistant Director

Aaliyah McKay is a Writer / Director from North London, Islington, known for her versatility across theatre and film.

Theatre as Assistant/Associate Director includes: Grenfell: In the words of survivors (National Theatre), Eureka Day (Old Vic Theatre), The Taxidermist Daughter (Chichester Festival Theatre), After the End (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Typical Girls (CleanBreak/Sheffield Theatres).

As Director: Prison Plaits (Tower Theatre), Barbecue (Guildford Theatre), Kemi From The Block (Theatre Peckham), Best Fit ( Blue Elephant Theatre), Essentially Black ( UK London Tour), The last days of Judas iscariot, DNA (Fourth Monkey), Voices from Prison (Clean Break),

Director/Writer: Mask (Fully Focused X Netflix), History on the Road (Cockpit Theatre X Poplar Union), Trio of Conviction (Feltham Prison, Downview Prison).

Writer/Assistant Producer: Big Narstie Show (Channel 4).

Music Videos as Director: Man I Become, Harami, Trippi’n.

Films/Documentary as Director: Made in Africa, Loved by the world Documentary (Meta), Kings Documentary (ISG), No Second Chances, Lockdown Love.

Elodie Wilson

Jerwood Trainee Assistant Director

Elodie Wilson is a Director, Facilitator and Theatre Maker from South London. She recently graduated this year from Warwick University in Theatre and Performance Studies. Her main focus lies within devising, new writing, and she has a passion for musicals, and historical, political theatre. Elodie has directed shows that pay homage to multi-media, archival material, dance, physical theatre, music and spoken word. Local communities and students are at the forefront of her practice.

This is her first show with the Young Vic, and her first professional credit.

As Director: Cancelled (Arts One Theatre Festival) I Feel Love (Warwick Arts Centre) The Garland Complex (Warwick Arts Centre) Write to Rave (Warwick Arts Centre).