Cast
David Angland
Joey
David trained at East 15 Acting School BA Acting.
Theatre: The Pillowman (The Duke of York’s Theatre); Doctor Faustus (Southwark Playhouse); My Life as a Cowboy (Park Theatre); The Nobodies (The Vaults/UK Tour); At Last (The Lion & Unicorn), The Bevin Boys (Pentameters Theatre), The Moment Before An Explosion (Ovalhouse). Lord of the Flies (Greenwich Theatre), A Fat Man’s Wife, (Pentameters Theatre), Testament (The Hope Theatre/UK Tour).
TV: Pistol (Danny Boyle, Disney+/FX), Masters of the Air (Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck, Apple TV). The Devil’s Hour (Isabelle Sieb & Johnny Allan, Amazon Prime). Everything Now, (Dionne Edwards, Netflix).
Joe Cole
Lenny
Theatre includes: The Knowledge (Bush Theatre).
Television includes: Nightsleeper (BBC); A Small Light (Disney+); Gangs of London (SKY); The Ipcress File (ITV); Unsaid Stories (ITV); Pure (HBO Max); Black Mirror (C4/Netflix), Peaky Blinders (BBC/Netflix), Playhouse Presents (Warp Films); The Hour (BBC); The Thick of It (BBC); Skins (C4); Injustice (ITV); Come Fly with Me (BBC); Holby City (BBC); The Bill (BBC).
Film includes: The Damned; The Actor; Against the Ice; One of These Days; Happy New Year, Colin Burstead; Thank You For Your Service; Woodshock; Eye on Juliet; A Prayer Before Dawn; Secret in Their Eyes; Green Room; Pressure; Peterman; The Falling; A Long Way Down; Now Is Good; Offender.
Short Films includes: Callows & Sons; Slap; Volume; Assessment.
Lisa Diveney
Ruth
Training: Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Theatre includes: Salt (Theatre 503), Tremor (Sherman Theatre/59E59 New York); The Seagull (Regent’s Park); Donkey Heart (Trafalgar Studios/Old Red Lion); Old Vic Gala (Old Vic); The Hypochondriac (Theatre Royal Bath/UK tour); Parallel Lines (Dirty Protest); Aristocrats, The Glass Menagerie (Clwyd Theatr Cymru); Moonlight, John Gabriel Borkman (Donmar Warehouse); A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky (Lyric Hammersmith); Greta Garbo Came To Donegal (Tricycle); Natural Selection, Carrot (Theatre 503); Arms and the Man (Salisbury Playhouse); Cleansed, Gompers (Arcola).
Television includes: Whitstable Pearl, Harlots, Grantchester, Call the Midwife, Injustice, New Tricks, Enid, The Green Green Grass (Series 1-3) and Broken News.
Short Film includes: Manchego (Aesthetica, Dam Short Film Festival); Lorraine (Edinburgh International Film Festival & Rushes Soho Short Film Festival); Park Close (LA Shorts Fest & Mexico International Film Festival).
Lisa has worked extensively as a voice over artist.
Robert Emms
Teddy
Theatre includes: Ravens (Hampstead Theatre); Warhorse (West End); The Glee Club (Manchester Library Theatre); The Six Days World (Finborough Theatre).
Television includes: Star Wars: Andor (Disney); Chernobyl (HBO); The Reckoning, Happy Valley, Four Lives, Atlantis, Gunpowder, His Dark Materials, Capital, War of the Worlds, The Living and the Dead, The Street, The Wrong Door, Waking The Dead (BBC); Cleaning Up, Scott and Bailey (ITV).
Film includes: Starve Acre, Apostasy, Broken, Borg Vs McEnroe, This is Christmas, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Kick Ass 2, The Selfish Giant, Mirror Mirror, War Horse, Anonymous, The Arbor.
Upcoming television: Sherwood 2, Kaos.
Jared Harris
Max
Theatre includes: A Period Of Adjustment (Almeida), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Playhouse), Hamlet (NJ Shakespeare Festival), Humble Boy (Theatre for A New Audience, NYC), More Lies About Jerzy (The Vineyard, NYC), Ecstasy (The New Group, NYC) King Lear, Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 (NY Shakespeare Festival), Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, A Clockwork Orange, & The Silent Woman (RSC).
Television includes: Chernobyl (HBO), The Terror (AMC), The Crown (Netflix), Mad Men (AMC), & The Two Of US (VH1).
Film includes: Lincoln, Sherlock Holmes A Game of Shadows, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Happiness, & I Shot Andy Warhol.
Animation: The Sea Beast, The Boxtrolls.
Upcoming films: Brave The Dark, & Reawakening.
Nicolas Tennant
Sam
Previous Young Vic: Action.
Theatre includes: The Ocean at the End of the Lane, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime (West End), The Power of Yes, The U.N. Inspector, The Associate, The Blue Ball (National Theatre); Valued Friends (Kingston Rose Theatre); The Duchess of Malfi, All's Well That Ends Well, As You like It, Hamlet, Taming Of The Shrew, King Lear (RSC); The Seagull, Three Kingdoms (Lyric Hammersmith); The Alchemist, Dr Faustus (Liverpool Playhouse); Tiger Country, Love Me Tonight (Hampstead Theatre), Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (Hampstead Theatre/West End); The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Liverpool Everyman/Chichester); Piranha Nights, Roaring Trade (Soho Theatre); Romeo & Juliet (Middle Temple); People At Sea (Salisbury Playhouse); Dead Funny (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Members Only (Trafalgar Studio); Under The Black Flag (The Globe); Caucasian Chalk Circle (Tour/RNT); Teeth 'n' Smiles, Cloud 9 (Sheffield Theatre); Herons (Royal Court); Comedians (Oxford Stage); A Christmas Carol, The Recruiting Officer (Chichester Festival Theatre); Les Justes (Gate Theatre); Sugar, Sugar, Love & Understanding, Bad Company (Bush Theatre).
Television includes: Casualty (BBC), Peaky Blinders (BBC); The Bill (ITV); Terry Pratchett's Hogfather, Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic (SKY); The Residents (BBC), Backup (BBC) Nice Town (BBC).
Film includes: Denial, Breaking The Bank, What You Will, Sex Lives Of The Potato Men, Tube Tales 'Monday Morning’, Oscar & Lucinda, Backbeat, A Dangerous Man, The Fool, The Gift.
Creatives
Harold Pinter
Writer
Harold Pinter was born in London in 1930. He lived with Antonia Fraser from 1975 until his death on Christmas Eve 2008. (They were married in 1980).
Theatre as playwright includes: The Birthday Party, The Dumb Waiter, A Slight Ache, The Hothouse, The Caretaker, The Collection, The Lover, The Homecoming, Old Times, No Man’s Land, Betrayal, A Kind of Alaska, One For The Road, The New World Order, Moonlight, Ashes to Ashes.
Theatre as director includes: Exiles, Oleanna, Celebration, The Room.
Screenplays include: The Pumpkin Eater, The Servant, The Go-Between, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Sleuth.
Awards include: the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Companion of Honour for services to Literature, the Legion D’Honneur, the European Theatre Prize, the Laurence Olivier Award and the Moliere D'Honneur for lifetime achievement. In 1999 he was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature.
Matthew Dunster
Director
Matthew Dunster is a theatre and film director and writer. He was born and raised in Oldham and now lives in South East London. Previously an actor, he has directed or written over sixty shows, often with major national companies (including RSC, NT, Royal Court, Young Vic, Royal Exchange, Shakespeare’s Globe, The Bridge), as well as directing on the West End, Broadway and internationally. He has been the Associate Director of The Young Vic and Shakespeare's Globe.
Most recent theatre includes: 2:22 A Ghost Story which has been running in the West End since August 2021, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the inaugural production at the new Shakespeare North Playhouse, Shirley Valentine, and The Pillowman at The Duke Of Yorks.
Matthew has been nominated for three Olivier Awards and his Broadway production of HANGMEN was nominated for five Tony’s.
Moi Tran
Designer
Moi is a multi-disciplinary artist, performance maker, set and costume designer. She is founder of East Asian Ticket Club, an engagement platform for the ESEA people.
Previous Young Vic: Chasing Hares
Theatre includes: Corrina Corrina (Headlong/Liverpool Everyman); Rare Earth Mettle, White Pearl (Royal Court); Raya, Deluge (Hampstead); The Letters Project, Dear Elizabeth (Gate); In the Blood (Donmar); Chiaroscuro (Bush); Summer Rolls (Park); Under The Umbrella (Belgrade); Bandages (Corn Exchange /UK Tour); Tamburlaine (Arcola); The Manual Oracle (Yard); The Jewish Wife (BAC).
Art includes: Civic Sound Archive (PEER); Sign Chorus (National Archives); Shy God A Chorus (SPILL); Art Inside Out (GIBCA); SHY GOD Chapter Một (Chisenhale); I love a broad margin to my life (Yeo Workshops); The Bolero Effect (Hanoi/British Council); Civic Voice Archive (The National Archives Fund/UEL).
Dance includes: The Circuit (Prague Quadrennial); Beats’n’Shine (MUDAM); Human Wall (V&A); Temporality in a Cut (Display Gallery).
Sally Ferguson
Lighting Designer
Previous Young Vic: Tribe
Recent theatre credits include: Sam and Her Amazing Book Of Dinosaurs (HKCC, Hong Kong Ballet), Faustus; That Damned Woman (Storyhouse), Dick Whittington (Nottingham Playhouse), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare North Trust), Favour, An Adventure, Strange Fruit (Bush Theatre), Brief Encounter (Stephen Joseph Theatre), Aladdin (Lyric Theatre Hammersmith Ltd), Mum (Theatre Royal Plymouth and Soho Theatre), The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre), The Offing (Stephen Joseph Theatre), Anything Is Possible If You Think About It Hard Enough, Floyd Collins (Southwark Playhouse), Two (New Vic Theatre), Pippi Longstocking (Royal & Derngate), The Last King Of Scotland (Sheffield Crucible), The Importance of Being Earnest (Watermill Theatre), Snow White (The Wrong Crowd), End of the Pier, Honour, Building the Wall (Park Theatre), Carmen the Gypsy (Arcola Theatre), To See The Invisible (Aldeburgh Festival), Again (Trafalgar Studios), Richard III (Perth Theatre), 31 Hours (Bunker Theatre), Aladdin, Shiver, Lost in Yonkers (Watford Palace Theatre), Educating Rita (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch), While We’re Here (Farnham Maltings), Sweet Charity (Manchester Royal Exchange), Jess and Jo Forever (Orange Tree Theatre/Farnham Maltings), We Wait in Joyful Hope, And Then Come The Nightjars (Theatre 503), The Sleeping Beauties (Sherman Cymru), Hag, Microcosm, The Girl With The Iron Claws (Soho Theatre).
George Dennis
Sound Designer
Previous Young Vic Further Than The Furthest Thing, The Island (Young Vic), The Mountaintop (Young Vic/Royal Exchange Manchester/UK tour)
Other theatre includes: Lemons x 5, The Seagull, The Homecoming (Olivier Award nomination for Best Sound Design), The Importance of Being Earnest, A Slight Ache/The Dumb Waiter, The Lover/The Collection, One for the Road/A New World Order/Mountain Language/Ashes to Ashes (West End); The Effect, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Nine Night (also West End), An Octoroon (also Orange Tree) (National Theatre); Clyde's, Sweat (Donmar Warehouse); The Duchess of Malfi, Three Sisters (Almeida Theatre); Mom, How Did You Meet The Beatles, Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads, The Deep Blue Sea, The Norman Conquests (Chichester Festival Theatre); Straight Line Crazy (also New York), The Southbury Child (also Chichester Festival Theatre), Two Ladies, A Very Very Very Dark Matter (Bridge Theatre); Venice Preserved (Royal Shakespeare Company); Mary Stuart, The Beacon (Staatstheater Stuttgart); Glee & Me (Royal Exchange); Talent, Frost/Nixon, Tribes (Crucible Theatre); An Unfinished Man (Yard Theatre); Hedda Tesman, Richard III, Spring Awakening (Headlong); Much Ado About Nothing, Imogen, The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare’s Globe); Harrogate, Fireworks, Liberian Girl (Royal Court); Guards at the Taj, Visitors (Bush Theatre); That Face (Orange Tree Theatre); Killer (Off-West End Award for Best Sound Design), The Pitchfork Disney (Shoreditch Town Hall. Co-designed with Ben and Max Ringham); Faces in the Crowd, The Convert, In the Night Time, Eclipsed (Gate Theatre).
Heather Basten CDG
Casting Director
Heather Basten is an English casting director based in London for Film, TV & Theatre.
Previous Young Vic: Beneatha's Place
Theatre includes: Red Pitch (Bush Theatre); God of Carnage (Lyric Hammersmith); Every Leaf A Hallelujah (Regent’s Park Open Air), Flip (Soho Theatre).
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.
Hazel Holder
Voice and Dialect Coach
Hazel Holder is a Voice & Dialect coach, Actor and Voice Associate for the National Theatre.
Previous Young Vic: Mandela, Best of Enemies, Changing Destiny, Fairview, Death of a Salesman, The Convert, The Mountaintop, The Emperor.
Theatre includes: Death of England: Closing Time, Grenfell: in the words of survivors, The Crucible, Rockets and Blue Lights, Death of England: Delroy, Death of England, Small Island, Nine Night, Barber Shop Chronicles, Angels in America, Les Blancs and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (National Theatre); Clydes, A Dolls House; Part 2, Marys Seacole, Constellations (Donmar Warehouse); Mlima’s Tale, Retrograde, Wife of Willesden, Pass Over and The Father (Kiln Theatre); Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner, ear for eye, A Kind of People (Royal Court); Jitney (Old Vic); August in England (Bush Theatre); Richard II (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse); Sunset Boulevard, The Glass Menagerie, 2:22, To Kill a Mockingbird, C*ck, Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical, Uncle Vanya, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Dreamgirls (resident director) and The Goat or Who is Sylvia? (West End).
Television includes: Silo, The Power, The Baby, Small Axe, The Anansi Boys.
Film includes: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Aisha, The Silent Twins, ear for eye, Death on the Nile.
Kev McCurdy
Fight Director
Kev is an Equity Registered Fight Director of 24 yrs & co-founder of The Academy of Performance Combat.
Previous Young Vic: Mandela, Barbarians, Hamlet, Nora- A Doll’s House, Things Of Dry Hours.
Theatre & Opera includes: Sister Act; Les Misérables (Sondheim Theatre); Phantom of The Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre); Bajazet (INO tour); Carmen, The Barber Of Seville (Garsington Opera); Billy Elliot (UK tour); O Island; Ivy Tiller: Squirrel Killer, The Tempest; (RSC); Jitney (Old Vic); Red Pitch (Bush Theatre); Guardians of The Galaxy (Secret Cinema); Trouble In Butetown (Donmar Warehouse); Brokeback Mountain (Soho Place); The Wizard Of Oz (London Palladium); Othello (National Theatre); Tambo and Bones (Stratford East)
TV & Film includes: The A List S2 (Netflix); John Carter Of Mars (Walt Disney / Pixar); Protein, Scopophobia (Broadside Films); The Lady Of Heaven (Enlightened Kingdom)
Directing: The Saliva Milkshake; The Glass Menagerie; Making of a Motherer; Jekyll And Hyde The Musical
Charlotte Broom
Choreographer
Charlotte Broom enjoyed a 25-year career as a ballet and contemporary dancer. She was principal artist at Northern Ballet Theatre and Cullberg Ballet, Sweden, and also performed in numerous productions at the Royal Opera House, Sadlers Wells and in the West End. Charlotte is co-founder and artistic director of HeadSpaceDance (Critic’s Circle National Dance Award for Best Independent Company 2017) She is rehearsal director for Ballet Black.
Theatre as movement director and choreographer: Comedy of Errors, Love’s Sacrifice (RSC); Oedipus (Tokyo Bunkamura); The Sum, Twelfth Night, The Misanthrope, Sweeney Todd (Liverpool Everyman/ Liverpool Playhouse); Juno and the Paycock (Liverpool Everyman/ Bristol Old Vic); Home, I’m Darling (National Theatre/ West End/UK tour); Richard II, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, Secret Theatre, The Lightning Child, (Shakespeare’s Globe); Nell Gwynn (ETT/ Shakespeare’s Globe/UK tour/ West End); A Very Very Very Dark Matter (Bridge Theatre); The Seagull, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park); The Country Wife (Chichester Festival Theatre).
TV includes: Humans and So You Think You Can Dance (assistant choreographer)
Yarit Dor
Intimacy Director
Yarit is an IDC certified intimacy director & intimacy coordinator, fight director, movement director.
Previously for Young Vic: Second Woman, Death Of A Salesman (also West End), Changing Destiny and Wild East.
Theatre includes: Hamilton (West End), The Glass Menagerie (West End); The Shark Is Broken (West End); Rockets and Blue Lights (National Theatre); “Daddy” A Melodrama (Almeida Theatre); A Strange Loop (Barbican); Black Superhero, This Is Not Who I Am, Purple Snowflakes and Titty Wanks (Royal Court), The Band’s Visit, Love & Other Acts Of Violence (Donmar Warehouse); The Merchant of Venice; Richard II; Hamlet; As You Like It; Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare’s Globe); Old Bridge, Strange Fruit (Bush Theatre), The Crucible, An Unfinished Man, Dirty Crusty (The Yard); Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act, Last Easter (Orange Tree Theatre).
Dance credits include: Rooms, Peaky Blinders (Rambert Dance Company); The Burnt City (Punchdrunk).
Film/TV includes: Glass Onion: Knives Out Mystery; The Wheel Of Time; Shadow & Bone; Cheaters; Starstruck; Mood; Adult Material and Atlanta 3 amongst others.
Bellaray Bertrand-Webb
Jerwood Assistant Director
Bellaray is a theatremaker from London. This year she directed Sadhbh Malin’s play In Heat at Dublin Fringe Festival. Her debut play as a writer, Dog Shit also premiered at the Dublin Fringe Festival 2023. Bellaray graduated from the Playwriting MFA at The Lir, Trinity College Dublin in 2021.
This year she produced the Middle Child and Milk Presents production Modest, which toured around the UK and performed at The Kiln, London in July. Additionally, Bellaray is the producer for the Ireland tour of the poetry play The Perfect Immigrant.
Previously, Bellaray was a part of the StoneCrabs Young Directors program and has worked as Weft associate producer for the Dublin Fringe Festival and as an assistant producer at the Bridge Theatre, London.