DMT Editorial 2017_04_JUN_JUL_Proof15

CREATIVES
JEZ BUTTERWORTH Writer
Theatre includes: The River (Royal Court/Broadway);
Jerusalem (Royal Court/West End/Broadway);
The Winterling, The Night Heron (Royal Court);
Mojo (Royal Court/West End); Parlour Song
(Atlantic Theater, NYC/Almeida).
Television includes: Britannia.
Film includes: Spectre, Black Mass, Get On Up,
Edge of Tomorrow, Fair Game and Birthday Girl.
Awards include: Olivier Award for Best Comedy
– Mojo; Paul Selvin Award – Fair Game; The E.M.
Forster Award; New York Critic’s Circle Award for
Best Foreign Play and Evening Standard Award
for Best Play – Jerusalem.
SAM MENDES Director
Sam Mendes founded and ran the Donmar Warehouse
for ten years. He was the first Artistic Director of the
Minerva Theatre in Chichester and the founding
director of The Bridge Project and Neal Street
Productions. His work has been seen at the National
Theatre, the RSC, the Royal Court, the Old Vic,
the Young Vic, in the West End and on Broadway.
Film includes: American Beauty, Road to Perdition,
Jarhead, Revolutionary Road, Away We Go, Skyfall
and Spectre.
Awards include: Academy Award for Best Director,
BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film, Golden
Globe Award for Best Director, Tony Award for Best
Direction of a Musical, Olivier Award for Best Director,
the Olivier Special Award, Evening Standard Award for
Best Director, Empire Inspiration Award, Empire Award
for Best British Director, Director’s Guild of America
Award, and the Shakespeare Prize. He has also won
the Director’s Guild Award for lifetime achievement.
ROB HOWELL Designer
Theatre includes: Simpatico, Hard Fruit, Real Classy
Affair (Royal Court); Groundhog Day (& Broadway),
The Caretaker, The Master Builder, The Lorax, Future
Conditional, A Flea in Her Ear, Inherit the Wind, The
Norman Conquests (& Broadway), Speed-the-Plow,
Complicit (Old Vic); The Observer, Her Naked Skin, The
Reporter, Buried Child, Chips with Everything, Troilus and
Cressida, Money, Battle Royal, Howard Katz (NT); Matilda
the Musical (& West End/Broadway), The Shakespeare
Review, The Painter of Dishonour, Little Eyolf, Richard III,
The Family Reunion (RSC); Tartuffe, The Government
Inspector, Vassa, Conversations After a Burial, Lulu (&
Kennedy Center, Washington), Faith Healer, Hedda
Gabler (& West End), The Lady from the Sea (Almeida);
Fathers and Sons, Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Habeas
Corpus, The Fix, How I Learned to Drive, True West,
The Glass Menagerie (& West End), Proof (Donmar
Warehouse); Stephen Ward, Deathtrap, The Prisoner of
Second Avenue, Private Lives, Tom and Clem, Tell Me
on a Sunday, Ghost the Musical (& Broadway/Palace,
Manchester), The Caretaker, The Graduate (& Broadway/
international tour), Our House, Endgame, Bash, Boeing
Boeing (& Broadway), Lord of the Rings, The Last
Cigarette (West End); Sunset Boulevard (UK tour);
True West (Circle in the Square, New York); Little Malcolm
and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (& West End),
Wild Honey (Hampstead); Betrayal (Theatre de l’Atelier,
Paris/Broadway); Simply Heavenly (Young Vic); Long
Day’s Journey Into Night (Bristol Old Vic); Peter Pan (West
Yorkshire Playhouse); Julius Caesar (Royal Exchange).
Opera includes: The Turn of the Screw (Welsh National
Opera); Sophie’s Choice (ROH); Carmen, Werther, Manon
Lescaut (& The Festspielhaus, Baden Baden), The
Marriage of Figaro (The Metropolitan Opera, New York).
Awards include: Olivier Award for Best Set Design,
Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Musical and
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design –
Matilda the Musical; Olivier Award for Best Set Design
– Hedda Gabler; Olivier Award for Best Set Design –
Richard III, Troilus and Cressida, Vassa.
PETER MUMFORD Lighting Designer
Theatre includes: The Children, Escaped Alone (& BAM,
NYC), The Wolf from the Door, In the Republic of
Happiness, Circle Mirror Transformation, Jumpy (& West
End), Our Private Life, Sucker Punch, Drunk Enough
To Say I Love You? (& Public, NYC), The Seagull (&
Broadway), Love and Information (& Minetta Lane, NYC),
Dying City (Royal Court); 42nd Street, Stepping Out,
Mr Foote’s Other Leg, A Christmas Carol, Women on the
Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Donkey Heart, Stephen
Ward, Top Hat (West End); Bull (Young Vic); Little Eyolf,
Ghosts (& West End/BAM), Bakkhai (Almeida); Long Day’s
Journey Into Night (Bristol Old Vic); High Society, Other
Desert Cities (Old Vic); King Kong (Regent, Melbourne);
King Lear (Chichester Festival/BAM, NYC); Scenes from
an Execution, Bacchai (NT); Wild Honey, Wonderland,
The Last of the Duchess, Enlightenment (Hampstead).
Opera and dance includes: Faust (Vilnius City Opera);
Manon Lescaut, Werther, Madama Butterfly, Faust
(Metropolitan Opera, NYC); Andrea Chénier (Opera
North); Carmen (Royal Ballet/Carlos Acosta); The King
Dances, Faster, E=mc2, Take Five (Birmingham Royal
Ballet); Carmen (Miami City Ballet/Richard Alston); Ein
Reigen (Vienna State Ballet); Katya Kabanova (Boston
Lyric Opera); Manon Lescaut (Baden Baden); La Traviata
(Glyndebourne); The Damnation of Faust, Madame
Butterfly (ENO); Pelléas et Mélisande (Mariinsky).
Awards include: Olivier Award for Outstanding
Achievement in Dance – The Glass Blew In; Olivier
Award for Best Lighting Design – Bacchai; Knight of
Illumination Award – Sucker Punch; Helpmann Award for
Best Lighting and Green Room Award for Best Lighting
– King Kong; Sky Arts South Bank Award for Opera
nomination and RPS Award for Opera – The Ring.
Peter has directed and designed concert stagings of
The Flying Dutchman and The Ring Cycle for Opera
North. In addition to Peter’s lighting design work, he
also designed the sets for Dying City at the Royal Court
and Carmen at Miami City Ballet.
NICK POWELL Composer & Sound Designer
Theatre includes: X, Unreachable, The Mistress
Contract, The Nether (& West End), The Ritual Slaughter
of Gorge Mastromas, Talk Show, Narrative, Get Santa!
(co-creator), The Vertical Hour, The Priory, Relocated
(Royal Court); City of Glass (59 Productions/Lyric,
Hammersmith); Alice in Wonderland (Lyceum, Edinburgh);
Running Wild, Peter Pan, All My Sons, Lord of the Flies,
The Crucible (Regent’s Park Open Air/UK tour); The
Tempest (Norfolk and Norwich Festival); The Haunting
of Hill House (Liverpool Playhouse); Lanark: A Life in
Three Acts (Citizens/Edinburgh International Festival);
Wolf Hall/Bring Up the Bodies (RSC/West End/
Broadway); Dunsinane (RSC/tour); 27, The Wheel,
The Wonderful World of Dissocia (National Theatre of
Scotland/Edinburgh International Festival); Of Mice and
Men (Birmingham Rep/tour); Show 6 – Secret Theatre
(Lyric, Hammersmith/Edinburgh Festival Fringe);
Othello (NT); A Life of Galileo, Richard III, The Drunks,
God in Ruins (RSC); Urtain, Marat-Sade, Los Macbez