DMT Editorial 2017_04_JUN_JUL_Proof15

The theatre’s extensive development activity
encompasses a diverse range of writers and
artists and includes an ongoing programme of
writers’ attachments, readings, workshops and
playwriting groups.
Twenty years of the International Department’s
pioneering work around the world means the
Royal Court has relationships with writers on
every continent.
Within the past sixty years, John Osborne,
Samuel Beckett, Arnold Wesker, Ann Jellicoe,
Howard Brenton, David Hare have started their
careers at the Court. Many others including Caryl
Churchill, Athol Fugard, Mark Ravenhill, Simon
Stephens, Debbie Tucker Green, Sarah Kane; and,
more recently, Lucy Kirkwood, Nick Payne, Penelope
Skinner and Alistair McDowall, have followed.
The Royal Court has produced many iconic plays
from Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem to Laura Wade’s
Posh and Martin McDonagh’s Hangmen. Royal Court
plays from every decade are now performed on
stage and taught in classrooms and universities
across the globe.
It is because of this commitment to the writer that
we believe there is no more important theatre in the
world than the Royal Court.
For more information about the Royal Court Theatre
and upcoming productions please visit
royalcourttheatre.com.
RUPERT GAVIN FOR
INCIDENTAL COLMAN
Throughout their history, Incidental Colman have
brought to audiences, productions that are different,
challenging or exceptional in terms of the sheer
quality of theatre, and ideally all three. Notable
productions or co-productions along the way have
included: multiple versions of An Evening with Gary
Lineker; all the theatre work of the comedian and
writer Arthur Smith; the West End production of
Shockheaded Peter; the original West End
appearance of the Right Size (Sean Foley and
Hamish McColl) in Do You Come Here Often?; Jez
Butterworth’s first play, Huge, and his subsequent
works, Jerusalem and Mojo; Matthew Bourne’s
Nutcracker!; the West End and Broadway transfers
of the recent Shakespeare’s Globe production of
Twelfth Night with Mark Rylance and Stephen Fry,
and the children’s science show Brainiac.
To date, this path has led to ten Olivier Awards
for their productions/co-productions, and only one
show being raided by police that led to arrests.
Current Coproductions include: Who’s Afraid of
Virigina Woolf?, The Ferryman, Dreamgirls and
Arthur Smith sings Leonard Cohen.
GAVIN KALIN PRODUCTIONS
Gavin Kalin Productions Ltd is a theatrical production
company that specialise in producing theatre in
the West End, on tour throughout the United
Kingdom and internationally.
Recent credits include: A Doll’s House (Duke of
York’s); The Ladykillers (Vaudeville); La Soirée
(Union Square, NY); The Pajama Game (Shaftesbury);
Neville’s Island (Duke of York’s); Let It Be (Garrick);
Million Dollar Quartet (UK tour); Tell Me on a Sunday
(UK tour); Impossible (international); Buried Child
(Trafalgar); Shrek The Musical (UK tour 2014-16/
2017-19), This House (Garrick); The Miser (Garrick);
The Philanthropist (Trafalgar); Crazy for You
(UK tour); Hamlet (Pinter); The Ferryman (Gielgud).
In 2016 Gavin Kalin Productions raised finance and
invested into 30 separate UK based productions.
For information on investing in commercial theatre,
please visit gavinkalinproductions.com
Gavin is also the founder of Totally Theatre
Productions Ltd, a TV/Video production company
that specialise in producing Broadcast and online
content for theatre and live entertainment.
Clients are worldwide with many in the West End,
throughout the UK and on Broadway.
totallytheatreproductions.com
RON KASTNER
Ron Kastner has produced over 50 shows in
New York and London in the past 25 years.
He has been privileged to work with some of the
most talented people in the industry on both sides
of the Atlantic, and he’s supported many subsidized
and not-for-profit theatre companies along the way,
where the heart of great, original and
groundbreaking theatre still lies.
He has Tony Awards and Olivier Awards to his credit
for Sideman, The Real Thing, Hamlet and Spring
Awakening, and other memorable productions
include True West starring Philip Seymour Hoffman
and John Reilly, directed by Matthew Warchus,
and Gypsy on Broadway directed by Sam Mendes
(although each and every production is extremely
special when it happens). He is very happy to be
working again with Sam and Caro and all the folks
at Neal Street, and is in awe of Jez Butterworth’s
writing as exemplified in The Ferryman.
TULCHIN BARTNER PRODUCTIONS
Bob Bartner and Norman Tulchin together have
garnered 13 Olivier Awards, eight Tony Awards
and produced four Pulitzer Prize-winning plays.
Olivier Award-winning productions: Gypsy,
Sunny Afternoon, King Charles III, The Book of
Mormon, Chimerica, Merrily We Roll Along,
Sweeney Todd, Long Day’s Journey Into Night,
Clybourne Park, Legally Blonde, The Mountaintop,
La Cage aux Folles and Guys and Dolls. West End:
The Miser, Dreamgirls, Show Boat, The Dresser,
Farinelli and the King, The Nether, American Buffalo,
Electra, Jamie Lloyd’s Trafalgar seasons one and
two, 1984, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies,
The Bodyguard, The Weir and Mojo.
Tony Award-winning productions: A Raisin in the
Sun, Porgy and Bess, La Cage aux Folles, Memphis,
The Norman Conquests, Boeing Boeing, Company
and Anna in the Tropics (Pulitzer). Broadway: 1984,
Come From Away, Sweat, Six Degrees of Separation,
The Present, The Front Page, A View from the
Bridge, King Charles III, Wolf Hall, Fish in the Dark,
The Audience, The River, A Delicate Balance,
Disgraced (Pulitzer), This Is Our Youth, Richard III/
Twelfth Night, Betrayal, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,
Jerusalem, La Bête, Exit the King and Rock ‘n’ Roll.
Off-Broadway: The Flick (Pulitzer) and Wit (Pulitzer).
Mr Bartner thanks his family, especially M Beverly,
for their love and support.
Mr Tulchin is grateful for his wife Alice’s participation
in his theatre productions.