Oklahoma! programme
This is Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! as you’ve never seen it before, re-orchestrated and reimagined for the 21st century. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical, Daniel Fish's bold interpretation transfers to the Young Vic, direct from an acclaimed run on Broadway and a U.S. tour.
This is Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! as you’ve never seen it before, re-orchestrated and reimagined for the 21st century. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical, Daniel Fish's bold interpretation transfers to the Young Vic, direct from an acclaimed run on Broadway and a U.S. tour.
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‘GENTLEMEN<br />
– SHUT UP!’<br />
AUNT ELLER ACT 2 SCENE 1
THE BARD SUMMERSCAPE PRODUCTION OF<br />
CREATIVE TEAM<br />
IN ASSOCIATION WITH EVA PRICE, SONIA FRIEDMAN PRODUCTIONS, MICHAEL HARRISON<br />
MUSIC BY RICHARD RODGERS<br />
BOOK AND LYRICS BY OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II<br />
BASED ON THE PLAY “GREEN GROW THE LILACS” BY LYNN RIGGS<br />
ORIGINAL CHOREOGRAPHY BY AGNES DE MILLE<br />
CAST<br />
Ado Annie Carnes Marisha Wallace<br />
Ali Hakim Stavros Demetraki<br />
Andrew Carnes Greg Hicks<br />
Aunt Eller Liza Sadovy<br />
Cord Elam Ashley Samuels<br />
Curly McLain Arthur Darvill<br />
Gertie Cummings Rebekah Hinds<br />
Jud Fry Patrick Vaill<br />
Laurey Williams Anoushka Lucas<br />
Mike Raphael Bushay<br />
Will Parker James Davis<br />
Lead Dancer Marie-Astrid Mence<br />
Book, Music & Lyrics<br />
Rodgers &<br />
Hammerstein II<br />
Original Book<br />
Lynn Riggs<br />
Original Choreographer<br />
Agnes de Mille<br />
Director<br />
Daniel Fish<br />
& Jordan Fein<br />
Orchestrations &<br />
Arrangements &<br />
Co Musical Supervisor<br />
Daniel Kluger<br />
Choreographer<br />
John Heginbotham<br />
Co-Set Designer<br />
Laura Jellinek<br />
& Grace Laubacher<br />
Costume Designer<br />
Terese Wadden<br />
Lighting Designer<br />
Scott Zielinski<br />
Sound Designer<br />
Drew Levy<br />
Projection Designer<br />
Joshua Thorson<br />
Co Musical Supervisor,<br />
Vocal Arrangements<br />
Nathan Koci<br />
Musical Director<br />
Tom Brady<br />
Associate<br />
Choreographer<br />
Shelby Williams<br />
Associate Costume<br />
Designer<br />
Rachel Townsend<br />
Associate Lighting<br />
Designer<br />
Fiffi Thorsteinsson<br />
Associate Sound<br />
Designer<br />
Sam Lerner<br />
Associate Musical<br />
Director<br />
Huw Evans<br />
Dialect Coach<br />
Sam Lilja<br />
Assistant Director<br />
Nimmo Ismail<br />
Orchestral Manager<br />
David Gallagher<br />
Casting Director<br />
Jacob Sparrow<br />
Theatrical Handgun<br />
Consultant<br />
Ruth Cooper-Brown<br />
of Rc-Annie Ltd<br />
Singing Coach<br />
Mary King<br />
Company Stage<br />
Manager<br />
Kate Watkins<br />
Deputy Stage Manager<br />
Luke Chambers<br />
Assistant Stage<br />
Manager<br />
Catriona McHugh<br />
Assistant Stage<br />
Manager<br />
Leelah McEvoy<br />
Production Manager<br />
Sarah Barton<br />
Assistant Production<br />
Manager<br />
Esme Driscoll<br />
Production Assistant<br />
Maciek Zdobylak<br />
Original New York<br />
Consulting Producer<br />
Tamar Climan<br />
Production Electrician<br />
Sam McLeod<br />
Automation<br />
Programmer<br />
Craig Tye<br />
Automation Operator<br />
Ben Dootson<br />
Lighting Programmer<br />
Tamykha Patterson,<br />
Sam Ohlsson<br />
Very Special Thanks to Barbara Maier Gustern, 1935 – 2022<br />
Lighting Operator<br />
Luke Jackson<br />
Lead Production<br />
Sound Engineers<br />
Aidan Jones &<br />
Kyle MacPherson<br />
Production Sound<br />
Engineers<br />
Michael Paver,<br />
Joe Green,<br />
Callum Wills,<br />
Simon France,<br />
Dave Sorrell<br />
Sound No. 1<br />
Mat Williams<br />
Sound No. 2<br />
Mhairi Howison<br />
Sound No. 3<br />
Dylan Marsh<br />
Copyist<br />
Colin Rae<br />
Stage Crew<br />
Ben Dootson &<br />
Ryan Underwood<br />
Production<br />
Video Engineer<br />
Jake Stebbings<br />
Video Programmer<br />
Daberechi<br />
Ukoha-Kalu<br />
Costume Supervisor<br />
Zoë Thomas-Webb<br />
Costume Buyer<br />
Ellen Rey de Castro<br />
Hair and Makeup<br />
Supervisor<br />
Dominique Hamilton<br />
Assistant Costume<br />
Supervisor<br />
Annette Herold<br />
Maintenance Hair<br />
and Make Up Artists<br />
Fanny Burgos<br />
& Paul Burke<br />
Running Wardrobe<br />
Manager<br />
Maddie Bevan<br />
Dresser<br />
Anuccia Botto<br />
Laundry Technician<br />
Martina Porjesova<br />
Costume Makers<br />
Ann Sparks,<br />
Hilary Wili,<br />
Janna Bannon,<br />
Karen Smith,<br />
Laura Lejeune,<br />
Mai Fox<br />
Costume Maker<br />
and Alterations<br />
Edith Webb<br />
Textile Breakdown<br />
Artist<br />
Ysanne Tidd<br />
Head of Stage<br />
Craig Tye &<br />
Rhodri Sion Evans<br />
Deputy Head of Stage<br />
Rhodri Sion Evans<br />
& Jack Tosney<br />
Production Carpenters<br />
Rachel MacLoughlin,<br />
Nick Aldrich,<br />
Harvey Barker,<br />
Tom Salmon<br />
Prop Supervisor<br />
Lizzie Frankl<br />
for Propworks<br />
Associate Prop<br />
Supervisor<br />
Zoë Wilson for<br />
Propworks<br />
Prop Assistant<br />
Sophie Haliburn<br />
for Propworks<br />
Props by<br />
Propworks<br />
London Workshop<br />
Audio Described by<br />
Eleanor Margolies<br />
Audio Described<br />
and Captioned by<br />
Miranda Yates<br />
Set built by<br />
Bower Wood<br />
Production Services<br />
Scenic art by<br />
Richard Nutbourne<br />
Scenic Studio<br />
Rigging services by<br />
Rigging Team<br />
Tech equipment<br />
suppliers:<br />
LX:<br />
PRG<br />
Sound<br />
Orbital Sound Ltd.<br />
Communication<br />
Creative Technology<br />
Automation<br />
TAIT<br />
Video Equipment<br />
supplied by<br />
Universal Pixels<br />
Special Effects<br />
Bloody Stuff<br />
Special Effects<br />
Consultant<br />
J&M Special Effects<br />
Transport provided by<br />
Paul Mathews<br />
Transport and React<br />
Transport Services<br />
Ltd.<br />
Special thanks to: Despina Tsatsas, Holly Aston, Donna Munday, Rebecca Gold, Diane Benjamin, David Nock, Josh Altman, Jake Hine, David Richards, Rachel Wingate,<br />
Danielle Karliner Nash, Jennifer Weber, Ted Chapin, Victoria Traube, Sean Flahaven, Lili Giblin-McGrady at ENO, London Embroidery Studio.<br />
This production was originally developed, produced, and premiered at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College (Jeanne Donovan Fisher,<br />
Chair; Leon Botstein, President; Gideon Lester, Artistic Director; Bob Bursey, Executive Director; Caleb Hammons, Senior Producer) in July 2015.<br />
This production of <strong>Oklahoma</strong>! was subsequently developed and produced by St. Ann’s Warehouse and Eva Price at the Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Theater,<br />
Brooklyn, NY, Fall 2018.<br />
Stock and amateur rights for Rodgers & Hammerstein’s <strong>Oklahoma</strong>! are represented by Concord Theatricals on behalf of The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization<br />
www.concordtheatricals.co.uk<br />
Cover image: Art direction by Emilie Chen. Photography by Mads Perch.<br />
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Poster from the 1945 Boston Production of Carousel<br />
50 YEARS OF RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S<br />
GROUNDBREAKING MUSICALS<br />
After long and highly distinguished careers with other collaborators,<br />
Richard Rodgers (composer) and Oscar Hammerstein II (librettist/<br />
lyricist) joined forces to create the most consistently fruitful and<br />
successful partnership in American musical theatre. Between them,<br />
their stage shows and respective film adaptations have earned them<br />
42 Tony Awards, 15 Academy Awards, 2 Pulitzer Prizes, 2 Grammy<br />
Awards and 2 Emmy Awards Tony Awards, ushering in a new era<br />
of Broadway musicals.<br />
1943 CARMEN JONES<br />
OKLAHOMA! Rodgers & Hammerstein’s partnership<br />
begins with their first musical, <strong>Oklahoma</strong>!<br />
1944 Awarded Pulitzer Prize for <strong>Oklahoma</strong>!<br />
1945 CAROUSEL<br />
1947 ALLEGRO<br />
1949 SOUTH PACIFIC<br />
1950 Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Best Drama, South Pacific<br />
1951 THE KING AND I<br />
1949 Broadway production of South Pacific<br />
1953 Broadway production of Me and Juliet<br />
1952 Winner of Best Musical at Tony Awards, The King and I<br />
1953 ME AND JULIET<br />
1955 PIPE DREAM<br />
1957 CINDERELLA<br />
1958 FLOWER DRUM SONG<br />
1959 THE SOUND OF MUSIC The last musical before Hammerstein’s passing<br />
1965 Film adaptation of The Sound of Music won 5 Oscars, including Best Picture and Director<br />
1990 Broadway’s 46th Street Theatre renamed The Richard Rodgers Theatre<br />
1959 Broadway rehearsals of The Sound of Music<br />
1999 Rodgers & Hammerstein awarded a United States Postal<br />
Service stamp commemorating their partnership<br />
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Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.<br />
All images: (from the R&H Archives). Courtesy of The Rodgers<br />
& Hammerstein Organization / A Concord Company, www.rnh.com.<br />
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Photography by Anne Tetzlaff<br />
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THE COMPANY<br />
RAPHAEL BUSHAY<br />
MIKE<br />
Theatre includes: Red<br />
Riding Hood (Theatre Royal<br />
Stratford East); The Tempest,<br />
Henry V (Shakespeares<br />
Rose Theatre); Don Quixote<br />
(Royal Shakespeare Company); As You Like It (The<br />
Lamb Players); Peter Pan (Regents Park Open Air<br />
Theatre); Queen of Chapletown (West Yorkshire<br />
Playhouse); Roald Dahl’s ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’ (UK /<br />
UAE Tour) (NST / Lyric Hammersmith / Leicester<br />
Curve); Henry V (Regents Open Air Theatre);<br />
Kampala (The Miniaturists / Arcola Theatre)<br />
Television includes: Holby City (Series XVII).<br />
ARTHUR DARVILL<br />
CURLY McLAIN<br />
Previous Young Vic: Been<br />
So Long (Composer/MD).<br />
Theatre includes: Rare<br />
Earth Mettle (Royal<br />
Court); The Antipodes,<br />
Treasure Island (National Theatre); Sweet Charity<br />
(Donmar); Once (Broadway and West End);<br />
Genesis INC. (Hampstead); Hir (Bush Theatre);<br />
Elevenses/Beginning To End (Somerset House);<br />
Our Boys, Swimming With Sharks (West End);<br />
Marine Parade (Brighton Festival); Doctor Faustus<br />
(Globe); White Rabbit Red Rabbit (Gate); Is<br />
Everyone OK? (Nabokov); Stacey (Arcola); Terre<br />
Haute (Edinburgh Fringe/West End/Tour).<br />
Television includes: Grace (ITV); DC’s Legends of<br />
Tomorrow (CW); World on Fire (BBC), Danny &<br />
the Human Zoo (Red Prod), Broadchurch (Kudos/<br />
ITV), Dr Who (BBC); The White Queen (BBC),<br />
The Paradise (BBC), Little Dorrit (BBC), He Kills<br />
Coppers, The Verdict.<br />
Film includes: Fairytale Sect; Robin Hood;<br />
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll; Pelican Blood.<br />
Short Film includes: Crazy for you; Captcha;<br />
In Wonderland; Bertie; People You May Know.<br />
Radio/Audio includes: Burning Both Ends,<br />
Gulliver’s Travels, The Sandman, Frankenstein,<br />
The Tales of Max Carrados, Good Omens.<br />
Music credits include: Been so Long (Young Vic/<br />
Traverse/Netflix); I want my hat back (National);<br />
Frontline, Lightning Child (Globe); Artefacts<br />
(Bush); Stoopud Fucken Animals (Traverse).<br />
JAMES DAVIS<br />
WILL PARKER<br />
Young Vic and UK debut.<br />
New York theatre includes:<br />
<strong>Oklahoma</strong>! (Theatre<br />
World Award recipient for<br />
“breakthrough performance”<br />
on Broadway, also at St. Ann’s Warehouse & Bard<br />
Summerscape); The House of Blue Leaves<br />
(Broadway); We Are Proud to Present a<br />
Presentation...(Soho Rep); The Mother of<br />
Invention (Abingdon); The More Loving One<br />
(La MaMa ETC); and others.<br />
US regional theatre includes: Juliet Capulet<br />
in Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare Theatre<br />
Company); King Richard II in Richard II,<br />
Long Day’s Journey into Night, As You Like It<br />
(Quintessence Theatre Group, ensemble member);<br />
Clybourne Park (Long Wharf Theatre); American<br />
Buffalo (Studio Theatre); and others.<br />
Television includes: Search Party (HBO Max),<br />
The Tony Awards (CBS).<br />
Recording: The Grammy nominated cast album<br />
of <strong>Oklahoma</strong>!<br />
Training: The Juilliard School.<br />
STAVROS DEMETRAKI<br />
ALI HAKIM<br />
Theatre includes: Peter Pan<br />
(Birmingham Repertory<br />
Theatre); The Vote<br />
(Donmar Warehouse);<br />
Timon of Athens, Antigone,<br />
She Stoops To Conquer, The Kitchen (National<br />
Theatre); Adventures In Wonderland, Supermarket<br />
Shakespeare (Teatro Vivo); As You Like It<br />
(Dash Arts / Curve); Blood Wedding (Liverpool<br />
Everyman); By The Way (Chopped Logic);<br />
Gilgamesh (Belgrade Theatre / National Tour);<br />
Birds Without Wings (Eastern Angles).<br />
Television includes: Miss Scarlett & The Duke;<br />
Doctor Who; Tyrant; White Van Man; Doctors.<br />
Film includes: The Phantom Warrior; Hampstead;<br />
Risen; Dracula Untold; The Hope Rooms; Blush<br />
Furiously; The Simple Equation.<br />
Video Games includes: Assassins Creed Origins and<br />
Assassins Creed Odyssey.<br />
Rehearsed reading / workshop includes: Unknown<br />
Warriors (National Theatre Platforms); Breaking<br />
The Code (McCabe / Smith); Upstairs, Hamlet<br />
(National Theatre).<br />
REBEKAH HINDS<br />
GERTIE CUMMINGS<br />
Rebekah trained at Royal<br />
Central School of Speech<br />
and Drama.<br />
Theatre includes:<br />
What’s New Pussycat?<br />
(Birmingham Rep); Paradise (Hampstead); Much<br />
Ado About Nothing (Watford Palace); Grotty<br />
(The Bunker); Humble Boy (Orange Tree); Anita<br />
& Me (UK Tour); The Government Inspector<br />
(Birmingham Rep/Ramps on the Moon UK Tour<br />
– Olivier Award Nominated); Billy Liar (Royal<br />
Exchange); Around the World (Sadler’s Wells &<br />
Mint Theater, New York); The Little Prince –<br />
Concert (Savoy); Sondheim Prom (Royal Albert<br />
Hall).<br />
Television includes: Scarborough, Inside No. 9,<br />
The Syndicate (BBC); Trollied (Sky1); Shameless<br />
(Channel 4); Aunties, Stains of Staines (Pilot).<br />
Film includes: Who Fired That Cannon? (Collab<br />
Films); Shandyland (Northern Stage); The Public<br />
Benefits (Zoom Films); Woman of the Night<br />
(Badgerboy Productions).<br />
Radio includes: I heart Amy, Omega (Wireless);<br />
Animal Instinct (Audible); The Phlebotomist (BBC<br />
Radio 3).<br />
Rebekah won the Audience Favourite Award in the<br />
Musical Comedy Awards 2019 as half of comedy<br />
duo Maris Piper.<br />
GREG HICKS<br />
ANDREW CARNES<br />
Theatre includes: The<br />
Oresteia (NT); The Open<br />
House (Bath/Print Room);<br />
Richard III, The Kreutzer<br />
Sonata, Clarion (Arcola);<br />
Play Strindberg (Ustinov Studio); All’s Well<br />
That Ends Well, Hamlet, Little Eagles, Anthony<br />
& Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, A Winter’s Tale;<br />
King Lear (All for the RSC); Angels in America<br />
(Headlong); Venice Preserved (Citizens);<br />
Coriolanus (Old Vic); Critics Circle Award &<br />
Olivier nomination Best Actor.<br />
TV includes: Domina; Citizen Charlie; Burton<br />
& Taylor; The Bible; Midsomer Murders.<br />
Film includes: The Mercy; Snow White & the<br />
Huntsman.<br />
ANOUSHKA LUCAS<br />
LAUREY WILLIAMS<br />
Theatre includes: Henry<br />
V (Donmar Warehouse);<br />
After Life (National<br />
Theatre); Jesus Christ<br />
Superstar (Regent’s Park<br />
Open Air Theatre); Chiaroscuro (Bush Theatre);<br />
Faces in the Crowd (Gate Theatre); Sparks<br />
(Edinburgh Fest / Vault Festival).<br />
Radio includes: U.Me (BBC World Service).<br />
Film includes: Murder On The Orient Express<br />
(Dir. Kenneth Branagh); Been So Long (Dir.<br />
Tinge Krishnan).<br />
Recording work includes: Dark Soul (debut album).<br />
Composing work includes: Sparks (BBC Radio 4<br />
/ Edinburgh Festival / Vault Festival); The Ballad<br />
of Klook and Vinette (Park Theatre / NAMT<br />
Festival NYC); The Etienne Sisters (Theatre<br />
Royal Stratford).<br />
MARIE-ASTRID MENCE<br />
LEAD DANCER<br />
Theatre includes: Then<br />
Or Now, Table Talk, The<br />
Waiting Game, Courage,<br />
Like Water, Click,<br />
Pendulum, Captured,<br />
Washa, Ingoma, House Of Dream, The Suit,<br />
Red Riding Hood, Storyville, A Dream Within<br />
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Dépouillement,<br />
Tearfall, Melt, Mapping, Until Without Enough,<br />
Undivided Love.<br />
Television includes: Find me in Paris, L’Opera.<br />
Short films includes: The Uncomfortable Truth<br />
of Being a Black Ballerina, Like Water, Rising,<br />
The Waiting Game, Eightfold, Oranges.<br />
LIZA SADOVY<br />
AUNT ELLER<br />
Previous Young Vic: Annie<br />
Get Your Gun, The Good<br />
Soul of Szechuan, Six<br />
Characters Looking for<br />
an Author.<br />
Other theatre includes: Cabaret (KitKatClub<br />
at The Playhouse Theatre); Living Newspaper<br />
(Royal Court); Present Laughter (Old Vic); I’m<br />
Not Running, Absolute Hell, Tales from the<br />
Vienna Woods, The Heiress (National Theatre);<br />
Fiddler on the Roof (Chichester Festival Theatre);<br />
Pygmalion (Headlong); Wicked (Victoria Apollo);<br />
Oliver! (Sheffield Crucible); A Separate Reality<br />
(Royal Court); Mrs Klein (Northampton Theatre<br />
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THE BAND<br />
Royal. Winner of TMA Best Supporting Actress);<br />
La Bête (Comedy Theatre and Music Box Theatre<br />
New York); Sunday in the Park with George<br />
(West End and Menier Chocolate Factory); Secret<br />
Rapture (Bristol Old Vic); Richard II (Berkoff<br />
Productions); The Dresser and the British<br />
Premiere of Into The Woods (West End); Alice<br />
(RSC); The Slow Drag (Whitehall Theatre);<br />
Broken Glass (Manchester Library Theatre);<br />
Company (Donmar and West End); Sugar Hill<br />
Blues (Hampstead Theatre). Winner Olivier<br />
Award: best supporting actress in a musical.<br />
Television includes: Outlander, Ridley Road, Vera,<br />
Doctors, Babylon, EastEnders, The Honorable<br />
Woman, Emma, The Sarah Jane Adventures,<br />
Extras.<br />
Film includes: Kativta & Teresa, Disobedience,<br />
The Knot, Sweeney Todd.<br />
ASHLEY SAMUELS<br />
CORD ELAM<br />
Previous Young Vic:<br />
Fun Home.<br />
Other Theatre includes:<br />
Hairspray (London<br />
Coliseum); Sunset<br />
Boulevard (Royal Albert Hall); Taboo: 20th<br />
Anniversary (London Palladium); A Killer Party<br />
(Streamed Online); Cruel Intentions (Palais du<br />
Variété Spiegeltent, Assembly George Square<br />
Gardens); Night of the Living Dead – Live<br />
(Pleasance Theatre); Motown: The Musical<br />
(Shaftesbury Theatre); The Book of Mormon<br />
(Prince of Wales Theatre); The Toxic Avenger<br />
(Southwark Playhouse); The World Goes Round<br />
(Stephen Joseph Theatre); The Olivier Awards<br />
(Royal Opera House)<br />
Workshops: The Time Travellers Wife (Dominion<br />
Studios); The Monster Bride (Crazy Croqs); The<br />
Osmonds, Zombies, Pattie Shop Diaries (The<br />
Other Palace); Back to the Future: The Musical<br />
(American Church); Cult (Southwark Playhouse).<br />
Television includes: Sing On!; This Morning.<br />
Short film includes: FiveTwoSix.<br />
PATRICK VAILL<br />
JUD FRY<br />
Young Vic and UK debut.<br />
US Theatre includes:<br />
<strong>Oklahoma</strong>! (Broadway,<br />
St. Ann’s Warehouse, Bard<br />
SummerScape; (Drama<br />
Desk and Grammy Award Nominations); Macbeth<br />
(Lincoln Center Theatre); Peter Pan (Bedlam);<br />
Cabaret (National Tour, Roundabout Theatre<br />
Company); Edward II (Red Bull); Camelot,<br />
Othello, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, Henry V, Richard<br />
II, As You Like It, Mrs. Warren’s Profession<br />
(Shakespeare Theatre Company, DC); also work<br />
with Bay Street Theatre, Capital Rep, and others.<br />
Television includes: Dash & Lily.<br />
Film includes: Bleecker, Xmas In July, and short<br />
films The Lovers and Research.<br />
Voice includes: the Audible podcast series Hot<br />
White Heist.<br />
Education: MFA, NYU Graduate Acting Program<br />
(Laura Pels Award for Acting); BA from Bard<br />
College where he originated the role of Jud in<br />
Daniel Fish’s <strong>Oklahoma</strong>! as a student in its first<br />
iteration.<br />
MARISHA WALLACE<br />
ADO ANNIE CARNES<br />
Theatre includes:<br />
Hairspray (West End);<br />
Waitress (West End);<br />
Dreamgirls (West End &<br />
Broadway); Something<br />
Rotten! (Original<br />
Broadway Cast); Aladdin (Original Broadway<br />
Cast); Sistas! (Off Broadway); The Book of<br />
Mormon (National Tour); Aladdin (Toronto);<br />
<strong>Oklahoma</strong>!, One Night with Janis Joplin, RENT,<br />
Hair (US Regional).<br />
Television includes: Feel Good; Almost Never;<br />
Strictly Come Dancing; Dancing on Ice; The<br />
Royal British Legion’s Festival of Remembrance;<br />
The Royal Variety Show; Good Morning Britain;<br />
This Morning; Songs of Praise; Lorraine; The<br />
Tony Awards; Good Morning America.<br />
Film includes: Jingle Jangle; Aladdin: Live Action<br />
Movie; Disney’s Frozen Fever.<br />
Recording work includes: Tomorrow (debut<br />
album).<br />
RICHARD COLLINS<br />
BANJO<br />
Previous Young Vic: A Winter’s Tale.<br />
Other Theatre includes: The Round House (Chalk<br />
house Green), The Royal Shakespeare Theatre<br />
(Stratford-Upon-Avon).<br />
Recordings include: The Newgrass Cutters<br />
(Mowing down the groove); The Mandolinquents,<br />
Dance of the Comedians (The Mandolinquents);<br />
A Band Like Alice.<br />
History:<br />
Richard Collins has been a multi instrumentalist<br />
for over 20 years. Having played in many different<br />
musical genres from Bluegrass to Classical to Rock<br />
n Roll. Recently been touring with Jo Brown, The<br />
Newgrass Cutters and the Mandolinquents. Also<br />
recorded in Nashville and toured the USA playing<br />
the Banjo.<br />
NICKI DAVENPORT<br />
DOUBLE BASS<br />
Theatre includes: South Pacific (CFT); Dick<br />
Whittington (NT); Les Mis in Concert (Gielgud);<br />
Flowers for Mrs Harris (Sheffield Crucible and<br />
CFT); Hadestown (NT); Translations (NT);<br />
Pinocchio (NT); Twelfth Night (NT); Fiddler<br />
on the Roof (CFT); This is My Family (Minerva<br />
at CFT).<br />
Theatre deputy credits include: Cabaret<br />
(Playhouse); Les miserables (Sondheim);<br />
Phantom of the Opera (Queens); Aladdin<br />
(Price Edward).<br />
Orchestras include: BBCCO, RPO, Aurora, LCO,<br />
Mozart Players.<br />
SHANE FORBES<br />
DRUM KIT<br />
Shane Forbes is a session musician/composer.<br />
He is the co-founder of the multi award-winning<br />
group Empirical (MOBO, Urban Music Awards,<br />
Parliamentary Jazz Awards, Jazzwise) who tour,<br />
perform and record original music in the jazz<br />
idiom. The ethos of Empirical is about taking<br />
musical risks while keeping interaction as pure<br />
and as in the moment as possible. Shane is also an<br />
Educator at Middlesex University and Trinity and<br />
Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.<br />
Previous Young Vic: Nina (A story about Nina<br />
Simone).<br />
Other Theatre includes: Nina (A story about Nina<br />
Simone) (Sweden Tour, Edinburgh Fringe, UK<br />
Tour); The Legend of Mike Smith (The Albany<br />
Theatre, Birmingham Rep); Guys and Dolls (Royal<br />
Exchange Theatre); King (Hackney Empire);<br />
The American Clock (The Old Vic); Blues in the<br />
Night (Kiln Theatre); Guys and Dolls (Crucible<br />
Theatre); The Visit (National Theatre); NHS the<br />
Musical (Theatre Royal Plymouth); A Chorus Line<br />
(Leicester Curve Theatre).<br />
Television includes: BBC Proms 34 and 57;<br />
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans.<br />
Film includes: Diana.<br />
TOM GREEN<br />
MANDOLIN AND<br />
ELECTRIC GUITAR<br />
Previous Young Vic: The Scottsboro Boys.<br />
Other Theatre includes: Carousel (Regents Park<br />
Open Air Theatre); As You Like It (National<br />
Theatre Public Acts/Queens Theatre Hornchurch);<br />
Violet (Charing Cross Theatre); Chicago, Evita<br />
(Phoenix Theatre); In The Heights (Kings Cross<br />
Theatre); The Scottsboro Boys (Garrick Theatre);<br />
Cabaret (Savoy Theatre); Blood Brothers, Evita,<br />
Cabaret (UK Tour).<br />
Deputy Theatre credits include: Come From<br />
Away (Phoenix Theatre); Only Fools and Horses<br />
(Theatre Royal Haymarket); Cinderella (Gillian<br />
Lynne Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Royal Opera<br />
House); The Prince Of Egypt (Dominion Theatre);<br />
Half A Sixpence (Noel Coward Theatre); Whisper<br />
House (The Other Palace); RENT (St James<br />
Theatre); The Pajama Game (Shaftesbury<br />
Theatre); Top Hat (Aldwych Theatre); Cabaret<br />
(Lyric Theatre).<br />
Recordings include: Speakeasy (TAG productions);<br />
Em the Musical (Benjamin Till); The Scottsboro<br />
Boys (Original Westend cast recording); Broken<br />
Strings (TAG productions);Mandolin Swarm<br />
(Spitfire Audio).<br />
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CREATIVE TEAM<br />
KATHRYN JAMES<br />
VIOLIN<br />
DAVINA SHUM<br />
CELLO<br />
RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN II<br />
BOOK, MUSIC & LYRICS<br />
LYNN RIGGS<br />
ORIGINAL BOOK<br />
DANIEL FISH<br />
DIRECTOR<br />
JORDAN FEIN<br />
DIRECTOR<br />
Theatre includes: South Pacific, This is my Family<br />
Flowers for Mrs Harris, Caroline, or Change<br />
(Chichester Festival Theatre); The Bridges of<br />
Madison County (Menier Chocolate Factory);<br />
Young Frankenstein (Garrick Theatre); Much Ado<br />
/ Love’s Labour’s Lost (Chichester Festival Theatre<br />
& Haymarket Theatre); Showboat (Sheffield<br />
Crucible & Gillian Lynne Theatre); West Side Story<br />
(Sadler’s Wells); Love Story (Chichester Festival<br />
Theatre & Duchess Theatre).<br />
Deputy theatre credits include: The Phantom of the<br />
Opera, Cinderella, Moulin Rouge, Pretty Woman,<br />
Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Last Five Years,<br />
The Book of Mormon, Aladdin, Motown, Joseph,<br />
An American in Paris, Evita, On the Town and<br />
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.<br />
JP RUGGIERI<br />
PEDAL STEEL GUITAR, ELECTRIC/<br />
ACOUSTIC GUITAR<br />
Theatre includes: <strong>Oklahoma</strong>! (Circle In The Square<br />
Theatre, Broadway, NYC).<br />
JP has toured and/or recorded with such notable<br />
acts as: Charlie Hunter, Viktor Krauss (Robert<br />
Plant, Bill Frisell), Oliver Wood (The Wood<br />
Brothers), Jano Rix (The Wood Brothers), The<br />
Waterboys, Jools Holland, and David Ford. JP is<br />
also a touring singer/songwriter and is set to release<br />
his second album later this year. JPRuggieri.com<br />
Theatre includes: Spring Awakening (Almeida<br />
Theatre).<br />
Opera includes: The Silver Lake, Il Seraglio<br />
(English Touring Opera); Madame Butterfly (Iford<br />
Arts); La Traviata (Devon Opera); Il Trovatore<br />
(Winslow Hall Opera).<br />
Session and tour work: with ABC, Tony Hadley,<br />
Trevor Horn, Max Richter, Becky Hill, Celeste,<br />
Kate Simko and London Electronic Orchestra.<br />
Orchestra includes: Bournemouth Symphony<br />
Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,<br />
Manchester Camerata, Heritage Orchestra,<br />
Novello Orchestra, Southbank Sinfonia, Auckland<br />
Philharmonia Orchestra.<br />
After long and highly distinguished<br />
careers with other collaborators,<br />
Richard Rodgers (Composer,<br />
1902-79) and Oscar Hammerstein<br />
II (Librettist/Lyricist, 1895-1960)<br />
joined forces in 1943 to create<br />
the most successful partnership in<br />
American Musical Theatre. Prior to<br />
joining forces, Rodgers collaborated<br />
with lyricist Lorenz Hart on musical<br />
comedies that epitomized wit and<br />
sophistication (Pal Joey, On Your<br />
Toes, Babes In Arms, and more),<br />
while Hammerstein brought new life<br />
to operetta and created the classic<br />
Show Boat with Jerome Kern.<br />
<strong>Oklahoma</strong>!, the first Rodgers &<br />
Hammerstein musical, introduced an<br />
integrated form that became known<br />
as “the musical play.” Their shows<br />
that followed included Carousel,<br />
South Pacific, The King and I, and<br />
The Sound of Music. Collectively,<br />
the Rodgers & Hammerstein musicals<br />
have earned Tony, Oscar, Grammy,<br />
Emmy, Pulitzer, and Olivier Awards.<br />
The Rodgers & Hammerstein<br />
Organization is a Concord Company,<br />
www.rnh.com.<br />
(1899 -1954). Riggs was born in<br />
Claremore, <strong>Oklahoma</strong>, was the author<br />
of Green Grow the Lilacs, originally<br />
produced by the Theatre Guild in<br />
1931. Riggs, whose father was once<br />
a cowboy and whose mother was part<br />
Cherokee, often set his work in the<br />
Southwest, vividly depicting life in the<br />
Indian territory. He worked on several<br />
Hollywood films (The Plainsmen, The<br />
Garden of Allah and Sherlock Holmes<br />
in Washington) and wrote about 30<br />
plays (Roadside, Russet Mantle and<br />
The Cherokee Night). Riggs’ mother<br />
died when he was young and he was<br />
raised by his aunt and older sister. His<br />
beloved characters of Aunt Eller and<br />
Laurey were modeled after them.<br />
AGNES DE MILLE<br />
ORIGINAL CHOREOGRAPHER<br />
De Mille achieved fame both as a<br />
dancer and choreographer. Among<br />
her masterpieces are Rodeo, in which<br />
she danced, Fall River Legend and<br />
Three Virgins and a Devil. Miss<br />
de Mille changed the face of the<br />
American musical theatre with her<br />
choreography for <strong>Oklahoma</strong>!, which<br />
enjoyed a hit Broadway revival in<br />
1979, One Touch of Venus, Bloomer<br />
Girl, Carousel, Brigadoon, Gentlemen<br />
Prefer Blondes, Paint Your Wagon<br />
and other memorable shows. Miss<br />
de Mille directed and choreographed<br />
Allegro, The Rape of Lucretia, Out of<br />
This World and Come Summer, and<br />
she choreographed the film version<br />
of <strong>Oklahoma</strong>!.<br />
Daniel Fish is a New York-based<br />
director who makes work across<br />
the boundaries of theatre, film, and<br />
opera. He draws on a broad range of<br />
forms and subject matter including<br />
plays, film scripts, contemporary<br />
fiction, essays and found audio.<br />
His 2019 production of <strong>Oklahoma</strong>!<br />
transferred to Broadway from St.<br />
Ann’s Warehouse and won the Tony<br />
Award for Outstanding Musical<br />
Revival.<br />
Recent work includes: El Amor<br />
Brujo and The Diary 0f One Who<br />
Disappeared (Opera National du<br />
Rhin); White Noise (Ruhrfestspiele,<br />
Theater Freiburg, Skirball<br />
NYU); Michael Gordon’s opera,<br />
Acquanetta (Prototype Festival/<br />
Bard Summerscape); Don’t Look<br />
Back (The Chocolate Factory); Ted<br />
Hearne’s The Source (BAM NEXT<br />
WAVE, L.A. Opera, San Francisco<br />
Opera).<br />
His work has been seen at theatres<br />
and festivals throughout the US<br />
and Europe: The Walker Arts<br />
Center, Mass MOCA, Festival<br />
TransAmériques, Teatro Nacional D.<br />
Maria, Lisbon/Estoril Film Festival,<br />
amongst others. He is graduate<br />
of Northwestern University’s<br />
Department of Performance Studies<br />
and the recipient of the 2017 Herb<br />
Alpert Award in the Arts for the<br />
Theater. www.danielfish.net<br />
Jordan Fein is a London based<br />
Theatre and Opera director.<br />
Theatre includes: Rags Parkland<br />
Sings the Songs of the Future<br />
(Ars Nova Theatre: New York<br />
Times Best of 2018 and Lortel<br />
award for Outstanding New<br />
Musical); Singlet by Erin Markey<br />
(The Bushwick Starr); Indecent<br />
(Weston Playhouse); A Ride on<br />
The Irish Cream (Abrons Arts<br />
Center, ART); The Dixon Family<br />
Album (Williamstown Theatre<br />
Festival); Dracula, Or The Undead<br />
(Williamstown Theatre Festival);<br />
War Lesbian (Harunalee); Die<br />
Tote Stadt (Bard Summerscape);<br />
Dialogues of the Carmelites (Opera<br />
Philadelphia); The Skin of our<br />
Teeth (Bard College); The Rape of<br />
Lucretia (Curtis Opera Theater);<br />
The Marriage of Figaro (Curtis<br />
Opera Theatre).<br />
Associate Director and Director of<br />
The Prologue for Cabaret (The Kit<br />
Kat Club at the Playhouse Theatre);<br />
Associate Director for <strong>Oklahoma</strong>!<br />
(Bard Summerscape & Circle in<br />
the Square Theatre on Broadway).<br />
jordanfein.net<br />
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DANIEL KLUGER<br />
ORCHESTRATIONS<br />
& ARRANGEMENTS<br />
& MUSIC SUPERVISION<br />
Broadway theatre includes: The<br />
Sound Inside, Seawall / A Life, revival<br />
of Marvin’s Room, world premiere of<br />
Significant Other.<br />
Off-Broadway theatre includes:<br />
premieres of I Was Most Alive With<br />
You, Animal, The Village Bike, Man<br />
From Nebraska, Tribes, and Women<br />
or Nothing.<br />
Film scores include: A Chrismas Carol<br />
(2021), The Courtroom (2021), Duolo<br />
(2017), Health to the King (2020),<br />
Hello Again (2017, Orchestrations).<br />
In 2021 Kluger launched the music<br />
label Archie & Fox Records. www.<br />
danielkluger.com [danielkluger.com]<br />
JOHN HEGINBOTHAM<br />
CHOREOGRAPHER<br />
Born in Lakenheath, England and<br />
raised in Anchorage, Alaska, USA,<br />
John Heginbotham graduated from<br />
The Juilliard School (1993), and was a<br />
member of Mark Morris Dance Group<br />
(1998-2012). In 2011, he founded<br />
Dance Heginbotham, a contemporary<br />
dance company based in Brooklyn, NY.<br />
John is the Director of the Dartmouth<br />
Dance Ensemble and is on faculty at<br />
Dartmouth College. He is a founding<br />
teacher of Dance for PD®.<br />
Other Theatre includes: <strong>Oklahoma</strong>!<br />
(Bard Summerscape, St.Ann’s<br />
Warehouse, Broadway, US National<br />
Tour).<br />
Opera includes: John Adams’ Girls<br />
of the Golden West (San Francisco<br />
Opera, Dutch National Opera);<br />
Candide (Orlando Philharmonic,<br />
Ravinia Festival); The Magic Flute<br />
(Opera Theatre of St. Louis); Maria<br />
de Buenos Aires (Cork Opera House).<br />
Commissions include: The Juilliard<br />
School, The Washington Ballet,<br />
Atlanta Ballet, Ballet X, Works &<br />
Process at the Guggenheim, Vail<br />
International Dance Festival, The<br />
John F. Kennedy Center for the<br />
Performing Arts, Bard Summerscape,<br />
Lincoln Center Out of Doors,<br />
The Hopkins Center for the Arts,<br />
NCCAkron, Jacob’s Pillow Dance<br />
Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music,<br />
Baryshnikov Arts Center.<br />
LAURA JELLINEK<br />
CO SET DESIGNER<br />
Broadway theatre includes:<br />
<strong>Oklahoma</strong>! (Tony & Drama Desk<br />
Nominations, Obie award); Sea Wall /<br />
A Life; Marvin’s Room.<br />
Off-Broadway theatre includes:<br />
The Antipodes, Everybody (Signature<br />
Theatre); Buzzer (The Public); Mary<br />
Page Marlowe (2ST); Mary Jane<br />
(NYTW); Rags Parkland (Ars Nova);<br />
The Wolves, Queens (LCT); Heroes<br />
of the Fourth Turning, The Treasurer,<br />
Marjorie Prime (Playwrights<br />
Horizons); A Life (Playwrights<br />
Horizons, Lortel Award, Hewes<br />
Design Award); Small Mouth Sounds<br />
(Ars Nova, Signature Theatre,<br />
National Tour); The Debate Society,<br />
The Mad Ones.<br />
Opera includes: Opera Theatre of<br />
St. Louis, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera<br />
Philadelphia, Atlanta Opera.<br />
Other: Obie for Sustained Excellence<br />
in Design.<br />
Education: MFA, NYU.<br />
GRACE LAUBACHER<br />
CO SET DESIGNER<br />
Theatre includes: The Sound of<br />
Music (Virginia Opera / Virginia<br />
Arts Festival); La Bohème (Santa<br />
Fe Opera); The Barber of Seville<br />
(Opera Columbus); Glory Denied and<br />
Enemies, A Love Story (Kentucky<br />
Opera); Trayf (New Rep Theater,<br />
Boston); Four Woke Baes (Edinbugh<br />
Fringe); Dido and Aeneas (Juilliard<br />
/ Opera Royal, Versailles); Riders to<br />
the Sea and Empty the House (Curtis<br />
Institute, Philadephia).<br />
Television includes: Manifest<br />
(NBC); The Greatest Beer Run Ever<br />
(Skydance Media), Jigsaw (Netflix);<br />
Prodigal Son (Fox).<br />
Associate set design includes: KPOP<br />
(Broadway); <strong>Oklahoma</strong>! (Broadway<br />
& First US tour); Sea Wall / A Life<br />
(Broadway); Hans Zimmer Live<br />
European Tour (various); Merrily We<br />
Roll Along (Huntington Theater Co.,<br />
Boston).<br />
TERESE WADDEN<br />
COSTUME DESIGNER<br />
Theatre includes: <strong>Oklahoma</strong>!<br />
(Broadway, Touring, and St. Ann’s<br />
Warehouse); Cosi fan Tutte (Santa<br />
Fe Opera); Peter Pan (Bard<br />
Summerscape); A Quiet Place (Curtis<br />
Institute of Music), Acquanetta<br />
(Bard Summerscape and Prototype<br />
Festival); The Wake World (Opera<br />
Philadelphia).<br />
Opera includes: Il Farnace (Spoleto<br />
Festival USA); Dr. Atomic (Curtis<br />
Institute of Music); The Little Match<br />
Girl Passion (Perez Museum, Miami<br />
and Jack Shainman Gallery at The<br />
School, Kinderhook, NY); In The<br />
Penal Colony (Boston Lyric Opera);<br />
Pyramus and Thisbe (Canadian<br />
Opera Company); Orlando and<br />
Alcina(WhiteBox Art Center)<br />
Other: Glimmerglass Festival,<br />
Tanglewood, Lyric Opera of Chicago,<br />
Chicago Opera Theater, New<br />
York City Opera, Opera Colorado,<br />
Central City Opera, Portland Opera,<br />
Baryshnikov Arts Center, the Mark<br />
Taper Forum, Brooklyn Academy of<br />
Music, National Sawdust, LA Opera at<br />
RedCat, and the San Francisco Opera.<br />
Rome Prize Fellow at the American<br />
Academy in Rome 2020-2021.<br />
SCOTT ZIELINSKI<br />
LIGHTING DESIGNER<br />
Scott Zielinski lives in the U.S. and<br />
designs lighting for theater, dance,<br />
and opera throughout the world. In<br />
London his work has been seen at<br />
English National Opera, Institute of<br />
Contemporary Arts, LIFT Festival at<br />
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Lyric Theatre<br />
Hammersmith, National Theatre,<br />
Royal Court Theatre, and Royal<br />
Opera House. His designs at home<br />
include the Broadway productions of<br />
<strong>Oklahoma</strong>! and Topdog/Underdog as<br />
well as numerous other productions in<br />
New York as well as throughout many<br />
other cities in the United States.<br />
Productions outside the US: Adelaide,<br />
Amsterdam, Avignon, Beijing, Berlin,<br />
Edinburgh, Fukuoka, Gennevilliers,<br />
Hamburg, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Linz,<br />
Ljubljana, London, Lyon, Melbourne,<br />
Orleans, Oslo, Paris, Rennes,<br />
Reykjavik, Rotterdam, St. Gallen,<br />
Seoul, Singapore, Shanghai, Shizuoka,<br />
Stockholm, Taipei, Tokyo, Toronto,<br />
Vienna, Vilnius, and Zurich.<br />
DREW LEVY<br />
SOUND DESIGNER<br />
Broadway theatre includes: A Strange<br />
Loop; <strong>Oklahoma</strong>! (Tony nom., Drama<br />
Desk nom.); Honeymoon in Vegas<br />
(Drama Desk nom.); Chaplin (Drama<br />
Desk Award); The Winslow Boy; The<br />
Importance of Being Earnest; Present<br />
Laughter.<br />
Off-Broadway theatre includes:<br />
Judgment Day (Park Avenue<br />
Armory); <strong>Oklahoma</strong>! (St. Ann’s);<br />
Cleopatra; One Day the Musical;<br />
The Weir; Why Torture is Wrong...;<br />
Emergence-See!; Rainbow Kiss;<br />
Dutchman (AUDELCO Viv nom.).<br />
Regional theatre includes: The Old<br />
Globe, Heartbreak Hotel (Chicago),<br />
ART, Williamstown, Huntington,<br />
Westport Country Playhouse, Two<br />
River Theater, McCarter Theater,<br />
Arena Stage, Long Wharf.<br />
Other: Reconfiguration – An<br />
Evening with Other Lives at<br />
BAM; Drama Desk Awards 2014<br />
& 2015; Metropolitan Opera<br />
125th Anniversary Gala; Holiday<br />
installations for Saks 5th Avenue,<br />
Cartier, and others.<br />
JOSHUA THORSON<br />
PROJECTION DESIGNER<br />
Joshua Thorson is a Brooklyn-based<br />
artist and writer. His video work has<br />
screened at MoMA NYC, Rotterdam<br />
International Film Festival,<br />
Rencontres Internationale (Paris/<br />
Berlin), MIX NYC, Anthology Film<br />
Archives, among others.<br />
Theatre includes: Signature Theater,<br />
American Repertory Theater,<br />
Crossing the Line/New Settings<br />
Festivals, Bard SummerScape<br />
Festival, St. Ann’s Warehouse,<br />
Broadway and Broadway National<br />
Tour of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s<br />
<strong>Oklahoma</strong>!<br />
Education: BA in Film and Cultural<br />
Studies from the University of<br />
Minnesota, an MFA in Film/<br />
Video from Bard College, a PhD<br />
in Electronic Art from Rensselaer<br />
Polytechnic. He is an Associate<br />
Professor in the School of<br />
Photographic Arts and Sciences<br />
at RIT.<br />
NATHAN KOCI<br />
CO MUSICAL SUPERVISOR,<br />
VOCAL ARRANGEMENTS<br />
Nathan Koci is a musician, conductor<br />
and collaborative artist working<br />
across multiple disciplines including<br />
folk music, jazz, contemporary<br />
classical music, dance, and theater.<br />
Theatre includes: <strong>Oklahoma</strong>!<br />
(Broadway, US Tour, St. Ann’s<br />
Warehouse, Bard Summerscape);<br />
Hadestown (Broadway, US Tour,<br />
Citadel Theater); Most Happy in<br />
Concert (Bard Summerscape);<br />
Brimstone and Glory (Wordless<br />
Music); The Head and the Load<br />
(Tate Modern, Ruhr Triennale, MASS<br />
MoCA); The Source (BAM Next<br />
Wave, SF Opera, LA Opera); The<br />
Principles of Uncertainty (BAM Next<br />
Wave); War Horse (US Tour).<br />
Nathan also records and performs<br />
with The Solomon Diaries and The<br />
Hands Free. nathankoci.com<br />
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TOM BRADY<br />
MUSICAL DIRECTOR<br />
Tom studied Music at Oxford<br />
University before training at the Royal<br />
Academy of Music, where he is a<br />
recipient of the ARAM award.<br />
Theatre includes: Pinocchio, The<br />
Light Princess (National Theatre);<br />
Show Boat, Caroline or Change<br />
(West End); Flowers for Mrs Harris,<br />
Fiddler on the Roof, Forty Years<br />
On (Chichester Festival Theatre);<br />
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie<br />
(Sheffield Crucible); The Magician’s<br />
Elephant (RSC); Romantics<br />
Anonymous (Wise Children, Bristol<br />
Old Vic); Anything Goes (Sheffield<br />
Crucible & UK Tour); Floyd Collins<br />
(Wilton’s Music Hall); The Empress<br />
(RSC & Kneehigh); Wah! Wah!<br />
Girls (Sadler’s Wells & Kneehigh);<br />
Abomination: A DUP Opera (Lyric,<br />
Belfast); A Tale of Two Cities<br />
(Royal & Derngate); Evita (Festival<br />
Ljubljana, Slovenia); Have A Nice<br />
Life (Edinburgh, NYC Fringe and<br />
Philadelphia).<br />
Concerts include: The Music of<br />
Rodgers & Hammerstein with the<br />
Orchestre Nationale d’Lille.<br />
Tom teaches on the Musical Theatre<br />
postgraduate course at the Royal<br />
Academy of Music.<br />
SHELBY WILLIAMS<br />
ASSOCIATE<br />
CHOREOGRAPHER<br />
Theatre includes: As a dancer with<br />
Matthew Bourne: Cinderella, The<br />
Car-Man, Nutcracker!, Highland<br />
Fling, Edward Scissorhands, and<br />
Swan Lake; Ballet Work 1020<br />
(Martin Creed).<br />
As Choreographer/ Director/<br />
Associate: Company (Mountview);<br />
Georgiana (Buxton Festival); Twilight<br />
Zone (Ambassadors); Little Women<br />
(Stanix); London Road (Mountview);<br />
Wind In The Willows (UK and<br />
Palladium); Bend It Like Beckham<br />
(Phoenix); Made in Dagenham<br />
(Adelphi); Turandot (ENO); Magical<br />
Night (ROH); Sweet Charity (Royal<br />
Exchange); Speech and Debate<br />
(Trafalgar Studios); Merchant of<br />
Venice (Almeida); Anna Nicole – The<br />
Opera (BAM); Idomeneo (Grange<br />
Park); Carmen (Salzburg Opera);<br />
Dido and Aeneas, La Voix Humane<br />
(Opera North); Midsummer Night’s<br />
Dream (Opera Lyon, La Scala, Opera<br />
Philadelphia).<br />
Film includes: The Danish Girl;<br />
The Theory of Everything; Collette;<br />
WWZ; Great Expectations; The Car-<br />
Man; Nutcracker; Swan Lake 3D.<br />
RACHEL TOWNSEND<br />
ASSOCIATE COSTUME<br />
DESIGNER<br />
Young Vic debut.<br />
Select Assistant Theatre includes:<br />
<strong>Oklahoma</strong>! (Broadway,St. Ann’s<br />
Warehouse); West Side Story<br />
(Broadway); Network (Broadway);<br />
Lazarus (NYTW).<br />
Assistant Film includes: Better Nate<br />
Than Ever.<br />
Recognition includes: Co-Winner<br />
2020 Drama Desk, 2020 Lucille<br />
Lortel, 2020 Outer Critics Circle<br />
Honoree for Outstanding Costume<br />
Design for The Confession of Lily<br />
Dare (Primary Stages, NYC).<br />
FIFFI THORSTEINSSON<br />
ASSOCIATE LIGHTING<br />
DESIGNER<br />
Previous Young Vic: <strong>Oklahoma</strong>! is<br />
Fiffi’s first production at the Young Vic.<br />
Other theatre includes: The<br />
Intelligence Park (Music Theatre<br />
Wales & The Royal Opera House);<br />
The Lady of the Camellias (The<br />
Shanghai Ballet); Hadestown<br />
[associate] (The National Theatre);<br />
Spine (The Soho Theatre); Under<br />
the Umbrella (The Belgrade<br />
Theatre); This Flesh is Mine (Border<br />
Crossings); Fidelio (Operudagar);<br />
Benedikt Bualfur (Akureyri Theatre<br />
Company); The Blood Soaked Rabbit<br />
(Fimbulvetur).<br />
Other creative output: Architectural<br />
Theatre Consultant to over 50 venues<br />
worldwide, including theatres, opera<br />
houses, concert halls, arenas, museums<br />
and purpose built halls of spectacle;<br />
various catwalks at London, Paris<br />
and Milan fashion weeks; various<br />
events including for John Lewis,<br />
NBC/Universal and WPP; passionate<br />
educator and regularly lectures,<br />
mentors and designs at drama schools<br />
including The Royal Central School of<br />
Speech and Drama, Guildford School<br />
of Acting, Rose Bruford College and<br />
Mountview Academy of Theatre<br />
Arts, and has furthermore been<br />
commissioned to create a production<br />
lighting pathway within the Icelandic<br />
educational system. Fiffi also sits<br />
on the professional practitioners<br />
committee at the Icelandic Centre<br />
for the Performing Arts.<br />
SAM LERNER<br />
ASSOCIATE SOUND<br />
DESIGNER<br />
As Sound Designer: Hatuey: Memory<br />
of Fire (Kasser Theatre); In the Body<br />
of the World (Manhattan Theatre<br />
Club); Crossing: A New American<br />
Opera (Brooklyn Academy of Music).<br />
As Associate Sound Designer: Plaza<br />
Suite (Hudson Theatre); Rattlesnake<br />
Kate (Denver Theatre Center);<br />
Disney’s Aladdin (Teatro Telcel);<br />
Chicken & Biscuits, <strong>Oklahoma</strong>! (Circle<br />
in the Square); Natasha, Pierre and<br />
the Great Comet of 1812 (Imperial<br />
Theatre); Moby-Dick (American<br />
Repertory Theater); Tea At Five<br />
(Huntington Theatre).<br />
Sam served as the Manager of the<br />
American Repertory Theater’s Sound<br />
Department from 2013-2020. Prior to<br />
coming to ART, he headed the Sound<br />
Department at South Coast Repertory<br />
(Costa Mesa, CA) and served as<br />
the lead sound engineer at La Jolla<br />
Playhouse.<br />
Training: Royal Academy of Dramatic<br />
Art, the Royal Central School of<br />
Speech and Drama.<br />
HUW EVANS<br />
ASSOCIATE MUSICAL<br />
DIRECTOR<br />
Musical Director credits include:<br />
The Ruling Class (Trafalgar Studios).<br />
Associate / Assistant Musical Director<br />
credits include: Come From Away<br />
(Phoenix Theatre); Big Fish (The<br />
Other Palace); Funny Girl (UK Tour);<br />
Assassins (Menier Chocolate Factory);<br />
Evita (Dominion Theatre & UK Tour);<br />
Oliver! (Sheffield Crucible).<br />
Keyboard / Cover Conductor credits<br />
include: Chicago (Phoenix Theatre);<br />
Cats (UK Tour); The Lion King<br />
(Musical Theater, Basel).<br />
SAM LILJA<br />
DIALECT COACH<br />
Theatre includes: Ava: The Secret<br />
Conversations (Bush Theatre);<br />
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Theatre<br />
at St. Clements, NYC); Terms<br />
of Endearment (59E59, NYC);<br />
Assassins (Encores! Off-Center,<br />
NYC); Sundown, Yellow Moon (Ars<br />
Nova & WP Theater, NYC); Spill<br />
(Ensemble Studio Theatre, NYC);<br />
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory<br />
(US National Tour).<br />
Television includes: Tinkertown;<br />
Django; Interview with a Vampire;<br />
New Amsterdam; Grant; Blindspot;<br />
Madam Secretary.<br />
Film includes: Little Women; Boston<br />
Strangler; The Hustle; Humor Me;<br />
The Sunlit Night; UFO.<br />
Acting credits include: The<br />
Inheritance (Broadway); The<br />
Iceman Cometh (Broadway);<br />
Romeo & Juliet, The Winter’s Tale<br />
(Shakespeare Theatre Company,<br />
DC); Measure for Measure (The<br />
Acting Company, NYC); All Our<br />
Children (Sheen Center, NYC);<br />
Acolyte (59E59, NYC); Django<br />
(Sky); Billions (Showtime); Almost<br />
There (DirecTV). samlilja.com.<br />
NIMMO ISMAIL<br />
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR<br />
Nimmo is a Sky Arts Artistic<br />
Associate Artist at Theatre Royal<br />
Stratford East 2022/2023 and was<br />
named as one of The Stage 25 in<br />
January 2022.<br />
Previous Young Vic includes:<br />
Fragments by Cordelia Lynn as part of<br />
Five Plays and My England as part of<br />
Fresh Direction and as Boris Karloff<br />
Trainee Assitant Director on Wings by<br />
Arthur Kopit.<br />
Theatre work as a director includes:<br />
Two Billion Beats (Orange Tree<br />
Theatre); Holding Space, Glee & Me,<br />
The Christmas Star (Royal Exchange<br />
Manchester); a meal (Poleroid<br />
Theatre); SNAP as part of Connect<br />
Now (Old Vic); Two Palestinians Go<br />
Dogging (Sparkhaus Theatre); The<br />
Other Day (Camden People’s Theatre);<br />
Television Guide; The Displaced/We<br />
Came In a Tiny Red Boat, I Actually<br />
Have a Son (Guildhall School of Music<br />
& Drama with Squint Theatre).<br />
Theatre work as a staff/assistant<br />
director includes: The Antipodes<br />
(National Theatre); Shedding A Skin<br />
(Soho Theatre); Our Town (Open<br />
Air Theatre); A Very Very Very<br />
Dark Matter (Bridge Theatre); The<br />
Prudes, Goats (Royal Court); The<br />
Phlebotomist (Hampstead Theatre).<br />
JACOB SPARROW<br />
CASTING DIRECOR<br />
Theatre includes: <strong>Oklahoma</strong>! (Young<br />
Vic); Black Love (Kiln Theatre);<br />
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Leeds/<br />
Home Manchester); Anna Karenina,<br />
Much Ado About Nothing (Sheffield<br />
Crucible); Curious Incident of the<br />
Dog in the Night-Time (2021 tour);<br />
Jitney (Old Vic/Headlong/Leeds<br />
Playhouse); Burn It Down (Theatre<br />
Royal Stratford East); Carousel, Our<br />
Town (Regents Park); LOVE, Faith,<br />
Hope and Charity (European 2021<br />
tour), Perspectives (New Views);<br />
2021 Roundabout Season (Paines<br />
Plough); City of Angels (Garrick);<br />
Hadestown, Pericles, Follies,<br />
Amadeus (all Olivier Theatre); LOVE<br />
(Dorfman/International Tour/Film);<br />
Queer Season, Rutherford and Son,<br />
Faith Hope and Charity, Mr Gum,<br />
Downstate (National Theatre).<br />
Jacob worked in the NT Casting<br />
Department from 2015 to 2019<br />
before becoming a freelance Casting<br />
Director. Prior to working at the<br />
National Theatre, Jacob worked with<br />
Pippa Ailion Casting and Telsey and<br />
Company in New York, as well as<br />
alongside James Orange.<br />
DAVID GALLAGHER<br />
ORCHESTRAL MANAGER<br />
Theatre includes: Come From<br />
Away (Phoenix Theatre); Matilda<br />
(Cambridge Theatre); 42nd Street<br />
(Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Girl<br />
from the North Country (Noel<br />
Coward & Gielgud Theatre); Queen<br />
Anne (Theatre Royal Haymarket);<br />
From Here to Eternity (Shaftesbury<br />
Theatre); Spring Awakening (The<br />
Almeida); A Christmas Carol ,The<br />
American Clock, Sylvia, Fanny and<br />
Alexander, The Divide, The Lorax,<br />
Groundhog Day, Future Conditional,<br />
The Bridge Project, Cinderella (Old<br />
Vic); She Loves Me, Guys and Dolls<br />
(Sheffield Crucible); NHS The Musical<br />
(Plymouth Theatre Royal); The Wizard<br />
of Oz (Leeds Playhouse); Local Hero<br />
(Edinburgh Lyceum); Matilda, Jackie<br />
the Musical, Bernadette Peters, Crush,<br />
Play Without Words (UK tours); Wolf<br />
Hall recordings (Broadway); The<br />
National Symphony Orchestra, Various<br />
projects, amfar Gala Cannes Film<br />
Festival 2014 and 2015, Robin Hood<br />
film (Universal 2010).<br />
David was Music Manager at the<br />
National Theatre 2000 – 2010, and<br />
Music Manager at the RSC 2010 –<br />
2011 where he currently provides<br />
consultancy.<br />
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FISHER CENTER AT BARD<br />
Fisher Center at Bard is a leading<br />
professional performing arts producer<br />
and research/education hub in a<br />
landmark Frank Gehry building<br />
on Bard College’s Hudson Valley<br />
NY campus. Presenting more than<br />
200 events and welcoming 50,000<br />
visitors each year, the center supports<br />
artists, students, and audiences in<br />
the development and examination of<br />
artistic ideas, offering perspectives<br />
from the past, present, and visions<br />
of the future. Its commissioned<br />
productions have been seen in more<br />
than 100 communities around the<br />
world. In 2019 the Fisher Center<br />
won the Tony Award for Best Revival<br />
of a Musical for this production of<br />
<strong>Oklahoma</strong>! which began life in 2007<br />
as an undergraduate production at<br />
Bard and was produced professionally<br />
in the Fisher Center’s SummerScape<br />
Festival in 2015 before transferring<br />
to New York City.<br />
fishercenter.bard.edu<br />
ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE<br />
“A bastion of adventurous theater”<br />
(The New York Times), St. Ann’s<br />
Warehouse plays a vital role on<br />
the global cultural landscape as<br />
an artistic home for international<br />
companies of distinction, American<br />
avant-garde masters and talented<br />
emerging artists. For over four<br />
decades it has brought some of the<br />
world’s most imaginative theater to<br />
America’s shores, and emerged as<br />
a key partner in the development of<br />
the Brooklyn waterfront, activating<br />
found spaces through preservation<br />
and adaptive re-use. Bolstered by<br />
a sense of sacred mission and an<br />
endless capacity for reconfiguration,<br />
St. Ann’s programming sits at the<br />
intersection where theater meets<br />
rock and roll.<br />
EVA PRICE<br />
CO-PRODUCER<br />
Eva Price is an NYCLU/ACLU<br />
honoree and three-time Tony Award<br />
winning producer.<br />
Broadway includes: Jagged Little Pill<br />
(2 Tony Awards), <strong>Oklahoma</strong>! (2 Tony<br />
Awards; National Tour); Tina – The<br />
Tina Turner Musical (Tony Award);<br />
What the Constitution Means to Me<br />
(Tony nominated; National Tour);<br />
Angels in America (3 Tony Awards);<br />
Dear Evan Hansen (6 Tony Awards;<br />
3 Olivier Awards); On Your Feet!;<br />
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons on<br />
Broadway!; Peter and the Starcatcher<br />
(5 Tony Awards); Colin Quinn Long<br />
Story Short; Annie; The Merchant<br />
of Venice starring Al Pacino (Tony<br />
nom.); Carrie Fisher’s Wishful<br />
Drinking; The Addams Family.<br />
Off-Broadway/Touring: Cruel<br />
Intentions: The ’90s Musical; Found<br />
(LA/NY Premieres); The Lion (Drama<br />
Desk Award); Small Mouth Sounds;<br />
Sanctuary City (NYTW); and The Hip<br />
Hop Nutcracker (Emmy Award for<br />
PBS Special Live Capture).<br />
SONIA FRIEDMAN<br />
PRODUCTIONS<br />
CO-PRODUCER<br />
Sonia Friedman Productions (SFP) is<br />
a West End and Broadway production<br />
company responsible for some of the<br />
most successful theatre productions in<br />
London and New York.<br />
Current productions include: To Kill<br />
A Mockingbird at the Gielgud, The<br />
47th at the Old Vic, Jerusalem at the<br />
Apollo Theatre, The Book of Mormon,<br />
West End and UK & European Tour,<br />
Dreamgirls UK Tour, Harry Potter<br />
and the Cursed Child in London, New<br />
York, Melbourne, San Francisco and<br />
Hamburg, Funny Girl on Broadway and<br />
the Mean Girls US Tour.<br />
Forthcoming productions include:<br />
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in<br />
Toronto and Tokyo.<br />
MICHAEL HARRISON<br />
CO-PRODUCER<br />
Michael Harrison’s West End musicals<br />
include The Drifters Girl at the<br />
Garrick, two seasons of Joseph and the<br />
Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the<br />
London Palladium, Mel Brooks’ Young<br />
Frankenstein at the Garrick, Annie<br />
at the Piccadilly, Mrs Henderson<br />
Presents at the Noel Coward, Gypsy at<br />
the Savoy and The Bodyguard at both<br />
the Adelphi and Dominion Theatres.<br />
Michael’s current UK Touring<br />
productions include Disney’s Bedknobs<br />
& Broomsticks, Joseph and the<br />
Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and<br />
Singin‘ in the Rain.<br />
Michael’s London Palladium<br />
pantomimes – Cinderella, Dick<br />
Whittington, Snow White, Goldilocks<br />
and the Three Bears and Pantoland<br />
have proved to be huge popular hits<br />
with Dick Whittington winning the<br />
Olivier Award for Best Entertainment<br />
and Family.<br />
He is Chief Executive of Crossroads<br />
Pantomimes responsible for many of<br />
the major number one pantomimes<br />
across England, Northern Ireland,<br />
Scotland and Wales.<br />
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Photography by Anne Tetzlaff<br />
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THE YOUNG VIC<br />
THE YOUNG VIC COMPANY<br />
OUR SHOWS<br />
We produce new plays, classics, musicals,<br />
adaptations of books, short films, digital projects<br />
and game changing forms of theatre. We tour and<br />
co-produce within the UK and internationally.<br />
OUR ARTISTS<br />
We foster emerging talent and collaborate with<br />
some of the world’s finest directors, performers<br />
and creatives, creating productions that say much<br />
about the world we live in.<br />
OUR AUDIENCES<br />
We attract large audiences from many different<br />
backgrounds and forge deep connections in our<br />
neighbourhood, where we provide extensive free<br />
activities. For many years, the Young Vic has been<br />
synonymous with inclusivity, accessibility and<br />
creativity. We keep our prices low and give 10% of<br />
our tickets to young people, schools and neighbours<br />
irrespective of box office demand.<br />
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OUR PARTNERS NEAR AT HAND<br />
Each year we engage with over 15,000 local people –<br />
individuals and groups of all kinds including schools and<br />
colleges – by exploring theatre on and off stage. From<br />
time to time we invite our neighbours to appear on our<br />
stage alongside professionals.<br />
OUR PARTNERS FURTHER AWAY<br />
By co-producing with leading theatre, opera, dance,<br />
film and TV companies from London and around<br />
the world, we create shows neither partner could<br />
achieve alone.<br />
‘The most exciting theatre in Europe’ Cush Jumbo<br />
‘A theatre with a global outlook and an<br />
extraordinary record of nurturing talent’<br />
Financial Times<br />
‘The Young Vic is where theatre<br />
magic happens’ Time Out<br />
‘Cool, creative, edgy Young Vic’ iNews<br />
‘London’s most essential theatre’ The Guardian<br />
‘Young Vic is London’s most lovable theatre.<br />
The building welcomes; the programming dares.<br />
It offers danger in a safe place.’ The Observer<br />
The Young Vic is a company limited by guarantee, registered<br />
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Programme design: Eureka! Design Consultants Ltd<br />
Artistic Director<br />
Kwame Kwei-Armah<br />
Executive Director<br />
(incoming)<br />
Lucy Davies<br />
Interim Executive Director<br />
(outgoing)<br />
Sarah Nicholson<br />
Associate Artistic Director<br />
Sue Emmas<br />
Genesis Fellow /<br />
Associate Director<br />
Jennifer Tang<br />
Creative Associate<br />
Teunkie Van Der Sluijs<br />
Lead Producer<br />
(maternity leave)<br />
Holly Aston<br />
Lead Producer<br />
(maternity cover)<br />
Nisha Modhwadia<br />
General Manager<br />
(Maternity Leave)<br />
Robyn Keynes<br />
General Manager<br />
(Maternity Cover)<br />
Christabel Holmes<br />
Executive Assistant<br />
to the Artistic Director<br />
Olivia Nwabali<br />
Administrator<br />
(Producing Team)<br />
Lucy Steward<br />
Creators Program<br />
Administrator<br />
Tia Begum<br />
Channel 4 playwright<br />
Lulu Raczka<br />
Young Vic Artistic<br />
Associates<br />
Glenn Davis<br />
Alfred Enoch<br />
Anna Fleischle<br />
Marcus Gardley<br />
Kate Hewitt<br />
Afua Hirsch<br />
Kirsty Housley<br />
Alex Basco Koch<br />
Doña Kroll<br />
Gregory Maqoma<br />
Prema Mehta<br />
Duncan McLean<br />
Chinonyerem Odimba<br />
Wendell Pierce<br />
Caitriona Shoobridge<br />
Charles Randolph-Wright<br />
Charlotte Sutton<br />
XANA<br />
Associate Companies<br />
Belarus Free Theatre<br />
Crying In The Wilderness<br />
Productions<br />
Regional Theatre Young<br />
Director Scheme<br />
The What If Experiment<br />
Development<br />
Deputy Executive Director<br />
Alex Tonetta<br />
Head of Corporate<br />
Partnerships & Events<br />
Elisha Owen<br />
Trusts and Foundations<br />
Manager<br />
Bernadette Witham<br />
Individual Giving Manager<br />
Cameron Henderson-Begg<br />
Development Operations<br />
Manager<br />
Lewis Hammond<br />
Producing & Development<br />
Young Associate<br />
Megan Tze Ern Khor<br />
Finance<br />
Finance Director<br />
Ivor Stockdale<br />
Finance Officer<br />
Janine Carter<br />
Finance Administrator<br />
Hannah Turk<br />
Financial Planning and<br />
Analysis Assistant<br />
Fahim Uddin<br />
Marketing & Audiences<br />
Director of Marketing<br />
and Audiences<br />
Beatrice Burrows<br />
Interim Head of Press<br />
and Communications<br />
Kate Hassell<br />
Marketing Manager<br />
Steph Cullen<br />
Interim Social Media and<br />
Digital Marketing Manager<br />
Haniya Bhatty<br />
Social Media and Digital<br />
Content Manager<br />
(incoming)<br />
Florence Bell<br />
Ticketing Manager<br />
Zoe Fitzpatrick<br />
Marketing Officer<br />
Ella Kilford<br />
Press Officer<br />
Karl-Lydie Jean-Baptiste<br />
Press, Marketing &<br />
Audiences Young Associate<br />
Chamekir Hunte<br />
Operations<br />
Operations Director<br />
Rathi Kumar<br />
Senior IT Projects Manager<br />
Luke Taylor<br />
Digital Systems Analyst<br />
Damilola Senbanjo<br />
Company Administrator<br />
Isobel Ford<br />
Head of Theatre Operations<br />
Bryan Lewis<br />
Facilities Manager<br />
Samuel Hailey-Watts<br />
Interim Front of House<br />
Manager<br />
Ryan Melish<br />
Administration Assistant<br />
(Operations)<br />
Beth Fisher<br />
Duty Managers<br />
Coral Tarran<br />
Lauren Holden<br />
Maryam Shofowora<br />
Max Puplett<br />
Sebastian Houillon<br />
Ushers<br />
Aisha Edwards<br />
Albert Graver<br />
Alykhan Merali<br />
Andre Da Silva-Jenkins<br />
Anna-May Wood<br />
Benjamin Clarke<br />
Cassiopeia Berkeley-<br />
Agyepong<br />
Charlotte Micalef<br />
Chenta Mariqueo<br />
Daniella Connor<br />
Debbie Burningham<br />
Dynzell Muguti<br />
Eboni Dixon<br />
Francesca De Sica<br />
Glenn Mortimer<br />
Grace Kayibanda<br />
Gracjana Rejmer-Canovas<br />
Grainne PC<br />
Hana Jennings<br />
Isaac Vincent<br />
Jess James<br />
Joanna Selcott<br />
Josh Hitchman-Pinnock<br />
Julie Patten<br />
Kanishka Gupta<br />
Kitti Wells<br />
Lethaniel Stacey-Coombe<br />
Linden Sloan<br />
Luke Garner-Greene<br />
Lynn Knight<br />
Malika Sandover<br />
Maurice Chung<br />
Melina Morris<br />
Michael Asiamah<br />
Molly-Rose Curran<br />
Newton James Thomas<br />
Oliver Byng<br />
Owen Haslegrave<br />
Paula Shaw<br />
Rosemarie Akwafo<br />
Sahana Rackal<br />
Simone Bell<br />
Starr Ballard<br />
Susan Harrold<br />
Taz Munyaneza<br />
Thea Sandall<br />
Theo Hung<br />
Tia Wingate<br />
Tobi Oludipe<br />
Tom Sparkes<br />
Urielle Klein-Mekongo<br />
Production<br />
Technical Director<br />
(outgoing)<br />
Jaz Sandalli<br />
Production Manager<br />
Sarah Barton<br />
Head of Sound<br />
Kyle MacPherson<br />
Head of Stage<br />
Craig Tye<br />
Head of Costume<br />
Sarah Hamza<br />
Head of Lighting<br />
Sam McLeod<br />
Deputy Head of Stage<br />
Rhodri Sion Evans<br />
Deputy Head of Sound<br />
Jet Sharp<br />
Deputy Head of Lighting<br />
Faye Hetherington<br />
Workshop Carpenter<br />
Rachel MacLoughlin<br />
Lighting Technician<br />
Saul Richardson<br />
Production Administrator<br />
(Interim)<br />
Kate Jones<br />
Production Young Associate<br />
Leelah McEvoy<br />
Production Assistant<br />
Maciek Zdobylak<br />
Taking Part<br />
Director of Taking Part<br />
Shereen Jasmin Phillips<br />
Neighbourhood Theatre<br />
Producer<br />
Alisha Artry<br />
Participation Producer<br />
Lorna McGinty<br />
Learning Producer<br />
Melanie Anouf<br />
Taking Part Administrator<br />
Vicky Olusanya<br />
Taking Part & Creators<br />
Program Young Associate<br />
Jordi Carter<br />
Taking Part Administration<br />
Assistant<br />
Charlotte Micalef<br />
Welcome Team<br />
Jo Keane<br />
Max Puplett<br />
Edd Soper<br />
Edward Jones<br />
Eimear Griffin<br />
Eleanor Kumar<br />
Joel Oladapo<br />
Julie Patten<br />
Kathy Bolt<br />
Lethaniel Stacey-Coombe<br />
Sofia Sousa<br />
Tia Wingate<br />
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YOUNG VIC – COMING SOON<br />
OF THE CUT<br />
30 JUL – 6 AUG<br />
A magical realism promenade performance<br />
piece which shines a light on the many lives<br />
lived on and around The Cut and explores what<br />
the next 25 years has in store. Written by<br />
Yasmin Joseph and the Company, directed by<br />
Philip J Morris. A Taking Part production from<br />
Young Vic and TEA films.<br />
THE<br />
SECRETARIES<br />
1 – 11 JUN<br />
Deirdre McLaughlin, Genesis<br />
Future Directors Award<br />
recipient, directs a murderously<br />
dark comedy that splits open<br />
gender stereotypes. Written by<br />
The Five Lesbian Brothers.<br />
CHASING<br />
HARES<br />
16 JUL – 13 AUG<br />
An epic tale about a father’s<br />
resistance and dignity in the<br />
face of global exploitation, set<br />
in West Bengal and the UK.<br />
Written by Sonali Bhattacharyya<br />
and directed by Milli Bhatia. A<br />
Young Vic and Theatre Uncut<br />
co-production.<br />
YOUNGVIC.ORG 020 7922 2922 #YoungVic<br />
WHO KILLED<br />
MY FATHER<br />
7 – 24 SEP<br />
An anger-soaked letter from<br />
a son to his father, telling<br />
the story of a life marked by<br />
social deprivation in the north<br />
of France. Adapted by Ivo van<br />
Hove from the book by Édouard<br />
Louis. An International Theater<br />
Amsterdam production in<br />
association with Young Vic<br />
MANDELA<br />
28 NOV – 4 FEB 2023<br />
A revolutionary new musical<br />
and world premiere that tells<br />
the story of Mandela the man<br />
and Mandela the movement.<br />
Developed in proud partnership<br />
with Nandi Mandela, Luvuyo<br />
Madasa and the Mandela<br />
family.<br />
COMMUNITIES OF RESISTANCE<br />
JUN – JUL<br />
Following the success of Sundown Kiki, a group of young Queer<br />
and Black or Global Majority artists will travel to the US to<br />
explore the political heritage of ballroom. A Taking Part and<br />
Hetrick-Martin Institute Project.<br />
YV UNPACKED: I WONDER IF...<br />
TOURING 10 – 21 OCT<br />
THE YOUNG VIC 24 – 29 OCT<br />
Fusing dance, music and dialogue to explore the human<br />
relationship in its many forms, I Wonder If... is a dazzling new<br />
play directed by Daniel Bailey and devised by the company.<br />
JOURNEYS THE PODCAST<br />
25 JUL – 25 DEC<br />
A six-part podcast series celebrating local heroes in Lambeth<br />
and Southwark and uncovering stories from the Young Vic<br />
community.<br />
THE TWENTY THRIVE EXHIBITION: CELEBRATING<br />
25 YEARS OF CREATING, EXPLORING AND<br />
TAKING PART IN OUR COMMUNITY<br />
14 – 21 OCT<br />
An immersive and interactive exhibition that celebrates the<br />
last 25 years of the Young Vic’s outreach and engagement work.<br />
A Young Vic Taking Part project<br />
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ACCESS AND INCLUSION PERFORMANCES<br />
TAKING PART AT THE YOUNG VIC<br />
Audio Described<br />
performances<br />
BSL<br />
performances<br />
Captioned<br />
performances<br />
Relaxed<br />
performances<br />
<strong>Oklahoma</strong>!<br />
Chasing Hares<br />
<strong>Oklahoma</strong>!<br />
<strong>Oklahoma</strong>!<br />
Tue 24 May, 7.30pm<br />
Fri 29 Jul, 7.30pm<br />
Thu 9 Jun, 7.30pm<br />
Fri 10 Jun, 7.30pm<br />
Chasing Hares<br />
Mandela<br />
Chasing Hares<br />
Chasing Hares<br />
Tue 2 & Tue 9 Aug, 7.30pm<br />
Tue 13 Dec 2022 &<br />
Thu 4 Aug, 7.30pm<br />
Wed 3 Aug, 7.30pm<br />
The Secretaries<br />
Thu 12 Jan 2023, 7.30pm<br />
The Secretaries<br />
The Secretaries<br />
1 – 11 Jun<br />
1 – 11 Jun<br />
1 – 11 Jun<br />
Audio description is<br />
integrated into every<br />
performance.<br />
Mandela<br />
Mon 19 Dec 2022,<br />
Tue 10 & Tue 24 Jan<br />
2023, 7.30pm<br />
Creative captioning is<br />
integrated into every<br />
performance.<br />
Mandela<br />
Thu 15 Dec 2022 &<br />
Thu 5 Jan 2023, 7.30pm<br />
All performances<br />
are relaxed.<br />
Mandela<br />
Wed 4 Jan 2023, 7.30pm<br />
Taking Part is our creative engagement department that works with young people,<br />
adults, schools, and our local community for 25 years. We engage with over 15,000<br />
people a year, providing free tickets to all our shows and free creative and artistic<br />
opportunities to our participants.<br />
If you would like to book an induction loop, require someone to look after your<br />
assistance dog during a performance, or have any other access requirements,<br />
please let us know in advance so we can make your visit as enjoyable as possible.<br />
For more information call: 020 7922 2922<br />
Textphone 18001 020 7922 2922<br />
Our three strands, Learning, Participation,<br />
and Neighbourhood Theatre, create<br />
work that is the beating heart of the<br />
organisation. Each year Taking Part’s<br />
<strong>programme</strong> responds to a shared theme.<br />
Last year we responded to the provocation<br />
‘Freedom of Expression’. This year the<br />
theme is Culture and Displacement.<br />
Last autumn the Young Vic went back<br />
to school with a new project called<br />
INNOVATE. This project has embedded<br />
six artists into our two partner secondary<br />
schools – South Bank University Academy<br />
and Dunraven school. Working across<br />
the year 7 and 8 curricula, they are<br />
collaborating with teachers and students<br />
to explore the role of artists and arts<br />
organisations in teaching the curriculum,<br />
and more broadly the Young Vic’s civic<br />
responsibility as a local theatre.<br />
We think of the Young Vic as ‘the home<br />
you didn’t know you had’ – come in<br />
and join us. To find out more about our<br />
projects and how you can get involved,<br />
please visit youngvic.org/taking-part or<br />
follow @yvtakingpart on Twitter.<br />
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2022 SEASON SUPPORTERS<br />
THE YOUNG VIC BOARD<br />
Board of Trustees<br />
Development Board<br />
Public Support<br />
Season Support<br />
Hotel Partner<br />
Varun Chandra<br />
Nicky Dunn OBE<br />
Glenn Earle (Chair)<br />
Robert Easton<br />
Farah Ramzan Golant CBE<br />
Kobna Holdbrook-Smith MBE<br />
Ali Hossaini<br />
Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE<br />
Ebele Okobi<br />
Abigail Sewell<br />
Fiona Shaw<br />
Sita Thomas<br />
Steve Tompkins MBE<br />
Anna Williams<br />
Beatrice Bondy<br />
Rachel Conlan (Co-Chair)<br />
Gerard Crichlow<br />
Glenn Earle<br />
Sophie Hale<br />
Will Meldrum<br />
Ebele Okobi (Co-Chair)<br />
Barbara Reeves<br />
Sarah Thorpe Scott<br />
The Young Vic gratefully recognises<br />
the following Trustees who retired from<br />
board service between March 2020<br />
and April 2021:<br />
The Young Vic’s 2022 season is also supported by the Genesis Foundation and IHS Markit.<br />
We gratefully acknowledge Ian Burford and Alec Cannell for generously supporting the Young Vic’s mission.<br />
Sean Egan<br />
David Fletcher<br />
Rory Kinnear<br />
Rita Skinner<br />
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YOUNG VIC SUPPORTERS<br />
£10,000 – £19,999<br />
Young Vic supporters realise our mission of creating extraordinary theatre, sharing<br />
the joy of creativity with our community and investing in the artists of tomorrow.<br />
They make everything we do possible, and we are deeply grateful to them all.<br />
For their recent support we thank:<br />
£100,000+<br />
£20,000 – £49,999<br />
Anonymous<br />
Lionel Barber &<br />
Victoria Greenwood<br />
Sandra Cavlov<br />
Ian & Caroline Cormack<br />
Lin & Ken Craig<br />
Manfred & Lydia Gorvy<br />
Patrick Handley<br />
The Boris Karloff<br />
Charitable Foundation<br />
Jack & Linda Keenan<br />
Adam Kenwright<br />
Kidron Hall Charitable Trust<br />
Tracey, Eloise & Max Mayerson<br />
Richenthal Foundation<br />
Jon & NoraLee Sedmak<br />
Dasha Shenkman<br />
United St Saviour’s Charity<br />
Dominic Wallington<br />
The Harold Hyam<br />
Wingate Foundation<br />
Arts Council England<br />
Bloomberg*<br />
Ian Burford & Alec Cannell<br />
Culture Recovery Fund, DCMS<br />
Glenn Earle<br />
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation<br />
Garfield Weston Foundation<br />
Genesis Foundation<br />
IHS Markit<br />
Patrick & Sholpan McKenna<br />
£50,000 – £99,999<br />
The Charlotte Aitken Trust<br />
Backstage Trust<br />
Bank of America*<br />
Jo Braun<br />
Robert Easton & Elza Blankenburgs<br />
Sea Containers London<br />
Southwark Council<br />
Anonymous (1)<br />
Sarah & Tim Bunting<br />
Cockayne – Grants for the Arts<br />
The London Community Foundation<br />
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation<br />
H&M Foundation<br />
Sophie Hale & Roland Rudd<br />
Paul Hamlyn Foundation<br />
Jerwood Arts<br />
Lambeth Council<br />
Sarah & Dominic Murphy<br />
Karl-Johan Persson<br />
The Austin & Hope Pilkington Trust<br />
Clive & Sally Sherling<br />
Rita & Paul Skinner<br />
*Young Vic Corporate Member<br />
Listing current as of 1 March 2022.<br />
£1,000 – £9,999<br />
Anonymous (8)<br />
The 29th of May 1961<br />
Charitable Trust<br />
AKA*<br />
Andor Charitable Trust<br />
Jennifer Bailey<br />
Jack Bamberger<br />
Chris & Frances Bates<br />
Lady Primrose Bell<br />
Sarah Billinghurst Solomon<br />
Adrian & Lisa Binks<br />
Tony & Gisela Bloom<br />
Beatrice Bondy<br />
The Charlotte Bonham-Carter<br />
Charitable Trust<br />
Simon & Sally Borrows<br />
The Boshier-Hinton Foundation<br />
The Martin Bowley Charitable Trust<br />
Katie Bradford<br />
CJ & LM Braithwaite<br />
Dr Neil & Sarah Brener<br />
Sylvie & Leon Bressler<br />
Clive & Helena Butler<br />
Monkey Chambers<br />
Chapman Charitable Trust<br />
Cleopatra Trust<br />
The John S Cohen Foundation<br />
Rachel Conlan<br />
James & Victoria Corcoran<br />
Noël Coward Foundation<br />
Lord Mervyn Davies<br />
Miel de Botton<br />
Roger & Alison De Haan<br />
Scott M Delman<br />
Annabel Duncan-Smith<br />
Robyn Durie<br />
Marielle Ednalino & Ken Lamb<br />
Jennifer & Jeff Eldredge<br />
Sir Vernon & Lady Ellis<br />
Don Ellwood & Sandra Johnigan<br />
Vanessa Johnson-Burgess<br />
Embassy of Spain<br />
David Fein & Liz Oestreich<br />
Finsbury Glover Hering*<br />
Adam Freudenheim<br />
Gillian Frumkin<br />
The Golden Bottle Trust<br />
The Golsoncott Foundation<br />
Alan & Ros Haigh<br />
Sarah Hall<br />
Katherine Hallgarten<br />
Frances Hellman & Warren Breslau<br />
Suzy Hester<br />
Madeleine Hodgkin<br />
Jacob Holt<br />
Nik Holttum & Helen Brannigan<br />
Mike & Caroline Howes<br />
The Hoxton Southwark<br />
Peter Hughes<br />
Tom & Caron Ilube<br />
Melanie Johnson<br />
Jones Day*<br />
John & Gerry Kinder<br />
Carol Lake<br />
Ben Langworthy<br />
Victoria Leggett<br />
Clive Lewis<br />
The Lowy Mitchell Foundation<br />
Frances Lynn<br />
John Lyon’s Charity<br />
Jill & Justin Manson<br />
Memery Crystal*<br />
Barbara Minto<br />
Carole Neuhaus<br />
Newcomen Collett Foundation<br />
Ebele Okobi<br />
Rob & Lesley O’Rahilly<br />
Bernadette O’Sullivan<br />
Simon & Midge Palley<br />
Sarig Peker<br />
Pi Capital*<br />
Richard Radcliffe Charitable Trust<br />
Heather & Julia Randall<br />
The Red Hill Trust<br />
Barbara Reeves<br />
The Rix-Thompson-Rothenberg<br />
Foundation<br />
Corinne Rooney<br />
Sue Roy<br />
The Royal Victoria Hall Foundation<br />
Sir Paul & Lady Ruddock<br />
Carol Sellars<br />
Dr Bhagat Sharma<br />
Jenny Sheridan<br />
Justin Shinebourne &<br />
Laurence Chaussinand<br />
Florian Simm<br />
Deborah E Mali Smith<br />
Demola Soremekun<br />
The John Thaw Foundation<br />
TowerBrook Foundation*<br />
Nick Tsatsas<br />
U+I Group Plc<br />
Bill Updegraff & Aliza Bartfield<br />
Valentino England Ltd. *<br />
Katleen van Roost<br />
Walcot Foundation<br />
Rob & Gillian Wallace<br />
Edgar & Judith Wallner<br />
Alice Whitaker<br />
Bill & Anda Winters<br />
Chavah Yentl<br />
Jill Hackel Zarzycki<br />
Julia Zilberman & Maxim Seltzer<br />
and all our members and supporters,<br />
whose generosity strengthens and<br />
sustains our work.<br />
*Young Vic Corporate Member<br />
Listing current as of<br />
1 March 2022.<br />
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the power to<br />
imagine, illuminate and inspire<br />
After an extended intermission, we are thrilled<br />
to join you at the Young Vic once again.<br />
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