MRS KLEIN - Almeida Theatre

Jan Haydn Rowles
Dialect Coach
Jan is currently Head of Voice at
Shakespeare’s Globe (2008 and 2009
seasons).
Theatre includes: Absurdia; Betrayal
(Donmar Warehouse); Pretend You
Have Big Buildings; Henry V, Whose
Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; True Love
Lies (Manchester Royal Exchange);
The Pain and the Itch; The Miracle; My
Child; Over There (Royal Court);
Kindertransport; Ten Tiny Toes; Mine
(Shared Experience); Punk Rock; The
Comedians (Lyric Hammersmith);
She Stoops to Conquer; Serious
Money (Birmingham Rep); numerous
productions for Salisbury Playhouse
and The New Wolsey Ipswich, and
over 20 shows for the RSC.
Film includes: Mister Nobody;, Brick
Lane; And When Did You Last See
Your Father?; Brothers of the Head .
TV includes: Faking It; The Frankie
Howerd Story; Gordon Ramsay:
Cookalong; Hairspray; The School
Musical.
Jan has also co-written How to Do
Accents (Oberon Books first edition
2007, second edition 2009) and How
to Do RP (2010).
Alison de Burgh
Fight Director
For the Almeida: The Earthly Paradise;
The Distance From Here.
Theatre includes: Speaking in
Tongues; The Dumb Waiter; Peter
Pan, Bent; Donkey’s Years; As You
Like It (West End); The Black Album;
Harper Regan; Therese Raquin; Coram
Boy; Pillars of the Community; Tales
From the Vienna Woods (National
Theatre); The King and I (Royal Albert
Hall); Deadly Murder; Sugar Daddies;
A Chorus of Disapproval; Separate
Tables (The Mill at Sonning); Romeo
and Juliet; Under The Black Flag
(Shakespeare’s Globe); Macbeth;
Romeo and Juliet (National Theatre
Education); Woman Falling Over;
Lady Boxers (National Theatre
Studio); Romeo and Juliet; The
Penelopiad; As You Like It; A
Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC);
Much Ado About Nothing (RSC/West
End); Snake in the Grass; The Swing of
Things (Stephen Joseph Theatre,
Scarborough); The Dysfunckchonalz
(Bush Theatre); Othello (Salisbury
Playhouse); Henry V (Royal Exchange
Manchester); Donkey’s Years
(national tour); The Sexual Neuroses
of Our Parents; Dimetos (Gate
Theatre); Everything Is Illuminated
(Hampstead Theatre); Gobbo
(National Theatre of Scotland);
Melody (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh);
Cruel and Tender (Chichester Festival
Theatre); The Gentleman From
Olmedo; The Venetian Twins
(Watermill Theatre, Newbury);
Treasure Island (Belgrade Theatre,
Coventry); Piaf (Crucible Theatre,
Sheffield).
Alison has also worked on a wide
range of national and international
opera productions.
Film includes: Being Othello; Ghosts;
Stubborn and Spite; Four; Respect;
Promises, Promises.
Oliver Baird
Assistant Director
Oliver trained on the directing
programme at RADA, and was cofounder
and artistic director of the
Oxford-based company Tomahawk.
Theatre includes:
As director: Someone Who’ll Watch
Over Me (Baron’s Court Theatre);
Thérèse (GBS Theatre, RADA; also
translator); The Winter’s Tale (Old
Fire Station Studio, Oxford); Little
Eyolf; Macbeth (Burton Taylor Theatre,
Oxford); Nobody and Somebody
(Gulbenkian Studio).
As assistant director: Another Door
Closed (Peter Hall Compnay/Theatre
Royal Bath); Look Back in Anger; A
Doll’s House (Northern Stage,
Newcastle Upon Tyne/UK tour); Little
Women (Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre,
RADA).
PRODUCTION
THANK YOUS
Mike Brearley
David Taylor
Caroline Garland
Sophie Solomon (violin & viola)
Laura Anstee (cello)
Matthew Scott & David Gallagher at
the National Theatre music dept.
In accordance with the requirements of the Council of the London Borough of Islington, persons shall not be permitted to stand or sit in any of the
gangways intersecting the seating or to sit in any of the other gangways.
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