CHRISTINE JONES

Co-Creator and Co-Director, AMP Scenography

Christine Jones is a theatre artist, designer and director. She is the creator and artistic director of Theater For One, a private portable performance space for one actor and one audience member, director of Queen of the Night, the Drama Desk Award-winning sensational immersive nightclub experience and co-conceiver/director with Steven Hoggett and David Byrne of SOCIAL!, a socially distanced dance club created for the Park Avenue Armory in 2021. As a set designer, Tony and Olivier award-winning projects include The Outsiders, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, American Idiot and Spring Awakening. Jones founded AMP Scenography with Brett J. Banakis, a design collective amplifying emerging and underrepresented designers through equitable collaborations. They are working with Sadra Tehrani to create the scenography for this production.

Other collaborations include working with Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood as a curator for their interactive experience-based KID A MNESIA Exhibition, with Rag & Bone as a live event director, with Banakis on the scenography for Father John Misty’s Mahashmashana tour and with multiple playwrights, poets and producers presenting Theatre for One at places such as Cork Midsummer Festival, Times Square and with LOT-EK architects at the Chicago Architecture Biennial. She is currently a professor at New York University and an artist-in-residence at the Park Avenue Armory.

STEVEN HOGGETT

Co-Creator and Co-Director

Steven Hoggett’s work in theatre includes, as director: Discoshow at The LINQ Las Vegas, Burn for National Theatre Scotland and The Joyce Theater, New York, SOCIAL! The social distance dance club at Park Avenue Armory and Close to You: Bacharach Reimagined at NYTW and in the West End. As choreographer, his work includes: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (nominated for Best Theatre Choreographer, Olivier Awards 2018) in the West End, on Broadway and internationally, The Glass Menagerie (also Edinburgh International Festival), Once (also West End), Sweeney Todd, A Beautiful Noise, Angels in America, The Crucible, The Last Ship, Rocky: The Musical (nomination for Best Choreography, Tony Awards 2014), Peter and the Starcatcher (nominated for Outstanding Choreography, Drama Desk Awards 2011) and American Idiot on Broadway, Nye, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, The Light Princess and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (also West End and Broadway, nominated for Best Choreographer, Olivier Awards 2013, and Best Choreography, Tony Awards 2015) at the National Theatre, Let the Right One In for the National Theatre of Scotland and at St. Ann’s Warehouse, New York. As movement/ associate director: Black Watch (winner of Best Choreographer, Olivier Awards 2009) for National Theatre Scotland and at St Ann’s Warehouse, New York. As a founding member of Frantic Assembly, Hoggett also co-wrote, with Scott Graham, The Frantic Assembly Book of Devising Theatre.

THOM YORKE

Co-Creator and Orchestrator

Thom Yorke is a musician, composer and visual artist, best known as lead singer and principal songwriter of Radiohead. Outside his work with Radiohead, he has released three solo albums, The Eraser, Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes and ANIMA, and fronted the band Atoms for Peace to release the album AMOK. Most recently, he formed The Smile alongside fellow Radiohead bandmate Jonny Greenwood and jazz drummer Tom Skinner. In quick succession, The Smile recorded and released three studio albums: A Light for Attracting Attention (2022), Wall of Eyes and Cutouts (both 2024). Yorke’s contributions to film and theatre include original scores for Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria (2018) and for Daniele Luchetti’s Confidenza (2024) and music for Douglas Hodge’s 2015 stage production of Harold Pinter’s Old Times. Yorke continues to make visual art with artist and longtime creative collaborator Stanley Donwood. Together, they have produced cover art across Radiohead and Yorke’s music catalogue, including Hail to the Thief. 2021 saw the release of the KID A MNESIA Exhibition, a downloadable and interactive experience based on art and music from the Radiohead albums Kid A and Amnesiac, together with two art books, KID A MNESIA and Fear Stalks the Land!. A retrospective exhibition of their work will go on display at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford in August 2025.

AMP

Scenography

AMP is a Tony-nominated collective founded by Brett J. Banakis and Christine Jones to amplify emerging and underrepresented designers by engaging in equitable collaborations. This production features a collaboration with Iranian- born set and production designer Sadra Tehrani. Credits as AMP Scenography: The Outsiders (Broadway, Tony nomination), John Proctor is the Villain (Broadway), Gabriel Kahane’s Magnificent Bird/Book of Travelers (Playwrights Horizons) and Working Girl (La Jolla Playhouse). Banakis, Jones and Tehrani all received their Master of Fine Arts from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

SADRA TEHRANI

AMP ft. Sadra Tehrani

Sadra Tehrani is an Iranian-born scenographer, production designer and concept artist based in New York City. His past design work has been featured in The New York Times, BroadwayWorld, Time Out New York and CIVILIAN Hotel. Tehrani is a member of United Scenic Artists and the Production Designers Collective. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Production Design from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Master of Science in Architecture from Penn State University. His recent credits include: Assistant Art Director for Manifest (Season 4, Netflix), YOU (Season 5, Netflix) and The Terror: The Devil in Silver (AMC Networks), Concept Artist for The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (AMC Networks), Mr. Crocket and The Mill (Hulu) and The Beauty (20th Television), Scenic Designer for Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer-winning English (Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, The Old Globe, San Diego) and Associate Production Designer for Florence + The Machine’s 2022 Dance Fever Tour (Production Design by Es Devlin and Jason Ardizzone-West).

JUSTIN LEVINE

Arrangements

Justin Levine is a New York based composer, arranger, music supervisor and performer. His projects include: The Outsiders (Jacobs Theatre, nominated for Best Musical, Orchestrations, Book of a Musical and Original Score, Tony Awards 2024), Moulin Rouge! The Musical (Broadway, World Tour, winner of Best Musical, Tony Awards 2021), Here Lies Love (Broadway, Public Theater, National Theatre, Seattle Rep, MASS MoCA), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Delacorte Theater, nominated for Outstanding Music in a Play, Drama Desk Awards 2018), Met Gala, Vevo x Lorde: Melodrama (conceived

by Lorde, Electric Lady Studios), Contemporary Color (conceived by David Byrne, Barclays Center), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Public Theater, Broadway), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Delacorte Theatre), Robber Bridegroom (with Martin Lowe, Roundabout Theatre) and Murder Ballad (Manhattan Theatre Club).

JESS WILLIAMS

Choreography

Jess Williams trained at the London Contemporary Dance School and Trinity Laban. Recent work as a Movement Director includes: Nye and Up Next Gala (National Theatre), Richard III (The Globe), Lost and Found (Factory International, Aviva Studios), Rope, Mother Goose and Celebrated Virgins (Theatr Clwyd), Byth Bythoedd Amen and Merched Caerdydd (Theatr Cymru), The

Boy with Two Hearts (The Wales Millennium Centre, The National Theatre), Little Piece of You (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Around the World in 80 Days (Theatre by the Lake), Blood Harmony and Petrichor (UK Tours), Sorry, I Disappeared (Derby Theatre), A Walk is Not Just a Walk (Lyric Theatre Belfast), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (English Theatre Frankfurt), Constellations (National Centre for Performing Arts, Mumbai). As Associate Director or Associate Movement Director: I Think We Are Alone, The Unreturning and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Frantic Assembly), The Ocean at the End of the Lane and Beginning (National Theatre) and Dracula: Mina’s Reckoning (National Theatre of Scotland). Williams is a creative practitioner for Frantic Assembly and ThickSkin Theatre. As a teacher, she has led workshops and masterclasses in devising and physicality all over the world.

TOM BRADY

Musical Supervisor / Keys 2

Tom Brady is a UK-based music supervisor, music director, composer, arranger and orchestrator. His recent credits include: Guys & Dolls (Bridge Theatre), Oklahoma! (Young Vic), Pinocchio (National Theatre), Caroline, or Change and Show Boat (West End), The Magician’s Elephant and The Empress (RSC), Romantics Anonymous (Bristol Old Vic, US Tour), Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Sheffield Crucible), Flowers for Mrs Harris and Fiddler on the Roof (Chichester Festival Theatre). His film credits include: The Choral (Sony Pictures). Brady was nominated for an Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Contribution for his work on Guys & Dolls.He studied at Oxford University and the Royal Academy of Music.

GARETH FRY

Sound Design

Gareth Fry’s work includes productions for Complicité, National Theatre of Scotland, National Theatre, Royal Court, Bridge Theatre, Old Vic, Young Vic, in the West End and many more. He has designed exhibitions including the V&A’s David Bowie Is, Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser and DIVA and events such as the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games. He is a specialist in the use of spatial and binaural sound, used in Complicité’s The Encounter, the BBC’s The Dark Is Rising, numerous VR experiences, podcasts and advertising campaigns, including for Bose, Volvo and Land Rover. His work in VR has been featured at the Tribeca, Vienna and Sundance festivals. He is a founder of and spent six years as the chair of the Association of Sound Designers (now the Association for Sound Design and Production), a charity that works to support people working in and entering the UK theatre sound industry. Fry is an honorary fellow of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. He is the author of Sound Design for the Stage, published in 2019 by The Crowood Press. His awards include three Olivier Awards, two Tony Awards, two Drama Desk Awards, two Helpmann Awards and an Evening Standard Theatre Award.

WILL DUKE

Projection Design

Will Duke is a video and projection designer working internationally across opera, theatre, dance, musical theatre and experimental performance. His theatre credits include: Khovanshchina (Salzburg Festival), Figures in Extinction (Aviva Studios), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC, Barbican), Passing Strange (Young Vic), Macbeth (English Touring Theatre), Into The Woods (Theatre Royal Bath), Girl on an Altar (Kiln Theatre, Abbey Theatre, Dublin), The Meaning of Zong (Bristol Old Vic), The Long Goodbye (Manchester International Festival), Grief is the Thing with Feathers (Barbican, St. Ann’s Warehouse, New York), The Encounter (Barbican, International Tour, Golden Theatre, Broadway), Pygmalion (West Yorkshire Playhouse) and Queen Anne (RSC). His dance and opera credits include: The Handmaid’s Tale (San Francisco Opera, Royal Danish Opera), Breaking The Waves (Detroit Opera, Opéra-Comique, Paris), Peter Grimes (Teatro alla Scala), Don Giovanni (Gothenburg Opera), Wozzeck (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence), Carmen (Scottish Opera), Nixon In China (Teatro Real, Madrid), Cabaret (Théâtre du Lido, Paris), Coppélia (Scottish Ballet) and The Life and Death of Alexander Litvinenko (Grange Park Opera).

JESSICA HUNG HAN YUN

Lighting Design

Jessica Hung Han Yun’s theatre credits include: Fangirls (Lyric Hammersmith), Alma Mater (Almeida Theatre), Once On This Island (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), My Neighbour Totoro (Barbican), The Mirror and the Light (Gielgud Theatre), Withnail and I (Birmingham Rep), Minority Report (Nottingham Playhouse), The Good Person of Szechwan (Sheffield Crucible), The Glow and Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner (Royal Court, Public Theater, New York, Wooly Mammoth, Washington, DC), Anna X (The Lowry, Harold Pinter Theatre), Marys Seacole and Blindness (Donmar Warehouse), Equus (Theatre Royal Stratford East, English Touring Theatre, Trafalgar Theatre, UK Tour) and One (HOME, UK Tour, International Tour). Her dance credits include: HOME and Twice-Born (Sadler’s Wells). Other events include: DIVA (V&A) and Guardians of the Galaxy (Secret Cinema). Her awards include an Olivier Award and WhatsOnStage Award for Best Lighting Design for My Neighbour Totoro and a Knight of Illumination Award for Plays and Off West End Award for Best Lighting Design for Equus.

LISA DUNCAN

Costume Design

Lisa Duncan studied Fashion Design and pattern cutting, before becoming a Fashion Editor and Stylist for major glossies including Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire and Interview magazine. Duncan completed an MA in Costume Design at the London College of Fashion in 2012. Since then, she has designed for film, television, and theatre, working alongside acclaimed names such as Michaela Coel, Thomas Kail, Michael Keillor, Florian Zeller, Alex Garland and Steve McQueen. She designed The Normal Heart (National Theatre, directed by Dominic Cooke) and Get Up, Stand Up! (Lyric Theatre, directed

by Clint Dyer). Her most recent credits are for We Were the Lucky Ones (Hulu) and the upcoming Amadeus (Sky, directed by Julian Farino).

CHARLOTTE SUTTON CDG

Casting Director

Charlotte Sutton CDG is the Head of Casting at the Royal Shakespeare Company, where her credits include Hamlet, The Red Shoes, Pericles and Love’s Labour’s Lost. She is an Artistic Associate of the Young Vic, where her credits include Best of Enemies (also West End), Fairview, Death of

a Salesman (also West End), The Convert, trade and Dutchman. She was the Casting Associate at Chichester Festival Theatre from 2017–2023, where her credits included: The Inquiry, Assassins, Local Hero, The Famous Five, Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads, Our Generation (also National Theatre – for which Sutton won the 2023 CDG award for Best Casting in Theatre), Doubt, Oklahoma!, The Deep Blue Sea, The Watsons, Cock, Flowers for Mrs Harris, The Meeting, random/generations, Quiz, Fiddler on the Roof, Caroline, or Change (also West End), Strife and Mack and Mabel. Other theatre credits include: Wild Rose (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh), Guys and Dolls (Bridge Theatre – for which Sutton won the 2024 CDG award for Best Casting in Musical Theatre), The Secret Life of Bees (Almeida Theatre), South Pacific (Sadler’s Wells, Chichester Festival Theatre and UK tour), Cock (Ambassadors Theatre), Company (Gielgud Theatre), Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Wyndham’s, Brooklyn Academy of Music and Mark Taper Forum, LA), Nell Gwynn (ETT Tour and Shakespeare’s Globe), My Brilliant Friend (Rose and National Theatre), The Pitchfork Disney and Killer (Shoreditch Town Hall), Much Ado About Nothing (Theatr Clwyd), Annie Get Your Gun, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Waiting for Godot and Queen Coal (Sheffield Theatres), Henry V and Twelfth Night Re-Imagined (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), wonder.land, The Light Princess, Emil and the Detectives and The Elephantom (National Theatre).

AYANNA THOMPSON

Dramaturg and Textual Consultant

Ayanna Thompson has worked on the Broadway productions of Romeo and Juliet, Uncle Vanya and Macbeth. She serves as a Shakespeare Scholar-in-Residence at The Public Theater in New York and currently serves on the boards of the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the National Parks Arts Foundation and Play On Shakespeare. The author of numerous books including Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America (Oxford University Press), she is a Regents Professor of English and Executive Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University.

FRANCESCA MURRAY-FUENTES

Associate Director

Francesca Murray-Fuentes is a British-Chilean director and theatre-maker. She was the Associate Director for Royal Shakespeare Company’s Pericles. Her selected theatre credits as Director include: The Last Taboo of Motherhood? (Fuel Theatre), Frida (Leeds Opera Festival), Alice in Wonderland (Theatre on Kew), Love in the Time of Corona (Jermyn Street Theatre – also as Writer), Doggerland and Silent Statues (National Youth Theatre), Dance Protest (Bunker Theatre), La Llorona (Dance City – as Dramaturg), King Lear (Rose Bruford College), Ref! Crossing the Line (Space2) and The Runner (Theatre Deli, Oxford Playhouse, Edinburgh Fringe). Her theatre credits as Associate or Assistant include: When You Pass Over My Tomb (Arcola Theatre), Quiz and Local Hero (Chichester Festival Theatre), Blue/Orange (Royal and Derngate, Oxford Playhouse, Bath Theatre Royal), Mother Courage (Albion Electric Warehouse), The Damned United (Leeds Playhouse, Derby Playhouse), 84 Charing Cross Road (Cambridge Arts Theatre), Happiness Engineers (Barbican), Into the Woods, Richard III and The Night Before Christmas (Leeds Playhouse), Every You Every Me, Children of the Night and Cinderella (Oxford Playhouse) and Red Riding Hood: The Rock ‘n’ Roll Panto (Mountview). Murray-Fuentes trained on the Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Directing at Birkbeck and has been Resident Director at Oxford Playhouse and Resident Assistant Director at Leeds Playhouse. In 2021 she was recognised by The Stage 100 list for extraordinary achievements and support for the theatre industry during the pandemic. Her play The Runner was nominated for the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award. She is also currently on the RSC’s Artist Development scheme.

ANNA BERENTZEN

Assistant Director

Anna Berentzen is a director and theatre maker from Stockport. She studied at LIPA and worked professionally as an actor before training at the Royal Exchange Theatre on their Young Directors programme. Since then, Berentzen has worked in theatres across the UK with credits including: Leave No Trace (Buxton Opera House), Astronauts (Royal Exchange) and A Very Odd Birthday Party (UK Tour). Most recently, Berentzen worked with Buxton Opera House to develop and deliver an exceptional and wide-reaching programme which aims to engage new artists, audiences and participants across the High Peak area, including co-directing and project managing immersive theatre in the caves and forests surrounding Buxton. Alongside this, she works as a Mentor Director for National Theatre Connections. In 2022, Berentzen was selected to join the Headlong Origins cohort, upskilling and working with award-winning artists. Between 2020 and 2023 she led the Young Company Performers at the Royal Exchange Theatre, working with young people across Greater Manchester. Berentzen is also co-founder of Hawkseed Theatre, which aims to develop, support and celebrate new writing that raises the voice of those often under or misrepresented on stage. Through this, she has directed numerous R&Ds, workshops and a UK tour. Berentzen is particularly passionate about developing sustainable approaches to creating theatre including projects that actively engage audiences who often face barriers when accessing the theatre. Berentzen is partially deaf and has first-hand experience of the barriers that deaf people face in theatre and the wider community. She is currently learning British Sign Language and is working towards her Level 4 qualification.