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Director

James is Co-Artistic Director of Kandinsky Theatre Company and a Complicité Associate.

Credits as Writer/Director: More Life (Royal Court), The Winston Machine (New Diorama/UK tour), SHTF (Vienna Schauspielhaus), There Is a Light That Never Goes Out (Royal Exchange, Manchester), Dinomania (New Diorama), Trap Street (New Diorama/FIND Festival/Schaubuhne), Adaptor and Co-Director with Simon McBurney: Beware of Pity (Schaubuhne), The Kid Stays in the Picture (Royal Court), Co-Adaptor/Dramaturg with Jeff James: Winter’s Tale (Dailies Teatr, Latvia), Persuasion (Royal Exchange), Associate Director: Chimerica (West End) and Master and Margarita (Barbican).

Movement Director and Intimacy Support

Steve teaches movement at many of the country’s leading Drama Schools.

He trained at Mountview and has honed his skills over the last twenty years in numerous scripted, devised and physical theatre productions as a performer, co-creator and director notably working with Rufus Norris, John Cleese and Jenny Sealey.

In his role as Movement Director and Support at Mountview he has been involved with productions including Nativity, Richard II and Marat Sade.

Steve’s previous projects included creating a piece of devised theatre with students at Drama Studio London.

Costume Designer

Kat is a BA (Hons) Costume Design for Stage and Screen graduate from Wimbledon College of Art.

She is a costume supervisor at Mountview since May 2023 and has worked on a number of projects including most recently Curtains, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Spring Awakening, truth and reconciliation and She Loves Me.

Before Mountview, Kat worked on many productions at the Royal Opera House in the costume department.

She has over 10 years’ experience in a variety of costume roles in wardrobe hire, ballet, opera, musicals, plays and film.

Lighting Designer

Mark’s credits include: Once, Clybourne Park and Betty Blue Eyes (first national tours), Tony! Tony Blair the Rock Opera (Harry Hill and Stephen Brown), Sizwe Banzi is Dead (Mast Mayflower Made), The Standard Short Long Drop (nominated for Offie Best Lighting Design - The Vanguard, Camden), Ken (Terry Johnson and Hampstead), House and Garden (The Watermill), Return to the Forbidden Planet (25th Anniversary tour), Don’t Look Now (nominated for Offie Best Lighting Design - Queen’s Theatre), Michael Morpurgo’s Butterfly Lion (Kenwright), Dell Computers Gala (Buenos Aires), The Full Monty, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Oliver! (Bermuda City Hall), working with Willy Russell on Educating Rita and Breezeblock Park (Liverpool Playhouse), Shirley Valentine (Royal Court Liverpool), Pride and Prejudice, Farm Boy, The Hired Man and Kissing Sid James (New York E59).

Composer

Sonum is a Yorkshire-based musical director, composer and sound designer.

Credits as MD/pianist include: Guts! The Musical (Hull Truck Theatre, upcoming), Beauty and the Beast and Sleeping Beauty (Cast), Pinocchio, 71 Coltman Street and The Railway Children (Hull Truck), Spring and Port Wine (Bolton Octagon), Just an Ordinary Lawyer (Leeds University/Hull Truck), Aladdin (Buxton Opera House), Dick Whittington (Grange Theatre), Bring on the Bollywood (Belgrade Theatre), His Indian Boyfriend and Kat in Kixx (Theatre Royal Stratford East), John and Jen (Rosemary Branch), Swallows and Amazons (Bristol Old Vic), They’re Playing Our Song (Catford Broadway).

Credits as Composer and Sound Designer include: The Merry Wives of Windsor and Blue Stockings (Mountview), Jennie Lee and Red Sky at Night (Mikron Theatre), Lumbejills (Capitol Theatre), Ladies Unleashed (Hull Truck), Animalis Carnivale (Roehampton University), Favour (Bush Theatre), Arabian Nights (Hoxton Hall), Relativity (Finborough Theatre), Not the End of the World (Edinburgh Fringe), Rare Dreams and Persona (Youth Music Theatre UK) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Warhorse Theatre Works).

Assistant Director
Chris Lancaster *

Production Manager
Naomi Wildridge (she/her)

Deputy Production Manager
Connie Yip

Costume Supervisor
Naomi Wright

* MA Theatre Directing student

Stage Manager
Mikaela Mondale ¤

Deputy Stage Manager
Mae Pugsley Birch ¤

Rehearsal Assistant Stage Manager
Louisa Wright

Assistant Stage Managers
Fanis Christou ¤
Irene Saviozzi ¤

Production Electrician 
Jack Goodwin

Scenic Construction Manager
Hannah Smith (she/her)

Scenic Art Manager
Steven Peters (he/him)

Scenic Painters
Scarlett Fraser
Alex Holl
Amy Kennington

¤ Dip/FdA/BA Stage Management/Technical Production student