Breathing Corpses

Director

Anna's directing credits include: The Good John Proctor (Jermyn Street Theatre), Cheer Up Slug, Locker Room Talk, Rendezvous (Live Theatre, Newcastle), Look, No Hands (Pleasance/Summerhall, Edinburgh), Get Yourself Together (Royal Exchange, Manchester), Stupid (Northern Stage, Newcastle), Melva Mortal Fools, Shakespeare in Love (ArtsEd), Enron (Mountview), The Seagull (Drama Centre), This Restless House (Rose Bruford).

Associate/Assistant Director credits include: Arcadia (The Old Vic), A Role to Die For, A Sherlock Carol (Marylebone Theatre), Manhunt (Royal Court), The Whip, King John (RSC), Broken Biscuits (UK tour), Get Carter (Northern Stage, Newcastle) and Wet House (Live Theatre, Newcastle).

Set and Costume Designer

Anna trained as a theatre designer at the Moscow Arts Theatre School and Wimbledon School of Art. She has worked extensively on the London fringe, in drama schools and in regional theatres. Her productions include Becket, or The Honour of God by Jean Anouilh and Othello (Southwark Playhouse), The Alchemist by Ben Jonson (Cambridge Arts Theatre), Robbers by Lyle Kessler (Tristan Bates Theatre), and a wide variety of productions at East 15, ALRA and the Oxford School of Drama.

Lighting Designer

Will trained at The Central School of Speech and Drama and has worked freelance in professional lighting and lighting design since 2002. His work spans London’s West End (Why The Whales Came, I Believe in Unicorns, Aliens Love Underpants), International touring (The Way Back Home, The Night Before Christmas, Don’t let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!) and a wealth of children’s shows.

He has lit shows from Moscow to Glastonbury and from Hong Kong to Toronto. In 2011, he lit the inaugural show at the new Bush Theatre, the epic Sixty-Six Books with over 120 cast, 21 directors and a performance lasting a full 24 hours, which then transferred to a special one-night only performance in Westminster Abbey.

He has lit for Shakespeare’s Globe (Dream Space) and The Welsh language National Theatre; Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru (Estron). Will is also Associate Lighting Designer on the landmark production of An Inspector Calls (PW Productions/National Theatre).

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Creatives

Intimacy & Movement Director
Raniah Al-Sayed

Fight Director
Marcello Marascalchi

Voice Coach
Andrea Hazel Lewis

Sound Design Mentor
Rose Farbrother (They/Them)

Production Team

Production Manager
Naomi Wildridge (She/Her)

Wardrobe Supervisor
Nicola Cox

Stage Manager
Beke Langanke (She/Her) ∆∆

Deputy Stage Manager
Liam Fearon (He/Him) ∆∆

Assistant Stage Managers
Lucy Brown (She/Her) ∆
Gray Vibert (They/Them) ∆

Production Electrician
Joseph Lofthouse (He/Him) ∆

Production Sound Engineer
Carlos Quitumbo (He/Him) ∆

Lighting Programmer & Operator
Kayla Warham (She/Her) ∆

Lx Programming Mentor
Efa Jane

Scenic Construction Manager
Hannah Smith

Scenic Art Manager
Steven Peters

Scenic Artist & Prop Maker
Jimmy Wilkes

Scenic Artists
Lucy Brown ∆
Megan Elliott
Maisie Glover ∆
Francesca Wolff ∆∆

∆∆ PG Dip Stage and Production Management
student
∆ FdA/BA Technical Production student