Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) has announced the cast of The Score, led by Brian Cox. The company, also featuring Cox’s wife, Nicole Ansari-Cox, reunites the original West End cast of the production for the U.S. premiere, coming to Washington, DC, this September. Rehearsals begin next week in the UK, with the play starting previews at STC’s Harman Hall on Friday, September 11, and officially opening on Wednesday, September 16.
Written by Oliver Cotton and directed by Trevor Nunn (Les Misérables, Cats),The Score features award-winning actor Cox as Johann Sebastian Bach and Ansari-Cox as Bach’s wife, Anna, in a story that pits creativity against the whims of power. Cox and Ansari-Cox have appeared in several works together, including under Nunn’s direction in the West End and Broadway productions of Rock ‘n’ Roll by Tom Stoppard.
Brian Cox’s career has spanned more than six decades, with stage and screen roles earning him two Olivier Awards, a Golden Globe Award for his role in the HBO hit Succession, and an Emmy Award for his portrayal of Hermann Goering in the TV film Nuremberg. Nicole Ansari-Cox has starred on stage and screen in the UK and U.S., including in the film Just Play Dead, and on the West End and Broadway.
In The Score, it’s spring 1747, and Bach has been summoned to the court of Frederick II, Europe’s most ambitious and dangerous leader. When the king presents Bach with a musical puzzle, the composer must confront how to rise to the challenge without forsaking his own morality.
Stephen Hagan returns to the role of the war-mongering King Frederick, set to put Bach to the ultimate musical test, and who engages him in a battle of wits and moral absolutes. Jamie Wilkes plays the role of Bach’s son, Carl, a composer in the court of Frederick, who walks the dangerous line of loyalty to soul versus king. He is joined by Christopher Staines, Toby Webster, and Matthew Romain as fellow court composers and musicians, Quantz, Benda, and Graun, respectively.
Rounding out the cast from the West End production are Juliet Garricks as Emilia; Peter De Jersey as philosopher and friend to Bach, Voltaire; and ensemble members and understudies Geoffrey Towers, Will Kerr, and Jordan Kilshaw.
The company also features two new actors to the ensemble, Claire Morrissey and Max Pink. Full cast and creatives are listed below.
In addition to Nunn and Cotton, the original creative team for the production are: Robert Jones, Set and Costume Designer; Johanna Town, Lighting Designer; and Sophie Cotton, Sound Designer and Additional Composition.
The Score runs September 11-October 18, 2026, in Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Harman Hall, 610 F St NW, Washington, DC. Tickets range from $43-$171 and are available online or by calling the box office at 202.547.1122.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
CAST (in alphabetical order)
Nicole Ansari-Cox, Anna
Brian Cox, Bach
Peter De Jersey, Voltaire
Juliet Garricks, Emilia
Stephen Hagan, Frederick
Will Kerr, Helstein, u/s Frederick
Jordan Kilshaw, u/s Quantz, Benda, Graun
Claire Morrissey, Bach’s Maid, u/s Anna, Emilia
Max Pink, u/s Carl, Helstein
Matthew Romain, Graun
Christopher Staines, Quantz
Geoffrey Towers, u/s Bach, Voltaire
Toby Webster, Benda
Jamie Wilkes, Carl
CREATIVE TEAM
Playwright, Oliver Cotton
Director, Trevor Nunn
Scenic & Costume Designer, Robert Jones
Lighting Designer, Johanna Town
Sound Design & Additional Composition, Sophie Cotton
CAST BIOGRAPHIES (in alphabetical order)
Nicole Ansari-Cox
Anna
Nicole Ansari-Cox is an award-winning actor, director, writer, and producer whose career spans cultures and languages across Europe and North America. She has worked with film directors such as Martin Campbell and Steven Soderbergh, appeared on stage in the West End and on Broadway under Trevor Nunn, and was a company member of Paris’s renowned Théâtre du Soleil, led by Ariane Mnouchkine. Nicole starred alongside her husband, Brian Cox, in the West End hit The Score, which will transfer to Washington, DC this fall. Her recent film and television credits include the UK sewage scandal drama Dirty Business with David Thewlis (Channel 4); Under the Stars (Amazon Prime, with Toni Collette and Andy Garcia); Just Play Dead (with Samuel L. Jackson and Eva Green); Winds of Change; Your Fault: London; Hotel Tehran (with Liam Neeson); and Glenrothan with Brian Cox and Alan Cumming. For Glenrothan, Nicole also served as second unit director and executive producer. The film opened nationwide in theaters across the UK on April 17. Nicole has directed two short films and the award-winning web series MESSY. She has also directed several productions for New York City’s Rubin Museum of Art. As a producer, her features include Blumenthal, As Good as Dead, Skelly, and Glenrothan.
Brian Cox
Bach
Brian Cox is known for his work across stage, television, and film. Recently he went behind the scenes with his feature directorial debut Glenrothan, a film shot on location in Scotland. Best known for his role in the HBO series Succession, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series, Cox is also the recipient of a Primetime Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series for his portrayal of Hermann Goering in Nuremberg. He appeared in numerous films including The Long Kiss Goodnight, The Boxer, Rushmore, Super Troopers, The Ring, 25th Hour, Troy, Red Eye, Zodiac, The Escapist, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Coriolanus, Manhunter, Churchill, The Bourne trilogy, as well as Little Wing, The Parenting, and The Electric State. Most recently, he joined the cast of Dexter: Resurrection season 2. An accomplished veteran of the stage, Cox won two Olivier Awards for Best Actor for his performances in Titus Andronicus and Rat in the Skull for the Royal Court. He starred in The Score at the Theatre Royal Bath, which transferred to the Theatre Royal Haymarket, and Long Day’s Journey Into Night. He also appeared in Make It Happen, which premiered to great acclaim at the Edinburgh Festival. His New York theater credits include St. Nicholas, which earned him the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Actor as well as Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations.
Peter De Jersey
Voltaire
RSC includes: Cymbeline, Imperium: Parts 1 and 2, Antony and Cleopatra, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Odyssey, As You Like It, Richard II, Troilus and Cressida, King Lear, A New Way to Please You, The Last Days of Don Juan, Sejanus, Believe What You Will, Hamlet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Theater includes: The Threepenny Opera (National Theatre); Coriolanus (Donmar Warehouse); Sixty-Six Books (Bush Theatre); Vernon God Little (Young Vic); House of Games (Almeida); Wuthering Heights (number one tour); The Illusion (Royal Exchange); Someone to Watch Over Me (Theatr Clwyd); War and Peace (National Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Richard III directed by Brian Cox (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Macbeth (US tour); Romeo and Juliet (US tour); Hamlet (Cheek by Jowl); Macbeth (Odyssey); Troilus and Cressida directed by Trevor Nunn (National Theatre) and Darker Face of Earth (National Theatre). Television includes: Sandman, Midsomer Murders, The Underground Railroad, The Wheel of Time, Warrior Nun, Line of Duty, Catastrophe, Doctor Foster, Atlantis, Exposed, The Smoke, Doctor Who, The Bible, Broadchurch, Lightfields, The Hollow Crown: Richard II, Silk, The Choir, The Bill, Rough Justice, Urban Gothic – ‘Cry Wolf’, Trial & Retribution, Doctors, Holby City, Waking the Dead, Dalziel and Pascoe, This Time With Alan Partridge and Sugar Rush. Film includes: The Bank Job, Out of Depth, Hamlet and Heads of State. Peter is an Associate Artist for the RSC.
Juliet Garricks
Emilia
Training: ALRA. Theater credits include: Uncle Vanya (Orange Tree) and The Doctor (West End and New York). Film and television credits include: Mr. Loverman, Casualty, Murder They Hope, South Facing, Reliable Witness and Phallacy.
Stephen Hagan
Frederick
Stephen trained at LAMDA.
This is his third time working with Trevor Nunn after Cyrano de Bergerac (Chichester Festival Theatre) and Dessert also by Oliver Cotton (Southwark Playhouse). Theatre credits include: Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors, The Tempest, Troilus and Cressida (RSC); End of the Rainbow (West End); The Giant (Hampstead Theatre); The York Realist (Riverside Studios) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Belfast Youth Lyric Theatre). Television credits include: You (Netflix); Hope Street (BBC); Stan Lee’s Lucky Man (Sky); The Larkins, Midsomer Murders, Injustice (ITV); Medici (Netflix) and Identity (CBS). Film credits include: A Royal Christmas (Hallmark Channel); Zoo (Wee Buns) and Risen (Sony Pictures).
Will Kerr
Helstein, u/s Frederick
Training: Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama 2021. Theatre: Courtier in The Score (Theatre Royal Bath); Paul/Officer in Yemi and Femi Go Windrush (King’s Head Theatre) and Earnest Vane in Masks and Faces (Finborough Theatre). Training credits: A Doll’s House, All That I Am, Twelfth Night: Remembered and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Other credits: The Cutty Sark Alive – Beyond Solace (voice-over) and Afrin (commercial).
Jordan Kilshaw
u/s Quantz, Benda, Graun
Claire Morrissey
Bach’s Maid, u/s Anna, Emilia
Max Pink
u/s Carl, Helstein
Matthew Romain
Graun
Matthew Romain trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and studied at the University of Glasgow. Theatre: The Grapes of Wrath (National Theatre); Onassis (Novello Theatre West End and Derby Playhouse) and The Shape of Things (Arts Theatre West End). Other theatre includes: Whodunnit [Unrehearsed] 3 (Park Theatre); Recognition (Talawa); The Indian Queen, Hamlet, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (tours); Faustus: That Damned Woman (Chester Storyhouse); The Mozart Question (Barn); Holes – also on tour, Pride and Prejudice – also Theatre Royal York (Nottingham Playhouse); Rage But Hope (Summerhall); Macbeth, The Inn at Lydda, King Lear, Hamlet (Shakespeare’s Globe); Blithe Spirit (Frinton Festival); The Borrowers, Sleeping Beauty (Watermill, Newbury); Before the Party (Salisbury Playhouse); The Delicate Art of Keeping in Touch (Lion and Unicorn); Twelfth Night (Orange Tree); The Recruiting Officer (Donmar); Privates on Parade, See How They Run, My Fair Lady and Trelawney of the ‘Wells’ (Pitlochry). Television: World on Fire and Sherlock. Film: The War Below and Blue Iguana.
Christopher Staines
Quantz
Theater credits include: Measure for Measure (Moving Stories); Waiting for Anya (Barn Theatre, Cirencester); Tamburlaine the Great, Massacre at Paris (Malthouse, Canterbury); The Rhythmics (The Other Palace); Abigail’s Party (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); Clockwork Canaries (Theatre Royal Plymouth); Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Storyhouse, Chester); The Philanderer, Flora the Red Menace (Orange Tree); The Great Gatsby (Arts Theatre); When Blair Had Bush and Bunga (Pleasance, Edinburgh); Playing for Time (Sheffield Crucible); Our Town (Almeida Theatre); solo version of Doctor Faustus (Rose Theatre, Bankside); The Hired Man (Leicester Curve); Arsenic and Old Lace, The Grapes of Wrath (Mercury Theatre, Colchester); King Lear, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Tobacco Factory); The Tempest (RSC); Blue/Orange (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); Longitude (Greenwich Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest, Paradise Lost, The Comedy of Errors (Bristol Old Vic); She Stoops to Conquer, Hamlet, The Zoo Story (National Theatre); Three Sisters (Chichester Festival Theatre); Gross Indecency – The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (Gielgud Theatre); Amy’s View (Aldwych Theatre/National); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Music Man, Richard III (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) and Cabaret (Donmar Warehouse). Film credits include: Impossible Planet and Mrs. Dalloway. Television credits include: The Crown, FBI: International, Silent Witness, Quiz, Wolf Hall, Garrow’s Law, On Expenses, Survivors, Judge John Deed, Casualty, Rosemary & Thyme, Foyle’s War, The Student Prince, Highlander, This Life and Pride and Prejudice.
Geoffrey Towers
u/s Bach, Voltaire
Royal National Theatre credits include: Jack Absolute Flies Again, Hansard, Oslo, Travelling Light and The Veil. West End theater credits include: Oslo, An Inspector Calls, The Homecoming, The Ruling Class, The Weir, Passion Play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Spring Awakening, Losing Louis and The Graduate. Further theatre credits: Henry V, Stalking the Bogeyman, Daisy Pulls It Off, Oh! What a Lovely War, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Monster, Romeo and Juliet, California Suite, The Deep Blue Sea, The Shadow Box, Patience, Patience, The Merchant of Venice, Doctor Faustus and Much Ado About Nothing. Television credits include: Doctors, Waking the Dead, EastEnders, Eroica, Casualty, Top Cops, Secret Service and Forever Knight. Geoffrey has also recorded novels for the Royal National Institute for the Blind.
Toby Webster
Benda
Theater includes: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Stafford Gatehouse); Whistle Down the Wind (Watermill); The Provoked Wife, Venice Preserved, Bottoms Up (RSC); Shakespeare in Love (Theatre Royal Bath/Eleanor Lloyd); Oedipus (Matchstick Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pride and Prejudice (Illyria); Macbeth (Infinite Jest); Oppenheimer (RSC West End transfer); Walking the Chains (Show of Strength); London Road (Bristol Old Vic) and Romeo and Juliet (New Mutiny Theatre Company). Film includes: London Road (National Theatre/Cuba Pictures). Television includes: Doctors (BBC) and Breaking the Band – ‘Alice Cooper’ (ITV)
Jamie Wilkes
Carl
Jamie trained at LAMDA. Theater credits include: The Forsyte Saga (Park Theatre); Twelfth Night: For One Night Only, The Comedy of Errors, Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare’s Globe); Cymbeline, Richard III, All’s Well That Ends Well, Henry VI Part I, The Two Noble Kinsmen, The Rover, Oppenheimer, The Shoemaker’s Holiday, Wendy & Peter Pan (RSC); The Wind of Heaven (Finborough Theatre); The Edit (Theatre503); Howl’s Moving Castle, The Boy James, Lorca Is Dead, Atrium, Tartuffe (Southwark Playhouse); Peter Pan, The Beggar’s Opera, Macbeth (York Theatre Royal); Pericles, Coriolanus, Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, The Tempest, Julius Caesar, The Taming of the Shrew, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Willow Globe); Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Antigone, Bensalem B&B, The Trial and The Tempest (Belt Up Theatre). Film credits include: Fair Play (Star Thrower Entertainment); Living (Number 9 Films); The Mountain (Sugar Films) and A Cup of Coffee With Marilyn (Redstring). Television credits include: The English (Drama Republic/BBC/Amazon); Finding Alice (ITV); His Dark Materials (BBC One/HBP); Catch 22 (Hulu); Vanity Fair (ITV/Amazon); Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams (Channel 4/Sony/Amazon); Mr. Selfridge (ITV) and Downton Abbey (ITV). Radio credits include: Homefront (BBC).
CREATIVE TEAM
Oliver Cotton
Playwright
Oliver Cotton trained at the Drama Centre, London. A year after graduating, he joined the National Theatre under the directorship of Laurence Olivier. His appearances at the RNT include: Love For Love, In His Own Write, As You Like It, The Royal Hunt of The Sun, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Oedipus, Summerfolk, Troilus and Cressida, Piano, The Crucible, Dispatches, The World Turned Upside Down, Half-Life, The Passion, The Madras House, Julius Caesar, Tales From the Vienna Woods, No Man’s Land, Hamlet, Tamburlaine. At the Old Vic he has appeared in: Life X 3, Richard II, A Flea in Her Ear and The Philadelphia Story – and at the Royal Court Theatre: Bingo, Man Is Man, The Duchess of Malfi, The Tutor, Erogenous Zones, Captain Oates Left Sock, The Local Stigmatic, Piano Forte. At the RSC he has appeared in: Some Americans Abroad, The Plain Dealer, The Plantagenets, The Marrying of Ann Leete, Brand and As You Like It. For Shakespeare’s Globe, King Henry IV parts I and II, Twelfth Night. In the West End he has starred in: An Ideal Husband, Benefactors); Children of a Lesser God, Brand. The Homecoming, Passion Play, Daytona. Oliver’s TV appearances include: The Borgias (Cesare Borgia), Killing Eve, Lovejoy, New Tricks, Assets, Penny Dreadful, Three Musketeers, David Copperfield, The Year of The French, The Party, Redemption, Poirot, The Camomile Lawn, Westbeach, Sharpe’s Battle Rhodes, All Quiet on the Preston Front, Innocents, Judge John Deed, Waking the Dead, Margaret, Money, Ripper Street. His Film credits Include: Here We Go Around the Mulberry Bush, The Day Christ Died, Baby Blue, The Dark Knight Rises, Tooting Broadway, Pope Joan, Out of the Ashes, Shanghai Knights, The Dancer Upstairs, Innocents, Beowulf, The Opium War, Eleni, The Innocent Sleep, Son of the Pink Panther, Christopher Columbus: The Discovery, Hiding Out, The Sicilian, Firefox, Oliver Twist, Us Among The Stones, The Last Duel. Oliver’s writing credits include (stage): The Enoch Show (Royal Court), Man Falling Down (Shakespeare’s Globe), Wet Weather Cover, (King’s Head &Tiffany Theatre, Los Angeles), Daytona, (The Park Theatre and Theatre Royal Haymarket), Dessert (Southwark Playhouse), The Score (Theatre Royal Bath). Film and TV: Singing for Stalin, Peeping Through, A Touch of Frost, Diamond Geezer, The English Game.
Trevor Nunn
Director
Trevor has now directed all thirty-seven of Shakespeare’s thirty-seven plays. For eighteen years, he was the Artistic Director of the RSC, directing much of the Shakespeare canon (including Macbeth with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench) and new works including the epic, multi-award-winning Nicholas Nickleby and Les Misérables (now the longest running musical in the world). He was later Director of the National Theatre, where his many award-winning productions included The Merchant Of Venice, Summerfolk, Oklahoma! and A Streetcar Named Desire. Trevor has directed the world premieres of Tom Stoppard’s Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia Trilogy and Rock ‘n’ Roll; and of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals Cats, Starlight Express, Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard and The Woman in White. At the Menier Chocolate Factory he has directed A Little Night Music (later in the West End and on Broadway), Love in Idleness, Fiddler on the Roof (also in the West End), Lettice and Lovage, The Bridges of Madison County and The Third Man. At the Old Vic, his productions include Hamlet, Richard II, Inherit the Wind and Kiss Me, Kate; and at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, Flare Path, The Tempest and The Lion in Winter. His work at Glyndebourne included Porgy and Bess, Cosi Fan Tutte and Peter Grimes. Work for television includes: Antony and Cleopatra (BAFTA Award); The Comedy of Errors; Macbeth; Three Sisters; Othello; King Lear; The Merchant of Venice; Porgy and Bess and the Emmy Award winning Oklahoma! with Hugh Jackman. Most recently Trevor has directed Pale Sister and Prisoner C33 for television, and in the theatre, the new musical Identical. He also directed the films Hedda (with Glenda Jackson, Oscar nominated for Best Actress), Lady Jane, Twelfth Night and Red Joan with Judi Dench.
Robert Jones
Set and Costume Designer
Over 30 West End productions include: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Ragtime, The Sound of Music (and Toronto, Paris, UK tour, Tokyo, China, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia), Much Ado About Nothing, The Dance of Death, The Girls, Benefactors, Heroes (and Los Angeles), Royal Albert Hall: The King and I; Cyrano de Bergerac, The Wizard of Oz (and Toronto, US and Australia); Duke of York’s and Broadway: Rock and Roll. As an Associate Artist of the RSC: The Boy in the Dress, Pentecost, Othello, Jubilee, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Eastward Ho!, The Herbal Bed, Venus and Adonis, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Henry VIII (and New York), The Winter’s Tale. For Chichester Festival Theatre: The Sound of Music, The Unfriend (also West End), Murder on the Orient Express, Oklahoma!, Strife, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, Mack and Mabel, Taken at Midnight (and Haymarket), Kiss Me, Kate (and Old Vic), Cyrano de Bergerac, Calendar Girls (and UK tour, West End, Canada, Australia), The Music Man, Hay Fever, Water Babies, Saturday Sunday… and Monday, When We Are Married (and West End), Quiz (and West End). Other theatre includes: Sadler’s Wells and UK tour: 42nd Street; Nottingham Playhouse: The Clothes They Stood Up In, Identical, The Madness of George III; Riverside Studios: Happy Days; Southbank Centre, Los Angeles, Chicago: The Light in the Piazza; Menier Chocolate Factory: Brian and Roger; Menier and Playhouse Theatre: Fiddler on the Roof; West End and Broadway: Look Back in Anger, Noises Off; National Theatre: Dancing at Lughnasa, The Playboy of the Western World, The Motherf*er with the Hat, Tartuffe; Donmar: City of Angels, Sweet Charity, Lobby Hero, The Physicists, A Voyage Round My Father, Black Comedy, The Vote, One Night in Miami, Saint Joan, Committee; Almeida: The Mercy Seat, Filumena, Ruined, There Came a Gypsy Riding, The Late Henry Moss; Pericles (New York); Kiln Theatre: The Wife of Willesden, Pass Over, Blues in the Night, Holy Sh!t, Fabulation, Greta Garbo Came to Donegal; West End, tour: The Full Monty. Opera productions: most recently Orfeo at Garsington Opera, numerous productions at The Met, Glyndebourne, Chicago, Madrid, Frankfurt, Vienna, Tokyo, Sydney, Paris and Berlin.
Johanna Town
Lighting Designer
Theater credits include: Theatre Royal Bath: The Homecoming; RSC: The Tempest, Don Quixote; West End/UK tour: Vardy V Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial; Original Theatre Company/59e59, New York: The Habit of Art, Being Mr Wickham; Theatr Clwyd: The Famous Five: A New Musical; UK tour/Canada: Fisherman’s Friends The Musical; Nottingham Playhouse/Kenny Wax Productions: Identical; Hampstead Theatre: Peggy for You, The Memory of Water, The Death of a Black Man; Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: The Hypochondriac, Paper, Julius Caesar, Rutherford and Son; Bridge: Two Ladies; Chichester Festival Theatre: The Butterfly Lion, The Sound of Music, The Watsons, The Norman Conquests, Fracked; ZooNation: Some Like it Hip Hop; Big Broad Productions: Crush The Musical; Royal Exchange, Manchester: Guys and Dolls, Queen Margaret, Frankenstein, The House of Bernarda Alba. Opera credits include: The Grange: The Queen of Spades, Orfeo ed Euridice/Dido and Aeneas, Così fan tutte, Tamerlano; Royal Danish Opera: Porgy and Bess; Estonian National Opera: Rinaldo; Scottish Opera: Carmen, Kátya Kabanová, The Secret Marriage. Johanna is the Chair of the Association for Lighting Production and Design, and a Fellow of Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Sophie Cotton
Sound Designer and Additional Composition
Since graduating from the Royal College of Music, Sophie has worked as a composer, arranger and sound designer, including productions at the RSC and as a Music Associate at The National Theatre. Some recent highlights include: Royal Ballet/GDIF 2023: Sleepwalker; Told by An Idiot/New Vic, dir. Paul Hunter: The Killing of Sister George; RSC, dir. Erica Whyman: Romeo and Juliet; Park Theatre: The Winner’s Curse (dir. Jez Bond), Rosenbaum’s Rescue (dir. Kate Fahy), Little Black Book (dir. Kate Fahy); short film, Royal Ballet/Rambert: Where We Are; Assistant Orchestrator – HBO, dir. Will Sharpe: Landscapers; York Theatre Royal, dir Juliet Forster: A View from the Bridge; Out of Joint/Royal & Derngate, dir. Chris Haydon: The Remains of the Day; BFI/Shakespeare’s Globe, dir. Bill Barclay: Play On; Time and Tide (winner of Best Short Film at London Independent Film Awards); Birmingham Rep/tour, dir. Stephen Harper: All You Need Is LSD; Hull Truck, dir. Mark Babych: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian and Mighty Atoms; Bang Bang (dir. Nicky Henson and written by John Cleese); St James’s Theatre, dir. Guy Slater: Don’t Wake Me: The Ballad of Nihal Armstrong.
SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY
For 40 years, the Tony Award-winning Shakespeare Theatre Company has been recognized as the nation’s premier classical theater. Classical plays are realized best not by originalism but by walking the path Shakespeare himself followed, creating works that spoke to his own contemporary audience. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Simon Godwin and Executive Director Angela Lee Gieras, STC tells vital stories in audacious forms, stories that are Shakespearean in the deepest sense, even if, and especially when, they are not written by Shakespeare. By focusing on works with profound themes and complex characters, STC’s artistic mission is unique among regional theaters: to bring to vibrant life groundbreaking, thought-provoking, and eminently accessible theater.
THEATRE ROYAL BATH
Theatre Royal Bath consists of an historic Main House, the Ustinov Studio and the Egg Theatre. Theatre Royal Bath Productions is the Theatre Royal Bath’s production arm. West End credits include: Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party, (Piccadilly Theatre); Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr Sloane (Arts Theatre); Ron Hutchinson’s The Beau (Theatre Royal Haymarket); David Williamson’s Up for Grabs (Wyndham’s Theatre); Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party (New Ambassadors/Whitehall Theatre); Shakespeare’s R & J (Arts Theatre); Harold Pinter’s Betrayal (Duchess Theatre); Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days (Arts Theatre); Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser (Duke of York’s Theatre); Bernard Shaw’s You Never Can Tell (Garrick Theatre); David Hare’s Amy’s View (Garrick Theatre); Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest (Vaudeville Theatre); John Mortimer’s Legal Fictions (Savoy Theatre); Terence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea (Vaudeville Theatre); Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion (Old Vic); Alan Bennett’s Enjoy (Gielgud Theatre); Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker (Trafalgar Studios); Noël Coward’s Private Lives (Vaudeville Theatre); Bernard Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession (Comedy Theatre); Sheridan’s The Rivals (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit (Apollo Theatre); Alan Bennett’s The Madness of George III (Apollo Theatre); Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party (Wyndham’s); David Hare’s The Judas Kiss (Duke of York’s); Simon Gray’s Quartermaine’s Terms (Wyndham’s Theatre); Alan Ayckbourn’s Relatively Speaking (Wyndham’s Theatre); August Wilson’s Fences (Duchess Theatre); Julian Mitchell’s Another Country (Trafalgar Studios); Noël Coward’s Relative Values (Harold Pinter Theatre); David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow (Playhouse Theatre); Joshua Harmon’s Bad Jews (Arts Theatre/Theatre Royal Haymarket); Noël Coward’s Hay Fever (Duke of York’s Theatre); Florian Zeller’s The Father (Wyndham’s Theatre/Duke of York’s Theatre); Mrs Henderson Presents (Noël Coward Theatre); Stephen Jeffreys’s The Libertine (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Harold Brighouse’s Hobson’s Choice (Vaudeville Theatre); Richard Harris’s Stepping Out (Vaudeville Theatre); Daniel Kehlmaan’s The Mentor (Vaudeville Theatre); Joanna Murray Smith’s Switzerland (Ambassadors Theatre); Arthur Miller’s The Price (Wyndham’s Theatre); David Mamet’s Oleanna (Arts Theatre); Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit (Harold Pinter Theatre); Ralph Fiennes in T S Eliot’s Four Quartets (Harold Pinter Theatre); Michael Frayn’s Noises Off (Phoenix Theatre and Theatre Royal Haymarket); Noël Coward’s Private Lives (Ambassadors Theatre); Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal (Old Vic); Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge (Theatre Royal Haymarket); The Score by Oliver Cotton (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Terence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea (Theatre Royal Haymarket); A Man For All Season’s by Robert Bolt (Harold Pinter Theatre), and David Hare’s Grace Pervades (Theatre Royal Haymarket). Abigail’s Party by Mike Leigh is currently playing at the Harold Pinter Theatre.
