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  DANCE INCLUDES: Rhapsody (Royal Ballet), The Soldier’s Tale (ROH2), The Canterville Ghost (ENB), Pineapple Poll (Birmingham Royal Ballet), Darkness & Light (Tokyo).

  AWARDS INCLUDE: 2008 Knight of Illumination Award for Parade

  TOM BEARD (Roland)

  THEATRE INCLUDES: For Services Rendered (Newbury Watermill); Private Lives (Ipswich); The Holy Terror (Duke of York’s); Three Sisters (Playhouse Theatre) The Tempest, Pericles, Henry VI Parts 1,2 & 3 (RSC); Macbeth (Sheffield Crucible); Hamlet (Gielgud); She Stoops to Conquer (Queen’s Theatre); Becket (Haymarket Theatre).

  TELEVISION INCLUDES: Kingdom, Wallander, Ten Days to War, Midsomer Murders, George Gently, The Fixer, The Whistleblowers, Clapham Junction. Silent Witness, Party Animals, Spooks, Robin Hood, Six Degrees of Francis Bacon, The Government Inspector, Rosemary & Thyme, Holby City, Murder City, EastEnders, In Defence, Poirot, Wing & A Prayer, Aristocrats, Staying Alive (series I & II), The Investigator, McCallum, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Soldier Solder, Peak Practice, Harnessing Peacocks, Unnatural Pursuits, Boon, Jewels, Heartbeat, Bad Girl.

  FILM INCLUDES: Vanity Fair.

  FINN BENNETT (Finn)

  THEATRE INCLUDES: A Christmas Carol (King’s Head).

  GEORGIA GROOME (Cassie)

  Tusk Tusk is Georgia’s professional stage debut.

  FILM INCLUDES: Leaving Eva, Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, The Disappeared, The Cottage, My Mother, London to Brighton.

  CAROLINE HARKER (Katie)

  FOR THE ROYAL COURT: The Strip, Editing Process.

  OTHER THEATRE INCLUDES: All Mouth (Menier Chocolate Factory); Entertaining Angels (Chichester Festival Theatre); Present Laughter (No 1 Tour); Battle Royal (National); Falling (Hampstead); Things We Do for Love (West End); Life Goes On (Basingstoke Theatre); A Mongrel’s Heart (Royal Lyceum Theatre); Hidden Laughter (UK Tour); Sweet Charity, Daisy Pulls It Off, Don Juan (Harrogate Theatre).

  TELEVISION INCLUDES: The Commander, The Man Who Lost His Head, Margaret, Murder in Suburbia, Foyle’s War, Auf Wiedersehen Pet, Hans Christian Anderson, I Saw You, Armadillo, Keeping Mum, A Touch of Frost, Kavanagh QC, Casualty, A Dance to the Music of Time, Holding On, Moll Flanders, Harry Enfield & Chums, Honey for Tea, Middlemarch, Covington Cross, Riders, Growing Rich, Chancer, Midsomer Murders.

  FILM INCLUDES: A Woman of the North, The Madness of King George.

  RADIO INCLUDES: Snobs, If I Should Go Away, Westwood, Mrs Henderson’s Christmas Party, Best Foot Forward, The Golden Pavements, The Swish of the Curtain, Still Life.

  JEREMY HERRIN (Director)

  FOR THE ROYAL COURT: The Vertical Hour, That Face (& Duke of York’s).

  OTHER THEATRE AS DIRECTOR INCLUDES: Marble (Abbey, Dublin); A Family Reunion (Donmar); Sudden Collapses in Public Places (Sage, Gateshead/Live Theatre); Gathered Dust and Dead Skin, The Lovers, Our Kind of Fun, Toast, Dirty Nets, Smack Family Robinson, Attachments, From the Underworld (Live Theatre); The Last Post (tour/Live Theatre); Personal Belongings (Edinburgh Festival/Live Theatre); ne1(Theatre Royal, Newcastle/Live Theatre); Knives in Hens (Live Theatre/Northumbria Academy).

  FOR THE ROYAL COURT, AS ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: My Night with Reg, Babies, Thyestes, The Kitchen.

  FILM & TELEVISION INCLUDES: The Inventor, Linked, Dead Terry, Warmth, Cold Calling.

  Jeremy is an Associate Director at the Royal Court.

  ROBERT INNES HOPKINS (Designer)

  FOR THE ROYAL COURT: The Pain and the Itch, Redundant.

  RECENT THEATRE INCLUDES: Marble (Abbey, Dublin); Dallas Sweetman (Canterbury Cathedral); Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night (Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park); The Member of the Wedding (Young Vic); Our Country’s Good (Liverpool Playhouse); Carousel (Chichester Festival Theatre).

  OPERA INCLUDES: Rape of Lucretia (Snape Maltings); Billy Budd (Santa Fe Opera); Carmen (Bolshoi); Lohengrin (Geneva Opera) Rigoletto (Lyric Opera, Chicago); Betrothal in a Monastery (Glyndebourne); Die Soldaten (Ruhr Triennale/Lincoln Center Festival.

  AWARDS INCLUDE: Opernwelt Set Designer of the Year 2007 for Die Soldaten.

  NATALIE IBU (Assistant Director)

  AS ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR THE ROYAL COURT: Seven Jewish Children, Wig Out!, The Girlfriend Experience.

  AS DIRECTOR, THEATRE INCLUDES: Starlings, God & All That, Cocks & Robbers, Ashes, What’s Lost (readings, Royal Court); The Red Shoes Re-heeled (Royal Lyceum Youth Theatre, Edinburgh); We Were … Re-imagining the Mother (G12, Glasgow); We Were … In Development (Citizens’, Glasgow); We Were … In a Cafe (Gramofon, Glasgow); Say What … (Arches Scratch, Glasgow); I Know All The Secrets In My World… (Contact, Manchester); Women's Voices (NewWriting NewWorlds, Glasgow); Hang Up, Lesson Learned (Citizens' Young Company, Glasgow); Blooded (Fresh Perspectives, Mansfield); Road (De Montfort Univsersity, Leicester).

  AS ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, THEATRE INCLUDES: Zameen (Kali Theatre, London); Fugee (Royal Lyceum Youth Theatre, Edinburgh); Peter Pan, Desire Under the Elms (Citizens', Glasgow); The Shadow of a Pie (Lung Ha's Theatre Company, Edinburgh); The Ghost Downstairs, The Butterfly Lion (New Perspectives Theatre Company, East Midlands).

  Natalie is Trainee Director at the Royal Court, supported by ITV under the ITV Theatre Director Scheme.

  EMMA LAXTON (Sound Designer)

  FOR THE ROYAL COURT: Faces in the Crowd, That Face (& Duke of York’s), Gone Too Far!, Catch, Scenes From The Back Of Beyond, Woman and Scarecrow, The World's Biggest Diamond, Incomplete & Random Acts of Kindness, My Name is Rachel Corrie (& Playhouse/Minetta Lane, New York/GalwayFestival/Edinburgh Festival), Bone, The Weather, Bear Hug, Terrorism, Food Chain.

  OTHER THEATRE INCLUDES: Wrecks, Broken Space Season,2000 Feet Away, Tinderbox (Bush); Treasure Island (Theatre Royal Haymarket); A Chistmas Carol (Chichester Festival Theatre); Welcome to Ramallah (iceandfire); Pornography (Birmingham Rep/Traverse); Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat (National); Europe (Dundee Rep/Barbican Pit); Other Hands (Soho); The Unthinkable (Sheffield Crucible); My Dad’s a Birdman (Young Vic); The Gods Are Not To Blame (Arcola); Late Fragment (Tristan Bates).

  AUSTIN MOULTON (Finn)

  THEATRE INCLUDES: Fiddler on the Roof (UK Tour); Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (Bill Kenwright).

  OPERA INCLUDES: Le Bohème, Aida (Ellen Kent Productions).

  BEL POWLEY (Maggie)

  Tusk Tusk is Bel’s professional stage debut.

  TELEVISION INCLUDES: Little Dorrit, The Bill, MI High Series I & II, Whistleblowers.

  TOBY REGBO (Eliot)

  Tusk Tusk is Toby’s professional stage debut.

  TELEVISION INCLUDES: MI High, Sharpe’s Challenge.

  FILM INCLUDES: Mr Nobody, 1939.

  THE ENGLISH STAGE COMPANY

  AT THE ROYAL COURT

  photo: Stephen Cummiskey

  'For me the theatre is really a religion or way of life. You must decide what you feel the world is about and what you want to say about it, so that everything in the theatre you work in is saying the same thing … A theatre must have a recognisable attitude. It will have one, whether you like it or not.'

  George Devine, first artistic director of the English Stage Company: notes for an unwritten book.

  As Britain's leading national company dedicated to new work, the Royal Court Theatre produces new plays of the highest quality, working with writers from all backgrounds, and addressing the problems and possibilities of our time.

  "The Royal Court has been at the centre of British cultural life for the past 50 years, an engine room for new writing and constantly transforming the theatrical culture." Stephen Daldry

  Since its foundation in 1956, the Royal Court has presented premieres by almost every leading contemporary British playwright, from John Osborne's Look Back in Anger to Caryl Churchill's A Number and Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll. Just some of the other writers to have chosen the Royal Court to premiere their work include Edward Albee, John Arden, Richard Bean, Samuel Beckett, Edward Bond, Leo Butler, Jez Butterworth, Martin Crimp, Ariel Dorfman, Stella Feehily, Christopher Hampton, Dav
id Hare, Eugène Ionesco, Ann Jellicoe, Terry Johnson, Sarah Kane, David Mamet, Martin McDonagh, Conor McPherson, Joe Penhall, Mark Ravenhill, Simon Stephens, Wole Soyinka, Polly Stenham, David Storey, Debbie Tucker Green, Arnold Wesker and Roy Williams.

  "It is risky to miss a production there." Financial Times

  In addition to its full-scale productions, the Royal Court also facilitates international work at a grass roots level, developing exchanges which bring young writers to Britain and sending British writers, actors and directors to work with artists around the world. The research and play development arm of the Royal Court Theatre, The Studio, finds the most exciting and diverse range of new voices in the UK. The Studio runs play-writing groups including the Young Writers Programme, Critical Mass for black, Asian and minority ethnic writers and the biennial Young Writers Festival. For further information, go to www.royalcourttheatre.com/ywp.

  "Yes, the Royal Court is on a roll. Yes, Dominic Cooke has just the genius and kick that this venue needs … It's fist-bitingly exciting." Independent

  JERWOOD

  NEW PLAYWRIGHTS

  Since 1994 Jerwood New Playwrights has contributed to 54 new plays at the Royal Court including Joe Penhall’s SOME VOICES, Mark Ravenhill’s SHOPPING AND FUCKING (co-production with Out of Joint), Ayub Khan Din’s EAST IS EAST (co-production with Tamasha), Martin McDonagh’s THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE (co-production with Druid Theatre Company), Conor McPherson’s THE WEIR, Nick Grosso’s REAL CLASSY AFFAIR, Sarah Kane’s 4.48 PSYCHOSIS, Gary Mitchell’s THE FORCE OF CHANGE, David Eldridge’s UNDER THE BLUE SKY, David Harrower’s PRESENCE, Simon Stephens’ HERONS, Roy Williams’ CLUBLAND, Leo Butler’s REDUNDANT, Michael Wynne’s THE PEOPLE ARE FRIENDLY, David Greig’s OUTLYING ISLANDS, Zinnie Harris’ NIGHTINGALE AND CHASE, Grae Cleugh’s FUCKING GAMES, Rona Munro’s IRON, Richard Bean’s UNDER THE WHALEBACK, Ché Walker’s FLESH WOUND, Roy Williams’ FALLOUT, Mick Mahoney’s FOOD CHAIN, Ayub Khan Din’s NOTES ON FALLING LEAVES, Leo Butler’s LUCKY DOG, Simon Stephens’ COUNTRY MUSIC, Laura Wade’s BREATHING CORPSES, Debbie Tucker Green’s STONING MARY, David Eldridge’s INCOMPLETE AND RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS, Gregory Burke’s ON TOUR, Stella Feehily’s O GO MY MAN, Simon Stephens’ MOTORTOWN, Simon Farquhar’s RAINBOW KISS, April de Angelis, Stella Feehily, Tanika Gupta, Chloe Moss and Laura Wade’s CATCH, Mike Bartlett’s MY CHILD and Polly Stenham’s THAT FACE.

  In 2008 Jerwood New Playwrights supported THE PRIDE by Alexi Kaye Campbell, SCARBOROUGH by Fiona Evans, OXFORD STREET by Levi David Addai and GONE TOO FAR! by Bola Agbaje. In 2009 Jerwood New Playwrights supported SHADES by Alia Bano.

  Jerwood Charitable Foundation is a registered charity dedicated to imaginative and responsible funding of the arts and other areas of human endeavour and excellence.

  Levi David Addai’s OXFORD STREET (photo: Tristram Kenton)

  Alexi Kaye Campbell’s THE PRIDE (photo: Stephen Cummisky)

  PROGRAMME SUPPORTERS

  The Royal Court (English Stage Company Ltd) receives its principal funding from Arts Council England, London. It is also supported financially by a wide range of private companies, charitable and public bodies, and earns the remainder of its income from the box office and its own trading activities.

  The Genesis Foundation supports the Royal Court’s work with International Playwrights.

  The Jerwood Charitable Foundation supports new plays by new playwrights through the Jerwood New Playwrights series.

  The Artistic Director’s Chair is supported by a lead grant from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, contributing to the activities of the Artistic Director’s office. Over the past ten years the BBC has supported the Gerald Chapman Fund for directors.

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  Cas Donald

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  Celeste Fenichel

  Stephen Marquardt

  Emma Marsh (Vice Chair)

  Mark Robinson

  William Russell (Chair)

  Deborah Shaw Marquardt

  Daniel Winterfeldt

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