Joseph Nixon (Co-Writer) is the author (with Brian Mitchell) of the plays Those Magnificent Men (New Perspectives, 2010); Big Daddy vs. Giant Haystacks (The Foundry Group, 2011); Seven Studies in Salesmanship (The Foundry Group, 2013); and the musical The Opinion Makers (Mercury Theatre/Derby Theatre 2013.) He has written material for Joanna Neary, Jo Caulfield, Jerry Sadowitz, and Basil Brush.

Guy Masterson is a multi-award winning theatre producer, actor, writer and solo artiste, and has also directed 50+ theatre productions over a 40 year career all over the world, in the West End and on Broadway. He won an Olivier Award for his production of Morecambe in 2010. He has presented over 150 productions at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival over 30 consecutive years since 1994 including many of its most celebrated hits such as 12 Angry Men and The Odd Couple – both starring Bill Bailey.

In 2019 he produced and directed ‘The Jaws Play’ – The Shark is Broken – in Edinburgh which then transferred to the West End (Olivier Award nominated for Best New Comedy), Toronto, and Broadway.

Most recently, he co-directed the multi-award winning The Marvellous Elephant Man – The Musical in Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney, and The Marilyn Conspiracy at Park Theatre London.

His passion is to bring great new ideas to life and fresh talent to the stage.

He is married to Brigitta and father to Indigo and Tallulah.

Martha Geelan is a director & writer specialising in new work. 

Her musical Babies, written with Jack Godfrey (42 Balloons), is in commercial development with Crossroads Live & Alchemation. The show received a Best New Musical nomination (WhatsOnStage awards) for its recent run in London.

As Director, credits include: Babies (The Other Palace); The Kitchen, Legally Blonde (Italia Conti); Babies: The Staged Concert (Lyric Theatre, West End); Hamlet, TwelfthNight (RCSSD); Agatha (The Pleasance); Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, The Tempest (Young Shakespeare Company, UK Tours); The Psychosocial Gathering (Edinburgh Festival Fringe) & Various Development Workshops.

As Associate Director, credits include: Fiddler on the Roof (West End/Menier Chocolate Factory – Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival); Love in Idleness (West End/Menier); Identical (The Lowry/Nottingham Playhouse); The Producers, The Bridges of Madison County, She Loves Me, Indecent, The Lie (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Book Thief (Curve Leicester/Coventry Belgrade) & The God of Carnage (Theatre Royal Bath).

Duncan Henderson

Theatre includes: You Ain’t Doing it Wrong… (Still Point); Art (Rialto Prods); Hangman (Two Bins Theatre Company); Bloodlines (Talia Randall); Betrayal, The Polished Scar, Underneath the Lintel (Pretty Villain Productions); and Crave (Little Warrior Theatre Productions).

Jon Clark is a Tony and Olivier award-winning lighting designer. He has designed extensively in the West End, on Broadway, for the National Theatre, Royal Opera House, Royal Shakespeare Company and with many other companies in the UK and internationally.

Theatre credits: Much Ado About Nothing; The Tempest; Hello Dolly!; Romeo & Juliet (West End); Stranger Things: The First Shadow (West End & Broadway); The Importance of Being Earnest (National Theatre); Dear England, The Motive & The Cue (National Theatre & West End); The Effect (National Theatre & The Shed NY); The Lehman Trilogy (Broadway, West End, National Theatre & Int. Tour); A Doll’s House (Broadway); Cyrano de Bergerac (West End & BAM); Betrayal (West End & Broadway); The Inheritance (West End, Broadway & Young Vic); The Shark Is Broken, King Charles III (Broadway & West End); The Jungle (St Ann’s Warehouse, West End & Young Vic); The Fear of 13, Limehouse, Trelawny of the Wells, Moonlight, Polar Bears. (Donmar); Absolute Hell, Amadeus, As You Like It, The Beaux Stratagem, Hamlet, Othello, Collaborators, A Woman Killed With Kindness, Greenland, Pains of Youth, Our Class, Women of Troy, The Cat in the Hat, Beauty and the Beast, Hansel and Gretel (National Theatre); The Book of Dust, Talking Heads, A German Life, Bach & Sons (Bridge Theatre); Evita (Regent’s Park); Eureka Day (Old Vic); The Lorax (Old Vic, US & Toronto).

Opera Credits: Pique Dame (Bayerische Staatsoper); Hamlet (Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne); The Exterminating Angel (Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Saltzburg Festival); Macbeth (Copenhagen & Valencia); Orphée et Eurydice (English National Opera); Krol Roger (Royal Opera House, Sydney Opera House); Written on Skin (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Royal Opera House, Lincoln Center & internationally); Lucia di Lammermoor, L’Etoile (Royal Opera House).

Dance credits: LORE for Wayne McGregor (La Scala, Milan); The Cellist for Cathy Marston (Royal Ballet).

Jon won a Tony Award and Outer Critics Award for The Lehman Trilogy on Broadway, an Olivier Award for his work on The Inheritance; a Green Room Award for King Roger in Australia and a Knight of Illumination award for Three Days of Rain. He is an associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Adam Cork is a sound designer, composer, and lyricist.

Theatre includes: Nachtland (Young Vic); Patriots (Almeida, West End, Broadway); The Shark is Broken (Ambassadors, Mirvish Theatre Toronto); Leopoldstadt (Wyndhams/Longacre, Broadway); The Hunt (Almeida), Ink (Almeida/Duke of York’s); Mosquitoes (National); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Harold Pinter); Travesties (Menier Chocolate Factory/Apollo/American Airlines Theatre); Les Blancs, Danton’s Death (National); Three Days in The Country, Phedre, (National).

Screen work includes: scores for London Road (Cuba); Genius (Pinewood Films); The Hollow Crown: Richard II (Neal Street/NBC/BBC), Macbeth (BBC/Illuminations), Frances Tuesday (ITV1).

Radio includes: Losing Rosalind, The Luneberg Variation (BBC Radio 4), The Colonel-Bird (BBC World Service), Don Carlos, Othello, On the Ceiling, The Chalk Garden (all BBC Radio 3).

Career highlights include a Tony Award for the music and sound for Red (Donmar/Broadway, a nomination for ‘Best Score’ (Music & Lyrics) for Enron (Broadway/West End), and an Olivier Award for King Lear (Donmar). He also received the Evening Standard ‘Best Design’ Award 2011 for Anna Christie and King Lear (Donmar). 

Adam’s musical London Road (co-authored with Alecky Blythe) premiered at the National Theatre, won the Critic’s Circle Award ‘Best Musical’, and was nominated for the Olivier Award ‘Best Musical’.

Nina Dunn is an award-winning video and projection designer who has created work for a wide range of shows internationally. She is the Creative Director at PixelLux and an educator within the industry.

Theatre credits include: Burlesque the Musical (UK Tour); King Lear (West End/Broadway); 9 to 5 the Musical (West End/UK/Australia/Korea); Bonnie and Clyde (UK Tour/West End); A Christmas Carol (Nottingham Playhouse / Alexandra Palace / Birmingham Rep); Die Schöpfung (Oper Köln); Nutcracker in Havana (Also Set Design), Carmen (Acosta Danza); Shrek (UK tour, co-design with Matthew Brown); Spitting Image Live, City of Angels, No Man’s Land, Cookies (West End);  Othello, Manor, Emperor and Galilean (National Theatre); Hamlet, The Mountaintop (Young Vic); Phantom of the Opera (UK/US/Australia); Don Quixote (Birmingham Royal Ballet/National Ballet of Canada); Le Fantôme de l’Opéra (Shanghai Ballet); Venice Preserved, 7 Acts of Mercy, The Box of Delights, A Museum in Baghdad (RSC); Plenty, Copenhagen, Fiddler on the Roof(Chichester Festival Theatre); The Trials (Donmar Warehouse); 

Awards include: Best Video Design for Bonnie and Clyde (BroadwayWorld Awards); Best Video and Electronic Content for Alice’s Adventures Underground (Knight of Illumination); Best Design for Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast (UK Pantomime Association Awards).

Theatre includes: The Tempest (Drury Lane); Burlesque The Musical (UK try out); Twelfth Night, La Cage aux Folles, Once on this Island, 101 Dalmatians, Hansel & Gretel, On the Town (Regent’s Park); Backstairs Billy (The Duke of York’s); Patriots, The Night of The Iguana (Noël Coward); 4000 Miles, The Deep Blue Sea, Country Girls (Chichester Festival Theatre); Private Lives, BlueTown, Sweet Charity, Versailles (Donmar Warehouse); Orlando (Garrick); Jerusalem (Apollo); The Shark Is Broken (Ambassadors); South Pacific (Chichester Festival Theatre/UK Tour); Dusty – The Dusty Springfield Musical (directed by Maria Freidman); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (London, Broadway, San Francisco, Melbourne, Hamburg, Toronto & Japan (winner of six Tony Awards and nine Olivier Awards including Best New Play for both Broadway and London)); One Love (Birmingham Rep); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (London); The Children(The Royal Court); Hamlet (Barbican); A Christmas Carol (West End); Wonder.land (National Theatre, Manchester International Festival); Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (West End); Anything Goes (Sheffield); Sunny Afternoon (West End); Handbagged (Tricycle Theatre/West End); Mojo (Harold Pinter); Pygmalion (UK Tour); The Low Road, Love, Love, Love, In Basildon, Chicken Soup and Barley (Royal Court).

Film and Television: Warhorse, Batman, The Dark Knight Rises, Snow White & the Huntsman, Thor, Captain America and Game of Thrones.

Molly Stacey is a theatre and comedy director, and a senior reader at Second Half Productions. 

As a director, her work includes: The Last Living Libertine (Soho Theatre); Will Owen: Like, Nobody’s Watching; Chelsea Birkby: This is Life Cheeky Cheeky; Sarah Roberts: Silkworm; Laugh, Why Don’t You? (Edinburgh Fringe); Jinkies (Camden Fringe – Offie nomination for Best Short Run); Pillow Talk (Edinburgh Fringe, North American tour); Pen Pals; The Man Presents: Women (ADC Theatre, Cambridge). 

As associate director, her work includes: Why Am I So Single? (West End); People, Places and Things (West End); A Mirror (Almeida Theatre and West End); Babies (The Other Palace).

Deborah Andrews studied Fashion Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and then worked in fashion before being lured into the theatre. She works in Opera and Theatre, including productions at the National Theatre, Almeida, Hampstead Theatre, English National Opera and Glyndebourne.

Select credits include:  

As Costume Designer: The Promise (Chichester Festival Theatre); Henry IV (Donmar/St Ann’s Warehouse); The Glass Piano (The Coronet).

As Co–Costume Designer: Guys and Dolls (The Bridge Theatre); Patriots (Almeida, West End, Broadway).

As Associate Costume Designer: The Doctor (Almeida); The Birthday Party (West End); The Shark is Broken (West End).

Production credits: Sunset Boulevard, Titanique, VANYA, A Mirror, Backstairs Billy, Patriots (West End); Wizard of Oz (West End/UK Tour); Phantom of the Opera (International Tour); Bhangra Nation (Birmingham); School of Rock (UK Tour); Back to the Future (Manchester/West End). In concert: Pippin, Evita, Love Never Dies (Drury Lane); My Fair Lady (Actor’s Church).

Associate credits: The Phantom of the Opera, The Choir of Man (International Tour); The Shark Is Broken, The Lorax (Toronto); Operation Mincemeat (Southwark); Persuasion (UK Tour); Midsummer Night’s Dream (Grange Park).

Design credits: Mischief Movie Night (Riverside Studios); Mind Mangler (Edinburgh); The Bacchae (Bloomsbury Theatre).

System Technician credits: Diana Ross, The Chainsmokers, Peter Kay, Michael Ball, Alfie Boe,Noel Gallagher, Michael Bublé, McFly, Kasabian, Passenger, Bryan Adams, Tears for Fears, Ronan Keating.

Theatre includes: Mind Mangler (UK Tour, Apollo, Off Broadway, Virgin Voyages); Coriolanus, Standing at the Sky’s Edge, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Crucible); Operation Mincemeat, Ava(Riverside Studios); Dan Howell Doomed, Terrible Introverts (International Tour); The Shark is Broken (Ambassadors, Toronto); Persuasion, Private Peaceful (UK Tour); Mischief Movie Night(Vaudeville, Immersive, Riverside); Groan Ups, Magic Goes Wrong (Vaudeville, Apollo, UK Tour);Patriots, Inheritance, Impossible (Noël Coward); The Birthday Party, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Nice Fish, (Harold Pinter); Sunny Afternoon (Harold Pinter, UK Tour); Dan and Phil Interactive Introverts, TATINOF (International Tour); The Lovely Bones (UK Tour); Pressure (Ambassadors);Chariots of Fire, Ravens, Dry Powder, The Slaves of Solitude, Occupational Hazards, Filthy Business, Wild Honey, IHO, Ken, Reasons to be Happy, Rabbit Hole, Matchbox Theatre, Stevie, Hysteria, Hello Goodbye, Race, Death of a Blackman, Fever Syndrome (Hampstead); The Secret Garden (Keswick and York); Much Ado about Nothing (Rose Theatre).

Opera includes: It’s a Wonderful Life (English National Opera); Turn of the Screw (Wiltons Music Hall); Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cenerentola, Manon Lescaut, Belshazzar, Falstaff, Le Nozze di Figaro, Agrippina, The Barber of Saville, The Abduction of Seraglio, II ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, Carmen, Albert Herring (Grange Festival); Idomeneo, L’Italiana In Algeri (Garsington).