Nottingham Playcast (Nottingham Playhouse)

We talk to two members of our Participation team; Elaine Williamson and Dawn Richmond-Gordon about the NT Connections festival, and Beth Shouler discusses year one of our Amplify artist development programme.

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The Playcast is back!
We return with the first episode of the season brining you an interview with Caroline Bird.
Caroline is the writer of Red Ellen which arrives at Nottingham Playhouse on Weds 13th April.
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Bio
Caroline won The Forward Prize for best poetry collection in 2020. She was shortlisted for the Costa Prize 2020, the TS Eliot Prize 2017, the Ted Hughes Award 2017, and the Dylan Thomas Prize twice in 2008 and 2010. She was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2014. She has also won an Eric Gregory Award (2002) and the Foyle Young Poet of the Year award two years running (1999, 2000), and was a winner of the Poetry London Competition in 2007, the Peterloo Poetry Competition in 2004, 2003 and 2002. Caroline was on the shortlist for Shell Woman Of The Future Awards 2011.

Caroline has had six collections of poetry published by Carcanet. Her first collection Looking Through Letterboxes (published in 2002 when she was only 15) is a topical, zesty and formally delightful collection of poems built on the traditions of fairy tale, fantasy and romance. Her second collection, Trouble Came to the Turnip, was published in September 2006 to critical acclaim. Watering Can, her third collection published in November 2009 celebrates life as an early twenty-something with comedy, wordplay and bright self-deprecation. Her fourth collection, The Hat-Stand Union, was described by Simon Armitage as ‘spring-loaded, funny, sad and deadly.’ Her fifth collection, In These Days of Prohibition (published July 2017) was shortlisted for the 2017 TS Eliot Prize and the 2017 Ted Hughes Award. Her sixth collection, The Air Year was published in February 2020, and was book of the month in The Telegraph, book of the year in the Guardian, shortlisted for the Costa Prize, and winner of the Forward Prize.

Bird’s poems have been published in several anthologies and journals including Poetry Magazine, PN Review, Poetry Review and The North magazine. Several of her poems and a commissioned short story, Sucking Eggs, have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 3. She was one of the five official poets at London Olympics 2012. Her poem, The Fun Palace, which celebrates the life and work of Joan Littlewood, is now erected on the Olympic Site outside the main stadium.

In recent years, Caroline has given poetry performances at Aldeburgh Festival, Latitude Festival, the Manchester Literature Festival, the Wellcome Collection, the Royal Festival Hall, the Wordsworth Trust, Cheltenham Festival, and Ledbury Festival, amongst others.

Caroline Bird began writing plays as a teenager when she was the youngest ever member of the Royal Court Young Writer’s Programme, tutored by Simon Stephens. In 2011 Caroline was invited to take part in Sixty Six Books by the Bush Theatre. She wrote a piece inspired by Leviticus, directed by Peter Gill. In February 2012, her Beano-inspired musical, The Trial of Dennis the Menace was performed in the Purcell Room at the Southbank Centre.

Caroline’s new version of The Trojan Women premiered at the Gate Theatre at the end of 2012 to wide critical acclaim. Caroline’s play Chamber Pi

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We bring you an interview with Nathaniel Price.
Nathaniel is the writer of First Touch which arrives at Nottingham Playhouse on Sat 7th May.
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Nathaniel is a writer for film, television, theatre and radio. He graduated from the National Film & Television School with an MA in Screenwriting in 2016 – where he was a David Lean Scholar.

Nathaniel has a number of original dramas in development including, Amsterdam (Moonage Pictures/BBC), Hamelin (Gaumont),  and Supernatural (Clerkwenwell Films/Sky) and is one of the co-creators of The Beast Must Die, a collaborative adaptation with Matthew Read for Moonage Pictures/BBC. Nathaniel is also working on an adaptation of Bernardine Evaristo’s novel Mr Loverman for Fable Pictures, and Bonnie & Clyde for New Pictures.

Nathaniel wrote two episodes for the acclaimed BBC1 drama Noughts & Crosses (Mammoth Screen/BBC) and episodes on Tin Star II & III (Kudos/Gaumont/Sky). His episode of The Offenders II, Stephen Merchant’s series for BBC 1 shot in 2021.

First Touch is Nathaniel’s first original full-length play, and opens at the Nottingham Playhouse on May 7th 2022.

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We talk to Memory of Water Director, Adele Thomas ahead of the show opening and The Party Somewhere Else collective talk about the upcoming festival happening at Nottingham Playhouse.

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We bring you an interview with Stiles and Drewe.
Stiles and Drewe are the minds behind the music and lyrics of our new show Identical which plays at Nottingham Playhouse Tue 26 Jul – Sun 14 Aug
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Stiles and Drewe are multi award-winning writers George Stiles & Anthony Drewe. Shows include: Identical, Becoming Nancy, Mary Poppins, Half A Sixpence, Wind in the Willows, Honk!

Identical
This classic tale tells the story of twin girls separated at birth and reunited by chance at a summer camp ten years later. To get to know their parents and reconcile the two halves of their family, they decide to swap places and live each other’s lives.

Best known for the ever-popular Disney movies which made stars of Hayley Mills in1961 and Lindsay Lohan in 1998. This world premiere is directed by Trevor Nunn responsible for some of the world’s greatest musicals (Les Misérables, Starlight Express, Cats and Sunset Boulevard) and comes from the producer of Top Hat, The Play That Goes Wrong and the international hit musical Six.

Identical has music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, the multi award-winning writers of the West End hit  Honk! who also created a new score for the international smash-hit Cameron Mackintosh/Disney production of Mary Poppins, and a book by Stuart Paterson.

Identical is the must-see musical of the summer.

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We bring you an interview with Adrian Scarborough./An exclusive interview with Adrian Scarborough who, alongside Sophie Thompson stars in The Clothes They Stood Up In, his adaptation of Alan Bennett’s novella. He talks about how it felt to take on such a celebrated writer’s work , and why we should all be coming to see this play.

Adrian has adapted Alan Bennett's novella The Clothes The Stood Up In, which is at the Playhouse Fri 9 Sep – Sat 1 Oct
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The Clothes They Stood Up In
“Everything’s gone. Furniture, blinds. They even managed to carry off a hot oven and the ‘sticky chicken casserole’. They can’t be human.”

Starring Olivier Award winning actors Sophie Thompson (Detectorists, Sex Education, Present Laughter, Gosford Park, Eastenders, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) and Adrian Scarborough (The Madness of George III, Leopoldstadt, Gavin and Stacey).

A night at the opera ends with a shock for mild-mannered couple Maurice and Rosemary Ransome when they open their front door to discover their flat completely empty. From light bulbs to carpets to toilet paper, even their chicken casserole has been stolen.

The Ransomes turn detective to try and work out who is behind this outrageous act, and why and how they did it. Along the way, they are forced to examine their lives when stripped bare of the worldly possessions that define us all. Should they rebuild their old life, or begin afresh?

A bittersweet exploration of marriage, dreams and lives unlived, Adrian Scarborough’s adaptation brings Bennett’s hilarious story to the stage for the first time, capturing his trademark observational wit in this gentle and darkly surprising tale.

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We bring you an interview with our Artistic Director Adam Penford who is directing this years Pantomime, Dick Whittington. He shares his process as a director and gives an insight into life as the Artistic Director. 
Find out how he manages to do it all.


The legendary Playhouse panto returns full of sparkle, excitement and fun.  Our hero’s incredible escapades take him onto the High Seas, into battle with the evil King Rat and see him fall head over heels in love with his boss’s daughter Alice. All the while the magical Bow Bells are whispering his destiny – to become Mayor of London!

Packed with dazzling dance, a brilliant live band and swashbuckling adventure, the show reunites us with Nottingham’s favourite panto dame John Elkington, who’ll be serving up some comedy chaos as Sarah the Cook. 

Full of fun, singing and lots of action – we promise to have you buzzing from a fantastic, festive night out.

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Nottingham Playhouse Artistic Director, Adam Penford, sits down with Director, Matthew Xia, to discuss the show and its relevance in today’s world. 

Also in this month’s Playcast is Designer, Grace Smart, who talks about how 1960s Miami is created onstage and what it’s like working with our in-house production team.

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This month we talk about all things Coram Boy. 

We speak to two members of the 70 plus strong community ensemble who will be performing in the Albert Hall this August. Also on this episode is Director Adam Penford, who sits down for an in-depth conversation with the Musical Director, Alex Patterson. 

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In this episode we discuss what’s coming up in the Neville Studio later this year. Craig Gilbert tells us about Amplify, the Amplify Festival – “a big Smörgåsbord of work from across the region” – and why he loves developing works with new writers. And we clown around with Hannah Stone, director of Pinocchio, as she talks about the act of play in theatre-making and the creation of this fun-filled kids’ show. 

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This exclusive interview with Alex Kingston took place as part of an exclusive event for the theater's Playhouse Pass members which covers a variety of topics ranging from her training at RADA, her early career in regional theatre, as well as her time acting in Moll Flanders, ER and Dr Who.
It also explores her role in An Enemy of the People – Nottingham Playhouse’s latest production.

Alex Kingston will take to the stage as Doctor Stockmann on Friday 13 September, with performances running until Saturday 28 September.
Tickets are still available: nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/whats-on/drama/an-enemy-of-the-people. 

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In this episode we talk to rising theatre star Eve Austin alongside Director, Stef O’Driscoll about LIT – a Nottingham-based play that explores the turbulent years of a young woman looking for love in all the wrong places.

We also catch up with Ben Norris about his career so far, his role on BBC Radio 4’s The Archers, and his upcoming show A Quite Enormous Poetry Event – which takes to our main stage this October. 

Lit: https://www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/whats-on/drama/lit-2019/ 

A Quite Enormous Poetry Event: https://www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/whats-on/workshop/a-quite-enormous-poetry-event/ 

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Sara Poyzer and Jack Quarton chat about taking on the killer musical Assassins, the challenges of being actor-musicians and the joys of returning back to Nottingham – which is home turf for the both of them. 

Plus, Artistic Director Adam Penford reveals all about our newly-launched spring 2020 season of shows - which includes music legends, TV stars, gripping new writing, hilarious comedies and a brand-new musical.

 
Assassins: https://bit.ly/2MGlnVF 

2020 Season: https://bit.ly/2OybqvJ 

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Pantomime legends John Elkington and Tim Frater tell us some of their favourite tales from on and off stage, and reveal a little about this year’s magical production of Sleeping Beauty. Plus we pop down to paint shop and talk about preparing for panto, creative processes and their favourite moments from previous years.

Find out more about Sleeping Beauty: https://bit.ly/2r2oSyi 

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With Christmas fast approaching we took the chance to sit down with new panto cast members Maddie Harper and Toyin Ayedun-Alase who play Sleeping Beauty and the evil Maleficent. We also grab a moment with Karr Kennedy and Ben Welch who are the stars of our two-hander festive show for younger children, Pinocchio. 

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This month we catch up with the cast of the outrageously fast-paced, quick-witted and hard-hitting comedy Moonlight and Magnolias. Actors Joe Alessi, Hayley Doherty and director Kirsty Patrick-Ward tell us all about grappling with an intense script and playing heavy weight characters of Hollywood legend. We also introduce our newly announced shows, with a peek at what happened during our exclusive season launch– including the return of the legendary Mark Gatiss, a new pantomime director, our plans to stage a Broadway hit and new writing that breathes life into a political juggernaut.

Moonlight and Magnolias - https://www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/whats-on/drama/moonlight-and-magnolias/

Season Launch - https://www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/news/mark-gatiss-a-broadway-hit-and-new-writing-announc/

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The Amplify Podcast is a new strand in our Playcast series.  

Our Amplify Producer, Craig Gilbert, has been holed up in his makeshift bedroom studio talking to a host of exciting artists of national and international renown.  

These conversations cover career and process as well as offering a few exciting ideas to explore from home during this time of Social Distancing. 

In the first episode of the Amplify Podcast Craig talks with writer and actor David Haig.

David’s stage plays include My Boy Jack and The Good Samaritan (both for Hampstead Theatre, London) and Pressure (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh, and Minerva Theatre, Chichester). My Boy Jack was filmed for ITV, starring David, Daniel Radcliffe and Kim Cattrall, and broadcast in November 2007.

His distinguished acting career includes West End appearances in Yes, Prime Minister (a transfer from Chichester); Art, Dead Funny (a transfer from Hampstead), Journey’s End, The Country Wife and The Sea. At the National Theatre he appeared in Alan Ayckbourn’s House/Garden, and at the Royal Court in Hitchcock Blonde and The Recruiting Officer. He has worked extensively for the Royal Shakespeare Company, playing, amongst others, Angelo in Trevor Nunn’s production of Measure for Measure. He won the Olivier Award for Best Actor for Our Country’s Good at the Royal Court, and received nominations for Mary Poppins and Donkeys’ Years, both in the West End.

His television and film appearances include Yes, Prime Minister, Mo, The Wright Way, Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Thin Blue Line, Talking Heads and Crime and Punishment.

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The Amplify Podcast is a new strand in our Playcast series.  

Our Amplify Producer, Craig Gilbert, has been holed up in his makeshift bedroom studio talking to a host of exciting artists of national and international renown.  

These conversations cover career and process as well as offering a few exciting ideas to explore from home during this time of Social Distancing. 

In this episode Craig talks with Natalie Abrahami.

Natalie read English Literature at Cambridge University and started out at the Royal Court as a Graduate Trainee before training with the Young Vic and National Theatre. She was awarded the James Menzies-Kitchin Award for Emerging Directors in 2005.
 
 Between 2007 and 2012 Natalie was Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill with Carrie Cracknell. During their tenure they were awarded the Paul Hamlyn Breakthrough Fund for Creative Entrepreneurs.

Natalie then went on to join the Young Vic as Genesis Fellow and Associate Director 2013-16. She has also been Associate Artist at the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton and at Hull Truck.

Work for theatre and opera includes: Swive [Elizabeth] (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe), ANNA (National Theatre),The Meeting (Chichester Festival Theatre), Machinal (Almeida), Wings, Happy Days, After Miss Julie and Ah, Wilderness! (Young Vic); Queen Anne (Royal Shakespeare Company and Theatre Royal Haymarket); How the Whale Became and Other Tales (Linbury, Royal Opera House); The Eleventh Capital (Royal Court); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Headlong); Pericles (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre); Yerma (Hull Truck); Play and Not I (Battersea Arts Centre).

Natalie's productions at the Gate Theatre include Vanya and The Kreutzer Sonata (which later transferred to La MaMa, New York).

Film credits include Mayday, The Roof and Life’s a Pitch.

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The Amplify Podcast is a new strand in our Playcast series.  

Our Amplify Producer, Craig Gilbert, has been holed up in his makeshift bedroom studio talking to a host of exciting artists of national and international renown.  

These conversations cover career and process as well as offering a few exciting ideas to explore from home during this time of Social Distancing. 

In this episode Craig talks with director and writer Gbolahan Obisesan.

Gbolahan is an award-winning British Nigerian writer and director. He has just been appointed Artistic Director of Brixton House Theatre (formerly Ovalhouse).  Prior to this Gbolahan was Genesis Fellow of the Young Vic Theatre. He is currently developing a feature film with Emu Films/Film 4. He was one of the six writers and the only British writer on Rufus Norris’ Feast, commissioned by the Royal Court and The Young Vic for their World Stages London which was produced at The Young Vic, he also directed four plays as part of The Bush Theatre’s epic 66 BOOKS project which ran at the Bush and Westminster Abbey.

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The Amplify Podcast is a new strand in our Playcast series.  

Our Amplify Producer, Craig Gilbert, has been holed up in his makeshift bedroom studio talking to a host of exciting artists of national and international renown.  

These conversations cover career and process as well as offering a few exciting ideas to explore from home during this time of Social Distancing. 

On this episode Craig is joined by Davina Moss

Davina Moss the Literary Manager at Hampstead Theatre, London. Previous employment includes Public Theater (New York) and New Works at the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse. As a freelance dramaturg, her most recent projects include the first production of The Merchant of Venice in the Venetian ghetto with Italian-American theatre collective Compagnia de’ Colombari. She holds an MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama.

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The Amplify Podcast is a new strand in our Playcast series.  

Our Amplify Producer, Craig Gilbert, has been holed up in his makeshift bedroom studio talking to a host of exciting artists of national and international renown.  

These conversations cover career and process as well as offering a few exciting ideas to explore from home during this time of Social Distancing. 


On this Episode Craig talks with Jeremy Herrin, Artistic Director of Headlong.  

Jeremy studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He trained at both the National Theatre and Royal Court, where he became Deputy Artistic Director in 2009 until 2012.

Between 2000 and 2008 he was Associate Director at Live Theatre in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Jeremy has most recently directed Labour of Love (Noël Coward Theatre), People, Places and Things (NT/West End/UK Tour/NewYork), The House The Grew Up In (Chichester Festival Theatre), Common (National Theatre), This House (West End), Junkyard (Bristol Old Vic/Theatr Clwyd/Rose Theatre Kingston), Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (UK Tour), The Absence of War (UK Tour) and The Nether (Royal Court / West End) for Headlong, and also the world premiere of Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies in two parts for the RSC, which transferred to the West End in May 2014 and Broadway in March 2015 and for which he was nominated for an Olivier and Tony Award for Best Director.

Jeremy has directed several productions at the Royal Court including That Face by Polly Stenham, which transferred to the Duke of York’s Theatre in the West End. He was nominated for an Evening Standard Best Director Award for Stenham’s second play Tusk Tusk in 2009. Other work at the Court includes Stenham’s No Quarter, E V Crowe’s Hero and Kin, Richard Bean’s The Heretic, Michael Wynne’s The Priory, which won an Olivier award for Best Comedy and David Hare’s The Vertical Hour.

Other theatre directing credits include The Plough and the Stars (NT, co-directed with Howard Davies), Noises Off (American Airlines Theatre, Broadway)  The Moderate Soprano (Hampstead Theatre),Another Country (Chichester/West End), the critically acclaimed This House by James Graham at the National Theatre, for which he was nominated for an Olivier award for Best Director, The Tempest at the Globe, David Hare’s South Downs at Chichester Festival Theatre subsequently transferring to the Harold Pinter Theatre, Uncle Vanya with Roger Allam at Chichester, Absent Friends at the Harold Pinter and Much Ado About Nothing with Eve Best and Charles Edwards at the Globe.

Jeremy was also named as one of the Stage top 100 in 2014.

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The Amplify Podcast is a new strand in our Playcast series.  

Our Amplify Producer, Craig Gilbert, has been holed up in his makeshift bedroom studio talking to a host of exciting artists of national and international renown.  

These conversations cover career and process as well as offering a few exciting ideas to explore from home during this time of Social Distancing. 

Talking to Craig today is Director Maria Aberg.  

Known for her work both in the UK and across Europe, Maria’s productions include:

The Duchess of Malfi/ J. Webster (RSC/Swan 2018), The Winter’s Tale/ W. Shakespeare (Romateatern, Sweden 2017), Fantastic Mr Fox/ Sam Holcroft (Nuffield/Lyric Hammersmith/tour 2016) Dr Faustus/ Christopher Marlowe  (RSC/Swan & Barbican 2016), Kasimir & Karoline/ Ö. von Horvath (Malmö Stadsteater (Sweden) 2015), Wildefire/ R. Williams (Hampstead Theatre 2014), The White Devil/ J. Webster (RSC/Swan 2014), Hotel/ P. Stenham (Royal National Theatre 2014), Much Ado About Nothing/ W. Shakespeare (Royal Exchange, Manchester 2014), As You Like It/ W. Shakespeare (RSC/RST 2013), Fanny & Alexander/ I. Bergman (Malmö Stadsteater, Sweden 2012), and King John/ W. Shakespeare (RSC/Swan 2012)

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Our Amplify Producer, Craig Gilbert, has been holed up in his makeshift bedroom studio talking to a host of exciting artists of national and international renown.  

These conversations cover career and process as well as offering a few exciting ideas to explore from home during this time of Social Distancing. 

Talking to Craig today is Artistic Director, Adam Penford.

Adam has been Artistic Director of Nottingham Playhouse since 2017.

The venue won Regional Theatre of the Year 2019 in The Stage Awards, with the judges saying:

“The resurgence of Nottingham Playhouse under artistic director Adam Penford is a reason to rejoice.” 

Trained at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA).

For Nottingham Playhouse: Piaf,An Enemy of the People, Coram Boy, The Madness of George III and Wonderland.

For the National Theatre: A Small Family Business (Olivier), Dorfman Opening Gala (Dorfman), Is There Wi-Fi in Heaven (The Shed), Island (Cottesloe). Revival Director on One Man Two Guvnors (West End, Broadway, UK and International Tour). Associate Director on NT 50 Years on Stage. Staff Director on Season’s Greetings.

Other directing credits: Holes(UK Tour), Committee(Donmar Warehouse), The Boys in the Band(Vaudeville and Park Theatre), Platinum(Hampstead Theatre), Unfaithful(Found111), Watership Down (Watermill Theatre), Deathtrap (Salisbury Playhouse and UK Tour), Ghost the Musical (ETF), Stepping Out (Salisbury Playhouse), The Machine Gunners and Run! (Polka Theatre), The Hostage (Southwark Playhouse) and Young Woodley, Tea and Sympathy (Finborough Theatre).

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Our Amplify Producer, Craig Gilbert, has been holed up in his makeshift bedroom studio talking to a host of exciting artists of national and international renown. 

These conversations cover career and process as well as offering a few exciting ideas to explore from home during this time of Social Distancing.

On the podcast today is Paulette randall MBE.  

Paulette is a theatre and film director who’s work includes:

Tin Star for Sky Atlantic, and Holby City, Eastenders and Death in Paradise for the BBC  

Her work for the theatre includes:  Gem of the Ocean and Pinchy kobi and the Seven Duppies at the Tricycle theatre, Frankie and Johnny at the Clair De lune for Chichester Festival Theatre, Dr Faustus for Shakespeare’s Globe and Fences at the Duchess Theatre which made her the first black woman to stage a production in the West End.  

She is a former Artistic Director of Talawa and was the Associate Director of the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony. 

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Our Amplify Producer, Craig Gilbert, has been holed up in his makeshift bedroom studio talking to a host of exciting artists of national and international renown.  

These conversations cover career and process as well as offering a few exciting ideas to explore from home during this time of Social Distancing.

On the podcast today is Tim Sheader, Artistic Director of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre.

Tim was appointed Artistic Director of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in November 2007. For Regent’s Park Theatre he has directed many plays and music-theatre works, including Jesus Christ Superstar (Olivier Award for Best Revival, 2018), A Tale of Two Cities, Running Wild, Porgy and Bess, To Kill a Mockingbird, Crazy for You (Olivier Award for Best Musical), Ragtime, Peter Pan, Lord of the Flies, Into the Woods (Olivier Award) and transferred to New York's Public Theatre, The Crucible (Whatsonstage Award for Best Director), Hello Dolly (Olivier and Evening Standard Awards), and Shakespeare plays including Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night.

Sheader’s other theatre credits include The Magistrate (National Theatre); Running Wild and Barnum (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Three Musketeers (Bristol Old Vic), Sweet Charity and Piaf (Sheffield Crucible), Achilles (Edinburgh, Fringe First Award) and Streetcar to Tennessee (Young Vic).

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Our Amplify Producer, Craig Gilbert, has been holed up in his makeshift bedroom studio talking to a host of exciting artists of national and international renown.  

These conversations cover career and process as well as offering a few exciting ideas to explore from home during this time of Social Distancing.

Nikolai was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, grew up in North Yorkshire and trained at Drama Centre London and at the Crucible, Sheffield.

His work has been seen in many of the UK’s leading regional theatres, touring houses and internationally. Nikolai has been director on attachment at the Sheffield Crucible, the Royal Court Theatre and National Theatre Studio and served as an Associate Director at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds.

Nikolai is currently the Artistic Director of Leicester Curve where he has directed Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, the world-premiere of Dougal Irvine’s adaptation of Riaz Khan’s Memoirs of an Asian Football Casual, nominated for Best Regional Production at the WhatsOnStage Awards 2019, An Officer and a Gentleman – the Musical (& UK tour), Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard (& UK tour), Joe Orton’s What the Butler Saw(with Theatre Royal Bath), Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey’s Grease (&  Dubai World Trade Centre), Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest (with Birmingham Rep), the Broadway musical Spring Awakening (with NYMT), Legally Blonde (Opera Garnier, Monaco & Daegu Opera Festival, South Korea – Winner Best Musical – Daegu International Musical Festival Awards), Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s (& Haymarket Theatre, London & UK tour), Roald Dahl’s The Witches(with Rose Theatre Kingston, Lyric Theatre, Hong Kong, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds & UK tour), Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, Shakespeare’s Richard III,  Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good and a performance to celebrate the reveal of the tomb of King Richard III at Leicester Cathedral.

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Our Amplify Producer, Craig Gilbert, has been holed up in his makeshift bedroom studio talking to a host of exciting artists of national and international renown.  

These conversations cover career and process as well as offering a few exciting ideas to explore from home during this time of Social Distancing.

Kate is Artistic Director of Out of Joint. 

Previously she founded and was Artistic Director of The Other Room in Cardiff, winner of The Stage Awards Fringe Theatre of the Year 2016, the Olwen Wymark WGGB Award for its work supporting playwrights and several Wales Theatre Awards. The Other Room was also nominated for the 2017 Peter Brook Empty Space Award.

Recent Directing credits include: Rita, Sue and Bob Too (Out of Joint), The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Theatr Clwyd), Last Christmas (Traverse Theatre, Sherman Theatre, Theatr Clwyd, Edinburgh Fringe, Soho Theatre), The Barnbow Canaries (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Sand, The Dying of Today, Blasted (The Other Room)

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The Revival is a brand new, digital documentary series created by Nottingham Playhouse and Theatre Royal Stratford East. Each episode explores a different production and gives audiences a new perspective of the work. 

In this first episode, Artistic Directors Adam Penford and Nadia Fall chat to some of the team from Nottingham Playhouse's landmark 2018 production The Madness of George III, which went on to become the theatre's best-selling show to date and was broadcast via NT Live.

Hear from cast members Mark Gatiss, Adrian Scarborough, Debra Gillet, Sara Powell and Adam Karim, alongside Professor of History, Arthur Burns, who provided insight during the rehearsal process for the production.

Curtain Up Appeal: www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/support/curtain-up-appeal/ 

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Our Amplify Producer, Craig Gilbert, has been holed up in his makeshift bedroom studio talking to a host of exciting artists of national and international renown.

These conversations cover career and process as well as offering a few exciting ideas to explore from home during this time of Social Distancing.

 On the podcast today is Michael Oakley. Michael’s theatre work includes: Romeo and Juliet (Globe Theatre), No Fucks Given (Vaults Festival), Much Ado About Nothing (Globe Theatre), Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s The Invisible (Bush Theatre); The Life and Times Of Fanny Hill (Bristol Old Vic Theatre); As You Like It (OSC & Wilderness Festival); Variation on a Theme (Finborough Theatre). 

 In 2012, Michael was Co-Artistic Director of Theatre on the Fly - a pop-up venue at Chichester Festival Theatre designed by Turner Award-winning Architects Assemble - where he directed a production of April De Angelis’ Playhouse Creatures. Prior to this, Michael was Trainee Director in Residence at Chichester and a recipient of the prestigious JMK Award for young directors. In addition to working alongside Trevor Nunn, he has been associate director to Jonathan Kent, Richard Eyre, Adrian Noble and Jonathan Church.

If you’ve enjoyed today’s podcast, please consider donating to our Curtain Up Appeal, to ensure we can keep creating new work for audiences to enjoy: https://www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/support/curtain-up-appeal/​

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Our Amplify Producer, Craig Gilbert, has been holed up in his makeshift bedroom studio talking to a host of exciting artists of national and international renown.

These conversations cover career and process as well as offering a few exciting ideas to explore from home during this time of Social Distancing.

On the podcast today is Nick Bagnall. Nick's theatre work includes:

Between 2015-2020 Nick was the Associate Director at the Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse where he directed: Sweeney Todd (2019), A Clockwork Orange and The Big I Am (Everyman Company 2018 season), The Conquest of the South Pole and Romeo & Juliet (Everyman Company 2017 season); The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Everyman and Shakespeare’s Globe); The Odyssey: Missing Presumed Dead (Everyman and ETT); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Everyman) and The Electric Hills (Everyman).

Other theatre credits include: The Last Days of Troy (Royal Exchange, Manchester/ Shakespeare’s Globe); The Death of King Arthur, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Henry VI I, II and III (Shakespeare’s Globe); I Am Not Myself These Days (Edinburgh / UK Tour); Britannia Waves the Rules (Royal Exchange, Manchester); A Christmas Fair, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Milton Rooms, Malton); Fragile (Belgrade Theatre); Betrayal (Crucible Theatre); A Separate Reality (Royal Court); By Jeeves (Landor); Billy Liar (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Guys and Dolls (Arts Theatre, Cambridge); Entertaining Mr Sloane (Trafalgar Studios); Burning Cars (Hampstead Theatre); Mongoose (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh);  Promises and Lies (Birmingham Rep); Bolthole, ‘Low  Dat (The Door / Birmingham Rep) and The Ruffian on the Stair (Old Red Lion)

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The Revival is a brand new, digital documentary series created by Nottingham Playhouse and Theatre Royal Stratford East. Each episode explores a different production and gives audiences a new perspective of the work. 

In the second episode, Artistic Directors Adam Penford and Nadia Fall chat to some of the team from Theatre Royal Stratford East's ‘staggering’ (The Stage) 2019 production King Hedley II by August Wilson.

Hear from cast members Lenny Henry, Dexter Flanders and Cherrelle Skeete, alongside executor of August Wilson Estate, Constanza Romero Wilson, and Monica White, a director and Black Theatre scholar, who provided insight during the rehearsal process for the production.

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Our Amplify Producer, Craig Gilbert, has been holed up in his makeshift bedroom studio talking to a host of exciting artists of national and international renown.

These conversations cover career and process as well as offering a few exciting ideas to explore from home during this time of Social Distancing.

Today’s guest is Director Bill Buckhurst, who directed our 2018 production of Sweet Charity and last year’s Assassins. He’s also due to direct a brand new production of Sister Act the Musical starring Whoopi Goldberg and Jennifer Saunders, which will now take place in the summer of 2021.

Bill’s theatre directing credits for Tooting Arts Club include: Sweeney Todd (West End, Harrington’s Pie and Mash Shop & Off-Broadway; Best Musical Off-West End Awards, Outstanding Revival of a Musical Lucille Lortel Awards, Best Musical Revival Off-Broadway Alliance, Best Off-Broadway Musical Theater Fans’ Choice Awards, Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Director of a Musical), Barbarians, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Tinderbox.

Directing credits for Shakespeare’s Globe include: Omeros, Hamlet (and International Tour), King Lear (and International Tour), Twelfth Night, Othello, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo & Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth (Playing Shakespeare).

 Other directing includes: Much Ado About Nothing (StoryHouse Chester); The Selfish Giant (West End & Northampton Theatre Royal); Babette’s Feast (The Print Room); Sleeping Beauty (The Watermill); Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Stafford Festival Shakespeare); Riff Raff (Arcola); The Vegemite Tales (West End & Riverside Studios); Penetrator (Theatre503). 

 Feature film: Pond Life (Open Palm Films)

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The Revival is a brand new, digital documentary series created by Nottingham Playhouse and Theatre Royal Stratford East. Each episode explores a different production and gives audiences a new perspective of the work.

In the third episode, Artistic Directors Adam Penford and Nadia Fall chat to some of the team from Nottingham Playhouse's production ‘full of tenderness and joy’ (The Times), Shebeen. Hear from the playwright himself, Mufaro Makubika, as well as Director Matthew Xia, cast members Martina Laird and Karl Collins, and set & costume designer, Grace Smart.

If you’ve enjoyed listening to our podcast, we’d be grateful if you’d consider donating to our Curtain Up Appeal which allows us to keep creating and will help to secure our future:​ www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/support/curtain-up-appeal/ ​ 

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Our Amplify Producer, Craig, has been holed up in his makeshift bedroom studio talking to a host of exciting artists of national and international renown. These conversations cover career and process as well as offering a few exciting ideas to explore from home during this time of Social Distancing.

Today’s guest is Amit Sharma, Deputy Artistic Director of Birmingham Rep.

Amit Sharma is Deputy Artistic Director at Birmingham Repertory Theatre, and was formerly Associate Director at Graeae and Associate Artistic Director at Royal Exchange, Manchester. His production for Graeae and Theatre Royal Plymouth, The Solid Life of Sugar Water, received unanimous four and five star reviews, won the Euan’s Guide Most Accessible Show of the Fringe Award in 2015 and transferred to the National Theatre’s Temporary Space in spring 2016. Other directing credits for Graeae include One Under (national tour) Cosmic Scallies (co-production with Royal Exchange, Manchester). Outdoor productions include Aruna and the Raging Sun (part of the UK/INDIA Year of Culture in Chennai) Prometheus Awakes (London 2012 Festival) and The Iron Man (UK Tour).

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Our Amplify Producer, Craig, has been holed up in his makeshift bedroom studio talking to a host of exciting artists of national and international renown. These conversations cover career and process as well as offering a few exciting ideas to explore from home during this time of Social Distancing.

Today’s guest is theatre director, Lucy Bailey.

Lucy Bailey is a theatre director who co-founded and was the co-artistic director of The Print Room. Recently, she has directed a staggering production of Agatha Christie’s Witness For The Prosecution at London County Hall, immersing the audience into the text, as well as a UK Tour of Gaslight starring Martin Shaw.

Other work includes: Ghosts (Northampton Royal and Derngate), Love from a Stranger (Northampton Royal and Derngate, and UK Tour), Cave (Printworks, Rotherhithe), The Graduate (Leeds Playhouse, Leicester Curve and UK Tour), Comus (Shakespeare’s Globe, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse) and Kenny Morgan (world premiere and revival, Arcola Theatre).

Opera and Musical Theatre: Lucy co-founded and was the Artistic Director of The Gogmagogs – a music theatre ensemble of string players. She has conceived and directed many shows including: The Gogmagogs Gumbo Jumbo (Greenwich Theatre and International Tour), Troy Town (BAC and Riverside Studio), The Fool (Norwich Festival and Queen Elizabeth Hall), Introducing the Gogmagogs (ICA Theatre and Royal Court), Let’s Begin Again (World premiere – Norwich Festival), Jenufa (ENO/London Coliseum).

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Back with more brand new episodes for 2021, Nottingham Playhouse’s Amplify Producer Craig Gilbert chats to artists of national and international renown in our Amplify podcast series. These conversations cover career and process as well as offering a few ideas to explore from home during this time of social distancing.

This week Craig is chatting to Sam Hodges, a theatre director, artistic director and producer with over 15 years’ experience across the not-for-profit and commercial sectors.

A few years after graduating from Cambridge University, he founded the HighTide Festival Theatre which grew into one of the country’s leading new writing companies. He was Artistic Director for five years, during which time he produced early work by the leading writers and directors of his generation – including writers Nick Payne, Sam Holcroft, Ella Hickson and Beth Steel, and directors Mike Longhurst, Polly Findlay and Natalie Abrahami.

Highlights include Stovepipe - which was co-produced with the National Theatre and named one of The Sunday Times ‘Ten Best Theatre Productions of the Decade’ - and Ditch, which opened the Old Vic Tunnels. In 2009, Sam was named in Esquire Magazine’s 60 Brilliant Brits for shaping British theatre. Between 2012 and 2014, he was invited by Stephen Fry and Sally Greene to become the Creative Producer for the Criterion Theatre in London’s West End.

More recently, Sam was Artistic Director of Nuffield Southampton Theatres (NST) where he built on his reputation for commissioning new plays and musicals. Highlights include international award-winning tours of Fantastic Mr Fox the Musical and Billionaire Boy the Musical, London transfers for A Number to the Young Vic and SS Mendi to the Royal Opera House, and world premieres of The Shadow Factory by Howard Brenton and an adaptation of the Coen Brothers film The Hudsucker Proxy. After his first season in charge, NST was named Regional Theatre of the Year and Sam has been named in the Stage 100 power list for the last 4 years.

As a director, his productions for NST include The Audience (nominated Best Design & Best Actress, UK Theatre Awards), The Shadow Factory (nominated Best Design, UK Theatre Awards), Dedication, and The Glass Menagerie (nominated Best Director, UK Theatre Awards). He has also written two short films, Player (nominated Best Short: Raindance Film Festival, Miami Short Film Festival) and Double Take (commissioned by BAFTA and Big Dance for Channel 4: Dance on Camera Festival 2013 ) which he also directed.

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Back with more new episodes for 2021, Nottingham Playhouse’s Amplify Producer Craig Gilbert chats to more artists of national and international renown in our Amplify Podcast series. These conversations cover career and process, as well as offering a few ideas to explore from home during this time of social distancing. This week Craig is chatting to Paul Hunter.

Paul Hunter is co-founder and Artistic Director of Told by an Idiot. Paul has worked on all Told by an Idiot shows to date as director/devisor/performer.  

Directing credits include: The Ghost Train (Told by an Idiot / Royal Exchange, Manchester); Too Clever By Half (Told by an Idiot / Royal Exchange, Manchester); Every Last Trick (Royal & Derngate, Northampton); You Can’t Take It With You (Told by an Idiot / Royal Exchange, Manchester); The Mouse and his Child (RSC); Low Pay, Don’t Pay (Salisbury Playhouse); Senora Carrar’s Rifles (Young Vic); The Opium Eater and Light is Night (Brouhaha); The Underpants (Hope Street, Liverpool); One Set to Love (National Theatre, Hungary); Not With That Hand and Jiggery Pokery (Tour/BAC), Ordago (for Punto Finco in Bilbao).  

As Associate Director at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton, Paul Hunter directed: The Venetian Twins, The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Best Production, Manchester Evening News award), Accidental Death of an Anarchist and Cleo, Camping Emmanuelle and Dick.  

Acting credits include: Wise Children (Wise Children Old Vic and UK tour); Life of Galileo (Young Vic); The Little Match Girl (Shakespeare’s Globe); Gaslight (Royal and Derngate); Tartuffe (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing, The Globe Mysteries, Troilus And Cressida, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare's Globe); Rapunzel and The Red Shoes (Kneehigh); Under The Black Flag (Shakespeare's Globe); The Water Engine (Young Vic/Theatre 503); The Play What I Wrote (West End); Oliver Twist and Pinocchio (Lyric Hammersmith); Into Our Dreams (Almeida); the title role in Richard III (English Shakespeare Company), Animal Farm and Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night (Northern Stage); Les Enfants Du Paradis (RSC); and the title role in The Servant With Two Masters (Sheffield Crucible). 

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Back with more new episodes for 2021, Nottingham Playhouse’s Amplify Producer Craig Gilbert chats to more artists of national and international renown in our Amplify Podcast series. These conversations cover career and process, as well as offering a few ideas to explore from home during this time of social distancing. This week Craig is chatting to Rebecca Gatward.

Rebecca Gatward studied for a degree in Drama and English and an MA in Theatre Direction at the University of East Anglia. She is a graduate of the BBC Directors’ Academy. She has been working as a freelance television drama director since 2008 and as a theatre director since 1995.

Her credits include ALEX RIDER, TRACES, DUBLIN MURDERS, DOCTORS, EASTENDERS and CASUALTY. She is a graduate of the BBC’s Director’s Academy.

Theatre credits as Director include:

THE COMEDY OF ERRORS for Shakespeare’s Globe 2009 & 2010.  THE MERCHANT OF VENICE for Shakespeare’s Globe’s 2007.  THE INDIAN BOY (2006) by Rona Munro for the RSC Complete Works Festival; THE CANTERBURY TALES (2006) RSC TOUCHED by Stephen Lowe (2008 Salisbury Playhouse); YIKES! (2005 Unicorn Theatre); CANCER TALES (2005 New Wolsey Theatre Studio); OLD KING COLE (2004 Unicorn at the Cochrane Theatre); THYESTES (2003 RSC The Other Place) THE ACCRINGTON PALS (2002 West Yorkshire Playhouse); THE OWL WHO WAS AFRAID OF THE DARK (2002 Bristol Old Vic); THE MAGIC TOYSHOP (2001 Shared Experience: Soho Theatre and national tour); THE THREE BIRDS (collaboration between Gate Theatre and NT Studio ; VENECIA (2000 Gate Theatre). She also restaged THIS IS OUR YOUTH with Matt Damon and Casey Affleck (2002 Garrick Theatre).

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Back with more new episodes for 2021, Nottingham Playhouse’s Amplify Producer Craig Gilbert chats to more artists of national and international renown in our Amplify Podcast series. These conversations cover career and process, as well as offering a few ideas to explore from home during this time of social distancing. This week Craig is chatting to Tom Jackson Greaves.

Tom trained at Laban and London Contemporary Dance School.

Recent choreographic work includes: So Here We Are (Manchester Royal Exchange and Hightide Festival), Juicy and Delicious (Nuffield Theatre Southampton), When We Were Women (The Orange Tree), The Crocodile (Manchester International Festival), Teddy (Southwark Playhouse), Defect The Musical (Arts Educational School), Shadowthief (Barnsley Civic), Kerry Ellis at the Palladium (London Palladium), LIFT (Soho Theatre), Harvest Fire (YMT The Lemon Tree Aberdeen), The Seventh Muse (YMT Barbican Plymouth), short creations at ArtsEd, The MTA, CPA Studios and Dance Academy Russia and music videos for C.Duncan, Boy George and Clare Maguire.

Tom’s also makes his own dance-theatre creations include: Seven Deadly Sins (UK Tour) and Vanity Fowl (Sadlers Wells). He is currently working on an original creation with Kneehigh Theatre as Director/Choreographer that will premier in Spring 2016.

Tom was a winner of the New Adventures Choreographer Award in 2012.

Tom has also worked extensively as a performer touring regularly with ‘Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures’. Other highlights include; Tristan And Yseult (Kneehigh Theatre) and Kes (Sheffield Crucible).

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Back with more new episodes for 2021, Nottingham Playhouse’s Amplify Producer Craig Gilbert chats to more artists of national and international renown in our Amplify Podcast series. These conversations cover career and process, as well as offering a few ideas to explore from home during this time of social distancing. This week Craig is chatting to Matthew Xia.

Matthew Xia (Director) is the Artistic Director at ATC (Actors Touring Company), a company dedicated to producing and touring new international and cross-cultural plays. Matthew was previously Associate Artistic Director at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Director in Residence at The Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, and Associate Director at Theatre Royal Stratford East.

Directing credits for the ATC include: Amsterdam (Plymouth Theatre Royal / The Orange Tree).

Credits for Nottingham Playhouse include: Shebeen (Nottingham Playhouse and Theatre Royal Stratford East) and One Night In Miami.

Other directing credits include: Blood Knot (The Orange Tree); Blue/Orange, The Sound of Yellow and Sizwe Banzi is Dead (Young Vic & Eclipse); Dublin Carol (Sherman Theatre);Eden (Hampstead Downstairs); Suckerpunch: Boom Suite (The Barbican & NitroBEAT); Migration Music and Scrappers (Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse); Frankenstein, Wish List (also Royal Court), Into the Woods and Brink (Royal Exchange Manchester); Cinderella, The Blacks and I was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky (Co-Director, Theatre Royal Stratford East & The Barbican); Mad Blud and Aladdin (Associate Director) and Sleeping Beauty (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Soundbites: Ruth the Divorcee and Barry the Love-Sick Bee (Lyric Theatre Studio & Bestival); Soundbites: Abandonment (Rich Mix); and Wild Child (Royal Court Rough Cut).

Composing/Sound Design credits include: Paralympics Opening Ceremony (DJ); The People are Singing (Royal Exchange); Free Run (Underbelly); That’s The Way To Do It(TimeWontWait); Pass The Baton and Bolero Remixed (New London Orchestra); Da Boyz, Family Man, The Snow Queen, Hansel and Gretel, Medea and Squid (Theatre Royal Stratford East).

Matthew is a founding member of Act for Change and a trustee for Cardboard Citizens and Artistic Directors of the Future.

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Back with more new episodes for 2021, Nottingham Playhouse’s Amplify Producer Craig Gilbert chats to more artists of national and international renown in our Amplify Podcast series. These conversations cover career and process, as well as offering a few ideas to explore from home during this time of social distancing. This week Craig is chatting to Holly Race Roughan.

Holly Race Roughan trained on the Theatre Directing MFA at Birkbeck College. She is the Director of the Young Ensemble at the Lyric Hammersmith. Other directing credits include: Vernon God Little (Rose Bruford), How to Eat an Elephant (Theatre Royal Plymouth R&D), Broken Dreams (Royal Court), The Laramie Project (Arts Ed), Rough Beasts (Bush Theatre, R&D), Music Hall Monster (Wilton’s Music Hall, Co-Director), Blackout (Synergy), Prurience (Guggenheim, New York/Royal Festival Hall, London Co-director), CUNT (Yard Theatre, R&D), People Places & Things (UK Tour, directed with Jeremy Herrin), START (Lyric Hammersmith, Young Company), Best Served Cold (Vaults Festival), Clickbait (Theatre 503), The Low Road (Central School of Speech and Drama), Animal (Gate Theatre, Royal Welsh College of Speech and Drama), Eye of a Needle (Southwark Playhouse), A First World Problem (Theatre503), Pages from my Songbook (Royal Exchange Studio, Manchester), Believers Anonymous (The Rosemary Branch), Waiting For Alice (Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Fringe Festival), After the War (Cambridge ADC Theatre).

Holly is an Associate Director for arts in prison charity KESTREL, for them she has directed Jack a Lad in the Beanstalk (HMP Springhill Prison), Broken Dreams (Royal Court), Blood & Water (Royal Court), SkyFall (HMP Springhill Prison), and the films The 360° Man (HM Springhill Prison) and No Going Back (HMP Aylesbury Prison).

As Associate/Assistant Director: People, Places & Things (National Theatre / West End), Stuff Happens (National Theatre - rehearsed reading), The Cane (National Theatre Studio - R&D), The Shoemaker's Holiday (RSC), Hotel (National Theatre), The Pass (Royal Court), The Birthday Party, A Doll's House, Rats Tales, The Country Wife (Royal Exchange), Three Birds (Bush Theatre/Royal Exchange), Adult Supervision (Park Theatre).

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In this episode our Artistic Director, Adam Penford, tells us about The Madness of George III, how his first season as Artistic Director has gone and what to expect from the 2019 Spring Season.

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Back with more new episodes for 2021, Nottingham Playhouse’s Amplify Producer Craig Gilbert chats to more artists of national and international renown in our Amplify Podcast series. These conversations cover career and process, as well as offering a few ideas to explore from home during this time of social distancing. This week Craig is chatting to Natalie Ibu

Natalie Ibu is Artistic Director of Northern Stage and before that was Artistic Director and Chief Executive of tiata fahodzi, the only Black-led theatre company committed solely to producing new work in the UK, for the past 5 years. At tiata fahodzi, Natalie’s stand out piece of work was her direction of ‘good dog’ by Arinzé Kene, which was produced in association with Watford Palace Theatre and Tara Finney Productions and toured nationally twice to excellent audience and critical reception before being adapted for screen and shown on BBC iPlayer.

Prior to joining tiata fahodzi, her career includes time spent as Creative Producer at In Good Company, Derby Theatre; Programme Manager, Roundhouse; Resident Assistant Director, Royal Court and Assistant Director Glasgow Citizens Theatre. 

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Back with more new episodes for 2021, Nottingham Playhouse’s Amplify Producer Craig Gilbert chats to more artists of national and international renown in our Amplify Podcast series. These conversations cover career and process, as well as offering a few ideas to explore from home during this time of social distancing. This week Craig is chatting to Nancy Medina

Nancy hails from Brooklyn, New York. She received her MA in Drama Directing from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where she now returns as a visiting Acting tutor. She is based in Bristol and is co-Artistic Director of Bristol School of Acting.

Nancy is one of three recipients of the 2020/2021 National Theatre Sir Peter Hall Bursary.

Awards:

RTST SIR PETER HALL DIRECTOR AWARD

TWO TRAINS RUNNING (2019) 

GENESIS FUTURE DIRECTOR’S AWARD

YELLOWMAN (2017)

EMERGING DIRECTOR PRIZE

STRAWBERRY & CHOCOLATE (2014)

Credits include:

The Laramie Project Bristol Old Vic Theatre School 2020, Two Trains Running Royal & Derngate/English Touring Theatre 2019, Strange Fruit Bush Theatre 2019, The Half God of Rainfall Fuel & Kiln Theatre &Birmingham Rep 2019 and Curried Goat and Fish Fingers Bristol Old Vic 2018

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Back with more new episodes for 2021, Nottingham Playhouse’s Amplify Producer Craig Gilbert chats to more artists of national and international renown in our Amplify Podcast series. These conversations cover career and process, as well as offering a few ideas to explore from home during this time of social distancing. This week Craig is chatting to Natalie Dew

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In this episode Alex Moxon talks to John Elkington aka Dame Nurse Nelly Noggins about this year’s panto and our Artist Development Co-ordinator Beth Shouler speaks to Siobhán Cannon-Brownlie about directing The Elves and the Shoemaker and her career so far. 

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Back with more new episodes for 2021, Nottingham Playhouse’s Amplify Producer Craig Gilbert chats to more artists of national and international renown in our Amplify Podcast series. These conversations cover career and process, as well as offering a few ideas to explore from home during this time of social distancing. This week Craig is chatting to Luke Barnes

Luke is playwright, screenwriter and theatre maker using live performance and film to tell stories and make a good night out that’s both useful for use as humans and as a community.

Highlights includes: No One Will Tell Me How To Start A Revolution (Hampstead Theatre), All We Ever Wanted Was Everything (Paines Plough Roundabout with Middle Child), Bottleneck (Soho Theatre with HighTide), Chapel Street (Bush Theatre), Weekend Rockstars & Ten Storey Love Song (Hull Truck with Middle Child), The Saints (Nuffield, Southampton), The Men In Blue, Fable & Me, In Prison (Young Vic) & A Wondrous Place (Royal Exchange).

He is an avid Liverpool fan and average (to poor) musician.

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Back with more new episodes for 2021, Nottingham Playhouse’s Amplify Producer Craig Gilbert chats to more artists of national and international renown in our Amplify Podcast series. These conversations cover career and process, as well as offering a few ideas to explore from home during this time of social distancing. This week Craig is chatting to Stewart Pringle

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Back with more new episodes for 2021, Nottingham Playhouse’s Amplify Producer Craig Gilbert chats to more artists of national and international renown in our Amplify Podcast series. These conversations cover career and process, as well as offering a few ideas to explore from home during this time of social distancing. This week Craig is chatting to Rachel Bagshaw

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In this episode we find out what Nottingham Playhouse’s staff highlights of 2018 are and we sit down with singer-songwriter turned Musical Director Rob Green about his career and what it was like working on The Elves and The Shoemaker.

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We caught up with Wonderland designer, Morgan Large, about what it was like to win the UK Theatre Award for best set design, plus Lewis Doherty talks about his one man show WOLF and what’s next for him.

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We caught up with Skellig Director Lisa Blair and Artistic Director Adam Penford discusses the upcoming autumn season. 

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