The Iphigenia Quartet. Caroline Bird
(in rep, Greenwich Theatre); Oedipus (Blue Elephant Theatre).
HAZEL HOLDER – DIALECT COACH
As a performer, her theatre credits include: Here We Go, As You Like It, Medea, Death and the King’s Horseman (National Theatre); The Tempest (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Bakkhai (Almeida Theatre); Dart’s Love (Tete-aTete Opera Festival); Zero (Clod Ensemble); Tamba Tamba (Tiata Fahodzi); Dalston Songs (ROH2 for Royal Opera House and Helen Chadwick Song Theatre); The Bacchae (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Headlong); The Bacchae (National Theatre of Scotland, national tour and on Broadway); Fingerprint (ROH2 for Royal Opera House and The Shout); Mercy Fine in Mercy Fine (Clean Break); The Sleeping Beauty (Young Vic, Barbican and on Broadway) and Carmen Jones and Ain’t Misbehavin’ (WestEnd).
As a Voice & Dialect Coach her credits include: Les Blancs and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (National Theatre); RADA, Arts Ed, Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, F*ck The Polar Bears (Bush Theatre); The Rolling Stone (Orange Tree Theatre and the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Eclipsed and The Rise & Shine of Comrade Fiasco (Gate Theatre) and The Initiate (Paines Plough).
Television credits include: Judge John Deed and The Cambridge Spies.
Short film credits include: Dates; The Followed.
Radio credits include: Something Understood and Death and the King’s Horseman.
BEX KEMP – DESIGN ASSISTANT
Bex is a freelance set and costume designer and costume supervisor. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Design credits include: Andy Capp The Musical (Finborough); Circling the Square (Salisbury Arts Centre); Othello (Greenwich Theatre + UK Tour); Becoming Mohammed (The Space); About Miss Julie (King’s Head); As You Like It (UK Tour); Our Space (Lost Theatre); Pentecost, Variations on The Death of Trotsky, Scenes From The Big Picture, Common Chorus, Seventh Continent (Central School of Speech and Drama, Derby LIVE); Kleinkunst 3 (Roundhouse) and Cinderella (Primrose Gardens).
As Costume Designer: F*ck The Polar Bears (Bush Theatre).
As Design Assistant to Miriam Buether: The Haunting of Hill House (Liverpool Playhouse); The Trial, The Government Inspector (Young Vic); Boris Godunov (Royal Opera House); Chariots of Fire (Hampstead Theatre); Decade (Headlong) and Carmen (Salzburg Festival).
Other Design Assistance: The Bodyguard (Tim Hatley/Adelphi Theatre); The Boy Who Climbed Out Of His Face (Rachel Good/ Shunt); Sleeping Beauty (Keith Orton/Salisbury Playhouse) and The Duchess of Malfi (Punchdrunk/ENO).
Costume Supervision: All or Nothing the Mod Musical (The Vaults); The Water Palace (Tete a Tete); Citizen Puppet, Push (New Diorama); Natural Selection, The Low Road, The Man of Mode, The Commune and The Good Person of Setzuan (Central School of Speech and Drama).
More info at: www.bexkemp.com
This role is funded by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, as part of the Jerwood Young Designers Programme at the Gate.
JADE LEWIS – ASSISTANT DIRECTOR (CLYTEMNESTRA & IPHIGENIA)
Jade is an emerging theatre director who has worked at the Southwark Playhouse, the Young Vic and the Bush Theatre as a director as well as an assistant director. She has assisted on a project run by Old Vic New Voices, and currently runs Emende Theatre Company; a youth arts organisation based on the Southbank. Jade is also Programme Project Coordinator at SE1 United where she works with young people in schools in Lambeth and Southwark.
In 2012, she was Boris Karloff Assistant Director on the Young Vic production Blackta directed by David Lan and since then has worked with directors and collaborators such as Rikki Henry, Patrice Etienne, Matthew Xia and Suba Das. She is currently directing a one woman show On The Edge of Me written and performed by Yolanda Mercy; both are Emerging artists at Ovalhouse Theatre.
Jade is currently a Creative Associate at the Gate Theatre.
This role is funded with the help of Unity Theatre Trust.
ED MADDEN – ASSISTANT DIRECTOR (AGAMEMNON & CHORUS)
Ed is a director, Creative Associate at the Gate Theatre, and co-founder of new writing company Walrus. He studied at the University of Warwick.
His production of Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons, Walrus’ first show, premiered at Warwick Arts Centre in January 2015. It has subsequently visited Latitude Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe and Camden People’s Theatre, and will begin a UK tour later this year.
Ed has also worked with Tobacco Factory Theatres, and writes study guides for Digital Theatre Plus.
This role is funded with the help of Unity Theatre Trust.
CHARLOTTE MCBREARTY – STAGE MANAGER
Charlotte trained at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth and is a Freelance Stage Manager who has worked all over the UK, and internationally. She has worked on productions that have received nominations for the Olivier Awards, and won WhatsOnStage and Fringe First Awards. In the past year, she has worked on productions with Paines Plough, Old Vic New Voices, DryWrite, Soho Theatre, Young Vic/Dance Umbrella, and Look Left Look Right. She is delighted to join the Gate Theatre for this production of The Iphigenia Quartet.
KATY MUNROE FARLIE – STAGE MANAGER
Katy graduated from the University of Hull in 2010 with a Degree in Theatre and Performance. From there she became the resident Production Manager for the New End Theatre until August 2011 before becoming a freelance Stage and Production Manager.
Previous credits for the Gate Theatre include: In the Night Time (Before the Sun Rises); The Christians, Image of an Unknown Young Woman, Eclipsed, Chimera, Body of an American (also toured to Royal & Derngate Theatre); Grounded (also toured to Edinburgh Festival, and UK & International Tour) No Place to Go, Dances of Death, Purple Heart and The Trojan Women.
Other theatre credits include: Scene and Heard: The Tasty Plays (Theatro Technis); Zelda, Barbershopera (Trafagar Studios 2); These Trees are Made of Blood, The Illusion, The Hairy Ape, Shivered (Southwark Playhouse); Twelfth Night (Minack Theatre); Herding Cats (Hampstead Downstairs); Blue Surge (Finborough Theatre); Bunny (Soho Theatre Upstairs); Mr Happiness and The Water Engine (Old Vic Tunnels).
Alongside her Stage Management she also has a Diploma in Body Language and works as a freelance technician and production manager with various other venues and theatre companies.
ELENA PEÑA – SOUND DESIGNER
Credits for the Gate Theatre include: The Christians and Unbroken.
Other theatre credits include: Islands (Bush Theatre); Arabian Nights, The Kilburn Passion, The Wardrobe and Storylabs (Tricycle Theatre); Brainstorm (Islington Community Theatre, National Theatre); Soechon Odyssey (Hi Seoul Festival, Korea); Patrias (Edinburgh International Festival); You Have Been Upgraded (Unlimited Theatre); Better Than Life (Coney); Girl’s Guide To Saving The World (HighTide); Not Now Bernard (Unicorn Theatre); Pim and Theo (New International Encounter/Odsherred Teater, Denmark, Unicorn Theatre); Macbeth: Blood Will Have Blood (China Plate); A High Street