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Artistic Director - John Terry |
John’s professional debut was the UK premiere of the Hungarian hit play Unsent Letters at the Orange Tree Theatre, where he also directed Don Taylor’s The Road to the Sea and a school’s tour of King Lear.
As Artistic Director of Shapeshifter he has twice won prestigious Peter Brook Empty Space Awards - the Peter Wolff Theatre Trust Award for the promenade epic King Arthur at the Arcola Theatre, and the Mark Marvin Award for their critically acclaimed productions of the promenade plays Lark Rise to Candleford.
For Shapeshifter he has also directed the Time Out Critic’s Choice Production of Rolf Hochhuth’s Soldiers at the Finborough Theatre, the UK premiere of David Auburn’s Fifth Planet in Brighton and the devised project The Item Project at the BAC. John also directed The Ladies Cage for the Royal Exchange Manchester, Immortal at the Courtyard, Covent Garden, Goblin Market at the Southwark Playhouse, and a National tour of The Librarians’ Joke for Little Wonder, as well as many readings and workshop productions.
He is a member of the National Theatre Studio Directors Programme, visiting director with the National Youth Theatre and the Arcola Academy (with whom he was nominated for a Channel 4 Political Award) and Associate Director of the Finborough Theatre.
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Associate Director/Writer - Mike Bartlett |
Mike studied English and Theatre Studies at Leeds University. Directing includes Dracula, The Furrowed Children, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Swimming for Beginners (Leeds Workshop Theatre) How to lose friends and irritate people (Fat Tree Theatre Company) The Oddity (Gilded Balloon) and Twelfth Night (Folly Bridge Theatre). Writing includes The Love at Last (Gilded Balloon) Two Metal Chairs (Bradford Theatre in the Mill) Why People Really Burn (Folly Bridge Theatre) and shortlist placings for the Royal Court Young Writers Festival, The Verity Bargate Award and Paines Plough Future Perfect Award. Mike has worked extensively as a drama teacher, youth theatre director and workshop leader. Mike worked as Assistant Director on Shapeshifter's production of Soldiers. |
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Associate Designer - Alex Marker |
Alex Marker Trained in Theatre Design at Wimbledon School of Art and has designed over forty productions. He is Associate Designer for Shapeshifter for whom he has designed Soldiers, Lark Rise to Candleford (Finborough Theatre) and King Arthur (Arcola Theatre). He is also Associate Designer of the award winning Finborough Theatre where over the last five years his numerous credits include: Love Child, Eden's Empire, The Representative, Red Night, Albert’s Boy, Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams, and Trelawny of the ‘Wells’. Other designs include School’s Theatre Festival (Young Vic), Origin: Unknown (Theatre Royal, Stratford East), My Real War 1914 - ? (National Tour), Sweet Charity (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), Oklahoma! (New Wimbledon Theatre), Marat/Sade (Northampton), Cooking With Elvis, Gym and Tonic, The Opposite Sex and Inside Job (Lyceum Theatre, Crewe), Hush (Pleasance, Edinburgh and Arcola Theatre), Twelfth Night and Been So Long (Broadway Theatre, Catford), Marília Pêra Sings Ary Barroso (Bloomsbury Theatre), Oedipus, Agamemnon and Androcles and the Lion (The Scoop, City Hall) A Doll’s House, The Ruffian on the Stair and The Erpingham Camp (Greenwich Playhouse). His work has been exhibited several times most recently as part of the Collaborators: UK Design for Performance exhibition in Nottingham. He is a part time lecturer in theatre design and related subjects at Kingston College and is Director of the Questors Youth Theatre, the largest non-franchise youth theatres in London. www.alexmarker.com |
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Associate Costume Designer - Nell Knudsen |
Nell trained in Fine Art at the Arts Institute of Bergen, and in Costume for the Screen and Stage at the Arts Institute of Bournemouth. She is the Associate Costume Designer of the Finborough Theatre where she designed the costumes for I Wish to Die Singing, Freedom of the City, Florodora, Blackwater Angel, Loyalties, Our Miss Gibbs, Eden's Empire, Sweethearts, The Zoo and The Lower Depths. Other Costume Design credits include La Boheme (Southbank Sinfonia), Immortal (Courtyard Theatre, Covent garden), Anatol, Gaudeamus or a Very Liberal Education, The Icarus Girl and King Arthur (all at the Arcola Theatre), A Devilish Exercise (Rose Theatre, London), Tell (Hen and Chickens) and six short films. She was costume supervisor for Bridgetower (English Touring Opera) and has worked as a design assistant and maker for various productions, most recently Wicked (Apollo Victoria), the Royal Opera House, the National Theatre of Bergen, and the feature film Bigga Than Ben (Annex Films). |
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Associate Movement Director - Kitty Winter |
Kitty trained at Laban and on the MA Movement Studies programme at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Her Movement Directing credits include: Elsie Piddock Skips in Her Sleep (Paddock Productions/ Farnham Maltings) Teddy in his Rucksack (Quicksilver Theatre), Taikonaut! (BAC), Lark Rise to Candleford (Shapeshifter/ Finborough Theatre), Goblin Market (Southwark Playhouse) and Physick Lies-A-Bleeding (Concordance/Apothecaries’ Hall)
Credits as Choreographer include: The Canterville Ghost (Southwark Playhouse) Music Hall Madness (tour) and Falling Angel, Rising Ape, (C Venues, Edinburgh) winner of the Fringe Report award for best dance work.
Other theatre credits include: Assistant Movement Co-ordinator, Tom’s Midnight Garden (Birmingham Stage Company), and Assistant Director, Sweetpeter and Little Angels (Polka Theatre/Company of Angels).
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Second Associate Designer - Kelly Vassie |
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Honoroury Members - Keith Dewhurst
Henry Angell-James
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