Cast & Creative Team


			SEAN CAMPION Schoning Theatre credits include: The Dead School (Tricycle Theatre/Nomad Theatre); Gambling (Soho Theatre); Wallace, Balfe and Mr Bunn (Ireland Tour); Much Ado About Nothing (Regent’s Park Theatre); Berlin Hanover Express (Hampstead); Lady From The Sea (Arcola); Othello (Salisbury Playhouse); Food (Traverse Theatre); Phaedra (Donmar Warehouse). Sean was a member of the original cast of Stones In His Pockets which played both in the West End and Broadway and earned him an Olivier and Tony award nomination. Film and television credits include: Identity, Raw, Holby City, Eastenders, Blackwater Lightship, Timbuktu, Goldfish Memory.SPAN>

EMMA CHAPMAN Lighting
Theatre credits include: The Mountaintop (Theatre503/Trafalgar Studios); Summerfolk (Guildhall School); Wet Weather Cover (King’s Head/Arts Theatre); Women on the Edge of HRT (Derby); The Comedians (Bolton); The Hostage (Southwark Playhouse); Public Property (Trafalgar Studios); The Spanish Tragedy (Arcola); The Ones That Flutter (Theatre503); The Lifesavers (Theatre503/Mercury Theatre, Colchester); 50 Ways to Leave your Lover at Christmas (Bush Theatre); You Can See The Hills (Royal Exchange/Young Vic); Romeo and Juliet (Middle Temple Hall); Mules (Young Vic).


			MICHAEL COLGAN Schwartz Credits for Headlong include: King Lear (Young Vic/Liverpool Everyman), Faustus (UK tour). Other theatre credits include: Betrayal (Nuffield Theatre); How Much Is Your Iron?, Bedtime Story/The End Of The Beginning, This Lime Tree Bower (Young Vic); Hysteria (Northcott Theatre); Major Barbara, The Playboy Of The Western World (Royal Exchange); The Cherry Orchard, The Tempest, Dolly West’s Kitchen, The Freedom Of The City, Amazing Grace (Abbey Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC); How I Learned To Drive (Donmar Warehouse). Television credits include: Lennon Naked, Holby City, Occupation, Raw, Silent Witness, Soundproof, Animals, The Year London Blew Up, Sunday, Sinners. Film credits include: This Is Not A Love Song, The Eliminator.


			PAUL COPLEY Dr Goll/Schigolch Credits for the Gate include: Ghosts. Other theatre credits include: King Lear, The Frontline, In Extremis (Shakespeare’s Globe); Breathing Corpses, Other Worlds, Rita, Sue & Bob Too (Royal Court); The Servant (Birmingham Rep – TMA Award Best Supporting Actor); When We Are Married (Chichester Festival Theatre/West End); Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads, The Mysteries, The Ticket of Leave Man (National Theatre); Got To Be Happy, The Mortal Ash, Making Noise Quietly, German Skerries (Bush Theatre); For King and Country (Mermaid – Olivier Award Best Actor New Play). Televsion credits include: Torchwood – Children of Earth, George Gently, Life on Mars, Shameless, Hornblower, Queer as Folk, This Life, The Lakes, Jim Allen’s Days of Hope. Film credits include: The Remains of the Day, Zulu Dawn, A Bridge Too Far, Alfie Darling.

CATE DIGIROLAMO Stage Manager
Credits for the Gate include: Breathing Irregular (Assistant Stage Manager), The Kreutzer Sonata (Production Electrician). Cate has a BA in Film and Theatre Arts from the University of Pittsburgh and has recently completed a graduate diploma in Technical Theatre Arts from RADA. Since graduating she has worked as set and lighting designer for Have Your Cake Theatre Company in addition to working as a stage manager and lighting technician at Sadler’s Wells, Cambridge Arts Theatre, and Riverside Studios.

CAROLYN DOWNING Sound
Credits for the Gate include: The Kreutzer Sonata, Vanya, The Internationalist, Habitats, Under The Curse. Credits for Headlong include: Angels in America: Millennium Approaches & Perestroika. Other credits include: Krieg der Bilder (Staatstheater Mainz, Germany); The Gods Weep, The Winter’s Tale, Pericles, Days of Significance (RSC); After Dido (ENO at YoungVic); Absurdia (Donmar Warehouse); All My Sons (Schoenfeld Theatre, New York); Tre Kroner - Gustav III (Royal Dramatic Theatre, Sweden); Gambling (Soho); Ghosts, Dirty Butterfly (Young Vic); After Miss Julie, Othello (Salisbury Playhouse); Moonlight & Magnolias (Tricycle Theatre); Oxford Street, Alaska (Royal Court, Jerwood Theatre Upstairs); A Whistle In The Dark, Moonshed (Royal Exchange); Blood Wedding (Almeida).


			CAROLINE FABER Countess Geschwitz Credits for the Gate include: The Colonel Bird, The Great Highway. Credits for Headlong include: King Lear (Young Vic), Paradise Lost (Hackney Empire/UK tour). Other theatre credits include: Here Lies Mary Spindler (RSC at Latitude); Keepers Of The Flame, Edward III, The Malcontent (RSC); Tender (Hampstead); Mill On The Floss (Shared Experience); The Heiress (National Theatre); Hangover Square (Finborough Theatre); Dangerous Corner (Garrick Theatre); The Norman Conquests (Birmingham Rep); After Miss Julie, The Merchant of Venice, Top Girls, The End of the Affair (Salisbury Playhouse); Cavalcade (Sadler’s Wells). Television includes: Merlin, Disconnected, My Spy Family, The Bill, Holby City, Foyle’s War, A Good Murder, Midsomer Murders, Comedy Nation.

HELEN GODDARD Design
Theatre credits include: And a Nightingale Sang (New Vic/Stephen Joseph/Oldham Coliseum); Comedians, Looking For Buddy, Danny the Champion of the World (Octagon Theatre); James and the Giant Peach, The Sirens Call, Mickey Salberg’s Crystal Ballroom Dance Band, Mira, Mira (Watermill Theatre); Let There Be Love (Tricycle Theatre, 2007 Linbury Prize for Stage Design); The Ones that Flutter, The Lifesavers, GBS (Theatre503); Knives in Hens (Bath Theatre Royal); Public Property, Well, Lovely and Misfit (Trafalgar Studios); Roaring Girl, Under Milk Wood (Bristol Old Vic Studio). Credits as collaborating designer/head painter include: Masque of The Red Death (Punchdrunk/BAC).


			JACK GORDON Alwa Credits for the Gate include: The Car Cemetary. Other theatre credits include: Romeo and Juliet (BAC); DNA, The Miracle (National Theatre); War Horse (National Theatre/West End); A Month in the Country, As You Like It, Odysseus, The Duchess of Malfi, Thark, Carmen, Machinal, The Double Dealer, Scenes from the Big Picture, Rabbit, Incomplete and Random Acts of Kindness (RADA). Film includes: It’s A Wonderful Afterlife, Fish Tank, Heartless. Television includes: Law & Order, Lewis, The Bill, Primeval, Eastenders.

LUISA HINCHLIFF Assistant Director
Luisa has worked as a performer, choreographer and director. Assistant directing credits include: Frank’s Closet (Hoxton Hall); Alyona (Theater am Lend, Graz & Arcola). Credits as choreographer include: Romeo & Juliet, The Extraordinary Cabaret of Dorian Gray (Leicester Square Theatre). This summer Luisa will be performing in Die Walküre (Longborough Festival Opera). Luisa has recently set up Saturday Matinee, a platform for short plays and spoken word at the Old Queen’s Head, Islington on the last Saturday of every month.

GEORGINA LAMB Movement
Credits for Headlong include: King Lear (Liverpool Everyman/Young Vic), Six Characters in Search of an Author (Chichester Festival Theatre/West End/Sydney & Perth International Arts Festivals), Paradise Lost (Hackney Empire/UK tour), Faustus (Hampstead). Other credits as Movement Director/Choreographer include: Gambling (Soho Theatre - also Co-Director); Romeo and Juliet (RSC); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, The Frontline (Shakespeare’s Globe); Macbeth (Chichester Festival Theatre/West End/BAM New York/Broadway); Far From the Madding Crowd (English Touring Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Glass Cage (Royal & Derngate Theatre); The Shops (The Opera Group at The Linbury Studio Royal Opera House).

ANNA LEDWICH Director
Credits for Headlong include, as Associate Director: Six Characters in Search of an Author (UK National Tour/Sydney & Perth International Arts Festivals). Credits as director include: A Christmas Carol (Chichester Festival Theatre); Lovely and Misfit: A Tennessee Williams Triple Bill (Trafalgar Studios), GBS (Theatre503); Roulette (Finborough Theatre); Poet No7 (Theatre503/Dublin Fringe Festival); Yellowing (Harrow Arts Centre/Theatre503/Jermyn Street Theatre). Credits as Assistant Director include: The Last Cigarette (Minerva Theatre/West End); Bingo (Minerva Theatre); The Grapes of Wrath (Chichester Festival Theatre/ETT national tour); The Cherry Orchard (Chichester Festival Theatre); In the Club (Hampstead); The Good Person of Sichuan: Research and Development (Young Vic); Brussels Manifesto (Espace Scarabeus Brussels).


			SINEAD MATTHEWS Lulu Theatre credits include: Eigengrau, His Ghostly Heart/Little Dolls (Bush Theatre); Our Class, Women of Troy, The Mandate (National Theatre); The Wild Duck (Donmar Warehouse); You Can Never Tell (Bath/West End/Tour); The Birthday Party (West End); The Crucible (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); Spoonface Steinberg (GBS). Film credits include: Wreckers, Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, The Boat That Rocked, Spring of 1941, Happy Go Lucky, Wednesday, Pride & Prejudice, Vera Drake. Television credits include: Men Are Wonderful, Half Broken Things, Ideal x 6, Trial & Retribution, Who Gets The Dog, London, The Hogfather, Viva Las Blackpool,

CHARLEY SARGANT Assistant Stage Manager
Credits for the Gate include: Hedda (Assistant Stage Manager). Other stage management credits include projects with: High Tide, New Wolsey Theatre, the Orange Tree Theatre, Eyebrow Productions, Italia Conti, Mentorn Media, Watermill Theatre. Other theatre roles include: assisting Edward Hall on The Taming of The Shrew (Propeller) and working in varied roles at Pippa Ailion Casting, the Watermill Theatre and Oxford Playhouse.

ALEX SILVERMAN Music
Previous scores for theatre include: The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo & Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare’s Globe); Agamemnon (Cambridge Arts Theatre); The Stefan Golaszewski Plays (Bush Theatre); Hippolytus (Riverside Studios); Cloudcuckooland (UK Tour); Othello (Salisbury Playhouse); Richard III (Southwark Playhouse); The Sweet Science of Bruising (National Studio); Crunch (West End); Pete & Dud: Come Again (UK Tour). As musical director/chorus master, credits include: Annie Get Your Gun (Young Vic); Wig Out! (Royal Court); Eurobeat (West End/UK Tour); Certified Male (Assembly); Bridgetower (City of London Festival); At the Drop of a Hippopotamus (Pleasance/UK Tour); Swallow Song (Oxford Playhouse); Hamlet! The Musical (Far East Tour).

ADAM WASHBOURNE Production Manager
Adam is Technical and Production Manager at the Gate. Production management credits include: The Shoemaker’s Wife (Plymouth Theatre Royal); Project X (site-specific) and projects for Cornwall County Council. Stage Management credits include: Shout! (Arts Theatre); Footloose: The Musical (UK Tour); The Wedding Singer (UK Tour); The Accidental Terrorist (Lyric Hammersmith). Freelance and stage work includes: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew (RSC); Spring Awakening (Novello Theatre); The Adventures of Tin Tin (London Playhouse); projects with the International Polo Championships, the National Youth Theatre and the BBC.

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