Effigies of Wickedness

Theatre credits include – As Musical Supervisor Rent 21st Anniversary Tour. As Musical Director In The Heights (Kings Cross Theatre/ Southwark Playhouse), The Scottsboro Boys (West End). As Assistant MD A Damsel In Distress (Chichester Festival Theatre) Carousel (Arcola Theatre), The Scottsboro Boys (Young Vic), Singin’ in the Rain (West End), Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (UK Tours), Evita (European Tour), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (UK Tours and Singapore Esplanade Theatre).

Phil trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, then at Trinity College of Music, where he was awarded the Postgraduate Accompanist Prize. He has performed piano concertos in St John’s Smith Square and Southwark Cathedral. Phil is a member of the highly regarded contemporary folk band Apple of my Eye (on double bass and vocals), and also a regular collaborator with singer and composer Tasha Taylor Johnson.

Ellan Parry trained at Wimbledon and Motley, and is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Brighton. They are a previous winner of the Jocelyn Herbert Award and a Linbury Prize finalist. Current design work includes Hamlet and As You Like It at Shakespeare's Globe. Recent work includes the Olivier Award-winning Rotterdam (Trafalgar Studios and the Arts Theatre, West End, and 59E59 Theaters, New York), Belongings (Glyndebourne Youth Opera), The Magna Carta Plays (Salisbury Playhouse), Peter Pan (Exeter Northcott), Posh (Nottingham Playhouse, Salisbury Playhouse) and The Miser (The Watermill Theatre). Recent opera and music theatre includes La Liberazione di Ruggiero (Brighton Early Music Festival), El Nin~o (Spoleto Festival, Charleston S.C.), Neige (Grand Theatre de Ville, Luxembourg), Noye's Fludde (Southbank Centre), The Fairy Queen (Brighton Theatre Royal) and Without You (Menier Chocolate Factory, & Panasonic Theater, Toronto). Alongside their design career, Ellan has a personal practice as a multi-disciplinary artist, presenting live art performances and installations at various platforms and events in the UK and Europe.

Corin’s composition for theatre includes; Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead (Old Vic); Closer, The Late Middle Classes; Hamlet (Donmar); Arcadia (West End/Broadway); Jumpers (RNT/Broadway); The Alchemist, King John, ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, King Baby, Transit of Venus, The Merchant of Venice, Richard III, A Warwickshire Testimony (RSC); Our Lady of Sligo (NT); The Two Noble Kinsmen, The Taming of the Shrew (Globe), A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Hay Fever, As You Like It, King John (Rose, Kingston); Antony and Cleopatra, The Power and the Glory, Arcadia, Warrior, Blithe Spirit (Chichester Festival Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Design for Living, Don Juan (ETT); Twelfth Night (Regents Park) Volpone, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar (English Shakespeare Company).

Opera includes: On the Road with Ron and Ros (Modern Music Theatre Troupe/Purcell Room/UK tour); Bathtime (ENO/Baylis programme); Angela (Rosemary Branch/Third Hand Opera company).

Composition for film includes: Connected, Brothers of War, and many short films for London Film School and Mountview Film School.

As arranger: The Noël Coward Songbook (Ian Bostridge/EMI), The Wars of the Roses (Kingston), Aladdin, Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk (Lyric Hammersmith). Work as Musical Director includes: Fosse (European Tour/ Japan Tour), Chicago (London) Hairspray (London). Associate MD for: (all London) Legally Blonde, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, The Book of Mormon, Matilda.

Assistant MD: Doctor Dolittle (Hammersmith Apollo), Kiss Me, Kate (Chichester/Old Vic), Kinky Boots (Adelphi. MD for plays includes: Marianne Dreams (Almeida); The Taming of the Shrew, A Jovial Crew (RSC); The Silver Tassie (NT).

Malik Nashad Sharpe is a London-based choreographer and dancer making performances under their alias Marikiscrycrycry. Operating with an expansive and emotional choreographic proposition, their work is about the socially radical practice of imagining new worlds; dances that motorise the conditions necessary for possibility and futurity; performances that double as survival rituals; performances that drip with meaning, texturising all the affective and infective material left behind. Their work integrates pessimism and optimism, minimalism and maximalism, soft and sweet, hyperreal and absurdist ontological propositions with various dance and choreographic practices. Their identity is often central to their work as the site and receptacle of maintained racial and gender based violence, frequently recalling, reneging, and reifying their experiences being Black, Vincentian/Caribbean-American, gender non-conforming, femme, Queer, immigrant with a felt transgenerational history of displacement, alienation, and allostatic load, in order to humanise another possibility, worlds of ulteriorly. They have performed their work in various venues across the UK, USA, and Canada, and have been supported by Arts Council England, Canadian Council for the Arts, a-n, Fierce Festival, Hackney Showroom, Chisenhale Dance Space, Live Art Development Agency, and Marlborough Theatre and Pub, and have performed with various artists like Last Yearz Interesting Negro, Rachael Young, Project O, SPIT!, Randy Reyes, Dalston Ballet, amongst many others. They’ve also taught workshops and courses around their dance practice at University of Illinois (USA), Glasgow School of Art (UK), Otion Front Studio (USA), The Workroom (UK), Gibney Dance (USA), Goldsmiths University (UK), CLOUD at Danslab (NL), Leeds Beckett University (UK), Tate Modern (UK), and School of New Dance Development (NL). Their newest work (in collaboration with Ellen Furey), SOFTLAMP.autonomies premieres at Theatre La Chapelle (CA) in April 2018.

Tim trained in classical dance and was an aerialist/trapeze artist. He has choreographed five of The Little Greats (Opera North); Romeo and Juliet (The Globe); Pyramus and Thisbe(Canadian Opera Company); La traviata, Don Carlos (Houston Grand Opera); Parsifal (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Andrea Chénier, La Rondine, Albert Herring (Opera North); Carmen (Vlaamse Opera); The Elixir of Love (Welsh National Opera, Opera North, Houston, Oviedo); Falstaff and I Capuleti?e i Montecchi (Opera North, Melbourne, Sydney); La Bohème, The Bartered Bride (Opera North, Valencia, New Zealand); Il turco in Italia and Veronique (Buxton); The Tales of Hoffman (Malmö); Grimes on the Beach (Aldeburgh); Madama Butterfly (Oviedo).

He has been assistant director on many Opera North productions.

Recent design credits include: Kairos (V&A Museum); Becoming Invisible (Bascule Chamber-Tower Bridge); Smack That (National tour); Killer (Shoreditch Town Hall); Darkness Darkness (Nottingham Playhouse); Cuttin’ It (Young Vic / National tour); The Tiger's Bones and Other Stories (Nottingham Lakeside / National tour); I Know All The Secrets In My World (Derby Theatre, then tour); Dot, Squiggle and Rest (Royal Opera House – Clore Studio); Peddling (New York 59E59 / National tour); Playland (Derby Theatre / National tour); How Nigeria Became a Story and a Spear that Didn't Work (Unicorn Theatre); We Are Proud…(Bush Theatre); The Lovesong of Alfred J Hitchcock (Curve Theatre Leicester / International tour); Copyright Christmas (Barbican Centre); Fanfared (Crucible Sheffield) and Choreogata (Southbank Centre – Purcell Room). 

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Theatre as Sound Designer: Great Apes, I Call My Brothers, Caught (Arcola); #Dracula (The Curve); Seafret (Old Red Lion, HighTide); Figures Of Speech-Series (Almeida); Great Expectations (Merton Arts Space); Spindrift (Theatre Royal Plymouth); RE: Home (Yard Theatre); DREAM, Jenufa–Opera Works (ENO); Walking the Tightrope (Theatre Delicatessen), SOLO (Bush); Nude (Hope Theatre), Deathwatch (Roundhouse); The Dumb Waiter, Woyczek (Old Nick Theatre). Theatre as Associate Sound Designer: Fanny & Alexander, The Lorax-Toronto Tour (The Old Vic); People Places & Things (Headlong UK Tour); Life Of Galileo (Young Vic); Oresteia (Almeida); Frogman (Traverse Theatre); Sex With Strangers (Hampstead Theatre); How I Hacked My Way Into Space (Unlimited Theatre).

Lucy J Skilbeck is a writer and director and Genesis Future Director at the Young Vic. Their debut play JOAN, a drag king play (winner of Fringe First, Stage Edinburgh and Spirit of the Fringe Awards) is currently touring internationally.

Lucy is the Artistic Director of Milk Presents, an Associate Company of Derby Theatre and the Bush Theatre. Milk Presents enable audiences to queer their world and are quoted by The Stage as making ‘Theatre that flies in the face of convention’. The company make theatre, run workshops, club nights, community projects, gender access training and artistic disruptions.

Lucy is the recipient of a BBC Fellowship and BBC Legacy Award. Their work often forefronts trans and queer narratives, and their latest play BULLISH, commissioned by the Jerwood Home Run Commission at Camden People’s Theatre, premiered to a sell-out run, and is touring the UK in Autumn 2018.

Directing credits for theatre include: The Bear / The Proposal (Young Vic), JOAN (Milk Presents and Derby Theatre); BULLISH, Bluebeard, A Real Man’s Guide to Sainthood, Milk Presents Self Service (Milk Presents); Penelope Retold (Caroline Horton and Derby Theatre); 3 Wise Monkeys (Hiccup Theatre) and The Secret Keeper (co-director, Angela Clerkin and Oval House),

As Associate / Assistant Director: Herons, dir. Sean Holmes (Lyric Hammersmith), The Complete Deaths dir. Tim Crouch (Spymonkey), The Odyssey, Brassed Off dir. Sarah Brigham (Derby Theatre); Islands dir. Omar Elerian (Bush Theatre); Father Christmas, dir. Emma Earle (Lyric Hammersmith, West Yorkshire Playhouse). Encourage The Others dir. Lu Kemp (Almeida Projects); Epidemic dir. Alex Ferris (Old Vic New Voices).

Ellen is Artistic Director at the Gate Theatre. Previous credits at the Gate include – Dear Elizabeth (2019), Effigies of Wickedness (2018), The Unknown Island (2017) and Idomeneus (2014). Other credits include Our Town (Regents Open Air) and The Wolves (Stratford East); Othello (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at the Globe); the Lyric’s annual pantomime – Aladdin (2016) and Cinderella (2015); The Rolling Stone (Orange Tree Theatre and Manchester Royal Exchange); The Remains of Maisie Duggan (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); The Glass Menagerie (Headlong); Anna Karenina (Manchester Royal Exchange); Henry the Fifth (Unicorn Theatre); Glitterland (Secret Theatre/Lyric Hammersmith) and Ivan and the Dogs (Actors Touring Company/Soho Theatre) – nominated for an Olivier Award. Ellen was formerly part of the Secret Theatre Company at the Lyric Hammersmith. She trained as an assistant to Katie Mitchell and Marianne Elliott. She was awarded an International Artists’ Development Award (ACE/British Council) in 2012.