For Kiln: The Wife of Willesden (2021).

Training: London Centre for Theatre Studies.

Theatre credits include: Signal Fires (Eastern Angles-Hightide); One Man, Two Guvnors (Wolsey Theatre); The Convert (Gate Theatre); The Suicide, The Comedy of Errors, War Horse (National Theatre); Backseat Drivers (The London Theatre); Keeler (The Charing Cross Theatre); Macbeth (The Last Refuge Theatre); The Chicago Cowboy (Rosemary Branch Theatre); Twelfth Night (The Nursery Theatre); Keeping Mum, 1867, A Christmas Carol (Brockley Jack Theatre); The Children of Salt (Alma Theatre Bristol). 

Television credits include: The Sandman, Scott and Bailey, Father Figure, Doctors.

Theater credits include: Richard III, All’s Well That Ends Well, Royal Shakespeare Company; Manor, National Theatre; Four O’Clock Flowers, The Space Arts Centre; Doe for Etcetera; Flush, The Winemakers Club; The Crucible, UK Tour; Staffroom, The Tristan Bates; Mules, The White Bear; Macbeth, Rochester Cathedral; Ring Round the Moon, Yokohama Theatre Group (Japan); Death of a Salesman, West End. 

Television and film credits include: “Sexy Beast,” “Doc Martin,” “EastEnders,” “Twirlywoos,” “Suspicion,” “Killer Doctors on Death Row,” “Kaseifu wa Mita” (Japan), Across the Ocean, Four O’Clock Flowers (Maya, BUFF Award, Best Actress), A Very Short Film About Longing (BBC), Evil Never Dies, Repercussions. 

Radio credits include: “Eulogies” (Fizzy Sherbet Plays); “Monster 1983” (Audible), “A Tokyo Murder” (Radio 4). 

Training: BA (Hons), Rose Bruford College.

For Kiln: The Wife of Willesden (2021).

Training: Drama Centre.

Theatre credits include: Archbishop, The Last King of Scotland (Crucible Theatre); The Firm (Hampstead Theatre); Ear for Eye (Royal Court Theatre); King Lear (The Old Vic); The Tiger’s Bones (New Perspectives Theatre); Arabian Nights (New Vic Theatre); Dishoodbe on TV (Hackney Empire); Passage to Freedom, This Accursed Thing (Andrew Ashmore Associates); A Streetcar Named Desire, Frozen, The Power Book, The Wind in the Willows (National Theatre); The Evocation of Papa Mas (Told by an Idiot); The Ramayana (Birmingham Rep / National Theatre); Servant of Two Masters (Nottingham Playhouse); Crossfire (Paines Plough); Bretevski Street (Theatre Centre); The Robbers (Gate Theatre); The Meeting (Riverside Studios); Love of the Nightingale (Theatre Melange). 

Television credits include: Casualty, Finding Alice (Red Productions); Black Earth Rising (Drama Republic / BBC / Netflix); Hugo Blick, The Love of Books (Sam Hobkinson at Oxford Film & Television); Doctors, Shoot the Messenger, Spooks, Between the Lines (BBC). Film credits include: All You Need is Kill (Warner Bros.); Final Passage (Passage Productions).

Radio credits include: A Noise in the Night (BBC Radio).

For Kiln: The Wife of Willesden (2021).

Theatre credits include: Small Island, Macbeth, Market Boy, Royal Hunt of the Sun, This House (National Theatre); Mumburger (Old Red Lion); 12 Angry Men (West End); Responsible Other (Hampstead Theatre); 66 Books (Bush Theatre); Wittenberg (Gate Theatre); The English Game, Rough Crossings (Headlong Theatre); Festen (Lyric Hammersmith Theatre). 

Television credits include: Jewels, White House Farm, Save Me, Class, DCI Banks, Inspector George Gently, Silk, Holby City, Trial & Retribution, EastEnders, Doctors, The Bill, Wire in The Blood, Touching Evil.

Film credits include: London Road, Broken. 

Radio credits include: The Archers, Is He Still Breathing, Festen, Life Together.

Theatre credits include: DNA / Babygirl / The Miracle, Harper Regan (National Theatre); There’s Only One Wayne Matthews (Crucible Theatre); A Streetcar Named Desire (Young Vic Theatre / St Ann’s Warehouse NYC); Fatal Attraction (UK Tour).

Television credits include: The Bill, Holby City, Casualty, Skins.

Film credits include: The Day of the Triffids, Adulthood, London’s Burning, MI High, Mr Harvey Lights a Candle, Shoot the Messenger, Piggy, World War Z.

Training: LAMDA.

Theatre credits include: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child [Original West End cast] (West End); The Noble Nine (Tewl Theatre); The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing (Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre); Swallows and Amazons (Storyhouse Chester); Juicy and Delicious (Nuffield Theatre); Spring Awakening (Headlong Theatre / West Yorkshire Playhouse / Nuffield Theatre); Scarborough (White Bear Theatre); A Beautiful Recitation of Pi (Whitechapel Theatre); Knives in Hens (Camden People’s Theatre); The Lover (Finborough Theatre). 

Television credits include: An Adventure in Space and Time, Doctors, The Bill, Being Me.

Film credits include: Invisible, Seeing Things.

Training: PPA, Guildford in Musical Theatre.

Theatre credits include: The World Goes ‘Round’ (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre); Aladdin (The Harlington Centre); Princess Caraboo (Finborough Theatre); Children Of Eden (Union Theatre); Spring Awakening (Hope Mill Theatre); The Snow Queen (Liverpool Everyman Theatre); Broken Wings (The Other Palace / West End / Lebanon); Sleeping Beauty (Watford Palace Theatre); Aladdin (Newbury Corn Exchange); What the Ladybird Heard (West End / UK Tour); Migrations (Welsh National Opera UK Tour).

For Kiln: The Wife of Willesden (2021).

Training: LAMDA.

Theatre credits include: War Horse (National Theatre); Dragon (National Theatre of Scotland / Vox Motus); Don Quixote (Oran Mor); Hamlet, Three Sisters (LAMDA). 

Film credits include: The Outrun (Brock Media / Arcade Pictures); The Road Dance (Wind Chill Media Group); Balance Not Symmetry (Dignity Films / Sparky Pictures); The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Sky Arts / Cosmic Cat).

Training: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Theatre credits include: The Last Dinosaur (The Herd Theatre); When the Daffodils (Orange Tree Theatre); Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe); A Christmas Carol (Royal Shakespeare Company); Peter Pan (Troubadour White City Theatre / National Theatre); King Lear (West End); DIGS (Theatre with Legs); Skate Hard, Turn Left (Battersea Arts Centre); The Long Trick (Wardrobe Theatre / Southwest Tour); Messiah (Bristol Old Vic).

Television and film credits include: The Baby (Sky / HBO); Soulmates (Amazon Prime); I Used to Be Famous, The Sandman (Netflix); Blonde, Purple (Amazon Prime).

For Kiln / Tricycle: The Wife of Willesden (2021), The House That Will Not Stand, Fabulation.

Theatre credits include: Sweat (Donmar Warehouse / West End); Emilia (Shakespeare’s Globe / West End); Welcome to Thebes (National Theatre); The Convert (Gate Theatre); Mules (Royal Court Theatre); Little Revolution (Almeida Theatre); Mrs Dalloway (Arcola Theatre); Removal Men (The Yard); Genesis Inc (Hampstead Theatre); Generations of the Dead (Young Vic Theatre). 

Television credits include: Professor T (ITV); I Hate You, Damned (Channel 4); The Wheel of Time, The Outlaws (Amazon Prime); Suspicion (Apple TV); Young Wallander, The Crown, Flack, Been So Long (Netflix); Pigheart Boy (BBC | BAFTA Best Children’s Drama). 

Film credits include: Ladybird Ladybird, Secrets and Lies, Bullet Boy (Best Actress Screen Nation), Censor, Medusa Deluxe (Cinema release 2023).

Radio credits include: The Lamplighter, Eight Point Nine Nine (Gold Winner ARIA Awards), Comment is Free, Paid Servant, Lifelines (Best Original Series Audio Drama Awards), A Little Princess, Weak at the Top, Westway, Landfall, No. 10, Best Interests. Clare currently plays Denise in The Archers.

For Kiln / Tricycle: The Wife of Willesden (2021), Amen Corner.

Theatre credits include: Egusi Soup, Moon on a Rainbow Shawl (Almeida Theatre); Statement of Regret, The American Clock, Fuente, Ovejuna (National Theatre); The Estate (Soho Theatre); Vagina Monologues on Tour, Blest Be the Tie (Royal Court Theatre); Twelfth Night (Royal Exchange, Manchester); A Bitter Herb (Bristol Old Vic); Criminals in Love (Contact Theatre, Manchester); Echo in the Bone (Lyric Hammersmith Theatre); Twelfth Night (Birmingham Rep). 

Television credits include: EastEnders, Mount Pleasant, Rev, Teachers, Lenny Henry in Pieces, Cardiac Arrest, London Bridge, Holding On, The Jury, Buried Treasure, Death in Paradise, Max, In the Long Run, The Queen and I, Dark Money, Mount Pleasant, Critical, Humans, Come Fly with Me, Coming of Age, Casualty, Moses Jones, Outnumbered, Bremner and Fortune, Little Miss Jocelyn, Trial and Retribution, The Marshioness Disaster, Never Never Active Defence, Ultraviolet, Ruth Rendell’s Simisola, French & Saunders, Hallelujah Anyhow.

Film credits include: Mrs Harris Goes to Paris, Golden Years, Love Punch, It’s a Lot, Ashes, Ryan and Ronnie, Clubbed, Breaking and Entering, Risk Addiction, South West Nine, Michael Winterbottom’s Wonderland, Some Voices, Secret Laughter of Women.

Radio credits include: The Republicans, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Singin’ and Swingin’, What Does the K Stand For?, Say Goodbye Twice, Why is the Sky So Blue?, Writing the Century, Statement of Regret, The Community, Silver Street, Face, Unspoken.

Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW, and Swing Time, as well as essay collections Changing My Mind, Feel Free and Intimations, and the collection of short stories, Grand Union. She lives at the crossroads of Kilburn, Willesden and Queen’s Park.

Indhu Rubasingham is Artistic Director of Kiln Theatre. Her work for the company includes Handbagged (winner of the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre – also West End, UK tour, Washington, New York), The Wife of Willesden (2021), The Invisible Hand, Pass Over, When the Crows Visit, Wife, White Teeth, Holy Sh!t, Red Velvet (which transferred to New York and later to the Garrick Theatre as part of the Kenneth Branagh Season), A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes, Multitudes, The House That Will Not Stand, Paper Dolls, Women, Power and Politics, Stones in His Pockets, Detaining Justice, The Great Game: Afghanistan, Fabulation, Starstruck.

Other theatre credits include: Kerry Jackson, The Father and the Assassin, The Great Wave, Ugly Lies the Bone, The Motherf**cker with the Hat (Evening Standard Award for Best Play), The Waiting Room (National Theatre); The Ramayana (National Theatre / Birmingham Rep); Belong, Disconnect, Free Outgoing, Lift Off, Clubland, The Crutch, Sugar Mummies (Royal Court Theatre); Ruined (Almeida Theatre); Yellowman, Anna in the Tropics (Hampstead Theatre); Secret Rapture, The Misanthrope, Romeo and Juliet (Chichester Festival Theatre); Pure Gold (Soho Theatre); The No Boys Cricket Club, Party Girls (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Wuthering Heights (Birmingham REP); Heartbreak House (Watford Palace Theatre); Sugar Dollies, Shakuntala (Gate Theatre); A River Sutra (Three Mill Island Studios); Rhinoceros (UC Davis, California); A Doll’s House (Young Vic Theatre).

For Kiln / Tricycle: The Wife of Willesden (2021), Pass Over, Blues in the Night, Holy Sh!t, Fabulation, Greta Garbo Came to Donegal. 

In theatre Robert has designed extensively for the West End, Broadway, National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company (as an Associate Artist), Donmar Warehouse, Almeida Theatre, The Old Vic, Chichester Festival Theatre, The Royal Albert Hall, Kiln Theatre, Menier Chocolate Factory and internationally in Australia, Los Angeles, Toronto and Tokyo.

Recent theatre credits include: The Boy in the Dress (RSC); The Unfriend, Murder on the Orient Express (Chichester Festival Theatre); City of Angels, Sweet Charity (Donmar Warehouse); The Clothes They Stood Up In (Nottingham Playhouse).

Opera credits include: Anna Bolena, Guilio Cesare, Norma, Die Fledermaus (Metropolitan Opera); Andrea Chenier (Royal Opera House / Beijing / San Francisco / Barcelona); L’incoronazione di Poppea (Paris / Berlin / Strasbourg); Don Carlos (Frankfurt / Tokyo / Chicago); Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Glyndebourne Festival / Lyric Chicago); Orfeo (Garsington Opera); Tristan und Isolde (Tokyo / Vienna); Gloriana, Don Carlo (Teatro Real, Madrid); Don Giovanni (Opera Australia); L’Elisir d’Amore, On the Town (English National Opera); Manon Lescaut (Gothenburg). 

Film credits include: Hamlet (BBC / RSC); Shakespeare Live (BBC); Prisoner 33 (Angelic Films). 

He has been nominated for four Olivier Awards and Evening Standard, International Opera, UK Theatre, WhatsOnStage Awards. He is also the winner of a Canadian Dora Mavor Moore award and a Drama-Logue award.

For Kiln: The Darkest Part of the Night, Reasons You Should(n’t) Love Me (also UK Tour), Wife. 

Theatre credits include: Sea Wall / A Life (Broadway); Julie, The Deep Blue Sea, Here We Go, Strange Interlude (National Theatre); Jesus Hopped The ‘A’ Train, Wings, A Doll’s House, World Factory, Far Away (Young Vic Theatre); One For Sorrow, NSFW, In Basildon (Royal Court Theatre); Roots, Serenading Louie, Be Near Me (Donmar Warehouse); Little Revolution, A Delicate Balance, Waste (Almeida Theatre); Clarence Darrow (The Old Vic); The Father, Othello (West End); Peter Pan (National Theatre of Scotland); Sleeping Beauty (Citizens Theatre); Cock (Chichester Festival Theatre); Macbeth, As You Like It (West Yorkshire Playhouse); West Side Story, Grease (Curve Theatre); The Contingency Plan, Assassins (Crucible, Sheffield); A Christmas Carol (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); Kes (Liverpool Playhouse); Going Dark (Sound & Fury).

Dance credits include: Arthur Pita’s The Metamorphosis (Royal Opera House / Joyce Theatre, New York | Southbank Award for Dance); Mark Bruce’s Dracula (Wilton’s Music Hall | Southbank Award for Dance); and various pieces worldwide for – amongst others – Rafael Bonachela, Christopher Bruce, Dan Daw, Shobana Jeyasingh, Akram Khan and Alexander Whitley. He also designed Mischief and The Global Playground for Theatre Rites and several cross-artform works for Gandini Juggling. 

Opera credits include: The Firework-Maker’s Daughter (Royal Opera House); Jakob Lenz (ENO); American Lulu (Bregenz Festival); King Priam, Paul Bunyan (English Touring Opera | Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera).

For Kiln / Tricycle: The Wife of Willesden (2021), NW Trilogy, The Seven Ages of Patience, Pass Over, When the Crows Visit, Black Love. 

Theatre composition and sound design credits include: Prima Facie, Cyrano de Bergerac (also BAM – Drama Desk Awards Best Sound Design Winner, Olivier Award Best Sound Design Nomination), Herding Cats, Betrayal (also Broadway), Pinter at the Pinter, The Man in the White Suit, The Ladykillers (also UK tour, Olivier Award Best Sound Design Nomination), King Lear (also Chichester Festival Theatre), Doctor Faustus, Quiz (also Chichester Festival Theatre), Perfect Nonsense, The Girl on the Train (also UK tour) (West End); Lotus Beauty (Hampstead Theatre); Blackmail (Mercury); Blindness (Donmar Warehouse & Worldwide tour, Critics Circle Award Nomination, Los Metros Award Winner, Mexico); Teenage Dick, Berberian Sound Studio, Belleville (Donmar Warehouse); Tartuffe, Ugly Lies the Bone, We Want You to Watch, Scenes from an Execution, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, She Stoops to Conquer and The World Of Extreme Happiness (National Theatre); A Mad World my Masters, Queen Anne and Little Eagles (RSC); Love and Information (Sheffield); Machinal (Almeida Theatre); The Mighty Walzer, Parliament Square, Our Town (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Killer [STH Off-West End Awards Best Sound Designer Winner], The Pitchfork Disney (STH); Lungs (Schaubuhne, Berlin); Ring (BAC, Off-West End Awards Best Sound Designer Winner); Piaf (Donmar Warehouse / West End & Buenos Aires, Olivier Award Best Sound Design Nomination); The Architects, Amato Saltone, Tropicana, Dance Bear Dance, The Ballad of Bobby Francois (Shunt).

As Creators / Directors / Writers: Exemplar (Radio series written for BBC Radio 4); Reflections (Composition for 2 Temple Place); ANNA (Created for National Theatre, Olivier Award Nomination, Best Sound Design); The Return (Directed for ETT); Curse of the Crackles (Created for STH); Monument, Discount Disco (Wiretapper); Looking for Nigel (BBC R&D).

Other composition / sound design includes: Musicals, Epic Iran (The V&A); Frida Kahlo – Making Herself Up (The V&A); Mirror Maze and Room 2022 with Es Devlin; Rembrandt – The Late Works (The National Gallery); The Inspection Chamber for Alexa, BBC Research and Development and Papa Sangre II – a sound based IOS game for digital arts organisation Somethin’ Else (IMGA Excellence in Sound Design Award Winner).

For Kiln: The Wife of Willesden (2021).

Hannah is a director and dramaturg, with a focus on new writing and work focused on the female or LGBTQ+ experience. She is Artistic Director of all women theatre company Damsel Productions, who recently co-produced sell-out show The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs at Soho Theatre. 

Directing credits include: The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs, Fabric, Fury (Soho Theatre); The Funeral Director (Southwark Playhouse / ETT UK tour); The Amber Trap (Theatre 503); Grotty (Bunker Theatre), Dry Land (Jermyn Street Theatre). 

Associate / Assistant directing credits include: Romeo & Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe); Daytona (Park Theatre & Theatre Royal Haymarket); Radiant Vermin (Soho Theatre). 

Theater (as Associate Designer): Moulin Rouge!, London, Cologne 2022; The Drifters Girl, Garrick Theatre; Anything Goes, London, UK Tour; The Book of Mormon, UK Tour; Matilda the Musical, UK and International Tours; Present Laughter, Lungs, Art, Electra, A Christmas Carol, The Lorax, The Old Vic and US/Toronto; Beautiful, The Ferryman, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, West End/Broadway; Long Day’s Journey into Night, Venus in Fur, West End; The Red Lion, Three Days in the Country, King Lear, National Theatre; Crazy For You, Murder on the Orient Express, The Unfriend, Oklahoma!, Chichester Festival Theatre.

Theater (as Assistant Designer): Groundhog Day, Old Vic/Broadway; Sweeney Todd, Oliver!, The Audience, The Wizard of Oz, Hamlet, Betty Blue Eyes, The Children’s Hour, Shrek The Musical, Gypsy, Chichester Festival Theatre and West End; Guys and Dolls, South Pacific, Chichester Festival Theatre; God of Carnage, West End/Broadway; Bombay Dreams, Broadway; An American in Paris, Broadway/Paris; The Trojans, Metropolitan Opera.

For Kiln: The Wife of Willesden (2021).

After graduating with a degree in costume design from Wimbledon College of Art, Kinnetia has worked across a diverse range of costume roles and industries. Predominantly working as a theatrical costume designer, her recent credits include:

As Costume Designer, theatre credits include: Scandaltown (Lyric Hammersmith); The Night Woman (The Other Palace); Our Generation (National Theatre / Chichester Festival Theatre); Aladdin (Lyric Hammersmith); Adult Children (Donmar Warehouse); Enter Achilles (Rambert, Sadler’s Wells & Onassis STEGI); Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train (Young Vic Theatre).

As Associate Costume Designer, theatre credits include: Constellations (Donmar Warehouse & West End); Ragtime (Arts Ed).

For Kiln / Tricycle: Girl on an Altar, The Wife of Willesden (2021), Pass Over, Red Velvet (also West End / St Ann’s Warehouse). 

Recent theatre credits include: A Little Life (West End); A Streetcar Named Desire, Macbeth, The Duchess of Malfi, The Doctor, Three Sisters, The Wild Duck, Machinal, The Writer, The Treatment, Oil, Uncle Vanya, Medea, Game, Mr Burns, Before the Party (Almeida Theatre); Sons of the Prophet (Hampstead Theatre); The Jungle (Young Vic Theatre / West End / Curran, San Francisco / St Anne’s Warehouse); Blood Wedding, Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, Fun Home, Yellowman, Wings, Life of Galileo, Once in a Lifetime, Blue / Orange, The Trial, Ah, Wilderness, Man, Happy Days, Public Enemy, The Shawl (Young Vic Theatre); Appropriate (Donmar Warehouse); Summer and Smoke, The Twilight Zone, Hamlet, Mary Stuart, Oresteia, Chimerica (Almeida Theatre / West End); All About Eve, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (West End); The Inheritance (Young Vic Theatre / West End); Yerma (Young Vic Theatre / Park Ave Armory); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Young Vic Theatre / West End); Obsession, Hamlet (Barbican); City of Glass (59 Productions); Tipping The Velvet (Lyric Hammersmith Theatre); Martyr (ATC); The Seagull (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Chichester Festival Theatre); Hope, Teh Internet Is Serious Business, Wolf from the Door, Adler & Gibb, Birdland, Khandan, The Mistress Contract, The Pass, Pigeons, Gastronauts (Royal Court Theatre); The Nether (Royal Court / West End); A View from the Bridge (Young Vic / West End / Broadway); Spring Awakening, The Seagull (Headlong); Another Country (Chichester Theatre Festival / West End); The Events (Actors Touring Company / Young Vic); A Doll’s House (West End / BAM); The Lighthouse Keeper (Birmingham Contemporary Music Group); The Winslow Boy (The Old Vic). 

Recent television / film credits include: Together (BAFTA Winner Single Drama 2022), Hamlet, Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere, The Exception, Departure, The Trial – A Murder in the Family.

For Kiln: The Wife of Willesden (2021), The Son (also West End), The Half God of Rainfall (also Birmingham Rep). Imogen is a movement director and multidisciplinary artist. 

Theatre credits include: Future Frequencies (Luxembourg 2022); The Body Remembers (The Place, BAC and UK tour); Under Milk Wood, Macbeth, Amadeus, The Threepenny Opera, Les Blancs, I Want My Hat Back, Edward II, Dido, Queen Of Carthage, The Welkin (National Theatre); Walden, Uncle Vanya, Rosmersholm, The Birthday Party, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (West End); Is God Is, The Song Project, Nuclear War (as Director), Linda, The Low Road, A Time To Reap (Royal Court Theatre); The Nico Project, The Skriker (Manchester International Festival); Blood Wedding, Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, Measure for Measure (Young Vic Theatre); Richard II, Carmen Disruption, King Lear, Measure for Measure (Almeida Theatre); Avalanche (Barbican); The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca (Co-Director & Choreographer, Hull City of Culture 2017); Europe, Belleville, Knives in Hens, The Lady From the Sea (Donmar Warehouse); Our Ladies of Perpertual Succour, In Time O’Strife, The Missing (National Theatre Of Scotland); The Seagull (Lyric Hammersmith); All the Angels (Shakespeare’s Globe); Hamlet, Blindsided (Royal Exchange Theatre); The Crucible (The Old Vic); Pests (Clean Break); Arden of Faversham (Royal Shakespeare Company); Of Mice and Men (West Yorkshire Playhouse). 

Television and film credits include: Firebrand (Gabrielle Tana); Embers (Mini Productions); Chernobyl (HBO); On Chesil Beach (Golan Films (OCB Limited); MotherFatherSon, Call the Midwife, The Hollow Crown (BBC); The Rook (Starz / Lionsgate); The Innocents (Netflix); Patrick Melrose (Sky Atlantic); Harlots (ITV). 

Music and opera credits include: The Handmaid’s Tale, The Winter’s Tale (ENO); The Knife of Dawn (Royal Opera House); Flux (Southbank Sinfonia); Deep England – Gazelle Twin & NYX (Southbank Centre); NYX (Southbank Centre / Supersonic Festival 2022); The Little Sweep (Malmo Opera).

For Kiln / Tricycle: Holy Sh!t, White Teeth, Pass Over, The House That Will Not Stand. 

Kev is an Equity registered Fight Director / Choreographer, Director, Actor and an Action performer. Kev is also co-founder of The Academy of Performance Combat, an Honorary Fellow of The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, an Associate Artist with Theatr na nÓg and an  Associate Instructor with The Bristol School of Acting.

Theatre credits include: The Burnt City (Punchdrunk); O Island!, Ivy Tiller: Vicar’s Daughter, Squirrel Killer (RSC); The Gunpowder Plot (Layered Reality); Guardians of the Galaxy (Marvel / Secret Cinema); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare North); Edward II (RWCMD); Let the Right One In (Manchester Royal Exchange); Guy Fawkes (York Theatre Royal); Revealed

(Tobacco Factory); Wuthering Heights (Wise Children / National Theatre); The Trial of Elgan Jones (Theatr na nÓg); Nine Night (Leeds Playhouse); Les Misèrables (West End & UK Tour); Sister Act (Jamie Wilson / Curve Theatre). 

Television credits include: The Pact S2 (BBC); The A List S2 (Netflix); Y Golau / The Light (BBC Wales / S4C Wales); Keeping Faith S1, S2, S3 (BBC).

Film credits include: John Carter of Mars (Walt Disney / Pixar); Protein (Broadside Films); The Lady of Heaven (Enlightened Kingdom Films).

Directing credits include: The Saliva Milkshake, The Glass Menagerie, My Friend the Walrus, Middle of the Road, Making of a Motherer.

For Kiln: The Wife of Willesden (2021), Pass Over, Retrograde. 

Hazel Holder has been an actor, singer and theatre maker for over thirty years and then retrained gaining her MA in Voice Studies at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Hazel has worked with pioneering companies such as Clod Ensemble as a Performing Medicine Associate Artist working in hospitals around London, Clean Break, Marginal Voices (working with trafficked women) and Cast Women’s Charity – ‘helping to transform vulnerable women’s lives through creative holistic education’.

Theatre credits include: Blues for an Alabama Sky, Rockets & Blue Lights, Death of England: Delroy, Death of England, Small Island, Nine Night, Barber Shop Chronicles, Pericles, Angels in America, Les Blancs, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (National Theatre); To Kill a Mockingbird, Get Up Stand Up!, The Glass Menagerie, Constellations, 2:22, Uncle Vanya, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Dreamgirls, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (West End); Best of Enemies, Death of a Salesman (Young Vic Theatre / West End); Caroline, or Change (Chichester Festival Theatre / Hampstead Theatre / West End); Fairview, The Convert, The Mountaintop, The Emperor (Young Vic Theatre); Cuttin’ It (Royal Court Theatre / Young Vic Theatre); Guys and Dolls, Girls (Soho Theatre / Royal Exchange); ear for eye, Poet in Da Corner, Grimly Handsome, Pigs & Dogs, Father Comes Home from the Wars (Royal Court Theatre).

Film and television credits include: The Silent Twins; Aisha (for Letitia Wright); The Anansi Boys; Wool; Small Axe (Steve McQueen Anthology); The Power, In the Long Run (Jimmy Akingbola); Death on the Nile (Letitia Wright). 

As a performer: Here We Go, As You Like It, Medea and Death, The King’s Horseman (National Theatre); The Bakkhai (Almeida Theatre); The Tempest (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Bacchae (National Theatre of Scotland and Lincoln Center, Broadway); The Sleeping Beauty (Young Vic Theatre, Barbican, New Victory & Broadway).

Theatre credits include: Eureka Day, Into the Woods, Back to the Future, Cinderella, Anything Goes, Get Up Stand Up, All About Eve, Funny Girl, The Light in the Piazza, Rosmersholm, Company, The King & I, St. Joan, City of Angels, One Night in Miami, The Young Chekhov Trilogy, Gypsy, The Bodyguard (West End); Present Laughter, The Master Builder, High Society, Electra, Sweet Bird of Youth, Richard III, Kiss Me Kate, Inherit the Wind, A Christmas Carol (The Old Vic); Leopoldstadt, To Kill a Mockingbird, TINA – The Tina Turner Musical [Drama Desk Award 2020 – Outstanding Wig and Hair Design], The Ferryman, Girl from the North Country, Farinelli and the King, Groundhog Day, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda the Musical, Ghost the Musical, Billy Elliot the Musical (West End/Broadway); A Beautiful Noise, Almost Famous, The Devil Wears Prada (Chicago); Funny Girl, The Music Man, Head Over Heels, Carousel, Three Tall Women, Hello Dolly!, The Crucible, Betrayal, Les Miserables (Broadway).

Opera credits include: Don Carlos, L’enfant et les sortileges (Bolshoi Opera Moscow); Anna Nicole (BAM). 

Television / film credits include: Downton Abbey Film, The Guilded Age.

Jessica Mensah is currently the Kiln-Mackintosh Resident Assistant Director.

She has trained on programmes such as: Stonecrabs Theatre Young Directors Programme (2021), the RTYDS placement at tiata fahodzi (2019) and the Young Vic’s Introduction to Directing programme (2017). 

She studied BA Theatre & Performance at Guildford School of Acting, University of Surrey. Her short film I Stand Proud was nominated for two FFTG Awards & screened as part of the festival in 2021. Jessica is also the Host & Founder of the YouTube Channel and Podcast called Living in our 20s. As director, theatre credits include: Yerma by Federico García Lorca (Lyric Hammersmith Theatre); House by Somalia Seaton (Southwark Playhouse); The Life of Olu by Temi Majekodunmi (Soho Theatre, Theatre Peckham & Golden Goose Theatre); DRUM by Jacob Roberts-Mensah (Omnibus Theatre); Tales from the Frontline – part 4 (Talawa); Signed, Sealed, Delivered by Judy Upton (National eTheatr). 

As Assistant Director, theatre credits include: Girl on an Altar (Kiln Theatre);The Snail House (Hampstead Theatre); Typical (Soho Theatre); Queens of Sheba (Edinburgh Fringe/New Diorama).

For Kiln: Holy Sh!t, White Teeth, Reasons You Should(n’t) Love Me, Black Love, The Darkest Part of the Night, Handbagged.

Theater credits include: West End: All About Eve, The Comeback, Leopoldstadt. Off West End: Blood Wedding (Young Vic Theatre); seven methods of killing kylie jenner (Royal Court Theatre) Curious (Soho Theatre). Off Broadway: Yerma (Park Avenue Armory).

Training: Technical Theatre and Stage Management, RADA.

Theater: Love All, Jermyn Street Theatre; Rapture, Pleasance London; Girl On An Altar, Kiln Theatre; Steve, Seven Dials Playhouse; Yes So I Said Yes, Not Quite Jerusalem, Finborough Theatre; Foxes, Theatre503, Theatre Peckham; Concha, Oregon Fringe Festival; Sunnymead Court, Tristan Bates Theatre, Arcola Outside, UK Tour; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Criterion Theatre; Frankenstein, Great Expectations, Southwark Playhouse; The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Edinburgh Fringe Festival; Lost Boys New Town, Hope Theatre; Jerusalem, Stanley Theatre. Education: University of Liverpool, National Youth Theatre of Great Britain.