The Museum of Richmond
Curator: Laura Irwin
Graphic Design (of the exhibition and accompanying booklet):
Jackie Baines Studio
Learning Officer: Victoria McGrath
Museum Assistants: Genevieve Wilks (until August 2021) and Ffion Lanigan (from October 2021)
Research and Oral Histories Volunteer: Denise Mahoney
Oral Histories Volunteer: Linda Christmas
The Orange Tree Theatre
Artistic Director: Paul Miller
Executive Director: Hanna Streeter
Development and Communications Director: Alex Jones
Development Manager: Rebecca Frater
Oral History Project Acknowledgements
The Museum of Richmond and The Orange Tree Theatre are very grateful to the following persons for their contributions and
participation in the oral history project:
Michael Attenborough, CBE
Ned Bennett
Marcia Bennie
Imogen Bond
Stuart Burgess
Peter Davison
Harriet Devey
Marsha Hanlon
Elizabeth Heery
Vivien Heilbron
Alistair McDowall
Corinne Meredith
Paul Miller
Clare Lawrence Moody
David Rintoul
Auriol Smith
Gillian Thorpe
Paul Velluet
Sam Walters
Ayla Wheatley
Ambassador and Director
Director
Former Theatre Manager and Publicist
Director and Former Education Director
Technical Manager
Ambassador, Actor and Youth Theatre Parent
Trustee and Supporter
Former Stage Manager and Theatre Manager
Ambassador, Actor and Youth Theatre Parent
Actor
Writer
Former Youth Theatre Manager
Artistic Director
Actor
Actor
Founder, Actor and Former Associate Director
Former Administrative Director
Former Trustee
Founder and Former Artistic Director
Actor and Former Youth Theatre Member
Images reproduced with kind permission from the copyright holders credited alongside the individual images.
OT 50 logo designed by Annie Rushton, Rushton Design.
We are also grateful to The Archives and Special Collections at Royal Holloway, University of London, for arranging access to the Orange Tree Theatre collection for research purposes.
Efforts have been made to contact all copyright holders but there are some instances where copyright holders for historic images now held at and supplied by the OT could not be traced. Please contact The Museum of Richmond for further information.
The exhibition and accompanying booklet have been generously supported by:
The Museum of Richmond’s Benefactors' Circle
The Orange Tree Theatre
Richmond Parish Lands Charity
The Society for Theatre Research
Antony Roberts