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Henry Lewis Author

Henry is an Olivier Award-winning writer, actor and is the Artistic Director of Mischief Theatre. Henry writes and performs for the company as well as producing. Henry trained at LAMDA and recent credits include: The Comedy About A Bank Robbery (writer and actor - Criterion Theatre), Magic Goes Wrong, The Play That Goes Wrong (writer and actor - UK and International Tour, West End - Winner of Best New Comedy at the Olivier Awards 2015 and What's On Stage Awards 2014), Peter Pan Goes Wrong (writer and actor - West End, UK Tour, Pleasance London - Nominated for Best Production and ... read more

Jonathan Sayer Author

Jonathan is an Olivier award-winning writer and the company director of Mischief Theatre working as a writer, actor and producer. Training: LAMDA. Theatre includes: The Comedy About A Bank Robbery (Criterion Theatre - nominated Best New Comedy Olivier Award 2017), The Play That Goes Wrong (West End, UK and International Tour - writer/actor, Olivier Award and WhatsOnStage Award Best New Comedy), Peter Pan Goes Wrong (West End, UK tour, Pleasance, London - writer/actor), The Nativity Goes Wrong (writer, Mischief Theatre and Reading Rep co-production), Lights! Camera! Improvise! (Pleasance, Edinburgh, Soho Theatre, Arcola, Underbelly and Krakow Improfest - actor, improviser, producer, Spirit of ... read more

Henry Shields Author

Will Bowen Set Designer

Will Bowen graduated from Oxford with a D.Phil in mathematics. With Pierre Audi & Chris Naylor, will founded the Almeida Theatre. Amongst a host of credits his opera designs include ‘The Barber of Seville’, ‘Falstaff’, ‘Seraglio’, ‘Xerxes’, ‘The Rape of Lucretia’ and ‘La Scala di Seta’ for BYO, ‘Carmen’, ‘I Pagliacci’ and ‘Fanciulla del West’ for Holland Park, and ‘Macbeth’, ‘Tosca’, ‘La Boheme’ &’Carmen’ for Iceland’s National Opera. Theatre designs include Rowan Atkinson’s ‘New Review’ in London and on Broadway, The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber at El Auditorio in Seville, Eddie Izzard’s ‘Definite Article’ UK tour, Howard Goodall’s ‘Days ... read more

Steve Brown Composer

Paul Groothuis Sounds designer

Born in Holland, Paul studied Stage Management at Central School of Speech and Drama graduating in 1981. Credits at the National Theatre Include: Anything Goes, Anthony and Cleopatra, His Dark Materials, Edmond, Henry V, The Coast of Utopia, My Fair Lady, Hamlet (1987, 2011), The Oedipus Play, Summerfolk, The Merchant of Venice, The Rose TaFoo, RaGa RaGa, Candide, Oklahoma!, Oh, What a Lovely War!, A LiFle Night Music, Lady in the Dark, Guys and Dolls (NT 1990, Savoy 2015); Sunday in the Park With George, Sweeney Todd, Carousel, Follies, The House of Bernarda Alba, Buried Child, Henry IV Parts I & II, All ... read more

Ben Hart Magic Consultant

Ben is a magician and illusion designer. He invents special effects for theatre, film and television. He is a Gold Star Member of the Inner Magic Circle and was The Magic Circle’s Young Magician of the Year in 2007. He appears regularly on television and live onstage performing his original magic inventions. Film and Television Magic design work includes Not Going Out (BBC), Killer Magic (BBC); Life Hacks Hoax (BBC); Life Hacks: The Voice (BBC), Now You See it (BBC); Partners in Rhyme (BBC); Britain’s Got Talent (ITV), The One Show (BBC), Every Trick in the Book (BBC), Trick Artist; (Channel ... read more

David Howe Lighting Designer

Ali James Movement Director

Ali James is Movement Director and cast in Olivier Award Winning Showstopper! The Improvised Musical. She has over 17 years’ experience in musical theatre including playing Eva Peron in Evita and Cathy in The Last Five Years. She has also choreographed for the National Youth Theatre and regularly directs musical theatre and improvisation for various companies across the UK. ... read more

Henry Lewis Writer/Artistic Director

Amy Marchant Resident Director

Amy trained as an actor at The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Her acting credits include Square Rounds (Finborough Theatre) A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lyric Hammersmith), Twelfth Night (Filter Theatre), Doctors (BBC), Downton Abbey (ITV), Confection (Misfit Studios). Amy’s directing credits include Don’t be Terrible (The Pleasance, Edinburgh Festival Fringe) and Women’s Writes (Arcola). She is a co-founder of The Wet Mariners theatre company. ... read more

Duncan McLean Video & Projection Designer

West End theatre includes: TREE (MIF/Young Vic); THE JUNGLE (Playhouse, London/ Curran, San Francisco); LABOUR OF LOVE (Noël Coward); BIG FISH (The Other Palace); MATTHEW BOURNE’S: THE RED SHOES, CINDERELLA and SWAN LAKE (Sadlers Wells/UK Tour); SNOW WHITE and CINDERELLA (Palladium); COMMITTEE, SAINT JOAN, LIMEHOUSE, ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI..., PRIVACY, CITY OF ANGELS and Phyllida Lloyd’s Shakespeare Trilogy, JULIUS CAESAR, HENRY VI and THE TEMPEST (Donmar Warehouse); LOVE IN IDLENESS (Menier Chocolate Factory/Apollo); ALL MY SONS, THE HAIRY APE, A FLEA IN HER EAR, THE TEMPEST, THE REAL THING, THE NORMAN CONQUESTS and ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (Old Vic); HANGMEN (Royal Court/Wyndham’s); RICHARD III (Trafalgar Studios); BODYGUARD THE MUSICAL ... read more

Adam Meggido Director

Director

Directing credits for Mischief Theatre include: Peter Pan Goes Wrong (nominated for a Best New Comedy Olivier Award) and consultant director on Mischief Movie Night (also Olivier-nominated for Best New Comedy). Adam is the director and co-creator of Showstopper! The Improvised Musical, which won the 2016 Olivier Award for Best Entertainment and Family, the first improvised show ever to do so. Showstopper! has also enjoyed a BBC Radio 4 series, twelve sell-out years at the Edinburgh Festival, numerous UK tours, and performances all over the world. He created and directs the annual London 50-Hour Improvathon and holds the world record for ... read more

Jonathan Sayer Writer/Company Director

Hannah Sharkey Associate Director

Hannah Sharkey is also Resident Director on the West End production of The Play That Goes Wrong and director of the upcoming Portugese replica production. Hannah trained at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and was one of twelve chosen for Stonecrabs’ emerging directors programme, 2014; in which she was marked ‘One to Watch’. Directing credits include Nomad (The Soho Theatre Young Company at Surgeons Hall Edinburgh Fringe); Anna Nicholson: Woman of the Year (Adelaide Fringe); Storms (Theatre Deli/The Vautls); Low Level Panic (The Albany Theatre); Second Person (The Bunker Theatre); Dog Day (Lion and Unicorn); Nine Weeks(Leicester Square Theatre); ... read more

Henry Shields Writer

Henry is an Olivier Award-winning writer and has been a member of Mischief Theatre since 2009. Theatre includes: recently, The Comedy About A Bank Robbery (Criterion Theatre), The Play That Goes Wrong (Duchess Theatre, UK and International Tour - writer/actor, Olivier Award and WhatsOnStage Award Best New Comedy), Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Apollo Theatre, UK tour and Pleasance, London - writer/actor, 2014 Off West End Awards nominations for Best Production and Best Ensemble), The Nativity Goes Wrong (writer, Mischief Theatre and Reading Rep co-production), Lights! Camera! Improvise! (Pleasance, Edinburgh, Soho Theatre, Arcola and Underbelly - actor, Spirit of the Fringe ... read more

Roberto Surace Costume Designer

Roberto originates from Melbourne Australia where he trained at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) gaining a BA in Dramatic Art (Production). Recent costume designs include Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Apollo & UK Tour) Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None (UK Tour) and The Play That Goes Wrong (Duchess & Budapest). Other costume designs were seen at West End Eurovision where he designed costumes for entries by Top Hat and Les Miserables. Before, during and after his training he went on to design sets and/or costumes of The Sound of Music, Barnum, Calamity Jane, The Wiz, Guys and Dolls, Bye ... read more

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