Carthage. Chris Thompson

(Theatre Royal, Stratford East), Ajax (Riverside Studios), and Transient (Pleasance Edinburgh and Shunt Vaults).

      Film includes Absence, Echo Road, Postcode and Bashment. Television includes Gates, Silent Witness and The Bill.

      Chinna Wodu | Alex Sutherland Theatre includes Julius Caesar (Royal Shakespeare Company at the Noël Coward Theatre), Dr Faustus, Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare’s Globe), Italian Dreams, Teach Me (Soho Theatre) and Macbeth (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester). Television includes Da Vinci’s Demons.

      Chris Thompson | Playwright

      Chris is the Channel 4 Playwright in Residence at the Finborough Theatre, where he makes his professional debut with Carthage. The play has won Chris a Channel 4 Playwright’s Scheme bursary (formerly the Pearson Playwright Award), judged by a panel including Sir Richard Eyre CBE, Michael Billington OBE and Indhu Rubasingham. The Finborough Theatre premiered an earlier version of Carthage as part of Vibrant 2012 – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights, the Finborough Theatre’s annual festival of new writing. In 2013, Chris was invited to take part in the Royal Court Theatre’s Studio Writers’ Group and the Kudos/Bush Initiative. He is currently under commission to the Bush Theatre.

      Robert Hastie | Director

      Productions at the Finborough Theatre include Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun (2012), a staged reading of Photos of You Sleeping as part of the Papatango New Writing Prize (2012) and the original staged reading of Carthage as part of Vibrant 2012 – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights.

      Other directing includes the UK premiere of Sunburst by Tennessee Williams as part of The Hotel Plays at Holborn Grange Hotel, and as co-director, As You Like It and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Lamb Players. Associate Direction includes Coriolanus and the forthcoming Privacy at the Donmar Warehouse, Sixty-Six Books which opened the new Bush Theatre, where he directed world premieres including In The Land of Uz by Neil LaBute and The Middle Man by Anthony Weigh, and Much Ado About Nothing at the Wyndham’s Theatre.

      Robert is Trainee Associate Director at the Donmar Warehouse.

      James Perkins | Designer

      Productions at the Finborough Theatre include Trying (2009), Foxfinder (2011) and Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun (2012).

      Other theatre includes Floyd Collins (Southwark Playhouse), The Girl in The Yellow Dress (Salisbury Playhouse), The Fantasist’s Waltz (Theatre Royal York), Matters of Life and Death (National Tour), Many Moons (Theatre503), Beowulf (Charles Court Opera), Stockwell (Tricycle Theatre), The Marriage of Figaro (Wilton’s Music Hall), Saraband (Jermyn Street Theatre), Girls and Dolls, Colourings (Old Red Lion Theatre), Iolanthe, Through The Woods (Pleasance London), The Pirates of Penzance, HMS Pinafore (Buxton Opera House), The Barber (Greenwich Theatre), The Wonder (BAC), The Only True History of Lizzie Finn (Southwark Playhouse), St John’s Night (Jermyn Street Theatre) and Lost in Yonkers (Watford Palace Theatre). James created Story Whores.

      Gary Bowman | Lighting Designer

      Productions at the Finborough Theatre include Apart from George (2009), S-27 (2009), Foxfinder (2011) and A Life (2012). Trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

      Gary has been Deputy Chief Electrician at the Donmar Warehouse, worked as an electrician on productions including Wicked, Rock of Ages, Chicago and he is currently on the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Matilda in the West End. Theatre includes Ciphers (Bush Theatre and National Tour), Mana (The Place and National Tour), Thark (Park Theatre), Even Stillness Breathes Softly Against A Brick Wall (Soho Theatre), Liar Liar, 1001 Nights (Unicorn Theatre), Feathers in the Snow, The Only True History of Lizzie Finn (Southwark Playhouse), The Disappearance of Sadie Jones (Bikeshed Theatre and National Tour), Angle at the Bush (Bush Theatre), Life for Beginners (Theatre503), Gotcha, Mary Rose, The Art of Concealment (Riverside Studios), Jest End (Jermyn Street Theatre), Leopoldville, Stuff (Tristan Bates Theatre), Present Laughter (Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich), Miss Julie (Attic Theatre, Stratford Upon-Avon), Angel, The Muse (Pleasance London) and Ordinary Lads (Etcetera Theatre).

      Sophia Simensky | Assistant Designer

      Productions at the Finborough Theatre include Costume Designer for Events Whilst Guarding the Bofors Gun (2012) and Lost Boy (2014), and Set and Costume Designer for An Incident at the Border (2012) – and its subsequent transfer to Trafalgar Studios – and Operation Crucible (2013).

      Trained at Wimbledon College of Art.

      Theatre includes Cape (Unicorn Theatre), The Altitude Brothers (Redbridge Arts Centre), The Tailor-Made Man (Arts Theatre), Burning Bird (Unicorn Theatre), Oranges on the Brain (Pegasus Theatre, Oxford), and You and Me (Greenwich Theatre). Film includes Screaming Guns.

      Philip d’Orléans | Fight Director

      Philip is a member of the Equity Register of Fight Directors, and of the teaching and examining staff of the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat. He has worked throughout Europe and America, alongside his regular teaching commitments for RADA, Drama Studio London and other drama schools and universities.

      Theatre includes Henry IV, Parts I and II, God of Soho, The Mysteries, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, A New World and Othello (Shakespeare’s Globe), Julius Caesar and I’ll Be The Devil (Royal Shakespeare Company), Simon Boccanegra, Faust and Ariodante (English National Opera), Veneziana, L’Isola Disabitata and Der Rosenkavalier (Royal Opera House), Swimming With Sharks (Vaudeville Theatre), Cool Hand Luke (Aldwych Theatre), Carrie’s War (Apollo Theatre), Merlin, Robin Hood (Dukes Theatre, Lancaster), King Lear (Theatre Royal, Bath), The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd, Far From The Madding Crowd, The Rivals, Desire Under The Elms, Bleak House and Humble Boy (New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme), Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cyrano de Bergerac, Masters Are You Mad?, Twelfth Night, Merlin (Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre, Chester), L’Olympiade (Garsington Opera), A View From The Bridge, King David, The Grapes Of Wrath, Romeo and Juliet, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Lonesome West, IPH, Journey’s End and Aladdin (Mercury Theatre, Colchester), Death and the Maiden, Arsenic and Old Lace, What the Butler Saw, People at Sea, The Herbal Bed, Robin Hood, Shadowlands, Sleeping Beauty, Two Cities, Playing For Time, To Kill A Mockingbird, Cinderella, Jamaica Inn, Aladdin and The Hired Man (Salisbury Playhouse),

      Film includes The Knife That Killed Me (Universal Pictures).

      Bernd Fauler | Production Manager

      Trained in Stage Management at Rose Bruford College. Theatre includes The Roundabout Auditorium, Jumpers For Goalposts, Good With People, Wasted, 65 Miles (Paines Plough), No Place To Go, Dances Of Death, Purple Heart, The Trojan Women, Sunset Baby, The Prophet (Gate Theatre), SPILL Festival 2013 (Pacitti Company), Once Upon A Time In Wigan, Krapp’s Last Tape, Spoonface Steinberg (Hull Truck Theatre), Open East (Create London at the Barbican), The Fidget Project (London Arts in Health Forum and Wellcome Trust), Access All Areas, Performance Matters 2011 and 2012 (Live Art Development Agency), SACRED 2009 and 2010 (Chelsea Theatre), London via Lagos Season (Ovalhouse), Duckie Goes To The Gateways, Gross Indecency,