Martine. Jean-Jacques Bernard

      Barnaby Sax | Julien Trained at Oxford School of Drama and the National Youth Theatre. Theatre includes Laughton (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough), Pride and Prejudice (Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park), Tom, Dick and Harry (Old Red Lion Theatre), Antony and Cleopatra (Chichester Festival Theatre) and Two Bean Bags (Soho Theatre).

      Jean-Jacques Bernard | Playwright Jean-Jacques Bernard was born in 1888, the son of leading French dramatist Tristan Bernard. Bernard belonged to a group of artists called La Chimère, who attacked the prevailing melodramatic theatre and pioneered drama that was domestic in action and naturalistic in style. Martine was acted throughout Europe throughout the 1920s and 1930s. His plays include Le Feu qui reprend mal (1921), Martine (1922), Le Printemps des Autres (1924), L’Invitation au Voyage (1924), L’Ame en Peine (1926), Nationale 6 (1935) and Le Jardinier d’Ispahan (1939). As a Jew living in occupied France, he was imprisoned during the Second World War in the notorious Compiègne camp and narrowly escaped deportation. He died in 1972.

      John Fowles | Translator John Fowles was an English novelist born in 1926. After reading French at Oxford University, he became a teacher before starting to write. His best-known works include The Collector (1963), The Aristos (1964), The Magus (1966), The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969) (which was later made into an Oscar-nominated film with a screenplay by Harold Pinter), The Ebony Tower (1974), Daniel Martin (1977) and Mantissa (1982). He also completed two other translations for the National Theatre – Don Juan (1981) and Lorenzaccio (1983). He died in 2005. He was named by The Times in 2008 as one of the 50 greatest post-War writers.

      Tom Littler | Director Productions at the Finborough Theatre include Jingo: a Farce of War by Charles Wood; and a season of rediscoveries comprising The Boatwain’s Mate by Ethel Smyth, The Mollusc by H.H. Davies and The Confidential Clerk by T.S. Eliot. Tom is Artistic Director of Primavera and Associate Director of Theatre503. For Primavera, productions include The Living Room, Bloody Poetry, Anyone Can Whistle (Jermyn Street Theatre), Saturday Night (Arts Theatre), Origin of the Species (Arcola Theatre), the premiere of Shiverman and European premiere of Madagascar (Theatre503), Antigone (Southwark Playhouse) and two seasons of Forgotten Classics staged readings (King’s Head Theatre). Recent work includes Absurd Person Singular (Mill at Sonning), Dear Liar (Vienna’s English Theatre), As You Like It (Guildford Shakespeare Company), the premiere of Dances of Death (Gate Theatre), Good Grief (Theatre Royal Bath and tour), Tomfoolery (UK Tour), A Little Night Music (Budapest and the Menier Chocolate Factory), Murder in the Cathedral (Oxford Playhouse) and The Twelve-Pound Look, Mr and Mrs Nobody and One for the Road (Frinton Summer Theatre). Tom was educated at Oxford University. As an assistant director, he worked widely in the West End and regionally for directors including Laurence Boswell, Peter Gill, Peter Hall, Alan Strachan, and Stephen Unwin. He was Associate Director of the Peter Hall Company for three years, and worked four times as Trevor Nunn’s associate director. Tom’s work has been nominated and shortlisted multiple times for OffWestEnd Awards and has received numerous Critic’s Choice Awards.

      Cherry Truluck | Set Designer Originally trained as an architect, Cherry then studied for an MA: Theatre in the Visual Language of Performance at Wimbledon College of Art. For Primavera, Cherry has designed The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith and The Living Room (Jermyn Street Theatre), for which she was nominated Best Set Designer in the OffWestEnd Awards 2013, one of two nominations last year – the other for Thark (Park Theatre). Other recent designs include Samuel Beckett’s All That Fall, directed by Trevor Nunn and starring Michael Gambon and Eileen Atkins, which transferred to New York (59E59) following successful runs at Jermyn Street Theatre and the Arts Theatre, London, The Exeter Blitz Project (Bikeshed Theatre), Religion and Anarchy written and co-directed by Steven Berkoff, The Potsdam Quartet, On Approval and Mother Adam – Finalist – Best Set Designer – OffWestEnd Awards 2012 (all Jermyn Street Theatre), Mary Rose (Riverside Studios), The Taming of the Shrew (Southwark Playhouse), Don Giovanni (Soho Theatre), Cosi (Kings Head Theatre), A Cavalier for Milady (Cock Tavern and Jermyn Street Theatre) for which she was nominated Best Set Designer in the OffWestEnd Awards 2011, This Story of Yours (Old Red Lion) and Decade (Theatre503). www.cherrytruluck.co.uk

      Tim Mascall | Lighting Designer For Primavera, lighting designs include The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith and Bloody Poetry (Jermyn Street Theatre) and Shiverman (Theatre503). He has also worked with director Tom Littler on A Little Night Music (Central Theatre, Budapest) and Good Grief (Theatre Royal Bath Productions). Other recent designs include Without You (Menier Chocolate Factory), Lion Boy (Complicite), Derren Brown: Infamous (Palace Theatre and UK tour), Eric and Little Ern (Vaudeville Theatre), Ruby Wax: Same New World (Duchess Theatre) and Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh).

      Emily Stuart | Costume Designer Productions at the Finborough Theatre include Over the Bridge, London Wall and Lingua Franca. Trained at Wimbledon School of Art. For Primavera, costume designs include The Living Room, Bloody Poetry, Anyone Can Whistle (OffWestEnd Award Winner 2012 – Best Costume and Make-up) (all at Jermyn Street Theatre) and Shiverman (Theatre503). Film includes Drunk Butterflies and London Wall.

      Max Pappenheim | Composer and Sound Designer Productions at the Finborough Theatre include Sound Designer and Composition for Almost Near, Variation on A Theme, The Hard Man, Black Jesus, Summer Day’s Dream, The Hospital at the Time of the Revolution, Somersaults, The Soft of Her Palm and The Fear of Breathing. He directed Perchance to Dream and Nothing Is the End of the World (Except for the End of the World) which was nominated for three OffWestEnd Awards. Other Sound Design and Composition includes The Hotel Plays (Defibrillator at the Langham Hotel), Fiji Land, Our Ajax (Southwark Playhouse), Mrs Lowry and Son (Trafalgar Studios), CommonWealth (Almeida Theatre), Being Tommy Cooper (UK Tour), Irma Vep, Borderland, Kafka v Kafka (Brockley Jack Studio Theatre), Four Corners One Heart (Theatre503), Freefall (New Wimbledon Theatre Studio) and Below the Belt (Edinburgh Festival). As associate,The Island (The Young Vic). Max was nominated for an OffWestEnd Award 2012 for Best Sound Designer.

      Maud Dromgoole | Stage Manager At the Finborough Theatre Maud has stage managed Nothing Is The End Of The World, Early Days and As Is. Maud was also ASM for Laburnum Grove and Costume Designer for Armstrong’s War. Maud has also worked as a stage manager at the Tristan Bates Theatre, C Venues and for national tours. As a writer and director Maud has worked at the Arcola Theatre, Greenwich Theatre, Cockpit Theatre, Etcetera Theatre, and Theatre Delicatessen.

      Philippa Douglas | Assistant Director Studied at University College London. Directing includes The Importance of Being Earnest, Mojo and Songs from Chess (University College London) and The Winterling (Edinburgh Festival). Assistant directing includes The White Carnation. As producer, 1984 (Edinburgh Festival) and Sueno Lorca (Baraka Teatro at Bloomsbury Theatre).

      Alice Krijgsman | Casting Director Studied at the University of Kent and was previously a General Manager at the Finborough Theatre. For Primavera, casting includes Martine (Finborough Theatre). Other casting includes The Hard Man (Finborough Theatre).

      Grace Wessels | General Manager for Primavera Grace is a director, company manager, creative producer and stage manager for theatre. She graduated from the University of Bristol with a BA from the Department of Drama: Theatre, Film, and Television. For Primavera, stage management includes Antigone (Southwark Playhouse), Bloody Poetry (Jermyn Street Theatre) and Shiverman (Theatre503). Direction includes King Lear (Rose Theatre, Bankside), Taming of the Shrew