| Initial Broadway Casting Announced for THE FERRYMAN; Paddy Considine, Laura Donnelly, and Genevieve O’Reilly To Reprise Their Critically-Acclaimed Performances | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 05:27 pm EDT 05/10/18 | |
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| Winner of 10 Major UK Awards Including the 2018 Olivier Awards for Best New Play and Best Director ★★★★★ The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, The Times (UK), Time Out London, Daily Express, Sunday Express, Independent, Financial Times, Daily Mail, Metro, Observer, Irish Post, Mail on Sunday & Evening Standard. “PLAY OF THE YEAR.” The Times (UK), Time Out London, The Guardian, Metro, Mail on Sunday & The Observer “A fiercely gripping play. The Ferryman’s every molecule vibrates with bounteous life. Teeming with characters, plot, secrets, confessions, clashes political and sexual, betrayals, murders, ballads, poems, dancing, drinking, wrestling and the wails of banshees. The terrific cast on stage — led by Paddy Considine and directed with a racing pulse by Sam Mendes — numbers 21, and that’s not counting the baby, the rabbit and the goose.” The New York Times – Ben Brantley Initial Casting Announced For The Broadway Transfer Of Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman Directed By Sam Mendes The 30+ member company will be led by BAFTA Award-winner Paddy Considine, Olivier Award-winner Laura Donnelly, and Genevieve O’Reilly who reprise their critically-acclaimed performances in The Ferryman at Broadway’s Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. Previews begin Tuesday, October 2. Opening Sunday, October 21. “Magic runs through JEZ BUTTERWORTH’s brilliant new play.” The Observer – Susannah Clapp “A richly absorbing and emotionally abundant play, directed with mastery by SAM MENDES.” The Guardian – Michael Billington “The Ferryman is monumental. It leaves you overwhelmed by the power of great theatre.” Huffington Post – Steven Suskin Producers Sonia Friedman Productions and Neal Street Productions are pleased to announce initial casting for the Broadway engagement of Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman, which will feature most of the play’s acclaimed London cast members on the Broadway stage. The Ferryman’s cast will feature Paddy Considine in his stage debut as Quinn Carney, Laura Donnelly as Caitlin Carney, and Genevieve O’Reilly as Mary Carney. The cast will also include Dean Ashton, Glynis Bell, Gina Costigan, Charles Dale, Justin Edwards, Fra Fee, Fionnula Flanagan, Tom Glynn-Carney, Stuart Graham, Mark Lambert, Carla Langley, Conor MacNeill, Colin McPhillamy, Rob Malone, Dearbhla Molloy, Glenn Speers, and Niall Wright, with further casting to be announced. The Broadway production will begin previews Tuesday, October 2 ahead of a Sunday, October 21 opening night at Broadway’s Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (242 W. 45th Street, New York). Tickets are now on sale at www.telecharge.com. Developed by Sonia Friedman Productions and produced with Neal Street Productions and The Royal Court Theatre, The Ferryman opened at The Royal Court in May 2017 to huge critical acclaim and was the fastest-selling play in the theater’s history. The sold-out show transferred to the Gielgud Theatre in London’s West End, and will end its thrice-extended, year-long run on May 19. In London, The Ferryman received an extraordinary 24 five-star reviews. Last month the production won three 2018 Olivier Awards, including Best New Play (marking Jez Butterworth’s second Olivier win), Best Actress Laura Donnelly and Best Director Sam Mendes (marking his fourth Olivier win). The Ferryman has also won three 2017 Evening Standard Awards, including Best Play and Best Director, as well as the Emerging Talent Award for Tom Glynn-Carney; three 2018 Whatsonstage Awards, including Best New Play, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actor for Fra Fee; and was named the Best New Play at the 2018 UK Critics’ Circle Awards. The Ferryman is set in rural Northern Ireland in 1981. The Carney farmhouse is a hive of activity with preparations for the annual harvest. A day of hard work on the land and a traditional night of feasting and celebrations lie ahead. But this year they will be interrupted by a visitor. The production is designed by Rob Howell, with lighting by Peter Mumford, and sound and original music by Nick Powell. UK Casting is by Amy Ball CDG and US Casting is by Jim Carnahan, C.S.A and Jillian Cimini C.S.A. Other members of the Broadway creative team will be announced at a later date. The Ferryman is produced on Broadway by Sonia Friedman Productions & Neal Street Productions with Ronald Frankel, Roy Furman, Gavin Kalin Productions, Scott M. Delman, Stephanie P. McClelland, Tulchin Bartner Productions, Kallish Weinstein Creative, Ron Kastner, Starry Night Entertainment, Scott Landis, Steve Traxler, Richard Winkler, Burnt Umber Productions, Rupert Gavin, Scott Rudin, 1001 Nights, William Damaschke, The Shubert Organization, Sam Levy/Lauren Stevens, Ramin Sabi/Christopher Ketner, and Jamie deRoy/Catherine Adler. TICKET INFORMATION: Tickets are now available at www.telecharge.com or by calling 212-239-6200 or 800-447-7400. BIOGRAPHIES: JEZ BUTTERWORTH (Playwright) was born in London in 1969. His first play, Mojo (Royal Court Theatre, 1995), won seven major awards, including the Olivier for Best Comedy. Other plays for the Court include The Night Heron (2002), The Winterling (2009), and Jerusalem (2009). Jerusalem transferred to the West End, breaking box office records for a new play. It won Best Play at the Evening Standard Awards 2010 and UK Critic’s Circle Award for Best Play 2010, before traveling to Broadway, where it won Best Foreign Play at the 2011 New York Critics Circle Awards, and received six Tony nominations, winning two, including Best Actor for Mark Rylance. The River (Royal Court, 2012), transferred to Broadway in 2014, starring Hugh Jackman. Other plays include Parlour Song (Atlantic Theatre, 2008/Almeida Theatre, 2009). Butterworth’s sixth play for the Royal Court, The Ferryman, directed by Sam Mendes, is currently on stage in the West End in London. It received 24 five-star reviews in the UK press, and won Best Play and Best Director at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards in 2017, and UK Critic’s Circle Award for Best Play. His screenwriting credits include Fair Game (winner of the Paul Selvin Award, 2010), Get On Up (2014), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), Black Mass (2015), and Spectre (2015). In 2007, Butterworth won the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. SAM MENDES (Director) is a prolific and multi award-winning theatre and film director and producer, who has directed many productions in New York and on Broadway including Cabaret and The Blue Room. Mendes became the first Artistic Director of the Minerva Theatre, Chichester and founded the Donmar Warehouse in the West End, where over ten years as Artistic Director his seminal productions included Assassins, Cabaret, Translations, Company, The Glass Menagerie, Habeas Corpus, The Blue Room, Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night. More widely, Mendes has also directed a number of critically-acclaimed productions at the RSC (Troilus and Cressida, The Alchemist, The Tempest), National Theatre (The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, The Birthday Party, The Sea, Othello, King Lear), and in the West End (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Oliver!). In 2003 he co-founded Neal Street Productions and in 2009 he set up the Bridge Project, the first transatlantic classical theatre partnership, between the Old Vic Theatre and BAM, directing Richard III, As You Like It, The Tempest, The Cherry Orchard and The Winter’s Tale. He won the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Director and Best Picture as well as the Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement for his first film, American Beauty. He has since directed the Academy Award-winning Road to Perdition, Jarhead, Revolutionary Road, Away We Go, and the Academy Award and BAFTA-winning Skyfall and most recently Spectre from the James Bond franchise. He received the Directors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. DEAN ASHTON (Frank Magennis). Training: Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Theatre includes: The Ferryman (Royal Court & Gielgud); Macbeth (The Factory); My Romantic History (GEST); The Ducks (SEArED); Tactical Questioning (Tricycle); The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Liverpool Everyman); Mixed up North (Out of Joint); Markings (Traverse, Edinburgh); King Lear (RSC); A Streetcar Named Desire Opera (Barbican); 50/50 (Hampstead Theatre); Measure for Measure (The Factory). Television includes: “Electric Dreams” (“Human Is”), “Doctor Foster,” “Ransom” (US), “Three Girls,” “Black Mirror,” “Arthur & George,” “Downton Abbey,” “Coronation Street,” “Emmerdale,” “Holby City,” “Collision,” “Dirty War,” “The Bill,” “Doctors.” Film includes: Mission: Impossible - Fallout and Pride. PADDY CONSIDINE (Quinn Carney) is an actor, writer and director. His film and television credits as an actor include: Journeyman, The Death Of Stalin, Macbeth, In America, Dead Man’s Shoes, Pride, The Bourne Ultimatum, Hot Fuzz, Submarine, Cinderella Man, 24 Hour Party People, My Summer Of Love, Peaky Blinders, Red Riding Trilogy and The Suspicions Of Mr. Whicher. As a writer his credits include: Journeyman, Tyrannosaur, Dog Altogether and Dead Man’s Shoes (co-writer) As a director his work includes: Journeyman, Tyrannosaur and Dog Altogether. The Ferryman is Paddy Considine’s first theatre role. CHARLES DALE (Father Horrigan) is best known as Big Mac in the hit BBC series “Casualty.” Theatre credits include: The Ferryman (The Gielgud); Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (original cast), Blue Remembered Hills (Sheffield Crucible); Llareggub Revisited (National Theatre of Wales); Dealer’s Choice (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Royal Exchange); A Tale of Two Cities (Greenwich Theatre); Cyrano De Bergerac (Haymarket Theatre); A Doll’s House, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Three Sisters (Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich). TV credits include: “Kiri,” “Requiem,” “Grantchester” Series III, “Belonging,” “The Fall of Rome,” “Judge John Deed,” “Eustace Bros.,” “Real Men,” “Paradise Heights,” “Coronation Street.” Radio credits include: Jailbird Lover, Belonging Still, The Nearside, Belonging, Germinal, Amazed & Surprised, Bottled Up. LAURA DONNELLY (Caitlin Carney) originated the role of ‘Caitlin’ in London’s West End, winning the Best Actress Award at the year’s Olivier Awards for her work in the critically acclaimed production of The Ferryman. On stage, her further credits include The River at both the Royal Court and on Broadway opposite Hugh Jackman, The Wasp at The Trafalgar Studios and Philadelphia, Here I Come! directed by Lyndsey Turner at the Donmar Warehouse. On television, she is best known for her role of 'Jenny Fraser’ in the Golden Globe-nominated drama “Outlander,” and most recently starred as ‘Hella’ in Amazon Studios’ fantasy drama production Britannia. On film, she will next be seen as ‘Mabel Tolkien,’ mother to the title character, in Tolkien, the biopic of author J.R.R. Tolkien, alongside Nicholas Hoult and Lily Collins. JUSTIN EDWARDS (Tom Kettle) is currently in the West End as ‘Tom Kettle’ in The Ferryman before shooting the upcoming Richard Curtis/Danny Boyle comedy feature. Other recent work includes feature films The Man Who Invented Christmas playing the leading role ‘John Forster’ alongside Dan Stevens, Jonathan Pryce and Christopher Plummer, Armando Iannucci’s The Death Of Stalin and Whit Stillman’s Love And Friendship. Justin is also well known for his work in comedy and television, including “The Thick Of It,” “Veep,” “The Suspicions Of Mr. Whicher,” Michael Winterbottom’s “The Trip” and “The Secret Diary Of A Call Girl.” Recent theatre work includes Twitstorm at the Park Theatre, The Rivals at the Arcola, Art at the Holders Festival in Barbados, The Comedy Of Errors, and I Killed Rasputin at the Assembly Theatre in Edinburgh. FRA FEE (Michael Carney) most notably played Courfeyrac in the movie adaptation of Les Miserables. Previous theatre includes The Ferryman (Royal Court & Gielgud Theatre - Whatsonstage Award - Best Supporting Actor in a Play); The Wind in the Willows (Theatre Royal Plymouth); The Fix (Union Theatre); As You Like It (National Theatre); The Last Five Years (Lyric Theatre); Romeo & Juliet (Gate Theatre); My Cousin Rachel (Gate Theatre Dublin / Spoleto Festival Charleston USA); Candide (Menier Chocolate Factory); A Man of No Importance (Salisbury Playhouse); Follies (Opéra de Toulon); Les Miserables (Queens Theatre); The Beggar’s Opera; The Mikado; The Rake’s Progress; Candide; The Elixir of Love; Sweeney Todd (Welsh National Opera/Grand Opera House, Belfast). Film work includes Animals (2019); Troubles; Monochrome; Les Miserables. FIONNULA FLANAGAN (Aunt Maggie Faraway). A native of Dublin, trained at the Abbey Theatre, she came to prominence in the Dublin Theatre Festival’s 1965 production of An Trial (Gaelic). She originated the role of Maggie in Lovers at Dublin’s Gate which took her to Broadway in 1968. She created a sensational Molly Bloom in Burgess Meredith’s Broadway production of Ulysses in Nighttown (1973), subsequently writing and starring in her one-woman production James Joyce’s Women, directed by Meredith. She has an Emmy Award, three IFTAs and a Golden Satellite Award. Films include: James Joyce’s Women, Some Mother’s Son, The Guard, Four Brothers. TOM GLYNN-CARNEY (Shane Corcoran) trained at Guildhall School of Music & Drama before making his feature debut in Christopher Nolan’s World War II action adventure Dunkirk. Tom went on to play one of the leads in Peter Moffat’s drama The Last Post for BBC One and following on from this was cast in the original Royal Court and West End cast of The Ferryman for which he won the 'Emerging Talent' trophy at the prestigious Evening Standard Awards. Further to this, Tom has filmed Dome Karukoski’s Tolkien. Tom will be seen in the role of Christopher Wiseman alongside Nicholas Hoult and Lily Collins. Most recently Tom has shot David Michod and Joel Edgerton's The King opposite Timothée Chalamet and directed by Michod. STUART GRAHAM (Muldoon). Theatre: The Ferryman (West End); The Force of Change (Royal Court); Observe The Sons of Ulster Marching Toward The Somme, The Well of The Saints, As The Beast Sleeps, A Number (Irish National Theatre); Macbeth, The Painkiller, The Home Place, Pumpgirl, How Many Miles to Babylon, Dockers, Hamlet, Rough Beginnings (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); The Silver Tassie (Almeida Theatre); In A Little World Of Our Own (Donmar Warehouse). TV: The Interrogation, The Last Post, The Secret, Thirteen, The Frankenstein Chronicles, Our World War, The Fall, Great Train Robbery, Silent Witness, The Governor, Vera, Countdown to War, Waterloo Road, The Clinic, Egypt, Steel River Blues. Film: The Cured, The Foreigner; Bad Day for the Cut; Milo; Shadow Dancer; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; Parked; Misery Harbour; One Man’s Hero, Song for a Raggy Boy, The Whistleblower; Michael Collins; The Butcher Boy; Hunger. MARK LAMBERT (Uncle Patrick Carney). Theatre work in the UK & Ireland includes The Ferryman (Royal Court & Gielgud), Dancing at Lughnasa (Garrick Theatre), Juno & the Paycock (Wyndham’s Theatre, Olivier nomination for Best Supporting Actor), Memory of Water (Vaudeville Theatre), All’s Well That Ends Well (Gielgud Theatre for RSC), Our Country’s Good (Royal Court), The Three Sisters (Royal Court), Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Young Vic), Twelfth Night (Abbey Theatre, Irish Times Theatre Award Nomination), Barbaric Comedies (Abbey Theatre, Irish Times Theatre Award Nomination), Aristocrats (Lincoln Centre). Film work includes Veronica Guerin, A Prayer for the Dying, Evelyn, The Journey, The Secret Scripture. TV roles include “Cracker,” “Vanity Fair,” “The Tudors,” “Sharpe’s Regiment.” CARLA LANGLEY (Shena Carney) graduated from Drama School in 2012. She won the 2016 Manchester Theatre Award for Best Studio Performance and was nominated for Best Female Performance at the Off West End Awards for Cuddles. Theatre includes: The Ferryman (Royal Court & Gielgud); Gracie (Finborough Theatre); Orca (Southwark Playhouse); Future Conditional (The Old Vic); Cuddles (New York/Ovalhouse/UK Tour); The Minotaur (Polka Theatre & Theatre Clywd); Liola (National Theatre), Desolate Heaven (Theatre 503); The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol (Edinburgh Fringe Festival); As You Like It (Sam Wanamaker Festival, Shakespeare’s Globe). Television includes: “Witness For The Prosecution,” “Penny Dreadful.” Radio includes: Fury (BBC Radio 4). CONOR MacNEILL (Diarmaid Corcoran) is an actor and writer who last appeared on Broadway in The Cripple of Inishmaan. Other theatre includes: The Ferryman (Royal Court/Gielgud); Shibboleth (Abbey, Dublin); Half a Glass of Water (Field Day); Philadelphia, Here I Come (Donmar); The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Theatre Royal, Waterford); Plasticine (Corcadorca); The Absence of Women (Lyric, Belfast); Strandline (Project Arts, Dublin); The Old Curiosity Shop (Gate, Dublin); Chatroom (Smock Alley); Antigone, Scenes from The Big Picture (Waterfront Studio, Belfast). Television includes: “The Fall,” “Death and Nightingales,” “No Offence,” “Rebellion,” “Peep Show,” “Privates,” “Saving the Titanic,” “An Crisis.” Film includes: Artemis Fowl, The Current War, The Siege of Jadotville, Love & Friendship, Good Vibrations, Whole Lotta Sole, Five Minutes of Heaven, Fifty Dead Men Walking, Cherrybomb. As a writer Conor received a BAFTA nomination in 2017 for his film The Party. ROB MALONE (Oisin Carney) graduated from The Lir Academy in Dublin, Ireland in 2015. Since graduating, Rob has worked in theatre, television and film across a diverse array of projects. Having been part of the original cast of The Ferryman that premiered at The Royal Court in 2017, before a transfer to London’s West End, Rob is incredibly excited to be making his Broadway debut this year. Theatre includes: The Ferryman (Royal Court & Gielgud); Hamlet (Second Age Theatre Co); Our Island (Mirari Productions). Television includes: Vikings (MGM); The Secret (TV3). Film includes: Survival (Banjoman Films). DEARBHLA MOLLOY (Aunt Patricia Carney). US: Dancing at Lughnasa, A Touch of the Poet, Outside Mullingar (Broadway); Juno and the Paycock (Roundabout); Cripple of Inishmaan (Atlantic Theater, Tour); Much Ado About Nothing (Guthrie), Give Me Your Hand, Afterplay (Irish Rep), Moment (Studio Theatre). London: The Ferryman, In Celebration, Arcadia, Hamlet, As You Like It, Much Ado about Nothing (West End); The Cripple of Inishmaan, Hinterland, On the Ledge (National Theatre); The Hostage, Shadow of a Gunman, Lovegirl and the Innocent (RSC); Ditch (Old Vic Tunnels); The Seagull (Edinburgh); Doubt (Tricycle); Juno & the Paycock (Donmar); Macbeth (Bristol Old Vic); Trojan Women (Gate Notting Hill). Film/television includes: Scandal, The Damned United, Tara Road, Blackwater Lightship, Ulysses, Bug, 3096, New Tricks, Midsomer Murders, Waking the Dead. Two Drama Desk Awards, Theatre World Special Award, London Critics Award, two Irish Theatre Awards, Audie Award. Nominations: Tony Award, Olivier Award, Irish Theatre Award, Grammy Award, among others. Dearbhla is an Associate Artist of the Abbey Theatre, National Theatre of Ireland. GENEVIEVE O’REILLY (Mary Carney) originated the role of ‘Mary Carney’ in the acclaimed Royal Court and West End production of The Ferryman. She is currently filming the second series of Sky Atlantic's epic revenge thriller series “Tin Star” opposite Tim Roth and Christina Hendricks. On film, next year she will take key roles in two features, the biopic Tolkien with a cast including Nicholas Hoult and Lily Collins, as well as The Kid Who Would Be King, directed by Joe Cornish and starring Sir Patrick Stewart and Rebecca Ferguson. Star Wars fans will recognize her for playing ‘Mon Mothma,’ a recurring role Genevieve last played in the blockbuster Rogue One. On television, her further credits include the BAFTA-nominated and critically-acclaimed “The Secret,” a series regular in Showtime/BBC Two's “Episodes” with Matt LeBlanc, the Peabody Award-winning drama “The Honourable Woman” (Sundance TV/BBC Two) starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and she was recently seen in seasons one and two of Netflix’ “Glitch,” the award-winning series co-produced with Australia’s ABC TV. Genevieve’s further stage work includes productions at The National Theatre, The Donmar Warehouse, The Old Vic, The Gate (Dublin) and The Sydney Theatre Company among others. GLENN SPEERS (Lawrence Malone). Theatre credits include: The Ferryman (The Gielgud Theatre, London), The Commitments (The Palace Theatre, London), The Bombing of the Grand Hotel (Cockpit, Islington), Qudz (The Yard, Hackney), Ourselves Alone (Samuel Beckett Studio, Trinity College, Dublin), The Lady From The Sea (Courtyard Theatre, Shoreditch). TV credits include: “Doctor Who,” Stan Lee's “Lucky Man,” “Rellik,” “Ripper Street,” “Misfits.” Film includes: Perrier's Bounty, Noble, Orthodox. NIALL WRIGHT (James Joseph “JJ” Carney) is an Irish actor and a recent graduate of Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He will be making his Broadway debut. Theatre credits include The Ferryman (Royal Court & Gielgud Theatre, West End), Our Town (BOVTS), Our Country’s Good (BOVTS), By the Bog of Cats (The Abbey, Dublin), Macbeth (The Lyric, Belfast). Film and television credits include Mad Bob, Good Vibrations (Revolution Films), James, Middletown (Green Park Films), Mickybo & Me (Working Title Films & Universal Studios), “6 Degrees” (BBC & RTÉ), “Dani’s Castle” and “Millie Inbetween” (CBBC & RTÉ). Upcoming TV projects include “Lore” from Amazon Studios & Valhalla Entertainment. GLYNIS BELL (u/s Aunt Maggie Faraway, Aunt Patricia Carney). Broadway: Angels in America; A Doll’s House Part 2; Therese Raquin; The Winslow Boy; Harvey; Looped; Amadeus; My Fair Lady; The Robber Bridegroom. National tour of The Vagina Monologues. Glynis has appeared in regional theatres all over the country including: The Chicago Shakespeare Festival; Hartford Theaterworks; The Repertory Theatre of St Louis; The Cincinnati Playhouse; Humana Festival; the Alley Theatre, among others. Her favorite roles include: Silva in Other Desert Cities; Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Sister Aloysius in Doubt; Daisy in Driving Miss Daisy; Lady Macbeth in Macbeth. She has been a judge, a doctor, a lawyer, a personal assistant and others in all incarnations of “Law and Order.” COLIN McPHILLAMY (u/s Uncle Patrick Carney, Father Horrigan, Tom Kettle). Broadway: Waiting in the Wings, The Importance of Being Earnest, Off-Broadway: The Seafarer, House and Garden, Woman in Black. Regionally seasons at: The Guthrie, The Old Globe, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, The Alley, Westport, The Rep, Actors Playhouse, Palm Beach Dramaworks. US TV: Zero Hour, Blacklist: Redemption, Pan-Am, Law & Order. UK: seasons with The National Theatre, West End, regional and TV credits. Australia: The Sydney Theatre Company. New Zealand: The Court. Colin has taught and guest directed at London University, USD, and Peking University. BBC Radio credits: Capital Gains (nominated Prix Italia). He blogs at mcphillamy.com. GINA COSTIGAN (u/s Caitlin Carney, Mary Carney). Off-Broadway: Party Face (New York City Center - Stage II), The Suitcase Under the Bed (Mint), Crackskull Row (Irish Rep). Regional: The Seedbed (NJ Rep). Ireland/UK/US: Voices Carry (IAC), An Trial (National Tour -Ireland), Bon go Barr (Northern Ireland Tour), I scream, you scream, the cat screams (Project Arts Centre), Buile an Phice (Andrew's Lane Theatre), The Risen People (Gaiety). Film/TV: Vikings – Runa (History Channel), Becoming Jane – Caroline (Miramax), Veronica Guerin – Molly (Jerry Bruckheimer Films), “Fair City” – Diane Sutton (European soap opera), “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” – Judy (Amazon). Training: AA (Dist), Film and Television Performance (NYCDA), BA (Hons), Drama (QUB). www.ginacostigan.com ROB HOWELL (Scenic and Costume Design) has designed sets and costumes extensively in the theatre and opera in the UK and abroad including at The Royal Court, The Donmar Warehouse, The Old Vic, The National Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Royal Opera House and The Metropolitan Opera and on Broadway. He has received numerous Olivier and Tony nominations, including a current Olivier nomination for The Ferryman, and was awarded Oliviers for Best Set Designer in the years 2000, 2006 and 2012 and a Tony for Best Set Designer in 2013. PETER MUMFORD (Lighting Design) works as a lighting, set and projection designer in theater, opera and dance. Theatre includes The Way of the World (Donmar); The Ferryman, Long Day’s Journey into Night, 42nd Street, Top Hat and Stepping Out (West End); The Children and Escaped Alone (Royal Court, New York); King Kong (Helpmann and Green Room Awards for Best Lighting); Global Creatures (Australia); The Slaves of Solitude, Wild Honey and Wonderland (Hampstead); High Society (Old Vic); Ghosts (Almeida/Trafalgar Studios, New York); Bull (Young Vic); Sucker Punch (Royal Court - Knight of Illumination Award); John, Scenes from an Execution, Twelfth Night, All’s Well that Ends Well, The Hothouse, The Reporter, The Invention of Love, Vincent in Brixton, Bacchai (Olivier Award, Best Lighting Design), The Merchant of Venice and Summerfolk (National Theatre). NICK POWELL (Sound Design and Original Music). Work includes: The Ferryman (Royal Court & Gielgud); The Prudes, Bad Roads, The Nether (and West End), Unreachable, X (Royal Court); Julius Caesar (The Bridge); Wolf Hall/Bring Up The Bodies (and Broadway/West End), The Inn at Lydda, A Life of Galileo, Richard III, The Drunks, God in Ruins (RSC); People, Places & Things (Stadsteatern, Stockholm); City of Glass (59 Productions/Lyric Hammersmith); Cold Calling: The Artic Project (Birmingham Rep/CBSO); Lord of the Flies (UK Tour); Lanark: A Life in Three Acts (Citizens Theatre/Edinburgh); The King’s Speech (Chichester Festival Theatre); Dunsinane (National Theatre of Scotland/RSC/UK & US Tours); Of Mice and Men (Birmingham Rep/Tour); Othello (National Theatre). AMY BALL CDG (UK Casting). Amy is Head of Casting at the Royal Court Theatre, where she casts all productions for the Theatre Upstairs and Downstairs. Previous Royal Court credits include: The Ferryman (also Gielgud), The Children, Escaped Alone (also Tour), X, Cyprus Ave, Hangmen (also Wyndham’s), Linda, Liberian Girl, The Twits, Violence and Son, How to Hold Your Breath, Constellations (also Duke of York’s/Broadway), Jumpy, Posh, The River, Love and Information, In Basildon, Love, Love, Love, Choir Boy, Chicken Soup With Barley, Jerusalem (also Apollo), Sucker Punch, The Vertical Hour and Road. Freelance work includes: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Harold Pinter); Consent (National); Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (National Theatre of Scotland/National/UK Tour/Duke of York’s); Boy and Albion (Almeida); The Moderate Soprano (Hampstead); Uncle Vanya (Vaudeville); The Changeling and The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Young Vic); Design for Living (Old Vic) and A View From the Bridge (Duke of York’s). JIM CARNAHAN, C.S.A. (US Casting). Roundabout Theatre Company’s Director of Artistic Development, where he has cast over 75 shows including: Travesties, Time and the Conways, The Price, Long Day’s Journey, Love Love Love. She Loves Me, Noises Off, On the Twentieth Century, Cabaret. Additional recent Broadway: Harry Potter, Angels in America, Farinelli and the King, 1984, Groundhog Day, Fun Home. Recent London credits include: Glengarry Glen Ross, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Glass Menagerie, Nice Fish, The Red Barn, Motherf**ker with the Hat, Streetcar Named Desire. Film: The Seagull (upcoming), A Home at the End of the World and Flicka. TV: “Glee” (Emmy nomination). SONIA FRIEDMAN PRODUCTIONS (SFP) is a West End and Broadway production company responsible for some of the most successful theatre productions in London and New York. Since 1990, SFP has developed, initiated and produced over 160 new productions and together they have won a staggering 48 Olivier Awards including a record-breaking 14 at the 2014 Awards. In 2017, SFP won 9 Olivier Awards for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the most awards ever received by a single production in Oliviers’ history. The company has also won 18 Tonys and 2 BAFTAs. In 2017, Sonia Friedman OBE was awarded 'Producer of the Year' at the Stage Awards for the third year in a row as well as taking the number one spot in 'The Stage 100', becoming the first number one in the history of the compilation not to own or operate West End theatres and the first solo woman for almost 20 years. In 2018, Friedman was also featured in TIME100, a list of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. West End and Broadway productions include: the UK premiere of The Book of Mormon, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in London and New York, the UK premiere of Dreamgirls, Mean Girls at the August Wilson Theatre, The Birthday Party, Ink, Hamlet starring Andrew Scott, 1984 at the Hudson Theatre, New York, Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, The Ferryman Royal Court and Gielgud, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Travesties in London and New York, The Glass Menagerie, Nice Fish, A Christmas Carol, Funny Girl West End and UK tour, Farinelli and The King starring Mark Rylance, Hamlet starring Benedict Cumberbatch, 1984, Sunny Afternoon West End and UK tour, Bend It Like Beckham, The Nether, The River, Electra, King Charles III, Shakespeare in Love, Ghosts, Mojo, Chimerica, Merrily We Roll Along, Old Times, Twelfth Night and Richard III, A Chorus of Disapproval, The Sunshine Boys, Hay Fever, Absent Friends, Top Girls, Betrayal, Much Ado About Nothing, Clybourne Park, The Children’s Hour, A Flea in Her Ear, La Bête, All My Sons, Private Lives, Jerusalem, A Little Night Music, Legally Blonde, Othello, Arcadia, The Mountaintop, The Norman Conquests, A View From the Bridge, Dancing at Lughnasa, Maria Friedman: Re-Arranged, La Cage aux Folles, No Man’s Land, The Seagull, Under the Blue Sky, That Face, Dealer’s Choice, Hergés Adventures of Tintin, In Celebration, Boeing-Boeing, The Dumb Waiter, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Love Song, Faith Healer, Bent, Eh Joe, Donkeys’ Years, Otherwise Engaged, Celebration, Shoot the Crow, As You Like It, The Home Place, Whose Life Is It Anyway?, By the Bog of Cats, The Woman in White, Guantanamo: ‘Honor Bound to Defend Freedom’, Endgame, Jumpers, See You Next Tuesday, Hitchcock Blonde, Absolutely! {Perhaps}, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Ragtime, Macbeth, What the Night Is For, Afterplay, Up for Grabs, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Noises Off, On an Average Day, A Servant to Two Masters, Port Authority, Spoonface Steinberg and Speed-The-Plow. Forthcoming productions include: Consent at the Harold Pinter Theatre, The Jungle at the Playhouse Theatre, The Ferryman at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, New York, and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne. For a full list of SFP’s theatre credits, please visit soniafriedman.com. NEAL STREET PRODUCTIONS (PRODUCER, CARO NEWLING). Neal Street produces film, television and theatre. Formed in 2003 by Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris and Caro Newling, with Nicolas Brown joining as fourth director in the company’s tenth year. In 2015 Neal Street moved under the umbrella of parent company, All3Media. Previously Sam Mendes and Caro Newling established and ran the Donmar Warehouse 1992-2002, since when Newling has produced the company’s theatre slate. Recent theatre includes: The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth, The Moderate Soprano by David Hare, This House by James Graham, and forthcoming The Lehman Trilogy with the National Theatre. World Premiere productions: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, produced with Warner Brothers Theatre Ventures at Theatre Royal Drury Lane and on Broadway, and Shrek The Musical produced with DreamWorks Animation at the Broadway Theatre NYC, Theatre Royal Drury Lane, touring nationally 2014-2018. Previous productions: The Bridge Project, a three-year transatlantic venture with the Old Vic & Brooklyn Academy of Music presenting five classic plays for worldwide stages across fifteen international cities, directed by Sam Mendes. Premiere productions: Three Days of Rain, The Vertical Hour, The House of Special Purpose, All About My Mother, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Days of Wine and Roses, Anna in the Tropics, Fuddy Meers. West End/Broadway transfers: South Downs/The Browning Version, Enron, Hamlet, Mary Stuart, Red, Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday in the Park, The Painkiller. Film and television includes: Heidi Thomas’ series “Call the Midwife,” John Logan’s series “Penny Dreadful,” Stuart A Life Backwards, Starter for Ten, Things We Lost in the Fire, Jarhead, Revolutionary Road, Away We Go, Blood, The Hollow Crown for BBC2 featuring Richard II (dir. Rupert Goold), Henry IV Part 1 & Part 2 (dir. Richard Eyre), Henry V (dir. Thea Sharrock), Henry VI parts 1 and 2 and Richard III (dir. Dominic Cooke), “Britannia” by Jez Butterworth. Currently in production: Informer by Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani. www.theferrymanbroadway.com |
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