A.R.T.: Debut. Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW, and Swing Time, as well as essay collections Changing My Mind, Feel Free, and Intimations, and the collection of short stories Grand Union. She lives at the crossroads of Kilburn, Willesden and Queen’s Park.

A.R.T.: Debut. Indhu Rubasingham is Artistic Director of Kiln Theatre. Her work for the company includes Handbagged (winner of the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre), also West End, UK tour, Washington, New York; The Invisible Hand; Pass Over; When the Crows Visit; Wife; White Teeth; Holy Sh!t; Red Velvet (which transferred to New York and later to the Garrick Theatre as part of the Kenneth Branagh Season); A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes; Multitudes; The House That Will Not Stand; Paper Dolls; Women, Power and Politics; Stones in His Pockets; Detaining Justice; The Great Game: Afghanistan; Fabulation; Starstruck. Other theatre credits include: Kerry Jackson; The Father and the Assassin; The Great Wave; Ugly Lies the Bone; The Motherf**cker with the Hat (Evening Standard Award for Best Play); The Waiting Room, National Theatre; The Ramayana, National Theatre/Birmingham Rep; Belong, Disconnect, Free Outgoing, Lift Off, Clubland, The Crutch, Sugar Mummies, Royal Court Theatre; Ruined, Almeida Theatre; Yellowman, Anna in the Tropics, Hampstead Theatre; Secret Rapture, The Misanthrope, Romeo and Juliet, Chichester Festival Theatre; Pure Gold, Soho Theatre; The No Boys Cricket Club, Party Girls, Theatre Royal Stratford East; Wuthering Heights, Birmingham REP; Heartbreak House, Watford Palace Theatre; Sugar Dollies, Shakuntala, Gate Theatre; A River Sutra, Three Mill Island Studios; Rhinoceros, UC Davis; A Doll’s House, Young Vic Theatre.

A.R.T.: Debut. For Kiln/Tricycle: Pass Over, Blues in the Night, Holy Sh!t, Fabulation, Great Garbo Came to Donegal. In theater, Robert has designed extensively for the West End, Broadway, National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company (as an Associate Artist), Donmar Warehouse, Almeida Theatre, The Old Vic, Chichester Festival Theatre, The Royal Albert Hall, Kiln Theatre, Menier Chocolate Factory, and internationally in Australia, Los Angeles, Toronto, and Tokyo. Recent theater: The Boy in the Dress, RSC; The Unfriend, Murder on the Orient Express, Chichester Festival Theatre; City of Angels, Sweet Charity, Donmar Warehouse; The Clothes They Stood Up In, Nottingham Playhouse. Opera: Anna Bolena, Guilio Cesare, Norma, Die Fledermaus, Metropolitan Opera; Andrea Chenier, Royal Opera House/Beijing/San Francisco/Barcelona; L’incoronazione di Poppea, Paris/Berlin/Strasbourg; Don Carlos, Frankfurt/Tokyo/Chicago; Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Glyndebourne Festival/Lyric Chicago; Orfeo, Garsington Opera); Tristan und Isolde, Tokyo/Vienna; Gloriana, Don Carlo, Teatro Real, Madrid; Don Giovanni, Opera Australia; L’Elisir d’Amore, On the Town, English National Opera; Manon Lescaut, Gothenburg. Film: Hamlet, BBC/RSC; Shakespeare Live, BBC; Prisoner 33, Angelic Films. He has been nominated for four Olivier Awards and Evening Standard, International Opera, UK Theatre, WhatsOnStage Awards. He is also the winner of a Canadian Dora Mavor Moore award and a Drama-Logue award.

A.R.T.: Debut. Kiln: The Darkest Part of the Night, Reasons You Should(n’t) Love Me, Wife. Theater: Sea Wall / A Life, Broadway; A Doll’s House, Young Vic/BAM; Julie, The Deep Blue Sea, Here We Go, National Theatre; Jesus Hopped The ‘A’ Train, Wings, Young Vic; One For Sorrow, NSFW, In Basildon, Royal Court; Roots, Serenading Louie, Donmar Warehouse; A Delicate Balance, Waste, Almeida; Clarence Darrow, Old Vic; The Father, West End; Cock, Chichester Festival Theatre. Dance: Metamorphosis (Southbank Award – Dance), Royal Opera House/Joyce Theatre; Dracula (Southbank Award – Dance), Mark Bruce Company; Chotto Desh, Chotto Xenos, Akram Khan Company; Spectrum, Skånes Dansteater; #minaret, Maqamat; Mischief, Theatre Rites; Life, Spring, Gandini Juggling. Opera: The Firework-Maker’s Daughter, ROH; Jakob Lenz, ENO; American Lulu, Bregenz; King Priam, Paul Bunyan (Olivier Award – Outstanding Achievement in Opera), ETO.

A.R.T.: Debut. For Kiln/Tricycle: NW Trilogy, The Seven Ages of Patience, Pass Over, When the Crows Visit. West End: Prima Facie; Cyrano de Bergerac (Drama Desk Award, Best Sound Design; Olivier Award nomination), BAM; Herding Cats; Betrayal, Broadway; Pinter at the Pinter, The Man in the White Suit, The Ladykillers (Olivier Award nomination), UK tour; King Lear, Doctor Faustus, Quiz, also Chichester Festival Theatre; Perfect Nonsense; The Girl on the Train, UK tour. UK Theater: Lotus Beauty, Hampstead Theatre; Blackmail, Mercury; Blindness (Critics Circle Award Nomination, Los Metros Award Winner, Mexico), Donmar Warehouse, worldwide tour; Teenage Dick, Berberian Sound Studio, Belleville, Donmar Warehouse; Tartuffe, Ugly Lies the Bone, We Want You to Watch, Scenes from an Execution, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, She Stoops to Conquer, The World Of Extreme Happiness, National Theatre; A Mad World My Masters, Queen Anne and Little Eagles, RSC; Love and Information, Sheffield; Machinal, Almeida Theatre; The Mighty Walzer, Parliament Square, Our Town, Royal Exchange, Manchester; Killer (Off-West End Award, Best Sound Designer), The Pitchfork Disney, STH; Lungs, Schaubuhne, Berlin; Ring (Off-West End Award, Best Sound Designer), BAC; Piaf (Olivier Award, Best Sound Design nomination), Donmar Warehouse/West End, Buenos Aires; The Architects, Amato Saltone, Tropicana, Dance Bear Dance, The Ballad of Bobby Francois, Shunt. As Creators/Directors/Writers: “Exemplar” (Radio series), BBC Radio 4; Reflections (Composition), 2 Temple Place; ANNA (Olivier Award Nomination, Best Sound Design), National Theatre; The Return (Directors), ETT; Curse of the Crackles, STH; Monument, Discount Disco, Wiretapper; Looking for Nigel, BBC R&D. Other composition/sound design: Musicals, Epic Iran, Frida Kahlo – Making Herself Up, The V&A; Mirror Maze, Room 2022, with Es Devlin; Rembrandt – The Late Works, The National Gallery; The Inspection Chamber for Alexa, BBC Research and Development; Papa Sangre II (sound-based IOS game for digital arts organisation Somethin’ Else (IMGA Excellence in Sound Design Award Winner).

A.R.T.: Debut. Hannah is a director and dramaturg, with a focus on new writing and work centered around the female and/or queer experience. She is Artistic Director of theater company Damsel Productions, who recently co-produced the sell-out show The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs at Soho Theatre. As Director: The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs, Fabric, Fury, Soho Theatre; The Funeral Director, Southwark Playhouse/ETT UK Tour; The Amber Trap, Theatre 503; Grotty, Bunker Theatre, Dry Land, Jermyn Street Theatre. Associate/Assistant directing credits include: Romeo & Juliet, Shakespeare’s Globe; Daytona, Park Theatre, Theatre Royal Haymarket; Radiant Vermin, Soho Theatre.

A.R.T.: Debut. Theater (as Associate Designer): Moulin Rouge!, London, Cologne 2022; The Drifters Girl, Garrick Theatre; Anything Goes, London, UK Tour; The Book of Mormon, UK Tour; Matilda the Musical, UK and International Tours; Present Laughter, Lungs, Art, Electra, A Christmas Carol, The Lorax, The Old Vic and US/Toronto; Beautiful, The Ferryman, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, West End/Broadway; Long Day’s Journey into Night, Venus in Fur, West End; The Red Lion, Three Days in the Country, King Lear, National Theatre; Crazy For You, Murder on the Orient Express, The Unfriend, Oklahoma!, Chichester Festival Theatre. Theater (as Assistant Designer): Groundhog Day, Old Vic/Broadway; Sweeney Todd, Oliver!, The Audience, The Wizard of Oz, Hamlet, Betty Blue Eyes, The Children’s Hour, Shrek The Musical, Gypsy, Chichester Festival Theatre and West End; Guys and Dolls, South Pacific, Chichester Festival Theatre; God of Carnage, West End/Broadway; Bombay Dreams, Broadway; An American in Paris, Broadway/Paris; The Trojans, Metropolitan Opera.

A.R.T.: Debut. As Costume Designer: Scandaltown, Lyric Hammersmith; The Night Woman, The Other Palace; Our Generation, National Theatre/Chichester Festival Theatre; Aladdin, Lyric Hammersmith; Adult Children, Donmar Warehouse; Enter Achilles, Rambert, Sadler’s Wells & Onassis STEGI; Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, Young Vic. As Associate Costume Designer: Constellations, Donmar Warehouse, West End; Ragtime, Arts Ed. Education/Training: Wimbledon College of Art.

A.R.T.: Wild Swans. For Kiln/Tricycle: Girl on an Altar; Pass Over; Red Velvet, St. Ann’s Warehouse. Recent theater: A Little Life, West End; A Streetcar Named Desire, Macbeth, The Duchess of Malfi, The Doctor, Three Sisters, The Wild Duck, Machinal, The Writer, The Treatment, Oil, Uncle Vanya, Medea, Game, Mr Burns, Before the Party, Almeida Theatre; Sons of the Prophet, Hampstead Theatre; The Jungle, Young Vic/West End/Curran, San Francisco/St Ann’s Warehouse; Blood Wedding, Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, Fun Home, Yellowman, Wings, Life of Galileo, Once in a Lifetime, Blue/Orange, The Trial, Ah, Wilderness!, Man, Happy Days, Public Enemy, The Shawl, Young Vic; Appropriate, Donmar Warehouse; Summer and Smoke, The Twilight Zone, Hamlet, Mary Stuart, Oresteia, Chimerica, Almeida Theatre/West End; All About Eve, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, West End; Yerma, Young Vic Theatre/Park Ave Armory; The Inheritance, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Young Vic/West End; Obsession, Hamlet, Barbican; City of Glass, 59 Productions; Tipping The Velvet, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre; Martyr, ATC; The Seagull, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre; The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Chichester Festival Theatre; Hope, Teh Internet Is Serious Business, Wolf from the Door, Adler & Gibb, Birdland, Khandan, The Mistress Contract, The Pass, Pigeons, Gastronauts, Royal Court Theatre; The Nether, Royal Court/West End; A View from the Bridge, Young Vic/West End/Broadway; Spring Awakening, The Seagull, Headlong; Another Country, Chichester Theatre Festival/West End; The Events, Actors Touring Company/Young Vic; A Doll’s House, West End/BAM; The Lighthouse Keeper, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group; The Winslow Boy, The Old Vic. TV/Film: Together, BAFTA Winner Single Drama 2022), Hamlet, Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere, The Exception, Departure, The Trial – A Murder in the Family.

A.R.T.: Debut. For Kiln: The Son, West End; The Half God of Rainfall, Birmingham Rep. Imogen is a movement director and multidisciplinary artist. Theater: Future Frequencies, Luxembourg 2022; The Body Remembers, The Place, BAC, UK Tour; Under Milk Wood, Macbeth, Amadeus, The Threepenny Opera, Les Blancs, I Want My Hat Back, Edward II, Dido, Queen Of Carthage, The Welkin, National Theatre; Walden, Uncle Vanya, Rosmersholm, The Birthday Party, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, West End; Is God Is, The Song Project, Nuclear War (Director), Linda, The Low Road, A Time To Reap, Royal Court Theatre; The Nico Project, The Skriker, Manchester International Festival; Blood Wedding, Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, Measure for Measure, Young Vic Theatre; Richard II, Carmen Disruption, King Lear, Measure for Measure, Almeida Theatre; Avalanche, Barbican; The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca, (Co-Director & Choreographer), Hull City of Culture 2017; Europe, Belleville, Knives in Hens, The Lady From the Sea, Donmar Warehouse; Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, In Time O’Strife, The Missing, National Theatre of Scotland; The Seagull, Lyric Hammersmith; All the Angels, Shakespeare’s Globe; Hamlet, Blindsided, Royal Exchange Theatre; The Crucible, The Old Vic; Pests, Clean Break, Arden of Faversham, Royal Shakespeare Company; Of Mice and Men, West Yorkshire Playhouse. TV/Film: Firebrand, Gabrielle Tana; Embers, Mini Productions; “Chernobyl,” HBO; On Chesil Beach, Golan Films, OCB Limited; “MotherFatherSon,” “Call the Midwife,” “The Hollow Crown,” BBC; “The Rook,” Starz/Lionsgate; “The Innocents,” Netflix; “Patrick Melrose,” Sky Atlantic; “Harlots,” ITV. Music and opera: The Handmaid’s Tale, The Winter’s Tale, ENO; The Knife of Dawn, Royal Opera House; Flux, Southbank Sinfonia; Gazelle Twin & NYX: Deep England, Southbank Centre; NYX, Southbank Centre/Supersonic Festival 2022; The Little Sweep, Malmö Opera.

A.R.T.: Debut. For Kiln/Tricycle: Holy Sh!t, White Teeth, Pass Over, The House That Will Not Stand. Kev is an Equity-registered Fight Director/ Choreographer, Director, Actor, and an Action performer. Kev is also co-founder of The Academy of Performance Combat, an Honorary Fellow of The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, an Associate Artist with Theatr na nÓg, and an Associate Instructor with The Bristol School of Acting. Theater: The Burnt City, Punchdrunk; O Island!, Ivy Tiller: Vicar’s Daughter, Squirrel Killer, RSC; The Gunpowder Plot, Layered Reality; Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel/Secret Cinema; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare North; Edward II, RWCMD); Let the Right One In, Manchester Royal Exchange; Guy Fawkes, York Theatre Royal; Revealed, Tobacco Factory; Wuthering Heights, Wise Children/National Theatre; The Trial of Elgan Jones, Theatr na nÓg; Nine Night, Leeds Playhouse; Les Misérables, West End, UK Tour; Sister Act, Jamie Wilson/Curve Theatre. TV/Film: “The Pact,” BBC; “The A List,” Netflix; “Y Golau/The Light,” BBC Wales/S4C Wales; “Keeping Faith,” BBC; John Carter of Mars, Walt Disney/Pixar; Protein, Broadside Films; The Lady of Heaven, Enlightened Kingdom Films. Directing: The Saliva Milkshake, The Glass Menagerie, My Friend the Walrus, Middle of the Road, Making of a Motherer.

A.R.T.: Debut. Hazel Holder has been an actor, singer, and theatre-maker for over thirty years and then retrained, gaining her MA in Voice Studies at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Hazel has worked with pioneering companies such as Clod Ensemble as a Performing Medicine Associate Artist working in hospitals around London, Clean Break, Marginal Voices (working with trafficked women) and Cast Women’s Charity – “helping to transform vulnerable women’s lives through creative holistic education”. Theater: Pass Over, Kiln/Tricycle; Blues for an Alabama Sky, Rockets & Blue Lights, Death of England: Delroy, Death of England, Small Island, Nine Night, Barber Shop Chronicles, Pericles, Angels in America, Les Blancs, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, National Theatre; To Kill a Mockingbird, Get Up Stand Up!, The Glass Menagerie, Constellations, 2:22, Uncle Vanya, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Dreamgirls, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, West End; Best of Enemies, Death of a Salesman, Young Vic Theatre/West End; Caroline, or Change, Chichester Festival Theatre/Hampstead Theatre/West End; Fairview, The Convert, The Mountaintop, The Emperor, Young Vic Theatre; Cuttin’ It, Royal Court Theatre/ Young Vic Theatre; Guys and Dolls, Girls, Soho Theatre/Royal Exchange; ear for eye, Poet in Da Corner, Grimly Handsome, Pigs & Dogs, Father Comes Home from the Wars, Royal Court Theatre. TV/Film: The Silent Twins; Aisha (for Letitia Wright); “Anansi Boys”; “Wool”; “Small Axe” (Steve McQueen Anthology); “The Power”; “In the Long Run” (Jimmy Akingbola); Death on the Nile (Letitia Wright). As a performer: Here We Go, As You Like It, Medea, Death and The King’s Horseman, National Theatre; The Bakkhai, Almeida Theatre; The Tempest, Royal Shakespeare Company; The Bacchae, National Theatre of Scotland, Lincoln Center, Broadway; The Sleeping Beauty, Young Vic Theatre, Barbican, New Victory, Broadway.

Broadway: Ghost the Musical, Private Lives, Spider-Man, La Bête, Mary Stuart, Rock ’n’ Roll. Touring USA: Les Misérables. For the Young Vic: Hamlet, Government Inspector, Annie Get Your Gun, The Good Soul of Szechuan, Vernon God Little, Six Characters Looking for an Author. London: Sweeney Todd, Ghost, Betrayal, Million Dollar Quartet, The Children’s Hour, La Bête, Love Never Dies, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Priscilla, Oliver, Billy Elliot, An Inspector Calls. Opera: Prima Donna, NYC and MIF; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WNO; Der Freischütz, Baden-Baden; Tristan und Isolde, La Scala; From the House of the Dead, Vienna Festival.

A.R.T.: Debut. Kiln: Girl on an Altar (Assistant Director). Jessica Mensah is currently the Kiln-Mackintosh Resident Assistant Director. As Director: Yerma, Lyric Hammersmith; House, Southwark Playhouse; The Life of Olu, Soho Theatre, Theatre Peckham, Golden Goose Theatre; DRUM, Omnibus Theatre; Tales from the Frontline – Part 4, Talawa; Signed, Sealed, Delivered, National eTheatr. As Assistant Director: The Snail House, Hampstead Theatre; Typical, Soho Theatre; Queens of Sheba, Edinburgh Fringe, New Diorama. Education/Training: BA, Theatre & Performance, Guilford School of Acting, University of Surrey; training programs including Stonecrabs Theatre Young Directors Programme, RTYDS placement at tiata fahodzi, and the Young Vic’s Introduction to Directing program.

A.R.T: Debut. West End: All About Eve, The Comeback, Noel Coward Theatre; Leopoldstadt, Wyndham’s Theatre. Off West End: Holy Sh!t, White Teeth, Reasons You Should(n’t) Love Me, Black Love, The Darkest Part of the Night, Handbagged, Kiln Theatre; Blood Wedding, Young Vic Theatre; Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner, Royal Court Theatre. Curious, Soho Theatre. Off Broadway: Yerma, Park Avenue Armory. Training: Technical Theatre and Stage Management, RADA. 

A.R.T.: Debut. Theater: Love All, Jermyn Street Theatre; Rapture, Pleasance London; Girl On An Altar, Kiln Theatre; Steve, Seven Dials Playhouse; Yes So I Said Yes, Not Quite Jerusalem, Finborough Theatre; Foxes, Theatre503, Theatre Peckham; Concha, Oregon Fringe Festival; Sunnymead Court, Tristan Bates Theatre, Arcola Outside, UK Tour; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Criterion Theatre; Frankenstein, Great Expectations, Southwark Playhouse; The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Edinburgh Fringe Festival; Lost Boys New Town, Hope Theatre; Jerusalem, Stanley Theatre. Education: University of Liverpool, National Youth Theatre of Great Britain.

A.R.T.: Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. Broadway: Mrs. Doubtfire, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, True Crime Obsessed. National Tours: Hamilton (Puerto Rico), On Your Feet!, An American in Paris. Off-Broadway/Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, Minetta Lane Theatre, Park Avenue Armory, The Public Theater, The Working Theatre, Roundabout Theatre Company, Atlantic Theater Company. CCM Alumnus.