REGENT’S PARK OPEN AIR THEATRE ANNOUNCE FULL CAST FOR
TWELFTH NIGHT or What You Will
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre today announce full cast for Twelfth Night or What You Will, Shakespeare’s comedy of mistaken identities directed by Owen Horsley and set against the heat of the Mediterranean sun. The production runs 3 May – 8 June 2024.
Horsley will direct Raphael Bushay (Orsino), Richard Cant (Malvolio), Sally Cheng (Querelle), Andro Cowperthwaite (Sebastian), Anna Francolini (Olivia), Nicholas Karami(Antonio/Captain), Julie Legrand (Feste),Michael Matus (Toby Belch), Evelyn Miller (Viola), Anita Reynolds(Maria), Matthew Spencer (Andrew Aguecheek), Katherine Toy (Valentine/Priest), Jon Trenchard (Fabian/Musical Director), and Harry Waller (Curio/Officer).
The production marks the first production of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s summer season, and features new original songs in addition to the numerous songs in the text of Twelfth Night or What You Will.
A Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production
Twelfth Night
or What You Will
By William Shakespeare
Basia Binkowska (Set Designer); Rachel Bown-Williams and Ruth Cooper-Brown for Rc-Annie (Fight and Intimacy Directors);Ryan Dawson Laight (Costume Designer); Kate Godfrey(Voice and Text Director); James Hassett Associate Sound Designer); Daniel Hay-Gordon ( Movement Director); Lotte Hines (Casting Director); Cory Hippolyte (Associate Director); Owen Horsley (Director); Sam Kenyon (Composer & Musical Supervisor); Aideen Malone (Lighting Designer); Max Pappenheim (Sound Designer)
3 May – 8 June 2024
‘What country, friends, is this?’
At a moonlit cafe surrounded by the sea, Olivia sings a lament to her lost brother, watched on by faded crowd.
When a shipwreck catapults Viola into their world of abandoned festivities, a web of disguise and deception begins. This new injection of life rocks this melancholic community to the core, but can she finally shake them from their languor and get the party started again?
Set against the heat of the Mediterranean sun, Shakespeare’s comedy of mistaken identities is a glorious celebration of love. Directed by Owen Horsley (Henry VI: Rebellion, Wars of the Roses, Royal Shakespeare Company) in a marriage of happiness, nostalgia and riotous partying.
CAST
Raphael Bushay, Orsino
For Regent’s Park: Peter Pan and Henry V
Theatre includes: The Crucible (National Theatre and West End); Oklahoma! (Young Vic and West End); Don Quixote (RSC); Red Riding Hood (Theatre Royal Stratford East); The Tempest and Henry V (Shakespeare’s Rose); Queen of Chapeltown (West Yorkshire Playhouse); As You Like It (Lamb Players); Fantastic Mr Fox (UK and UAE tour); and Kampala (Arcola).
Television includes: Holby City.
Richard Cant, Malvolio
Theatre includes: What It Means (The Lot at Wilton’s); The Vortex (Chichester); Orlando (Garrick); The Normal Heart (National); Handbagged/ Wife (Kiln); After Edward (Sam Wanamaker); Henry Sixth Rebellion/Maydays (RSC); Stella (LIFT); Medea (Almeida); Saint Joan/My Night With Reg (Donmar); Salome (Headlong); Cymbeline; As You Like It (Cheek by Jowl); Other People (Royal Court)
Television includes: It’s A Sin; The Crown; Taboo; Mapp & Lucia; Bleak House; Gunpowder, Treason & Plot; The Way We Live Now; Midsomer Murders.
Film includes: Stan & Ollie, Mary Queen Of Scots.
Sally Cheng, Querelle
Theatre includes: The Wizard of Oz (The Watermill Theatre); Tony! The Rock Opera (London and UK Tour); Richard II (GSC); A Christmas Carol (RSC); The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13, 3/4 The Musical (Queen’s, Hornchurch); The Play that Goes Wrong (West End); A Christmas Carol, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Scoot Theatre); The Wind in the Willows (Jermyn Street/GSC); The Last of the Pelican Daughters (The Wardrobe Ensemble/ Complicite/Bristol Old Vic); A Christmas Carol, The Emperor and the Nightingale (Theatre by the Lake); For Services Rendered (Jermyn Street); Shadowlands (Chichester Festival Theatre); A Christmas Carol (RSC); Macbeth (Watermill Theatre); Twelfth Night (RSC); Love’s Labour’s Lost, Robin Hood (Guildford Shakespeare Company); Footprints on the Moon (Finborough Theatre); Singin’ in the Rain (Bolton Octagon/ Salisbury Playhouse/New Vic Theatre).
Andro Cowperthwaite, Sebastian
Theatre includes: Dead Hot (Quay Street Productions); Thong for Europe (Royal Court Liverpool); Incompleteness Theorum (Soho Theatre); Dorian (Reading Rep); Lion Witch and Wardrobe (Bridge Theatre); Salome, Dido: Queen of Carthage (RSC).
Film and Television includes: Cold Blow Lane (Feature); The Agency (Short); Caterpillar (Short film); Lord Of The Rings; Rings of Power (Amazon Prime TV Series); Red, White and Royal Blue (Amazon Prime Feature).
Andro was previously a member of Brit Award Winning music collective JUNGLE. Now a solo artist with two independent released EPs, with support from BBC Sounds, BBC Music Introducing Featured Artist, CLASH and Wonderland magazines and more.
Anna Francolini, Olivia
Theatre includes: Tom Fool (Orange Tree); Strictly Ballroom (Piccadilly Theatre); Peter Pan (National Theatre), Wonder.land (National Theatre & Theatre du Chatelet), Assassins (Menier Chocolate Factory); Our Town (Almeida Theatre); That Day We Sang, A View From The Bridge (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Mare Rider, How The World Began, Anatol (Arcola Theatre); Victor/Victoria (Southwark Playhouse); Onassis, Daisy Pulls It Off, Mahler’s Conversion (West End); Taking Steps (Orange Tree Theatre); The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Royal & Derngate Theatre, Northampton/ Edinburgh); Awaking Beauty (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Wolves at the Window (Arcola/59E59 New York); Three Sisters on Hope Street, In The Club (Hampstead Theatre); Into The Woods (Royal Opera House); Caroline, Or Change (National Theatre); Six Pictures of Lee Miller (Minerva Theatre, Chichester); Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight (Soho Theatre); The Ballad of Little Jo, Floyd Collins, Saturday Night (Bridewell Theatre); Merrily We Roll Along, Company (Donmar Warehouse), Oliver (Palladium); Godspell (National Tour).
Television includes: House of the Dragon (HBO); Sex Education S4 (Netflix); Call The Midwife (BBC); Surface (Apple); Too Much (Netflix); The Diplomat (Netflix); The Ipcress Files (ITV); The Man Who Fell to Earth (Showtime); Roadkill (BBC); Homeland (Showtime); Vera (ITV); New Tricks (ITV); Pixelface (BBC); Rome (HBO); Jonathan Creek (BBC).
Film includes: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny; Emma; Solo, a Star Wars Story; Gun Shy; The Kill Team; The Christmas Candle; Topsy Turvy.
Anna won the TMA Award for Best Performance in a Play for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and received an Olivier Award nomination for her role in Caroline, Or Change. She has also worked extensively in radio drama.
Nicholas Karami, Antonio/Captain
Trained at Rose Bruford College.
For Regents Park: A Tale of Two Cities
Theatre includes: Arabian Nights (Bristol Old Vic); Henry VI (parts 2&3); RSC, Adventures with the Painted People (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); The Twilight Zone (West End); A View from the Bridge (Theatre Royal York and Royal and Derngate Theatres, Northampton); The Comedy of Errors (Royal Shakespeare Company); Macbeth, An Oak Tree, Everyman, War Horse (National Theatre and West End); The Arabian Nights (Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); The Kite Runner (West End, Nottingham Playhouse and Liverpool Playhouse); Any Means Necessary (Nottingham Playhouse); Lardo (Old Red Lion Theatre); The Hairy Ape (The Old Vic); Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare’s Globe); Damascus Aleppo (National Theatre of Scotland at Òran Mór, Glasgow, and Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh); Game of Life (The Yard); The Double (Theatre Royal Bath); I Was A Beautiful Day, Outward Bound and The Fear of Breathing (Finborough Theatre); The Pearl Fisher and Nova Scotia (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh); Mother Courage (Benchtours); The Dead Fiddler (New End Theatre, Hampstead).
Film includes: Saving Christmas Spirit; Medusa Deluxe (EMU/BFI).
Television includes: The Witcher (Netflix); You Don’t Know Me (BBC/Netflix); Surface (Apple TV)
Radio includes: Welcome To Iran (BBC Radio 3).
Julie Legrand, Feste
For Regent’s Park: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Importance of Being Earnest.
Theatre includes: An American in Paris (The Dominion); Gypsy, Fiddler on the Roof (The Savoy); Wicked (The Apollo, Victoria); My Fair Lady (Naples Opera House); Romeo and Juliet, Cymbeline, The Revengers Tragedy, Oedipus, Beauty and the Beast (all for The Royal Shakespeare Theatre); The Duchess of Malfi, The Cherry Orchard, Remembrance of Things Past, Way Upstream, Don Quixote (all for The National Theatre); Arcadia (The Haymarket); See How They Run (The Duchess); The House of Bernarda Alba (The Gielgud).
TV includes: Ludwig; Romantic Getaway; Doctor Who; Call The Midwife; Footballers’ Wives.
Films include: One For The Road; Prick Up Your Ears.
Michael Matus, Toby Belch
Training: RADA.
For Regent’s Park: The Sound of Music.
Theatre includes: 42nd Street (Crossroads Live); Aspects of Love (Lyric Theatre); HEX (National Theatre); Singing in the Rain (UK Tour); La Cage aux Folles (Park Theatre); King Lear (West End); Richard III (Headlong); Broken Glass (Watford Palace); The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre); The Return of the Soldier (Jermyn Street Theatre); The Baker’s Wife (The Union); Lend Me a Tenor (West End); ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (West Yorkshire Playhouse); A Christmas Carol (West End); Oklahoma! (Chichester); The Canterbury Tales and Eastward Ho! (RSC in the West End); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Timon of Athens (Globe); Rough Crossings (Headlong); Imagine This (New London); The Comedy of Errors and The Wizard of Oz (Sheffield Crucible); Martin Guerre (West End).
Television includes: Suspect (Disney+ / ITV); The Lazarus Project (Sky); Endeavour (ITV); The Split (ITV); Shakespeare and Hathaway: Private Investigators (BBC); EastEnders (BBC); Invasion (Apple TV); Marilyn Monroe (Netflix).
Film includes: The Crying Game; A Muppet Christmas Carol.
Michael has been nominated for a TMA Award, a WhatsOnStage Award, a Helen Hayes Award, a BroadwayWorld Award and an Off West End Award, and jointly won an Olivier for Best Acting Ensemble with RSC.
Evelyn Miller, Viola
Theatre includes: Patriots (Noel Coward Theatre); Cyrano de Bergerac (Harold Pinter Theatre / BAM, New York); Deep Night, Dark Night (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse); The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, Comedy of Errors, Pericles (Shakespeare’s Globe); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Sheffield Crucible); Jane Eyre (National Theatre, UK Tour); Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2, Henry V, The Famous Victories of Henry V (RSC); Swallows and Amazons (Bristol Old Vic); Peer Gynt (Barbican); Romeo and Juliet (Orange Tree Theatre); The Little Prince (Royal Opera House).
Television includes: The Lovers (Drama Republic/Sky); Foundation (Apple TV), Flowers in The Attic – The Origin (A&E Studios/CBS); Doctors (BBC); Holby City (BBC).
Anita Reynolds, Maria
Theatre includes: Romeo & Julie (NT/Sherman); The Importance of Being Earnest (ETT) A Monster Calls (Old Vic/UK/US Tour); The Merry Wives of Windsor/Bartholomew Fair (Shakespeare’s Globe); Ear For Eye (Royal Court); Absolute Hell (National Theatre); Hang (The Other Room); The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (Sherman Theatre); Arabian Nights (Sherman Theatre); Horrible Histories (Sherman Theatre); Speechless (Shared Experience); Romeo and Juliet (Sherman Theatre); Measure for Measure (Sherman Theatre); The Move (Made in Wales); Carers (Turning Point); Cinderella (Unicorn Theatre); Forbidden Fruit (Nottingham); Wishful Thinking (Hijinx); Dealing with Feelings (London Theatre); How High is Up (Theatre Centre); Mirror Mirror (Theatre Centre).
Television includes: The One That Got Away; Mother’s Day; The Light In the Hall; Somewhere Boy; The Pembrokeshre Murders; In My Skin; Relik; Keping Faith; Casualty; Stella; Holby City; Gwaith Cartef; Talking to the Dead; Being Human; Caerdydd; Belonging; Dau Dy A Ni; Nice Day for a Welsh Wedding; Doctors; The Story of Tracy Beaker; Does; Bay College; Nuts and Bolts; Pobol Y Cwm; The Bench; The Hull Project.
Film includes: Grappling; G Flat; Wild Geese; I Used To Be Famous; Telling Tales; Sweet 16; Rain; Paradise Grove.
Radio includes: The Garden Centre; Station Road.
Matthew Spencer, Andrew Aguecheek
Matthew trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and he has worked extensively throughout Theatre and Screen. His credits include:
Theatre includes: The White Factory (Marylebone Theatre); The Woman in Black (West End, Fortune Theatre); Animal Farm (Birmingham Rep); Amadeus (National Theatre); 1984 (Playhouse Theatre and International Tour); This Happy Breed (Theatre Royal, Bath); The Invisible Man (Queen’s Theatre); Macbeth (Orange Tree Theatre); Sleuth (Watermill Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Headlong); The Busy Body (Southwark Playhouse); Tartuffe (Watermill Theatre and Tour); War Horse (National Theatre).
Television includes: Trying (BBC studios/Apple TV); The Girlfriend Experience (Amazon Prime).
Film includes: Magpie (55 films); The Man You’re Not (FMW Films); Alice (Ruby Films/Film 4); The Runner (Emperor’s New).
Katherine Toy, Valentine/Priest
Theatre includes: The Borrowers (Theatre by the Lake, Keswick); The Man in the White Suit (Wyndhams and Bath); Much Ado about Nothing (Rose Theatre, Kingston); Coriolanus, Vice Versa, Salome (RSC); As You Like it, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Stig of the Dump (Storyhouse Chester); The Snow Queen (New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme); Cinderella (Derby Theatre); Brief Encounter (Torch Theatre, Milford Haven); Merlin (Theatre Royal, Northampton); The Goodenoughmumsclub (UK tour); Suitcase 1938 (Hope Street Productions); 3Witches (Hoopla and Belgrade Theatre, Coventry); Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cyrano de Bergerac (Grosvenor Park, Chester); The Prince and the Pauper (Unicorn Theatre); Treasure Island (Watermill Theatre, Newbury); Caucasian Chalk Circle (Shared Experience); Macbeth (Southwark Playhouse); Pool Piece (Oily Cart); Life of Galileo, Cyrano de Bergerac, The False Servant (National Theatre); Wild Orchids (Chichester Festival Theatre).
Music includes: The Virtuosos; Nicetoy; Ideal Condition tour with Paul Hartnoll; The Shtetl Superstars; Table for Sinners; The Johnson Famiy and Anna 254 and the Gardenists.
Jon Trenchard, Fabian/Musical Director
Training:London Academy of Performing Arts
Theatre includes: The Comedy About A Bank Robbery (Mischief Theatre); Vice Versa, Salome, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC); Two Noble Kinsmen (Shakespeare’s Globe); She Stoops To Conquer, A Government Inspector (Northern Broadsides); The Bolds, Baddies The Musical (Unicorn Theatre); Fiddler On The Roof (Music & Lyrics); Swallows & Amazons, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bristol Old Vic); Oh What A Lovely War! (Northern Stage); Sunset Boulevard, Mack & Mabel (The Watermill Theatre); The Taming Of The Shrew, Twelfth Night, The Merchant Of Venice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Comedy of Errors, Richard III (Propeller).
TV/Film includes: The Da Vinci Code, My Family.
Harry Waller, Curio/Officer
Theatre includes: Oliver! (Leeds Playhouse); Love’s Labour’s Lost, Much Ado About Nothing (RSC/West End); The Christmas Truce, Wendy & Peter Pan (RSC); Puffs (New World Stages, Off-Broadway); America is Hard to See (Life Jacket Theatre, NYC/Underbelly, Edinburgh); King Lear (Shakespeare Forum, NYC); The Way of the World, Hobson’s Choice (Sheffield Crucible); Miss Nightingale (New Wolsey Theatre & tour); Parkway Dreams, The Brontës of Dunwich Heath & Cliff (Eastern Angles); The History Boys (West Yorkshire Playhouse & UK tour); Sondheim’s Saturday Night (Jermyn Street Theatre/Arts Theatre).
Harry is a Co-Founder of Bard City, with Owen Horsley. Alongside running Shakespeare workshops there, he has composed music for several Shakespeare in a Week projects.
Voiceover credits include: Talking Bulldog (Bulldog Skincare USA “Goodest Man” commercials).
CREATIVE TEAM
Basia Binkowska, Set Designer
Basia Bińkowska is a theatre designer based between London and Poland.
Before completing theatre design course in the UK, she trained in fine arts in her native Poland. She is the Overall Winner of the Linbury Prize for Stage Design 2017 with the winning design for Lyric Hammersmith’s production of othellomacbeth.
Upcoming Productions include: Twelfth Night (Regent’s Park Open Air); Bluebeard from Bartok – La Danse des morts (Opera National de Lorr); Women as Lovers (Norrlandsoperan AB).
Recent credits include: Cinderella & Poppea (English Touring Opera); Macbeth (English Touring Theatre); Pagliacci and Gianni Schicchi (Nevill Holt Opera); Watch on the Rhine (Donmar Warehouse); SM – Syn Marnotrawny (touring Poland 2022), Vader en Moedertje (Theatre Bellevue, Amsterdam/Grand Theatre, Groningen, Netherlands); La bohème (Nevill Holt Opera); Il Piccolo Principe (Teatro Alla Scala, Milano); Love and Other Acts of Violence (Donmar Warehouse); Arianie (Narodowy Teatr Start, Kraków); ONGOING (Young Vic : Taking Part); Under my Barbie Duvet, Ivan and the Dogs (Young Vic); Where do we go Next? (Bunker Theatre); Talking Heads (Watford Palace Theatre); Mephisto [a Rhapsody] (Gate Theatre); Crooked Dances (Royal Shakespeare Company); Acts of Resistance (Headlong Theatre & Bristol Old Vic); Wolfie (Theatre503); Blood Knot (Orange Tree Theatre); othellomacbeth (Lyric Hammersmith & HOME Manchester).
Rachel Bown-Williams and Ruth Cooper-Brown for Rc-Annie, Fight and Intimacy Directors
Rc-ANNIE Ltd, established in 2005 by Rachel Bown-Williams and Ruth Cooper-Brown, is the UK’s leading Dramatic Violence and Intimacy Company.
Theatre credits include: The Duchess of Malfi, A Midsummer Nights Dream, The Tempest, Hakawatis, Midsummer Mechanicals, I, Joan, Henry VIII, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Emilia, Othello, Boudica, Lions and Tigers, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night (Shakespeare’s Globe); A Midsummer Nights Dream, The Empress, Julius Caesar, Richard III, Henry VI: Rebellion, The Wars of the Roses, King John, Measure for Measure, The Taming of the Shrew, Tartuffe, The Duchess of Malfi (Royal Shakespeare Company); Bronco Billy (Charing Cross Theatre); Macbeth (Donmar Warehouse); Minority Report (Nottingham Playhouse); Great Expectations (Royal Exchange Manchester); The Boys from the Blackstuff (Liverpool Royal Court/Stockroom and National Theatre); The Pillowman (Duke of York Theatre); It’s Headed Straight Towards Us (The Park Theatre); Linck & Mülhahn, ‘Night Mother (Hampstead Theatre); Noises Off (Theatre Royal Bath/West End); Oklahoma (Young Vic/West End); Newsies (Wesley Troubadour); Baghdaddy (Royal Court Theatre); James IV (Raw Material/Edinburgh Festival Theatre); Never Have I Ever; Crazy for You, The Taxidermist’s Daughter, Plenty (Chichester Festival Theatre); As You Like It (CBBC and Shakespeare’s Globe); The Scandal at Mayerling (Scottish Ballet); Lucia di Lammermoor, Theodora (Royal Opera House); The Father and the Assassin, The Welkin, Three Sisters, Anna, When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other, Peter Pan, The Threepenny Opera, The James Plays (co-production with National Theatre of Scotland/Edinburgh International Festival) and Cleansed (National Theatre); To Kill A Mockingbird (West End)
Ryan Dawson Laight, Costume Designer
For Regent’s Park: La Cage aux Folles (2023).
Theatre includes: My Son’s A Queer (Lyceum Theatre, Broadway); Burlesque (Manchester Opera House); The Nutcracker for Drew McOnie (Southbank Centre); My Son’s A Queer But What Can You Do (West End – New Ambassadors, Garrick Theatre, Edinburgh and Turbine Theatre); A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain (Gate Theatre); 2022 Roundabout Season (Paines Plough – Edinburgh and Tour); My Brilliant Friend (National Theatre, Associate Costume Design for Soutra Gilmore); 10 shows for CYFT including The Jungle Book (Chichester Festival Theatre); Frankenstein’s Monster Is Drunk And The Sheep Have Jumped All The Fences… and Department Story (Big Telly- Belfast International Arts Festival); Over 25 shows for Creation Theatre as Associate Designer; Torch Song Trilogy (Turbine Theatre, dir. Drew McOnie); for Le Gateau Chocolat: Duckie (Royal Festival Hall), Icons (Edinburgh Festival), Black (Unity Theatre Liverpool/Soho Theatre) and Le Gateau Chocolat (Menier Chocolate Factory); HMS Pinafore, Chess, Blondel and The Mikado (Union Theatre National Tours).
Dance includes: Until We Sleep for Botis Seva (Sadler’s Wells and International Tour); Neighbours for Brigel Gjoka, Rauf “RubberLegz” Yasit & Ruşan Filiztek created in collaboration with William Forsythe (Sadler’s Wells and International Tour); A Tale of Two Cities (Lost Dog/Ben Duke – International Tour), Speak Volumes, Quartier Paradis for Alessandra Seutin (NYDC/Sadler’s Wells), Botis Seva’s Good Youts Walk (Tour), Botis Seva’s BLKDOG (Sadler’s Wells, Olivier Award Best New Dance 2019); Blak Whyte Gray (Boy Blue/Barbican, Olivier Award Nomination 2018); REDD (Boy Blue/Barbican Theatre); Madhead (NYDC/Sadler’s Wells); Wasteland, Coal (Gary Clark Company, UK Theatre Award for Achievement in Dance); Toro, Mariposa, Ham and Passion (DeNada Dance Theatre); Drew McOnie’s Drunk (Leicester Curve/Bridewell Theatre); Je Suis (Aakash Odedra Company/Lillian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells); Ruffle (Carlos Pons Guerra/Rambert Dance/Lowry Theatre); Hear Hear (Deaf Men Dancing, Sadler’s Wells).
Kate Godfrey, Voice and Text Director
Kate was head of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s voice and text department from 2015-2021.
Theatre includes: The Ocean at the end of the Lane (National Theatre and tour); Prima Facie (West End and Broadway); The Crucible (West End, Gielgud); Old Friends (West End, Gielgud); A Christmas Carol (Nottingham Playhouse and West End); The Enfield Haunting, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC) and The Great Murder Mystery (Lost Estate Productions)
James Hassett, Associate Sound Designer
For Regent’s Park: La Cage aux Folles; Robin Hood: The Legend. Re-written; Once On This Island; Antigone; 101 Dalmations; Carousel; Romeo and Juliet; Jesus Christ Superstar (also at the Lyric House Chicago/Barbican); Evita; Hansel and Gretel; Little Shop Of Horrors; As You Like It; Turn Of The Screw; On The Town
Theatre includes: Orpheus in the Underworld; The Man of La Mancha; Carousel (ENO); Myth The Rise and Fall of Orpheus (Other Palace); Sunny Afternoon (Harold Pinter); Hetty Feather (Vaudville); We Will Rock You (Dominion); Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens (Leicester Square Theatre); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Palladium). As Sound Designer: A Chorus Line; The Beautiful Game (Arts Ed). As Associate Sound Designer: Jesus Christ Superstar (UK Tour); The Last Five Years (Southwark Playhouse); Aladdin (Churchill Theatre).
Daniel Hay Gordon, Movement Director
Daniel’s work as a movement director and choreographer spans dance, opera, theatre and film. He has collaborated with a broad range of artists and independent organisations as well as companies such as The Royal Ballet (Covent Garden), Staats Opera Berlin, The Hollywood Bowl (Los Angeles), Landestheater Passau (Germany), Nevill Holt Opera, Aldeburgh Music Festival, The Print Rooms, Tanzkompagnie Theater St.Gallen (Switzerland), Blind Summit, Akademi, Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Anjali Dance Company, the BBC and The Fritz Koenig Museum of Sculpture (Germany).
Daniel co-directs Thick & Tight with Eleanor Perry. They have presented their work at Sadler’s Wells, London International Mime Festival, The Place, Royal Festival Hall, Barbican, Wilton’s, V&A and The Tate as well as internationally. Their work continually focuses on queerness and the intersection of marginalised communities. They are currently Associate Artists with The Lowry and Artists in Residence at the Philharmonia Orchestra. Thick & Tight were recently nominated for best Independent Dance Company by the Critics Circle Award.
Lotte Hines, Casting Director
For Regent’s Park: The Tempest reimagined for everyone aged 6 and over (2023); As You Like It (2018); Pride & Prejudice (2016); To Kill a Mockingbird (2013).
Theatre includes: Macbeth (ETT); Mlima’s Tale (Kiln); Never Have I Ever, The Vortex, Mom, How Did You Meet The Beatles? (Chichester Theatre); Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Haymarket/Lyric Hammersmith/ Sheffield Crucible); Harry Potter and The Cursed Child (Sonia Friedman Productions); Influencer (short film) (Young Vic/Financial Times); Romeo and Juliet; Let The Right One In, Nora – A Doll’s House, The Mountaintop, Glee & Me (Royal Exchange Manchester); Closer, Jack and the Beanstalk (Lyric Hammersmith); The Forest (Hampstead Theatre); Data (Sonia Friedman Productions/Financial Times); Ivan and the Dogs, Things of Dry Hours (Young Vic); The Dark (Oval House/UK Tour); Hole (Royal Court Theatre); The Wolves (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Meek (Headlong).
Lotte worked in Royal Court Casting Department 2008 – 2014.
Cory Hippolyte, Associate Director
For Regent’s Park: The Tempest reimagined for everyone aged 6 and over (2023).
As Director: Cory trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and since graduating work in theatre includes: for Rutgers Conservatory at Shakespeare’s Globe, Twelfth Night, Comedy of Errors, Anthony and Cleopatra as Assistant Director and will be Directing their upcoming production of Much Ado About Nothing. As Assistant Director Hansel & Gretel and at Chichester Theatre Festival, Regents Park Open Air and The Unicorn.
Cory also works as a facilitator for The Unicorn Theatre, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Yard, Half Moon, Soho Theatre, writing and co-directing devised shows for The Kiln Youth Theatre Companies.
As an Actor:
Film includes: Wings (selected for London Film Festival 2023).
Television includes: African Queens; Njinga (Netflix)
Theatre: King Lear (Globe).
Owen Horsley, Director
Owen is Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company and Associate Director of Cheek By Jowl.
Theatre includes: Henry VI: Rebellion, The War of the Roses, Maydays, Salome, The Famous Victories of Henry V (Royal Shakespeare Company); Linck & Mülhahn (Hampstead Theatre); Dorian (Reading Rep); Diana in Concert (Eventim Apollo); Hamlet (CSC, New York); Miss Littlewood, Boundless as The Sea (RSC/Cunard); Henry V (Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre); The Picture of Dorian Gray (Watermill Theatre); The Richard Project (American Academy); Outside on the Street (Arcola Theatre/Edinburgh Festival); Edward II (St Andrew’s Crypt); See What I See (St Clements); The Duchess of Malfi (Southwark Playhouse/UK Tour); This Restless House (Drama Centre); Into The Woods, Uncle Vanya, The Two Noble Kinsmen (RWCMD); Antony and Cleopatra, Lysistrata, As You Like It (GSMD); All’s Well That Ends Well (Stella Adler); ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore (Co-Director, Cheek By Jowl Tour).
Opera includes: La Cenerentola (Nevill Holt); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Garsington); Don Giovanni (LaMaMa, New York).
Owen created Bard City in 2016, offering Shakespeare training in New York and London as well as presenting innovative versions of his plays.
Sam Kenyon, Composer & Musical Supervisor
Sam Kenyon is a writer, composer and teacher based in London. He wrote the book, music and lyrics for Miss Littlewoodwhich premiered at the RSC in 2018. His first novel, I Am Not Raymond Wallace was published by Inkandescent in 2022. He is currently adapting Les Liaisons Dangereusesas a musical. He read English Literature at Cambridge University before training in Musical Theatre at the Royal Academy of Music.
Composer/Lyricist credits include: Vice Versa, A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Play for the Nation, The Christmas Truce (RSC); Playing for Time (Sheffield Crucible); The Borrowers (Northern Stage, Winner of Best Show for Children & Young People, UK Theatre Awards 2013); The Glass Slipper (Northern Stage); Best Friends & Butterflies (Winner of Best Show for Young People at the 2000 Vivian Ellis Awards). Sam was commissioned by the BBC to write a verse-narration book for Kurt Weill & Ira Gershwin’s The Firebrand of Florence(Barbican Theatre/Capriccio Records).
Directing credits include: How the Vote was Won (Union Theatre); Oh What a Lovely War (Co-director: Northern Stage & National Tour, nominated for Best Musical Production and Best Performances in a Musical TMA Awards 2011).
As Musical Supervisor: Playing for Time (Sheffield Crucible); The Glee Club(Cast in Doncaster); Close the Coalhouse Door (Northern Stage & National Tour); Swallows & Amazons(Bristol Old Vic, West End & National Tour); Oh What a Lovely War (Northern Stage & National Tour).
Performing credits include: Merrily we Roll Along (Watermill Theatre); Amadeus (Wilton’s Music Hall); Sweeney Todd (Watermill & West End); Sunset Boulevard (Comedy Theatre, West End); As You Like It (Young Vic & Wyndham’s); Les Justes, Ion (The Gate); Macbeth, The Othello Music (BAC).
Film : Victoria & Abdul (Stephen Frears, 2017); Venus (Roger Michell, 2006).
Aideen Malone, Lighting Designer
For Regent’s Park: Carousel (2021).
Theatre includes: Dracula (National Theatre Scotland); Tess of the d’Ubervilles (Peacock Theatre); Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons (Pinter Theatre); You Bury Me, Wonder Boy (Bristol Old Vic); Duet For One (Orange Tree); The Clothes They Stood Up In (Nottingham Playhouse); Running With Lions (Lyric Hammersmith); Hamlet (Young Vic); Old Bridge (Bush Theatre); A Kind Of People (Royal Court); Death of a Salesman (Young Vic & Piccadilly Theatre); A Monster Calls (Old Vic & Bristol Old Vic); Brighton Rock and A View From A Bridge (York Theatre Royal); La Strada (The Other Palace); Jane Eyre and Peter Pan (National Theatre & Bristol Old Vic); Fiddler On The Roof / Conquest To The North Pole (Liverpool Everyman); Hetty Feather (Duke of York); Napoleon Disrobed and The Strange Tale of Stan Laurel and Charlie Chaplin (Told By An Idiot); A Raisin in the Sun (Sheffield Theatre).
Musical credits include: Now Is Good (Storyhouse); Talent (Sheffield Theatre); Worst Witch (Vaudeville).
Dance credits include: Outwitting The Devil and Kaash (Akram Kahn Co); Darbar Festival (Sadlers Wells); Raft (GED); Unkindest Cut (Sadhana); Time Over Distance Over Time (Liz Roche); La Tete (Jasmin Vardimon).
Opera credits include: Ariodante, Turn of the Screw, The Marriage of Figaro, A Midsummers Night’s Dream, Mary Queen of Scots, Cosi Fan Tutte, Jenufa and Tosca (English Touring Opera).
Architectural credits include: Sadler’s Wells East Foyer.
Max Pappenheim, Sound Designer
Theatre includes The Night of the Iguana (Noel Coward Theatre); Cruise (Duchess Theatre); A Doll’s House Part 2, The Way of the World (Donmar); Henry V (Shakespeare’s Globe); Village Idiot, One Night in Miami (Nottingham Playhouse); Anthropology, Nineteen Gardens, Blackout Songs, Sea Creatures (Hampstead Theatre); Hamlet (Bristol Old Vic/BBC Four); The Children (Royal Court/Broadway); Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen, Old Bridge (Bush Theatre); Ophelias Zimmer (Royal Court/Schaubühne).
Opera and Ballet includes The Marriage of Figaro (Salzburg Festival); Miranda (Opéra Comique, Paris); Hansel and Gretel (BYO/Opera Holland Park); Scraww (Trebah Gardens); Carmen: Remastered (ROH/Barbican).
Radio includes Home Front (BBC Radio 4). Awards include Off West End Award for Sound Design (Old Bridge).
Associate Artist of The Faction and Silent Opera.
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REGENT’S PARK OPEN AIR THEATRE
Established in 1932, the multi-award-winning Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre is one of the largest theatres in London (at a capacity of 1,304). Passionate about producing popular, enriching and unexpected theatre that provides a lens into the here and now, the scale and ambition of our productions together with our magical outdoor setting, makes us unique in the capital’s cultural landscape. Every year we welcome over 150,000 people to our 20-week summer season.
Drew McOnie assumed the role of Artistic Director in January 2024, taking over from Tim Sheader, and will programme the 2025 season onwards. James Pidgeon was appointed Executive Director in 2021.
Over the last fifteen years, our productions have won seven Olivier Awards, ten WhatsOnStage Awards, and four Evening Standard Awards. We were named London Theatre of the Year in 2017 by The Stage, and received the Highly Commended Award for London Theatre of the Year in 2021. Our productions have toured the UK, and have transferred to both the West End and the United States. Our 2016 revival of Jesus Christ Superstar is currently touring North America for the second time, and commenced a UK tour in September 2023.
As a registered charity that receives no regular public subsidy, we rely entirely on earned income and charitable contributions. Nevertheless, we have introduced 33,000 tickets at £15 across the whole of 2024’s summer season, our BREEZE scheme enables those aged 18-25 to buy tickets for £10, and we regularly work with local charities. Each year, on average, we subsidise tickets for 6,000 school pupils.
Food and drink plays a significant role in the Open Air Theatre experience, with our in-house bars and restaurants including Covered Dining (recently certified as a Sustainably Run Restaurant), The Grill and The Pizza Oven. We also have our own picnic lawn and the West End’s longest bar!
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre has become one of the most independently sustainable and financially successful producing theatres in the country, and we’re proud to embark on the next stage of our vision with ever-increasing artistic ambition and entrepreneurial spirit.
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2024 SEASON AT A GLANCE
A Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production
BEAR SNORES ON
Until 21 April 2024
Access performances:
Relaxed: Saturday 6 April, 2pm and Thursday 11 April, 11am
BSL Interpreted: Tuesday 16 April, 1pm
Age Recommend: 4+
Tickets from: £12.50
A Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production
TWELFTH NIGHT
3 May – 8 June 2024
Access performances:
Captioned: Friday 31 May, 7.30pm
BSL Interpreted: Thursday 6 June,7.30pm
Audio Described & Touch Tour: Saturday 8 June, 2pm
Age Recommend: 12+
Tickets from: £15
A Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Roald Dahl Story Company and Leeds Playhouse production
THE ENORMOUS CROCODILE17 May – 8 June 2024
Access performances:
BSL Interpreted: Wednesday 5 June, 10.15am
Audio Described & Touch Tour: Friday 7 June, 1.45pm
Age Recommend: 4+
Tickets from: £15
A Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production
THE SECRET GARDEN
15 June – 20 July 2024
Access performances:
BSL Interpreted: Tuesday 9 July, 7.45pm and Wednesday 17 July, 7.45pm
Relaxed: Sunday 14 July, 5pm
Captioned: Friday 19 July, 7.45pm
Audio Described & Touch Tour: Saturday 20 July, 2.15pm
Age Recommend: 10+
Tickets from: £15
A Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF27 July – 21 September 2024
Access performances:
BSL Interpreted: Tuesday 3 September, 7.45pm
Captioned: Friday 6 September, 7.45pm
Audio Described & Touch Tour: Saturday 7 September, 2.15pm
Age Recommend: 12+
Tickets from: £15
ON TOUR
David Ian for Crossroads Live and Work Light Productions present
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
UK Tour until August 2024
Runaway Entertainment present
101 DALMATIONS
Reimagined from the 2022 Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production
UK Tour from June 2024