PHIL WILLMOTT adapter and director

Phil Willmott is a playwright, director and actor and trained at Rose Bruford College.

He was recently shortlisted to take over from Sam Mendes as Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse. He continues as an Associate Director at Battersea Arts Centre and Artistic Director of The Steam Industry. His projects have won several London Fringe Awards, The Brook Atkinson Award in New York, 2 Guinness awards for "Theatrical Ingenuity", a Pearson television prize and been nominated for a Peter Brook award.

Phil has directed over thirty productions around the UK from Shakespeare to cutting edge new writing including recent hit productions of Rent (Dublin), Titus Andronicus, Ring Round The Moon, The Grapes of Wrath, Germaine Greer's Lysistrata, The King and I, Crime and Punishment, Angels in America, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Sound of Music and his own musical adaptations of A Christmas Carol (also in the USA) and Around The World in Eighty Days. Other work includes many productions on the fringe, most noteably at the Finborough Theatre and The Man In The Moon, a studio season for The Open Air Theatre, Regents Park, development of three new musicals with the Royal National Theatre Studio, five productions at the Drill Hall and staging the London International Film Awards at The Cafe Royale. He has had eight plays successfully produced including the three sell-out critically acclaimed Dick Barton Special Agent comedies for The Warehouse Theatre, Croydon.

HANSJORG SCHMIDT lighting designer

Hansjorg is a lighting designer and production manager whose work has covered a wide range of modern theatre practice. He teaches lighting design and stage management at Goldsmiths College. He is currently studying for an MSc in Environmental Lighting Design at the Bartlett School, University College London.

Recent work with director, Phil Willmott, and the Steam Industry: Ring Round The Moon at the King's Head Theatre, Titus Andronicus and Around the World in Eighty Days at the Battersea Arts Centre, Pal Joey at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich and the Nottingham Playhouse.
With director, Rhys Thomas, and Mainbrace Theatre at the Deptford Albany: The Immigrant Song by Mick Martin and Steven Berkoff's Metamorphosis, as well as fifteen productions at the Brockley Jack Theatre.
Other recent productions include Becket by Jean Anouilh at Southwark Playhouse (Dir. Spencer Hinton), The Passing-Out Parade at Westminster Theatre (Dir. Gareth Tudor-Price) and Here's What I Did With My Body One Day at the old Strand Tube Station (Dir. Andy Lavender).
Current projects: Henry VIII at the Bridewell Theatre (Dir. Phil Willmott), A Perfect Ganesh at the Palace Theatre, Watford (Dir. Tim Luscombe) and Othello at Southwark Playhouse (Dir. Spencer Hinton).
Hansjorg is lighting consultant for L'Ouverture, a new arts centre on Trinity Buoy Wharf.

ADAM KEEPER sound designer

Adam is an associate member of the Steam Industry and has worked extensively with Phil Wilmott. Shows include Titus Andronicuis, Uncle Ebeneezer (BAC), Grapes of Wrath, Crime and Punishment (Finborough) and Ring Around the Moon (King's Head).
Other designs include work for Street Furniture Theatre Company and Mainbrace Theatre Company among many others.
As one fourth of wireframe he created and performed live sound for North Hill Relay (BAC, CPT), at home (Visions 2000, Starzagoria- Bulgaria), as well as sound for On Line, Paranoid in the Sentimental City (Finborough) and Lusiads (Museum of).

SUZANNA ROSENTHAL LTD producer

Currently Production Administrator for Carl Rosa Opera Company, Suzanna has run venues on the London and Edinburgh Fringes for the past five years. From 1997 to 2000 she was Director of the Etcetera Theatre in Camden Town and from 1999 to 2001, Deputy Director of the C venues group of theatres in Edinburgh.

Previous productions include: the Northern Exposures Season at the Etcetera; Danusia Iwaszko’s internationally acclaimed Still Life in London and in Edinburgh; the sell-out production of Love’s Labour’s Lost directed by David Cottis at the Etcetera and The Butterfly Ball & The Grasshopper’s Feast at the Wimbledon Studio. Future projects include the North America/Canadian tour of the Edinburgh Fringe institution Shakespeare for Breakfast.

Last year Suzanna was awarded one of the coveted New Producers Bursaries by the Theatre Investment Fund in order to produce Henry VIII.