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JASPER BRITTON

JASPER BRITTON
Simon 1

Previously appeared at Chichester as The Stage Manager in Eurydice and Adolf in The Father (Minerva Theatre). Theatre credits include Elyot in Private Lives (Hampstead Theatre), Creon in Oedipus, Nansen in Fram, Thersites in Troilus and Cressida, The Cat in Honk! (National Theatre), Jean in Rhinoceros (Royal Court Theatre), Henry II in Becket and Michael in Japes (Haymarket Theatre), Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew (RSC/Queen's Theatre), Caliban in The Tempest (Shakespeare's Globe), Solyony in Three Sisters (Birmingham Rep), title role in Richard III (Regent's Park), Blind Man in The Visit (National Theatre/Complicite), Faulkland in The Rivals (Holland Park), King of France in King Lear (The Old Vic). Television credits include Nostrodamus, My Dad's the Prime Minister, Murder in Mind, Highlander, Ever Decreasing Circles. Films include Morris: A Life with Bells On, Blackbeard, The New World.

NICHOLAS LE PREVOST

NICHOLAS LE PREVOST
Simon 2

Previously appeared at Chichester as Captain Brazen in The Recruiting Officer (Festival Theatre) and Jorgen Tesman in Hedda Gabler (Minerva Theatre). Recent theatre credits include title role in Uncle Vanya (Peter Hall), Frank Foster in How the Other Half Loves (Bath and tour), Uncle Willy in The Philadelphia Story and Salieri in Amadeus (The Old Vic), Einstein in Insignificance (Sheffield Crucible and tour), Fuddy Meers (Birmingham Rep and Arts Theatre London), Blood (Royal Court Theatre), Dr Rank in Ibsen's The Wild Duck (Donmar), The Impresario in Mozart's Impresario (London Sinfonetto Mostly Mozart/Barbican), Ribadier in Where There's a Will (Peter Hall tour), Benedict in Much Ado About Nothing (RSC Stratford, Haymarket Theatre, London and Newcastle), Colonel Pickering in My Fair Lady (National Theatre and Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Jacques in As You Like It (Sheffield and Lyric Hammersmith), Pontignac in An Absolute Turkey (Gielgud Theatre). He is a founder member and director of The Wrestling School, a company formed to produce the works of playwright Howard Barker. Television credits include Margaret, Above Suspicion, Midsomer Murders, Psychoville, Half Broken Things, Mary Whitehouse, The Montague Trial, HR, Silent Witness, Life Begins, Poirot - Taken at the Flood, Absolute Power, The Murder Room, Forty Something, My Dad's the Prime Minister, Inspector Morse - A Way Through the Woods, The Borgias, Harnessing Peacocks, Kavanagh QC, The King's Servant, The Vicar of Dibley, Up the Garden Path, Stolen, The Imitation Game, Ghosts of Motley Hall. Films include Made in Romania, Broken Lines, Buy Borrow Steal, The Independent, Gladiatress, Bright Young Things, Being Considered, Land Girls, Shakespeare in Love, Cold Enough for Snow, Letters from the East, Clockwise.

FELICITY KENDAL

FELICITY KENDAL
Simon 3

West End credits include Carla in Minor Murders (Strand Theatre), Amaryllis in Back to Methuselah (National Theatre/The Old Vic), Mara in Clouds (Duke of York's Theatre. Variety Club Best Actress of the Year Award), Annie in The Real Thing, Much Ado About Nothing and Ivanov (Strand Theatre. Evening Standard Best Actress Award), Dorothy in Jumpers, Frances in Made in Bangkok, the title role in Hapgood and Indian Ink (Aldwych), Hidden Laughter (Vaudeville), Tartuffe (Playhouse Theatre), Heartbreak House and Mind Millie for Me (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Waste and The Seagull (The Old Vic), Alarms and Excursions and Humble Boy (Gielgud Theatre), Happy Days (Arts Theatre), Amy's View (Garrick Theatre), Fallen Angels and The Vortex (Apollo Theatre). National Theatre credits include Constanze in Amadeus, Desdemona in Othello, Christopher in On the Razzle, Paula in The Second Mrs Tanqueray and Hannah in Arcadia. Television credits include The May Flower and The Frog, Twelfth Night, Boy Meets Girl, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Crimes of Passion, The Dolly Dialogues, Now is Too Late, Deadly Earnest, The Marriage Counsellor, Home and Beauty, Favourite Things, The Camomile Lawn, How Proust Can Change Your Life, The Woodlanders, Edward VII, The Good Life, The Mistress, Rosemary and Thyme. Her autobiography White Cargo was published in 1998. Felicity was created a CBE in 1995.

SIMON GRAY
Author

Simon Gray was born in 1936. He began his writing career with Colmain (1963), the first of five novels, all published by Faber. He is the author of many plays for TV and radio, also films, including the 1987 adaptation of J L Carr's A Month in the Country, and TV films including Running Late, After Pilkington (winner of the Prix Italia) and Emmy Award-winning Unnatural Pursuits. He wrote more than 30 stage plays amongst them Butley and Otherwise Engaged (which both received Evening Standard Awards for Best Play), Close of Play, The Rear Column, Quartermaine's Terms, The Common Pursuit, Hidden Laughter, The Late Middle Classes (winner of the Barclays' Best Play Award), Japes, The Old Masters (his ninth play to be directed by Harold Pinter) and Little Nell, which premiered at the Theatre Royal Bath in 2007, directed by Peter Hall. Little Nell was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006, and Missing Dates in 2008. In 1991 he was made BAFTA Writer of the Year. His acclaimed works of non-fiction are An Unnatural Pursuit, How's That for Telling 'Em, Fat Lady?, Fat Chance, Enter a Fox, The Smoking Diaries, The Year of the Jouncer, The Last Cigarette and Coda. He was appointed CBE in the 2005 New Year's Honours for his services to Drama and Literature. Simon Gray died in August 2008.

HUGH WHITEMORE
Author

Hugh Whitemore was born in 1936. He studied for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where he later became a member of the Council. He began his writing career in British television (contributing to The Wednesday Play, Armchair Theatre and Play for Today) and twice received Writers' Guild Awards. He has also written for American television, receiving Emmy nominations for Concealed Enemies (a miniseries about the Alger Hiss espionage case) and The Final Days (a dramatisation of the Bob Woodward/Carl Bernstein book about the downfall of President Nixon). Recent TV work includes The Gathering Storm a film about Churchill in the 1930s, with Albert Finney and Vanessa Redgrave, which won the 2002 Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing and the Writers' Guild of America Award. A new film about Churchill, Into the Storm, starring Brendan Gleeson and Janet McTeer, will be shown by HBO and BBC television later this year. Movie credits include The Return of the Soldier (an adaptation of the novel by Rebecca West), Mel Brooks' production of 84 Charing Cross Road, Utz (an adaptation of Bruce Chatwin's novel) and Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre. His stage plays include Stevie, Pack of Lies, Breaking the Code, The Best of Friends, It's Ralph, A Letter of Resignation, Disposing of the Body, God Only Knows and a new version of Pirandello's As You Desire Me. These plays have been translated into many languages and produced throughout the world. Hugh Whitemore's work has twice been named Best Single TV drama by the UK Broadcasting Press Guild, he has received the Scripter Award in Hollywood (for 84 Charing Cross Road), the Script Prize at the 1998 Monte Carlo Festival (for his adaptation of A Dance to the Music of Time) and a special Communications Award from the American Mathematical Society (for Breaking the Code). He was the 2003-04 News International Visiting Professor in broadcast media at Oxford University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, London. Sponsored by Hentys Corporate

RICHARD EYRE
Director

As Artistic Director of the National Theatre (1988-97) his productions included Guys and Dolls, Hamlet, Racing Demon, Richard III, Night of the Iguana, Skylight, La Grande Magia, John Gabriel Borkman, King Lear and The Invention of Love. His theatre and opera work since includes Amy's View, The Crucible and Mary Poppins on Broadway, Le Nozze di Figaro in Aix-en-Provence, Vincent in Brixton and The Reporter at the National Theatre, and his own adaptations of Les Mains Sales and Hedda Gabler. His film and television work includes Comedians, Tumbledown, Suddenly Last Summer, The Ploughman's Lunch, Iris, Stage Beauty, Notes on a Scandal, The Other Man and Changing Stages, a six-part look at twentieth century theatre which he wrote and presented. He has published three books, including National Service, a journal of his time at the National Theatre. He has received five Olivier Awards, four Evening Standard Awards, three Critics' Circle Awards and a BAFTA. He was knighted in 1997.

ROB HOWELL
Designer

Theatre credits include The Reporter, Buried Child, Chips with Everything, Troilus and Cressida, Money, Battle Royal and Howard Katz (National Theatre), The Shakespeare Review, The Painter of Dishonour, Little Eyolf, Richard III and The Family Reunion (RSC), Simpatico, Hard Fruit and Real Classy Affair (Royal Court), Tartuffe, The Government Inspector, Vassa, Conversations after a Burial, Lulu (also Kennedy Center Washington), Faith Healer, The Lady from the Sea and Hedda Gabler (also Duke of York's Theatre) (all Almeida), Habeas Corpus, The Fix, How I Learned to Drive, True West, The Glass Menagerie (also Comedy Theatre) and Proof (Donmar), Tom and Clem, Tell Me on a Sunday, The Caretaker and Our House (West End), The Graduate (West End, Australia and on Broadway), Sunset Boulevard (UK tour), True West (Circle in the Square New York), Little Malcolm and his Struggle Against the Eunuchs (Hampstead Theatre and West End), Betrayal (Theatre D'atelier Paris and on Broadway), Simply Heavenly (Young Vic), Peter Pan (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Julius Caesar (Manchester Royal Exchange), Eddie Izzard tours in 1998 and 2000, Endgame (Albery Theatre), Bash (Trafalgar Studios), Boeing Boeing (Comedy Theatre and on Broadway), The Lord of The Rings (Toronto and Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Speed the Plow (The Old Vic) and, most recently, Our House (Birmingham Rep and tour), Her Naked Skin (National Theatre), The Norman Conquests and Complicit (The Old Vic). His opera credits include Turn of the Screw (Welsh National Opera) and Sophie's Choice (Royal Opera House). Rob Howell received the 2000 Olivier Award for Best Set Design for Troilus and Cressida, Vassa and Richard III. He was nominated for Best Costume Design in the same year for Troilus and Cressida and Money and for Best Set Design in 1995 for The Glass Menagerie, for Chips with Everything in 1997 and for The Caretaker in 2001. Our House won the 2003 Olivier Award for Best Musical. In 2006 he received an Olivier Award for Best Set Design for Hedda Gabler as well as being nominated for Best Costume Design for the same production. For The Lord of The Rings in Toronto he received a 2006 Dora Mavor Award for Outstanding Costume Design as well as a nomination for Outstanding Set Design. In 2008 he received Olivier Award nominations for Best Set and Costume Design for The Lord of The Rings. He was nominated for Best Costume Design of a Play in the 2008 Tonys for Boeing Boeing on Broadway and for a 2008 Evening Standard Award for Best Design and a 2009 Olivier Award for Best Costume Design, both for The Norman Conquests.

JON DRISCOLL
Lighting & Projection Designer

Theatre designs include Gethsemane, Her Naked Skin, Fram, A Matter of Life and Death and The Reporter (National Theatre), Midnight's Children (RSC), Frost/Nixon (Donmar and on Broadway), Complicit (The Old Vic), The Lightning Play and Whistling Psyche (Almeida), Darwin in Malibu (Hampstead), Some Girls are Bigger than Others and Lady into Fox (Lyric Hammersmith), Fabulation and Bloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville Inquiry (Tricycle), Whistle in the Dark (Manchester Royal Exchange), Dirty Dancing (Aldwych and internationally), Brief Encounter (Carlton Cinema and on UK tour. Olivier Nomination for Best Design, Critics' Circle and Evening Standard Awards for Best Design), Jerry Springer - The Opera and Our House (Cambridge Theatre and on UK tour), On the Third Day (New Ambassadors), Heroes and Up for Grabs (Wyndham's), Glorious and Life after George (Duchess), When Harry Met Sally (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Dance of Death (Lyric and in Sydney), Eurydice (Whitehall), The Year of the Hiker (Druid Galway), The Ha'penny Bridge (Point Dublin and Cork Opera House), Rebecca, God and Stephen Hawking and Godspell (UK tour). Opera designs include A Midsummer Night's Dream (Linbury Royal Opera House), The Magic Flute (Grange Park Opera), Genoveva (Opera North) and Orfeo (Kent Opera). Dance designs include Arthur Parts I & II (Birmingham Royal Ballet) and The Pulse of Tala (Angika). Jon is a Technical Associate of the National Theatre. He studied Cinematography at the National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield, and Theatre Design at Croydon College of Art.

GEORGE FENTON
Music

George Fenton began writing music for the theatre in 1974 working on productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre and Riverside Studios. Scores include Good, Mother Courage, The Judas Kiss and Othello. Past productions for Richard Eyre include Racing Demon, High Society, Kafka's Dick and the feature films Stage Beauty and Past Caring. His scores for television include The Jewel in the Crown, The Monocled Mutineer, The History Man, Shoestring and Bergerac. He has written music for many of Alan Bennett's plays, films and monologues as well as popular signature tunes including for the BBC News and Newsnight as well as the major documentary series The Trials of Life, Life in the Freezer, Beyond the Clouds, Shanghai Vice, The Blue Planet and Planet Earth. Following the broadcast of The Blue Planet in 2001, for which he won Ivor Novello, BAFTA and Emmy Awards for Best Television Score, he created the show Blue Planet Live! which has toured both in the UK and worldwide, performed by many of the world's leading orchestras. He has composed for a wide variety of feature films, receiving Academy Award nominations for The Fisher King, Dangerous Liaisons and Gandhi and was double-nominated for Cry Freedom for Original Score and Original Song. Other scores include The Madness of King George, Groundhog Day, Shadowlands, Ever After, Anna and the King, Mrs Henderson Presents, Hitch and Fool's Gold, as well as Ken Loach's films including Land and Freedom, My Name is Joe, The Wind that Shakes the Barley and It's a Free World. Recently the Royal Television Society awarded him a Lifetime Achievement Award and he was made a Fellow of the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters. He also won Soundtrack Composer of the Year Award for Planet Earth at the Classical Brit Awards.

JONATHAN SUFFOLK
Sound

Jonathan is Head of Sound at Chichester Festival Theatre and this year will also sound design Hay Fever. His most recent designs at Chichester were Twelfth Night and Office Suite. He recently designed Sleuth for Bill Kenwright at the Theatre Royal Windsor and on tour. Formerly a Sound Designer at the National Theatre, he designed A Little Night Music, Les Parents Terribles, What the Butler Saw, An Inspector Calls, Trelawney of the Wells, Pygmalion, The Children's Hour, Mary Stuart, Broken Glass, Mother Courage and Her Children and Invisible Friends. In the West End he designed the sound for Broken Glass and on Broadway for Indiscretions. Jonathan has previously worked with Richard Eyre on Racing Demon, Macbeth and Murmuring Judges at The National Theatre. Jonathan trained at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

TERRY KING
Fights

Previously at Chichester Fight Director for Nicholas Nickleby, Pravda, Carousel, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, Cabaret, A Small Family Business, The Admirable Crichton, The Miser, Coriolanus, Tovarich, The Power and the Glory, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Festival Theatre), Macbeth, The Waltz of the Toreadors, Tonight at 8.30, In Praise of Love, Doctor Faustus, The Lady's Not for Burning, Hysteria, Aristocrats, The Sea, The School of Night, Point Valaine (Minerva Theatre). For the Royal Shakespeare Company Troilus and Cressida, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Cymbeline, Pericles, Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, Henry V, Hamlet, The White Devil, Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, Othello, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Bite of the Night, Singer, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Henry VI Parts 1, 2 and 3, As You Like It, Macbeth, The Jacobean Season (Swan) and Coriolanus. For the National Theatre Fool for Love, The Murderers, Scenes from the Big Picture, King Lear, Othello, Carousel, Henry V, His Dark Materials, The Riot, Battle Royal, The Talking Cure, London Cuckolds, Ting Tang Mine, The Duchess of Malfi, The Home Coming, Jerry Springer - The Opera, Elmina's Kitchen and Edmund. For the Royal Court Our Country's Good, The Recruiting Officer, The Queen and I, King Lear, Duck, Sore Throats, Search and Destroy, Ashes and Sand, Oleanna, Berlin Bertie, Ourselves Alone and Greenland. Other theatre includes The Fifteen Streets (Coventry/West End), Peter Pan (Leeds), True West, Fool for Love, Caligula and Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Donmar Warehouse), Death of a Salesman and Les Liaison Dangereuses (Bristol), Lysistrata (The Old Vic), Of Mice and Men (Nottingham), On an Average Day (John Crowley), Peribanez (Young Vic) and Macbeth (Edward Hall). Opera and musicals include Porgy and Bess, Otello, Carmen, Martin Guerre, Jesus Christ Superstar, Oliver!, Saturday Night Fever, Spend Spend Spend, West Side Story (West End), Lautrec, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Our House, Billy Elliot the Musical, The Lord of the Rings and Zorro. Television credits include The Bill, Casualty, EastEnders, Broken Glass, A King of Innocence, Fell Tiger, Scold's Bridle, Fatal Inversion, Nerys Glas, Death of a Salesman, The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd, Measure for Measure, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Lucky Jim, Blue Dove and Rock Face.

ANNA LEDWICH
Assistant Director

At Chichester Co-Director of A Christmas Carol, Director of the 2008 Christmas Concerts, Assistant Director on The Cherry Orchard and Six Characters in Search of an Author. Credits as a Director include Lovely and Misfit: A Tennessee Williams Triple Bill (Trafalgar Studios. European Premiere), GBS (Theatre 503. UK Premiere), Roulette (Finborough Theatre. UK Premiere), Horrific Acts for Charity (Roxy Bar and Screen), Poet No 7 (Theatre 503/Dublin Fringe Festival. World Premiere), Yellowing (Harrow Arts Centre/Theatre 503 and Jermyn Street Theatre). As Assistant Director Six Characters in Search of an Author (Gielgud Theatre), In the Club (Hampstead Theatre), The Good Person of Sichuan: Research and Development (Young Vic), Brussels Manifesto (Espace Scarabeus Brussels). Other credits include casting associate for Blackbird (MJE Productions UK tour), image researcher for Disney's The Little Mermaid (Broadway), short-listed for the James Menzies- Kitchen Award (BAC), finalist in The Jerwood Directors Award (Young Vic), member of the Young Vic/Genesis Directors Project and Associate Director of Theatre 503 from 2004 to 2006. Studied acting at Rose Bruford College London (BA Hons) and Creative Arts at the University of Melbourne (BA). Directing master classes with Mike Alfreds (Cambridge University), and Di Trevis (The Workshop. Jerwood Space). Chichester Festival Theatre Trainee Director supported by the Michael and Morven Heller Charitable Foundation.