Robert's recent work includes Oedipus (West End; Broadway) starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, Manhunt (Royal Court Theatre), and Player Kings (West End), which starred Ian McKellen as Falstaff.
His productions Judas, Children of Nora, and Oedipus opened at the International Theater Amsterdam, where, until 2023, he was the inaugural Ibsen Artist in Residence. His monologue condensation Enemy of the People starred Ann Dowd at Park Avenue Armory and was one of the first new pieces of theatre to play in New York post the pandemic shutdown.
In six years at the Almeida, five of his eight productions transferred to the West End, and four to New York. These included his adaptations of The Wild Duck, Mary Stuart (also West End and National tour), Uncle Vanya, Oresteia (also West End; Schauspiel Stuttgart; Park Avenue Armory), and 1984 (co-created with Duncan Macmillan, also Broadway; West End; national and international tours). As a director, his productions included Hamlet starring Andrew Scott (also West End, Park Avenue Armory; and broadcast on BBC2); The Fever and Mr Burns. His final production at the Almeida was The Doctor, which played last summer at Park Avenue Armory, in the West End in 2022, and in repertoire at both the Burgtheater in Vienna and Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, as well as in numerous new productions across the globe.
Hildegard Bechtler
Hildegard Bechtler is an award-winning designer based in London and working internationally.
Recently: Oedipus, Dr Strangelove, Player Kings, Four Quartets (West End); Manhunt (Royal Court); Judas, Nora and Oedipus (Internationaal Theatre Amsterdam); The Doctor (Almeida, West End, Park Avenue Armory, Burgtheater Vienna, and Adelaide Festival); and Hamlet/Oresteia and Enemy of the People (Park Avenue Armory).
Her work in theatre includes designs for the Almeida Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Old Vic, Donmar, and extensively in the West End, including Top Hat, Oresteia (both Olivier-nominated for best set design), Mary Stuart, The Doctor, Hamlet, Consent, Arcadia, and The Crucible.
Theatre in the US includes: Arcadia; Primo; The Seagull (Broadway); My Name is Rachel Corrie (Off-Broadway); The Sunshine Boys (Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles).
Her many credits at the National Theatre include Antony and Cleopatra, Hansard, After the Dance (Olivier Award), and Iphigenia at Aulis (Evening Standard Award nomination).
Credits for the Royal Court include: The Seagull, Krapp’s Last Tape, My Name Is Rachel Corrie, and Blasted.
Work in opera and ballet includes: Don Giovanni at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence; the world premieres of The Cellist for the Royal Ballet, Clara for Zürich Ballett and Thomas Adès’ The Exterminating Angel at the Metropolitan Opera, Salzburger Festspiele, and Royal Opera Covent Garden; La damnation de Faust directed by Terry Gilliam for English National Opera (winner of South Bank Sky Arts Opera Award); and Dido and Aeneas and Acis and Galatea choreographed and directed by Wayne McGregor for the Royal Opera House and La Scala Milan. She won the Australian Green Room Award for Best Opera Design for Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at Sydney Opera House.
Jon Clark
Lighting Designer
Jon is a two-time Tony award-winning lighting designer. He has designed extensively in the West End, on Broadway and with many companies in the UK and internationally.
Recent theatre includes: Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Tony, Drama Desk & Outer Critics Circle Awards; Broadway & West End); Evita, Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest, Mrs Warren’s Profession, Hello Dolly!, Romeo & Juliet (West End); A Doll’s House (Broadway); The Lehman Trilogy (Tony Award; National Theatre, Broadway, West End, LA, San Francisco & Sydney); The Inheritance (Olivier Award; West End, Broadway & Young Vic); Betrayal, The Shark Is Broken (West End & Broadway); Cyrano de Bergerac (BAM & West End); The Effect (National, The Shed); The Importance of Being Earnest (National & West End); Dear England (National, West End & UK Tour), The Motive & The Cue (National & West End); The Maids, The Fear of 13 (Donmar); The Jungle (Young Vic, West End, St Ann’s Warehouse); A Streetcar Named Desire (Young Vic & St Ann’s Warehouse); King Charles III (West End & Broadway).
Opera includes: Hamlet (The Met Opera, Glyndebourne); The Exterminating Angel (The Met Opera, Royal Opera Covent Garden, Saltzburg Festival); Pique Dame (Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich); Krol Roger (Royal Opera Covent Garden, Opera Australia); Written on Skin (Festival Aixen- Provence, Royal Opera Covent Garden & internationally); Lucia di Lammermoor, Krol Roger, L’Etoile (Royal Opera Covent Garden); Macbeth (Royal Danish Opera & Palau de les Arts, Valencia); La Boheme (Dutch National Opera & ENO); Orpheus & Eurydice (ENO); Footfalls/Neither (StaatsOper, Berlin).
Dance includes: LORE for Wayne McGregor (La Scala, Milan); The Cellist for Cathy Marston (Royal Ballet).
Tom Gibbons
Sound Designer
Tom Gibbons is a Sound Designer and Composer for theatre, musical theatre, film and live installation.
Theatre credits include:
All My Sons (Wyndhams Theatre);
Every Brilliant Thing (Soho Place Theatre);
Manhunt (Royal Court);
The Seagull (Barbican Theatre);
Oedipus (Wyndham’s, Greece, Broadway);
Long Day’s Journey into Night, Good, All About Eve (West End);
Dear England, Coriolanus, The Antipodes, Hedda Gabler, Sunset At The Villa Thalia, The Red Barn (National Theatre);
Home, I’m Darling (Theatre Clwyd, West End) People, Places and Things (National Theatre, Off Broadway);
Jesus Christ Superstar (DeLaMar, Amsterdam);
The Enormous Crocodile (Regent’s Park, Leeds Playhouse), Here We Are (The National Theatre, The Shed, New York);
Best of Enemies (Noël Coward Theatre, Young Vic);
Grey House (Lyceum, Broadway);
Hamlet, Oresteia, The Doctor (Park Avenue Armory, Almeida, West End);
Animal Farm (UK tour);
West Side Story, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Broadway);
Judas, Oedipus, The Doctor (International Theatre Amsterdam);
Our Town (Regent’s Park Open Air);
The Doctor, Wild Duck (Almeida & West End);
Cabaret (Göteborg Opera);
Madness of King George III (Nottingham Playhouse);
Hexenjagd (Theater Basel);
Mr Burns, 1984 (Almeida, West End, Broadway);
Fanny and Alexander, The Lorax (Old Vic);
A View From the Bridge (Young Vic, West End, Broadway);
Obsession (International Theatre Amsterdam, Barbican);
Life of Galileo, Happy Days, A Season in the Congo, Disco Pigs (Young Vic);
Les Miserables (Wermland Opera, Sweden);
The Crucible (Walter Kerr Theatre, Broadway);
Anna Karenina (Manchester Royal Exchange);
The Moderate Soprano, Elephants (Hampstead);
White Devil, As You Like It (RSC);
Translations, Plenty (Sheffield Crucible);
After Life, The Absence of War, Romeo & Juliet (Headlong);
Lion Boy (Complicite);
Venus in Fur (Theatre Royal Haymarket);
Henry IV, Julius Caesar (Donmar, St Ann’s Brooklyn).
Tom Gibbons is a Sound Designer and Composer for theatre, musical theatre, film and live installation.
Theatre credits include: All My Sons (Wyndhams Theatre); Every Brilliant Thing (Soho Place Theatre); Manhunt (Royal Court); The Seagull (Barbican Theatre); Oedipus (Wyndham’s, Greece, Broadway); Long Day’s Journey into Night, Good, All About Eve (West End); Dear England, Coriolanus, The Antipodes, Hedda Gabler, Sunset At The Villa Thalia, The Red Barn (National Theatre); Home, I’m Darling (Theatre Clwyd, West End) People, Places and Things (National Theatre, Off Broadway); Jesus Christ Superstar (DeLaMar, Amsterdam); The Enormous Crocodile (Regent’s Park, Leeds Playhouse), Here We Are (The National Theatre, The Shed, New York); Best of Enemies (Noël Coward Theatre, Young Vic); Grey House (Lyceum, Broadway); Hamlet, Oresteia, The Doctor (Park Avenue Armory, Almeida, West End); Animal Farm (UK tour); West Side Story, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Broadway); Judas, Oedipus, The Doctor (International Theatre Amsterdam); Our Town (Regent’s Park Open Air); The Doctor, Wild Duck (Almeida & West End); Cabaret (Göteborg Opera); Madness of King George III (Nottingham Playhouse); Hexenjagd (Theater Basel); Mr Burns, 1984 (Almeida, West End, Broadway); Fanny and Alexander, The Lorax (Old Vic); A View From the Bridge (Young Vic, West End, Broadway); Obsession (International Theatre Amsterdam, Barbican); Life of Galileo, Happy Days, A Season in the Congo, Disco Pigs (Young Vic); Les Miserables (Wermland Opera, Sweden); The Crucible (Walter Kerr Theatre, Broadway); Anna Karenina (Manchester Royal Exchange); The Moderate Soprano, Elephants (Hampstead); White Devil, As You Like It (RSC); Translations, Plenty (Sheffield Crucible); After Life, The Absence of War, Romeo & Juliet (Headlong); Lion Boy (Complicite); Venus in Fur (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Henry IV, Julius Caesar (Donmar, St Ann’s Brooklyn).
Ash J Woodward
Video Design
Ash J Woodward is a video designer and filmmaker.
He has designed and animated content for large-scale shows in the West End, on Broadway and around the world. His work includes hand-drawn, 2D and 3D animation, cinematography, visual effects and design work for other live performance genres such as live music, exhibitions and art installations. Ash J Woodward is an associate artist at Squint Theatre Company.
His work in theatre as video and projection designer includes: Paddington The Musical for the West End, Ballet Shoes, Coriolanus, Roald Dahl’s The Witches, Dear England and Hex at the National Theatre; Manhunt at the Royal Court; Fangirls at the Lyric Hammersmith; The Artist at Theatre Royal Plymouth; Harry Potter and the Cursed Child worldwide; Local Hero at Chichester; Famous Five the Musical at Theatr Clwyd; The 47th at the Old Vic; Can I Live? for Complicité; The Beauty Parade at Wales Millennium Centre; Armadillo at The Yard; Molly for Squint Theatre; The Glass Menagerie at Duke of York’s; and Patriots at Noël Coward and on Broadway.
Hildegard Bechtler
Hildegard Bechtler is an award-winning designer based in London and working internationally. Recently: Oedipus, Dr Strangelove, Player Kings, Four Quartets (West End); Manhunt (Royal Court); Judas, Nora and Oedipus (Internationaal Theatre Amsterdam); The Doctor (Almeida, West End, Park Avenue Armory, Burgtheater Vienna and Adelaide Festival); and Hamlet/Oresteia and Enemy of the People (Park Avenue Armory).
Her work in theatre includes designs for the Almeida Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Old Vic, Donmar, and extensively in the West End including Top Hat, Oresteia (both Olivier-nominated for best set design), Mary Stuart, The Doctor, Hamlet, Consent, Arcadia and The Crucible. Theatre in the US includes: Arcadia; Primo; The Seagull (Broadway); My Name is Rachel Corrie (Off-Broadway); The Sunshine Boys (Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles). Her many credits at the National Theatre include Antony and Cleopatra, Hansard, After the Dance (Olivier Award) and Iphigenia at Aulis (Evening Standard Award nomination). Credits for the Royal Court include: The Seagull, Krapp’s Last Tape, My Name Is Rachel Corrie, Blasted.
Work in opera and ballet includes: Don Giovanni at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence; the world premieres of The Cellist for the Royal Ballet, Clara for Zürich Ballett and Thomas Adès’ The Exterminating Angel at the Metropolitan Opera, Salzburger Festspiele, and Royal Opera Covent Garden; La damnation de Faust directed by Terry Gilliam for English National Opera (winner of South Bank Sky Arts Opera Award); and Dido and Aeneas and Acis and Galatea choreographed and directed by Wayne McGregor for the Royal Opera House and La Scala Milan. She won the Australian Green Room Award for Best Opera Design for Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at Sydney Opera House.
Many of the productions she has designed have been filmed for cinema and television including: Dr Strangelove with Steve Coogan; Four Quartets, Antony and Cleopatra with Ralph Fiennes; Hansard with Lindsay Duncan and Alex Jennings; Hamlet with Andrew Scott; Primo with Anthony Sher; Richard II, Hedda Gabler and Electra with Fiona Shaw; and Krapp’s Last Tape with Harold Pinter.