PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS PLAYED ITS FINAL PERFORMANCE ON 10 AUGUST

Duncan MacMillan

Writer

Duncan Macmillan is an award-winning writer and director. His work has been performed throughout the world, including at the National Theatre, the Royal Court, Old Vic, Almeida, Barbican, St Ann’s Warehouse, Melbourne Theatre Company, Berliner Ensemble, Schaubühne Berlin, Hamburg Schauspielhaus, Burgtheater Wien, Vesturport, Kansallisteatteri, Nationaltheatret Oslo, at the Salzburg Festival, in the West End and on Broadway. His screen work has been shown at the London and Berlin film festivals, on the BBC, Netflix and HBO. Plays include People, Places and Things, Lungs; Every Brilliant Thing; Rosmersholm (adapt. Henrik Ibsen); 1984 (adapt. George Orwell, co-written and co-directed with Robert Icke); City of Glass (adapt. Paul Auster) and 2071 (co-written with Chris Rapley); The Forbidden Zone; Wunschloses Unglück (adapt. Peter Handke); and Reise durch die Nacht (adapt. Friederike Mayröcker), which was selected for Theatertreffen and Festival d’Avignon and awarded the Nestroy Preis for Best German Language Production. People, Places and Things, 1984 and Rosmersholm were all nominated for Olivier Awards.

Jeremy Herrin

Director

Jeremy Herrin’s work in theatre includes After Life, The Visit, or the old lady comes to call, The Plough and the Stars and Statement of Regret at the National Theatre; People, Places & Things for the National Theatre and Headlong, also in the West End, on UK tour and at St Ann’s Warehouse; This House at the National Theatre, Chichester Festival and in the West End; A Mirror at the Trafalgar and the Almeida); Ulster American at Riverside Studios; Best of Enemies at the Young Vic and in the West End (South Bank Show Award for Best Theatre Production); The Dumb Waiter and All My Sons at the Old Vic; Labour of Love in the West End (Olivier Award for Best Comedy); Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies for the RSC and in the West End and on Broadway (Evening Standard Award for Best Director); Junkyard and The Absence of War for Headlong; Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme for Headlong at the Abbey Dublin and on international tour; The Tempest and Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe; Noises Off on Broadway, at the Lyric Hammersmith and in the West End; Haunted Child, The Heretic, Kin, Spur of the Moment, Off the Endz, The Priory (Olivier Award for Best Comedy), Tusk Tusk, The Vertical Hour and That Face at the Royal Court; The House They Grew Up In and Uncle Vanya at Chichester; The Moderate Soprano in the West End and at Hampstead; Marble at the Abbey, Dublin; The Family Reunion at Donmar Warehouse; Blackbird at Market Theatre, Johannesburg; and The Glass Menagerie, The Nether, That Face, South Downs, Absent Friends and Death and the Maiden in the West End. Jeremy Herrin was previously Deputy Artistic Director of the Royal Court, Associate Director at Live Theatre Newcastle upon Tyne, and Artistic Director of Headlong. With Alan Stacey and Rob O’Rahilly, he is a Founding Director of Second Half Productions.

Bunny Christie

Set Designer

Bunny Christie is a multi-award-winning production designer. She has worked extensively at the National Theatre and designed shows for all three of its theatres and devised many shows. She also initiated the National Theatre Design Bursary which supports two emerging designers each year. Her set and costume designs include The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (awards include Olivier and Tony awards) at the National Theatre, in the West End and internationally; People, Places and Things at the National Theatre; the immersive production of Guys and Dolls and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Bridge; Company (Tony and Olivier awards for Best Design) on Broadway and in the West End; Ink (Tony nomination) in New York; all-women Shakespeare season at St Ann’s, New York. Work in opera includes the world premiere of Andre Previn’s Brief Encounter for Houston Grand Opera, where she also designed set and costumes for Tosca. Bunny Christie was awarded an OBE for services to the UK Theatre Industry and was given an Honorary Doctor of Letters from St Andrews University. She is a member of Scene Change, a Collective of Theatre Designers. Upcoming productions include London Tide at the National Theatre and a New York transfer of Tammy Faye.

Christina Cunningham

costume Designer

Christina Cunningham is a costume designer working in theatre, opera, and dance. Work in theatre includes A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Alys Always and Julius Caesar at the Bridge; Chess at ENO; Grief is the Thing with Feathers for Black Box Theatre and O’Reilly Theatre, Ireland; A Pacifist’s Guide to a War on Cancer for the National Theatre and Complicité; People, Places and Things and As You Like It at the National Theatre; The Kid Stays in the Picture and The Nether at the Royal Court; Chimerica at the Almeida and in the West End; The Master and Margarita, A Disappearing Number, Shun-kin, Measure for Measure, A Minute Too Late, Pet Shop Boys Meet Eisenstein, Strange Poetry, The Elephant Vanishes, The Noise of Time, Light and Mnemonic with Complicité; The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui for the National Actors’ Theatre, New York. Opera includes Wozzek and  The Rake’s Progress (also Dutch National Opera) at Aix-en-Provence Festival; Carmen at Scottish Opera; The Handmaid’s Tale at Royal Danish Opera; The Snow Maiden and Hansel & Gretel at Opera North; Tristan & Isolde for English National Opera; world premiere of Benjamin, dernière nuit at Lyon Opera; The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and  The Importance of Being Earnest at the Royal Opera House; A Dog’s Heart at Dutch National Opera, ENO, La Scala and Lyon Opera; Nabucco for Nancy Opera and Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier. Dance includes the world premiere of Ballet Spiegelungen Verweile Doch for Saarländisches Staatstheater; In Absentia at Sadler’s Wells; Sun for the Hofesh Schechter Company at Sadler’s Wells and on international tours; Just for Show for DV8 at the National Theatre and on international tour. Film includes The Walled Garden (Best Costume Design nomination at the 2022 British Short Film Awards).

Matthew Herbert

music

Matthew Herbert is an award-winning composer, artist, producer and writer whose work ranges from more than 30 albums (including Bodily Functions) to scores for Oscar-winning films (A Fantastic Woman), as well as music for the National Theatre, Broadway, TV series (Noughts and Crosses and The Responder for BBC), games (Lego) and radio. He has performed solo, as a DJ and with various musicians including his own 21-piece big band and 100-piece choir all round the world, from Sydney Opera House to the Hollywood Bowl and created installations, plays and opera. He has remixed artists such as Quincy Jones, Ennio Morricone, Serge Gainsbourg and Mahler and been a long-time collaborator of Bjork’s. He has had work commissioned by the Royal Opera House, the BBC and Deutsche Grammophon amongst many others. His work ONE PIG followed the life of a pig from birth to plate and beyond. His debut book The Music was published by Unbound in 2018 and he is the creative director of the New BBC Radiophonic Workshop. In 2021 a documentary by Enrique Sanchez Lansch about Herbert and listening entitled A Symphony of Noise was released. Shot over ten years, the film follows Herbert through 20 or so of his projects as an electronic musician, artist and sound activist. He also recently completed his PhD about the ethics of composing with sound and his next experimental project is based on hearing more than one billion sounds.

Tom Gibbons

Sound Designer

Tom Gibbons’ recent work includes Dear England (also West End), The Antipodes, Home, I’m Darling (also West End and on tour), People, Places and Things (also West End and on tour; Olivier Award for Best Sound Design), Hedda Gabler, Sunset at the Villa Thalia and The Red Barn at the National Theatre; Jesus Christ Superstar at DeLaMar Theatre, Amsterdam; Here We Are at The Shed, New York; Dead Man Walking at The Metropolitan Opera; Best of Enemies at the Noël Coward and the Young Vic; Grey House at the Lyceum Theatre Broadway;  Good and All About Eve in the West End. Hamlet, Oresteia and The Doctor at Park Avenue Armory, the Almeida and in the West End; Animal Farm on UK tour; West Side Story and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? on Broadway; Cabaret at Göteborg Opera; Judas, Oedipus, The Doctor and Obsession (also at the Barbican) at International Theatre Amsterdam; Our Town at Regent’s Park; The Doctor and Wild Duck at the Almeida and in the West End; The Madness of George III at Nottingham Playhouse; Hexenjagd at Theater Basel; Mr Burns and 1984 at the Almeida, in the West End and on Broadway; Fanny and Alexander and The Lorax at the Old Vic; A View from the Bridge at the Young Vic, in the West End and on Broadway; Life of Galileo, Happy Days, A Season in the Congo and Disco Pigs at the Young Vic; Les Misérables at Wermland Opera, Sweden; The Crucible at Walter Kerr, Broadway; Anna Karenina at the Royal Exchange, Manchester; The Moderate Soprano and Elephants at Hampstead; White Devil and As You Like It at the RSC; Translations and Plenty at Sheffield Crucible; After Life, The Absence of War and Romeo & Juliet for Headlong; Lion Boy for Complicité;  Henry IV and Julius Caesar at the Donmar Warehouse and St Ann’s, Brooklyn; The End of History, Pah La, The Woods and Love Love Love at the Royal Court; Venus in Fur at Theatre Royal Haymarket; Good and All About Eve in the West End.

Andrzej Goulding

Video Designer

Andrzej Goulding is an award-winning video designer who has worked in the UK and internationally, across many forms of performance. His work in theatre includes People, Places and Things (Drama Desk and KOI Award USA nominations), The Tell-Tale Heart, The Suicide and From Morning to Midnight for the National Theatre; &Juliet on Broadway, in the West End and in Australia (WhatsOnStage Award); Groundhog Day at the Old Vic and on Broadway (WhatsOnStage nomination); Just for One Day, SYLVIA and Eureka Day at the Old Vic; 42 Balloons at the Lowry; Miss Saigon at Sheffield Crucible ((WhatsOnStage nomination); I Should Be So Lucky on UK tour; Message in a Bottle in the West End and on world tour; Life of Pi on tour, in the West End and on Broadway (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Olivier, UK Theatre and Broadway World awards, and a KOI Award UK nomination); Burn at Edinburgh International Festival; The Da Vinci Code on UK tour; The Drifters Girls in the West End and on UK tour; Room at Stratford East, on Broadway and in Toronto (Theatre and Technology Award and a nomination for an Off West End Award); The Unreturning (also set design; nomination for an Off West End Award) on UK tour; Pressure in the West End, on UK tour and in Toronto; The Girl on the Train on UK tour and in the West End; Henry V and Coriolanus at Donmar Warehouse and broadcast by National Theatre Live; 1984 for Northern Ballet and Sadler’s Wells; Frost/Nixon at Sheffield Crucible; Carousel at the Barbican; Kiki’s Delivery Service at Southwark Playhouse; and The Unfriend and The Time Traveller’s Wife (WhatsOnStage nomination) in the West End.

Polly Bennett

Movement

Polly Bennett is a movement director, choreographer and director. Work for theatre includes Opening Night at the Gielgud; Patriots and House of Shades at the Almeida; Cyrano de Bergerac at the Playhouse; Botticelli in the Fire and Hysteria at Hampstead; Peter Gynt (also Edinburgh International Festival), Rutherford and Son, The Lehman Trilogy (also West End and Park Avenue Armory), The Great Wave, The Deep Blue Sea, People, Places and Things (also St Ann’s Warehouse, New York and in the West End) and Pomona (also Royal Exchange and Orange Tree) at the National Theatre; and Sweat at the Donmar Warehouse and in the West End. TV includes Black Doves, The Listeners, Feud 2: Capote and the Women, Kaos, Nolly, Wolf, History of a Pleasure Seeker, The Great (series one, two and three), The Crown (series three, four, five and six), One Normal Night and Killing Eve. Film includes Eden, Deadpool 3, Bob Marley: One Love, Saltburn, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Elvis, Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody, Chevalier, 007: No Time to Die, Mogul Mowgli, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Little Stranger and Stan & Ollie (as assistant choreographer).

Jessica Ronane CDG CSA

Casting

Jessica Ronane CDG’s casting for theatre includes The Caretaker (upcoming) at Chichester; Little Foxes (upcoming) at the Young Vic; Pygmalion, The Dumb Waiter, Faith Healer, Endgame/Rough for Theatre II, A Christmas Carol, Lungs, A Very Expensive Poison, Present Laughter, All My Sons, The American Clock, SYLVIA, A Monster Calls, Mood Music, Fanny & Alexander, Woyzeck, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, King Lear, The Caretaker, The Master Builder, Dr Seuss’s The Lorax, The Hairy Ape, Future Conditional, Girl from the North Country (also West End) and The Divide (also Edinburgh International Festival) at the Old Vic; Stranger Things at the Phoenix; Long Day’s Journey into Night at Wyndham’s; Ulster American at Riverside Studios; A Mirror at the Almeida and in the West End; The Lehman Trilogy for the National Theatre at the Gillian Lynne, The Glass Menagerie at the Duke of York’s and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold at Chichester Festival Theatre (upcoming) . TV includes Julie (upcoming), True Detective:Night Country and The Amazing Mr Blunden. Film includes Parliament Square (upcoming), Mickey 7, Queer, Emma, Longbourn, Rumpelstiltskin and The Kid Who Would Be King. Casting for videogames includes The Architect. Jessica Ronane is Casting Director for Second Half Productions and Casting Consultant for the Old Vic.

Wendy Spon

Original Casting

Wendy Spon was previously Head of Casting at the National Theatre, from 2006 to March 2018. Prior to this, she was a freelance casting director for Young Vic, Almeida, Playful Productions, Talkback Thames Studios; Deputy Head of Casting at the National Theatre 1995 to 2000; and Casting Director for Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, from 1990 to 1995. Wendy Spon was previously an Associate of Sheffield Theatres for Artistic Director, Robert Hastie. Spon has cast shows for directors Rufus Norris, Nicholas Hytner, Dominic Cooke, Marianne Elliott, Simon Godwin, Richard Eyre, Howard Davies, Jeremy Herrin, Michael Longhurst, Bijan Sheibani, Katie Mitchell, Nadia Fall, Ivo van Hove, James Macdonald, Patrick Marber, Robert Icke, Carrie Cracknell, Joe Hill-Gibbins, Rupert Goold, Ian Rickson, Roger Michell, Trevor Nunn, David Lan, Thea Sharrock, Anthony Page, Paul Miller, Nancy Meckler, Gregory Doran, Michael Rudman, Michael Blakemore, John Caird and Jeremy Sams.

Hazel Holder

Company Voice Work

Hazel Holder’s work in theatre includes The Hot Wing King (upcoming), Grenfell: in the Words of Survivors, Death of England: Closing Time, Trouble in Mind, The Crucible, Death of England: Delroy, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Rockets and Blue Lights, Death of England, Small Island, Nine Night, Barber Shop Chronicles, Angles in America, Les Blancs and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom at the National Theatre; Ulster American at Riverside Studios; ear for eye and Pigs & Dogs at the Royal Court; The Homecoming, Best of Enemies, Fairview, Death of a Salesman and The Convert at the Young Vic; The Human Body, The Doll’s House: Part 2, Marys Seacole and Constellations at the Donmar; Jitney at the Old Vic; Richard II at Shakespeare’s Globe; and Sunset Blvd., Cock, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Glass Menagerie, 2:22 A Ghost Story, Uncle Vanya, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical, Dreamgirls and The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? in the West End. TV and film include The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, The Silent Twins, Silo, Small Axe and The Power.