A Streetcar Named Desire

Director

Seán is a director from Manchester.

He was previously Resident Assistant Director at the Donmar Warehouse and Trainee Artistic Director at Sheffield Theatres and Paines Plough.

Selected directing credits include: The History Boys (Theatre Royal, Bath/UK tour), Quiz (Chichester Festival Theatre/Wessex Grove/Jonathan Church Productions), Nuclear Children (Ladbroke Hall/Roundhouse), Queers (Old Vic).

He has worked extensively as an associate for directors including Nicholas Hytner, Matthew Warchus, Josie Rourke and Polly Findlay, and for theatres including the National Theatre, Old Vic, Bridge Theatre, English Touring Theatre, Edinburgh International Festival, Manchester International Festival, Rose Theatre, Kingston and Park Avenue Armory, New York.

Movement Director

Mandy is a movement director, intimacy coordinator and choreographer based in London.

She works across, stage, screen, opera, mo cap/gaming and animation.

Trained: Safe Sets (Intimacy), Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and London Contemporary Dance School.

Recent credits include: Holiday (Drayton Arms), Barber of Seville (Neville Holt), Beyond the Deepening Shadows (Shaw at the Tower of London), Make Me a King (BFI Flare), Road and Threepenny Opera (both at Guildhall).

Coming up: Elon Musk: Lost in Space.

Costume Designer

Elliott is a Canadian set and costume designer working across theatre, opera, and education.

He is a graduate of Edinburgh’s Scenehouse Programme and he holds a BFA in Theatre Design from the University of British Columbia.

Theatre highlights: Cartas Vivas (Cervantes Theatre/ Madrid transfer) and Midnight: The Musical (The Union Theatre/Seoul transfer).

Opera highlights: La Canterina and The Boatswain’s Mate (Buxton International Festival), Dewi in the Deep (Royal Ballet and Opera), Rip Van Winkle (Gothic Opera), and Candide (Blackheath Halls Opera).

Lighting Designer

Adam is a Mountview alumni.

Since graduating he has gone on to light: Scissorhandz (Southwark Elephant), Stewart Lee The Wulf-Man (UK tour), The Mountaintop (Leicester Curve/UK tour), G (Royal Court), Pop Off, Michelangelo (Gilded Balloon Big Yin), Diva Live From Hell (Underbelly Belly Button), Fun at the Beach and Then, Now & Next (Southwark Playhouse), Sappho (Southwark Elephant), Legends The Divas (UK tour), Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch (Southwark Elephan/UK tour), Flowers for Mrs Harris (Riverside Studios), Annie Get Your Gun (Lavender Theatre), We Need New Names (UK tour), Gone Too Far (Theatre Royal Stratford East), From Here to Eternity (Charing Cross Theatre) and Flashdance (European tour).

Sound Designer

Russell is a composer and sound designer from Lancashire.

His credits include: Last Quiz Night on Earth (New Vic), Sleeping Beauty (Storyhouse), The History Boys (UK tour), Brassed Off (Theatre by the Lake), Brief Encounter, No Pay? No Way! and Beginning (Royal Exchange), Nuclear Children (Pleasance Edinburgh), Faustus: That Damned Woman (Storyhouse), Under Milk Wood (Sherman Theatre), Sorter (Swansea Grand), Edith (The Lowry), Lysistrata (Lyric Hammersmith), Groan Ups (Vaudeville West End/UK tour).

Russell’s compositions have also been played on BBC Radio 1, 2and 6 Music.

Director
Seán Linnen (he/they)

Movement Director
Mandy Gordon

Intimacy Director
Sachi Kimura

Set & Costume Designer
Elliott Squire

Lighting Designer
Adam King

Sound Designer
Russell Ditchfield

Fight Choreographer
Marcello Marascalchi

Voice Coach
Abby Sheridan

Assistant Director
Cece Walker *

Production Manager
Cory Duffill

Deputy Production Manager
Connie Yip

Costume Supervisor
Kate Page

* MA Theatre Directing student
† Dip/FdA/BA/PG Dip Stage Management Technical Production student

Stage Manager
Finley Wilson †

Deputy Stage Manager
Amy Ashcroft † (she/they)

Assistant Stage Managers 
Joe Doyle †
Kayla Warham †
Ruby Orrin †

Production Electrician
Mimi Storey †

Production Sound Engineer
Alex Adshead †

Lighting Programmer
Kian Reeves †

Lighting Operator / LX 2
Joseph Lofthouse †

LX 1
Terry Steventon †

Scenic Construction Manager
Hannah Smith 

Scenic Art Manager
Steven Peters

* MA Theatre Directing student
† Dip/FdA/BA/PG Dip Stage Management Technical Production student