Alice by Heart

Director

Kate trained at Birkbeck College and on the National Theatre Studio Directors course. She has been a Creative Associate at the Bush Theatre and an Assistant and Associate Director for The Gate Theatre, The Almeida, The Opera Group, Pentabus Theatre, the Bush Theatre, Opera North and for the Michael Grandage Company.

She joined Girl From the North Country as Associate Director in 2019 and she is a Senior Performance Tutor at Mountview.

Directing credits include: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (Watermill Theatre), Anything Is Possible If You Think About It Hard Enough (Southwark Playhouse/Vault Festival), The Importance of Being Earnest (Watermill Theatre), No Place for a Woman (Theatre 503), Strong Arm (Underbelly/Old Vic New Voices), The Hairy Ape (Southwark Playhouse), Rigor Mortis (Papatango/Finborough), Crossed Keys (Eastern Angles), Bedbound (Lion and Unicorn), Stoopud Fucken Animals (Traverse Theatre), Anne Boleyn (RWCMD).

Musical Director

Ellen is a musical director, pianist and arranger and trained in musical direction at Mountview. MD credits include: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Leeds Playhouse/UK/Ireland tour), Waitress (UK/Ireland tour), Talent (Sheffield Crucible), Sleeping Beauty (King’s Lynn Corn Exchange), Aladdin (Ferneham Hall), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (88 London Road, Brighton).

Assistant MD credits include: all-female workshop of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Ryan Hugh Mackey Productions at CSSD). Arrangements: Pirates of Penzance – Rebooted (Brighton Fringe Festival), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Reduction for two pianos and cello), MD and arranger: for Puma (launch of Ladies UEFA Cup 2022 football strips) and The Starr Trust Charity Winter Ball (Hilton Hotel, Brighton).

Choreographer

Claira is a choreographer, dance facilitator, associate director and movement director for stage, screen and large-scale events. Claira is the creator and Artistic Director of Rumour Mill Cabaret and POD – Post Olympic Dance.

She is a workshop leader for ‘Connections’ at the National Theatre. Credits include: Teenage Dick (Donmar Warehouse), Working (Sharjah Performing Arts Acadamy), The Beautiful Game, Spongebob the Musical, The Wedding Singer, Disney’s Freaky Friday, Lysistrata Jones (Arts Educational), Flashdance (Italia Conti), The Prince and The Pauper (The Watermill Theatre), The Goodbye Girl (The Gatehouse), See What I Want to See (Jermyn Street Theatre).

Large scale choreography and movement: The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee (Windsor Castle), Lego VIDIYO World Tour, London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies (London), Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies including audition tour (Russia), Saudi Cup (Queens Park FC), FA Cup Final – Opening Ceremony 2018 (Wembley Stadium) and Islamic Solidarity Games 2017 (Azerbaijan).

Set & Costume Designer

PJ designs sets, costumes and video content for theatre having trained in Professional Production Skills at Guildford School of Acting.

Design credits include: Falsettos (The Other Palace), Intra Muros (Park Theatre), All In A Row and Doubt, A Parable (Southwark Playhouse), Fanatical (Playground Theatre), A Little Princess (Royal Festival Hall), The Secret Garden (Barn Theatre), Outlaws To In-Laws (King’s Head), The Dover Road (Jermyn Street Theatre), The Pillowman (Aberdeen Arts Centre), Alice in Wonderland (Guildford Shakespeare Company).

Lighting Designer

Jack is a freelance production electrician and programmer from Suffolk, currently based in London.

Recent production credits include: Flowers for Mrs Harris (Riverside Studios), She Loves Me, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Earthquakes In London (Mountview), What I Hear I Keep (Talawa Studio).

Recent LD & ALD credits include: Absence, 9 to 5, Allocated (Mountview), Rapunzel (Theatre Peckham), Jack and the Beanstalk (Artrix).

He has just finished training at Mountview, graduating with a BA (Hons) degree in Theatre Production Arts with a lighting specialism.

Sound Designer

London-based Ella trained at Rose Bruford College. She is a board member at the Association for Sound Design and Production.

Credits include: Power of Sail (Menier), The Lion Inside, Drop the Dead Donkey, The Lemon Table and I Think We Are Alone (UK tours), The Unfriend (Wyndham’s, West End), Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Lyric Theatre/UK tour/Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York), A Christmas Carol (Nottingham Playhouse/Alexandra Palace), Sam and her Amazing Book of Dinosaurs (Hong Kong Cultural Centre), Bleak Expectations (Criterion Theatre), 101 Dalmatians (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Ava: The Secret Conversations (Riverside Studios), Dogs of Europe (Barbican Centre), The Wicker Husband (Watermill Theatre), Rare Earth Mettle and Inside Bitch (Royal Court), Piaf (Nottingham Playhouse), Noises Off (Garrick Theatre), Jellyfish, Sometimes Thinking (National Theatre), Black&White (Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmed Cultural Centre, Kuwait), Trying it On (RSC/Royal Court), The Life (English Theatre Frankfurt).

Other credits include: Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Cello Concerto (Symphony Centre, Chicago/Lincoln Centre, New York), As Co-Sound Designer: Letter to a Man (Robert Wilson and Mikhail Baryshnikov, international tour).

Fight Director
Marcello Marascalchi

Voice Coach
Sterre Maier


Assistant Director
Xiaoyao Luo


Assistant Musical Director
Rachel Wells**

** MA Musical Direction student

Production Manager
Cory Duffill

Costume Supervisor
Jessie McKenzie


Stage Manager
Megan Hartley


Deputy Stage Manager
Alexandra King † 

Assistant Stage Managers
Callum Mack † 
Oliver Pollard


Production Electrician
Gareth Morgan

Assistant Production Electrician
Amy Goater

Production Sound Engineers
Ollie Brennan
Wayne Harris

LX Programmer
Ryan Littler † 

Lighting Technicians
Jasper Anderson † 
Ben Spreckley † 

Sound 1 
Lou Venn

Sound 2
Nick Searle

Sound 3 
Chloe Hogwood

Followspots
Jackson Sykes
Jamaal Swaby

Scenic Construction Manager
Hannah Smith

Scenic Art Manager
Steven Peters

Lead Scenic Artist
Alex Holl

Scenic Artists / Prop Makers
William Coyne
Amy Kennington

† Lighting/Sound/Stage Management student

MD / Conductor / Keys 1 
Ellen Campbell

Assistant MD / Keys 2 
Rachel Wells**

Guitar 1
Connor Baxter


Guitar 2 
James Gale


Drums
Isis Dunthorne

Cello
Pippa Mason

** MA Musical Direction student