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Director

Eloise is a theatre and opera director, making collaborative, process driven work.

She has recently directed a new production of Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia for English Touring Opera and upcoming engagement’s include assisting Paul Carr for the Netherlands Touring Opera and creating a new version of Henry Purcell’s Fairy Queen.

This is Eloise’s first staging with Mountview since completing her training in Theatre Directing in 2011.

Movement Director

Tom trained with Jacques Lecoq and has worked as an actor, movement director and teacher for over 25 years.

Alongside period drama, street theatre, soap operas and clowning he has worked extensively in collaborative and devised theatre and new writing, most recently in James Graham’s Best of Enemies (West End), Hugo Blick’s The English (TV) and Ridley Scott’s Napoleon (Film).

Alongside his work at Mountview he is currently filming Polite Society written and directed by Peter Glanz.

Set Designer

Jida is a Syrian/Lebanese theatre designer. Her designs have been exhibited by Prague Quadrennial and World Stage Design.

Selected Credits: Penguin, Human Nurture, Funeral Flowers and Complicité Do A-Level Drama (UK tours), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Stafford Gatehouse), How to Break Out of a Detention Centre (Riverside Studios), For a Palestinian (Camden People’s Theatre/Bristol Old Vic), Painkiller (Theatre Royal Stratford East), The Poison Belt (Jermyn Street Theatre) and The 4th Country (Park Theatre).

Associate/Assistant: The Odyssey (National Theatre), Hamlet and The Collaboration (Young Vic).

Set & Costume Designer

Anna trained at RWCMD.

She completed a year with the RSC as Assistant Designer 2018-19, is an associate artist at The Watermill Theatre and was shortlisted for the JMK 2023.

Selected design credits include: Shakespeare’s R&J (Reading Rep), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Sorcerers Apprentice, Indecent Proposal (Southwark Playhouse), The Wicker Husband, Under Milk Wood, Our Town (Watermill), Blue Stockings (Mountview), Ring Ring, Dance Nation (Omnibus), If.Destroyed.Still.True (Hope).

Assistant/Associate credits include: The Flying Dutchman (Opera Up Close), Pride and Prejudice* (*Sort of) (Minack), Purple Snowflake and Titty Wanks (Royal Court), The Boy in the Dress, Measure for Measure, Venice Preserved, Kunene and the King (RSC).

Lighting Designer

Hector is a lighting designer for plays, musicals and dance.

He was nominated for an Off West End Award (2020) and received The ETC Award from the Association of Lighting Designers (2017).

Design credits include: High Society (Mill at Sonning), So Here We Are (Arts Ed), Birds and Bees (Sheffield), Dirty Hearts (Old Red Lion), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Union) and Acts of Resistance (Bristol Old Vic).

As Associate credits include: A Streetcar Named Desire (Phoenix), The Doctor (Duke of York’s) and Cyrano de Bergerac (Harold Pinter).

Sound Designer

Matthew has been a sound designer and engineer for the past 15 years, his work has taken him all over the world with shows ranging from fringe festivals, UK and international touring and the West End.

Credits include: Sister Act (UK tour), Cabaret (The Playhouse), Death Drop (The Criterion), Hymn (Almeida), Alice in Wonderland (UK tour), 9 to 5 (The Savoy), Young Frankenstein (The Garrick), Thriller Live (The Lyric), The Producers (international tour), Flashdance (UK and Ireland tour), In the Heights and The Railway Children (Kings Cross Theatre), The Last Five Years (UK tour) and Rent (Edinburgh Fringe).

Voice Coach
Andrea Lewis (she/her)

Assistant Director
Eilidh Evans* (she/her)

* MA Theatre Directing student

Production Manager
Cory Duffill (he/him)

Production Assistant
Maria Guevara**

Costume Supervisor
Kat Stone (she/her)

Stage Manager
Harlee Chevis† (they/them)

Deputy Stage Manager
Dani Jones† (she/her)

Assistant Stage Managers
Rosie Curwen† (she/her)
Neri Traugot† (she/her)

Production Electrician
Ziharie Adams† (he/him)

LX 2
Ben Edwards† (he/him)

Scenic Construction Manager
Hannah Smith

Scenic Art Manager
Steven Peters

Scenic Artists / Prop Makers
Alex Holl‡
Amy Kennington‡

** MA Creative Producing student
† FdA/BA Theatre Production Arts student
‡ Scenic Art and Prop Making student