Tom Kitt received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, two Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Orchestrations, and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Score for Next to Normal. He is also the composer of If/Then (Tony nomination), Almost Famous (Tony nomination), Flying Over Sunset (Tony nomination), High Fidelity (Broadway), Bring it On, The Musical (co-composer with Lin-Manuel Miranda, Broadway), Superhero (Second Stage), Disney's Freaky Friday (Signature Theater D.C), Dave (Arena Stage) among others. As a music supervisor, arranger, and orchestrator, credits include SpongeBob Squarepants, The Musical (Tony nomination), Head Over Heels, Hell’s Kitchen, Jagged Little Pill; Grease Live!, Rise (NBC), American Idiot and the Pitch Perfect franchise.

Brian Yorkey received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as the 2009 Tony Award for Best Score for Next to Normal (Second Stage Theater/Broadway). He was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical for Next to Normal, and his work on the show earned him the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Score. He partnered again with the Next to Normal team on If/Then (Tony Award nominee for Best Score) starring Idina Menzel. He co-wrote the libretto for The Last Ship (Outer Critics Circle Award nomination, with John Logan), with a score by Sting. His musical adaptation of Freaky Friday for Disney Theatricals enjoyed a national tour before being adapted into a Disney Channel Original Movie. Current theatrical projects in development include the original musical Jesus in My Bedroom, with composer Tim Symons. Additional theatre credits include Making Tracks, which has played off-Broadway and regionally, the musical adaptation of Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet, and the play, Book of Jobs with Alex Glover. Brian was the Executive Producer and Showrunner of 13 Reasons Why for Netflix, Paramount Television and Anonymous Content.

Michael Longhurst is the Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse. For the company, direction includes Next to Normal, Private Lives,The Band’s Visit (6 Olivier nominations),Force Majeure, Midnight Your Time (lockdown film), Teenage Dick, Europe, Belleville and the post-pandemic multicast revival of Nick Payne’s Constellations, which helped reopen the West End, broke box office records at the Vaudeville and won the 2022 Olivier Award for Best Revival. His production of Constellations previously ran on Broadway starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson (Samuel J Friedman Theater, for MTC), in the West End starring Sally Hawkins and Rafe Spall (Duke of York’s, Evening Standard Award Best Play) originating at the Royal Court. His Chichester Festival Theatre production of Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori’s Caroline, or Change transferred to Studio 54 for Roundabout Theater on Broadway, via Hampstead Theatre and the West End, with Sharon D Clarke reprising her Olivier Award-winning performance. The Broadway production received three Tony nominations including Best Musical Revival.  Other theatre includes Amadeus featuring the Southbank Sinfonia (National Theatre/NTatHome), The Son (Kiln Theatre/Duke of York’s Theatre), Gloria (Hampstead Theatre), Bad Jews (Theatre Royal Haymarket/Theatre Royal Bath/UK tour & revival at the Arts), They Drink It In The Congo and Carmen Disruption (Almeida Theatre), ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore, The Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare’s Globe), If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet (Off-Broadway for Roundabout), Linda, The Art of Dying, Remembrance Day (Royal Court Theatre), A Number (Nuffield Southampton Theatres/Young Vic), Cannibals (Royal Exchange Theatre), The History Boys (Sheffield Theatres), Dealer’s Choice (Royal & Derngate), The World of Extreme Happiness (NT Shed), Stovepipe (site-specific promenade with the National Theatre, HighTide and Bush Theatre), Midnight Your Time(HighTide), On The Beach (Bush Theatre), On The Record, Gaudeamus (Arcola Theatre), dirty butterfly (Young Vic - winner of the Jerwood Directors Award) and Guardians (Pleasance/Theatre503 - Fringe First Award).

Nigel trained at King’s College London and the Royal Academy of Music.

For the Donmar: The Band's Visit; Looking A Lot Like Christmas; Philip Quast At The Donmar (Divas season); Pacific Overtures and Piaf (Donmar Warehouse & Vaudeville).

As Musical Director includes: Newsies (also Musical Supervisor & Dance Arrangements) (Disney & Runaway); Oklahoma (Chichester Festival Theatre); Follies (National Theatre, including Revival); Caroline, or Change (West End, Hampstead Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre); Fun Home (Young Vic); Follies (National Theatre); The Go-Between (West End); Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); My Fair Lady; Company  (Sheffield Crucible); Ragtime (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Spring Awakening (European Premiere, Lyric & Novello); La Cage Aux Folles (Chocolate Factory & Playhouse); Lauren Kennedy In Concert (Chocolate Factory); Les Misérables (Conducting The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra);  Acorn Antiques (UK Tour); The Last Session (UK premiere – Hackney Empire Studio); Putting It Together (Harrogate Theatre) and The Bacchae (National Theatre of Scotland).

As Music Supervisor: Rock Follies (also Arranger and Co-Orchestrator) (Chichester Festival Theatre); Caroline, or Change (Broadway), South Pacific (Chichester Festival Theatre, UK tour); Romantics Anonymous (Shakespeare’s Globe); Guys And Dolls; Sweet Charity (Royal Exchange); Chaplin The Musical (European Tour); Bend It Like Beckham (Phoenix Theatre); A Wolf In Snakeskin Shoes (Tricycle Theatre); Anything Goes (Sheffield Crucible & UK tour); That Day We Sang (Manchester Royal Exchange & Manchester International Festival); Paper Dolls (Tricycle Theatre); The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg (Curve Leicester & West End); Sweet Charity (Chocolate Factory/Theatre Royal Haymarket) and Talent (Chocolate Factory).

Other: Sinatra At The London Palladium; Les Misérables (Denmark) and Maury Yeston’s December Songs (UK premiere - Greenwich Theatre); 

Television includes: Gentleman Jack; Victoria; Our Friend Victoria; That Day We Sang ; Victoria Wood’s Christmas Special; Up The Women; 2008 Royal Variety Performance; Musicality.

Nigel co-authored a guide to Musical Theatre auditions with Mary Hammond called “Thank You – That’s All We Need For Today” published by Edition Peters.

Nigel was the recipient of the DipRam award at the Royal Academy of Music, and was elected as an associate of RAM in 2013.

Chloe trained at Wimbledon School of Art.

For the Donmar: Europe and Teenage Dick.

As Designer: Romeo and Juliet (Almeida); Phaedra; Othello; The Antipodes (and Co-Director); John; Amadeus; Rules for Living; The World of Extreme Happiness (National Theatre); Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical (West End); Hilary and Clinton (Broadway); The American Clock (The Old Vic); Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (National Theatre of Scotland/ West End); Hexenjagd (Theater Basel); Shakespeare’s Last Play; Atmen; Ophelias Zimmer (Schaubühne, Berlin); Hamilton Complex (Schauspielhaus, Bochum); The Duchess of Malfi; 1984 (Headlong, West End, Broadway); De Maiden (Internationaal Theater Amsterdam); The Cane; Pity; Gun Dog; Road; Victory Condition; B; Unreachable; The Twits; God Bless the Child; How to Hold Your Breath; Circle Mirror Transformation; The Internet is Serious Business; 2071; Open Court (Royal Court) and Disco Pigs (Young Vic).

As Co-Designer: TRAPLORD (180 Strand) and J’OUVERT (West End).

Opera includes: Innocence (Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Finnish National Opera and Royal Opera House); Rusalka; Theodora (Royal Opera House); La Bohème (ENO); The Handmaid’s Tale (Royal Danish Opera); Innocence; Ariadne auf Naxos (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Finnish National Opera) and Pelléas & Mélisande (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Polish National Opera).

Ann trained at Boston Conservatory of Music, Harvard Summer Dance Center, and Ohio State University.

For the Donmar: Shakespeare Trilogy – Henry IV; Julius Caesar; The Tempest (Donmar/St. Ann’s Warehouse, NY); Berenice; Philadelphia, Here I Come! and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

As Director: Rusalka (Royal Opera House); As You Like It (Dallas Theater Center); HoT (Goodspeed New Works) and Perpetual Sunshine and the Ghost Girls (NAMT).

As Choreographer/Movement Director: Rusalka (Royal Opera House); The Seven Deadly Sins; Bluebeard’s Castle (Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires); South Pacific (Sadler’s Wells); Caroline, or Change (Broadway); Life After (Goodman Theater, Chicago); Blindness (Theatre Carre, Amsterdam); La Bohème (The Goteborg Opera); As You Like It (Dallas Theater Center); Oklahoma! (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); The American Clock; The Duchess of Malfi (Old Vic); Caroline, or Change (Chichester Festival/ Hampstead Theatre/Playhouse); War Requiem; Wozzeck (ENO); Sunday in the Park With George (Hudson Theatre, Broadway); The Taming of the Shrew (Public Theatre in the Park, NY); Mackie Messer (Salzburg Festival); Ah, Wilderness!; After Miss Julie (Young Vic); Mr Burns (Almeida); Birdland; Oxford Street (Royal Court); Urinetown (St. James/Apollo); Blurred Lines; She Stoops to Conquer; The Comedy of Errors (NT); The Commitments (Palace); The Color Purple; Torch Song Trilogy (Menier Chocolate Factory); Queen Anne; Titus Andronicus; A Soldier in Every Son (RSC); God of Soho (Globe); King Lear (RSC/ Roundhouse/NY); The Secret Garden; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Birmingham Rep/West Yorkshire Playhouse); Ingerland (Operashots/ Royal Opera House); Dance Radio, Mates (Latitude Festival/Drywrite) and Woyzeck (NY/Gate).

Film includes: A Bigger Splash (StudioCanal/Frenesy Film Co) and PPE: Off the Page (Royal Court short).

Theatre includes: A Streetcar Named Desire, Summer and Smoke (Almeida/West End); Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre/ US tour/ UK Tour/ Barbican); Constellations (Royal Court/ West End/ Broadway); Player Kings (West End); The House of Bernarda Alba, The Welkin; Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear – The Musical!; Protest Song (National Theatre); Romeo and Juliet, King Lear (Almeida); Henry V, Berberian Sound Studio (Donmar); Britannicus (Lyric Hammersmith); The Song Project; Road; Nuclear War; X, Linda (Royal Court); The Glass Menagerie; West Side Story (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Julius Caesar; Doctor Faustus; (RSC); The Two Character Play (Hampstead Theatre); Nora: A Doll’s House (Young Vic/ Citizens Theatre, Glasgow); Harm (Bush Theatre); Burgerz (Hackney Showroom).

Dance includes: Cycles, Blak Whyte Gray (Blue Boy Entertainment); The Limit, Untouchable (Royal Ballet); We Are As Gods (James Cousins Company); Enowate (Dickson Mbi Company); Sun; Political Mother; In Your Rooms; Uprising (Hofesh Shechter Company); Grey Matter; Tomorrow; Frames (Rambert).

Opera includes: Orphee Et Eurydice (ROH/Teatro Alla Scala); Aida; Fidelio; Nothing (Royal Danish Opera); Tosca (Opera North); Nabucco (Opera National de Lorraine); Phaedra (Linbury Studio, ROH).

Sound Design includes: School Girls Or, The African Mean Girls Play (Lyric Hammersmith); Disney’s AIDA (Holland); My Neighbour Totoro (RSC at the Barbican Theatre); Sylvia; The 47th (Old Vic); Newsies (Troubadour, Wembley Park Theatre); Kinky Boots (New Wolsey Theatre); Playboy of the West Indies (Birmingham Rep); Legally Blonde (Regent’s Park Theatre); Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob  Marley Musical (West End); Running With Lions (Talawa/Lyric Hammersmith); Spring Awakening; And Breathe.... (Almeida Theatre); The Wiz (Hope Mill Theatre); A Place For We (Talawa/Park Theatre); Blue/Orange (Theatre Royal Bath); Gin Craze! (Royal & Derngate); The Living Newspaper; Shoe Lady (Royal Court); Poet In da Corner (Royal Court & UK Tour); Beautiful - The Carole King Musical; Salad Days; American Idiot (UK Tour); Songs For Nobodies (Wilton’s Music Hall/West End); Floyd Collins (Wilton’s Music Hall); The Wild Party (The Other Palace) and Lazarus (King’s Cross).

Awards: 2023 Olivier Award - Best Sound Design for the RSC's My Neighbour Totoro.  - 23rd Annual WhatsOnStage Awards - Winner for Best Sound for My Neighbour Totoro.  2019 & 2021 Black British Theatre Awards - Light & Sound Recognition Award.

Other: Wise Children Trustee, Stage Sight Co-Director and Founder of The Audio Cartel.

Theatre and stage includes: Commonwealth Games 2022 Opening and Closing Ceremonies; You For Me For You; X (Royal Court); Brothers Lionheart (Royal Danish Playhouse, Copenhagen); Everyman; Husbands & Sons (National); Shopping & F***ing [co-designer] (Lyric Hammersmith) and Camp Siegfried (Old Vic).  

Dance includes: The Most Incredible Thing (Charlotte Ballet, North Carolina); Les Enfants Terribles (Royal Ballet) and 8 Minutes [co-creator] (Sadler’s Wells). 

Opera includes: Ainadamar (Scottish Opera, Detroit Opera, Welsh National Opera, Metropolitan Opera) and Die Walküre [co-director] (Opéra National de Bordeaux). 

Installations include: DIVA (V&A Museum); Steve Reich’s Tehillim (Psalms) (commissioned by the Barbican Centre); Olga Neuwirth’s Disenchanted Island (commissioned by IRCAM and Centre Pompidou) and Lament [co-creator] (commissioned by Nuit Blanche Toronto). 

Orchestral work includes: MYTHOS [director] (commissioned by Staatsoper Hannover); Foreign Bodies (commissioned by the New York Philharmonic); Four Sea Interludes; Passacaglia (New World Symphony/San Francisco Symphony/Los Angeles Philharmonic/Philadelphia Orchestra/BBC Symphony Orchestra) and In Seven Days (Piano Concerto with Moving Image) (commissioned by the Southbank Centre/Los Angeles Philharmonic). 

Awards include: BAFTA for Best Title Sequence (Skins). 

Anna has been the Casting Director at the Donmar Warehouse since 2018, where productions have included: Macbeth, Clyde’s, The Human Body, Next to Normal (WOS Award Nomination), When Winston Went to War with the Wireless, Private Lives, Watch on the Rhine, The Band’s Visit (CDG Award Nomination), The Trials, Trouble in Butetown, Constellations (Olivier Award: Best Revival, won CDG Award: Best Theatre Casting), A Doll’s House, Part 2, Henry V, Marys Seacole, Force Majeure, Europe, [BLANK], Teenage Dick, Far Away, Love & Other Acts of Violence.

Previous theatre credits include: I And You, Dry Powder, Gloria (Hampstead Theatre), Steel, Love & Information (Sheffield Theatres), Leave Taking, HIR (Bush Theatre), Circle, Mirror, Transformation, The Maids (HOME), They Drink It In the Congo (Almeida), Multitudes, (Tricycle), A Number (Nuffield/Young Vic) and Tonight at 8.30 (Nuffield).

As Casting Associate, theatre credits include: Allelujah!, Nightfall, Julius Caesar, Young Marx (Bridge Theatre), film credits include: Dunkirk, Mission Impossible 6, The Dark Knight Rises, Belle and TV credits include: Manhunt, Capital, Silk, Doc Martin, Ashes to Ashes, Arthur & George, Best of Men, Atlantis.

As Musical Director: Bonnie & Clyde (Garrick Theatre / Arts Theatre); I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (London Coliseum / Broadway HD); And The World Goes 'Round (Barn Theatre); Aladdin; Cinderella (Mercury Theatre Colchester); Rags (Hope Mill); It's Only Life (Union); The Terrible Infants (Wilton's); Wonderland (UK Tour); The Burnt Part Boys (Park Theatre); I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking it on the Road (Jermyn Street Theatre) and Princess Ida (Finborough Theatre). 

As Orchestrator and Musical Supervisor: Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Haymarket/Lyric Hammersmith / Sheffield Crucible); The Last 5 Years (Garrick); Intermissions Live! (Vaudeville / Stream Theatre); From Here to Eternity (Charing Cross); Zorro! (Charing Cross Theatre/ Hope Mill Theatre); Rags (Park Theatre); Just So (Barn Theatre); Privates on Parade (Union Theatre) and 5th Anniversary Gala (Curve Theatre).

As Composer: The Wizard of Oz (Watermill Theatre); Peter Pan (Barn Theatre); Vinegar Tom; New York (Mountview); A Christmas Carol (Middle Temple Hall); Never Change (Southwark Playhouse); Much Ado About Nothing (UK and French tour) and A Comedy of Errors (French Tour). 

As Orchestrator: Noisy Notes (Royal Festival Hall).

Other media credits include: Bonnie & Clyde: Original West End Cast Recording, From Here To Eternity: New London Cast Recording, Rags: Original London Cast Re­cording, A Christmas Carol: Original Cast Recording and RE:arrangement: The Album.

Television includes: Closer Than Ever and Gareth Malone's The Choir.

Natalie trained at the Royal Academy of Music graduating with an MA in Music Direction, and also has a MSci in Physics from University College London.

For the Donmar: The Band's Visit (as Musical Director, formerly Assistant Musical Director).

Previous credits as Musical Director include: How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying; Anyone Can Whistle (Southwark Playhouse); A Chorus Line (ArtsEd); Urinetown and Broken Wings (Royal Academy of Music).

As Associate Musical Director: The Witches (NT); The Secret Life of Bees (Almeida) and Six (West End).

As Assistant Musical Director: Rumi (Coliseum); Tell 'Em Things They Don't Know: Sondheim at 90 (Royal Academy of Music) and Paperboy (Lyric Theatre Belfast).

As Cover Musical Director: Legally Blonde (Regent's Park Open Air).

Alessandra is a director and dramaturg. She was part of the Jamie Lloyd EMERGE Company and was the Associate Director of Targeted Work at the Lyric Hammersmith before becoming Resident Assistant Director at the Donmar Warehouse. She’s currently an associate of Pentabus Theatre and a committee member of Stage Sight.

Director: The Christmas that got forgot (HMP Spring Hill, Kestrel Theatre), Carbon (Royal Court, reading in translation); Tamzara (Unge Viken); SCRATCH (Harold Pinter, Jamie Lloyd Company); Ephemera (Royal Court, Living Archive); Three Sisters (Lyric Hammersmith, Evolution Festival); Call me Maybe (Arcola Theatre); Hatch (Baron’s Court Theatre); By Way of Kensal Green (Theatre 503); Drylands (Tramshed); Hot Off Da Press and Three Wishes (Lyric Hammersmith, START Company).  

Assistant and Associate Director: Macbeth, Next to Normal and Private Lives (Donmar Warehouse); Two Palestinians Go Dogging (Royal Court); A Number (Old Vic); Idyll (Pentabus Theatre); Torch Song (Turbine Theatre); Me for the World (Young Vic) and CARE (The Pappy Show).