Robert Hastie is the Director

Robert is Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres.

For Sheffield Theatres, credits include: Rock/Paper/Scissors, She Loves Me, The Band Plays On (Co-Director), Coriolanus, Guys and Dolls, Standing at the Sky’s Edge, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The York Realist (co-produced with the Donmar Warehouse), The Wizard of Oz, Of Kith and Kin (co-produced with the Bush Theatre), and Julius Caesar.

Other theatre credits include: Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe); Breaking the Code (Manchester Royal Exchange); Henry V (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Theatr Clwyd); My Night with Reg and Splendour (Donmar Warehouse); Carthage and Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun (Finborough Theatre); Sixty-Six Books (Bush Theatre); A Breakfast of Eels (Print Room).

Television credits include: Sex Education - Romeo and Juliet stage direction (Netflix).

Peter McKintosh is the Designer

Peter is a Tony and Olivier award-nominated Designer. He won the Olivier Award for Best Costume Design for Crazy for You at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and in the West End. Peter is a founding member of Freelancers Make Theatre Work.

For Sheffield Theatres, credits incude: Oliver!, Me and My Girl, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Fiddler on the Roof, Assassins, Guys and Dolls, and Romans in Britain.

Other theatre credits include: All My Sons (Theatre Cocoon, Japan); Funny Girl, and Guys and Dolls (Théâtre Marigny, Paris); 42nd Street (Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris); The Winslow Boy (Old Vic and New York); The 39 Steps (London, New York and worldwide; Tony nominations for Best Scenic and Best Costume Design); The Wind in the Willows, A Day in th-e Death of Joe Egg, Guys and Dolls, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, My Night With Reg, Hay Fever, Fiddler on the Roof, Another Country, Prick Up Your Ears, Entertaining Mr Sloane, The Dumb Waiter, Viva Forever!, Noises Off, Love Story, Donkeys’ Years, The Birthday Party, Butley, and Relatively Speaking (West End); Our Country’s Good, The Doctor’s Dilemma, Widowers’ Houses, and Honk! (National Theatre); Alice in Wonderland, Pericles, King John, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Brand (Royal Shakespeare Company); Measure for Measure, The York Realist, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Splendour, My Night With Reg, Luise Miller, The Chalk Garden, John Gabriel Borkman, The Cryptogram (Donmar Warehouse); After The End, Shining City, and King Hedley II (Theatre Royal Stratford East); South Pacific, Shadowlands, Guys and Dolls, Antony and Cleopatra (Chichester Festival Theatre); Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe).

Opera credits include: Hansel and Gretel (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), The Handmaid’s Tale (Royal Danish Opera, English National Opera and Canadian Opera); The Marriage of Figaro (English National Opera), and Love Counts, The Silent Twins (Almeida Theatre).

Ian Scott is the Lighting Designer

Ian trained at Mountview and has worked extensively in theatre, opera and dance.

Theatre credits include: ¡Carpa!, The Hooley, and Xanadu (Giffords Circus); The Scouse Nativity, Down The Dock Road, The Royal, Mam I’m ‘Ere, and You’ll Never Walk Alone (Liverpool’s Royal Court); Reasons To Be Cheerful, Peeling, and Blasted (Graeae); A Skull In Connemara, and All My Sons (Nottingham Playhouse); Messiah, and Marco Polo (Bergen National Opera); The Solid Life of Sugar Water (Graeae/Theatre Royal, Plymouth / National Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Owen Wingrave, and Where The Wild Things Are (Aldeburgh Festival); Frozen (fingersmiths/Birmingham Rep); Touch Me and Knots (CoisCéim Dance Theatre); The Grapes Of Wrath (Dundee Rep / 7:84 Scotland); The 39 Steps (WYP/ Tricycle / Criterion Theatre); Our Friends Up North (Northern Stage); Sinner and Revelations (Stan Won’t Dance); The Joke (Will Adamsdale/Fuel); My Name is… (Tamasha); Oh! What a Lovely War, and Frogs (National Theatre); Curlew River (White Light Festival, New York /UCLA Berkeley/St. Giles, Barbican); Unheimlich Spine, and The Chimp That Spoke (David Glass Ensemble); Blood Wedding (Graeae/ Dundee Rep); Taylor’s Dummies (Gecko); Animal Farm (Leeds Playhouse); Observe The Sons Of Ulster Marching Towards The Somme (Abbey Theatre – Winner of The Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Lighting); Timeless, Mainstream, and Lament (Suspect Culture, as Associate Artist).

John Biddle is the Composer

John is a composer and sound designer based in Leeds. John is an associate artist of The Egg, Bath and he has also worked extensively as an actor.

For Sheffield Theatres, credits include: Alice in Wonderland (as Tweedle Dee).

Theatre credits, as composer include: Still Floating (Pontio Bangor/Theatre Royal Plymouth); The Good Girl (Capital Theatres/ The Kennedy Centre); Nine Night, Kes, and Queen of Chapeltown (Leeds Playhouse); Possible (National Theatre Wales); Nothing Happens Twice (UK Tour); Oliver Twist (Leeds Playhouse/Ramps On The Moon); The Railway Children, Prince Charming’s Christmas Cracker, Peter Pan, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, and Treasure Island (Hull Truck); The Ladder (Hoipolloi); The Borrowers, Henry V, Twelfth Night, and Swallows and Amazons (Storyhouse/ Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre, Chester); Muckers (The Egg Bath/Conde Duque Madrid/Theatr Iolo/Oxford Playhouse); Unconditional (This Egg); Still Waiting (Crew For Calais); The Life and Times of Mitchell and Kenyon (Oldham Coliseum/ Dukes Lancaster); Rift Zone (Night Light Theatre); The Queen’s Knickers (Southbank Centre/ Theatre Royal Bath); The Gift and The Glory (Dukes Lancaster); Dracula, Wilde Tales, Comedy of Errors, and The Animated Tales of Shakespeare (The Egg/Theatre Royal Bath). John has also transcribed several theatrical scores for Kneehigh and the National Theatre.

Radio and podcast credits include: The Diary of Samuel Pepys, The Willows, Your Call, Dead Honest (winner British Podcast Award 2021); Murder on the Links (winner Audiofile Magazine Earphone Award 2021); Ignite Radio Shorts, Frankenstein (LA Theatre Works).

Sam Glossop is the Sound Designer

Sam is from Sheffield and trained at Leeds Metropolitan University in Music Production and has just completed an MA in Composition.

For Sheffield Theatres, credits include: Rock/Paper/Scissors.

Theatre credits include: The Girl on the Train (Upstairs at the Gatehouse); All Lies, Tell Me on a Sunday, By Jeeves, Sherlock’s Last Case, and Happy Birthday Peter Rabbit (Old Laundry Theatre); Home (Chichester Minerva Theatre); Flinch (UK Tour); The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (UK Tour); Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon, and Doctor Faustus (Southwark Playhouse); Gracie (Finborough Theatre); Dead Good (UK Tour); The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Greenwich Theatre); Where is Peter Rabbit? (Theatre Royal Haymarket / Hong Kong and Singapore tour); Freud’s Last Session (Kings Head Theatre); In Limbo, San Domino, and Pete ‘n’ Keely (Tristan Bates Theatre); Queen Mab (The Actors Church, Covent Garden); Antigone in New York (The Rag Factory); Crazy Locomotive (Cockpit Theatre); The Narcissist (Arcola Theatre); A Separate Peace, Gun, and Before 30 (Edinburgh Fringe); Something Awful and Giving Up Marty (Vaults Festival); Soapbox Racer (The Local Theatre, Sheffield); On Behalf of the People (UK Tour); The Masque of the Red Death/The Fall of the House Usher (Jack Studio Theatre, London); Henna Night (New Diorama); Robin Hood and Sleeping Beauty (Solihull Core Theatre); Jack & the Beanstalk (Loughborough Town Hall); The Nest (53Two, Manchester); Beauty and the Beast (Derby Arena); Just So (Theatre Royal Winchester); Dem Times (Streatham Space Project); Abyss (Petersfield Shakespeare Festival); Beetles from the West, and The Censor (Hope Theatre, London).

Emily Howlett is the British Sign Language Director

Theatre directing/consulting credits include: The Offerings (Timber Festival, in association with Derby CAN); Eugene (Daniel Nicholas in association with AAC & SlungLow); Treasure Island (Derby Theatre); Telethon (TOOT Collective); Jack (Nottingham Playhouse); First Three Drops (Taking Flight Theatre Company); Jungle Book (Derby Theatre); Left Of Me (PAD Productions) and The WISE Project (Sarah Gatford Ltd./Police Crime Commissioner).

For Sheffield Theatres, theatre acting credits include: Tribes.

Other theatre acting credits include: Much Ado About Nothing (1623 Theatre / Century Theatre); Left of Me, Soul Bear (PAD Productions); People of the Eye (The Deaf & Hearing Ensemble); Leveret (Bristol Old Vic); The Iron Man (Graeae Theatre Company); Gwion and the Witch (Taking Flight Theatre Company) and Loving April (Oxfordshire Theatre Company).

Television credits include: Doctors, Casualty, Inside Number 9, Holby City, SeeHear (BBC) and Give Out Girls (Big Talk Productions).

Short Film credits include: I Hear You, Coda, Five Needles, Luke Starr, and My Song.

Radio credits include: Shall I Say A Kiss.

Chloë Clarke is the Audio Description Director

Chloë Clarke began her career as an Audio Description Consultant in 2014 following the success of her own project exploring creative, integrated audio description that offers a choice of interpretation to the visually-impaired audience and eliminates the need for headsets, while being so naturally woven into the piece that it goes unnoticed by the sighted audience.

Since then she has become recognised as one of the country’s leading experts in creatively integrated audio description and has published a guide for the Arts Council of Wales on developing visually-impaired audiences.

Theatre credits include: Iron Man (Graeae/ UK Tour); The House of Bernarda Alba (Manchester Royal Exchange); Kerbs (Belgrade Theatre); There Are No Beginnings, and Oliver Twist (Leeds Playhouse); Graphoo (Theatre Royal Plymouth); Possible (National Theatre Wales/Tour); Mission Control (Principality Stadium); Wonderman (Wales Millennium Centre); Love, Liverpool, and Measuring Up (Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse); Double Vision (Wales Millennium Centre/Gagglebabble); Branwen’s Starling (Taking Flight); Choo Choo (Stammermouth).

Television credits include: Dyddiadur Dews (S4C); Holby City (BBC).

Film credits include: Blade of the Immortal.

Joanna Goodwin is the Movement Director

Joanna trained at Elmhurst Ballet School and Laine Theatre Arts.

As choreographer, credits include: I Wish My Life Were Like a Musical (Edinburgh Fringe); Gypsy (Alexandra Palace); Sunset Boulevard (Royal Albert Hall); AMDRAM - A Musical Comedy (Curve, Leicester); Just So (Barn Theatre); The Bridges of Madison County (Electric Theatre, Guildford); Jack and the Beanstalk (Wyvern Theatre/Beck Theatre); Aladdin (White Rock Theatre).

Assistant choreographer credits include: Billy Elliott, and Sunset Boulevard (Curve, Leicester); Funny Girl (Théâtre Marigny, Paris); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Leeds Playhouse/UK Tour); Barnum (UK Tour); Happy Days (UK Tour).

Other theatre credits include: The Producers (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Sweet Charity (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Crazy For You (Novello Theatre/ Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Hello, Dolly! (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Funny Girl (Chichester Festival Theatre); On The Town (Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris); Guys and Dolls (Théâtre Marigny, Paris); White Christmas (UK Tour).

Television credits include: Black Mirror (Netflix); Life After Life, and Strike -Troubled Blood (BBC).

Film credits include: The Performance (Assistant Choreographer for Jared Grimes); Apartment 7A.

Jacob Sparrow is the Casting Director

Jacob worked in the National Theatre Casting Department from 2015 to 2019 before becoming a freelance Casting Director.

For Sheffield Theatres, credits include: Anna Karenina.

Theatre credits include: Oklahoma! (Young Vic); Black Love (Kiln Theatre); Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Leeds/Home Manchester); Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night- Time (2021 Tour); Jitney (Old Vic/Headlong/ Leeds Playhouse); Burn It Down (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Carousel, and Our Town (Regents Park); Faith, Hope and Charity (European 2021 Tour); The Book Thief (Bolton Octagon); Wuthering Heights (Wise Children); Hungry (Soho Theatre); Perspectives (New Views); 2021 Roundabout Season (Paines Plough); City of Angels (Garrick); Hadestown, Pericles, Follies, and Amadeus (Olivier Theatre); LOVE (Dorfman/ International Tour/Film); Queer Season, Rutherford and Son, Faith Hope and Charity, Mr Gum, and Downstate (National Theatre).

Alexandra Whiteley is the Assistant Director

Alexandra is one of the 2022/3 Bank Cohort Supported Directors at Sheffield Theatres. She trained at the University of Birmingham and The Shakespeare Institute. She also works as a dramaturg and text advisor.

For Sheffield Theatres, credits include: Rock/Paper/Scissors.

As Director, theatre credits include: Measure for Measure (JW Theatres, Blue Orange Theatre) and Road (Midlands Academy of Musical Theatre); Seasick (Radical Body at The Belgrade Theatre); Good Day/Bad Day (Graeae).

As Assistant Director, theatre credits include: A Christmas Carol: The Live Radio Play (The Old Joint Stock); The Wicked Lady (also as dramaturg – JW Theatres, The Blue Orange Theatre); The Iron Man (UK Tour); Dead Endings (Birmingham Rep).