Production Staff
Michael Morpurgo
Source Material
(Based on novel)
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Nick Stafford
Playwright
George Bach
Lighting Associate
Rob Bettle
Associate Sound Designer
Johanna Coe
Associate Costume Designer
Paule Constable
Lighting Designer
National Theatre credits include Pinocchio, Follies, Mosquitoes, Common, Angels in America, The Red Barn, The Suicide, Wonder.land, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Table, This House (also West End and Chichester), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (also West End and Broadway, Olivier Award for Best Lighting 2013, Tony Award for Best Lighting), The Comedy of Errors, Danton, The Power of Yes, Phedre, Death and the King's Horseman, War Horse (also West End and Broadway, 2011 Tony Award for Best Lighting), Some Trace of Her, Women of Troy, Triple Bill, Saint Joan, Attempts on Her Life, The Caucasian ... read more
Jacquie Crago
Company Voice and Dialect Work
Marianne Elliott
Director
MARIANNE ELLIOTT is Artistic Director of Elliott & Harper Productions, a new theatre company co-founded in 2016 with producer Chris Harper. Elliott & Harper's inaugural production, Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle by Simon Stephens is running at the Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End until 6 January 2018. Future productions include a co-production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, opening in November 2017 as a co-production with West Yorkshire Playhouse and Catherine Schreiber at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds and Company by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth with Rosalie Craig as Bobbi and Patti LuPone as Joanne. Company ... read more
Matthew Forbes
Associate Puppetry Director
Matthew works internationally as a Performer and Director, with a strong focus on Puppetry, Object Manipulation and Physical Theatre. He originally trained as an Actor at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, specialising in Collaborative & Devised Theatre.
Matthew has worked on productions of War Horse around the world across an eight-year period, most recently as the Associate Movement Director for the Holland & Belgium Tour 2014-2016, prior to that he was the Associate Puppetry Director for UK, Ireland & South African Tour 2013-2015, as well as working for the production in America, Australia, Berlin, China and New Zealand. ... read more
William Fricker
Associate Designer
Basil Jones
Puppet Fabricator & Director
Basil Jones is a South African actor, playwright, and director. He is best known for co-founding the Handspring Puppet Company with Adrian Kohler in 1981. Jones was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1954. He attended the University of Cape Town, where he studied drama and English literature.
Jones and Kohler met while working on a production of "Faustus in Africa" in 1981. They decided to form their own company, which eventually became the Handspring Puppet Company. The company has since become internationally renowned for its innovative use of puppets in theater productions.
Jones has directed several productions for the Handspring ... read more
Adrian Kohler
Puppet Fabricator & Director
Adrian Kohler is a South African actor, director, and puppeteer best known for his work with the Handspring Puppet Company. Born in Cape Town in 1956, Kohler began his theatrical career in the 1970s, performing with various experimental theater groups in South Africa.
Kohler co-founded the Handspring Puppet Company in 1981 with fellow puppeteer Basil Jones. The company quickly gained international recognition for their innovative use of puppetry in theater productions. In 1991, Kohler and Jones created the award-winning production "Woyzeck on the Highveld," which combined puppetry, live performance, and animation.
Kohler's work with Handspring Puppet Company has been seen on stages ... read more
Craig Leo
Associate Puppetry Director
Emily Malone
Associate Projection Designer and Programmer
Tom Morris
Director
Charlotte Peters
Associate Director
Toby Sedgwick
Director of Movement & Horse Choreography
Christopher Shutt
Sound Designer
Rae Smith
Designer/Drawings
Karen Spahn
Associate Lighting Designer
Tim Sutton
Music Director
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