Junkyard - West End Creative Team

POLLY BENNETT is a Movement Director and Choreographer working nationally and internationally. Education: MA in Movement, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Associate Movement Practitioner, Royal Shakespeare Company. Theatre: The National Theatre, Royal Court, The Old Vic and more. She worked as a Choreographer for the Olympic Opening Ceremonies in London and Sochi. Currently, she is movement coaching actor Rami Malek, who is playing Freddie Mercury in the forthcoming film Bohemian Rhapsody. ... read more Jeremy Herrin is Artistic Director of Headlong. He studied at RSAMD. For Headlong, Herrin has directed The Absence of War and the European premiere of The Nether, at the Royal Court and in the West End. At the National Theatre he directed This House (Olivier nomination for Best Director) and Statement of Regret. For the RSC, he recently directed the world premiere of Wolf Hall (Evening Standard Award for Best Director; Olivier and Tony award nominations) and Bring Up the Bodies, which transferred to the West End in May 2014 and to Broadway in 2015. For the Royal Court, where ... read more Jack Thorne writes for theatre, film, television and radio. His theatre credits include Hope and Let The Right One In, both directed by John Tiffany, Woyzeck at the Old Vic, Junkyard, a Headlong, Rose Theatre Kingston, Bristol Old Vic and Theatr Clwyd co-production, The Solid Life of Sugarwater for the Graeae Theatre Company and the National Theatre, Bunny for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Stacy for the Trafalgar Studios, 2nd May 1997 and When You Cure Me for the Bush. His adaptations include The Physicists for the Donmar Warehouse and Stuart: A Life Backwards for Hightide. On film his credits include ... read more