Production Staff
NEIL AUSTIN was the recipient of the 2019 Tony Award for Ink (Friedman); the 2018 Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Lyric); and the 2010 Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Red (Golden). He was also awarded the 2017 and 2011 Olivier Awards for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Palace, West End) and The White Guard (National, London). His Broadway credits include Ink, Travesties, Hughie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Evita, Red, Hamlet, The Seafarer and Frost/Nixon. Other work in the U.S. includes Harry Potter and the Cursed Child ... read more
BUNNY CHRISTIE is an international Production Designer. This year, she was awarded an OBE and won her fourth Olivier Award for Best Design for the London production of Company. She previously worked with Marianne Elliott when she designed the visually stunning production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which has been seen and loved all over the world, and for which she won a Tony Award. She recently devised a version for UK schools, giving many students their first experience of live theatre. Previous work in New York includes Ink, for which she was nominated for ... read more
Adam Cork writes mainly for the stage, creating integrated music/sound scores embracing instrumental music, electronic music, sound design and song. His musical London Road (NT) won the 2011 Critics’ Circle Award for Best Musical. A film version was released in 2015.
His other scores and sound designs include King Lear (Donmar Warehouse, Olivier Award 2011), Anna Christie (Evening Standard Award 2011), Red (Donmar Warehouse/Broadway, Tony Award 2010), Travesties (Tony nomination 2018 Best Sound), Enron (Tony nominations 2010 Best Score, Best Sound), Macbeth (Tony nomination 2008), Frost/Nixon (Broadway 2007). ... read more
Trained: National Film and Television School and Croydon College of Art.
Theatre: Wizard of Oz (The Palladium), Birdsong (Comedy), Love Never Dies (Adelphi), Enron (Noel Coward) - Olivier Nomination for Best Projection Design, The Prisoner of Second Avenue (Vaudeville), Earthquakes in London, Nation, The Power of Yes, All's Well that Ends Well, The Observer, Gethsemane, Her Naked Skin, Fram, A Matter of Life and Death, The Reporter (NT), Midnight's Children (RSC), Frost/Nixon (Donmar), Complicit (Old Vic), The Lightning Play, Whistling Psyche (Almeida), Darwin in Malibu (Hampstead), Some Girls are Bigger than Others, Lady Into Fox (Lyric Hammersmith), The Last Cigarette (Chichester), ... read more
Ben is delighted to be returning for his eighth production at MTC. He has coached over 115 professional productions. Highlights on Broadway include Curious Incident..., Billy Elliot, The Last Ship, Michael Moore..., The Encounter and Matilda. Off-Broadway credits include productions at Barrow St, Atlantic, Roundabout and Signature Theatre. National tours include Curious Incident..., Gentleman's Guide..., Billy Elliot, Spamalot, Mamma Mia! Regional/international includes Williamstown Theatre Festival, Hartford Stage, Guthrie Theater, Two River Theater, Canon (Toronto), Gate (Dublin), Colorado Shakespeare. Film/TV credits include "Lost City of Z," "Elementary," "Vinetalk." Teaching: Juilliard, UNCSA. ... read more
Goold is the Almeida Theatre's Artistic Director where he has directed Shipwreck, Albion, INK (transferred to the West End), Richard III, Medea, The Merchant of Venice, King Charles III (West End, Broadway, U.K. and international tour) and American Psycho (also Broadway).
He was Artistic Director of Headlong from 2005 until 2013 where his work included The Effect, Enron, Earthquakes in London and Decade. Other credits include Made in Dagenham (West End) and Macbeth (Chichester Festival Theatre, West End and Broadway). He has twice been the recipient of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director.
On film, he directed True Story ... read more
Barry Grove
Producer
(Executive Director, Manhattan Theatre Club)
Barry is in his 36th year of partnership with artistic director Lynne Meadow at MTC, where he has produced hundreds of American and world premieres for MTC. He is a member of the LORT Executive, Committee, the Broadway League Board of Governors and the Tony Administration Committee and is a trustee of the Equity-League Pension and Health Trust Funds. In the past, he has served as president of ART/New York. He received the 2000 Edith Oliver Award for Sustained Excellence Off-Broadway, the Arts and Business Council’s 1997 Arts Management Excellence Award and a citation from the New York City Council ... read more
Lynne Meadow
Producer
(Artistic Director, Manhattan Theatre Club)
As Artistic Director, Lynne has been the artistic visionary and leader of MTC since 1972, creating work that has put the company at the forefront of the American theatre. She has accepted every major theatre award on behalf of MTC. Directing credits include Margaret Edson’s Wit, Donald Margulies’ Collected Stories (Broadway) and The Loman Family Picnic; Charles Busch’s The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife (Broadway, national tour); Alan Ayckbourn’s Woman in Mind (Drama Desk nomination, Best Director) A Small Family Business (Broadway); David Greig’s The American Pilot; Ron Hutchinson’s Moonlight and Magnolias (MTC, Alliance Theatre); Leslie Ayvazian’s Nine Armenians (Drama ... read more
Awards and Nominations
2019 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding Director of a Play: Rupert Goold was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Lighting Design: Neil Austin was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding New Broadway Play: Ink was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Scenic Design: Bunny Christie was nominated but did not win.
2019 Tony Awards
Best Direction of a Play: Rupert Goold was nominated but did not win.
Best Lighting Design of a Play: Neil Austin won.
Best Play: James Graham was nominated but did not win.
Best Scenic Design of a Play: Bunny Christie was nominated but did not win.
Best Sound Design of a Play: Adam Cork was nominated but did not win.