Directing Political Theatre:Artistic Integrity in Volatile Times

CORDELIA MONSEY

Cordelia Monsey is Associate Director to Trevor Nunn on The Score. Further credits as Associate Director to Trevor Nunn include: Nicholas Nickleby and The Tempest (Theatre Royal Haymarket). Credits as Associate Director to Peter Hall include: Henry IV Part II and Waiting for Godot (Theatre Royal Bath). Cordelia also directed a production of Athol Fugard’s Victory at Theatre Royal Bath. She also works frequently on drama school productions including at RADA and Oxford School of Drama.

NICOLE ANSARI-COX

Theatre credits include: Rock ‘n’ Roll (original cast – Royal Court / West End / Broadway); Women who Blow on Knots (Arcola); Sinners (Playground Theatre); 7 Minutes (Waterwell at HERE Arts, NY); Tartuffe (Molière in the Park, NY); Daybreak (Theater Row, NY); I Am Antigone (Theater for the New City, NY); Shakespeare’s Sister (La Mama and French tour); The Lower Depth (Ovation Award nominee – Odeon Theatre, LA); Hamlet (Mirror Theater); The Approach (Shakespeare and Company); Sinners (New Rep at BU, Boston); She/Her (also writer/director – Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Fringe Festival); Romy, Me… (co-writer), Irma La Douce, Much Ado About Nothing, Cyrano de Bergerac, Phèdre (Public Theatre, Vienna); Alma (Wiener Festwochen and Palazzo Zenobio, Venice); two years as a company member of the famed Théâtre du Soleil under Ariane Mnouchkine (Paris and on tour); two years repertory with Theatre am Neumarkt (Zurich). Film credits include: Glenrothan; Under the Sun; As I Am; What a Feeling; Land of Dreams; Son of the South; Making the Day; Remember Me; and Sonderbergh’s Side Effects. Television credits include: Law & Order (NBC); Succession (HBO); Deadwood (HBO); FBI (CBS); Hit and Run (Netflix); The Blacklist (NBC); The Mysteries of Laura (NBC).

STEPHEN HAGAN

Stephen trained at LAMDA. Theatre credits include: Cyrano de Bergerac (Chichester Festival Theatre); Dessert (Southwark Playhouse); Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors, The Tempest, Troilus and Cressida (RSC); The Giant (Hampstead Theatre); The York Realist (Riverside Studios). Television credits include: You (Netflix); Stan Lee’s Lucky Man (Sky); Medici (Netflix).

CHRISTOPHER STAINES

Christopher trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and subsequently with Philippe Gaulier in Paris. Theatre credits include: Abigail’s Party (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); Our Town (Almeida Theatre); The Philanderer (Orange Tree); Dr Faustus (Rose Theatre, Bankside); The Great Gatsby (Arts Theatre); Playing for Time (Sheffield Theatres); The Tempest (Royal Shakespeare Company); She Stoops to Conquer (National Theatre); Gross Indecency – The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (Gielgud Theatre); The Music Man (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Cabaret (Donmar Warehouse). Film credits include: Impossible Planet and Mrs Dalloway. Television credits include: The Crown (Netflix); Silent Witness (BBC); Quiz (ITV); Pride and Prejudice (BBC).

TOBY WEBSTER

Theatre credits include: The Provoked Wife, Venice Preserved, Bottoms Up (RSC); Shakespeare in Love (Theatre Royal Bath); Macbeth (Infinite Jest); London Road (Bristol Old Vic). Film credits include: London Road. Television credits include: Doctors (BBC); Breaking the Band (ITV).

MATTHEW ROMAIN

Matthew trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and studied at the University of Glasgow. Theatre credits include: The Grapes of Wrath (National Theatre); The Recruiting Officer (Donmar Warehouse); Hamlet (World Tour – Shakespeare’s Globe); Pride and Prejudice (Nottingham Playhouse / York Theatre Royal). Television includes: World on Fire (BBC); Sherlock (BBC). Film includes: The War Below; Blue Iguana.

REBECCA THORNHILL

Rebecca trained at the Arts Educational School, London. Theatre credits include: Gypsy (UK Theatre Award nominee – Mill at Sonning); Girl from the North Country (UK / Ireland tour); Matilda the Musical (Cambridge Theatre); From Here to Eternity (Shaftesbury Theatre); Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre / US tour); Chicago (Adelphi Theatre); Ragtime (Piccadilly Theatre); The Full Monty (Prince of Wales Theatre); The Witches of Eastwick (Prince of Wales Theatre / UK tour); Les Miserables (Denmark / UK tour); Oklahoma! (National Theatre / Lyceum); Show Boat (Royal Albert Hall); Showstopper (Jermyn Street Theatre / UK tour); Playing Away (Lilian Bayliss); Beauty and the Beast (Dominion Theatre); Cats (New London Theatre); Sophisticated Ladies (Royal Globe); She Loves Me (Savoy Theatre); Me and My Girl (tour); Singing in the Rain (Olivier Award nomination – National Theatre); Hairspray (UK tour); Top Hat (UK tour); South Pacific (UK tour); Noises Off (Westcliff); Guys and Dolls (Leicester); Aspects of Love (Ipswich). Film credits include: From Here to Eternity; The Magic Key. Television credits include: The Bill (ITV); Eastenders (BBC).