A Thong For Europe

A fresh, new, innovative and relevant youth theatre company based at the iconic Royal Court Theatre designed by young people for young people.

The Royal Court Youth Theatre delivers a range of opportunities free of charge for young people aged 11 – 25 from every part of the City.

If you are interested in a career in the arts or just looking for something to do, come along to one of our sessions or workshops. You will learn about everything from acting to stage management; fundraising to writing scripts.

Do you know a young person who has a passion for theatre, acting, singing, dancing or writing? Tell them to complete an expression of interest form by visiting liverpoolsroyalcourt.com/youth-theatre

Alternatively you can call 0151 702 5892 or email education@royalcourttrust.org

Everybody is welcome at the Royal Court Youth Theatre, there are no auditions or waiting lists to join.

The Eleanor Rathbone Foundation

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Talent Development

Liverpool’s Royal Court continues on its journey to work towards talent development across the city

There is no doubt Liverpool is renowned for its wealth of talent but we, along with the rest of our city’s theatre organisations and institutions, recognise we need to do more to ensure we are accessible, engaging and aspirational if we are to be truly representative and inclusive of the communities we serve. It is a long-term continuing process and funding is key as is working together with the theatres across the region.

Over the past three years we have laid down the foundations, initiating our plans for meaningful and real change. This includes the theatre’s programming, engagement, accessibility and relationships with artistes, communities, creatives, individuals, institutions, organisations, Schools/FE. We are working towards ensuring our talent development programmes are applicable, realistic and robust.

Listening and engaging in the first instance to a wide cross section of creatives and communities – recognising and taking ownership of our failure to be fully inclusive and to take a proactive approach to ensure there is inclusivity and diversity across the sector

A brief look at a few of our talent development projects so far:

Community

Music AAA (Access All Areas) is a partnership project together with three grassroots organisations: Positive Impact, Capoeira For All, and Catalyst performing arts supported by funding from Youth Music. Children and young people aged 6 – 25 can access free musical instruments, musical theatre, hip hop, dance, singing, drama and performance

Raw Talent

Young people from our youth theatre continue to have access to auditions and employment opportunities – during the past 3 years, 6 young people have been cast in Terriers, written by Maurice Bessman touring to schools and venues across the country.

More recently working with Fury films, 120 young people aged 15 – 25 from across the city took part in audition workshops for the film of Terriers at Fire Fit in South Liverpool, MYA’s Space in Bootle and The Vibe in Huyton. 8 young people will be working with the Director to support the script development.

Mentoring

This is a pilot programme supported by PH Holt Trust and Curious Minds – eight mentors from the creative industries have been paired with mentees – providing support, guidance and shadowing opportunities in acting, marketing, production, directing, writing, set design, and music skills. This talent development initiative will support eight young black, asian and minority artistes and creatives develop their skills as they progress through the industry.

Programming

Our Boisterous Theatre strand of programming brought us a main house production of Bouncers, in August and September introducing four new actors to the main house stage – and new audiences to the theatre.

The Alternative Black Cabaret Showcase – now a regular bi-monthly show presenting some of the best black comedians and singers on the circuit and with a platform to showcase emerging and existing local talent. Co-production with Red Ladder in September/October, with a cast of professional actors and 20 members of our community choir. Stagewrite – our new writing classes/workshops to encourage and support new writers to develop their work to full production.

We continue on our journey with a number of other talent development initiatives in progress as a matter of priority to ensure we remain accessible, adaptable and continually listen and learn. It will take time and investment and with your continuing support for all we do. We will make a difference.

Boisterous Stage Write

Music Access All Areas

Maurice Bessman

Cast & Company

Jonathan Harvey

Stephen Fletcher

George Francis

Jocelyn Meall

Beverley Norris-Edmunds

Pete Bragg

Jamie Jenkin

Kate Harvey

Marie Jones

Workshop Manager

John Kavanagh

Scenic Art Manager

Jen Baron

Writer Director

Musical Director Designer

Choreographer

Lighting Designer

AV Designer

Sound Designer

Wardrobe Supervisor

Emma Bispham

Eithne Browne

Andro Cowperthwaite

Gemma Dobson

Lindzi Germain

Keddy Sutton

Kathy Bancroft

Adam Scotland

Cast Band

Robyn Wilkinson

Jo Smithson

Beryl Steph Terry

Pippa

Lulu

Archangel/Billy/Sonia/Pat Ensemble Ensemble

Bass Guitar Drums

Sean Gannon

Lizzie O’Sullivan

Steph Carter

Lauryn Elise

Helena Harvey

Meesh Rennie

Liam McGrath

Jamie Haining

Workshop

Carpenters

Mick Gunnigle

Jonathan Defty

Mike Gray

Dave Davies Crew

Stephen Pettit

Company Thanks

Head of Technical and Production

Stage Manager

Deputy Stage Manager

Assistant Stage Manager

Sound No 2

LX & AV Op

Sound Op

LX Programmer

Scenic Artists

Rhiannon Hodgson

Abbie Jones

Chris McCourt

Emma Sharpe

Cast Biographies

Kathy Bancroft Ensemble

Training: BA (Honours) in Musical Theatre Performance at The Hammond School.

Credits whilst training include: Shell Dockley in Bad Girls, Stepmother in Into the Woods.

Theatre Credits include: Ensemble/ Cover Cinderella in Cinderella (Rhyl Pavilion), Ensemble/ Cover Belle / Cover Fairy in Beauty and the Beast

I am over the moon to be making my Royal Court debut in this amazing show with the wonderful cast & creatives and would like to thank her family, agents and friends for their continued support!

Instagram: kathybancroft_

Twitter: @kathy_bancroft

Agency: Keddie Scott Associates

Emma Bispham Beryl

Emma continues to enjoy a full and varied career. Below are some of her most treasured credits to date.

Television; Doctors, Tin Star, Clink, The League of Gentlemen, Paranoid, Prey 2, The Mill, Good Cop, Emmerdale, Coronation Street, The Driver, Shameless, Heartbeat, The Royal, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Strictly Confidential and The Bill

Film; Kelly & Victor (Bafta Winner) Dog Run, Bride Not To Be and Half Way

Theatre: Macca & Beth (Liverpool’s Royal Court); TABOO 20th Anniversary Concert (The London Palladium) The Scouse Sleeping Beauty (Liverpool Royal Court) The Scouse Snow White (Liverpool Royal Court) Paint Your Wagon, Othello and The Big I Am (Everyman

Theatre Repertory Company 2018) Blood Brothers (Phoenix Theatre, West End) Taboo (The Venue, West End & National tour) Spend Spend Spend (The English Theatre, Frankfurt) Bad Girls –The Musical (West Yorkshire Playhouse) 16 Gobs (Kingshead Theatre, London) Notes

Across a Small Pond (Bridewell Theatre, London) Closer Than Ever (Everyman Theatre, Liverpool).

Emma also gigs regularly as a soloist or with Sense Of Sound Singers and has supported and worked with music legends such as Nile Rogers and Paul McCartney. Also appearing in the popular Cream Classical concerts at the Anglican Cathedral.

Eithne Browne Steph

Eithne is thrilled to be back on stage here at the Royal Court.

Eithne’s first appearance was on stage at the Liverpool Playhouse in Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers. On its transfer to the West End Eithne took over from Barbara Dickson in the lead role for over 50 performances. Not bad for a first job!

Her other favourite stage plays include: Shirley Valentine (Northcott Theatre); Educating Rita (national tour); To Kill a Mockingbird (New Vic Theatre, Stoke); Stags and Hens (New Vic, London); 8 Miles High, Alfie, A Pocket Dream (Octagon Theatre, Bolton); Billy Liar, A Month in the Country (Salisbury Playhouse); Talking Heads (Arts Academy, Liverpool); A Sense of Justice (Perth Repertory Theatre); The Secret Garden (Byre Theatre, St Andrews); Intent to Murder, Say Who You Are, Boeing Boeing (English Theatre, Vienna); Limestone Cowboy (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry); The Odd Couple, An Awfully Big Adventure, Tartuffe, The Star (Liverpool Playhouse); Wuthering Heights (National Tour); The Full Monty (National Tour); Vagina Monologues (Neptune Theatre and Royal Court Liverpool); GYD Diet, The Sum, Northern Flight (Everyman Theatre); Mam I’m ‘Ere (Dome Liverpool); Tuppence To Cross The Mersey (Epstein Theatre and touring); I Am Janet (Gap Theatre Manchester); Brick Up the Mersey Tunnels, Lost Soul, Good Golly Miss Molly, Two, Cinderella, Eight Miles High, Night Collar, Dirty Dusting, Merry Ding Dong, Funny Money, Ladies Day, Masquerade, Special Measures and Golden Oldies (and teas and coffees) (Royal Court Liverpool).

TV Roles: Chrissy Rogers in Channel 4’s Brookside, she has appeared in: Coronation Street, Mobile, Lillies, Cold Feet (Granada); The Royal, Emmerdale (YTV); Doctors, Stretford Wives, Clocking Off, Peace Keepers, Having It Off, the BAFTA award-winning Room At The Top (BBC TV) and Secret State (BBC).

Eithne was voted Woman Of The Year at the 2013/14 Daily Post & Echo Arts & Culture Awards. She is also the voice of the world famous Mersey Ferry and was recently nominated for the a National theatre Award for Best Performance In A Play in Maggie May at Leeds Playhouse.

Andro Cowperthwaite Terry

Drama Centre London Alumni Andro is an actor and singer/songwriter who was previously part of the Mercury Prize nominated band Jungle. He is now embarking on his solo music career as well as acting and has just released his 2nd EP Wonderland with support from Wonderland, CLASH, BBC Music Introducing and more. With Jungle, he has also appeared on BBC’s Jools Holland, Alan Carr Chatty Man, Late Night With Seth Myers, Stephen Colbert Show & more and performed/headlined festivals and venues such as Glastonbury, Coachella, Alexandra Palace, O2 Brixton Academy and many many more.

Andro’s theatre credits include; DORIAN at Reading Rep directed by Owen Horsley, Lion Witch & Wardrobe at Bridge Theatre directed by Sally Cookson. Royal Shakespeare Company; Salome directed by Owen Horsley, Royal Shakespeare Company; Queen Of Carthage directed by Kim Worley Sykes.

TV/film credits include; Red, White and Royal Blue (Feature), Lord of The Rings: Rings of Power (TV), Caterpillar (Short), Abstract (Short). This is an Andro’s debut performance at Royal Court Liverpool.

Instagram: @androearth

Gemma Dobson Pippa

I’m absolutely thrilled to be making my Liverpool Royal Court Debut with such a fantastic show. It’s the first musical I’ve ever done which is so exciting, what a joy. I love Liverpool, it’s such a beautiful city and it’s a privilege to work here with a fantastic talented bunch of people on and off stage.

Theatre credits include:

A Taste of Honey (National Theatre, UK Tour & Trafalgar Studios); Rita, Sue & Bob Too (Out of Joint, UK Tour & Royal Court London); Plenty (Chichester Festival Theatre); As You Like It (Northern Broadsides, UK Tour)

TV credits include:

The Serpent Queen (Lionsgate); In the Club (BBC); Brief Encounters (ITV); Care (BBC)

Lindzi is one of our city’s well known character actors and is one of the Royal Court’s regulars - so much so she doesn’t even take her stuff home any more!

Theatre credits include: Ellen & Rigby Royal Court Selection Box, Night Collar, Council Depot Blues, Lost Soul, Down Our Street, The Royal, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twopence To Cross The Mersey, Alehouse, The Entertainer, Bon Voyage, Beserker Boys, Virgin Express, Desperate Scousewives, Merry Ding Dong, Scouse Pacific, Scouse of the Antarctic, Scouse of the Rising Sun, Pharoah ‘Cross The Mersey, Scouse Nativity, Mam I’m ‘Ere, Sex In Suburbia (tour), YNWA (Royal Court and tour), A Fistful of Collars, Little Scouse on the Prairie, Her Benny, The King & I, King Lear, Our Bessie, Reds & Blues, Scouse Cinderella, Lost Soul 2 and Achy Breaky Bride Peter Pan, Cinderella, Snow White, Robin Hood and Babes In The Wood.

TV and film credits include:

Tin Star with Tim Roth. Bella in Clink (5Star), The Way We Are (Feature film), Lynda La Plante’s Above Suspicion (ITV), Les’ Liverpool (BBC), Bodies II (ITV), Common As Muck (ITV), Emmerdale (Yorkshire TV), Prime Suspect (ITV), Dave Kirby’s 15 Minutes That Shook The World, Gwladys in Reds & Blues: The Ballad of Dixie & Kenny, Adam (Short film) and Shooting Fish (short). Anthony.

Writing credits include:

The Royal, Mother’s Pride, Lindzi Germain Merseymouth stand up show, Women With Balls. Also penned a new musical for 2024. Voiceover work includes:

Lindzi is the voice of Atomic Olga in the computer game Evil Geniuses 2 and has her own vlog page Mersey Mouth

Throughout lockdown Lindzi kept herself busy performing live on Facebook with Wake And Shake and Storytime Live

Last year Lindzi also set up a private wall on Facebook called Peri/Meno Queens �� it’sa place for women to learn, educate, laugh and cr y to love and to support each other while going threw what can be the most horrendous time of there lives The Menopause. To date she has over 6.8k members!

Lindzi and her husband Darren are the founders of CNC Nutrition building a happier, healthier community., Form more information check out their Insta @LindziGermain and Facebook CNCNutrition.

Adam Scotland Ensemble

I am super excited to be making my debut at the Royal Court Theatre. As a Liverpool lad myself it is such an honour to be in Liverpool for this amazing show especially whilst the city is hit with Eurovision fever! Such a great creative team, cast and company, I couldn’t have wished for any better! I have recently graduated from Liverpool Theatre School where I have mostly been down south doing shows so to be back home is fantastic!

Theatre credits Include: Original Cast Matilda The Musical (RSC); To Kill A Mockingbird (Regents Park Open Air Theatre).

TV Credits Include: Lapland (BBC ONE); Sparticle Mystery (CBBC); Even More EVERMORE (Disney Channel) and Hollyoaks (Channel 4).

Keddy Sutton

Archangel/Billy/Sonia/Pat

Keddy trained at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama and with Ken Campbell’s Improvisational Company - The School of Night.

Theatre: All The Joy You Can Wish (Shakespeare North and SlungLow); That Sketch Show (The Edge Theatre); Royal Court Selection Box (Liverpool’s Royal Court); Pop Up Party (Paperwork Theatre); Mr Gum RND (National Theatre); Shirley Valentine (Theatre Royal, Bury St. Edmunds); Keddy was a member of the Liverpool Everyman Rep Company in 2017 and 2018 in Paint Your Wagon, The Big I Am A Clockwork Orange and Fiddler On The Roof The Sum, Conquest Of The South Pole and Romeo And Juliet (Liverpool Everyman); Scouse Sleeping Beauty, Pete Price Is Dead, Scouse Snow White, Scouse Cinderella, Scouse Nativity, Scouse Of The Rising Sun, Father O’Flaherty Saves Our Souls, Stags And Hens (Directed by Willy Russell and Bob Eaton For Capital Of Culture), and Slappers And Slapheads (Liverpool Royal Court); Terry Titter’s Summer Special (Liverpool Royal Court Studio); Princess And The Pea (Unity Theatre, Liverpool); Mam I’m Ere (Life In Theatre Productions); Dreaming Of A Barry White Xmas (Liverpool Echo Arena); The Queen’s Knickers (Southbank London); Peppa Pig (West End and No 1 Tour); ; Cruel Sea (Liverpool Everyman); The Games, Hoof, Beasts And Beauties (Spike Theatre); Dormouse in Alice In Wonderland (Hope Street); Ken Campbell’s Improvisational School Of Night (The Globe, Drill Hall, Edinburgh Fringe, Jeremy Beadles Library and The Royal Court, London); Beyond Our Ken (National Theatre); In Pursuit Of Cardeenio (Edinburgh Fringe); 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton); Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs and Dick Whittington (Buxton Opera House); Beauty And The Beast (Theatre Royal, Wakefield); Robinson Crusoe (Theatre Royal, Winchester); Singa-Longa-Eurovision (AJN Productions).

Television: Good Cop and Nice Guy Eddie (BBC); Fated (Ace Films); Keddy appeared in her own driving documentary - Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre; Pot Noodle Advert

Radio/Audio: Brian Jacques’ Redwall; Narrator of the April Ashley Project (Liverpool Museum); Narrator (Chester College); Narrator (BBC Learning); The Witching Hour and 1,000 Feet Deep (Periplum), Culture Knowsley and Patterdale (BBC Radio 4).

Keddy is a member of the vocal group Handbag of Harmonies.

Writing: Tabbard The Musical and Caz ’N’ Britney Present Scottie Road The Musical (From Primark to Prison) and Mis Les (A Revolution In Rollers).

Company Biographies

Jonathan Harvey Writer

Theatre:

Jonathan started his career winning the Liverpool Playhouse / National Girobank Young Writers Award 1987 for his play The Cherry Blossom Tree aged 18.

He has written over twenty plays, including:

Wildfire (Royal Court Theatre, London), Mohair (Royal Court Theatre, London) Beautiful Thing (Bush Theatre, Donmar Warehouse, Duke of York’s Theatre – Winner: John Whiting Award) Babies (Royal Court Theatre, London. Winner – George Devine Award, Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright) Boom Bang a Bang (Bush Theatre) Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club ( ETT, Donmar Warehouse, Criterion Theatre. Winner – Manchester Evening News Award for Best New Play) Swan Song (Hampstead Theatre) Hushabye Mountain (ETT, Hampstead Theatre) Guiding Star (National Theatre)

Out In The Open (Hampstead Theatre) Canary (Liverpool Playhouse, Hampstead Theatre) Corrie! (Lowry Theatre. Winner – Manchester Evening News Award for Best Live Entertainment) Mr Tuesday (Kings Head Theatre) Tomorrow I’ll Be Happy (National Theatre) Our Lady of Blundellsands (Liverpool Everyman)

Jonathan wrote the musicals Closer To Heaven and Musik with Pet Shop Boys. His musical Dusty toured the UK in 2018. His panto Mother Goose recently toured the UK for five months starring Ian McKellen and John Bishop (ATG Productions. Winner – Best Panto, UK Panto Awards)

Television:

Jonathan created and wrote the Bafta nominated sitcom Gimme Gimme Gimme (BBC) and Beautiful People (Winner – Best Comedy, Banff TV Festival) He also wrote the Bafta nominated children’s series Best Friends, based on the novel by Jacqueline Wilson. He is currently on the Bafta winning writing team of Coronation Street

Jonathan won the Writers Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Continuing Drama in 2109 for his episode about the aftermath of Aidan’s suicide, also the British Soap Award for Best Episode and the British Soap Award for Best Scene for Gail’s monologue. The monologue was also nominated for a BAFTA for TV Moment of the Year.

Other TV work includes:

Call The Midwife (BBC) Britannia High (ITV) Shameless (Channel 4) Rev (BBC) Lilies (BBC) At Home With The Braithwaites (ITV) Murder

Most Horrid – Dinner At Tiffany’s (BBC) The Catherine Tate Show (BBC) and Tracey Ullman’s Show (BBC) Birthday Girl (ITV) Von Trapped! (ITV) Panto! (ITV)

Film:

Beautiful Thing (Winner – Best Film, London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. Best Film – Paris Film Festival. Winner – Best Screenplay, Fort Lauderdale Film Festival)

Radio:

For the radio Jonathan has written the play Take That, Lennon and Sid and three series of the sitcom What Does The K Stand For? (with Stephen K Amos)

Books:

Jonathan has written six novels, all published by Pan Macmillan: All She Wants, The Confusion of Karen Carpenter, The Girl Who Just Appeared, The Secrets We Keep, The History of Us and The Years She Stole.

Charity:

Jonathan is a director of Moodswings, a Manchester based charity which helps people recover from mood problems and the severe emotional distress they can cause. He is also a patron of Sahir House, an HIV charity in Liverpool.

Stephen Fletcher Director

Stephen trained at LIPA. As well as his work as an actor, he is also producer of Life In Theatre Productions in Liverpool, is the writer and director of Mam! I’m ’Ere! was a recent Artistic Advisor to The Liverpool Everyman/Playhouse.

Onstage Theatre credits include:

A Life in the Theatre, The Sunshine Boys, The Last 5 Years, Mam! I’m ’Ere! (Life In Theatre Productions); A Streetcar Named Desire, Willy Russell’s Breezeblock Park (Liverpool Playhouse); Eric’s and Dead Heavy Fantastic (Liverpool Everyman); The Scouse Cinderella, The Scouse Nativity, Lennon, Our Day Out, Scouse Pacific, Little Scouse On The Prairie, Stags and Hens 30th Anniversary Remix, Noises Off!, Special Measures, and Canoeing For Beginners (Royal Court, Liverpool); 57 Hours in The House of Culture (The National Theatre Studio); Up on the Roof (Oldham Coliseum / The New Wolsey); Hamlet, Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Liverpool Shakespeare Festival); Cinderella (Liverpool Empire); Mary Stuart (The Donmar and West End); The Safari Party (The New Vic); Comfort (Old Vic); 7 Stories (Etcetera); 100% Bullet Proof (Soho Theatre); John Godber’s Teechers (Dubai); Betwixt: The Musical (The King’s Head); Top of the Heap / Cassanova Returns (Cardiff Global Search For A New Musical Festival); The Wild Party (Edinburgh Fringe); She Loves Me (LIPA) and Falsettoland (NSTC/Edinburgh Festival).

TV Credits include:

Emmerdale, The Liverpool Nativity, BRITZ, All About Me, Kerching, Ricky’s Joke Shop, Heartbeat, Hollyoaks and Coronation Street.

Stephen is also a regular voice for BBC Radio 4, various awards events including BAFTA, and is a member of the Old Vic New Voices Company.

His directing work includes:

Pete Price is Dead, The Royal Court Selection Box, The Pop-Up Panto, Mamet’s A Life In The Theatre, Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys, and Jason Robert Brown’s Broadway musical, The Last 5 Yearsall winning culture and theatre awards- as well as a new cabaret show, Fabaret

His sell-out, one-woman show (co-written by actor and writer, Cath Rice), Our Bev’s Christmas Cracker, won the Echo’s theatre award, and he wrote, produced and directed the disco musical, Mam I’m ’Ere!, under his own production company, Life in Theatre Productions.

During lockdown Stephen co-wrote the web series This is Our Bev, and crowdfunded the money for a Pop-Up Panto schools’ tour which employed local freelancers and entertained hundreds of children in the region.

He is developing a new musical with Liverpool band, Space, and has cowritten an original football musical ForEverton.

He recently directed NHS: The Musical for Plymouth Theatre Royal and RENT The Musical (LIPA).

Follow Stephen on Twitter @SteFletcher1

George Francis Musical Director

George is from Liverpool, UK. He was Musical Supervisor for the Liverpool Everyman Rep Season, and Musical Director for the Grammy and Olivier nominated Amelie the Musical (Watermill/UK Tour/West End). He recently orchestrated, arranged and was music director for brand new musical Now is Good by Tim Firth, for Chester Storyhouse. He was nominated for a WhatsonStage Award for his work as Musical Director on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Whistle Down the Wind. Both Now is Good and Whistle Down the Wind were nominated for UK Theatre Award Best Musical Production.

Additional credits as Musical Director: Fiddler on the Roof (Liverpool Everyman), Miracle on 34th Street (Liverpool Playhouse), Carousel (Mountview), The Wizard of Oz (Chester Storyhouse), John and Jen (Union Theatre), Aladdin/Cinderella (Qdos). George curated, directed and music directed The Everyman Christmas Cabaret, top pick in the Times newspaper and one of the only shows to run socially distanced Christmas 2020.

As AMD on no 1 UK tours: Priscilla Queen of the Desert, The Sound of Music, Blood Brothers and Flashdance

Keyboard credits in the West End include: Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (London Palladium), Grease (Dominion Theatre), The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales, and Amsterdam) Pretty Woman (Savoy Theatre) and Les Miserables UK/International Tour. Pop credits include: Glastonbury Festival, BBC Radio 1xtra, Radio 1’s Big Weekend, Manchester Christmas Light Switch On and CBBC’s Clash.

George led a project about mental health and music direction called Sustain Collective and spoke about it at the first International Music Director Symposium.

Jocelyn Meall Designer

Jocelyn was born in Liverpool and was a member of the Everyman Youth Theatre throughout her teens. She followed her dad Billy into theatre and trained in theatre design at Nottingham Trent graduating in 1990. She went on to design numerous small scale and theatre in education tours for comapanies including Nottingham Playhouse, Contact Theatre, Manchester and Liverpool Playhouse. She also worked with the TiPP centre at Manchester University developing forum based workshops with sets and props for work in the prison and probation service.

In 1997 Jocelyn was awarded an Arts Council of England Design Bursary, based at The Octagon Theatre, Bolton. Her theatre credits include: Kiss of The Spiderwoman, My Children! My Africa!, Talent, Top Girls, Candida, Christmas Carol, Ghost From A Perfect Place (Bolton Octagon), Making It Up (Library Theatre,Manchester); One Fine Day, Noel and Gertie, Skylight, Betrayal, Anorak of Fire and Twelfth Night (Theatre by the Lake, Keswick); Double Top (Hull Truck Theatre); The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, A Little Pinch of Chilli, “Master Harold”...and the Boys, Bouncers, Shakers, Treasure Island, Mother Goose, Dick Whittington and Aladdin twice (Liverpool Everyman).

After a break in her career to have children, she returned to the Everyman to co-design Fiddler On The Roof, The Conquest of the South Pole, The Story Giant and The Sum for Everyman Rep Company 2017. This was followed by co-designing Paint Your Wagon, A Clockwork Orange, Othello and The Big I Am, as well as designing Lost Soul 2 for the Royal Court.

Jocelyn has won awards from the Liverpool Echo and Manchester Evening News for her work.

Jocelyn is delighted to be working back at the Royal Court, where she previously designed Slappers and Slapheads many years ago.

Company Biographies

Kate Harvey

Sound Designer

A list of sound credits include:

Corporate/Outdoor : Labour, Conservative, NUT, TUC and many more conferences. Various exhibitions. Symphony in the Park (Hoghton Tower) Liverpool Theatre Festival (Bill Elms Productions).

TV: Stan James World Match Dartsplay (Sky Sports), Strictly Ballroom (ITV), Danny La Rue (BBC), Spirit of Shankly (Granada DVD).

Cruises : P&O World Cruises, Island Cruises, Celebrity.

Arena : Hot Ice (Stageworks Worldwide Productions); You’ll Never Walk Alone (Alterean Media and Liverpool FC).

Music: The Christians, Chesney Hawkes, Sinita, Slade, Bad Manners, Toyah, Limahl, Cream UK Tour, Petula Clarke, Bobby Crush, East 17, Liberty X, Jane McDonald, Coldplay.

Comedy: Jason Mansford, Peter Kay, Roy Walker, Norman Wisdom, Jim Bowen, Brian Conley, Brendan O’Carroll, Paddy McGuiness.

Live Theatre: Aladdin and Sleeping Beauty (King Georges Hall, Blackburn); Mystique (Stageworks); Original TV Comedians (Blackpool Opera House); Paul Zerdin (Paradise Room Blackpool); Flags (Manchester Exchange); Mam I’m ’Ere (Life in Theatre); Eight Miles High, Council Depot Blues, Bouncers, Night Collar, Our Day Out, Shirley Valentine, Reds and Blues, Lennon, Noises Off, Canoeing for Beginners, Lost Soul, Golden Oldies, The Royal, Scouse Nativity, Girls Don’t Play Guitars (Royal Court Liverpool); Twopence To Cross The Mersey and By The Waters of Liverpool (Pulse Records); Shout! (Max Emmerson Productions); Out of Order and It Runs In The Family (Ray Cooney Comedy Company); Bang Bang (A production for John Cleese at Mercury Theatre, Colchester); Omnibus (Unity Theatre); Judy & Liza National Tour (Produced by Royal Court Liverpool); A Midsummer Nights Dream (Filter Theatre Company/Lyric Hammersmith); Grimm Tales (Dukes Theatre Lancaster).

Jamie Jenkin Video Designer

Jamie is the in-house graphic and video designer at Liverpool’s Royal Court. Starting as marketing assistant at the theatre in 2005, he has been part of the Royal Court since it’s rebirth as a theatre in 2006. He now designs artwork for all Royal Court productions alongside working on video content for the Royal Court stage and beyond.

Video Designs for Theatre include:

Willy Russell’s Our Day Out - The Musical, A Fistful Of Collars, Lennon, Ladies Day, Hitchhikers Guide to Fazakerley, Ladies Night, Canoeing for Beginners, The Scouse Nativity, Father O’Flaherty Saves Our Souls, A Miracle On Great Homer Street, Home, Going Halves, The Royal, The Scouse Cinderella, My Fairfield Lady, Bingo Star, Two Of Us, Royal Court Selection Box, Macca & Beth, The Scouse Sleeping Beauty, The Menlove Avenue Murder Mystery, The Scousetrap, The Scouse Jack & The Beanstalk and Girls Don’t Play Guitars (Liverpool’s Royal Court); Masquerade, Knee Deep In Promises, Hey Bunny Get Loose, Stocking Fillers and Cosmic (Liverpool’s Royal Court Studio); Cured (Liverpool’s Royal Court in association with DaDaFest & Unlimited); The Dream Team and VR Family (Liverpool’s Royal Court Youth Theatre); Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Liverpool Shakespeare Festival); Scouse: A Comedy Of Terrors (Dome Liverpool); Judy & Liza (National Tour); YNWA (Alterean Productions, international tour); The Big I Am (Liverpool Everyman); Celtic The Musical (Alterean Productions, Pavilion Theatre Glasgow and SEC Glasgow); Something About George (Something About Productions, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall and national tour); The Salford Docker (Salford Community Theatre, Lighthouse Salford); Our Country’s Good (Hope St Theatre); and Peter Pan (Storyhouse Chester). Jamie was also Sound Designer on Hey Bunny Get Loose, Offered Up, Stocking Fillers and Cosmic (Liverpool’s Royal Court Studio) and Our Country’s Good (Hope St Theatre).

Beverley Norris-Edmunds Choreographer

For the Royal Court:

The Scousetrap, YNWA, Scouse Sleeping Beauty, Selection Box, Scouse Snow White, Girls don’t play Guitars, Scouse Pacific, Lost Soul 2, Scouse Nativity, Golden Oldies, The Royal, Father O’Flaherty Saves Our Souls, Sex in Suburbia, Canoeing for Beginners, Bouncers, Special Measures, Our Day Out The Musical by Willy Russell (premiered 2009 and 2010), Ladies Night, Good Golly Miss Molly, You’ll Never Walk Alone, Dirty Dustin’, Nightmare on Lime Street, Little Scouse on the Prairie, Brick up the Mersey Tunnels 1 and 2, Merry Ding Dong, Slappers and Slap Heads, Reds ‘n’ Blues

Recent choreography includes:

Marvelous (@Soho Place London and New Vic Theatre); Tom Dick and Harry (Alexandra Palace London and New Vic Theatre); Pride and Prejudice (Grosvenor Open Air Theatre); The Worst Witch - Olivier Award winner 2020 for Best Family Show (Vaudeville Theatre West End and UK Tour, Royal and Derngate Theatre Northampton); Around the World in 80 Days premiered at The New Victory Theatre on Broadway New York after It’s UK Tour starting at The New Vic Theatre (Newcastle -under-Lyme).

Over 50 productions for The New Vic including Alice in Wonderland, The 39 Steps, Beauty and The Beast, Coppellia A Mystery, Sweeney Todd, Oliver, Amadeus. For Northern Broadsides and Touring: Hard Times, For Love or Money, Loves Labours Lost, Much Ado about Nothing and Cyrano (co-production with New Vic).

Oldham Coliseum: Over 50 Productions including Oh What A Lovely War, Up ‘n ‘ Under, Chicago (MEN Theatre Award Winner for Best Ensemble)

Stepping out, Sweet Charity Laurel and Hardy, Blues in the Night

Touring credits include:

Return To The Forbidden Planet, Carmen

TV credits include:

Disney’s The Evermoor Chronicles, Coronation Street, Hollyoaks, CBeebie’s The Magic Door, Butterfly, Sunny D, Fernando Torres Nike Commercial, September Song, Brookside and the feature film O Jerusalem

Beverley has also choreographed numerous productions for The Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse theatres, Bolton Octagon, Hull Truck Theatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Birmingham Rep, Liverpool Empire Theatre, Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Stephen Joseph Theatre Scarborough, Haymarket Theatre Basingstoke, Harrogate Theatre, New Perspective Theatre company and for the award winning Tmesis Theatre, Claybody Theatre and Imaginarium Theatre Company.

Marie Jones Wardrobe Supervisor

Marie studied fashion and then moved on to theatre costume interpretation at Mabel Fletcher College. Marie’s work as a freelance costumier has included costumes for Oldham Coliseum, The Royal Exchange, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Jimmy McGovern’s film Liam, Beyond Friendship for Mersey Television and the many pantomime dames who have appeared on the Everyman stage. She has worked extensively at the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse and has recently been employed as full time Wardrobe Supervisor at the Royal Court. Most recently Marie’s work at the Everyman and Playhouse has included: Much Ado About Nothing, The Electric Hills, The Flint Street Nativity, The Tempest, Unprotected, Billy Liar, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe, Urban Legend, Fly, Breezeblock Park, The Entertainer, Still Life And The Astonished Heart, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Anniversary, Dr Faustus, The May Queen, Cruel Sea and All My Sons

Marie’s other credits include: Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels, Lost Soul, Good Golly Miss Molly, Stags and Hens - The Remix, On The Ledge, Misery, Eight Miles High, Council Depot Blues, Night Collar, Dirty Dusting, Shirley Valentine, Our Day Out - The Musical, The Salon, Funny Money, Merry Ding Dong, A Fistul Of Collars, Lucky Numbers, Lennon, Scouse Pacific, You’ll Never Walk Alone, Little Scouse on the Prairie, Reds And Blues - The Musical, Ladies Day, Bouncers, Scouse Of The Antarctic, Pharaoh ‘Cross The Mersey and Down The Dock Road for Royal Court Liverpool, Brouhaha International Street Festival, Working Class Hero on the recent Imagine DVD, Costume Supervisor for many shows at LIPA, The Splash Project at MYPT and Twopence To Cross The Mersey at the Liverpool Empire.

Karen Brown • Director Bob Eaton

9 June to 8 July 2023 Tickets from £15

Royal Court Staff

Executive Producer Kevin Fearon

Chief Executive Gillian Miller

Finance Director Kevin Dunn

Producer Jess Bolger

Head of Marketing Iain Christie

Executive Chef David Assall

Head of Finance & Administration Gary O’Connor

Finance Officer Alison Ward

Head of Audience Experience Thomas Wright

Graphic Designer & Brand Manager Jamie Jenkin

Assistant Producer Clare Carlucci

Marketing Manager Kofi Ohene-Djan

Social Media Officer Clara Mbirimi

Head of Technical & Production Sean Gannon

Resident Stage Manager Andrew Lock

Artistic Supervisor Jen Baron

Chief LX Jamie Haining

Box Office & Sales Manager Lauren Macauley

Assistant Box Office Manager Laura Lees

Head of Theatre Engagement Miriam Mussa

HR & Wellness Officer Maria Schumann

Participation Project(s) Manager Uma Ramanathan

Costume Supervisor Marie Jones

Workshop Manager John Kavanagh

Finance Administrator Izzie Litwin

Admin Assistant Phil McLoughlin

Youth Theatre Leader Zain Salim

Community Choir Master Jay McWinen

Box Office Assistants Finn Goulden-Jennings, Carl Lees, Scarlett Lees, Amelia Maguire, Anna Miller, Joe Morris, Pat

O’Neill, Susan Segar and Angela Simms

Stage Door Allan Dodd & John Evans.

Royal Court Supporters

Kitchen Head Chef David Assall

Kitchen Supervisors Kyle Wardale, Daniel Awotwi

Chefs Jay Quinn, Josh Eglin, Daniel Ambrose, Jack While, Josh Wardale, Nick Watson

Kitchen Porters Debbie Chisam, Billie Chisam , Daniel Dunn, Nisha Begum, Louise Dodd, Harrison Mclaughlin, Jackie Kirton, Lewis While

Front of House

House Manager Kathryn Heffron

Assistant Manager Kathy Hutson

Supervisors Megan Franey amd Calum Norbury

Bar Supervisor Joe Woods

Courtyard Manager Emma Keig

Assistant Courtyard Manager Paul Imrie

Courtyard Bar Supervisor Michael Martin

Front of House Staff Beth Baccino, Hazel Bawden, Jacob Bee, Kaya Bell, Cameron Brown, Colette Burgess, Joe Carney, Louis

Carney-Smith, Courtney Cook, Aisling Davis, Carl Dillon, Audrey Flynn, Charlotte Freyne, Beth Fry, Michael Hall, Michael Hardy, Jennifer Heffron, Josh Johnson, Laura Jones, Jake Jones, Charlotte

Kendrick, Lizzie Kendrick, Jamie Kenyon, Emma Laverty, Phil Lyne, Sam Massen, Tegan Meek, Phil McLoughlin, Amy McCutcheon, Faye McCutcheon, Mia Molloy, Alison Myers, Ciara Naughton, Joe O’Neil, Brea O’Donnell, Kayleigh Oulton, Jamie Peacock, Jake Pendleton, Millie Quayle, Declan Redmond, Katie Sherman, Georgia Slater, Charis Stead, Aiva Tamborini, Hebron Tedros, Annie Wardale, Alex Williams, Hannah Wright, Amy Wright, and Gina Zotova

Courtyard Staff

Jordan Barkley, Stephen Dixon, Zoe Darracott, Faith Dawson, Chloe Thorpe, Aimee Kelly, Keira Tann and Jasmin Ward

Cleaners Cleaning Supervisor: Debbie Chisam, Billie Chisam, Carla Cole, Joanne Kinsella, Kevin Tristram and Nick Watson

And a big thank you to all of our security staff for their hard work throughout the year.