Bingo Star Show Programme

Starring Emma Bispham, Eithne Browne, Lindzi Germain and Keddy Sutton

Written by Jonathan Harvey

Directed by Stephen Fletcher

Designed by Jocelyn Meall • Lighting Design by Pete Bragg • Sound Design by Kate Harvey • Video Design by Jamie Jenkin £1

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

Open Monday to Saturday Breakfast served 10am to 12pm Lunch served 12pm to 3pm Tea, Coffee, Homemade Cakes, Soups & Sandwiches

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

Rehearsal Photos

Photographs by LIverpool’s Royal Court

Iain Christie

Emma Bird

Howard Gray

Olivia Du Monceau

Douglas Kuhrt

Kate Harvey

Jamie Jenkin

Marie Jones

Natasha Gooden

Helen Carter

Paul Duckworth

Paige Fenlon

Jonathan Markwood

Alan Stocks

Keddy Sutton

Writer Director

Musical Director Designer

Lighting Designer

Sound Designer

Video Designer

Wardrobe Supervisor

Choreographer

Workshop Manager

John Kavanagh

Scenic Art Manager

Jen Baron

Cast Company Workshop

Debbie Tony Bella

Keyboard Keith Arthur Lesley

Sean Gannon

Andrew Lock

Alicia Southerton

Snowzie Rose

Helena Harvey

Dan Walters

Liam McGrath

Jamie Haining

Head of Technical and Production

Stage Manager

Deputy Stage Manager

Assistant Stage Manager

LX Op

LX Op

Sound Op

LX Programmer

Carpenters

Mick Gunnigle

Jonathan Defty

Mike Gray

Dave Davies Runner

Stephen Pettit

Scenic Artists

Abbie Jones

Chris McCourt

Emma Sharpe

Thanks to Tom Connor and Les Dennis

Cast Biographies

Helen Carter Debbie

Helen has been working in theatre for 15 years as an actor, having performed many times on the Liverpool Royal Court stage.

Helen trained at LAMDA. Her theatre credits include:

My Fairfield Lady (Royal Court Liverpool); The Last Testament of Lillian Billoca (Hull Truck Theatre); Beauty and The Beast and Aladdin (Hope Street Theatre, Drops of Light); The Star (The Liverpool Playhouse Theatre); Father O’Flaherty Save Our Souls (Royal Court Liverpool); Mam I’m ‘Ere (Royal Court Liverpool); Scouse of the Antarctic (Royal Court Liverpool); The Sunshine Boys (Epstein Theatre;/Life in Theatre Productions); Word:Play Tour (Box of Tricks Theatre Company); The Last 5 Years (Life in Theatre Productions); The Gatekeeper (The Royal Exchange Theatre); Dead Heavy Fantastic (Liverpool Everyman) ; No Wise Men (Liverpool Playhouse); Hatch (Bolton Octogon/24:7 Theatre Festival); Dad’s Army Marches On (Calibre Productions Tour); Once Upon a Time at the Adelphi (Liverpool Playhouse); The Flint Street Nativity (Liverpool Playhouse) Top Girls (Royal Court Theatre London 50th Anniversary performance); The Honest Whore (William Poel Prize; The Globe Theatre; London).

TV Credits include:

The Last Testament of Lillian Billoca (BBC Television); Wallander (Left Bank Pictures); Doctors (BBC Television);Beaten ( Coastal Productions);Judge John Deed (BBC Television); A470 (S4C)

Film:

96 Ways to Say I Love You (Daisy Aitkens and Georgia Moffet)

Paul Duckworth

Theatre credits include:

Grand Old Lady (Epstein Theatre); The Big I Am, Othello, Paint Your Wagon (Everyman Rep Company); Beating Berlusconi, Twelfth Night, Bright Phoenix, The May Queen, Urban Legend, Sweeney Todd (Everyman Theatre Liverpool); A Barry White Christmas (Liverpool Echo Arena); Sink or Swim, Baron Munchhausen, Backwater, Jason & the Argonauts, The Man Who Cracked (Spike Theatre Company); Mam I’m Ere (Life in Theatre Productions); Reds And Blues The Musical, Little Scouse on the Prairie, Scouse Pacific, Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels, Down The Dock Road, Father O’Flaherty Saves Our Souls, The Lonesome West, The Scouse Nativity, The Scouse Cinderella, Yellow Breck

Road and The Menlove Avenue Murder Mystery (Liverpool’s Royal Court); Family Business (M6 Theatre Company); The Quiet Little Englishman (ZHO Productions); Microdots (Contact Theatre Manchester); The Corrupted Angel, The Golden Boy (Base Chorus); River Fever (Unity Theatre Liverpool); My Bit of Sky (M.Y.P.T) and Horrible Histories (Christmas 2019, Blackpool Opera House).

Television credits include:

The Courtroom (Lime Pictures); Brookside (Mersey Television), The 4 O’Clock Club (CBBC).

Film credits include:

I’ve Got A Bad Feeling About This, Donohue, Reds and Blues, Backbeat, To Know Him (short film).

Paige Fenlon

Actress, singer and dancer Paige hails from Northwest England.

Paige recently appeared in Berlin Berlin as Josephine Baker at Admiralspalast in Berlin.

Further credits include: Identical: The Parent Trap Musical (Nottingham Playhouse, The Lowry) Luisa in Zorro (Charing Cross Theatre); Pretty Woman (Savoy Theatre); Oklahoma! (Chichester Festival Theatre); and Rafaela/Alma in Elegies for Punks, Angels and Raging Queens (Union Theatre).

Paige was the runner up in the Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year Award 2019.

Training: Bird College.

Jonathan Markwood Keyboard Keith

Jonathan is delighted to be back at the Royal Court where his previous appearances include Girls Dont Play Guitars, Lennon, Laurel & Hardy and Noises Off

Other theatre includes: Votes For Women (New Vic Theatre) The Lost Boy (Theatre In The Quarter) Our Gracie (Oldham Coliseum & New Vic) Dr Prospero in 25th Anniversary of Return To The Forbidden Planet (No. 1 Tour), The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Bussey Building, London), Satin & Steel, Peter Pan, The Hound Of The Baskervilles (Queens Theatre, Hornchurch) Taming Of The Shrew (Open Air Theatre, Regents Park), The Importance Of Being Earnest (Northampton Royal) The Mousetrap (St Martins Theatre, West End, London), A Midsummer Nights Dream and Comedy Of Errors (both

at Ludlow Festival) In The Midnight Hour (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry & No.1 Tour) Return To The Forbidden Planet (New Vic Stoke)

Romeo & Juliet, Private Lives, Keep On Running, Kind Hearts & Coronets, Twelfth Night and Corpse! (all at The Queens Theatre, Hornchurch)

TV appearances include: Peaky Blinders, Coronation Street, Doctors, Home Fires, Tina & Bobby, DCI Banks, Hollyoaks, Fresh Meat, Merseybeat, Eastenders, Peak Practice, Londons Burning, Spatz and My Dads The Prime Minister. On film his credits include Oscar and Lucinda (Fox Pictures) and the lead role of David Taylor in Francis Harrimans film Go With God (Arrondissment Productions) for which he won Best Actor at the Global Revolution Film Festival, New York.

Jonathan’s band Hoo-Hah Conspiracy recently supported Corduroy on their tour of the UK and are favourites on the festival circuit. They have also been featured on BBC Music Introducing with songs from their critically acclaimed new album ‘Television For Trees’ which is available on Spotify, Apple Music and selected stores of HMV.

Alan Stocks Arthur

Alan trained at RADA.

Theatre credits include:

Measure for Measure, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and the Merchant of Venice (Royal Shakespeare Company); Twelfth Night (Lyric Belfast); End of the Food Chain (Stephen Joseph Theatre) and Nervous Breakdown (Warehouse Theatre). He recently toured Tartuffe on an ETT national tour, A Barry White Christmas (Liverpool Echo Arena). Dennis in Calendar Girls (touring). Credits for the Everyman & Playhouse include: Midsummer Nights Dream, Hope Place, Twelfth Night, Held, A Streetcar Named Desire, Tartuffe, Flint Street

Nativity, Sleeping Beauty, Love at a Loss, ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore, Wild Wild Women, Trojan Women and Dead Heavy Fantastic

Merry Ding Dong, Little Scouse On The Prairie, Scouse Pacific, A Fistful Of Collars, Funny Money, Night Collar, Reds And Blues The Musical, Slappers And Slapheads, Ladies Night, Mam! I’m ‘Ere! , Father O’Flaherty Saves Our Souls and Scouse of the Rising Sun (Royal Court Liverpool).

Television credits include:

Moving On, Phone Shop, Casualty 1907, Kingdom, Robin Hood, Ghost Boat, Blue Blood, Wire in the Blood, The Plan Man, Rome, Merseybeat, This Little Life, Auf Wiedersehen Pet, City Central, Dad, Drop the Dead Donkey, Murder in Mind, North Square, Sins, Dockers, This Life, Wycliffe, Grushko, The Day Today, Soldier Soldier, Conviction, Between the Lines, Sweet Nothing and You Me And Him amongst others. He recently appeared in an episode of Vera

Film credits include:

Memory of Water, The Birthday Girl, Under Suspicion, Trigger Puller, The Pond and Look At Me I’m Beautiful

Radio credits include:

Tartuffe and The Ladykillers

Keddy Sutton Lesley

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

Iain Christie Writer

Bingo Star is the first full length play that Iain has had produced. He prepared for it by working as Head of Marketing at Liverpool’s Royal Court for almost twenty years. He took part in the theatre’s Stage Write Playwright Development Programme in 2021, which led directly to this opportunity. He co-wrote Nige’s Guide To The Capital Of Culture at Unity Theatre in 2007. He has also written another stage play, Overmorrow, and a number of shopping lists.

Emma Bird Director

Emma has directed critically acclaimed productions at Brighton, Manchester and Liverpool Fringe Festivals. Notable recent productions are New Dawn Fades: A Play about Joy Division and Manchester by Brian Gorman, (Dancehouse Theatre, Manchester 2018); King of the World by Brian Coyle (Liverpool & Manchester Fringe Festivals, 2018); Two by Jim Cartwright (Manchester Fringe Festival 2018); Bleeding with Mother by Sarah Cassidy (53Two, Manchester 2017); We Apologise for the Inconvenience by Mark Griffiths, (3MT, Manchester, 2017); A Passion for Rationals (Sara Harris, Brighton Fringe Festival 2014); Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo; Hey Bunny Get Loose and Stocking Fillers (Liverpool’s Royal Court Studio)..

Emma began her acting career in 1990. Featuring in a lead role alongside Pete Postlethwaite, in BBC screenplay, Needle. Written by Jimmy McGovern and directed by Gillies MacKinnon. She was series regular Maxine Price in Casualty (1992). Short films and features followed through her work with director Sandra Goldbacher in Seventeen (with Rachel Weisz, 1996), Piccadilly Circus by Night and The Governess (with Minnie Driver, 1997).

Notable theatre work includes The Good Hope alongside Frances de la Tour at The Royal National Theatre and UK tour, (2002); David Mamet’s Oleanna (Norwich Playhouse) and The Woods (The Finborough Theatre); Educating Rita (Norwich Playhouse) and Terms of Abuse (Hampstead Theatre).

Emma founded Liverpool Comedy Improv in 2015 teaching mprovisation to all. www.liverpoolcomedyimprov.co.uk

Howard Gray Musical Director

For the Royal Court, Howard has been the Musical Director for Homebaked,Lennon, Our Day Out, You’ll Never Walk Alone,

Eight Miles High, Sons Of The Desert, Council Depot Blues, Reds And Blues, Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels, The Scouse Nativity, Maggie May, The Scouse Cinderella and Scouse Pacific amongst many others. He has also directed two Royal Court Christmas shows Pharaoh ’Cross The Mersey and Scouse Of The Antarctic and subsequently tours of One Night In Istanbul and Celtic The Musical He has been associate artist at the Octagon Theatre in Bolton and was musical director for Blonde Bombshells Of 1943, a co-production with Hampstead Theatre, which won the Manchester Evening News Best Production for 2006. The show has subsequently toured nationally and internationally.

Other work at the Octagon includes: Looking For Buddy, Little Voice, Once Upon A Time In Wigan, Oh What A Lovely War, The Song Of Singapore, Danny, Champion Of The World, and I Just Stopped By To See The Man.

At the Coliseum Theatre in Oldham: Bread And Roses, The Ladykillers, Our Gracie, Close The Coalhouse Door, Martha, Josie And The Chinese Elvis, Dick Barton Special Agent, Union Street, Women On The Verge Of HRT, Private Lives, Feed, The Road To Nab End, Sweet Charity, and Brassed Off. Also a hatful of rock’n’roll muiscals and pantomimes.

At the New Vic in Stoke: A Taste Of Honey, The Admirable Crichton, and Spring And Port Wine amongst many others.

Other work includes any number of pantos at the Liverpool Everyman and Harrogate Theatre.

Howard has worked on two of Dave Kirby’s films, Fifteen Minutes That Shook The World and Reds And Blues.

Plus productions at Opera North, the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Royal Exchange, Theatre Clywd, Coventry Belgrade, Worcester Swan, York Theatre Royal, Lancaster Dukes, Live Theatre Newcastle and Stephen Joseph Scarborough.

Howard is the creative director of Alterean Media.

Olivia Du Monceau Designer

Olivia du Monceau is a North West based Set and Costume designer. Alongside theatre she has created designs for exhibitions, events and art installations. Recent theatre collaborations include New Vic Theatre, HOME Mcr, Nottingham Playhouse, Southwark Playhouse, and Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse, Liverpool Culture Company. This is her 8th design for the Liverpool Royal Court with previous shows including Father O’Flaherty, Lonesome West, A Miracle on Great Homer Street, Yellow Breck Road, My Fairfield Lady, Scouse Snow White and Royal Court Selection Box, Scouse Sleeping Beauty and Homebaked. Example of her work can be found at www. oliviadumonceau.com

Douglas Kuhrt

Lighting Designer

Douglas has recently lit: Unfortunate (We Are Fat Rascal); Robin Hood and the Babes in The Wood (Oldham Coliseum); Strange Tale (Imaginarium, Shakespeare North); Masquerade (Epstien) Robin Hood (Liverpool Everyman); Peter Pan (Eden Court, Inverness); Greeks (Unicorn)

Other credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest, Puss in Boots (CBeebies); The Pitmen Painters (The Duchess Theatre, National Theatre and Broadway); Cinderella (Eden Court, Inverness); A Christmas Carol (Liverpool Playhouse); The Importance of Being Earnest (Lawrence Batley Theatre); Stiletto Beach (Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch); Two Pence to Cross The Mersey, Lennons Banjo (Epstein); They Don’t Pay, We Won’t Pay (Northern Broadsides); I Told My Mum I Was Going On An R.E. Trip (20 Stories High); The Broke N Beat Collective (Theatre Rites/20 Stories High); 19 x Rock N Roll pantos (Liverpool Everyman); 7 x Pantos (Oldham Coliseum); Last Of The Duty Free, Black Coffee (Bill Kenwright Ltd); Black, Whole (20 Stories High); The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice (Hull Truck Theatre); Pinocchio (Polka Theatre); Road Movie (Starving Artists), Educating Rita (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow); Geoff Dead: Disco for Sale (Live Theatre, Newcastle); Depth Charge (Gecko Theatre);The Deranged Marriage (Rifco); Tom, Dick and Harry (Duke of York’s Theatre, London); Zipp! (Duchess Theatre, London); Fascinating Aida (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Home and Beauty (Lyric Theatre, London); Dreaming (Queen’s Theatre Shaftesbury Avenue, London) and Naked Justice (West Yorkshire Playhouse).

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 designed artwork for over 100 shows.

Video Designs for Theatre include:

Willy Russell’s Our Day Out - The Musical, A Fistul 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, 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 and Stocking Fillers (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 and Stocking Fillers (Liverpool’s Royal Court Studio) and Our Country’s Good (Hope St Theatre).

Natasha Gooden

Choreographer

A part of the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony as a professional dancer, X Factor with JLS & One Direction, Mish B ‘Home Run’ Music Video, Ministry Of Sound advert; The House The Garage Built (UK tour) as a dancer with Diversity, performed on Strictly Come Dancing, Got To Dance Sky1 finalists with girl crew Boadicea.

West End/Theatre shows include: Some Like it Hip Hop (UK Tour - Zoonation Kate Prince Company); Into The Hoods Remixed (UK Tour - Zoonation Kate Prince Company); Varmints (Sadlers Wells Theatre); Message In A Bottle (European tour - Zoonation Kate Prince Company); BWG (Touring UK, New York, Germany & Taiwan - Boy Blue Entertainment Company, Kenrick H2o Sandy); Eve’s Story (Royal Court Theatre Liverpool); NeverLand (Tuckshopdancetheatre - Lauren Tucker).

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.

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

Technical Manager Matthew Masson

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 Mick Bawden

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, Amelia Maguire, Anna Miller, Joe Morris, Pat O’Neill, Susan Segar, Angela Simms and Karen Young

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.