ARTISTIC DIRECTOR MICK GORDON Mick Gordon is Artistic Director of On Theatre and On Film. He was Trevor Nunn's Associate Director at the Royal National Theatre and was Director of the National's Transformation Season. Previously he was Artistic Director of London’s Gate Theatre. Awards include Critics Circle Award for Most Promising Newcomer and the Peter Brook Award for Most Outstanding Theatre. AS WRITER AND DIRECTOR: Pressure Drop (On Identity) with Billy Bragg (Wellcome Collection London), On Emotion with Paul Broks (Soho Theatre London), On Religion with AC Grayling, (Soho Theatre London, Europalia Festival Belgium, Lucille Lortel Theatre New York, Melbourne Theatre Company and BBC Radio 4), On Ego with Paul Broks, (Soho Theatre London, National Theatre Lisbon), On Love in Uzbekistan (Ilkhom Theatre Tashkent), On Love (Gate Theatre London and BBC Radio 4), On Death with Marie de Hennezel (Gate Theatre London and Wellcome Collection). AS DIRECTOR, THEATRE INCLUDES: Sweeney Todd (Aarhus Theatre Denmark), The Home Place (Lyric Theatre Belfast), Deep Cut (Sherman Theatre Cardiff, Traverse Theatre Edinburgh, Tricycle Theatre London), Grimms Tales (Dusko Radovic Belgrade/Belgrade Annual Theatre Prize, Best Production), Dancing at Lughnasa (Lyric Theatre Belfast), Optic Trilogy, A Play in Swedish, English and Italian (Dramatan Theatre Stockholm), War, Lovers, The Real Thing, Betrayal (Strindberg Theatre Stockholm/Critics Award Best Production) A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Walls, Le Pub! (National Theatre London) Monkey! (Young Vic Theatre London), Trust (Royal Court Theatre London), Salome (Riverside Studios London), Godspell (Chichester Festival Theatre), My Fair Lady, Closer, Art (National Theatre Buenos Aires/Three ACE Awards for Best Production), Volunteers, Marathon, Une Tempete (Gate Theatre London), Measure for Measure (English Touring Theatre), Hamlet, The Tales of Hoffman (National Theatre Studio), Renard (National Youth Ballet), The Promise, Arabian Nights (BAC), The Soldiers Tale (Institut Francais), Alice in Wonderland, Jungle Town (Oxford Playhouse). ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER HAYDON Christopher is the associate director of On Theatre and an associate artist at the Bush Theatre. He studied at Cambridge University and trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, the National Theatre Studio, the Lincoln Centre in New York and with Cicely Berry at the RSC. In 2007 he was awarded the inaugural Chichester Festival Theatre Heller Fellowship and a Channel 4 Regional Theatre Director's Bursary to spend a year on attachment at the Salisbury Playhouse. AS DIRECTOR, THEATRE INCLUDES: Pressure Drop (On Theatre/Wellcome Collection); Deep Cut (Sherman Cymru/National Tour); Monsters (Arcola Theatre), A Number (Salisbury Playhouse); Grace (British Council/On Theatre, Theatre Du Poche, Brussels, Belgium); Notes from Underground (Arcola Theatre). AS ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Macbeth starring Patrick Stewart (Chichester Festival Theatre and West End), Twelfth Night (Chichester Festival Theatre), Othello, Touched, What the Butler Saw, Robin Hood (Salisbury Playhouse), On Religion (Soho Theatre/On Theatre), The Desire Tree (Oxford Playhouse/Tumanishvili Theatre, Tbilisi, Georgia) The Found Man (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh). He is also an award-winning arts journalist and has written for the Scotsman, the Financial Times, Prospect Magazine and the Guardian Online. His books included Conversation on Religion and Conversations on Truth (both published by Continuum) and Identity and Identification (published by Black Dog and the Wellcome Collection). ARTISTIC COLLABORATOR ATHINA KASIOU Athina’s directing credits include: Karagiozes Exposed (Arcola Theatre, Divaldo Na Pradle Prague, Experimental Stage of National Theatre of Cyprus) Mr Marmalade –stage reading (Finborough Theatre) Tasting Apples/ Who Stole Mee? (Canal Café Theatre) Laba Laba (ISI, Bali) Action by Shepard (Semel Theatre, Boston) Assisting directing credits include: Gianni Schicchi and Yolanta – opera ( Royal Academy of Music) Private Jokes, Public Places ( The New End Theatre) Hamlet, the Outsider (Southwark Playhouse) Our Lady of 121st Street (Speakeasy). Athina holds an MFA in Theatre Directing from Middlesex University and a BA from Emerson College, with further training at GITIS Academy of Dramatic Arts Moscow, ISI Indonesian Art Institute in Bali. She is the founder of Open Arts theatre www.openartstheatre.com, with the aim of theatrical international exchange.		ON THEATRE'S BOARD GAVIN IRWIN Gavin Irwin has been involved with On-Theatre since its inception and is Chairman of the Board of Trustees. He is a barrister specialising in financial crime and also represents young and vulnerable defendants charged with murder, rape and other serious offences. In addition, he teaches advocacy skills to both new and established barristers and is training to become a mediator. Gavin's involvement with On-Theatre provides continuity of management and rigorous financial oversight. He takes the lead role in expanding and developing the Board to build on the company's considerable success. JOSEPH SMITH Joesph Smith is Executive Producer for Old Vic Productions in London where he represents the company in its role as co-producer of Billy Elliot the Musical in London, New York and Chicago. He was also one of the lead producers on the London production of Spring Awakening. Previous to working for OVP; Associate Producer for Ron Kastner (RJK Productions) in New York where credits include Gypsy, Life x3, Retreat from Moscow and Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads. Off Broadway, produced Gutenberg! The Musical! at 59e59 in New York that went on to transfer to the Actors Playhouse. Also Off Broadway; Cycling Past the Matterhorn by Deborah Grimberg, starring Shirley Knight and three new plays; Mayhem by Kelly Stuart, Sweetness by Gary Sunshine and Map Makers Sorrow by Chris Lee all at Theatre Row, 42nd Street. Was also a Producer at the Royal National Theatre in London for 10 years where he produced plays both nationally and internationally culminating in producing the Transformation Season with Mick Gordon for Trevor Nunn. The season included 13 world premier productions including the Olivier Award winning Play without Words by Matthew Bourne. ADAM GLASS Adam is a Partner specialising in Litigation and Rights at the West End firm Davenport Lyons. His background is music and drama and he advises On Theatre on intellectual property rights. NINA STEIGER Nina Steiger is Director of the Soho Theatre's Writers' Centre, identifying, commissioning and developing new plays and projects for production. She worked for seven years in New York and American regional theatres with Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York Stage & Film and Hartford Stage Company, The Foundry Theatre, proto-type theatre and Manhattan Theatre Club among others. Nina is also a freelance dramaturg, on the advisory editorial boards of Brand literary journal and Theatre Forum magazine and serves as a judge for various writing competitions and awards. She has contributed to numerous publications in the UK and US and is a Board member for proto-type theater, an International Affiliate Member of the League of Professional Theatre Women and a consultant for the UK Style Council. As a writer, her work has been commissioned, produced and published in London, New York and Montreal. TARA CARRINGTON-HULL Tara Carrington-Hull is a theatre producer and is a director of Benny Productions. Her most recent productions include ‘The Rise and Fall of Little Voice’ at The Vaudeville Theatre and Alistair McGowan’s ‘Timing’ – both for Nica Burns Productions (Nimax) as Associate Producer. Most recently for the RSC: Othello directed by Kathryn Hunter , The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes by Adriano Shaplin and The Cordelia Dream by Marina Carr. Other productions for the RSC include: The Crucible, Women Beware Women, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, King John, The Winter’s Tale and Pericles. New work includes Days of Significance by Roy Williams, The Indian Boy by Rona Munro, God in Ruins by Anthony Neilson, I’ll Be The Devil by Leo Butler, Trade by Debbie Tucker Green, Nowhere to Belong by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Breakfast with Mugabe by Fraser Grace, Postcards from America with Elective Affinities by David Adjimi, Eric Larue by Brett Neveu and The American Pilot by David Grieg. For The Peter Hall Company – Design for Living, Betrayal, Cuckoos, The Fight for Barbara and As You Like It. She was producer for The Gate Theatre 2000-2002. Director of The Foundry Production Company – Productions include The Knocky by Michael Wynne, Happy Valley by Crispin Whittell, Never Land by Phyllis Nagy and In A Little World of Our Own by Gary Mitchell. CHARLES GLANVILLE Charles Glanville was Vice President Legal at InterContinental Hotels Group. He is the Managing Director of Oberon Books, the world's leading publisher of new drama. And is also a trustee of Birmingham Royal Ballet and the Yorkshire Ballet Summer School. PETER BLAKE Peter Blake is a brand and business consultant working with clients to redesign their business, reinvent their brand or reinvigorate their communications. He works with large and small; public and private; inveterate and entrepreneurial and has delivered new thinking and survival strategies for The Financial Times, The Fat Duck, the NHS, Clipper Teas, Universal Music and Oxfam. Pete ran his first consulting outfit from 1991 and set up his first creative agency in 1995. He learnt brand strategy with Interbrand and did his dotcom years with IBM. In 2005 he joined brand communications agency The Team, where he built a top ten digital design agency from the ground up. He now works with On Theatre, Julie’s Bicycle, The Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion and with carbon footprinting consultancy Best Foot Forward.
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