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WHO’S WHO
Best Picture of the 1992 Berlin Film Festival.
Nominated for four Academy Awards and six
Writers Guild Awards, Kasdan was honored
by the Writers Guild of America with its Laurel
Award for advancing the literature of motion
pictures. In 2013, Kasdan joined creative forces
with JJ Abrams to co-write Star Wars: Episode
VII-The Force Awakens, the new entry in the
worldwide phenomenon that is the Star Wars saga.
ALEXANDER DINELARIS (Book) is an
Academy Award® and Golden Globe winner for
the screenplay of Birdman (or The Unexpected
Virtue of Ignorance). He is the co-creator and
executive producer of the series “The One
Percent” for MRC, starring Ed Helms, Hilary
Swank and Ed Harris. He is currently adapting
the novel Entering Hades into a feature film
with Michael Fassbender. His film The Year of
the Monarchs is currently in development with
Mandalay Entertainment. Alexander is also
the book writer of Gloria and Emilio Estefan’s
Broadway musical On Your Feet! Other recent
work includes his plays Red Dog Howls (New
York Theater Workshop), Still Life (Manhattan
Class Company), The Chaos Theories (Shotgun
Theater) and In This, Our Time (59e59). Dinelaris
is a proud member of the Writers Guild and the
Dramatists Guild.
THEA SHARROCK (Director) In 2000 Thea
won the young director of the year award, directing
Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls, which transferred to
the West End and toured the U.K. twice. Thea
was Britain’s youngest artistic director when she
took over the Southwark Playhouse, before going
on to be the artistic director of the Gate Theatre.
As a freelance director, her credits include Equus
with Daniel Radcliffe (also Broadway), The
Misanthrope with Keira Knightley, Heroes with
John Hurt, and Richard Griffiths in his last stage
performance in The Sunshine Boys with Danny
DeVito, as well as Kevin Spacey in his last show at
the Old Vic. Her production of After the Dance for
the National Theatre won eight major awards. She
directed Henry V starring Tom Hiddleston for Sam
Mendes/Neal Street and the BBC. The Bodyguard
is currently playing all over the world. Her first film,
Me Before You, was released this summer.
TIM HATLEY (Set & Costume Designer)
Tony Awards®: Private Lives and Shrek The
Musical (Broadway). Olivier Awards: Stanley and
Private Lives (West End). Drama Desk Awards:
Spamalot, Shrek The Musical and Private Lives.
Theatre includes: Ghosts (BAM/Almeida), Little
Eyolf (Almeida), Spamalot (Broadway, West
End), Shrek The Musical (Broadway, West
End), Temple (Donmar), Mr Foote’s Other
Leg (West End), Betty Blue Eyes (West End),
Quartermaine’s Terms (West End), An Enemy of
the People and The Pajama Game (Chichester/
West End), Singin’ in the Rain, My Fair Lady
(Chatelet, Paris), The Crucible (Broadway),
Endgame, Lucie Cabrol (Complicite), Mrs Klein
(Almeida), Carmen, Don Quixote (Royal Ballet).
Film: Stage Beauty, Closer, Notes on a Scandal.
KAREN BRUCE (Choreographer) is an
Olivier Award-winning choreographer and
director. Her recent work in the West End and on
U.K. tour includes: The Last Tango, Dance ‘til
Dawn, Midnight Tango, Love Me Tender, Never
Forget, Saturday Night Fever, Footloose and The
Wedding Singer. For Television: Strictly Come
Dancing (BBC-seven seasons); So You Think
You Can Dance (BBC-two seasons); Toast (BBC
Film); Children in Need (BBC) and The Voice
(BBC). Her awards include an Olivier Award
for Best Choreography for Pacific Overtures
(Donmar Warehouse, London) and the TMA
Best Musical Award for Sweet Charity (Sheffield
Crucible, England).
MARK HENDERSON (Lighting Designer)
was the recipient of the 1992, 1995, 2000, 2002,
2010 and 2016 Laurence Olivier Awards for
Lighting Design, was awarded a Tony Award® in
2006 for The History Boys and has also received
a Welsh BAFTA. Has lit extensively for all the
major theatre, opera and dance companies in
the U.K. including over 60 productions for the
National Theatre and over 70 in the West End
together with over 20 Broadway productions.
Recent productions include Funny Girl and
Sunset Boulevard in the West End and a Chekhov
trilogy at the National Theatre.
RICHARD BROOKER (Sound Designer)
Previous productions include: Dreamgirls (West
End), Funny Girl (West End), What’s It All
About? (Close To You) Bacharach Reimagined
(West End), The Last Tango (UK Tour), Bend It
like Beckham (West End), Annie (UK Tour), The
Bodyguard (West End & UK Tour & Cologne),
Made in Dagenham (West End), Dance ‘til Dawn
(West End & UK Tour), Sweeney Todd (West
Yorkshire Playhouse), Fiddler on the Roof (UK
Tour), Avenue Q (Korea), Back Beat (Toronto
and Los Angeles), Chess (Toronto), The Sound of
Music (Moscow), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (West
End), Jesus Christ Superstar (UK and Spain
National Tours).
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