WHO’S WHO in the CAST
Peter Pan Goes Wrong (BBC1, West End/U.K. tour/
Pleasance London—nominated for Best New Comedy
at the Olivier Awards 2016), The Comedy About a Bank
Robbery (West End—nominated for Best New Comedy
at the Olivier Awards 2017). Christmas Carol Goes
Wrong (BBC1), Royal Variety Performance (ITV),
Keep It in the Family (ITV), Mischief Movie Night (West
End/ U.K. tour—nominated for Best New Comedy
at the Olivier Awards 2018), actor and producer for
Mercury Fur (Trafalgar Studios—nominated for Best
Production Off-West End Awards), actor for Beasts &
Beauties (Hampstead Theatre) and producer of Tracy
Letts’ Superior Donuts (Southwark Playhouse—winner
of Peter Brook Empty Space Award).
JONATHAN SAYER (Co-Author). Training:
LAMDA. Jonathan is an Olivier Award-winning writer
and the company director of Mischief Theatre working
as a writer, actor and producer. Theater includes
Mischief Movie Night (Arts Theatre), The Comedy
About a Bank Robbery (Criterion Theatre), The Play
That Goes Wrong (Lyceum Theatre, Broadway run
Duchess Theatre, West End run, U.K. and international
tour—writer/actor, Olivier Awards and Whats
On Stage Awards Best New Comedy), Peter Pan
Goes Wrong (U.K. tour and West End—writer/actor),
The Nativity Goes Wrong (writer, Mischief Theatre
and Reading Rep co-production), Lights! Camera!
Improvise! (various venues, actor, improviser, producer,
Spirit of the Fringe Award 2013, Best Improv
Show Award 2012) and Happy Birthday Simon
(Orange Tree, actor). Television includes “Peter Pan
Goes Wrong” (BBC One, writer/actor/associate producer),
“The Royal Variety Performance: The Play
That Goes Wrong” (ITV, writer and actor), “Keep It
in the Family” (writer, ITV), “A Christmas Carol Goes
Wrong” (BBC One, writer/actor). Radio includes The
Christmas Show That Goes Wrong (BBC radio two).
HENRY SHIELDS (Co-Author) trained at LAMDA.
He is an award-winning writer and has been a member
of Mischief Theatre since 2009. Theater includes
The Play That Goes Wrong (writer/actor, winner 2015
Olivier Award and WhatsOnStage Award for Best
New Comedy), Peter Pan Goes Wrong (writer/actor,
2016 Olivier Award nominee for Best New Comedy),
The Comedy About a Bank Robbery (actor/writer,
2017 Olivier Award nominee Best New Comedy),
Mischief Movie Night (actor, 2018 Olivier Award
nominee for Best New Comedy), The Nativity Goes
Wrong (writer), The Comedy About a Bank Robbery
(writer/actor) and The Busy Body (Southwark
Playhouse). Television includes “The Royal Variety
Performance 2016: The Play That Goes Wrong,”
“Holby City” (BBC), “Keep It in the Family” (ITV),
“Peter Pan Goes Wrong” (BBC) and “A Christmas
Carol Goes Wrong” (BBC). Henry is currently working
on, and developing, a number of new projects.
MATT DiCARLO (Tour Director) is overjoyed that
things are going Wrong all over North America! As the
Production Stage Manager, Matt helmed the Broadway
production of The Play That Goes Wrong for the first
year and a half of its run. He served as the Associate
Director for the 2017–2018 national tour of the Tony
Award-winning revival of The Color Purple, which
he also stage managed on Broadway. Other Broadway
credits include Honeymoon in Vegas and Rock of Ages.
Regional theater work includes world premieres at La
Jolla Playhouse and American Conservatory Theater,
and 12 productions at Paper Mill Playhouse. Matt
has his B.F.A. from Rutgers University and is on the
faculty at SUNY Purchase. He has supervised dozens
of events with Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS,
Target and David Stark Design. Matt is endlessly grateful
to the producers of The Play That Goes Wrong and
to Mischief Theatre, for giving us the outlet and opportunity
to make people laugh. Love to Joey.
MARK BELL (Original Broadway Director).
Trained at École Internationale de Théâtre, Jacques
Lecoq and was co-Artistic Director of Liquid Theatre.
Liquid shows include If You Were Mine (ACW),
Feeding Time (BAC), Endgame (BAC) and Crave
(BAC and touring). Directing includes Che Disastro
di Commedia (Theatro Greco, Rome); Waiting for
Waiting for Godot (St. James Theatre, Off-West End);
The Comedy About a Bank Robbery (West End); Ma
Este Megbukunk (Central Szinhaz, Budapest); The
Play That Goes Wrong (West End); Blue Blood by
Anna Jordan (Riverside); The Revenger’s Tragedy
(RCSSD, London); A Servant of Two Masters,
Scapino (CMU, Pittsburgh); The Snowfall (Etcetera).
Mark has taught and directed at LAMDA, Royal
Central School of Speech and Drama, UEA and East
15 acting schools. markbell.info.
NIGEL HOOK (Scenic Design) has designed an
enormous range of drama, musical and opera productions
throughout the U.K., Europe and the Brits Off-
Broadway (Unsuspecting Susan) season in New York.
West End credits: Spread a Little Happiness (Whitehall);
Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Wyndhams); Elegies for
Angels Punks and Raging Queens (Criterion); Ferry
Across the Mersey (Lyric); The Boys in the Band
(Aldwych); Party and When Pigs Fly (Arts); Forbidden
Broadway (Albery); Pageant (Vaudeville); Steptoe
and Son (Pinter); and the 2015 Olivier Award-winner
for Best New Comedy, The Play That Goes Wrong
(Duchess…still going wrong!). Future productions
include the musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love &
Murder at Oscarsteatrn, Stockholm 2018.
ROBERTO SURACE (Costume Design) originates
from Melbourne, Australia, where he trained
at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), now
based in London. The Play That Goes Wrong marks
his Broadway debut. West End: The Comedy About
a Bank Robbery (Criterion), Peter Pan Goes Wrong
(Apollo) and The Play That Goes Wrong (Duchess).
U.K. national tours: The Play That Goes Wrong,
Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None and
Peter Pan Goes Wrong. Off-West End: The Trial of
Jane Fonda (Park). International: The Play That Goes
Wrong (Budapest, Rome and Australian tour). TV:
“Peter Pan Goes Wrong” (BBC One).
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