Cast & Creative

Matt Smith

Matt Smith

Thomas Stockmann

Matt Smith

Matt Smith

Thomas Stockmann

Matt Smith plays Thomas Stockmann. His theatre credits include Lungs (The Old Vic), Unreachable, Fresh Kills (Royal Court Theatre), American Psycho (Almeida Theatre), That Face (Duke of York’s Theatre and Royal Court Theatre), Swimming with Sharks (Vaudeville Theatre), Burn/Chatroom/Citizenship, The History Boys, On the Shore of the Wide World (National Theatre), and The Master and Margarita (NYT/Lyric Hammersmith). His television work includes House of the Dragon (as series regular Daemon Targaryen), The Crown (as Prince Philip), Bert and Dickie, Christopher and His Kind, the title role in Doctor Who, Moses Jones, Belle De Jour, The Street, Party Animals, and Ruby in the Smoke; and for film, Starve Acre, Morbius, The Forgiven, Last Night in Soho, His House, Official Secrets, Charlie Says, Mapplethorpe, Screen Gems, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Terminator Genisys, Lost River, Womb, and In Bruges.

Jessica Brown Findlay

Jessica Brown Findlay

Katharina Stockmann

Jessica Brown Findlay

Jessica Brown Findlay

Katharina Stockmann

Jessica Brown Findlay plays Katharina Stockmann. Her theatre work includes for the Almeida Theatre, Uncle Vanya, Oresteia (also Trafalgar Studios), and Hamlet. For television, her work includes Flatshare, Life After Life, Brave New World, Harlots (as series regular Charlotte Wells), The Outcast, Jamica Inn, Labyrinth, Black Mirror: 15 Million Merits, Downton Abbey (as series regular Lady Sybil), and Misfits; and for film, The Hanging Sun, Munich: The Edge of War, The Banishing, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Iris Warriors, Monster Family, Steven, The Beautiful Fantastic, Frankenstein, The Riot Club, Winter’s Tale, Lullaby, and Albatross.

Priyanga Burford

Priyanga Burford

Aslaksen

Priyanga Burford

Priyanga Burford

Aslaksen

Priyanga Burford plays Aslaksen. Her theatre credits include Rapture (Royal Court Theatre), The Winter’s Tale, Eyam (Shakespeare’s Globe), and Consent (National Theatre). Her television work includes Innocent, Industry, Avenue 5, This Time with Alan Partridge, Press, W1A, and King Charles III; and for film, No Time To Die.

Zachary Hart

Zachary Hart

Billing

Zachary Hart

Zachary Hart

Billing

Zachary Hart plays Billing. Zachary trained at The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts where he was nominated for the Spotlight Prize Award. His theatre credits include Julius Caesar (Bridge Theatre). Television credits include Masters of the Air, Bodies, The Witcher: Blood Origin, Peaky Blinders, Doc Martin, Doctors, Casualty. Film credits include Jericho Ridge, Sitting in Limbo, Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes.

Paul Hilton

Paul Hilton

Peter Stockmann

Paul Hilton

Paul Hilton

Peter Stockmann

Paul Hilton plays Peter Stockmann. His theatre credits include Othello, Mosquitoes, Peter Pan, wonder.land, The President of an Empty Room, Mourning Becomes Electra – Olivier Award nomination, Three Sisters, The Oresteia (National Theatre), The Glass Menagerie, All New People, Riflemind, In Celebration (Duke of York’s Theatre), The Inheritance (Young Vic, Noël Coward Theatre, and Broadway’s Ethel Barrymore Theatre – Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor and Tony Award nomination), Anatomy of a Suicide, Terrorism, Mountain Language (Royal Court Theatre), The Cherry Orchard, The Daughter-in-Law (Young Vic), Dr Dee (ENO), Dr Faustus, As You Like It – nominated for the Ian Charleson Award, A Mad World My Masters (Shakespeare’s Globe), Polar Bears, The Wild Duck (Donmar Warehouse), Rosmersholm, The Storm (Almeida Theatre), On The Third Day (New Ambassadors Theatre), The Homecoming, Les Blancs, Ghosts (Royal Exchange Theatre), and The Mysteries Part I and I, Romeo and Juliet, and Richard III (RSC). His television work includes Slow Horses, The Crown, A Very English Scandal, Granchester, The Crimson Field, The Driver, The Ark, Case Histories, Labyrinth, Silk, Twenty Twelves, Laconia, Garrow’s Law, True Dare Kiss, The Relief of Belsen, Trial and Retribution, The Family Man, The Princes in the Tower, and The Last Dragon; and for film, Sweet Sue, Earwig, Eternal Beauty, Ladt Macbeth, Swansong, London Road, Wuthering Heights, and Klimt.

Nigel Lindsay

Nigel Lindsay

Morten Kiil

Nigel Lindsay

Nigel Lindsay

Morten Kiil

Nigel Lindsay plays Morten Kiil. His theatre credits include The Lehman Trilogy (Gillian Lynne Theatre), A Small Family Business, The Pillowman, The London Cuckolds, Blue Remembered Hills, Dealer’s Choice (National Theatre), The Trials, Same Deep Water As Me, The Real Thing (also Noël Coward and Broadway’s Ethel Barrymore Theatre), Morphic Resonance (Donmar Warehouse), Faith Healer (Abbey Theatre Dublin – nominated for Irish Times Theatre Award), Farewell Mister Haffman, God of Carnage (Bath Theatre Royal), Harrogate, Sucker Punch, The Woman Before, Push Up, King Lear (Royal Court Theatre), Guys and Dolls (Phoenix Theatre and Piccadilly Theatre), Bull (Young Vic), Speed-the-Plow (Playhouse Theatre), Richard II (RSC), Shrek the Musical (Theatre Royal Drury Lane – Olivier Award nomination), Broken Glass (Tricycle Theatre – WhatsOnStage Award for Best Supporting Actor), Under the Blue Sky (Duke of York’s Theatre), The Homecoming, Awake and Sing – WhatsOnStage nomination Best Supporting Actor, Romance, The Earthly Paradise, The Tower (Almeida Theatre), The Tempest (The Old Vic) and Bedroom Farce (Aldwych Theatre). His television work includes Kidnapped, Tin Star, This Time with Alan Partridge, The Salisbury Poisonings, The Last Kingdom, The Capture, Magnum PI, No Offence, Safe, White Gold, Innocent, Unforgotten, Victoria, Death in Paradise, Foyle’s War, Poirot, The Tunnel, George Gently, The Fear; Best of Men, Spooks, Waking the Dead, Reliief of Belsen, Rome, Murphy’s Law, The Armando Iannucci Shows and A Dance to the Music of Time; and for film, Six Minutes to Midnight, Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back), Access All Areas, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, Breakfast with Jonny Wilkinson, Four Lions (nomination for Best British Comedy Performance in Film), On a Clear Day, Scoop, Mike Bassett: England Manager and Rogue Trader.

Shubham Saraf

Shubham Saraf

Hovstad

Shubham Saraf

Shubham Saraf

Hovstad

Shubham Saraf plays Hovstad. His theatre credits include The Father and the Assassin (National Theatre), Three Sisters (Almeida Theatre), An Adventure (Bush Theatre), and Hamlet and As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe). For television, his work includes Shantaram (as series regular Prabhu), Criminal (as series regular Petit), A Suitable Boy (as series regular Firoz), Bodyguard, Boomers and Fresh Meat; and for film, Romeo and Juliet, 6 Underground, Overlord, The Cut, Honour, The Cut and Suspension.

Matt Smith

Matt Smith

Thomas Stockmann

Matt Smith

Matt Smith

Thomas Stockmann

Matt Smith plays Thomas Stockmann. His theatre credits include Lungs (The Old Vic), Unreachable, Fresh Kills (Royal Court Theatre), American Psycho (Almeida Theatre), That Face (Duke of York’s Theatre and Royal Court Theatre), Swimming with Sharks (Vaudeville Theatre), Burn/Chatroom/Citizenship, The History Boys, On the Shore of the Wide World (National Theatre), and The Master and Margarita (NYT/Lyric Hammersmith). His television work includes House of the Dragon (as series regular Daemon Targaryen), The Crown (as Prince Philip), Bert and Dickie, Christopher and His Kind, the title role in Doctor Who, Moses Jones, Belle De Jour, The Street, Party Animals, and Ruby in the Smoke; and for film, Starve Acre, Morbius, The Forgiven, Last Night in Soho, His House, Official Secrets, Charlie Says, Mapplethorpe, Screen Gems, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Terminator Genisys, Lost River, Womb, and In Bruges.

Jessica Brown Findlay

Jessica Brown Findlay

Katharina Stockmann

Jessica Brown Findlay

Jessica Brown Findlay

Katharina Stockmann

Jessica Brown Findlay plays Katharina Stockmann. Her theatre work includes for the Almeida Theatre, Uncle Vanya, Oresteia (also Trafalgar Studios), and Hamlet. For television, her work includes Flatshare, Life After Life, Brave New World, Harlots (as series regular Charlotte Wells), The Outcast, Jamica Inn, Labyrinth, Black Mirror: 15 Million Merits, Downton Abbey (as series regular Lady Sybil), and Misfits; and for film, The Hanging Sun, Munich: The Edge of War, The Banishing, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Iris Warriors, Monster Family, Steven, The Beautiful Fantastic, Frankenstein, The Riot Club, Winter’s Tale, Lullaby, and Albatross.

Priyanga Burford

Priyanga Burford

Aslaksen

Priyanga Burford

Priyanga Burford

Aslaksen

Priyanga Burford plays Aslaksen. Her theatre credits include Rapture (Royal Court Theatre), The Winter’s Tale, Eyam (Shakespeare’s Globe), and Consent (National Theatre). Her television work includes Innocent, Industry, Avenue 5, This Time with Alan Partridge, Press, W1A, and King Charles III; and for film, No Time To Die.

Zachary Hart

Zachary Hart

Billing

Zachary Hart

Zachary Hart

Billing

Zachary Hart plays Billing. Zachary trained at The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts where he was nominated for the Spotlight Prize Award. His theatre credits include Julius Caesar (Bridge Theatre). Television credits include Masters of the Air, Bodies, The Witcher: Blood Origin, Peaky Blinders, Doc Martin, Doctors, Casualty. Film credits include Jericho Ridge, Sitting in Limbo, Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes.

Paul Hilton

Paul Hilton

Peter Stockmann

Paul Hilton

Paul Hilton

Peter Stockmann

Paul Hilton plays Peter Stockmann. His theatre credits include Othello, Mosquitoes, Peter Pan, wonder.land, The President of an Empty Room, Mourning Becomes Electra – Olivier Award nomination, Three Sisters, The Oresteia (National Theatre), The Glass Menagerie, All New People, Riflemind, In Celebration (Duke of York’s Theatre), The Inheritance (Young Vic, Noël Coward Theatre, and Broadway’s Ethel Barrymore Theatre – Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor and Tony Award nomination), Anatomy of a Suicide, Terrorism, Mountain Language (Royal Court Theatre), The Cherry Orchard, The Daughter-in-Law (Young Vic), Dr Dee (ENO), Dr Faustus, As You Like It – nominated for the Ian Charleson Award, A Mad World My Masters (Shakespeare’s Globe), Polar Bears, The Wild Duck (Donmar Warehouse), Rosmersholm, The Storm (Almeida Theatre), On The Third Day (New Ambassadors Theatre), The Homecoming, Les Blancs, Ghosts (Royal Exchange Theatre), and The Mysteries Part I and I, Romeo and Juliet, and Richard III (RSC). His television work includes Slow Horses, The Crown, A Very English Scandal, Granchester, The Crimson Field, The Driver, The Ark, Case Histories, Labyrinth, Silk, Twenty Twelves, Laconia, Garrow’s Law, True Dare Kiss, The Relief of Belsen, Trial and Retribution, The Family Man, The Princes in the Tower, and The Last Dragon; and for film, Sweet Sue, Earwig, Eternal Beauty, Ladt Macbeth, Swansong, London Road, Wuthering Heights, and Klimt.

Nigel Lindsay

Nigel Lindsay

Morten Kiil

Nigel Lindsay

Nigel Lindsay

Morten Kiil

Nigel Lindsay plays Morten Kiil. His theatre credits include The Lehman Trilogy (Gillian Lynne Theatre), A Small Family Business, The Pillowman, The London Cuckolds, Blue Remembered Hills, Dealer’s Choice (National Theatre), The Trials, Same Deep Water As Me, The Real Thing (also Noël Coward and Broadway’s Ethel Barrymore Theatre), Morphic Resonance (Donmar Warehouse), Faith Healer (Abbey Theatre Dublin – nominated for Irish Times Theatre Award), Farewell Mister Haffman, God of Carnage (Bath Theatre Royal), Harrogate, Sucker Punch, The Woman Before, Push Up, King Lear (Royal Court Theatre), Guys and Dolls (Phoenix Theatre and Piccadilly Theatre), Bull (Young Vic), Speed-the-Plow (Playhouse Theatre), Richard II (RSC), Shrek the Musical (Theatre Royal Drury Lane – Olivier Award nomination), Broken Glass (Tricycle Theatre – WhatsOnStage Award for Best Supporting Actor), Under the Blue Sky (Duke of York’s Theatre), The Homecoming, Awake and Sing – WhatsOnStage nomination Best Supporting Actor, Romance, The Earthly Paradise, The Tower (Almeida Theatre), The Tempest (The Old Vic) and Bedroom Farce (Aldwych Theatre). His television work includes Kidnapped, Tin Star, This Time with Alan Partridge, The Salisbury Poisonings, The Last Kingdom, The Capture, Magnum PI, No Offence, Safe, White Gold, Innocent, Unforgotten, Victoria, Death in Paradise, Foyle’s War, Poirot, The Tunnel, George Gently, The Fear; Best of Men, Spooks, Waking the Dead, Reliief of Belsen, Rome, Murphy’s Law, The Armando Iannucci Shows and A Dance to the Music of Time; and for film, Six Minutes to Midnight, Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back), Access All Areas, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, Breakfast with Jonny Wilkinson, Four Lions (nomination for Best British Comedy Performance in Film), On a Clear Day, Scoop, Mike Bassett: England Manager and Rogue Trader.

Shubham Saraf

Shubham Saraf

Hovstad

Shubham Saraf

Shubham Saraf

Hovstad

Shubham Saraf plays Hovstad. His theatre credits include The Father and the Assassin (National Theatre), Three Sisters (Almeida Theatre), An Adventure (Bush Theatre), and Hamlet and As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe). For television, his work includes Shantaram (as series regular Prabhu), Criminal (as series regular Petit), A Suitable Boy (as series regular Firoz), Bodyguard, Boomers and Fresh Meat; and for film, Romeo and Juliet, 6 Underground, Overlord, The Cut, Honour, The Cut and Suspension.

Henrik Ibsen

Writer

Thomas Ostermeier

Conceiver and Director

Thomas Ostermeier

Conceiver and Director

Since September 1999 Thomas Ostermeier has been resident director and member of the Artistic Direction of the Schaubühne Berlin. His most recent productions for the company include An Enemy of the People, Death in Venice, The Little Foxes – audience award of the Theatergemeinde Berlin, Richard III – Premio della Critica Teatrale, Bella Figura, Professor Bernhardi, Returning to Reims, History of Violence, Italian Night, Abgrund – co-production with Salzburger Festspiele, Youth Without God, Vernon Subutex, Ödipus, Qui a tué mon Père andThe Seagull. His other theatre work includes Der starke Stamm, Vor Sonnenaufgang, Die Ehe der Maria Braun, and Susn (Münchner Kammerspiele), The Girl on the Sofa (Edinburgh Festival – Herald Angel Award), The Master Builder (Burgtheater in Vienna), The Seagull(Théâtre-Vidy, Lausanne), Knives in Hens, Nora – Nestroy Prize and Politika Prize, Hedda Gabler – audience award of the Theatergemeinde Berlin, Die Ehe der Maria Braun, Returning to Reims (Theatertreffen Berlin), John Gabriel Borkman – Grand Prix de la Critique of France, Hamlet – Barcelona Critics Prize and critic’s prize as Best International Production 2011 in Chile, The Cut – critic´s prize at the international theatre festival KONTAKT in Torun, Measure for Measure – Friedrich-Luft-Prize for the Best Theatre Performance in Berlin, La Nuit des rois ou Tout ce que vous voulez (Comédie-Française Paris) – Prix Molière for the best Production in France 2022 – as well as productions across the globe. In November 2004 Ostermeier was appointed Artiste Associé for the Festival d’Avignon by the artistic director of the festival, Vincent Baudriller, and has been presenting shows at the Festival regularly since then. In 2023 he opened the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence with his version of Brecht’s/ Weill’s The Threepenny Opera. He has been appointed Officier des Arts et des Lettres by the French ministry of Culture, was German president of the Deutsch-Französischer Kulturrat (DKFR) – German-French Council of Culture, was the recipient of the Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale, Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the KYTHERA-Price for Culture, and is a member of the Deutsche Akademie der Künste, of the Académie de Berlin and of the Deutsch-Französischer Kulturrat, as well as receiving honorary doctorates from the Universities of Kent and Gothenberg.

Since September 1999 Thomas Ostermeier has been resident director and member of the Artistic Direction of the Schaubühne Berlin. His most recent productions for the company include An Enemy of the People, Death in Venice, The Little Foxes – audience award of the Theatergemeinde Berlin, Richard III – Premio della Critica Teatrale, Bella Figura, Professor Bernhardi, Returning to Reims, History of Violence, Italian Night, Abgrund – co-production with Salzburger Festspiele, Youth Without God, Vernon Subutex, Ödipus, Qui a tué mon Père andThe Seagull. His other theatre work includes Der starke Stamm, Vor Sonnenaufgang, Die Ehe der Maria Braun, and Susn (Münchner Kammerspiele), The Girl on the Sofa (Edinburgh Festival – Herald Angel Award), The Master Builder (Burgtheater in Vienna), The Seagull(Théâtre-Vidy, Lausanne), Knives in Hens, Nora – Nestroy Prize and Politika Prize, Hedda Gabler – audience award of the Theatergemeinde Berlin, Die Ehe der Maria Braun, Returning to Reims (Theatertreffen Berlin), John Gabriel Borkman – Grand Prix de la Critique of France, Hamlet – Barcelona Critics Prize and critic’s prize as Best International Production 2011 in Chile, The Cut – critic´s prize at the international theatre festival KONTAKT in Torun, Measure for Measure – Friedrich-Luft-Prize for the Best Theatre Performance in Berlin, La Nuit des rois ou Tout ce que vous voulez (Comédie-Française Paris) – Prix Molière for the best Production in France 2022 – as well as productions across the globe. In November 2004 Ostermeier was appointed Artiste Associé for the Festival d’Avignon by the artistic director of the festival, Vincent Baudriller, and has been presenting shows at the Festival regularly since then. In 2023 he opened the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence with his version of Brecht’s/ Weill’s The Threepenny Opera. He has been appointed Officier des Arts et des Lettres by the French ministry of Culture, was German president of the Deutsch-Französischer Kulturrat (DKFR) – German-French Council of Culture, was the recipient of the Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale, Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the KYTHERA-Price for Culture, and is a member of the Deutsche Akademie der Künste, of the Académie de Berlin and of the Deutsch-Französischer Kulturrat, as well as receiving honorary doctorates from the Universities of Kent and Gothenberg.

Florian Borchmeyer

Co-Adaptor

Jan Pappelbaum

Set Designer

Natasha Jenkins

Costume Designer

Urs Schönebaum

Lighting Designer

Ben & Max Ringham

Sound Designer

Katharina Ziemke

Wall Paintings

Nina Wetzel

Original Costume Design

Erich Schneider

Original Lighting Design

Malte Beckenbach & Daniel Freitag

Original Sound Design

David Binder Productions

Producer

David Binder Productions

Producer

An Enemy of the People marks Binder’s return to commercial producing after serving as Artistic Director of BAM (the Brooklyn Academy of Music) for the last five years.  BAM highlights include presentations of Hamlet, directed by Thomas Ostermeier; The English National Ballet production of Akram Kahn’s Giselle; Inua Ellams’ The Barber Shop Chronicles; Ivo van Hove’s adaption of Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life; Jamie Lloyd Company’s Cyrano de Bergerac; and Eldorado Ballroom, a music series curated by Solange.  During Binder’s tenure over 50 companies made their BAM debuts from around the world. This Spring, BAM produced Lorraine Hansberry’s The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, starring Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan.  That BAM production became the first to move to Broadway in 38 years, where it was recognized by the Tony Awards.

On Broadway, his credits include the National Theatre production of Network starring Bryan Cranston, directed by Ivo van Hove; Burn This with Adam Driver and Kerri Russell; the first Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Combs and Audra McDonald; and Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men with James Franco and Chris O’Dowd, the first Broadway production to be filmed by NT Live.  He is the original producer of the Tony Award-winning smash, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, starring Neil Patrick Harris. Other credits include the Argentine aerial spectacles De La Guarda and Fuerza Bruta. 

After serving as an Artistic Associate at LIFT, Binder was the Guest Artistic Director of the 2018 Festival. That critically acclaimed edition included Anna Deavere Smith’s play about mass incarceration Notes from the Field at the Royal Court; the National Theatre of Korea’s The Trojan Women at the Queen Elizabeth Hall; Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music: The First Act at the Barbican and Duke Riley and his 1500 pigeons – each with their own LED light – in the skies of East Thamesmead.

A graduate of UC Berkeley, Binder is deeply committed to sharing his passion and expertise with future generations.  He’s been a teaching fellow at Princeton, served on the faculty at the Yale School of Drama, and his TED talk, “The Arts Festival Revolution,” was chosen by The Guardian as one of the best talks about theater on the web.

An Enemy of the People marks Binder’s return to commercial producing after serving as Artistic Director of BAM (the Brooklyn Academy of Music) for the last five years.  BAM highlights include presentations of Hamlet, directed by Thomas Ostermeier; The English National Ballet production of Akram Kahn’s Giselle; Inua Ellams’ The Barber Shop Chronicles; Ivo van Hove’s adaption of Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life; Jamie Lloyd Company’s Cyrano de Bergerac; and Eldorado Ballroom, a music series curated by Solange.  During Binder’s tenure over 50 companies made their BAM debuts from around the world. This Spring, BAM produced Lorraine Hansberry’s The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, starring Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan.  That BAM production became the first to move to Broadway in 38 years, where it was recognized by the Tony Awards.

On Broadway, his credits include the National Theatre production of Network starring Bryan Cranston, directed by Ivo van Hove; Burn This with Adam Driver and Kerri Russell; the first Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Combs and Audra McDonald; and Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men with James Franco and Chris O’Dowd, the first Broadway production to be filmed by NT Live.  He is the original producer of the Tony Award-winning smash, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, starring Neil Patrick Harris. Other credits include the Argentine aerial spectacles De La Guarda and Fuerza Bruta. 

After serving as an Artistic Associate at LIFT, Binder was the Guest Artistic Director of the 2018 Festival. That critically acclaimed edition included Anna Deavere Smith’s play about mass incarceration Notes from the Field at the Royal Court; the National Theatre of Korea’s The Trojan Women at the Queen Elizabeth Hall; Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music: The First Act at the Barbican and Duke Riley and his 1500 pigeons – each with their own LED light – in the skies of East Thamesmead.

A graduate of UC Berkeley, Binder is deeply committed to sharing his passion and expertise with future generations.  He’s been a teaching fellow at Princeton, served on the faculty at the Yale School of Drama, and his TED talk, “The Arts Festival Revolution,” was chosen by The Guardian as one of the best talks about theater on the web.

Wessex Grove

Producer

Wessex Grove

Producer

Wessex Grove is a theatrical production company set up by Benjamin Lowy and Emily Vaughan-Barratt in 2020.

Current and upcoming productions include: a site-specific touring production of Macbeth with Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma (Liverpool, Edinburgh, London & Washington D.C.); Quiz (UK Tour); and Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Playhouse Theatre and Broadway.

Recent productions include: Simon Stephen’s Vanya starring Andrew Scott at The Duke of York’s Theatre; Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life directed by Ivo van Hove at the Harold Pinter Theatre & Savoy Theatre; The Old Man & The Pool at Wyndham’s Theatre; One Woman Show at Greenwich House Theater, New York & Ambassadors Theatre, West End; Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons at the Harold Pinter Theatre & UK Tour; Best of Enemies at the Noël Coward Theatre; Constellations at the Vaudeville Theatre, winner of the Olivier Award for Best Revival; Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! (Edinburgh Fringe, Bristol Old Vic & Home, Manchester); A Strange Loop at the Barbican Theatre; A Doll’s House at the Hudson Theatre, New York; A Streetcar Named Desire at the Phoenix Theatre; Mother Goose at the Duke of York’s Theatre & UK Tour; The Doctor at the Duke of York’s Theatre; Mad House at the Ambassadors Theatre; The Seagull at the Harold Pinter Theatre; Cyrano de Bergerac at the Harold Pinter Theatre, Glasgow Theatre Royal & Brooklyn Academy of Music; and The New Tomorrow Festival at the Young Vic.

Wessex Grove is a theatrical production company set up by Benjamin Lowy and Emily Vaughan-Barratt in 2020.

Current and upcoming productions include: a site-specific touring production of Macbeth with Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma (Liverpool, Edinburgh, London & Washington D.C.); Quiz (UK Tour); and Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Playhouse Theatre and Broadway.

Recent productions include: Simon Stephen’s Vanya starring Andrew Scott at The Duke of York’s Theatre; Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life directed by Ivo van Hove at the Harold Pinter Theatre & Savoy Theatre; The Old Man & The Pool at Wyndham’s Theatre; One Woman Show at Greenwich House Theater, New York & Ambassadors Theatre, West End; Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons at the Harold Pinter Theatre & UK Tour; Best of Enemies at the Noël Coward Theatre; Constellations at the Vaudeville Theatre, winner of the Olivier Award for Best Revival; Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! (Edinburgh Fringe, Bristol Old Vic & Home, Manchester); A Strange Loop at the Barbican Theatre; A Doll’s House at the Hudson Theatre, New York; A Streetcar Named Desire at the Phoenix Theatre; Mother Goose at the Duke of York’s Theatre & UK Tour; The Doctor at the Duke of York’s Theatre; Mad House at the Ambassadors Theatre; The Seagull at the Harold Pinter Theatre; Cyrano de Bergerac at the Harold Pinter Theatre, Glasgow Theatre Royal & Brooklyn Academy of Music; and The New Tomorrow Festival at the Young Vic.

Schaubühne

Originating Producer

Schaubühne

Originating Producer

The Schaubühne, led by Thomas Ostermeier as Artistic Director and Tobias Veit as Managing Director, sees itself as a politically and socially engaged theatre in Berlin. Its repertoire is characterised by a variety of directorial signatures. At the centre of the Schaubühne’s work is the permanent ensemble of about 30 actors and actresses. The repertoire includes titles of dramatic world literature as well as contemporary drama by internationally acclaimed authors. Schaubühne’s achievements in creating a contemporary theatrical language founded its reputation as one of the leading German-language theatres at home and abroad

The Schaubühne, led by Thomas Ostermeier as Artistic Director and Tobias Veit as Managing Director, sees itself as a politically and socially engaged theatre in Berlin. Its repertoire is characterised by a variety of directorial signatures. At the centre of the Schaubühne’s work is the permanent ensemble of about 30 actors and actresses. The repertoire includes titles of dramatic world literature as well as contemporary drama by internationally acclaimed authors. Schaubühne’s achievements in creating a contemporary theatrical language founded its reputation as one of the leading German-language theatres at home and abroad

Henrik Ibsen

Writer

Thomas Ostermeier

Conceiver and Director

Thomas Ostermeier

Conceiver and Director

Since September 1999 Thomas Ostermeier has been resident director and member of the Artistic Direction of the Schaubühne Berlin. His most recent productions for the company include An Enemy of the People, Death in Venice, The Little Foxes – audience award of the Theatergemeinde Berlin, Richard III – Premio della Critica Teatrale, Bella Figura, Professor Bernhardi, Returning to Reims, History of Violence, Italian Night, Abgrund – co-production with Salzburger Festspiele, Youth Without God, Vernon Subutex, Ödipus, Qui a tué mon Père andThe Seagull. His other theatre work includes Der starke Stamm, Vor Sonnenaufgang, Die Ehe der Maria Braun, and Susn (Münchner Kammerspiele), The Girl on the Sofa (Edinburgh Festival – Herald Angel Award), The Master Builder (Burgtheater in Vienna), The Seagull(Théâtre-Vidy, Lausanne), Knives in Hens, Nora – Nestroy Prize and Politika Prize, Hedda Gabler – audience award of the Theatergemeinde Berlin, Die Ehe der Maria Braun, Returning to Reims (Theatertreffen Berlin), John Gabriel Borkman – Grand Prix de la Critique of France, Hamlet – Barcelona Critics Prize and critic’s prize as Best International Production 2011 in Chile, The Cut – critic´s prize at the international theatre festival KONTAKT in Torun, Measure for Measure – Friedrich-Luft-Prize for the Best Theatre Performance in Berlin, La Nuit des rois ou Tout ce que vous voulez (Comédie-Française Paris) – Prix Molière for the best Production in France 2022 – as well as productions across the globe. In November 2004 Ostermeier was appointed Artiste Associé for the Festival d’Avignon by the artistic director of the festival, Vincent Baudriller, and has been presenting shows at the Festival regularly since then. In 2023 he opened the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence with his version of Brecht’s/ Weill’s The Threepenny Opera. He has been appointed Officier des Arts et des Lettres by the French ministry of Culture, was German president of the Deutsch-Französischer Kulturrat (DKFR) – German-French Council of Culture, was the recipient of the Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale, Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the KYTHERA-Price for Culture, and is a member of the Deutsche Akademie der Künste, of the Académie de Berlin and of the Deutsch-Französischer Kulturrat, as well as receiving honorary doctorates from the Universities of Kent and Gothenberg.

Since September 1999 Thomas Ostermeier has been resident director and member of the Artistic Direction of the Schaubühne Berlin. His most recent productions for the company include An Enemy of the People, Death in Venice, The Little Foxes – audience award of the Theatergemeinde Berlin, Richard III – Premio della Critica Teatrale, Bella Figura, Professor Bernhardi, Returning to Reims, History of Violence, Italian Night, Abgrund – co-production with Salzburger Festspiele, Youth Without God, Vernon Subutex, Ödipus, Qui a tué mon Père andThe Seagull. His other theatre work includes Der starke Stamm, Vor Sonnenaufgang, Die Ehe der Maria Braun, and Susn (Münchner Kammerspiele), The Girl on the Sofa (Edinburgh Festival – Herald Angel Award), The Master Builder (Burgtheater in Vienna), The Seagull(Théâtre-Vidy, Lausanne), Knives in Hens, Nora – Nestroy Prize and Politika Prize, Hedda Gabler – audience award of the Theatergemeinde Berlin, Die Ehe der Maria Braun, Returning to Reims (Theatertreffen Berlin), John Gabriel Borkman – Grand Prix de la Critique of France, Hamlet – Barcelona Critics Prize and critic’s prize as Best International Production 2011 in Chile, The Cut – critic´s prize at the international theatre festival KONTAKT in Torun, Measure for Measure – Friedrich-Luft-Prize for the Best Theatre Performance in Berlin, La Nuit des rois ou Tout ce que vous voulez (Comédie-Française Paris) – Prix Molière for the best Production in France 2022 – as well as productions across the globe. In November 2004 Ostermeier was appointed Artiste Associé for the Festival d’Avignon by the artistic director of the festival, Vincent Baudriller, and has been presenting shows at the Festival regularly since then. In 2023 he opened the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence with his version of Brecht’s/ Weill’s The Threepenny Opera. He has been appointed Officier des Arts et des Lettres by the French ministry of Culture, was German president of the Deutsch-Französischer Kulturrat (DKFR) – German-French Council of Culture, was the recipient of the Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale, Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the KYTHERA-Price for Culture, and is a member of the Deutsche Akademie der Künste, of the Académie de Berlin and of the Deutsch-Französischer Kulturrat, as well as receiving honorary doctorates from the Universities of Kent and Gothenberg.

Florian Borchmeyer

Co-Adaptor

Jan Pappelbaum

Set Designer

Natasha Jenkins

Costume Designer

Urs Schönebaum

Lighting Designer

Ben & Max Ringham

Sound Designer

Katharina Ziemke

Wall Paintings

Nina Wetzel

Original Costume Design

Erich Schneider

Original Lighting Design

Malte Beckenbach & Daniel Freitag

Original Sound Design

David Binder Productions

Producer

David Binder Productions

Producer

An Enemy of the People marks Binder’s return to commercial producing after serving as Artistic Director of BAM (the Brooklyn Academy of Music) for the last five years.  BAM highlights include presentations of Hamlet, directed by Thomas Ostermeier; The English National Ballet production of Akram Kahn’s Giselle; Inua Ellams’ The Barber Shop Chronicles; Ivo van Hove’s adaption of Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life; Jamie Lloyd Company’s Cyrano de Bergerac; and Eldorado Ballroom, a music series curated by Solange.  During Binder’s tenure over 50 companies made their BAM debuts from around the world. This Spring, BAM produced Lorraine Hansberry’s The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, starring Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan.  That BAM production became the first to move to Broadway in 38 years, where it was recognized by the Tony Awards.

On Broadway, his credits include the National Theatre production of Network starring Bryan Cranston, directed by Ivo van Hove; Burn This with Adam Driver and Kerri Russell; the first Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Combs and Audra McDonald; and Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men with James Franco and Chris O’Dowd, the first Broadway production to be filmed by NT Live.  He is the original producer of the Tony Award-winning smash, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, starring Neil Patrick Harris. Other credits include the Argentine aerial spectacles De La Guarda and Fuerza Bruta. 

After serving as an Artistic Associate at LIFT, Binder was the Guest Artistic Director of the 2018 Festival. That critically acclaimed edition included Anna Deavere Smith’s play about mass incarceration Notes from the Field at the Royal Court; the National Theatre of Korea’s The Trojan Women at the Queen Elizabeth Hall; Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music: The First Act at the Barbican and Duke Riley and his 1500 pigeons – each with their own LED light – in the skies of East Thamesmead.

A graduate of UC Berkeley, Binder is deeply committed to sharing his passion and expertise with future generations.  He’s been a teaching fellow at Princeton, served on the faculty at the Yale School of Drama, and his TED talk, “The Arts Festival Revolution,” was chosen by The Guardian as one of the best talks about theater on the web.

An Enemy of the People marks Binder’s return to commercial producing after serving as Artistic Director of BAM (the Brooklyn Academy of Music) for the last five years.  BAM highlights include presentations of Hamlet, directed by Thomas Ostermeier; The English National Ballet production of Akram Kahn’s Giselle; Inua Ellams’ The Barber Shop Chronicles; Ivo van Hove’s adaption of Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life; Jamie Lloyd Company’s Cyrano de Bergerac; and Eldorado Ballroom, a music series curated by Solange.  During Binder’s tenure over 50 companies made their BAM debuts from around the world. This Spring, BAM produced Lorraine Hansberry’s The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, starring Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan.  That BAM production became the first to move to Broadway in 38 years, where it was recognized by the Tony Awards.

On Broadway, his credits include the National Theatre production of Network starring Bryan Cranston, directed by Ivo van Hove; Burn This with Adam Driver and Kerri Russell; the first Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Combs and Audra McDonald; and Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men with James Franco and Chris O’Dowd, the first Broadway production to be filmed by NT Live.  He is the original producer of the Tony Award-winning smash, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, starring Neil Patrick Harris. Other credits include the Argentine aerial spectacles De La Guarda and Fuerza Bruta. 

After serving as an Artistic Associate at LIFT, Binder was the Guest Artistic Director of the 2018 Festival. That critically acclaimed edition included Anna Deavere Smith’s play about mass incarceration Notes from the Field at the Royal Court; the National Theatre of Korea’s The Trojan Women at the Queen Elizabeth Hall; Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music: The First Act at the Barbican and Duke Riley and his 1500 pigeons – each with their own LED light – in the skies of East Thamesmead.

A graduate of UC Berkeley, Binder is deeply committed to sharing his passion and expertise with future generations.  He’s been a teaching fellow at Princeton, served on the faculty at the Yale School of Drama, and his TED talk, “The Arts Festival Revolution,” was chosen by The Guardian as one of the best talks about theater on the web.

Wessex Grove

Producer

Wessex Grove

Producer

Wessex Grove is a theatrical production company set up by Benjamin Lowy and Emily Vaughan-Barratt in 2020.

Current and upcoming productions include: a site-specific touring production of Macbeth with Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma (Liverpool, Edinburgh, London & Washington D.C.); Quiz (UK Tour); and Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Playhouse Theatre and Broadway.

Recent productions include: Simon Stephen’s Vanya starring Andrew Scott at The Duke of York’s Theatre; Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life directed by Ivo van Hove at the Harold Pinter Theatre & Savoy Theatre; The Old Man & The Pool at Wyndham’s Theatre; One Woman Show at Greenwich House Theater, New York & Ambassadors Theatre, West End; Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons at the Harold Pinter Theatre & UK Tour; Best of Enemies at the Noël Coward Theatre; Constellations at the Vaudeville Theatre, winner of the Olivier Award for Best Revival; Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! (Edinburgh Fringe, Bristol Old Vic & Home, Manchester); A Strange Loop at the Barbican Theatre; A Doll’s House at the Hudson Theatre, New York; A Streetcar Named Desire at the Phoenix Theatre; Mother Goose at the Duke of York’s Theatre & UK Tour; The Doctor at the Duke of York’s Theatre; Mad House at the Ambassadors Theatre; The Seagull at the Harold Pinter Theatre; Cyrano de Bergerac at the Harold Pinter Theatre, Glasgow Theatre Royal & Brooklyn Academy of Music; and The New Tomorrow Festival at the Young Vic.

Wessex Grove is a theatrical production company set up by Benjamin Lowy and Emily Vaughan-Barratt in 2020.

Current and upcoming productions include: a site-specific touring production of Macbeth with Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma (Liverpool, Edinburgh, London & Washington D.C.); Quiz (UK Tour); and Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Playhouse Theatre and Broadway.

Recent productions include: Simon Stephen’s Vanya starring Andrew Scott at The Duke of York’s Theatre; Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life directed by Ivo van Hove at the Harold Pinter Theatre & Savoy Theatre; The Old Man & The Pool at Wyndham’s Theatre; One Woman Show at Greenwich House Theater, New York & Ambassadors Theatre, West End; Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons at the Harold Pinter Theatre & UK Tour; Best of Enemies at the Noël Coward Theatre; Constellations at the Vaudeville Theatre, winner of the Olivier Award for Best Revival; Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! (Edinburgh Fringe, Bristol Old Vic & Home, Manchester); A Strange Loop at the Barbican Theatre; A Doll’s House at the Hudson Theatre, New York; A Streetcar Named Desire at the Phoenix Theatre; Mother Goose at the Duke of York’s Theatre & UK Tour; The Doctor at the Duke of York’s Theatre; Mad House at the Ambassadors Theatre; The Seagull at the Harold Pinter Theatre; Cyrano de Bergerac at the Harold Pinter Theatre, Glasgow Theatre Royal & Brooklyn Academy of Music; and The New Tomorrow Festival at the Young Vic.

Schaubühne

Originating Producer

Schaubühne

Originating Producer

The Schaubühne, led by Thomas Ostermeier as Artistic Director and Tobias Veit as Managing Director, sees itself as a politically and socially engaged theatre in Berlin. Its repertoire is characterised by a variety of directorial signatures. At the centre of the Schaubühne’s work is the permanent ensemble of about 30 actors and actresses. The repertoire includes titles of dramatic world literature as well as contemporary drama by internationally acclaimed authors. Schaubühne’s achievements in creating a contemporary theatrical language founded its reputation as one of the leading German-language theatres at home and abroad

The Schaubühne, led by Thomas Ostermeier as Artistic Director and Tobias Veit as Managing Director, sees itself as a politically and socially engaged theatre in Berlin. Its repertoire is characterised by a variety of directorial signatures. At the centre of the Schaubühne’s work is the permanent ensemble of about 30 actors and actresses. The repertoire includes titles of dramatic world literature as well as contemporary drama by internationally acclaimed authors. Schaubühne’s achievements in creating a contemporary theatrical language founded its reputation as one of the leading German-language theatres at home and abroad

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