Matilda: The Musical, God of Carnage
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Crew Biographies MATTHEW WARCHUS / DIRECTOR Matthew Warchus is a director of theatre, opera and film. He has directed award-winning productions for all the major British companies (including a debut with the RSC as the youngest director ever on the Stratford main stage). He was an Associate Director at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and The Old Vic Theatre. He made his feature film debut with Simpatico by Sam Shepherd (Atlantis Films) starring Jeff Bridges, Nick Nolte, Sharon Stone and Albert Finney. Theatre credits include: Matilda The Musical (Broadway & West End – Winner: 7 Olivier Awards including Best Director & Best New Musical; Winner: 4 Tony Awards); Ghost: The Musical & La Bete (Broadway & West End); Deathtrap (West End); The Norman Conquests (Broadway & West End – Winner: Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play); God of Carnage (Broadway and West End – Winner: Tony Award for Best Play and Best Direction of a Play); Boeing Boeing (West End, Broadway and UK tour – Winner: Tony Award for Best Revival of a play; Nominated: Olivier Award for Best Revival of a play); Speed the Plow (Old Vic); the theatrical adaptation The Lord of the Rings which he also co-wrote (West End); Buried Child (National Theatre); Endgame (Albery Theatre); Our House (Cambridge Theatre – Winner: Olivier Award for Best Musical); Follies (Broadway); Life x3, (National Theatre, Old Vic & Broadway); True West (Donmar Warehouse & Broadway – Nominated: 2 Tony Awards for Best Director and Best Play); The Unexpected Man (RSC, West End & Broadway); Art (Broadway, West End, Los Angeles – Winner: Olivier and Tony Awards for Best Play); Hamlet, Henry V (RSC); Volpone (National Theatre – Winner: Evening Standard Award for Best Director), and Much Ado About Nothing (West End – Winner: Globe Theatre Award for Most Promising Newcomer); Betrayal, Death of a Salesman, The Plough Beyond the Stars, Fiddler on the Roof & Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf (West Yorkshire Playhouse). Opera credits include: Falstaff & Cosi Fan Tutte (ENO) and The Rake’s Progress (ROH & WNO). STEPHEN BERESFORD / WRITER Stephen Beresford trained at RADA as an actor. His first play, The Last of the Haussmans, starred Julie Walters, Helen McCrory and Rory Kinnear and was both a critical and commercial success for the National Theatre in London. Pride is his first screenplay. He is currently under commission to produce a second play for the National Theatre, a second original screenplay for Pathe; a new play for London’s Donmar Warehouse, and a TV series for NBCU Carnival. DAVID LIVINGSTONE / PRODUCER David Livingstone was President of Worldwide Marketing and Distribution at both Universal Pictures international and Working Title Films. During his career he has been responsible for the worldwide marketing, advertising, publicity and promotional strategy for over 100 films including Four Weddings and a Funeral, Trainspotting, Billy Elliot, Elizabeth, United 93, Johnny English, Bean and The Usual Suspects. He has also been based in LA as Head of US Marketing for Polygram Filmed Entertainment. David has worked with some of the world's leading directors including Joel and Ethan Coen, Paul Greengrass, Richard Curtis, Joe Wright, Edgar Wright, Brian Singer, Ron Howard, Jodie Foster and Tomas Alfredson. He has now moved into film production. Pride is his first feature film. CAMERON MCCRACKEN / EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Cameron McCracken is managing director of Pathé UK, a member of the British Screen Advisory Council and a director of Screen Yorkshire. After reading law at Balliol College Oxford, he worked as a film lawyer for nine years in London, Paris and Rome before establishing himself as an independent producer. He has co-produced or executive-produced some 45 films including Oscar winners THE QUEEN, SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, THE DUCHESS and THE IRON LADY. CHRISTINE LANGAN / EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Christine Langan is the Head of BBC Films, the feature filmmaking arm of the BBC. After graduating from Cambridge University and a three-year stint in the advertising world, she first made her name at Granada Television, producing the first three series of the award-winning TV show “Cold Feet.” She went on to produce a whole range of projects including Peter Morgan's BAFTA award-winning “The Deal” and the critically acclaimed “Dirty Filthy Love” (a BAFTA TV nominee and RTS winner), starring Michael Sheen. For American TV, she shared an Emmy nomination for the 2010 HBO drama, “The Special Relationship,” which depicted the alliance between Tony Blair (Michael Sheen reprising the character) and Bill Clinton (Dennis Quaid). Langan moved into the feature film arena with 2005’s “Pierrepoint” starring Timothy Spall, for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Carl Foreman award. The following year, she triumphed again with “The Queen,” a critical and box office hit which garnered Best Actress and Best Screenplay honors at the Golden Globes, Best Film and Best Actress at the BAFTAs (in addition to a Korda Award nomination for Best British Film), and the Best Actress Oscar® for star Helen Mirren. Langan herself shared Oscar® and Golden Globe nominations for Best Picture. In September, 2006, she took up a new role as Executive Producer at BBC Films. A year later, she was appointed Commissioning Editor and, in April, 2009, she became Head of the division, overseeing commissioning, development and production of the company’s entire slate of projects. Recent BBC Films releases include Ben Kellett’s Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie - based on the hit BBC TV series, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Academy Award® nominated Saving Mr. Banks from director John Lee Hancock; Stephen Frears’ Golden Globe and Academy Award® nominated and BAFTA winning Philomena; BAFTA and Academy Award® nominated Ralph Fiennes’s The Invisible Woman; no.1 hit comedy Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa from director Declan Lowney; Dustin Hoffman’s directorial debut Quartet, Rufus Norris’s BIFA award-winning directorial debut Broken and Joanna Hogg’s Exhibition. Upcoming releases include Pride, which premiered in Cannes this year and will be released in September, as well as The Lady In The Van, City of Tiny Lights, London Road and Woman In Gold. BBC Films has an impressive back catalogue, which includes titles such as Simon Curtis’s Academy Award® nominated My Week with Marilyn; Lynne Ramsay’s intense thriller We Need to Talk About Kevin; Lasse Hallström’s Golden Globe nominated romantic comedy Salmon Fishing in the Yemen; Cary Fukunaga’s gothic romance Jane Eyre; Nigel Cole’s compelling true-life drama Made in Dagenham; Lone Scherfig’s Academy Award® nominated and BAFTA award-winning An Education; Armando Iannucci’s Academy Award® and BAFTA award-nominated In the Loop; Jane Campion’s Academy Award® nominated Bright Star; and Andrea Arnold’s BAFTA award-winning Fish Tank.
TAT RADCLIFFE / DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAHY Award winning cinematographer Tat Radcliffe started shooting music videos for directors such as Anton Corbijn, John Maybury and Johan Renck for bands including Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, Coldplay and Primal Scream. Tat has shot many advertising campaigns for brands including Vodafone and Boots, working with directors including Dawn Shadforth, Dougal Wilson and Giuseppe Capotondi with whom Tat went on to shoot the feature film 'The Double Hour'. Tat's drama credits include Casanova with Sheree Folkson, The Shadow Line with Hugo Blick and Top Boy with Yann Demange. Most recently Tat shot feature film 71 for Yann Demange.' SIMON BOWLES / PRODUCTION DESIGNER Simon Bowles received the Best Production Design award from the British Film Designers Guild in 2013 for Focus Features’ film, Hyde Park on Hudson, directed by Roger Michell starring Bill Murray and Laura Linney. Bowles recreated the splendor of Franklin Roosevelt’s 1930s Hudson Valley, upstate New York home, on location in England. Most recently, Amma Assante’s Belle, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson and Emily Watson, gave Bowles the opportunity to create the 18th century English society milieu for the tale of a mixed-race young woman growing up in English aristocracy. The film, released in the US this May, has drawn critical acclaim and Bowles has repeatedly been praised for the film’s lavish production design. Bowles is currently designing the contemporary action film, “Spooks: The Greater Good,” based on the hit UK television series. Set in London, Berlin and Moscow, the film stars Kit Harrington, Peter Firth and Jennifer Ehle. A graduate of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Bowles segued from theatre into films during the pivotal eighties and early nineties CHARLOTTE WALTER / COSTUME DESIGNER Charlotte Walter is a highly acclaimed Costume Designer with an enviable list of credits. Her versatility has seen her work on a varied range of films including Michael Winterbottom’s A Mighty Heart starring Angelina Jolie, Chris Morris’ Four Lions, Richard Ayoade’s Submarine and Dan Mazer’s I Give it a Year. Her television work also reflects her ability to adapt. She won the BAFTA for her work in Birdsong, an adaptation of the much loved novel by Sebastian Faulks. Further, she has designed costumes for This is England: 86 for which she was also nominated for both a BAFTA and RTS Award, and Red Riding: 1980 one of the four part adaptation of the David Peace novels. MELANIE ANN OLIVER / EDITOR Melanie Oliver began her career as an assistant editor, working on such films as Jane Campion’s An Angel at My Table and The Portrait of a Lady, and Anna Campion’s Loaded. She has gone on to edit documentaries, television commercials, shorts and features films. Melanie often collaborates with director Tom Hooper, most recently on Les Miserables, for which she was nominated for an ACE Award. She was honored with a BAFTA for her work on Longford, starring Golden Globe Award winners Jim Broadbent and Samantha Morton and she also worked with him as editor of the multiple Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning miniseries Elizabeth I, for which she was an Emmy nominee; the feature The Damned United, starring Michael Sheen and Timothy Spall; and the multiple Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning miniseries John Adams, for which she was again an Emmy nominee and also an American Cinema Editors Eddie Award nominee. Other credits include Jane Eyre directed by Cary Fukunaga, Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina, Sarah Gavron's Brick Lane; Jon Amiel's Creation, starring Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly; Richard Loncraine's telefilm The Special Relationship, starring Michael Sheen, Dennis Quaid, Hope Davis, and Helen McCrory; and, most recently Before I Go to Sleep, directed by Rowan Joffe.
In 2013 he was also nominated for a Grammy Award for his work as Co-Producer on the Matilda Album. Theatre credits include: Musical Supervisor, Arranger and Orchestrator for Ghost the Musical – London and Broadway, Co-Composer of The Lord of the Rings - London and Toronto, for which he was also Musical Supervisor, Arranger and Orchestrator. In 2009 he was Musical Supervisor and Arranger for the UK and Irish tour of Yusuf Islam's Moonshadow. He was Musical Supervisor and Co-Arranger for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Bombay Dreams, and composed additional arrangements and was the Musical Supervisor of The Pet Shop Boys’ Closer To Heaven - Arts Theatre. He was Musical Director for Whistle Down The Wind Aldwych Theatre, and Oliver! London Palladium, and Assistant Musical Director for Miss Saigon- Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. For the RSC he was Musical Director/Keyboards on The Plantagenets, The Tempest, The Comedy Of Errors, A Clockwork Orange, The Plain Dealer, Pericles, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry IV Part I, Singer, Some Americans Abroad, Playing With Trains, ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore, The Changeling, Romeo & Juliet and Tamburlaine. Film credits include coaching, recording and conducting the cast on the set of Alan Parker’s Evita. Concerts include Choral Musical Director for Celebration, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 50th birthday concert - Royal Albert Hall. Conducting debut at St Martin-in-the-Fields for an evening of Mozart with the Locrian Ensemble, 2008. Recordings include: Co-Producer Matilda The Musical, Associate -Producer - Ghost Cast Album, Co-Producer – Lord Of The Rings Cast Album. An organ scholar at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Christopher was Musical Director of the Cambridge Footlights for three years before graduating in 1987 and working for the Royal Shakespeare Company. FIONA WEIR / CASTING DIRECTOR Fiona Weir worked in Film Production before moving into Casting. She trained with the renowned Casting Director Mary Selway and cast with her up until her death in 2004. Fiona has cast for some of the world’s leading film directors - Clint Eastwood (J. Edgar, Invictus), Roman Polanski (Ghost Writer, Carnage), Richard Curtis (Love Actually, About Time) and David Yates (Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Girl In The Cafe - for which she was nominated for an Emmy). Fiona cast five of the highly successful Harry Potter films. Recently Fiona has cast for Baltasar Kormakur on Everest (Jason Clarke, Jake Gyllenhall, Josh Brolin), Lenny Abrahamson on Frank (Michael Fassbender, Domhnall Gleeson), John Crowley on Brooklyn (Soairse Ronan, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters), Sarah Gavron on Suffragette (Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter and Brendan Gleeson). Download 104.29 Kb. Share with your friends:
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