ASSISTANT DIRECTOR To WILS WILSON @ RSC

MACBETH: REUBEN JOSEPH
GRUACH, LADY MACBETH: VALENE KANE
BANQUO: ANNA RUSSEL-MARTIN
FLEANCE: LIAM KING
DUNCAN: THERESE BRADLEY

MALCOLM: SHYVONNE AHMMAD
DONALBAIN/GHILLIE: AMELIA ISAAC-JONES
MACDUFF: GEORGE ANTON
ROSS: RYAN HUNTER
ANGUS: BENJAMIN OSUGO
LENNOX: KEVIN LENNON
PORTER: ALISON PEEBLES

ANNE, LADY MACDUFF: EMMA KING
MURDERER/YOUNG SIWARD: MICHAEL WALLACE
GWEN/ALICE: ANNIE GRACE
BLOODY CAPTAIN/MURDERER: ALASTAIR MCCRAE

WITCHES: DYLAN READ, EILIDH LOAN and AMBER SYLVIA EDWARDS

Set AND COSTUME Designer: GEORGIA MCGUINNES
LIGHTING DESIGNER: KAI FISCHER 

MUSICAL DIRECTOR: ALASTAIR MCCRAE
SOUND DESIGNER: CLAIRE WINDSOR
MOVEMENT AND CHOREOGRAPHY: JULIA CHENG
FIGHT DIRECTOR: KAITLIN HOWARD

Director - Liverpool Institute of Performing ArtS

RAFF: Georgia Elle
PIGGY: Allie Aylott
Jackie: Katrine Bennie 
Sam: Han Dootson 
Erica: Freya Griffiths 
Billie: Libby Dove 
Maureen: Sarah Pringle 
Hetty: Mattheea Ellerby 
Ro: Maddie Butera 
Simone: Tabitha Thomas 

Percy: Eden Tornquist 
Naval Officer: Harry Belton

Set Designers: Frankie Mann and Harlie Sellars
Costume Designer: Ruth Cartlidge 
Assistant Set and Costume: Eden Easterbrook
Sound designer: Patch Middleton
Lighting Designer: Allen chen 
Movement Director: Freya Griffiths 
Choral Director: Maddie Butera 
Fight Director Paul Doyle 
STage Management team: Jess Crabtree (SM), Joni Franieczek (DSM), Luca Ruzzene and Amelia Hope (ASMs)
Sound Team: Sheridan Burns and Katerina Petmezas
 

Assistant DIRECTOR to Lisa Spirling @ WEST END + TOUR

 

 

Rebekah Vardy: Lucy May Barker
Coleen Rooney: Laura Dos Santos
Hugh Tomlinson: JOnathan Broadbent

David Sherborne: Tom Turner

Pundit 1: Nathan McMullen
Pundit 2: Sharan Phull
Justice Steyn: Charlotte Randall

Producers: Eleanor Lloyd Productions and Eilene Davidson
Lighting: Ben Bull
Sound: Richard Hammarton

★★★★  Time out "laugh-out-loud funny and surprisingly thoughtful"
★★★★  Evening Standard "An excellent take on a contemporary media circus"
★★★★  THE TIMES"Wagatha Christie play hits back of the net"
★★★★  Lizzie Cundy for The Daily Mail "like a scene out of Dynasty!"

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ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR to gigglemug Theatre @ ED. FRINGE 

 

Lance: Tonny Shim
ODIN: TJ Douglas-Welsh
PEARL: Jenna Sian O'Hara

WISE OLD MAN: Sam Cochrane

Player 1: Alex prescot
PLayer 2: Theo Diedrick
Player 3: Lydia Barton Lovett

Book, Lyrics & Music: Sam Cochrane & Alex Prescot
Direction: Sam Cochrane & Alex Prescot
Musical DirectioN: Amy Hsu
ArrangemenT: Tom Slade

★★★★  THE STAGE 

★★★★  Ed Fringe Review "Rollicking, frolicking, and wildly enchanting"

★★★★  Broadway Baby "This show is a great hour of fun, and one to see over and over again" 

★★★★  Starburst "Musical Magic"

★★★★  North West End "glorious musical romp"

★★★★  THEATRE WEEKLY "Masters of Musical comedy"

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assistant director to REBECCA FRECKNALL AND MICHAEL TALKE @ SCHAUSPIEL STUTTGART

 

 

ELISABETH: JOSEPHINE KöHLER
MARIA: KATHARINA HAUTER
LEICESTER: MARCO MASSAFRA

MORTIMER: JANNIK MÜHLENWEG

BURLEIGH: MATTHIAS LEJA
PAULET: KLAUS RODEWALD
KENNEDY: CHRISTIANE ROSSBACH
AUBESPINE: GÁBOR BIEDERMANN
DAVISON: TILL KRÜGER

SHREWSBURY: BORIS BURGSTALLER
 

DRAMATURGY: CHRISTINA SCHLOEGL
SET and costume: OLIVER HELF

Lighting: JACK KNOWLES
Sound: GEORGE DENNIS

 
 

assistant director to SAM YATES @ HAMPSTEAD THEATRE

 

 

CLARE: KATE O'flynn
FELICE: Zubin Varla
SET and costume: Rosanna Vize

Lighting: Lee Curran

Video: Akhila Krishnan
Sound: Dan balfour

MOVEMENT DIRECTION: MALIK NASHAD SHARPE
ASSOCIATE MOVEMENT DIRECTION: MICHELA MEAZZA

CASTING: STUART BURT CDG

CSM: michael Dennis
DSM: Imogen Firth
ASM: David Purdie-SMITH
PRod Manager: Alison Ritchie


★★★★  The INDEPENDENT "The production itself is a delight: strange and profound"

★★★★  EVENING STANDARD "Kate O’Flynn and Zubin Varla give mesmerising performances in Sam Yates’ finely judged production"

★★★★  FINANCIAL TIMES "a powerful articulation of loneliness and the gnawing terror of madness." 
 

director OF IGNITE, a hampstead Theatre youth theatre project
 

from march-july 2021, davina Moss (Hampstead Literary Manager) and I facilitated this youth theatre online project with the aim to create a short film inspired by the question 'What makes me who i am?'

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IGNITE company:  Ariella,  Agata,  Edna,  Inky,  Jackson, Peter, Tatum & Luke
Written by the Company, with Lizzie Manwaring and Davina Moss
Directed by Lizzie Manwaring
Edited by Renee Bailey
Line Producer: Amelia Cherry

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Produced by THESE GIRLS THeatre
 

with support of ACE and the playground theatre in association with the clean clothes campaign

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shortlisted for the women's prize for playwrighting 2020
longlisted for verity bargate award 2020

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R&D: JAn 2021 

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videographer: Renee Bailey 
Designer: Eleanor Bull 
Producer: Grace Dickson 

Sound Designer: Tingying dong

cast - Kate: Louisa Harland

Director: Lizzie Manwaring

cast - frankie: liv Marcus 

Writer: Caitlin Mcewan

movement director: laurie Ogden

Lighting designer: Lucia Sanchez roldan

Stage management: lauren Taylor
cast - bella: Alice Vilanculo

cast - steph: Jacoba williams 

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February 2021

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the boyfriend Experience 

by Kit sinclair 
Cast: Liv ello and Sophie Thompson

A small Living room in South Wales 

by Kristian Phillips 
CAST: Kezrena James Joel MacCormack and Siân phillips 

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Quilt 
by Ollie George-Clark 

cast: aasiya shah, adelle leonce and mary doherty

Birch 
By Lucy Foster

cast: anjana Vasan, daryl mccormack, dermot crowley, joyce greenaway and louisa harland

Ravenscourt 
By georgina burns

Cast: andrea hall, Josef Davies, lizzy watts and richard katz

 

assistant director

to Alice Hamilton 

 

 

GUS: SHane Zaza 
BEN: ALec NEwman

SET and costume: James Perkins

Lighting: JAMES WHITESIDE
Sound: Giles THomas

CSM: Chris PETERSON
DSM: REBECCA JAMES 
PRod Manager: HILARY WILLIAMSON


★★★★  The telegraph "nerve-jangling, [...] strong revival"

★★★★  The Stage

★★★★  iNews "It’s a measure of the success of Alice Hamilton’s production that the banter and banality is blotted out by descending darkness." 
★★★  The independent "fittingly, uncannily claustrophobic"
★★★  The culture whisperer "a celebration of one of Pinter’s earliest works" 

recipients of the pleasance's charlie hartill reserve fund 2019

 

Vaults 2020 Cast 
Renee Bailey, Carla Garratt, Caitlin McEwan, Louise Waller 

Edinburgh 2019 Cast 
Caitlin McEwan, Ella McLeod, Laurie Ogden, Lauren Santana

 

 

Producer: Grace Dickson
Movement Director and Dramaturg: Laurie Ogden 
Sound: Rachael Murray 
Video and Lighting: Rachel Sampley 

Vaults Associate Lighting: Gregory Jordan

 

★★★★★  A Younger Theatre, British Theatre

★★★★ Theatre Weekly, The Spy in the Stalls, 
The Scotsman, BroadwayWorld, The Reviews Hub

The Upcoming

Assistant director 

to abigail graham

Maddy: Caroline Faber 
Katrina: Angela Griffin 
Gail: Bryony Hannah 

Set and costume: Naomi Kuyck-Cohen
Lighting: joshua Gadsby 
Sound: Jon Mcleod
Movement: Angela gasparetto 
SM: Meg carr

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★★★★ The arts desk "a raucous celebration of sisterhood" 

★★★ Time out "extremely impressive is how the actors all age their characters, year by year almost minute by minute, so subtly you often don’t notice it’s happening."

★★★ The guardian "reminds us that the blood-bond of sisterhood has hard edges"

Assistant director 

to daniel bailey

 

 

nene: nneka okoye 
Dee: Doreene Blackstock
Lea: Renee Bailey 
Lune: Aasiya Shah

Set and costume: Amelia Jane Hankin
Lighting: Martha Godfrey 
Sound: DUramaney Kamara

sm: Catriona Shoobridge

★★★ The guardian "tender and hopeful"
★★★ Time out "Daniel Bailey’s production builds to a beautifully poetic climax, as Nene eventually finds (or rediscovers) her voice in an ebullient tide of language that touches upon political blackness, mental health, poetic mysticism, and the transformative power of words and water." 

co-directed with hugo aguirre

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deviser and performer: chloe borthwick

 

Twitter reactions: 
 

“Brilliantly Bonkers” @WoLaboratory

“Never thought that a goggly eyes glove would become my favourite character in all of fiction BUT it has come to be! Spent last night absolutely PISSING myself at the biZARRE and beautiful The woman who gave birth to a goat.” @Bourne_2B_Wild

“So funny and intelligent and excellent performance!!!” @daniella_ann28

“Cleverly woven, a show of comic genius.” @alex_prescot

“Wish I could live in [the team’s] brain, even just for a day. I think I’m going to be a forever fan.” @alistairwilks
 

assistant director  

to cheryl gallacher

cast: Alex austin, saffron coomber, hannah traylen, Amber Cargill, Lara Ann Goldbourne and Ariana Williams

Designer: Bethany Wells
Lighting Designer: Jess Bernberg
Composer and Sound Designer: Josh Anio Grigg
Movement Director: Seke Chimutengwende
Casting Director: Ruth O’Dowd CDG
Stage Manager on The Book: Katie Bachtler
Production Manager: Jack Greenyer

 

★★★★ whatsonstage 
★★★★ THE GUARDIAN
★★★★ Londontheatre1
★★★★ the stage "unflinching and electrifying"

exeunt: "The ensemble work excellently to cultivate an atmosphere of glassy discomfort amidst hollow enthusiasm.  It’s entrancing to watch, and makes for an uncanny encounter with an ever-present and pervasive phenomenon."

co-directed with hugo aguirre

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company: juliet turnbull, alfie noble, aine nettleton, sarah hopkins and andrew bourne

★★★★★ broadwayworld

“Lizzie Manwaring and Hugo Aguirre, who have teamed up to co-direct, have cleverly crafted this show with many ingenious moments throughout. The pair has given a lot of freedom to the performers, placing trust in their ability to deliver. It certainly pays off. This coming of age drama is eclectic and kooky. You never know what is going to be said or done next and this anticipation really does keep the audience on the edge of their seats.”