SELVA RASALINGAM (Kevin/Khaled)

      Theatre credits include Nicolas Kent’s productions The Riots (Tricycle) and Guantanamo (West End transfer); On the Record (Ice and Fire Productions/Arcola), Mary Stuart (Derby Playhouse), Eden’s Empire (Finborough), RSC’s Midnight’s Children (US/UK tour and Barbican). TV includes: Luther, Hustle, Doctor Who, Spooks, Torchwood, Waking the Dead, Jonathan Creek (BBC); Joseph (Turner Pictures/BBC); The Borgias (Sky Atlantic); Run, The Golden Years by Arthur Miller (Channel 4); Herod the Great as Herod (Five); Londynczycy (Telewizja Polska); Law and Order (ITV). Film includes: Jesus in The Gospels film series; The Veteran, The Devil’s Double, Prince of Persia, Skyfall, Man About Dog, Carry on Columbus, Son of the Pink Panther. Trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

       CREATIVE TEAM

      NICOLAS KENT (Director)

      Started his career at Liverpool Playhouse in 1967 as an ABC TV trainee regional theatre director. In 1970 he became Artistic Director of the Watermill Theatre, from 1970-72 Associate Director of the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh and from 1976-81 Administrative Director of The Oxford Playhouse Company. From 1984-2012 he was Artistic Director of the Tricycle Theatre in London.

      He has directed productions in over 100 theatres around the world including the West End and New York; as well as for notable companies in Great Britain including The National Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Royal Court, The Donmar Warehouse, The Hampstead Theatre, the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith and the Young Vic.

      He is probably best known for the political work he did at Tricycle Theatre, where the verbatim plays he directed became known as the Tricycle Tribunal plays, and included The Colour of Justice (the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry), Nuremberg, Srebrenica, Bloody Sunday (Olivier Award for Special Achievement), Guantanamo & The Riots. Most were broadcast by the BBC, and two were performed in the Houses of Parliament and on Capitol Hill. They constituted a body of work which won the Evening Standard Theatre Awards Special Award for “pioneering political theatre”.

      In 2009 directed the nine-hour trilogy The Great Game – Afghanistan which was nominated for an Olivier award in London, and subsequently toured the USA; as well as two command performances for the Pentagon in Washington in 2011. One year later he directed an eight play series: The Bomb: a partial history

      He has also directed many plays in the USA both regionally and in New York, on BBC TV and radio. Most recently he directed David Greig’s Letter of Last Resort for BBC Radio 4, and his own translation of Jean-Claude Grumberg’s I just don’t believe it with Michael Gambon & Frances de La Tour at the 2013 Cheltenham Literary Festival

      He was awarded an Honorary Degree at Westminster University in 2006, the Liberty Human Rights Award 2010 and the first ever Freedom of the Borough of Brent in 2012.

      ELLAN PARRY (Designer)

      Is a previous winner of the Jocelyn Herbert Award and a Linbury Prize Finalist. Recent designs include El Niño (dir. John la Bouchardiere, Spoleto Festival, Charleston, USA), the world premier of new opera Neige (dir. Catherine Kontz, Grand Theatre de Ville, Luxembourg), The Miser, (dir. Nancy Meckler, Watermill Theatre, Newbury), Noye’s Fludde (dir. Olivia Fuchs, Southbank Centre, London), Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, (dir. Caroline Leslie, the Theatre, Chipping Norton), The Secret Marriage (dir. Martin Lloyd-Evans, British Youth Opera, Peacock Theatre, London), The Fairy Queen (dir. Susannah Waters, Brighton Theatre Royal), Without You (dir. Steve Maler, Menier Chocolate Factory, London, and the Panasonic Theatre, Toronto – co-designer with Timothy Bird), Electric Hotel (Fuel/Sadlers Wells, dir. David Rosenberg, national tour – costume designer), Sense & Sensibility (dir. Helen Tennison, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre and touring, nominated for Off West End Award – Best Design), and community productions of Carmen (dir. James Hurley, Sadlers Wells, London) and The Magic Flute (dir. Andrew Leveson, Glyndebourne). Ellan trained at Motley and Wimbledon School of Art.

      MATTHEW EAGLAND (Lighting Designer)

      Trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, before eventually heading the lighting departments of the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford and Cambridge Arts Theatre, and has subsequently designed the lighting for many productions throughout the UK and around the World.

      Recent productions include: Variation on a Theme and This Was A man (both at The Finborough), Ignis (The Print Room), It’s a Wonderful Life (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Kindertransport (National Tour), September in the Rain (National Tour), Mansfield Park (National Tour), The West End Men (The Vaudeville), I Lombardi (UCO), Alan Ayckbourn’s Intimate Exchanges cycle of plays (Mercury Colchester), Flow (The Print Room), Haunting Julia (Tour), Derren Brown’s Svengali, Cool Hand Luke (Aldwych Theatre), and Broken Glass (Vaudeville Theatre).

      Other highlights… Plays: Terre Haute (Trafalgar Studios and 59E59 Theater, New York), The Secret of Sherlock Holmes Duchess Theatre, Our Man in Havana (Nottingham Playhouse), Carrie’s War (The Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue), Darwin in Malibu (Birmingham Rep), Moon on a Rainbow Shawl (Nottingham Playhouse), My Boy Jack (National tour), An Hour and a Half Late (Theatre Royal Bath Productions), Little Women (Duchess Theatre) and Copenhagen (Watford Palace). Musicals: Assassins, A Little Night Music, Company, Grand Hotel (Royal Academy of Music) Alfie (Watford Palace) and Murderous Instincts (Savoy Theatre). Opera: La Traviata, L Elisir di Amore, La Finta Semplice, Jacko’s Hour, The Long Christmas Dinner and The Dinner Engagement (double bill), L’Heure Espagnol and Gianni Schicchi (double bill).

      ANDY GRAHAM (Sound Designer)

      Graduated from Mountview