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Ian Rickson’s credits as former artistic director of the Royal Court include: Jerusalem (also West End, Apollo Theatre), The Winterling, The Night Heron, Mojo (also Chicago), Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen, This is a Chair, Dublin Carol, The Weir (also Dublin, Chicago, West End and Broadway), The Seagull (also Broadway), Krapp’s Last Tape, Alice Trilogy, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, Fallout, The Day I Stood Still, The Lights, Pale Horse, Some Voices, Ashes and Sand, Killers, Sab and Wildfire. Also as director: Evening at the Talk House, The Red Lion and Translations (National Theatre); Hamlet, Now We Are Here and The Nest (Young Vic); Old Times and The Birthday Party (Harold Pinter Theatre); The Goat (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Betrayal and The Children’s Hour (Comedy Theatre).
He also works with PJ Harvey and Kate Tempest on their music and poetry shows. For television, his credits include: Fallout and Krapp’s Last Tape. His radio credits include: In Therapy with Susie Orbach on BBC Radio 4.
Tony Howard is Professor of English at Warwick University and leads the Multicultural Shakespeare Project exploring the achievements of Black and Asian artists working on the plays in Britain.
Publications include Women as Hamlet (Cambridge University Press). Theatre writing includes the drama-documentaries Robeson, Othello and the FBI and Against Prejudice: Ira Aldridge: Theatre Manager, 1828. Plays and (with Barbara Bogoczek) translations from Polish have been performed at the Royal Court, Theatre Royal Stratford East, the Barbican, Coventry Belgrade, Shakespeare’s Globe, Battersea Arts Centre.
Russell Brand is a comedian, actor, author and podcaster. He will next be seen on our screens starring in the HBO series Ballers. His Netflix comedy special, Re:Birth, will be released this autumn.
