MICHAEL GRANDAGE COMPANY - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Director
- Artistic Director of Tara Theatre
Abdul is the Artistic Director of Tara Theatre. He holds a BA in International Theatre Studies from University of East London. He trained at the National Theatre Directors' Course, Live and Direct, Old Vic New Voices and ATC Directors Programme. He has previously worked as associate or assistant director at Theatre Royal Stratford East, English National Opera and The Belgrade Theatre with directors including Emma Rice, John McGrath and Dawn Reid.
Andrew joined Dundee Rep & Scottish Dance Theatre in 2017. He is an award-winning director and educator working internationally across theatre, music and television and was previously Associate Director at Royal & Derngate and Perth Theatres and Assistant Director at the Stephen Joseph Theatre.
For Dundee Rep: Scottish Premieres of Tracey Letts' Pulitzer Prize winning August: Osage County and Lucy Kirkwood's The Children. He commissioned and directed Tay Bridge (Peter Arnott) and A Christmas Carol, Oor Wullie, The Snow Queen (Scottish writing duo, Noisemaker). He has staged revivals of The Yellow on the Broom, Passing Places, Spring Awakening, Love Song and The Mill Lavvie s. Most recently, Andrew co-directed a new gig-theatre musical, No Love Songs (Kyle Falconer /Johnny McKnight / Laura Wilde) which had its world premiere at the Traverse Theatre as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
In collaboration with Goodspeed Musicals, Connecticut, he directed the world premiere of Hi, My Name is Ben(Noisemaker). Andrew has directed productions for Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, Citizens Theatre Glasgow, Royal & Derngate, Perth Theatre and The Stephen Joseph Theatre.
Job Titles:
- Head of Screen Development
Andrew looks after the development of MGC's work in TV and film heading up our screen and content division in New York and LA. He previously worked in development for the Weinstein Company, Red Crown Productions, and Tectonic Theater Project. On stage, he has produced the US revival of The Killing of Sister George, featuring Oscar nominated actress Kathleen Turner, and the Off-Broadway revival of Beirut. He also produced a concert/performance series for Grammy nominee Angela McCluskey of Telepopmusik. Andrew got his start working for Oscar-winning filmmaker Michel Gondry. He is alumnus of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
Anna Girvan trained at the University of Sussex, and went on to an MA in Theatre Directing at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She set up a theatre company, Juncture Theatre, and won funding to take shows to the Brighton and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals. After making theatre in Bristol for Anna was selected as a Jerwood Assistant Directors at the Young Vic where she assisted Natalie Abrahami on Happy Days starring Juliet Stevenson. As part of the programme she also directed a new short play, Someone Else, written for her by Patrick Marber. Anna then spent a year as associate at the Royal Shakespeare Company to Simon Godwin on Hamlet and Greg Doran on King Lear which subsequently toured and performed in New York and Washington. Since then Anna has been associate to many institutions and companies alongside directing her own work at theatres including Tobacco Factory Theatres, Southwark Playhouse and Northern Stage. She is an RSC creative fellow and has been shortlisted for the Old Vic 12 and The Peter Hall Directors Award.
Ed trained at the University of Manchester, and went on to an MA in Theatre Directing at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He spent a year as Associate Director to Jamie Lloyd on the West End Trafalgar Transformed Season: The Pride, The Hothouse and Macbeth. Alongside the season Ed directed two short Pinter plays starring Andrew Scott, Joanna Lumley and Alun Armstrong. Ed's work has been seen recently at the Harold Pinter Theatre, Shoreditch Town Hall, Soho Theatre and the BAC. He also directs comedy, most recently two award-winning shows by stand-up Joe Lycett, the Invisible Dot's Birthday Gala at the Hammersmith Apollo and the world tour of YouTube sensations Dan & Phil (which played sold out shows at the London Palladium, the Dolby Theatre in LA and two nights on Broadway). Ed was one of the inaugural Old Vic 12 - a group of twelve emerging artists attached to the Old Vic Theatre under Matthew Warchus.
Directing credits: Night School (Pinter at the Pinter Season), Max and Ivan: The Straight Man (BAC), BLUSH (Soho, UK Tour and Underbelly), Prince of the River (Old Vic 12, Criterion), Don't Waste Your Bullets on the Dead (VAULT Festival), Dan & Phil: The Amazing Tour is Not on Fire (UK Tour, London Palladium and US, Australia and Europe Tour), Feathers in the Snow (Unicorn), Awkward Conversations with Animals I've F*cked (Underbelly), Wedding (Shoreditch Town Hall and Forest Fringe), Blacktop Sky (Talawa Studio), I Started a Fire (Arcola, The Miniaturists), Family Voices & Victoria Station (Trafalgar Studios), Finer Noble Gases/ Lobby Hero (Haymarket, Masterclass), The Aliens (Trafalgar Studios 2), Elegy (Shunt Vaults).
John holds an MA in English from Trinity College, Cambridge and an MSt in English (1900-Present) from Merton College, Oxford. He trained at RADA and on the National Theatre Directors' Course. He has previously worked as associate or assistant director at the Royal Court, the National Theatre and in the West End with directors including Howard Davies, Michael Grandage and James Macdonald. He also writes plays and screenplays, including adaptations.
Job Titles:
- Director of Kate Morley PR
- Press Representative
Kate Morley is the Director of Kate Morley PR - a specialist theatre public relations company working across both the subsidised and commercial sectors. In addition the company also represent a number of creative professionals across the film, television and theatre sectors, steering their media profile both in the UK and internationally. Kate worked with Michael for his entire tenure at the Donmar, and moved with him as he began MGC in 2011.
Mark Maughan is an award-winning theatre director, maker and translator with a special interest in developing ideas with artists from the early stages of a project, who has toured his work across the UK and internationally. Mark is also a reader for a number of theatres across the UK and is a member of the Cross Channel Theatre Group, coordinated by the French Institute.
Nick was Executive Producer Donmar Warehouse from 2002 - 2007 and has over 25 years of experience in the theatre industry. During this time he has worked in the subsidised and commercial sectors and has extensive experience of successfully realising productions for different audiences. Whilst at the Donmar under the Artistic Directorship of Sam Mendes and subsequently Michael Grandage, he produced and general managed musicals, classic plays, revivals, and new writing. He transferred many of these productions to both the West End and Broadway. Under his joint leadership with Michael Grandage the theatre won 4 Evening Standard Awards and 8 Olivier Awards.
In 2007 he co-founded CMP (Creative Management and Productions), to produce and general manage. The company produced revivals and new titles and also commissioned new work for the West End. Productions included: The Hound of the Baskervilles (Duchess), Swimming with Sharks (Vaudeville), Year of the Rat (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Piaf (Vaudeville), Three Days of Rain (Apollo), The Little Dog Laughed (Garrick), the world Premier of Sebastian Faulks' Birdsong (Comedy), Death and the Maiden (Harold Pinter) and the Royal Opera House's Olivier Award-winning The Wind in the Willows (Duchess and Vaudeville).
Today, Nick works as Producer with Director Michael Grandage developing work for MGC and produced and commissioned James Graham's Olivier Award-winning Labour of Love, Red and The Lieutenant of Inishmore. He also heads up the Creative Agency for the company. He was on the board of Society of London Theatre and is currently on the Boards of Wiltshire Creative, Salisbury and Park Theatre, London.
Richard is Non-Executive Chairman of MGC and one of its co-founders. He has served on the boards and governing bodies of several arts-related institutions including Tate St Ives and Falmouth University and is a former Commissioner of The Royal Hospital, Chelsea. He is currently non-executive chair of the College of Legal Practice, a Trustee of The King's Fund, the Thrombosis Research Institute and Ramsbury Manor Trust. He is also an Honorary Fellow of Harris Manchester College, Oxford.
Richard is a CEDR accredited mediator, an accredited mediator at the Court of Arbitraion for Art and a member of Professional Advisors to the International Art Market.
Until his retirement in 2017, he was managing partner at Slaughter and May, prior to which he was Head of the firm's Dispute Resolution group. His mediation practice includes media and entertainment, art and luxury assets, banking, finance and insurance. Richard is listed as an Eminent Practitioner for Litigation and is also named as a leading individual for Commercial Litigation in The Legal 500.
Job Titles:
- Executive Director
- MGC As Executive Director
Stella joined MGC as Executive Director in 2015, working with Michael Grandage to further develop and expand the company. She has worked in the industry for over 25 years across both the commercial and subsidised sectors. Stella first worked with Michael at Sheffield Theatres during his tenure as Artistic Director. Subsequently she opened Curve Theatre in Leicester, and established the venue as a key producing theatre and community venue, before embarking on a freelance career guiding a range of theatre companies in the strategic development of their organisations.