THE SHY MANIFESTO - Key Persons
Alistair is a classically trained Sound Designer and Composer and has produced music and sound for theatre, television, online advertisements, independent films and corporate films in the UK and internationally.
Anthony has developed multiple award winning and nominated productions, specialising in site specific and immersive content internationally.
Anthony started his career working as a Production Runner for The Bank, London where he soon moved into TV and Film working for a number of UK and international productions and advertising campaigns. He was previously Technical Production Manager at Fourth Monkey until 2016 where he joined the team at Les Enfants Terribles Theatre Company and Les Petits Theatre Company as Head of Production where he continues to develop and create both their immersive and theatrical productions worldwide.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Associate Director of Award Winning Company Ransack Theatre
Cat is Associate Director of award winning company Ransack Theatre, and Metamorph Theatre. She is a 2016 graduate of the Birkbeck MFA in Theatre Directing and was Resident Trainee Director at HOME 2015-16.
Cat is currently developing My Turn Now, an adaptation of the book Growing Old Disgracefully; The Shy Manifesto by Michael Ross, on national tour in 2019; The Good Landlord at VAULT Festival 2019; We The Young Strong by Nicola Baldwin with The Lowry and The Criterion; On Arriving by American playwright Ivan Faute; and Weathered, a Cuban play by Abel González Melo.
Directing credits include The God Delusion (Chorlton Arts Festival), After Party (Pleasance), Catching Up (N16), No Signal (RADA), Enveloped in Velvet (Arts Theatre), Yerma (Fourth Monkey), Hatch (Park), Freedom, Books, Flowers, and the Moon (Waterloo East), and Ondine (White Bear) for which she was nominated Best Director by the Off West End Awards. Cat has directed 3 award winning musicals: Beauty and the Beast, Buzz and Tom and Bunny Save the World.
Job Titles:
- Welsh Lighting Designer Charlie Has Lit Theatre and Opera in the UK and Internationally
Charlie was nominated for the 2014 and 2016 BroadwayWorld Award and the 2017 WhatsOnStage Award for Best Lighting Design.
In recent years Charlie has sat on the judging panel for the Association Of Lighting Designer's Michael Northen Bursary Award.
Hannah is proud The Shy Manifesto is the first full UK tour she has booked.
Hannah's credits as Producer include: The Quentin Dentin Show (Arts Theatre, Tristan Bates Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe, National Theatre Studio, Rich Mix) I HAVE A BAD FEELING ABOUT THIS and Summer Nights In Space (both VAULT Festival), The Lowdown (Rich Mix), Measure For Measure: In Cabaret (Beirkeller Theatre) and currently Queen C*nt: Sacred Or Profane? (Wardrobe Theatre and South West Tour). As General Manager: Ishq The Musical (Sadlers Wells). As UK Tour Booker: Flight Paths for Extant. Hannah has consulted on two UK Tours and recently released the Original Cast Recording of The Quentin Dentin Show.
Job Titles:
- Producer
- General Manager for Selladoor Worldwide
Joe C Brown is currently General Manager for Selladoor Worldwide. Prior to this he was Associate Programmer and Producer for Assembly Festival and Production Associate for Emma Brunjes Productions. Previously he worked for the Royal Shakespeare Royal Shakespeare Company on their production of Matilda The Musical in London's West End. Joe has previously worked for the Bush Theatre, Theatre 503 and Theatre Royal Stratford East.
Joe recently produced La Boheme at Trafalgar Studios which has been nominated for a 2018 Olivier Award for Best New Opera Production.
Joe's producing credits include: Coming Clean (Trafalgar Studios 2), The Worst Little Warehouse In London (International Tour), West End Bares (Shaftesbury Theatre), Iconic - A Brief History of Drag (International Tour), Velma Celli's West End Christmas (Underbelly Christmas in Leicester Square), La Boheme (Trafalgar Studios 2), Strangers In Between (Trafalgar Studios 2), Hair The Musical (The Vaults), tick, tick… BOOM! (Park Theatre), I'm Gonna Pray For You So Hard (Finborough Theatre), Exactly Like You (Old Red Lion Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe - Underbelly, Crazy Coqs and Vault Festival), Andy Capp The Musical (Finborough Theatre), Dirty Laundry (Latitude Festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe - Underbelly), Lost in the Neuron Forest (for Bread & Goose - UK tour) and Hurried Steps (for New Shoes Theatre - Three UK tours).
Charlotte is a London-based set, costume and production designer, she is a graduate of the design course at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia.
Whilst in Australia, Charlotte collaborated with Helpmann Award winning director John Sheedy on The Greeks: The Murders as well as Pulitzer Prize nominated writer and director Adam Rapp on the world premiere of Wolf in the River. She also designed productions for the Sydney Fringe Festival and the children's show Too Many Elephants in this House.
Since moving to London Charlotte has been working extensively as a design assistant for some of Britain's most exciting and renowned theatre professionals including; Michael Levine, Hildegard Bechtler, Rob Howell and Annemarie Woods. Charlotte's film credits include work on Wes Anderson's latest film Isle of Dogs and the award winning short film A Cautionary Tail.
In 2017 Charlotte designed the sets and costumes for The Eisteddfod and A Woman Alone for the Etcetera Theatre in Camden as well as The Mutant Man for The Space Arts Centre. She then designed Footprints on the Moon at The Finborough, Thirty-Three at The Leicester Square Theatre and Mumburger at Old Red Lion.
Currently, Charlotte is delighted to be designing the sets and costumes for the musical Curtains at Arts Educational, What Fatima Did… for the Derby Theatre and The Shy Manifesto UK studio tour. Whilst being Assistant Designer to Michael Levine on the Bregenz Festival Lake Stage and Jenufa for the Royal Opera House.
Michael's previous plays include Happy To Help (Park Theatre) and Work Makes You Free (VAULT Festival). His play Eyes Full of Pornography was selected for the 2017 Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival in New York and he is currently collaborating with Metamorph Theatre on new play The Good Landlord for production in 2019.
Job Titles:
- Education & Outreach Officer
Sinead O'Callaghan will run the Education and Outreach programme alongside the production to ensure what we offer is of maximum relevance to teachers and to the exam board criteria with further work and materials to be used in the classroom. She has also created quality materials and workshop plans for non-educational groups with a focus on engaging young people's mental health, social issues and group work skills.
After completing her undergraduate degrees in Australia, Sinead trained and worked as a Director in the United States. Following this, she moved to London to study her Masters in Actor Training and Coaching at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Since graduating, Sinead has worked as a visiting lecturer at RCSSD, as a Director on several Fringe shows and as the Education Officer for Les Enfants Terribles and Vault Festival.