Hamlet

Hamlet marks his and Eddie’s second collaboration, following Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. Prior to this, Mark’s involvement with his sibling’s career has been limited to a brief stint as sound technician (cassette-recorder) in Eddie’s first ever comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe in 1981 and a series of European tours (2014-18) when Eddie performed stand-up comedy in French, German, and Spanish. Mark’s role was to simplify and adapt the translated routines into a language which Eddie could reproduce on stage, a task made possible by Mark speaking all three languages. In the process both siblings discovered that they worked well together, their shared sense of humor offsetting the more ‘difficult’ moments of the creative process. Mark is a long-term resident of London, England and lives with his partner, two daughters and a Welsh terrier called Watson.

Cadell is a director, actress, and coach. Theatre directing includes Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations (New York and London), Love for Love (RSC), The Life I Lead (West End), The Double Dealer (Orange Tree London), The Rivals (Arcola London), The Way of the World (Wilton’s London), The Rake’s Progress (Wilton’s London). Films include The Turn of the Screw (Best Opera Film 2021 Critics Circle Award). Acting/Theatre includes Top Girls (NYC) /Obie Award, Stanley (NYC), The Madness of King George (NYC), Twelfth Night, The Cherry Orchard (NYC), A Monster Calls (London). TV includes Midsomer Murders, Queens of Mystery, Poirot, Doc Martin (Mrs. Tishell). Selina runs an opera company with Eliza Thompson, OperaGlass Works. Their new film of La Traviata will be out later this year.

Piper was Associate Designer at the RSC for 10 years and has designed over 50 productions for the company. Theatre work includes Medea (Edinburgh International Fringe/National Theatre Scotland); Girl on an Altar, White Teeth (Kiln); Faith (RSC/ Coventry City of Culture); Nora: A Doll’s House (Young Vic); The Tempest, Hamnet, Box of Delights (RSC); The Histories (RSC Olivier Award for Best Costume Design); As You Like It (RSC at Armoury NY); Cyrano de Bergerac (National Theatre Scotland); Carmen La Cubana (Le Chatelet, Paris); Red Velvet (Tricycle Theatre/St. Ann’s Warehouse NY); Orfeo (Royal Opera House); Tamburlaine The Great (Theatre for a New Audience, NY); The Great Wave (National Theatre). Turn of the Screw (Wiltons/OperaGlassworks film); Richard III, The Tempest, As You Like It; (The Bridge Project at BAM), Eddie Izzard in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. Design credits: The poppy installation Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red at the Tower of London and he received an MBE for services to Theatre and First World War commemorations. Exhibition credits: Alice Curiouser and Curiouser, Winnie-the-Pooh, Curtain Up (V&A, Lincoln Center NY); Shakespeare Staging the World (British Museum).

DaCosta is a London-based costume designer who trained at the prestigious London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Art. Libby has worked for a diverse range of clients, creating unique and powerful designs for television, film, commercials, and theatre. Libby often works with Eddie Izzard on her projects including Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, Eddie’s recent REMIX tour, the feature film Doctor Jekyll (in which Eddie plays Nina Jekyll) and the feature film Midas Man, (the Brian Epstein biopic which Eddie plays the Beatles’ first manager Allan Williams). Whatever the project, Libby combines her passion, insight and years of industry experience to realize any vision with imagination and flair. Libby has been seduced by the fast-paced, creative lifestyle involved in this line of work and is never afraid of a challenge. She is a storyteller and fantasist and through her costumes the characters are born. From contemporary through to period, Libby has worked with costumes that date back to as early as 1560.

Thompson works in various aspects of music for film, TV, and theatre. Film Music Supervisor credits include: The Madness of King George, The Crucible, Dangerous Liaisons, Shadowlands, The Woodlanders, Groundhog Day. Music Consultant/Score Producer film credits include: Othello, The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, Fade to Black, Dorian Gray, St Trinian’s 1 and 2. As a composer, Eliza has composed and arranged the music for Selina Cadell’s productions of The Way of the World, The Rivals, Love for Love, The Double Dealer, The Life I Lead, and Eddie Izzard’s Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. She is co-founder of OperaGlass Works, directing and producing chamber opera.

Hopkins trained as actor/director, and is one of the foremost practitioners of the theatrical tradition of La Commedia dell’Arte. She was commedia consultant on the National Theatre’s Broadway success, One Man, Two Guvnors, and has worked with director Selina Cadell for many years as movement director – on Love for Love (RSC), The Double Dealer, The Rivals, Turn of the Screw, La Traviata, and Great Expectations (NY and West End London, 2023). She co-founded Beryl and the Perils who were the ‘hottest thing apart from the weather’ (Village Voice), performed at WOW festival, Central Park, TNC, the Mudd Club and WestBeth. The National Theatre created five films about her work in Commedia.

Suddeth has worked professionally for the past 35 years out of the New York area. He is a Broadway veteran of 12 shows, ranging in style from premieres of Angels In America, to Disney’s Aladdin, and Newsies. Further, he has staged action for over 150 Off Broadway shows, and hundreds more regional theater shows from Seattle to Denver to Baltimore and Atlanta. For television, Allen stunt coordinated over 750 episodes on sound stages in New York, and on locations such as Jamaica, Arizona, and Buenos Aires. Allen is the author of Fight Directing For The Theatre and holds Fight Master rank in the Society of American Fight Directors and Fight Directors Canada. He also has taught stage combat at Juilliard, Rutgers, SUNY Purchase, and The Lee Strasberg Institute/NYU. Allen is a Westbeth veteran, too, and pleased to be reconnected with them and this show.