Pericles

RSC: Pericles. Tamara Harvey was appointed Co-Artistic Director of the RSC with Daniel Evans in June 2023. She was previously the Artistic Director of Theatr Clwyd (2015-2023). Tamara was born in Botswana and grew up in Massachusetts and Brighton before graduating from the University of Bristol. She trained at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and her first professional job in theatre was as assistant director at Shakespeare’s Globe under Mark Rylance. Her work as a freelance director has included Shakespeare, classic revivals, new writing and musical theatre, at theatres in the West End, around the UK, and in the USA. Her award-winning shows for Theatr Clwyd included Home, I’m Darling by Laura Wade (nominated for five Olivier Awards, winning Best New Comedy), Peter Gill’s version of Uncle Vanya, digital adaptations of The Picture of Dorian Gray, What a Carve Up! and Isla, which she then directed for the BBC. During her tenure, Theatr Clwyd premiered over fifty new plays and musicals, many touring Wales and the UK, and was named as The Stage’s Regional Theatre of the Year in 2021. Together with Executive Director Liam Evans-Ford, she built partnerships and co-productions across the UK, including with the National Theatre, Paines Plough, the Sherman Theatre, National Theatre of Wales, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, ETT, Sheffield Theatres, the NHS, Social Services, the National Trust, and the BBC.

RSC: Pericles. THEATRE: Other credits include Journey’s End (West End/Broadway, Tony Award for best revival); Marjorie Prime, The Lyons (Menier Chocolate Factory); Our Lady of Kibeho (Theatre Royal Stratford East); The Two Popes (Rose); A Woman of No Importance (West End); As You Like It (Shakespeare Theatre Company); Lucia di Lammermoor, Jacobin (Buxton Festival); Pygmalion, The American Plan (Theatre Royal Bath); Becky Shaw, The Homecoming, Big White Fog (Almeida); Six Degrees of Separation, National Anthems (The Old Vic); Happy Now?, The Mentalists, Burn/Citizenship/Chatroom (National Theatre); The Sugar Syndrome (Royal Court); Duck, Talking to Terrorists (Out of Joint/Royal Court); Rapture, Blister, Burn, Raving, In the Club, Abigail’s Party (Hampstead). OTHER: Jonathan is a noted Scenic and Costume Designer for theater, opera, and ballet. He won the 2018 Drama Desk Award for Best Costume Design for Farinelli and the King and was nominated for Tony Awards in both set and costume categories for the same production. Jonathan has enjoyed a long relationship with Shakespeare’s Globe, designing more than a dozen productions including Measure for Measure, The Duchess of Malfi, Hamlet, Love’s Labour’s Lost, and Julius Caesar. Early on in his career Jonathan was the Associate Designer on Disney’s The Lion King. More recently he worked in film, including his recent role as Associate Costume Designer on Enola Holmes 2.

RSC: Pericles. TRAINing: Wimbledon College of Art. THEATRE: As Costume Designer: Nye, Our Generation (National Theatre); Black Superhero (Royal Court); School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, Scandaltown, Aladdin, Obsidian (Dance West Fest); Adult Children  (Donmar Warehouse); Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train (Young Vic); Rock Follies, Our Generation (Chichester); Enter Achilles (Rambert/Sadler’s Wells); The Night Woman (The Other Palace).  As Co-Costume Designer: The Wife of Willesden (Kiln/A.R.T. Boston/Brooklyn Academy of Music). As Associate Costume Designer: Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons (Opera House, Manchester/Theatre Royal Brighton); Constellations (Donmar Warehouse).

RSC: Pericles, the Red Shoes. TRAINing: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. THEATRE: Now, I See (Theatre Royal Stratford East); The Lion Inside, The Boy at the Back Class (Rose/UK tour); Backstairs Billy (Duke of York’s); Quiz (Chichester Festival Theatre/UK tour); Never Have I Ever (Minerva, Chichester); Saving Face (Curve Leicester/The Place); War and Culture (New Diorama); Black Superhero (Royal Court); Local Hero (Co-Lighting Designer with Paule Constable, Minerva, Chichester); Wild Onion (Norwich Theatre Royal/UK tour); Lizard Boy (Hope Mill/Edinburgh Fringe); Mission, The Ballad of Corona V (The Big House); Christie Done It, Dr Faustess (Cockpit); Rabbit Hole, Darknet (Union); I Know I Know I Know (Southwark Playhouse); Into the Woods, A Merchant of Venice (Playground). As Associate/Assistant: The Rite of Spring (Sadler’s Wells/UK tour); Wickies (Park 200); The Lemon Table (Salisbury Playhouse/UK tour); Les Misérables, Les Misérables in Concert (Sondheim) The King’s Speech (Watermill); The History Boys (Theatre Royal Bath, UK Tour).

RSC: Pericles, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet (RSC/Barbican/tour). OTHER: Claire van Kampen trained at the Royal College of Music in London. She has developed an international career as a Composer for theatre, radio, television and film soundtracks, and the concert hall. She began her theatre career with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986, and then the Royal National Theatre in 1987, becoming the first female to be a Musical Director with either company. From the opening of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre she served as Founding Director of Theatre Music from 1996-2006, and as resident composer from 2007-2015. She is currently the Globe Associate and Senior Research Fellow for early Modern Music, and Creative Associate of the Old Vic theatre, London.In the US Claire has created original scores for Broadway productions of True West in 2000, Boeing-Boeing in 2008, La Bete in 2010, Twelfth Night and Richard III in 2013/14, and her own authored play Farinelli and the King in 2017/18. Farinelli and the King was nominated for six Olivier and five Tony awards. Claire’s ballet Uncaged (Choreographer Antonia Franceschi) premiered with the New York Theatre Ballet Company in February 2020, following their debut piece She Holds Out Her Hand in 2018. Claire will be releasing a double album of her Tudor Music for the BBC’s Wolf Hall and The Mirror and the Light at the end of 2024. She is also writing a book on Music in Shakespeare’s Theatres. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Music by Brunel University in 2019.

RSC: Pericles, The Box of Delights, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Richard III, Much Ado About Nothing, The Whip, The Taming of the Shrew, Tamburlaine, The Duchess of Malfi, Imperium, Dido, Queen of Carthage, Love for Love, The Jew of Malta, The Rape of Lucrece, Doctor Faustus, Snow in Midsummer. Claire is currently a member of the RSC Sound department. TRAINing: Claire was a professional musician and live sound engineer for eight years before she graduated from the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, BA (Hons) Sound Technology. THEATRE: Redlands (Chichester Festival Theatre); Our Lady of Kibeho (Royal & Derngate/Theatre Royal Stratford East); Fantastic Mr Fox (Nuffield Southampton Theatres/Leicester Curve/Lyric Hammersmith/UK tour); Betty! A Sort of Musical, Happy Days, Three Sisters, Monster, Jonah and Otto, Palace of the End, Flags, Mojo Mickybo, 0.0008, PUB, Powdermonkey, London Assurance (Manchester Royal Exchange); Company Along the Mile (Milan Govedarica/West Yorkshire Playhouse). She has transferred shows to the Curitiba Theatre Festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Galway Arts Festival as well as taking shows on tour.

RSC: Pericles, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. THEATRE: Richard, my Richard (Shakespeare North); Sleeping Beauty, Robin Hood, Beauty and the Beast, The Panto That Nearly Never Was, Pavilion (Theatr Clywd); The Little Matchgirl, Happier Tales (Wise Children); Beautiful Thing (Stratford East/Leeds Playhouse/HOME, Manchester); The Tempest re-imagined (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre/Unicorn); Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Flood (Queen’s, Hornchurch); You Bury Me (Bristol Old Vic/UK tour); Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons (Harold Pinter); The Famous Five (Chichester Festival Theatre/Theatr Clwyd); Heart (Minetta Lane, New York); Romeo and Juliet, Little Women (Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre); An Octoroon (Abbey); Cock (Ambassadors); Mum (Soho/Theatre Royal Plymouth); Rockets and Blue Lights (National Theatre); Black Victorians, Pop Music (national tour); Overflow, Chiaroscuro (Bush); The Bee in Me, Aesop’s Fables, Grimm Tales (Unicorn); You Stupid Darkness (Southwark Playhouse); The Last Noel (Arts at the Old Fire Station/UK tour); On the Other Hand we’re Happy, Daughterhood, Dexter, Winters Detective Agency (Roundabout); The Court Must Have a Queen (Hampton Court Palace); The Little Match Girl and Other Happier Tales (Shakespeare’s Globe/national tour).

RSC: Pericles, Love’s Labour’s Lost. THEATRE: Guys & Dolls (Bridge); The Unfriend (Wyndham’s/Criterion/Chichester Festival Theatre); The Secret Life of Bees (Almeida); Best of Enemies, Death of a Salesman (Young Vic/West End); Further than the Furthest Thing, Fairview, The Convert, trade, Dutchman (Young Vic); Our Generation (Chichester Festival Theatre/ National Theatre); The Inquiry, Assassins, Local Hero, The Famous Five, Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads, Doubt, Oklahoma!, The Deep Blue Sea, The Watsons, Cock, Flowers for Mrs Harris, The Meeting, random/generations, Quiz, Fiddler on the Roof, Strife, Mack and Mabel (Chichester Festival); Caroline, or Change (Chichester Festival Theatre/Hampstead/West End); South Pacific (Sadler’s Wells/Chichester Festival Theatre/UK tour); Cock (Ambassador’s); Company (Gielgud); Long Day’s Journey into Night (Wyndham’s/BAM/LA); wonder.land, The Light Princess, Emil and the Detectives, The Elephantom (National Theatre). FILM: Disenchanted (Walt Disney Studios, UK casting); the Untitled Lion King Prequel (Walt Disney Studios, UK search for roles).

RSC: Pericles, Macbeth. TRAINING: LAMDA in acting, Guildhall School of Music and Drama in music. THEATRE: Emilia, Titus Andronicus, The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare’s Globe); my lover was a salmon in the climate apocalypse (Pleasance/Cockpit/Vault Festival); The Ballad of Rudy (Goblin); The Red Side of the Moon (Iris); Far Out (Omnibus); Our Town, Constellations, Consent, Twelfth Night (LAMDA). MUSIC COMPOSITION: The Penelopiad (University of Birmingham); The Tempest (Theatre Ark); Twelfth Night (LAMDA); my lover was a salmon in the climate apocalypse (Pleasance/Cockpit/Vault Festival). OTHER: Elinor is an Actor, Folk Musician, classically trained multi-instrumentalist, Composer and Music Director working predominantly in theatre. Elinor plays trombone and sackbut for orchestras and ensembles across the UK; both live in concert and in recording sessions. Her specialism is in contemporary and early music. Elinor is one of Constella OperaBallet’s Connecting Stars artists. She also sings and plays bodhrán and guitar both as a solo folk artist and with her band, The Mistakings. She has recently performed at a number of folk festivals and released the Mistakings’ Five Songs EP. Elinor is working towards the release of her debut solo album.

RSC: Pericles, (Love’s Labour’s Won) Much Ado About Nothing, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Mouse and His Child, Twelfth Night, The Drunks, Women Beware Women, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, and Hamlet. THEATRE: As Head of Voice at Shakespeare’s Globe, productions include: The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Ibsen’s Ghosts, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, Titus Andronicus, and Emilia (Globe and West End). Other coaching includes That Face (Orange Tree); The Shape of Things (Park); The Narcissist, Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads, and Flowers for Mrs Harris (Chichester Festival Theatre); Hamlet, The Cherry Orchard (Theatre Royal, Windsor); Closer, Out West, Britannicus, Scandaltown (Lyric). Voice Coaching on Handel’s Jephtha at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Voice and Text on, Faustus: That Damned Woman, Headlong; A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Trafalgar Studios); Mother Courage and her Children (Manchester Royal Exchange); Night School (Pinter at the Pinter); Tartuffe (Haymarket); Othello, Twelfth Night, Macbeth (Liverpool Everyman); Pink Mist (Bristol Old Vic); Caledonia (National Theatre of Scotland). Tess has been involved with productions at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Ontario, Canada. Master Classes at the Moscow Arts Theatre School, El Institut del Teatre, Barcelona, Escola Superior d’Arte Dramátic, Valencia; as Dialogue Coach on Outlander; given a Masterclass at the Haymarket Theatre and as a Speaker at the Arts Club, London.

RSC: Pericles. THEATRE: As Director: The Last Taboo of Motherhood? (Fuel, audio drama); Frida (Northern Opera Group); Alice in Wonderland (Theatre on Kew); Love in the Time of Corona (Jermyn Street, also as writer); Doggerland, Silent Statues (National Youth Theatre); Dance Protest (Bunker); La Llorona (Dance City); King Lear (Rose Bruford); Ref! (Space2); The Runner (Theatre Deli/Oxford Playhouse/Edinburgh Fringe). As Associate or Assistant: When You Pass Over My Tomb (Arcola Theatre); Quiz (Chichester Festival Theatre/Wessex Grove); Local Hero (Chichester Festival Theatre/Neal Street); Blue/Orange (Royal & Derngate/Oxford Playhouse/Bath Theatre Royal); Mother Courage, The Damned United (Red Ladder); 84 Charing Cross Road (Cambridge Arts); Happiness Engineers (Barbican); Into the Woods, Richard III, Night Before Christmas (Leeds Playhouse); Every You Every Me, Children of the Night, Cinderella (Oxford Playhouse); Red Riding Hood Rock’n’Roll Panto (Mountview). OTHER: Francesca is a British-Chilean Director and Theatre-Maker. She trained on the MFA in Theatre Directing at Birkbeck and has been Resident Director at Oxford Playhouse and Resident Assistant Director at Leeds Playhouse. She was recognised in ‘The Stage 100’ in 2021 for her contributions to the industry during the pandemic, and her play The Runner was nominated for the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award.

RSC: Pericles, Julius Caesar. THEATRE: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Michael Cassel Group & Kindred Partners for Haymarket Theatre), Quiz (Jonathan Church Productions, UK Tour), extensive work at Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, including: Let The Right One In, Wuthering Heights, The Almighty Sometimes, Hobson’s Choice, Mother Courage, Death Of A Salesman, Anna Karenina, Breaking The Code. Harriet specialised in new writing work for Theatr Clywd, Bush Theatre & Paines Plough, highlights include: Lungs, Wasted, Disgraced, The Assassination of Katie Hopkins, Pavilion, Pretty Shitty Love. Harriet has previously played at Chicago Shakespeare in 2016 with Cheek By Jowl during their international tour of The Winter’s Tale.

RSC: Pericles, Julius Caesar. Theatre: Minority Report (Nottingham Playhouse, Birmingham Rep, Lyric Hammersmith & Simon French Entertainment), Arabian Nights, Wonder Boy, Igloo, The Boy Who Cried Wolf (Bristol Old Vic), Great Expectations, Betty! A Sort Of Musical, The Glass Menagerie, The Strange Undoing Of Prudencia Hart, Gypsy, West Side Story, Mother Courage & Her Children, The House Of Bernada Alba, Jubilee (Royal Exchange Theatre), Everyday, Grounded, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Deafinitely Theatre), NHS The Musical, Monster Raving Loony, Solid Air (Plymouth Theatre Royal), The Nico Project (Manchester International Festival), Henry V (Shakespeare At The Tobacco Factory) The Cherry Orchard (Bristol Old Vic/Royal Exchange Theatre), Half Breed (Talawa/ SoHo Theatre) Tommy The Musical, Blood Wedding, The Threepenny Opera (Graeae Theatre Company/ RAMPS On The Moon), Blue Heart (Tobacco Factory/Orange Tree Theatre).

RSC: Pericles, Hamnet, All’s Well That Ends Well. THEATRE: East Is East (Lyttelton Theatre, National Theatre), Nativity! The Musical (UK and Ireland tour), I Should Be So Lucky (ATG), The Play What I Wrote, 101 Dalmatians, Peter Pan (Reimagined), Nativity! The Musical, Coming to England, Tartuffe, Woyzeck, Concubine, The British Dream (Birmingham Rep), Wake, Rheingold (Birmingham Opera Company). TRAINING: Freddie trained at the Birmingham Rep Theatre on the 1-year Stage Management apprenticeship scheme.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Circus Abyssinia, Sunny Afternoon, Avaaz, Pericles, Henry V, Short Shakespeare! Romeo and Juliet, Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks. CHICAGO: Two Trains Running, The Lady from the Sea, The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, The Mousetrap, Oedipus Rex, King Hedley II (Court Theatre); The Steadfast Tin Soldier (Lookingglass Theatre Company); The Music Man, Ah, Wilderness! (Goodman Theatre); Revolution (A Red Orchid Theatre); new play workshops for Steppenwolf Theatre Company; author events for Chicago Humanities Festival. NEW YORK: Black Swan (workshop). TOUR: Hamilton (Philip Company Tour). EDUCATION: The Theatre School at DePaul University, Interlochen Arts Academy. Fender is one of the owners of The Understudy Coffee and Books, a theatre bookstore and specialty coffee shop located in Andersonville. The Understudy was featured in the New York Times’ 36 Hours in Chicago and voted Chicago Reader’s Best Coffee Shop in Chicago for 2023 and 2024.