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Thomas Hopkins, Michael Quinn, Guy Chapman, Park Theatre and Hope Mill Theatre in association with Creative House Productions, Ruthie Henshall & Paul Schofield present the revival of 

Rose

By Martin Sherman

PLAYWRIGHT | MARTIN SHERMAN
DIRECTOR | SCOTT LE CRASS
SET & COSTUME DESIGNER | DAVID SHIELDS 
LIGHTING DESIGNER | JANE LALLJEE
SOUND DESIGNER & COMPOSER | JULIAN STARR 
PRODUCER & GENERAL MANAGER | GUY CHAPMAN
PRODUCER & GENERAL MANAGER | THOMAS HOPKINS
ASSOCIATE GENERAL MANAGER | CLIVE CHENERY
 

Martin Sherman | Playwright

Martin Sherman was born in Philadelphia, raised in New Jersey and educated at Boston University. He has lived in London for forty years. He was a resident playwright at Playwrights Horizons in New York and a member of the ground-breaking theatre company Gay Sweatshop in London. He has been nominated for two Tonys, two Baftas and two Oliviers and his plays have been produced in over sixty countries.

Plays include: Fat Tuesday, Passing By, Cracks, Rio Grande, Bent, Messiah, A Madhouse in Goa, When She Danced, Some Sunny Day, Rose, Onassis, Gently Down the Stream and the musical The Boy From Oz. 

Theatre adaptations include: E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India, Tennessee Williams’ The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, a new version of a Pirandello play Absolutely! (Perhaps), Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard and Molière’s The Miser.

Screenplays include: The Clothes in the Wardrobe, Alive and Kicking, the film adaptation of Bent, Franco Zeffirelli’s Callas Forever, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, Mrs. Henderson Presents and the recently released Smyrna, written in collaboration with Mimi Denissi.

The streaming version of his play Rose with Maureen Lipman was seen on Sky Arts.

Scott Le Crass | Director 

Scott comes from Birmingham, trained as an actor at Arts Ed and was a director on the Birmingham Rep’s first Foundry Programme. He is an Associate Director for Pleasure Dome Theatre Company.

Scott directed the digital revival of Rose by Martin Sherman starring Maureen Lipman which won an OffCom award in 2021.

Other directorial theatre credits include: Twelfth Night (East London Shakespeare Festival); Country Music (Omnibus Theatre); Elmer (UK and international tour/Selladoor); Sid (Arts Theatre and UK tour); The Witches (Watford Palace); Alice in Wonderland (Old Rep, Birmingham); Education, Education Karaoke; If You Love Me This Might Hurt (Camden People’s Theatre); Darling (Hope Theatre); Kicked in the Sh**ter (Hope Theatre/Theatre in The Mill).

Scott’s revival production of Simon Stephen’s Country Music won an Off West End award in 2020. He received a Best Director Offie and Broadway World Nomination for his productions of Sid, and a Best Director Offie Nomination for Kicked in the Sh**ter. Alice in Wonderland was a runner up and a finalist for two What’s On Birmingham Awards.

David Shields | Set & Costume Designer

David has designed sets and costumes for plays, musicals and other spectacles at venues of every scale, from international arena tours to studio theatres via prominent international and regional producing houses and the West End.

Recent credits include: Pippin (Charing Cross Theatre); Heathers: The Musical (Theatre Royal Haymarket, national tour and The Other Palace); The Pleasure Garden (Offie 2021 Award winner, Best Set Design); But I’m a Cheerleader (Turbine Theatre); Su Pollard’s And Another Thing (touring show) and The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me (Wimbledon Studio Theatre).

Other credits include: Mannen fra La Mancha (Det Norske Teatret, Oslo); Jesus Christ Superstar, Hair, Fame, Grease, Chess and Saturday Night Fever (all Scandinavian Arena Productions); Saturday Night Fever (UK tour, Johannesburg and Spanish tour); Little Shop of Horrors, Sister Act and Legally Blonde (Aberystwyth); Strictly Come Dancing The Professionals (UK tour); Ice Age Live – A Mammoth Adventure (arena world tour); Robin Cousins’ ICE (UK tour); Fanny and Stella, Closer to Heaven, Maurice, Grindr the Opera, Beautiful Thing, Torsten – The Beautiful Libertine, Romance Romance and Buyer and Cellar (all Above The Stag Theatre); Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway on Tour (UK arena production directed by Anthony Van Laast); The Last Five Years (The Other Palace) and Mad as Hell (Jermyn St Theatre).

Jane Lalljee | Lighting Designer

Jane began her theatre career at the Leicester Haymarket. In the last few years, she has stopped touring to concentrate on lighting design after many years of stage and production managing.

Lighting credits include: Dr Korczak’s Example (Leeds Playhouse); Giraffes Can’t Dance (Leicester Curve); I Wanna Be Yours (Leeds Playhouse); The House with Chicken Legs (Les Enfants Terribles and HOME); Grandmother’s Closet (Wales Millennium Centre); Peter Pan (Bolton Octagon); The Wind in the Willows (Taunton Brewhouse); Cotton Fingers (National Theatre Wales); Last Five Years (Leeway Productions); Antigone (Storyhouse) and ALPD Lumière 20:20 (mentored by Lucy Carter).

Upcoming lighting credits include: One Man, Two Guvnors (Bolton Octagon); Circle of Fifths (National Theatre Wales); Constellations (Stephen Joseph Theatre) and Aladdin (Harrogate Theatre).

Other lighting design: Ghost Light, a light and sound installation conceived by Jane during lockdown (TheatrauSirGar).

Julian Starr | Sound Designer and Composer

UK credits include: ZOG (West End, UK tour); Never Not Once, Cry Havoc, Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis (Park Theatre); You Only Live Forever (Soho Theatre); Sleepwalking (Hampstead Theatre); How To Survive an Apocalypse, Scrounger (Offie Nominated for Best Sound Design) and The Wind of Heaven (Finborough Theatre); The Dwarfs (White Bear Theatre - Offie Nominated for Best Sound Design); Aisha (Tristan Bates Theatre – Offie Nominated Best Sound Design).

Australian credits include: Return to the Dirt (Queensland Theatre Company); Elektra/Orestes (Brisbane Metro Arts – Blue Curtains Award for Best Sound Design); Miss Peony (Belvoir Street Theatre); Hyperdream (Sydney Theatre Award for Best Sound Design).

Site-specific productions’ credits include: The Comedy of Errors, Pericles (17th Century Valtice Castle, Czech Republic); The Kings Head Theatre’s 50th birthday celebration; The Third (V&A Museum).

Media and TV credits include: Fizzy Sherbet podcast; White Tuesday (The Sarah Awards New York City Best Audio Fiction); Music editor for Bluey (BBC/ABC/Disney).

Julian is the Associate Sound Designer at the Finborough Theatre. He worked as Touring Sound Engineer for An Inspector Calls (UK/Ireland tour) and as Sound Engineer for Songs for Nobodies (West End); The Tap Pack (West End) and Richard III (Sydney Opera House).

Thomas Hopkins | Producer and General Manager

Thomas studied at Middlesex University and Urdang Academy.

Producing and General Manager credits include: Passion (Hope Mill Theatre); The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me (New Wimbledon Theatre); Godspell (BroadwayHD); Rose (OnComm award-winning, Sky Arts and BroadwayHD); Falling Stars (Stream. theatre/Digital Theatre); We Need A Little Christmas (Stream.theatre); Scaramouch Jones (Stream.theatre/BroadwayHD); Closer Than Ever (BroadwayHD); Anthology (The Actors’ Church); Make Me A Song (New Players’ Theatre); Mathilde (Edinburgh and The Vaudeville); Kurt and Sid (Trafalgar Studios); Smokey Joe’s Café, Closer Than Ever, Tomorrow Morning, By Jeeves (all productions at The Landor Theatre); My Trip Down the Pink Carpet (The Apollo Theatre); Country Music and T5 (Omnibus Theatre); The Funny Girls (New Wimbledon Theatre/Upstairs at the Gatehouse) and Private Peaceful (The Garrick Theatre, Bristol Old Vic and The Barn Theatre).

General Manager and Casting Director credits include: Lady Chatterley’s Lover: A New Musical (The Shaftesbury Theatre/Stream. Theatre/BroadwayHD); Too Close to the Sun (The Comedy Theatre); A Tale of Two Cities (filmed at The Theatre Royal Brighton for PBS America) and HMS Pinafore (filmed for BroadwayHD).

Guy Chapman | Producer and General Manager

Guy was Managing Director of the full-service marketing/ PR/media agency Target Live from 2007–20, specialising in theatre, dance, classical music and opera, literature, art exhibitions, museums and attractions. In addition to numerous West End shows, major clients included The Royal Collections, Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake and St Petersburg Ballet, as well as venues such as Southbank Centre and The Barbican Centre. He is now a director of Make a Noise.

As a Producer and General Manager, Guy has worked across many productions both in the UK and beyond.

Producer credits include: Passion and The Night I Kissesd Larry Kramer (Hope Mill Theatre); ABBAMANIA (Shaftesbury Theatre); Rose (OnComm award-winning, Sky Arts and BroadwayHD); Falling Stars (Stream.theatre/Digital Theatre); We Need A Little Christmas (Stream.Theatre); Scaramouche Jones (Stream.Theatre/BroadwayHD); Phyllis Nagy’s Disappeared (UK tour and Royal Court Theatre); Shopping and F***ing (Gielguid Theatre, Queens Theatre, UK tour, New York Theatre Workshop); Love Upon the Throne (Edinburgh Festival, Bush Theatre, Comedy Theatre London and Berlin); Another Country (UK tour, Arts Theatre London); Crave (Traverse Theatre, UK tour, Dublin Theatre Festival, Royal Court Theatre, Berlin and Copenhagen); The Snowman (Peacock Theatre) and Dolly West’s Kitchen (The Old Vic).

General Manager credits include: Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Shaftesbury Theatre); The Understudy (Palace Theatre); Closer Than Ever (BroadwayHD); Passion (Hope Mill Theatre); Beyond Bollywood (London Palladium); Eifman Ballet (London Coliseum); The Mark Baldwin Dance Company, Aletta Collins Dance Company and Nahid Sadiqui (UK tours and London seasons).
 

Clive Chenery | Associate General Manager

Clive draws his experience from working as a freelance producer and General Manager across all forms of entertainment.

Executive Producer credits include: For London Theatre Musical Orchestra: State Fair (Cadogan Hall); A Christmas Carol The Musical (Lyceum Theatre, three seasons); Honeymoon in Vegas (London Palladium); Candide (Cadogan Hall); Mack and Mabel, King (Hackney Empire) and Camelot (London Palladium). For Hackney Empire: Soul by Roy Williams; Opera Philadelphia and Apollo Harlem: Charlie Parker’s Yardbird.

Producer credits include: South African Season (Jermyn Street Theatre); A Spoonful of Sherman (St James Theatre); The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy Live Radio Show (two national tours, with the original BBC radio cast); The Clockmaker’s Daughter (Landor); Cardiff International Festival of Musical Theatre.

General Manager credits include: Persona (Riverside Studios); Lend Me A Tenor The Musical (Gielgud); Loserville (Garrick Theatre).