The Team

Bob Baldwin

Writer Director

Bob Baldwin has written, produced and directed award-winning drama, comedy and documentaries for BBC, ITV, CNN, Discovery and PBS including Tales of Uplift and Moral Improvement (BBC), History of the Future (CNN), Little Big Planet 3 (Sony), Grim Tales with Rik Mayall, Silent Night with Steven Berkoff and he was Emmy nominated for Horse Opera (Channel 4).

Paul O’Leary

Executive Producer

Paul is Production & Theatre Adviser for Nederlander Theatres (Aldwych) Ltd, London. Current production: Tina: The Tina Turner Musical. Executive Producer for Sir Michael Codron, CBE. Productions include: Mr Foote’s Other Leg, The Elephant Man (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Quartermaine’s Terms (Wyndham’s Theatre). Paul is a director & producer for OPM Productions Ltd and produced Other People’s Money at Southwark Playhouse. Paul is also a Trustee of the Theatre Workshop Trust / Theatre Royal Stratford East and a member of the Society of London Theatre.

Kit Line

Set Designer

Kit’s work as a set designer includes theatre, television and film as well as some pop promos notably for Blur and New Order. His work for Television includes films for The Comic Strip Presents, Stockwell, and Stella Street. He has worked on numerous drama documentaries and historical reconstructions for British and American Television and designed many programmes for children including Fimbles, Scary Sleepover, Hoopla, Dangerville, The Legend of Dick and Dom, Roger and The Rotten Trolls. He has worked as production designer on several short films, including Hanging Around directed by Damien Hirst, and three feature films: House! and My Last Five Girlfriends both directed by Julian Kemp and Stella Street The Movie, directed by Peter Richardson. Kit is also a sculptor.

John Leonard

Sound Design

John started work in theatre sound over 47 years ago and during that time he has provided soundtracks for theatres all over the world, written an acclaimed guide to theatre sound, won various awards and published several collections of sound effects. He is a Fellow of The Guildhall School of Music & Drama, an Honorary Fellow of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, a Companion of The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, a member of the Audio Engineering Society, the Institute For Professional Sound, the Association Of Sound Designers (UK) and the Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association. (USA)

Most recent theatre: My Name Is Lucy Barton (Bridge Theatre and New York), The Sunset Limited (Boulevard Theatre, London); Prism (UK Tour); Uncle Vanya (Bath Theatre Royal); Blithe Spirit (Bath Theatre Royal, UK tour and West-End) 8 Hotels (Chichester Minerva Theatre) Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Bristol Old Vic, West End, New York & Los Angeles)

Ben Ormerod

Lighting Design

A Women of No Importance (West End), The Libertine (West End), Mrs Henderson Presents (West End & Toronto), Onassis (West End), Macbeth (West End), Zorro! (West End); The Sunset Limited (Boulevard Theatre); Prism (Birmingham Rep & Tour); Assassins (Nottingham Playhouse & Watermill); The Duchess (of Malfi) (Lyceum Edinburgh/Citizens); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park); Uncle Vanya (Hampstead); Vienna 1934 – Munich 1938, A Song at Twilight (& UK Tour), The Model Apartment (Bath); All’s Well that Ends Well (Sam Wannamaker); A Long Day’s Journey into Night, This Restless House (Citizens); Broken Glass (Watford); Fings Aint What They Used To Be (Stratford East). Ben has worked extensively with The RSC, National Theatre, English Touring Theatre and Propeller.
Best Lighting Design nomination for Two Men of Florence (Huntington Theatre Company) by Boston’s Independent Reviewers of New England. Best Lighting nomination for The Last Days of the Reluctant Tyrant (Abbey Theatre) in the Irish Times – Irish Theatre Awards.

Phil Maguire

Composer

Phil Maguire is a composer, improviser and sound artist from the UK. Working with computers, synthesisers, tape equipment, Maguire produces music and sound works that explore emptiness and malfunction, of self and of machine. Works by Maguire have been released on labels including Dinzu Artefacts, Resonus Classics, Confront Recordings, falt, and Soft Error. He also collaborates in projects with musicians including Anne La Berge, Phil Durrant, James L. Malone, John Macedo, and Eleanor Cully. Maguire runs verz, a tape label and concert series.

Serena Hill

Casting Director

Serena Hill has returned from Australia and is currently working as a freelance Casting Director. She began her career as Casting Director at the Royal Court Theatre from whence she moved to the National Theatre as Head of Casting under the successive artistic directorships of Richard Eyre, Trevor Nunn and Nicholas Hytner. She then took up the position of Casting Director at Sydney Theatre Company for artistic director Robyn Nevin, followed by co-artistic directors Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton, and finally Kip Williams. As a freelance casting director in the UK, Serena worked on BBC Television Films Heading Home, written and directed by David Hare; and, Tumbledown by Charles Wood, directed by Richard Eyre. As a freelance director in Australia Serena has worked on the Australian productions of War Horse for the National Theatre/Global Creatures (2013), Les Miserables for Cameron Mackintosh/Michael Cassel Group (2014) and the adult cast of Matilda the musical for the Royal Shakespeare Company and Louise Withers Associates (2015). Recent credits include: Dealing with Clair by Martin Crimp (Orange Tree Theatre and English Touring Theatre, The Glass Piano by Alix Sobler and Youth Without God by Christopher Hampton both at the Coronet Print Room. Upcoming: Dirty Crust by Clare Barron at the Yard Theatre, Macbeth at Chichester Festival Theatre.