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  • JONATHAN CHURCH

    Director

    Born and educated in Nottingham, Jonathan trained as Assistant Director at the Nottingham Playhouse. Other posts include Associate Director of Derby Playhouse (1994-1995), Artistic Director of Salisbury Playhouse (1995-1999), Associate Director of Hampstead Theatre (1999-2001) and Artistic Director of Birmingham Repertory Theatre (2001-2006).
     
    As Artistic Director of Chichester Festival Theatre Jonathan has directed The Grapes of Wrath, The Circle, Hobson’s Choice, Pravda and co-directed, with Philip Franks, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Parts I and II (all Festival Theatre).
     
    West End Productions include Of Mice and Men (Savoy Theatre and The Old Vic ), The Witches (Wyndham’s Theatre), A Busy Day (Lyric Theatre), The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Parts I and II (Gielgud Theatre).
     
    National touring productions include The Grapes of Wrath, The Crucible, The Witches, Of Mice and Men, The Diary of Anne Frank, Hobson’s Choice, God and Stephen Hawking, Romeo and Juliet, The Circle.
     
    Other productions include The Life of Galileo, Promises and Lies, Elizabeth Rex, Hobson’s Choice, Of Mice and Men, Private Lives, Closer, Peter Pan, The David Hare Trilogy, The Norman Conquests, The Crucible and The Witches (Birmingham Rep), A Busy Day (Bristol Old Vic), You Be Ted and I’ll Be Sylvia (Hampstead Theatre), The Crucible (Birmingham Old Rep), The Norman Conquests, The Rover, The Banished Cavaliers, The Merchant of Venice, The Rehearsal, The Double Inconstancy, Disappearances, Racing Demon, The Cherry Orchard, Romeo and Juliet, The Alchemical Wedding, Colombe (Salisbury Playhouse), Angels Rave On and Saint Oscar (Nottingham Playhouse), Educating Rita and Oleanna (Salisbury Playhouse and Chichester Festival Theatre), Top Girls (Theatre Royal Plymouth), Time and the Conways (Colchester Mercury), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Two, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, The Importance of Being Earnest, Absurd Person Singular and Oleanna (Derby Playhouse), The Bear and The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Sheffield Crucible), Magnetic North (West Yorkshire Playhouse), In Lambeth (Lyric Hammersmith Studio and Nottingham Playhouse), The Broken Heart (Lyric Hammersmith Studio), Comic Cuts (Derby Playhouse, Bristol Old Vic and Lyric Hammersmith Studios).

  • SIMON HIGLETT

    Designer

    Previous designs at Chichester, where Simon is Associate Designer, include The Circle, Collaboration and Taking Sides (also West End), The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Parts I and II (also London and Toronto), The Barchester Chronicles, Our Betters, Beethoven’s Tenth, The Miser, A Doll’s House, Scenes from a Marriage, Office Suite and Hobson’s Choice (both also UK tours), A Christmas Carol and The Snow Queen. This season he has also designed Yes, Prime Minister.
     
    Simon’s designs for 2010 include Haunted, Edna O’Brien’s new play starring Brenda Blethyn, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dublin), The Secret of Sherlock Holmes (UK tour), Dumb Show (Rose Theatre Kingston), Bedroom Farce (West End), Mrs Warren’s Profession (USA), The Marriage of Figaro (Scottish Opera).
     
    Other recent designs include The Merry Wives of Windsor directed by John Caird (Stockholm), The Winslow Boy, the set for A Christmas Carol and Miss Julie (The Rose Kingston), Balmoral (Bath), East Is East (Birmingham Repertory Theatre), The Glass Menagerie (Manchester Royal Exchange), two Peter Hall productions of A Doll’s House (Bath) and Pygmalion (The Old Vic and Hong Kong Festival), Brief Lives with Roy Dotrice, Don’t You Leave Me Here (West Yorkshire Playhouse), The Barber of Seville directed by Sir Thomas Allen (Scottish Opera), The Imaginary Invalid (Washington DC) and The School of Night (Los Angeles).
     
    Previous credits include The Triumph of Love and An Ideal Husband (both Manchester Royal Exchange), Amy’s View (Garrick Theatre), Anna Karenina (The Gate, Dublin), Hay Fever (Haymarket Theatre and national tour), Enemies (Almeida), Best of Friends (Hampstead), the UB40 musical Promises and Lies (Birmingham), Marrying the Mistress and Rosamunde Pilcher’s The Shell Seekers (UK tours), Glorious! (Duchess Theatre), Thomas More (RSC Stratford and Trafalgar Studios), Shoot the Crow (Trafalgar Studios), Otherwise Engaged (Criterion), Blithe Spirit, Man and Boy, The Dresser and The Witches (West End), To Kill A Mockingbird, Dead Funny and David Copperfield (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Neville’s Island (Birmingham Rep) and Lady Windermere’s Fan (Shakespeare Theatre Washington DC).
     
    Also in London The Earthly Paradise and Whistling Psyche (Almeida), Darwin in Malibu (Hampstead), The Shape of Things (New Ambassadors), Of Mice and Men (Savoy and The Old Vic), The Accidental Death of an Anarchist and In a Little World of Our Own (Donmar), Clubland and The Force of Change (Royal Court), Long Day’s Journey Into Night, the set for Fascinating Aida’s One Last Flutter, Home and Beauty, The Accused, the RSC’s A Russian in the Woods (The Pit) and Singer(Barbican), The Prisoner of Second Avenue, The Chiltern Hundreds, A Song at Twilight, Antony and Cleopatra, The Taming of theShrew, Talking Heads, Kean, Medea, The Magistrate, as well as several productions for the New Shakespeare Company in Regent’s Park.
     
    Simon has designed numerous national tours including 84 Charing Cross Road, Calamity Jane, The Importance of Being Earnest and Beyond a Joke.
     
     Extensive regional designs include The Happiest Days of Your Life, Yerma, Peer Gynt, The Count of Monte Cristo and The Brothers Karamazov (Manchester Royal Exchange), The Norman Conquests, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge and Elizabeth Rex (Birmingham Rep. TMA Best Designer Award), Three Sisters (Southampton. TMA Best Designer Award), Naked Justice (West Yorkshire Playhouse), The Modernists (Sheffield Crucible), Popcorn (Liverpool Playhouse), A Few Good Men (Oxford Playhouse).
     
    Worldwide opera credits include Giulio Cesare, Resurrection, Don Giovanni, La Traviata, La bohème, La Cenerentola, The Magic Flute, Così Fan Tutte and Albert
    Herring (Germany).
     
    Simon is the recipient of two TMA Best Design Awards and was nominated in 2005 for David Copperfield, and won the Helen Hayes Award for Lady Windermere’s Fan in Washington DC.

  • MARK JONATHAN

    Lighting Designer

    Mark Jonathan has been an Associate from 2006-2008. His previous credits at Chichester include The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (also UK tour / West End / Toronto), Hobson's Choice (also UK tour), Collaboration (also West End), Taking Sides (also West End), Office Suite (also UK tour), The Lady's Not for Burning and Babes in Arms.

    Theatre credits include Othello (RSC);  Prometheus Bound (New York & London) for which he received a Drama desk nomination for  ‘Outstanding Lighting’; Free Outgoing, Breathing Corpses, Clubland (Royal Court), Monkey (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Uncle Vanya, Galileo, The Norman Conquests, Jumpers and Neville's Island (Birmingham Rep); The Crucible (Birmingham Rep/UK tour); The Witches (West End/Birmingham Rep/tour); Shadowmouth and The Clean House (Sheffield Crucible); Paradise Lost (Oxford Stage Company); Hamlet (Theatre Royal, Northampton); Tejas Verdes (Gate); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Bristol Old Vic) and Snake in the Grass (Old Vic). Musical productions include Honk!  at the National; Peggy Sue Got Married and Sweet Charity in the West End; Marlene (West End/Paris/Broadway); The Wizard of Oz (Birmingham Rep/West Yorkshire Playhouse); Half a Sixpence (Guildhall School of Music and Drama); The Ha'Penny Bridge (Cork Opera House) and The Northern Odyssey (Belfast Odyssey Arena). He was head of lighting at the National from 1993-2003. 

    Opera credits include Woody Allen’s recent production of Gianni Schicchi and Wiliam Friedkin’s productions of Il Tabarro and Suor Angelica (Los Angeles Opera); Der Freischutz (Finnish National Opera); Il Barbiere Di Sivigla, Orpheus & Euridice (Scottish Opera); Salome and Das Gehege (Bavarian State Opera, Munich); Gianni Schicchi and Bluebeard's Castle (Washington National Opera); Samson and Delila, Carmen (Israeli Opera); Hansel and Gretel, Ariadne Auf Naxos, Falstaff, Peter Grimes and Don Pasquale (Los Angeles Opera); La Finta Semplice (Potsdam Berlin); Venus and Adonis and Dido and Aeneas (de Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp and Ghent); Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail (Opera National du Rhin, Strasbourg), as well as many productions for Holland Park Opera and for Glyndebourne. Ballet includes The Nutcracker (Northern Ballet Theatre); Aladdin (Japanese National Ballet); The Sleeping Beauty, Sylvia, Tales of Beatrix Potter, Cinderella (also BBC), La Sylphide (Royal Ballet); Sylvia, Beauty and the Beast, Cyrano, Giselle, Sleeping Beauty, Madding Crowd, Protecting Veil, Two Pigeons, Enigma Variations, Dante Sonata and Powder. His designs have toured to China, Japan, USA and Mexico. He has also designed for the London Children’s Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Stuttgart Ballet and the Berlin Staatsballet. 


  • MATTHEW SCOTT

    Music

    Previously at Chichester composed the music for Entertaining Angels, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Parts 1 & 2, Pravda, Twelfth Night, Hobson’s Choice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Eurydice, The Schoolmistress (Festival Theatre), The Real Inspector Hound/The Critic, Taking Sides, Collaboration (and West End), In Praise of Love and Office Suite (Minerva Theatre).  He is an Associate of Chichester Festival Theatre and Honorary Vice President of the Chichester City Band.
     
    Theatre credits include twenty-five productions for the National Theatre, most recently the world premiere of Alan Bennett’s The Habit of Art. Other recent theatre includes The Importance of Being Earnest (Open Air Theatre Regent’s Park), The Silver Darlings (His Majesty’s Aberdeen), The Tempest (Liverpool Everyman), The Hypochondriac (Almeida), The Duchess of Malfi (Wyndham’s), Mother Clap’s Molly House (National and Aldwych). His recent work for children includes Horrible Histories, Georges’ Marvellous Medicine and Horrible Science.
     
    Television includes Medics, In Suspicious Circumstances, Middlemarch, Trevor’s World of Sport, Drop the Dead Donkey (International Emmy and BAFTA Awards), Sex ‘n’ Death, Lord of Misrule, Eleven Men Against Eleven, King Leek, Crossing the Floor (International Emmy and BAFTA nominations), Bedtime, Mrs Bradley’s Mysteries, Underworld (British Comedy Award).
     
    Films include The Landgirls, The Feast of July and King Girl (RTS Best Soundtrack nomination).
     
    Trained at the Guildhall School and City University London followed by studies at the Berlin Hochshule fur Musik and in New York where he worked as Music Assistant to Lotte Lenya. He has written music for many plays including premieres by Alan Bennett, John Mortimer, Harold Pinter, Mark Ravenhill, Howard Barker and Julian Mitchell. Matthew was a member of cult systems band The Lost Jockey, and has produced Trans Global Underground, Antony and the Johnstons and Martha Wainwright. His orchestral version of Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was premiered by the London Sinfonietta at the Milan festival in 2007 and sung by Jarvis Cocker, Marianne Faithfull and others. In October 2007 Matthew made his debut with Faithless in Moscow.
     
    Matthew Scott is an Associate of Birmingham Rep and is Head of Music at the National Theatre, London.

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