1. Barrie Rutter Founder and Artistic Director of Northern Broadsides
Barrie Rutter was born in Hull and since leaving school in 1964 his acting career has stretched from Hamburg to Helsinki, Bradford to Beijing and includes film, television and radio. But he is best described as a 'theatre animal', and has had his happiest moments on the stage, whether in Shakespeare's Globe, London or the ancient amphitheatre of Epidaurus.
His theatre work includes:
for the Royal Shakespeare Company - Henry IV, Henry V, Coriolanus and The Taming of the Shrew; for the Royal National Theatre - The Mysteries, The Crucible, Guys and Dolls, The Oresteia, The Rivals, Animal Farm, Martine and The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus
For Northern Broadsides –
Richard III; The Merry Wives (1993 & 2001); Poetry or Bust (1993 & 2003); A Midsummer Nights Dream; The Cracked Pot (1995&6, 2001) ; The Blood of Dracula; The Passion; Romeo and Juliet; Antony and Cleopatra; Samson Agonistes; The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus; Twelfth Night; King Lear; The Mysteries (2000); Much Ado About Nothing; Alcestis; King John; Oedipus; Macbeth; Henry V; Antigone; The Merchant of Venice; Comedy of Errors; Sweet William; School for Scandal; The Wars of the Roses; The Man With Two Gaffers
2. Catherine Kinsella
Theatre includes Double Act, Les Miserables at the Palace Theatre Manchester. TV Holby City; Doctors and The Royal Radio Spring Sonata, BBC Radio 4/Watershed Productions
For Northern Broadsides: Macbeth;The Bells ；School for Scandal
3. Simon Holland Roberts
Theatre: Sea of Silence, Man Is Man, The Threepenny Opera, Road ( UK Tour), Living Dangerously (Poland Tour for Theatr Clwyd). Simon has also worked as a director/tutor with Bigfoot Theatre Company and is dramaturg for Youth Culture TV.
Film: The Borrowers; Strictly Ghetto.
For Northern Broadsides: Comedy of Errors; Sweet William; School for Scandal; Wars of the Roses ；The Man With Two Gaffers
4. Matt Connor
Theatre: Lord Of The Flies ；Helter Skelter
TV: Heartbeat, The Royal, Fat Friends, My Parents Are Aliens (YTV) and Hollyoaks (Mersey Television).
Film: Underneath and Free-Range (Spool Films).
For Northern Broadsides: Wars of the Roses; and Stephen, The Man With Two Gaffers
5. Simeon Truby
Theatre: The Glee Club; Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Two, 8 Miles High, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Jerusalem, West Yorkshire Playhouse; Antony & Cleopatra, Manchester Royal Exchange; Much Ado About Nothing, Manchester Library Theatre; The Hired Man, Cinderella, The Wizard of OZ, The Snow Queen, Romeo and Juliet, A Christmas Carol, Theatre by the Lake Keswick; The Red Balloon, Pinnochio, Birmingham Rep; The Duchess of Malfi, Rutherford & Son, Salisbury Playhouse; The Red Balloon, Royal National Theatre; Chess, UK Tour;
Music: Simeon has composed the music and worked as Musical Director on several productions Simeon also runs Urban Stage, a theatre school in Manchester with wife Helen Kay
For Northern Broadsides: Bill Beckwith, The Man With Two Gaffers
6. Michael Hugo
Theatre: Stags & Hens, Smoke, A Christmas Carol, Pinocchio, Kes for the New Vic; The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice, Babes In The Wood for Oldham Coliseum; Breaking The Code, Chester Gateway; An Eclipse Of The Sun, Square Peg; Purge, New Strides; Widows, The Arden Theatre.
TV: I’m With Stupid, Ideal BBC Sir Gadabout ITV
For Northern Broadsides: Mr Ashburner - Vacuum
7. Mark Stratton
Theatre: The Business of Murder,; The Canterbury Tales; Piaf, Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Having A Ball, Up ‘N’ Under, A View From The Bridge (York Theatre Royal); Underneath The Arches, Twelfth Night, Harvest In The North (Oldham Coliseum); Romeo & Juliet (Harrogate Theatre); Run For Your Wife, Privates On Parade, A View From The Bridge; The Tempest (Ludlow Festival); Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, It’s A Madhouse. Mark has also toured extensively with his one-man show, The Incredible Journey. Along with Choregrapher Shelia Carter, Mark recently founded the Esk Valley Theatre in the North York Moors National Park. They are currently planning this year’s production.
For Northern Broadsides: Duke of Buckingham - Wars of the Roses; Ray - Vacuum
8. Tim Barker
Theatre : Twelfth Night, Royal Hunt of the Sun, Funny Peculiar and Our Town in London and tours from Australia to the USSR with Prospect Theatre Company. At the Edinburgh Festival he performed his own one-man show Shakespeare-The Good Beer Guide
TV:Inspector Morse,
For Northern Broadsides: Macbeth, Henry V; A Woman Killed With Kindness; Wars of the Roses
9. Conrad Nelson Associate Director and Composer
Conrad’s acting career spans over twenty years and boasts a vast body of work in theatre – widely in repertory and with companies such as Cheek by Jowl and Renaissance; and in television and film – most notably appearing in Dancing Thru The Dark and Much Ado About Nothing. He has also built a reputation as a dramatic composer and has written music for theatre, television and radio. His longest association by far has been with Northern Broadsides as actor, Musical Director/composer, Assistant Director and now as Associate Director of Northern Broadsides His directorial debut for Broadsides in 2004 was Deborah McAndrew’s acclaimed new adaptation of the famous gothic melodrama – The Bells. Last year Conrad directed Oleanna for The New Vic Theatre, Newcastle under Lyme and a new play by Deborah McAndrew, Vacuum for Northern Broadsides .
For Northern Broadsides: Richmond, Richard III; Woolsorter/Patron Poetry or Bust (1993 & 2003); Host, The Merry Wives (1993); Demetrius (1994/5) & Puck (1996), A Midsummer Night's Dream; Marcus Aurelius, The Kaisers of Carnuntum; Pilate, The Passion; Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet; Caesar (1997), Antony and Cleopatra; Messenger, Samson Agonistes; Apollo/Grenfell, The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus at The West Yorkshire Playhouse; Edgar, King Lear; The Mysteries 2000; Benedick, Much Ado About Nothing; Sir Hugh Evans, The Merry Wives (2001); Philip, King John; title roles in Oedipus and Henry V; Chorus/Guard, Antigone; Dromio of Syracuse, Comedy of Errors; William Shakespeare, Sweet William and Richard later King Richard III in the Wars of the Roses Trilogy.
10. Phil Corbitt
Theatre: Eight Miles High ；The Hired Man, Much Ado About Nothing, (National tour); A Christmas Carol, Mak the Sheep Stealer (National tour);Capt. Tempest, Return to the Forbidden Planet, (Shaftsbury Theatre and national tour); Ladies Night (National tour); A Family Affair, (Contact Theatre Manchester); World Story Time, (Theatre Royal Stratford East); An Enemy of the People, (Playhouse Theatre); Toby Belch, Twelfth Night and The Secret Agent, (Cambridge Touring Theatre); Leonardo’s Last Supper, (Edinburgh).
For Northern Broadsides: Dr Zimmer - The Bells; Warwick, Murderer and Ratcliffe – The Wars of the Roses
11. Sarah Cattle
Theatre: HILDA, HEAD CASE, BLACK MILK, TERRORISM and NEUTRALIZED, INSIDE OUT, MADE OF STONE, Young Writers Festival, AMERICAN DAYS, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM;
Television: DOCTORS, THE ROYAL, BODIES, ROCKFACE, LINDA GREEN and HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON
This is Sarah’s first production for Northern Broadsides.
12. Rachel Jane Allen
Theatre Includes: The Tempest, King Lear, A Christmas Carol for Theatre of the Dales; Hamlet, Creation Theatre; Made in Cheshire, Action Transport; Tight, Brief Candle Theatre.
For Northern Broadsides: First Witch, Macbeth; Cordelia, King Lear; Ursula, Much Ado About Nothing and The Vulture, Alcestis
13. Una McNulty
Theatre includes: Christmas Crackers, Unleashed, Confessions of a City Supporter, Gym & Tonic and Blood Sweat & Tears (Hull Truck Theatre and West Yorkshire Playhouse); Broken Glass, (Watermill Theatre);Roughyeds, Mother Goose (Oldham Coliseum);Lucky Sods (Middle East tour); Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Edinburgh Festival & Greenwich Theatre); Three Dolls Called Daisy (Greenwich Theatre); Decadence (Kings Head Theatre); Erik the Viking (national tour); Nosferatu, (Tragic Carpet Theatre Co).
For Northern Broadsides: Macbeth
14. Pete Toon
Past credits include: Sleeping Beauty for The City Varieties, Leeds; On Pendle Hill for Blaize Theatre; The Happiest Days of Your Life for The Royal Exchange, Manchester; three years touring On the Line; Pedal Power; A Women's Place; All Steamed Up and Warehouse Hill with Mikron Theatre Company ; The Nutcracker; Strife Between Brothers and Children of the Streets for Seagull Theatre of The Gorge. Pete also toured internationally and produced an album with the Black Mountain Male Chorus of Wales.
This is Pete’s first production for Northern Broadsides.
15. Daniella Beattie Lighting Designer
For The New Vic: Oliver!, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Stags and Hens, The Safari Party, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Smoke, A Christmas Carol, Sizwe Banzi Is Dead, As You Like It, East Lynne, The Graduate, Kitty And Kate, Pinocchio, To Kill A Mockingbird, Once We Were Mothers, Can’t Pay Won’t Pay, Amadeus, Beauty & The Beast, Kes, Carmen, Once A Catholic, The Lonesome West, Love Me Slender, The Duchess Of Malfi, The Marriage of Figaro, Outside Edge, The Beauty Queen Of Leenane, Pump Boys And Dinettes, Romeo And Juliet, Billy Liar, All That Trouble That We Had, Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle And Dick, Pat And Margaret, Ham!, Top Girls, Big Maggie, co-design for Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, Neville’s Island, Office Suite.
For New Vic Borderlines and Education: Our Country’s Good, Blow The Whistle, Lost, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Ash Girl, Seasons Of Change, MC2, It’s Just A Bit Of Fun, Inside Out, The Visit, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Home From The Past.
Theatre includes: The Mikado (The Orange Tree, Richmond).
16. Lis Evans Designer
Lis trained at Cardiff Art College and what was then Trent Polytechnic, graduating in 1987.
She made props and painted for various productions, exhibitions and tradeshows. As Head of Design at the New Vic Theatre (one of the very few UK theatres retaining such a post), Lis has designed over 70 productions, including Oliver!, Stags and Hens, Poor Mrs Pepys, Sizwe Bansi is Dead, The Graduate, Amadeus, Kes, Carmen, My Night with Reg, Lonesome West, The Railway Children, Cleo Camping Emanuel and Dick, Top Girls, Moll Flanders, Kiss of The Spider Woman, Translations, A Comedy of Errors, Bright and Bold Designs, The Jolly Potters and The Cherry Orchard.
Lis also works with the New Vic Education Department, local schools, colleges and adult education groups - designing, leading workshops, talks, and mentoring students. She has exhibited work in exhibitions in Cardiff, Nottingham, Stoke, Felixstowe, London, Sheffield and Manchester.
For Northern Broadsides: Vacuum
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