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Meet the Stage Managers
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| KIM VERNACE (Production Stage Manager) Bway credits include: Beauty and the Beast; Chicago; Aida; Music Man; the complete run of Movin’ Out. Tours include: Cats; Hello Dolly; Beauty and the Beast; Annie and Chicago. Love to my parents and Jill. |
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| PAUL J. SMITH (Stage Manager). Bway: All Shook Up; Aida; Kat and the Kings; Grease!; Hairspray; Chicago; Carousel; The Will Rogers Follies. National tours: Twelve Angry Men; Chicago; Aida; The Wizard of Oz; The Will Rogers Follies; Grease! |
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| MATTHEW MELCHIORRE (Assistant Stage Manager) Light in the Piazza; Lion King; All Shook Up; The Frogs. Off Bway: White Chocolate; Open Heart; The Architecture of Loss; Wonder of the World; Glimmer, Glimmer and Shine; Current Events; La Terrassa. |
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Meet the Creatives
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| MELLY STILL (Director and Co-Designer). Melly Still studied Theatre, Dance and Art at St. John’s College, York. Her work in theatre as a director and designer includes the original Coram Boy at the National; Watership Down at Lyric Hammersmith; and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Beasts and Beauties (also at the National Theatre of Norway, Bergen), both at Bristol Old Vic. For the RSC, she was designer and co-director for Tales from Ovid and Midnights Children, which was also presented at the Barbican Bite Festival, in Michigan and at The Apollo Theatre in Harlem. As a designer her work includes: Diary of a Scoundrel for the National Theatre of Norway, Bergen; As I Lay Dying, Twelfth Night and Blood Wedding at the Young Vic; and Grimm Tales for the Young Vic and for a festival tour. She also designed and directed movement for Much Ado About Nothing at the Maxim Theatre in Berlin; The Jungle Book and More Grimm Tales (also at the New Victory NY) for the Young Vic; and for Les Misérables (co-design) at Tel Aviv Opera House. Other work for the National Theatre: Epic of Gilgamesh and Whale (Movement), and Haroun and the Sea of Stories (as designer and co-deviser). |
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| HELEN EDMUNDSON (Adaptor). Helen Edmundson’s first play, Flying, was produced at the NT Studio in 1990. Since then her work for the theatre has included: The Clearing, first performed at the Bush Theatre; Mother Teresa is Dead, at the Royal Court; and four stage adaptations for Shared Experience Theatre – Anna Karenina and The Mill on the Floss, both of which toured nationally and internationally, War and Peace, which was produced at the National in 1996, and Gone to Earth which was seen on tour and at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith. Her latest work for Shared Experience, Orestes – Blood and Light, toured nationally in Autumn 2006 and played at the Tricycle Theatre until December. The Clearing received the John Whiting Award for best new play, as well as a Time Out Award. She also won TMA and Time Out Awards for The Mill on the Floss, Anna Karenina and most recently, a Time Out Award for Coram Boy. Helen Edmundson has written two short films for television: One Day for BBC 2 and Stella for Channel 4, and her adaptation of The Voyage Out was heard on Radio 4 in 2006. |
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| JAMILA GAVIN (Author). Jamila Gavin was born in Mussoorie, India, in the foothills of the Himalayas, to an Indian father and an English mother. After her family settled in England, she studied music and worked for the BBC before starting to write children’s books. Her first, The Magic Orange Tree, was published in 1979. She has since produced collections of short stories and several teenage novels, including The Blood Stone, and The Surya Trilogy, of which the first, The Wheel of Surya, was runner-up for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award in 1992. Coram Boy, her novel for young adults, was published in 2000 and won the Children’s Whitbread Award, as well as being short listed for the Carnegie Medal. Jamila Gavin also writes for TV, radio and the stage. Her book for younger children, Grandpa Chatterji, was short listed for the Smarties Award, and dramatized by her for Channel 4 Schools, and her first original radio play, The God at The Gate on Radio 4, was short listed for the Richard Imison Award. She adapted her own children’s book, The Monkey in the Stars, and Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories into plays for Polka Theatre. She is currently working on a contemporary novel for teenagers called The Robber Baron’s Daughter, and a set of stories from the great Indian collection, The Panchatantra. |
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| ADRIAN SUTTON (Composer) After training at Goldsmiths College London University, Adrian spent years carving a successful career writing music for TV, commercials and film (including for directors Ken Russell and Chris Morris). Coram Boy is his first large scale theater score. |
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| DEREK BARNES (Additional Arrangements) Originating Musical Director for the UK production of Coram Boy. Conductor, composer and arranger having worked in fourteen countries. Professor of Music Theatre Performance at Gothenberg University, Sweden. International Master classes specializing in Sound and Voice. |
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| CONSTANTINE KITSOPOULOS (Music Director & Principal Conductor) General Director – Chatham Opera. Music Director – Queens Symphony, Music Director - “Happy End” for ACT. Cast Album on Ghostlight Records. On Broadway – “La Bohème” (cast album on Dreamworks Records), “Les Misèrables”, “Dracula”, “Swan Lake”, “An Inspector Calls”, “Cyrano”. Symphony – Detroit, Blossom Festival, Hartford, Santa Barbara, National Arts Centre, National, Brooklyn Philharmonic, New Jersey, Calgary Philharmonic, Annapolis, Hong Kong Philharmonic. Opera – NYC Opera, Hong Kong, Sarasota, DiCapo. Conducting studies with Vincent LaSelva. |
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| TI GREEN (Co-Designer). Ti Green’s work includes the original Coram Boy and The U.N. Inspector at the National; Julius Caesar and Coriolanus for the RSC; Tamburlaine (also at the Barbican), Paradise Lost and The Comedy of Errors for Bristol Old Vic; Sante for the Aldeburgh Festival; Separate Tables at Manchester Royal Exchange; The Taming of the Shrew at Nottingham Playhouse; A Christmas Carol, Oedipus, Treasure Island, The Tempest, The Wind in the Willows, The John Wayne Principle and Twelfth Night at the Nuffield; Just the Three of Us at Windsor Theatre Royal and on tour; The Entertainer at Liverpool Playhouse; Dimetos, Epitaph for the Whales and The Birds at the Gate; Foodchain at the Royal Court; Full House and The Hairless Diva at Watford Palace; Albertine in Five Times at BAC; Doña Rosita the Spinster, Bodies, The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles and Retreat at the Orange Tree; The Winter's Tale, co-produced by the British Council and Gavella Theatre, Zagreb; The Three Sisters for Oxford Stage Company; Compact Failure for Clean Break; Where There's a Will for Bath Theatre Productions; Wit at the Tron and on tour; Bogus Woman and Obsession at The Red Room; The Barber of Seville for Grange Park Opera; and The Threepenny Opera for Pimlico Opera, Downview Prison. |
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