The Lehman Trilogy

Stefano Massini is the first Italian author to receive a Tony Award. He is a novelist and playwright, who regularly contributes to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. For several years he has served as artistic consultant at Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa. His works, including The Lehman Trilogy, have been translated into 27 languages, and his plays have been performed in more theatres around the world than those of any other living Italian writer, produced as far afield as Iran and Korea, and staged by directors such as Luca Ronconi and Sam Mendes. Other selected works include Intractable Woman, Ladies Football Club and 7 Minutes. He has won numerous Italian and foreign awards, including the Premio Vittorio Tondelli, the Premio Ubu, the Tony Award, the Drama Guild Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award. Qualcosa sui Lehman (The Lehman Trilogy) won the Selezione Campiello Prize, the Super Mondello Prize, the De Sica Prize, the Prix Médicis Essai and the Prix Meilleur Livre Étranger. He has just finished creating a new multi-part play about the history of the atomic bomb, entitled Manhattan Project.

Ben Power is a Tony Award-winning writer for theatre, television and film. Since 2010, he has worked with the National Theatre, including six years as Deputy Artistic Director and two years programming The Shed. In addition to The Lehman Trilogy, his adaptations for the National Theatre include DH Lawrence’s Husbands & Sons, Euripides’ Medea and Ibsen’s Emperor & Galilean. He has worked as dramaturg and writer for companies such as the RSC, Complicité and Headlong, where he was Associate Director and created adaptations of Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author and Marlowe’s Dr Faustus. Work on screen includes his BAFTA longlisted adaptation of Robert Harris’ Munich: Edge of War for Netflix and the BAFTA winning BBC Shakespeare adaptation, The Hollow Crown

Sam Mendes founded and ran the Donmar Warehouse in London for ten years. He was the founding director of Neal Street Productions and The Bridge Project. His work has been seen at the National Theatre, RSC, Royal Court, Old Vic, Young Vic, BAM, the West End and on Broadway. Films include American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Jarhead, Revolutionary Road, Away We Go, Skyfall, Spectre 1917 and most recently Empire of Light. Awards include the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture and three other Academy Award nominations, five BAFTA Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, three Tony Awards, five Olivier Awards, the Olivier Special Award, three Evening Standard Awards, two Directors Guild of America Awards, the PGA award, the Jason Robards Award, and the Hamburg Shakespeare Prize. He has also won the Director’s Guild Award for lifetime achievement. He is an Honorary Fellow of the National Film and Television School, and a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge. He was made a CBE in 2000, and knighted in 2020 for services to drama.

Artist and designer Es Devlin’s recent works include the large-scale choral sculpture ‘Come Home Again’ at the Tate Modern Garden, which fused drawings and voices of 243 endangered London species; Conference of the Trees, which brought together 197 trees at COP26; Memory Palace at Pitzhanger Manor; and Forest of Us at Superblue Miami, alongside new works by TeamLab and JamesTurrell. Her recent theatre work includes The Crucible at the National Theatre; A Number at the Old Vic; Girls and Boys and The Nether at the Royal Court; Faith Healer at the Donmar; Hamlet at the Barbican; and Chimerica at the Almeida. Devlin has conceived stage sculptures with Beyoncé, The Weeknd, U2, Kanye West, Saint Laurent, Dior and the 2021 and 2022 Super Bowl halftime shows featuring Dr Dre, Kendrick Lamar, Eminem as well as Olympic Ceremonies in London and Rio. She was the first woman to design the UK Pavilion at EXPO 2020 and her practice was the subject of the Netflix documentary series Abstract: The Art of Design, her design for The Lehman Trilogy won the 2022 Tony and she has previously been awarded the London Design Medal, three Olivier Awards, doctorates from the universities of Bristol, Kent and UAL and a CBE.

Katrina Lindsay is a set and costume designer working internationally in theatre, opera, ballet and film. Recent costume designs include Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in the West End, on Broadway and worldwide; Tammy Faye at the Almeida; 101 Dalmatians at Regent’s Park; Burn(with Alan Cumming) for the National Theatre of Scotland/Edinburgh International Festival; Hamlet (with Benedict Cumberbatch as Hamlet) at the Barbican and broadcast on National Theatre Live; American Psycho at the Almeida and on Broadway. As set and costume designer at the National Theatre work includes Small Island, Hex, Three Sisters, Mosquitoes, Behind the Beautiful Forevers and London Road; plus production designer on the film of London Road (Cuba Pictures). Costume designs for opera include Terry Gilliam’s Damnation of Faust and Benvenuto Cellini for the ENO and around the world. Katrina Lindsay won the 2008 Tony Award, Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk awards for Outstanding Costume for Les Liaisons Dangereuses on Broadway and the 2017 Olivier Award and 2018 Tony Award for Best Costume Design for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Katrina Lindsay is an associate of the National Theatre and a member of the theatre design collective Scene/Change.

Luke Halls’ designs for theatre and opera include West Side Story on Broadway; The Starry Messenger, Everyone’s Talking About Jamie, The Moderate Soprano, Frozen, The Lehman Trilogy, 2071 and The Nether in the West End; Miss Saigon in Austria, Japan, Broadway and on UK tour; Linda and Girls & Boys at the Royal Court; Magic Mike Live at London Hippodrome; The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage and My Name is Lucy Barton at the Bridge; Lucia di Lammermoor at Metropolitan Opera and LA Opera; Boris Godunov at Teatro alla Scala; Don Giovanni and Like Water for Chocolate at the Royal Opera House; Carmen and Madama Butterfly at Bregenzer Festspiele; and Atlas at the LA Philharmonic. Halls has designed visuals for Adele, Rihanna, Robbie Williams, Pet Shop Boys, The Rolling Stones, Elton John, U2, Paris Fashion Week, Frameless Immersive Art Experience, FIFA World Cup Opening Ceremony 2022, Olympic Paralympic 2012 closing ceremonies and Pan American Games 2019 opening ceremony. Halls has received a 2020 Drama Desk Award for West Side Story, Knight of Illumination Awards in 2014, 2015 and 2016, and a BAFTA for The Cube.

Jon Clark is an award-winning lighting designer. He has designed extensively in the West End, on Broadway, for the National Theatre, Royal Opera House, RSC and with many other companies in the UK and internationally. Theatre includes The Lehman Trilogy (Tony Award) at the National Theatre, in the West End, on Broadway and in LA; The Shark is Broken in the West End and North America; Eureka Day at the Old Vic; Cyrano de Bergerac in the West End, Glasgow and New York; The Inheritance (Olivier Award and Tony Award) at the Young Vic, on Broadway and in the West End; The Commitments in the West End; and Betrayal and King Charles III on Broadway and in the West End. Opera includes Hamlet at Glyndebourne and the Metropolitan Opera; The Exterminating Angel at the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House and Saltzburg Festival; Król Rogerat the Royal Opera House and Sydney Opera House.

Nick Powell’s work in theatre includes The Glass Menagerie, The Mirror and the Light and The Nether in the West End; The Lehman Trilogy (also West End and USA), The Tell-Tale Heart and Othello for the National Theatre;Julius Caesar at the Bridge Theatre; The Ferryman at the Royal Court, in the West End and on Broadway; The Glow, X, Unreachable, Narrative and Get Santa! at the Royal Court; Peter Pan, Lord of the Flies and The Crucible at Regent’s Park; Lanark: A Life in Three Acts at Edinburgh International Festival; Dunsinane (also UK tour), A Life of Galileo and The Drunks for the RSC; Realism and The Wonderful World of Dissocia for National Theatre of Scotland; Urtain and Marat-Sade at Animalario, Madrid; ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore for Cheek by Jowl; and The Wolves in the Walls for Improbable. Nick Powell’s band OSKAR has released two LP’s and produced soundtracks for Prada. His 2021 solo LP Walls Fall Down was followed by instrumental LP, Music from the Black Box in 2022. In 2017, he scored Bloom, the opening event of the Edinburgh International Festival and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao’s 20th anniversary celebration ‘Reflections’. He composed music for half of Frameless, the immersive exhibition in the West End. His chamber piece ‘Cold Calling: The Arctic Project’ was presented at the Birmingham Rep with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in 2016. He scored the film Un efecto óptico and was music consultant on 1917. nickpowell.online

Dominic Bilkey is a Tony and Olivier nominated sound designer and is currently Head of Sound and Video at the National Theatre. He recently retired as Chairperson of the Association of Sound Designers and was a recipient of the Technical Theatre Awards (TTA) for Outstanding Achievement in Sound. He is actively involved in the teaching sound and associated technologies at a number of UK Universities. Sound design for online includes Original Readings, Viral (online film), Apollo 13 and Birdsong Online for Original Theatre. Sound designs for theatre include Stumped and Into the Night for Original Theatre Hybrid; Death of a Salesman (soundscape Designer) for Elliott Harper Productions; Pippi Longstocking the Musical at the Royal & Derngate; Aladdin, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella at Windsor Theatre Royal; The Lehman Trilogy (co-sound designer) at the National Theatre, in the West End and on Broadway; Peter Pan at the National Theatre and Troubadour White City; Shadowlands and Flarepath for Birdsong Productions; Jane Eyre at the National Theatre, Bristol Old Vic and on tour; Pinocchio for Guy James and Szpiezak Productions; Tommy the Musical for Aria Entertainment, Guy James and Szpiezak Productions; and Birdsong for Birdsong Productions/Original Theatre.

Candida Caldicot’s work as a musical director includes To Kill a Mockingbird at the Gielgud; Jews. In Their Own Words at the Royal Court; The Lehman Trilogy on Broadway, in the West End, at the National Theatre and Park Avenue Armory, New York; Black Love and The Seven Ages of Patience at Kiln; The Wizard of Oz (as musical supervisor) at Leeds Playhouse; King Lear at the Duke of York’s; Carmen – The Gypsy on UK tour; Peter Pan at Regent’s Park; The Little Mermaid for Metta on UK tour; The Shadow Factory at Nuffield Southampton; Queen Anne at the RSC and Theatre Royal Haymarket; Woyzeck at the Old Vic; Hecuba, The Witch of Edmonton, The Heresy of Love and The Heart of Robin Hood at the RSC; and The Tempest for the RSC (US Suitcase tour). As composer, her work includes The Little Prince at Taunton Brewhouse / Metta; Zeraffa Giraffa for Little Angel and Omnibus; Buckets at the Orange Tree; 4 Pepys at Wilderness Festival; Hansel and Gretel, Treasure Island, Much Ado About Nothing, Pinocchio, Richard III, Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Romeo and Juliet and The Wind in the Willows for Iris Theatre; Macbeth for Shakespeare in Styria; Once Upon a Time a BookTrust tour; and The Hostage at Southwark Playhouse.

Polly Bennett is a movement director, choreographer and practitioner. Work for theatre includes Patriots and House of Shades at the Almeida; Cyrano de Bergerac at the Playhouse; Botticelli in the Fire and Hysteria at Hampstead; Peter Gynt (also Edinburgh International Festival), Rutherford and Son, The Lehman Trilogy (also West End and Park Avenue Armory), The Great Wave, The Deep Blue Sea, People, Places and Things (also St Ann’s Warehouse, New York and in the West End) and Pomona (also Royal Exchange and Orange Tree) at the National Theatre; and Sweat at the Donmar Warehouse and in the West End. TV includes Kaos, Nolly, Wolf, The Great (series 1, 2 and 3), The Crown (series 3, 4, 5 and 6), One Normal Night and Killing Eve. Film includes Saltburn (forthcoming; movement coach and choreographer), Lady Chatterley’s Lover (forthcoming; movement coach and choreographer), Elvis (movement coach and head of choreography), I Wanna Dance with Somebody (forthcoming; movement coach and choreographer), Chevalier (movement coach), No Time to Die (movement coach to Rami Malek), Mogul Mowgli (movement coach to Riz Ahmed), Bohemian Rhapsody (movement coach to Rami Malek), The Little Stranger (choreographer) and Stan & Ollie (assistant choreographer).

Zoé Ford Burnett has worked as director and associate director on productions at the National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Donmar Warehouse, Shakespeare’s Globe, Arcola Theatre, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Barbican, Broadway, West End and Los Angeles. Theatre includes Machinal, Close Quarters, 1984, Octavia, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet, Sonnets, Richard III, A Life in Theatre, Romeo and Juliet, Titus Andronicus, Blood Wedding and School for Scandal.

Rory McGregor is a British theatre director based in New York and London. He was the assistant director for The Lehman Trilogy on Broadway and in Los Angeles. Recent directing credits include the US premiere of Buggy Baby at APAC, New York; the world premiere of Interior at 59E59 Theaters, New York; Macbeth at Connelly, New York; and The Great Divide at the Finborough. As associate director work includes Sea Wall/A Life at The Public Theater and on Broadway; Ink on Broadway; and M. Butterfly on Broadway. He was previously an Artistic Apprentice at Roundabout Theatre Company, an Artistic Associate of Classic Stage Company, a Directing Fellow at Manhattan Theatre Club and is currently an Artistic Representative on the Young Partner’s Board at the Public Theater. He holds an MFA in Theatre Directing from Columbia University.