The Creative Team

The Roman Bath Creative Team

Justin Butcher (Translator The Roman Bath)

Theatre includes: Peter Pan (Kensington Gardens), The Luneburg Variation (Oxford Stage Company/ UK tour and West End), The Ruin of Britain, The Firebrand (Royal Theatre Northampton) Child of Biafra (Contact Theatre), The Red Room (The Sticking Place 2005 Season of Terror/ Union Theatre), Guantanamo Baywatch (New Players Theatre), A Weapons Inspector Calls (Pleasance Theatre), The Madness of George Dubya (Riverside Studios), and Scaramouch Jones (Riverside Studios/UK and World Tour).

Russell Bolam (Director)

Trained: Middlesex University and GITIS Academy of Theatre Arts, Moscow.

Theatre as Director include Captain Oates’ Left Sock (Finborough Theatre) Tiny Bones (Theatre 503), Three More Sleepless Nights (Tristan Bates Theatre) and Fourplay (Tristan Bates Theatre).

He is a previous Assistant Director for The Royal Shakespeare Company (To Dominic Cooke), Bristol Old Vic (Arts Council Funded Individual Training Grant), and Nottingham Playhouse.

Russell teaches improvisation at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, is a visiting director of Shakespeare at Royal Welsh Academy of Music and Drama and visiting practitioner at Kent University.

Jean Chan (Set Designer)

Jean graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2008 and is Trainee Designer at the Royal Shakespeare Company.

She is a winner of the Linbury Prize for Stage Design 2009 and will design for The Garbage King for the Unicorn Theatre in 2010.

Other theatre includes: Associate Design for Monsters (Arcola Theatre).

Tim Mascall (Lighting Designer)

West End credits include Why The Whales Came at the Comedy Theatre, Well at The Apollo, The Vagina Monologues at The Wyndhams Theatre, Derren Brown: Something Wicked This Way Comes at The Old Vic, Derren Brown: An Evening Of Wonder at The Garrick, Derren Brown: Enigma at The Adelphi and ‘Lies Have Been Told - An Evening With Robert Maxwell’ at Trafalgar Studios.

Other London productions include: Breakfast With Jonny Wilkinson (Menier Chocolate Factory), Professor Bernhardi and Rose Bernd (Arcola Theatre for Oxford Stage / Dumbfounded) Jenufa (Arcola Theatre for Natural Perspective), How To Disappear And Never Be Found (Southwark Playhouse), Cotton Wool (Theatre 503), Latin Fever (Peacock Theatre for Raymond Gubbay Ltd / Sadlers Wells).

UK Touring productions include Pete and Dud: Come Again, The Lady Of Burma and The Alchemist, all for James Seabright, Trainspotting and Stones In His Pocket's for Mark Goucher Ltd, Gizmo Love and Bad Jazz both for Actors Touring Company.

Around the UK he has designed for, amongst others, Watford Palace Theatre, Exeter Northcott Theatre, Mercury Theatre, Colchester, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Southwark Playhouse and Regents Park Open Air Theatre.

Internationally his designs have been seen in Berlin, Montreal, Washington DC, Kuala Lumpur, Sydney, New York, Florida and New Zealand.

Gary Yershon (Musical Director)

Theatre includes: Pericles, The Winter’s Tale, The Crucible, Cymbeline, Hamlet, Don Carlos (RSC), 2000 Years, Buried Child, The Duchess of Malfi, The Way of the World, Volpone (National Theatre), Art, The Play What I Wrote (West End/Broadway) Arabian Nights (Young Vic/Broadway) and other scores at Young Vic, Royal Court, Gate Theatre Notting Hill, Open Air Theatre Regent’s Park, Shared Experience, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Chichester Festival Theatre, Manchester Royal Exchange, Manchester Library, Bristol Old Vic, Theatr Clwyd, Oxford Stage Co., Derby Playhouse, Nottingham Playhouse, Cheltenham Everyman, York Theatre Royal, in the West End and on Broadway. Gary has been writing music for drama for over thirty years and also works as a writer and teacher.

Tom Gibbons (Sound Designer)

Tom graduated in Sound Design from the Central School of Speech and Drama. He specialise in multi-media theatre, on stage amplification, live and pre-recorded play-back and alternative sound ideas.

His credits include Dr Faustus, Watford Palace Theatre; The Hostage, Present Tense, Southwark Playhouse; Faithless Bitches, Courtyard Theatre; Excursions, Art Depot/The Roundhouse; The Shawl, Arcola; Bedbound, Lion and Unicorn Theatre; Everything Must Go, Soho Theatre; FAT, The Oval House; Blue Heaven, Finborough Theatre; Hotels, The New Wimbledon Studio; US Love Bites, Old Red Lion Theatre; The Rain Emperor, Village Underground; State of Emergency, The Gate Theatre; The Broken Space Season, Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover, The Bush Theatre; Just Below the Above, Arts Theatre; The Pendulum, Jermyn Street Theatre; Freeman Gallop, ICA London.
Kate Hewitt (Movement Director).

Clare McKehha (Movement Director)

Lucy Jenkins C.D.G. (Casting Director)

Theatre: Lucy was Deputy Head of Casting at the Royal Shakespeare Company between 2006 and 2008.  Other theatre includes Noises Off (Comedy Theatre), Emma and The Bassett Table at the Tricycle, Ann of Green Gables (Saddlers Wells), Little Women (Duchess Theatre), Carrie’s War (Saddlers Wells and Apollo Theatre), Grand Guignol at the Drum Theatre, Plymouth, and most recently Warhorse at the New London Theatre and Arthur and George for Birmingham Rep.

Television includes Lloyd and Hill, Babyfather, Samuel Johnson Dictionary Man plus several episodes of The Bill.

Film includes House!, Fascination, Vampire Diary, Outlanders, Mad Sad and Bad, The Curry Club plus several short films and a series of award winning art installations for the Kimbell museum, Texas.

Lucy is a member of the Casting Directors Guild of Great Britain.