Out of Joint, Hampstead Theatre and Sonia Friedman Productions present

KING OF HEARTS
- writer, cast & creative team

ALISTAIR BEATON - writer
Alistair wrote Feelgood, a West End hit for Out of Joint and Hampstead. Other writing includes Channel 4's The Trial of Tony Blair (Jan 2007) and the Blunkett film A Very Social Secretary; Spitting Image; the anti-war satire Follow My Leader (Hampstead/Birmingham Rep); and the satirical novel A Planet for the President.

Zahra Ahmadi’s theatre work includes The Daughter (The Wedding Collective); Hysteria (Northcott Theatre Company) and Where Are You Gone Jimmy Trevenna? (Edinburgh Fringe).

Christian Brassington’s theatre includes Helen of Troy (ATC). For TV he played Tony Blair in Alison Jackson’s Tony Blair Rockstar for Channel 4 and films include Mrs Ratcliffe’s Revolution, The Golden Age, Canaan and Incubus.

Alister Cameron’s many West Ends appearances include The Real Thing (Strand); House Guest (Savoy), Rolls-Hyphen-Royce (Shaftsbury), The Last Of Mrs Cheyney (Cambridge) and No Sex Please, We’re British (Strand) and various national and international tours. Last year he played General Haig in The Old Vic’s production of On The Middle Day at the Imperial War Museum. He has extensive TV and film credits.

Toby Dantzic’s theatre includes Cleansed (Oxford Stage Company); Knight of the Burning Pestle (Colchester and Barbican); In the Blue (Theatre 503); Where Do We Live (nominated for Most Promising New Performer Olivier Award) and Night of Glass (both Royal Court)

Caroline Loncq’s theatre includes The Duchess Of Malfi, The Comedy Of Errors, Love’s Labours Lost (Royal Shakespeare Company); Racing Demon (Royal Alex. Toronto); The House Of Ruby Moon (London New Play Fest); Damon & Pythias (Shakespeare’s Globe); An Absolute Turkey (Gielgud); Lysistrata (Wyndham’s & Greece). She has extensive TV and film credits.

Roddy Maude-Roxby’s recent theatre includes Master of Masks (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Invisible College (Primitive Science), and screen includes Wives and Daughters (BBC)and Shadowlands (Sir Richard Attenborough).

Anthony O’Donnell previously appeared at Hampstead Theatre in Uncle Vanya. Other theatre includes Henry VIII (Schtanhaus); President Of An Empty Room, Cyrano, The London Cuckolds, The Way Of The World, Under Milk Wood, Arturo Ui, The Miser, Ghetto, Bartholomew Fair, The Shaugraun (National Theatre); Twelfth Night, Glengary Glenross (Donmar Warehouse).

Jeff Rawle is probably best known for playing George in Drop the Dead Donkey on Channel 4. Recent theatre includes Bottle Universe (Bush), Way to Heaven (Royal Court) and Noises Off (National, tour and West End). Other TV and film includes Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Duncan in Fear, Stress and Anger and Roger Fenn in Doc Martin (BBC).

Ben Righton is a recent graduate whose theatre includes his West End debut as Stanhope in Journey’s End; Guy Faulkes Night: 24 Hour Plays (Old Vic); The Six of Calais (Regent’s Park Open Air); The Tempest (Clivedon Open Air).

Justin Salinger’s theatre includes The Seagull, Pillars of the Community, The UN Inspector, A Dream Play, Iphigenia At Aulis, Chips With Everything, Peter Pan and Dealer’s Choice (National Theatre),The Food Chain, Under the Blue Sky (Royal Court); Modern Dance for Beginners, Jump Mr Malinoff, Jump (Soho Theatre); Privates on Parade (Donmar Warehouse).

RAMIN GRAY – Director
Ramin’s recent work includes the world premieres of Simon Stephens’ Motortown (Royal Court and Wiener Festwochen) and David Greig’s The American Pilot (Royal Shakespeare Company). Ramin is Associate Director at the Royal Court, where his productions include premieres of Push Up, Just A Bloke, Terrorism, Ladybird, The Weather, Bear Hug, Way To Heaven, Woman and Scarecrow and Scenes from the Back of Beyond (all Theatre Upstairs). He has also directed at the Liverpool Playhouse, where he ran the Studio from 1992-94 and in Paris at the Odéon Théâtre National de l’Europe and Théâtre National de Gennevilliers.

MAX STAFFORD-CLARK – Director
Founded Joint Stock Theatre Group in 1974 following his Artistic Directorship of The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. From 1979 to 1993 he was Artistic Director of the Royal Court. In 1993 he founded Out of Joint. His work as a director has overwhelmingly been with new writing and he has commissioned and directed first productions by many of the country's leading writers.

TIM SHORTALL - Designer Tim's previous designs include The Overwhelming (National Theatre with Out of Joint - see pic, right), Whipping it Up (The Bush Theatre and West End), See How They Run (Duchess Theatre),The Philanthropist (Donmar Warehouse), Telstar (New Ambassadors) Elton John’s Glasses (Queen’s Theatre), 900 Oneonta (Old Vic and Ambassadors Theatres)

JOHANNA TOWN - Lighting Designer Johanna previously worked on Alistair Beaton’s Feelgood (Out of Joint / Hampstead Theatre, West End). Other Out of Joint work includes: The Overwhelming, The Permanent Way and Our Lady of Sligo (Out of Joint and National Theatre); O Go My Man, Talking to Terrorists, Shopping and Fucking (Out of Joint and Royal Court). For Hampstead Theatre: Little Malcolm and His Struggle against the Eunuchs (West End) and Ryan Craig’s The Glass Room.

IAN DICKINSON - Sound Designer Ian is Head of Sound at the Royal Court Theatre where his credits include: Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?, Piano Forte, Rock 'N' Roll (and Duke of York's, West End), Motortown (& Vienna - Weiner Festwochen 06), Rainbow Kiss, The Winterling, Alice Trilogy, Fewer Emergencies, Way To Heaven to name but a few.