Thick As Thieves

Polly trained at Bristol University.
Theatre credits includes: On The Exhale Fringe First Winner (Traverse Theatre), Jekyll & Hyde (English Touring Consortium), A Short History Of Tractors In Ukranian (Hull Truck), Frankenstein & Hedda Gabler (Northern Stage), Henry V (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre), The Odyssey (English Touring Theatre), Mermaid (Shared Experience), Arcadia (Tobacco Factory), Twelfth Night (Filter Theatre), Pastoral (Soho Theatre), After Miss Julie (Young Vic), The Crossing 66 Books (Bush Theatre), The Comedy Of Errors (Stafford Shakespeare Festival), Earthquakes in London (RNT), The Count of Monte Cristo (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Macbeth (Chichester, West End & Broadway), Home-Work (Bodies in Flight for Singapore Esplanade), A Response to Twelfth Night (Filter), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie& Poor Mrs Pepys (New Vic), ACDC (Royal Court), Cleansed (Arcola)

Television credits include: Doctors, Casualty, Man Down, The Tunnel, Coronation Street, Holby City, The Curse of the
Hope Diamond, Silent Witness, EastEnders, Bunny Town, Sea of Souls, Accused, Life Begins, New Tricks, Meet the
Magoons, The Giblets, Servants
Film credits include: Macbeth, Half Light, Duplicity

Theatre Includes: Highway One (Wales Millennium Centre); Dublin Carol (Sherman Cymru); Bird (Royal Exchange/Sherman Cymru) Violence and Son (Royal Court Theatre) Tonypandemonium, A Good Night Out in the Valleys (National Theatre Wales); Cloakroom (Sherman Cymru); Knives in Hens (Theatre Royal, Bath); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Suddenly Last Summer, The Rabbit, King Lear, Flora’s War, Hosts of Rebecca, The Journey Of Mary Kelly, Rape of the Fair Country, Equus (Theatr Clywd); Gas Station Angel (Royal Court Theatre); The Seagull (Bristol Old Vic); Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night (UK tour); The Merchant of Venice, The Winter’s Tale (Ludlow Festival).
Television includes: Gwaith/Cartref, Y Streica Fi, Doctor Who, Our Girl, Wolfblood, Holby City, Whites, Caerdydd, Con Passionate, Miss Marple, Skins, Antigone, Mine All Mine,
20 Things To Do Before You’re 30, Belonging, Social Action, The Bill, Casualty, Mind To Kill, The Bench, Tales of the Pleasure Beach.
Film includes: Dark Signal, The Devil’s Vice, The Machine. Sister Lulu, sucker fish, The Marvellous Handshake.
Radio includes: Summer is Long to Come, Dylan Thomas Shorts, Dover & the Unkindest Cut of All, On Top of the World, Same As it Ever Was, Station Road, The True Memoirs of Harriett Wilson.

Katherine is a writer. Her theatre credits include: THICK AS THIEVES (Clean Break), BIRD (Royal Exchange Theatre/Sherman Theatre), PARALLEL LINES (Dirty Protest theatre/ Chapter Arts), BEFORE IT RAINS (Sherman Theatre/ Bristol Old Vic), HOOD (National Theatre), BUDDY (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama/ The Gate),THE SILLY KINGS, PEGGY'S SONG (National Theatre Wales),THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA, THE UGLY DUCKLING (Sherman Theatre), SPENT (Clean Break), LEAVES ON A LINE (Royal Court Theatre/ Dirty Protest Theatre).

Róisín has over fifteen years experience as a theatre director working in the UK, Ireland and internationally. Previously the Joint Artistic Director for Clean Break, for the company she has directed THICK AS THEIVES (Theatr Clwyd), JOANNE (Soho Theatre and RSC) and HOUSE/AMONGST THE REEDS (Yard Theatre).

Amongst others, Róisín has directed for The Abbey Theatre in Dublin (A TASTE OF HONEY/NO ESCAPE/ PERVE/HEARTBREAK HOUSE, The Gate Theatre Dublin (THE SNAPPER), Sheffield Theatres (AFTERPLAY’), Leeds Playhouse (YERMA), The Tricycle (THE FIELD) and as Associate Director for Sherman Theatre (BEFORE IT RAINS, SLEEPING BEAUTIES and IT'S A FAMILY AFFAIR).

Her awards include the Quercus Award (National Theatre) and the Young Vic Jerwood Young Directors' Award. She has been nominated for the Irish Times Best Director Award.

Azusa Ono – Lighting Design

Azusa has been creating lighting design for a range of live performances and art forms, challenging the boundary of the theatre frame by widening & shifting the perspective through lighting. She enjoys the process of collaboration with creatives. To inspire each other’s element is the best ingredient to a show. She trained fine arts in Japan and lighting design at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London in 2003-07.

Recent credits include: Effigies of Wickedness (Gate Theatre / ENO); Smack That (Barbican The Pit / National tour); Tate Live Exhibition – Joan Jonas (Tate Modern); Yvette (Royal Festival Hall / National tour); Cuttin’ It (Young Vic / National tour); Kairos Opera (V&A Museum); Becoming Invisible (Bascule Chamber Tower Bridge); Killer (Shoreditch Town Hall); Darkness Darkness (Nottingham Playhouse); I Know All The Secrets In My World (Derby Theatre, then tour); Dot, Squiggle and Rest (Royal Opera House Clore Studio); Peddling (New York 59E59 / National tour); We Are Proud…(Bush Theatre); The Love song of Alfred J Hitchcock (Curve Theatre Leicester / International tour); Copyright Christmas (Barbican Centre); Fanfared (Crucible Sheffield)

Web: https://www.ald.org.uk/azusaono