Hayley Carmichael
Told by an Idiot credits:
AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON(Drum Theatre Plymouth/Brighton Festival/Unity Theatre/Northern Stage/ Barbican/West Yorkshire Playhouse/Warwick Arts Centre), THE FAHRENHEIT TWINS (Drum Theatre Plymouth/Unity Theatre/barbicanbite09), THE COMEDY OF ERRORS (Royal Shakespeare Company), BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, CASANOVA, I’M A FOOL TO WANT YOU, PLAYING THE VICTIM, THE FIREWORK-MAKER’S DAUGHTER, A LITTLE FANTASY, ALADDIN, SHOOT ME IN THE HEART, HAPPY BIRTHDAY MISTER DEKA D, I WEEP AT MY PIANO, YOU HAVEN’T EMBRACED ME YET, I’M SO BIG and ON THE VERGE OF EXPLODING.
In 1999 she won the TMA BEST ACTRESS AWARD for her performance in I WEEP AT MY PIANO, THE DISPUTE (Lyric Hammersmith/RSC) and MR PUNTILA AND HIS MAN MATTI (The Right Size/Almeida). She also won the TIME OUT BEST ACTRESS AWARD for I WEEP AT MY PIANO and THE DISPUTE.
Acting (other credits):
SWEET NOTHINGS (Young Vic and national tour), FRAGMENTS (Theatre des Bouffes du Nord/international tour), BLISS (Royal Court), CYMBELINE (Kneehigh/RSC), THEATRE OF BLOOD (RNT), THE NEW TENANT (Young Vic), LOSER (Newbury & Drill Hall). THE BIRDS (RNT), MOTHER COURAGE (Ambassadors, UK Tour & Spoleto Festival, South Carolina), THE DISPUTE (Lyric Hammersmith/RSC), KING LEAR (Young Vic), THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS (Sheffield Crucible), THE STREET OF CROCODILES (Theatre de Complicite/RNT), GORMENGHAST (David Glass Ensemble), DAVID COPPERFIELD and METAMORPHOSIS (Dundee Rep).
Television credits include:
CGI SKETCH SHOW/WRONG DOOR, MITCHELL + KENYON, VIVA BLACKPOOL, LITTLE ROBOTS (voice for animation), TUNNEL OF LOVE, LIFE’S A BITCH AND SO AM I, NATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT DAY (Channel 4) and THE BILL (Thames TV).
Film credits include:
ONE DAY, ANAZAPTA (Enterprise Films), EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES (Bonaparte Films), THE MANY CINDERELLAS (Projector Productions) and SIMON MAGUS (Silesia Films).
Rachel Copsey - Assistant Producer
John Wright – Associate Director
John Wright is an author, teacher, and theatre-maker. He is co-director of Beehive, with Victoria Banks. Their most recent productions include: DR FAUSTUS (Winner of the Peter Brook Award) and THE FRAGILITY OF X (Winner of the spirit of The Spirit of the Fringe Award). THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE, Theatre Hebrides. He is currently working on THE SUMMER HOUSE for Fuel Production Company. In 1980 John was co-founder of Trestle Theatre Co. and directed the original productions of: Crèche, School Rules, Hanging Around, Plastered, Top Story and Ties That Bind. In 1993 he co-founded Told by an Idiot and directed: On the Verge, I’m so Big, You Haven’t Embraced Me Yet, Don’t Laugh It’s My Life, Aladdin, Happy Birthday Mr. Decca D, I Can’t Wake Up, and Papa Mass. Other productions include: Macbeth (Act Three, Singapore); Shooting Sons (Ensemble Theatre, Hong Kong), Take it away (Fast Food, Munich), Common Nonsense (Reykjavik City Theatre), King Ubu (The Gate), Out of the Blue (Rejects Revenge at Liverpool Everyman); Beauty and the Beast (Belgrade, Coventry), Skinless (Oval House); Meeting Myself Coming Back (Soho Theatre), The Shoe, and Father Christmas and the Last Present (Polka Theatre), Hamlet; The Changeling; Richard III; Dr Faustus and Fair Maid of the West (Third Party Productions), Baby Boomers, (Scratch Built Productions) A New Job For An Old Clown (National Theatre Studio), The Geezer (Development Project RSC), Marivaux’s The False Servant (Compagnie Bord Cardre), Confetti Man, Frank Wurzinger, Comedy Hijack, (The Big Telly. ) Movement director Credits: Rain Dance (Chicago Rep); Rhinoceros (The Royal Court); Macbeth (Chichester Festival Theatre); Laurel and Hardy, and The Arabian Knights (Victoria Theatre, Stoke on Trent); The life and times of Judas Iscariot (The Almaida); Endgame, (Everyman Theatre, Liverpool) Macbeth (R.S.C.) Publications: The Voices of the Archetypes (Oak Leaf audio projects) The masks of Jacques Lecoq (Jacques Lecoq and British Theatre) Routledge, 2002) Why is that so funny? (Nick Hern Book 2006) John is currently finishing: Acting without bullshit (Nick Hern Books)
Paul Hunter
Told by an Idiot credits:
AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON (Drum Theatre Plymouth/Barbican/Brighton Festival), SIX SEEDS (National Theatre), THE DARK PHILOSOPHERS (National Theatre Wales), THE FAHRENHEIT TWINS (Drum Theatre Plymouth/Unity Theatre/barbicanbite09), THE COMEDY OF ERRORS (RSC), BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, CASANOVA, ON THE VERGE OF EXPLODING, I’M SO BIG, YOU HAVEN’T EMBRACED ME YET, DON’T LAUGH IT’S MY LIFE, HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR DEKA D.
Acting (other credits):
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, THE GLOBE MYSTERIES, TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Shakespeare’s Globe), RAPUNZEL and THE RED SHOES (Kneehigh), UNDER THE BLACK FLAG (Shakespeare’s Globe), BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Belgrade, Coventry), THE WATER ENGINE (Young Vic/Theatre 503), THE PLAY WHAT I WROTE (West End), OLIVER TWIST and PINOCCHIO (Lyric Hammersmith), INTO OUR DREAMS (Almeida), the title role in RICHARD III (English Shakespeare Company), ANIMAL FARM and Sir Toby Belch in TWELTH NIGHT (Northern Stage), LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS (RSC), the title role in THE SERVANT WITH TWO MASTERS (Sheffield Crucible), BALDY HOPKINS (The Right Size), POPEYE (David Glass Ensemble), THE WASP FACTORY (Glasgow Citizens) and HANGING AROUND (Trestle Theatre Company).
Directing credits:
As Associate Director at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton, Paul Hunter directed: THE VENETIAN TWINS, THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE (Best Production, Manchester Evening News Award), ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST and CLEO, CAMPING EMMANUEL AND DICK. Other directing credits include: LOW PAY, DON’T PAY (Salisbury Playhouse), SENORA CARRAR’S RIFLES (Young Vic), NOT WITH THAT HAND (BAC), ORDAGO (for Punto Finco in Bilbao), THE MAD MAYOR OF MUNSTER (Actors Ensemble, Liverpool), THE OPIUM EATERS and LIGHT AT NIGHT (Brouhaha), movement director on Goldoni’s THE LOVERS (Gate Theatre). Creator and performer in Radio 4 sitcom pilot THE NEWBURY ARMS.
Television credits:
TRINITY, BLACK BOOKS, MY FAMILY, HARDWARE and TUNNEL OF LOVE
Sebastian Warrack - Producer
Sebastian Warrack studied languages at Southampton University and then trained as an actor at Guildford School of Acting. After working as an actor for several years, he moved into producing, setting up his own company, Akimbo, for which he produced sell-out runs of The Rivals: A Queer Appropriation and It Took More Than One Man. Since then he has worked for a number of organisations in the subsidised and commercial sectors, including the Lyric Hammersmith, Guy Chapman Associates, Music Theatre London, National Student Drama Festival, International Workshop Festival and West End producers Matthews, Redington, Torein. Between 1999 and 2007 he worked as a Theatre Officer at Arts Council England, both in the London and East offices, where he was responsible for a portfolio of clients including New Wolsey Theatre, Oily Cart, Mercury Theatre, Hoipolloi, The Gate, Quicksilver, Yellow Earth and the Junction. He was also part of the Sustained Theatre working group and was one of the national leads for music theatre. In 2007 he was appointed Producer of Told by an Idiot and has worked on all the company’s subsequent productions, including Casanova, Beauty and the Beast, The Comedy of Errors, The Fahrenheit Twins and The Dark Philosophers, as well as working with the Artistic Directors on the strategic development of the company.
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