bush theatre

Angela Bond

Executive Director

Angela Bond is responsible for ensuring that the Bush's extensive programme of activity can happen. She manages the business planning and contracting, sets and monitors budgets and oversees the producing of all of the Bush's work.

Hailing from Blackpool, Angela has worked with companies producing new writing, classical, light entertainment, children's, aerial, dance and multi-discipline theatre. Basically she's good at making stuff happen.

Along with her Bush work, Angela sits on the Board for Scarabeus Theatre Company and consults for arts charities.

Charlotte Gwinner

Associate Director

Charlotte joined The Bush as a Creative Associate in 2008; directing Nancy Harris's 'Little Dolls' as part of The Bush's Broken Space Season.

Charlotte is also the Founder and Artistic Director of ANGLE Theatre; where she initiated a project that actively targeted raw, local and talented writers from across three boroughs in East London. This led to: TriANGLE09 at Hackney Empire; ANGLE's inaugural new play season, where she directed 'Commercial Rd ' and 'The Sea at Night'; and which won a Peter Brook Award in 2008.

Before coming to the Bush, Charlotte was Director on Attachment at The National Theatre Studio where she directed new plays such as: 'Love in a Glass Jar' by Nancy Harris, and 'Lobster' by Russell Barr; and her past directing credits include: a revival of 'Knives and Hens' by David Harrower for Bath Theatre Royal, 'The Confederate' by Simon Bent a new play, inspired by Hurricane Katrina (Paines Plough/Trafalgar Studios,) 'Men Should Weep' by Ena Lamont Stewart (Oxford Stage Company/The Citizens Theatre,) 'Riders to The Sea, The Shadow of the Glen and The Tinkers Wedding' by JM Synge and 'Everything Must Go' by Stephen Sharkey (The Southwark Playhouse,) 'The Blood of Others '(The Arcola Theatre,)'The Conservatory' (The Old Red Lion Theatre,) and 'The Country of the Blind' (The Gate Theatre.)

Charlotte began her career as an Assistant Director at The Royal Court Theatre, The Gate and at Theatre Gerard-Phillippe in Paris, before being invited to join the National Theatre Studio Directors course. The Bush Theatre has always been a goldmine of new writers and a major source of inspiration for Charlotte; and she is thrilled and delighted to be part of its team.

Anthea Williams

Associate Director, bushfutures

Anthea Williams is the Associate Director at the Bush in charge of bushfutures, the company's outreach and development arm. She develops Playwrights through productions and creates links with emerging practitioners and the community.

While at the Bush she has directed TURF by Simon Vinnicombe and TWO CIGARETTES by Jack Thorne and developed and directed 50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER and 50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER AT CHRISTMAS by Leah Chillery, Ben Ellis, Stacey Gregg, Lucy Kirkwood, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm and Ben Schiffer.

Anthea is currently working on suddenlossofdignity.com with Zawe Ashton, James Graham, Joel Horwood, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm and Michelle Terry. She is also developing the new Playwrights' website BushGreen with Make Mode and Buffalo.

As we are situated right in the heart of Shepherds Bush it's only right that we have an Antipodean in our midst and Anthea (or Inthya) fills the role nicely as a New Zealander by birth and an Australian by inclination. Prior to working at the Bush she lived in Auckland and was the Co-Artistic Director of SmackBang Theatre Company and the Producer of Massive Company, where she produced new plays and national and international tours. Anthea trained as a director at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne and the University of New South Wales in Sydney. She has worked for various companies down under.

Nathan Curry

Associate Director

Nathan joined The Bush as a Creative Associate in 2008 and directed Bunfonidae by Bryony Lavery as part of the Broken Space Season. He became one of the Associate Directors in February 2010.

Nathan is also the Artistic Director of the award winning ensemble tangled feet.
For tangled feet Nathan has directed: Home, IConfess, Game? Emily?s Kitchen, Lost Property and Catching Dust, tangled feet also made an aerial spectacular for nabokov Arts Club.

Other Directing Credits include: As You Were, (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), One Mile Away by Kat Joyce, (promenade performance in Elephant and Castle), Fixer by Lydia Adetunji (HighTide Festival), Romeo and Juliet, (New Wimbledon Studio), Weapons of Happiness by Howard Brenton (Finborough Theatre), Ya Get Me? By Ashmeed Sohoye (for the Old Vic Education Department). 20,000 by Shireen Mula, In My Country by Justin Butcher and The Actual House by Nicholas Wright (all Nabokov Present Tense at Southwark Playhouse). Nathan has recently developed Movieplex: an interactive outdoor experience with The National Theatre Studio and Nutkhut Theatre Company.

He was the Assistant Director on A Moon for the Misbegotten on Broadway NYC and at The Old Vic and was Staff Director at The National Theatre on The Life of Galileo, both assisting Howard Davies.

Nathan trained at Middlesex University and subsequently has received training from The National Theatre Studio Directors Course, Katie Mitchell Directors Course, The Royal Shakespeare Company (with Cicely Berry) and The Stary Theatre, Krakow.

Caroline Dyott

Producer

Caroline produces all the Bush's work, and from licensing venues and writing contracts to drawing up budgets and negotiating with agents, her job is varied, to say the least.

She arrived at The Bush in November 2007, fresh from interning at The Old Vic in the New Voices department and working on the 24 HOUR PLAYS GALA, and she has also since co-produced the 24 HOUR PLAYS : OLD VIC NEW VOICES. For The Bush, Caroline produced and developed the Bush's summer Latitude touring show, including the sell out 50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER (2008), 2009's summer production suddenlossofdignity.com and this year's THE GREAT BRITISH COUNTRY FETE by Russell Kane and Michael Bruce.

Bethany Ann McDonald

Development Manager

Bethany's job is to seek out funding which enables the Bush to grow and offer more opportunities to emerging theatre artists.

Hailing from New York City, Bethany worked as a professional scenic artist before moving to London in 2005 to study directing at LAMDA. From there, she realized that encouraging people to support the arts is not only a vitally important part of being an artist, it is also a noble mission. For that reason, she decided to go back to school once more and in 2008, received her MA in Arts Policy & Management with distinction from Birkbeck College.

Her dissertation, 'The Artist as Arts Manager; an exploration of artistic leadership and management approach in theatre' is both a study of reconciling tensions between business and creative imperatives and a search to define the role of artistic director. It includes interviews with David Lan of the Young Vic, Alex Hassell & Tim Evans of The Factory, and Oskar Eustis of The Joseph Papp Public Theatre in New York City.

Bethany loves theatre and believes that because it is a threshold for healthy debate, it has the power to influence social change and increase global awareness - therefore, she is excited about her role at the Bush and confident that with the standard of work here, she'll be able to raise thousands of pounds!

Sophie Coke-Steel

Marketing Manager

Sophie is the Acting Marketing at the Bush, covering for the lovely Stephanie whilst she takes maternity leave.

Sophie begun her marketing career promoting the books of some of her favourite novelists in the busy fiction division of HarperCollins Publishers.

Before starting at the Bush, Sophie spent a year in Australia enjoying Sydney's theatre (and beach) scene whilst working as the Marketing Coordinator for the Sydney Writers' Festival and managing the marketing campaign for 2009 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.

Anthony Newton

Production Manager

Originally from Scarborough, Anthony began his theatre career, aged 16, at the Stephen Joseph Theatre. He later trained at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh and upon graduating worked as a lighting designer in the live events industry. Since then he has worked in technical theatre with many companies and has toured extensively in the UK and abroad, with work taking him as far away as Malaysia, China and Venezuela as well as throughout Europe.

Anthony was technical director of the National Student Drama Festival for 3 years and still plays a part in the event as a technical advisor to the festival. He has worked in various capacities at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for the last 9 years; most recently as production manager for Universal Arts? venues and productions. He was also recently a judge for the PLASA Innovation Awards, a scheme to reward innovation in entertainment technology.

Anthony spent 6 months in Beijing learning Mandarin at Peking University in the run up to the Beijing Olympics. Though he now has little opportunity to use this skill he is keen to return to China some time with a new project. He played the drums in his school jazz orchestra, another skill he infrequently exercises, though with rumours of several Bush staff being secret musicians, who knows?

Sam Charleston

Assistant Technician

Sam is originally from High Wycombe, and refuses to apologise for that fact.

Sam trained at LAMDA on the Stage Management and Technical Theatre course. Since graduating, Sam has worked as a freelance Sound Engineer for the Young Vic and the Royal Court, and has worked in the West End as a Sound Dep for Jersey Boys and Rat Pack: Live from Las Vegas. Sam was also the Sound Designer for shows including When The Lilac Blooms My Love, at the Leicester Square Theatre, American Bytes at the New Wimbledon Studios, and Painting a Wall at the Finborough.

In his spare time, Sam enjoys marvelling at the prospect of free time, and failing to do anything productive.

Liz Eddy

Assistant to the Directors

Liz began work as Josie and Angela's assistant in autumn 2009. She previously worked at Theatre503 as their Development and Admin Assistant; running their 'Friends' of the theatre scheme and generally helping to run the office. She has to date worked on four productions at the Edinburgh festival and toured two more.

She has moved from the 'burbs into West London to be nearer to work and is enjoying the all the delights Shepherds Bush has to offer, in particular the Goldhawk Road.

She would very much like to eventually move into producing, but for now she can answer almost any Bush based question... especially if it has to do with un-jamming the photocopier.

Annette Butler

Box Office and Front of House Manager

Annette moved to London in 2009 & shortly afterwards started work at the Almeida Theatre where she was until joining the Bush Theatre in April 2010 as the Box Office and Front of House Manager.

You may have spoken to her on the phone or over the counter but if not then probably caught a glance of her as she runs around front of house making sure everything is looking how it should.

In her previous life she lived & worked in Sheffield, where she worked at Sheffield Theatres in the Box Office for 12 years, which did involve many a year selling tickets for the World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theatre! & coincidently was the first time she bumped in to Josie Rourke.

Oh & one last thing, she is a real chocoholic so if anyone should wish to buy her a present then she would love nothing more than a huge bar of milk chocolate.

Michael Bruce

Composer on Attachment

Michael is a composer, lyricist and musical director who has recently joined the team at the Bush as its first ever resident composer.

A former Scottish highland dancing champion and international table tennis player, he has traded in his bat and kilt for a pen and a piano. After training at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts his writing credits include the four times nominated and double MTM award winning musical ED at Trafalgar Studios and the Edinburgh Fringe, as well as HEY DIDDLE DIDDLE, BEYOND, THE GRIMM OF STOTTESDEN HALL, HOLES and RIGGED. He is also resident composer and orchestrator for the West End NOTES FROM NEW YORK concert series with whom he has worked on a variety of concerts and recordings including RUTHIE HENSHALL IN CONCERT, three instalments of the festive show CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK for which he wrote the title song, as well as the album recording of the same name. Winner of the NOTES FOR THE STAGE PRIZE for songwriting, Michael hosted a star-studded evening of his work, MICHAEL BRUCE: A LITTLE LESS ORDINARY at London's Apollo Theatre last November. His debut theatrical album comes out this year.

He can normally be found sleeping under the piano in his office, or wandering around trying to figure out where everyone else has gone.

Chris Haydon

Associate Artist - 2011 project

Christopher studied at Cambridge University and trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, the National Theatre Studio and with Cicely Berry at the RSC. In 2007 he was the recipient of both the inaugural Chichester Festival Theatre Heller Fellowship and the Channel Four Theatre Director's Bursary to spend a year on attachment at the Salisbury Playhouse. He is the Associate Director of On Theatre.

As a director, theatre includes Monsters (Arcola Theatre May 2009), A Number (Salisbury Playhouse): Grace (British Council/On Theatre, Theatre Du Poche, Brussels, Belgium): Notes from Underground (Arcola Theatre).

As assitant director, theatre includes Macbeth starring Patrick Stewart (Chichester Festival Theatre and West End), Twelfth Night (Chichester Festival Theatre), Othello, Touched, What the Butler Saw, Robin Hood (Salisbury Playhouse), On Religion (Soho Theatre/On Theatre), The Desire Tree (Oxford Playhouse/Tumanishvili Theatre, Tbilisi, Georgia) The Found Man (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh).

He is also an award winning journalist and has written for The Financial Times, The Scotsman, Prospect Magazine, and The Guardian (online). He is co-editor of the books Conversations on Religion and Conversations on Truth both published by Continuum. He is currently researching a book about identity for the Wellcome Trust.

Having grown up just over the river in Barnes, Shepherd's Bush feels almost like home. He is particularly excited to be working at the Bush as it was seeing Disco Pigs here in 1997 that made him decide that he wanted to work in the theatre. If you want to find him, he is usually eating a baked potato in the Pacific net cafe around lunchtime.