Cast announced for Jumpy

Monday 2 July 2012

CAST ANNOUNCED FOR
JUMPY
By April De Angelis
Directed by Nina Raine

Thursday 16 August – Saturday 3 November 2012
Press Performance: Tuesday 28 August 2012

ROYAL COURT THEATRE PRODUCTIONS AND AMBASSADOR THEATRE GROUP PRESENT A ROYAL COURT WEST END SEASON AT DUKE OF YORK’S THEATRE

Following Posh and prior to Constellations, the Royal Court Theatre Productions and Ambassador Theatre Group present Jumpy by April De Angelis. Nina Raine directs this frank and funny family drama.

As previously announced, Tamsin Greig returns to star as Hilary, the part for which she won universal acclaim at the Royal Court. Doon Mackichan will also return to play her best friend, Frances.

Tamsin Greig’s other recent theatre credits include The Little Dog Laughed, for which she was nominated for an Olivier Award; and Gethsemane (National Theatre). She played Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing at the RSC for which she won Olivier and Critics’ Circle Awards. Her TV credits include Episodes, Friday Night Dinner, Black Books, Green Wing and the BBC adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma.

Doon’s other recent theatre credits include The Government Inspector (Young Vic); and Boeing Boeing (West End). She is well known for her comedy work; she co-wrote and performed in the double Emmy Award-winning Smack the Pony (Channel 4). Her other comedy work includes Chris Morris’ The Day Today; and Brass Eye and Knowing Me, Knowing You With Alan Partridge.

A number of other cast members are reprising their roles from the original Royal Court producton: Seline Hizli (House of Bernarda Alba at the Almeida, Land Girls and The Appropriate Adult for TV), Richard Lintern (His Girl Friday at the National and Dial M for Murder at West Yorkshire Playhouse), James Musgrave (Wanderlust at the Royal Court which earnt him an Evening Standard Award nomination for Best Newcomer and for TV, Any Human Heart), Bel Powley (Tusk Tusk – Evening Standard Award nomination for Best Newcomer – Arcadia on Broadway), Ewan Stewart (Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe, Beautiful Burnout for the National Theatre of Scotland).

They are joined by Ben Lloyd-Hughes (The Way of the World at Sheffield Crucible and TV includes The Hour), and Amanda Root (Persuasion for BBC, extensive work for RSC including Macbeth and Troilus and Cressida and The Norman Conquests at the Old Vic).

‘You’re having some kind of crisis.’
‘It’s called being 50. You must be having it too.’
A mother, a wife, and fifty, Hilary once protested at Greenham. Now her protests tend to focus on persuading her teenage daughter to go out fully clothed.

The Royal Court is a leading force in world theatre, finding and producing new plays that are original, contemporary and challenging. This summer the Royal Court is simultaneously producing work at its home in Sloane Square, in the West End, in New York (with an off Broadway production of Cock by Mike Bartlett) and in Peckham with its latest Theatre Local season.

Cast
Tamsin Greig – Hilary
Seline Hizli – Lyndsey
Richard Lintern – Roland
Ben Lloyd-Hughes – Cam
Doon Mackichan – Frances
James Musgrave – Josh
Bel Powley – Tilly
Amanda Root – Bea
Ewan Stewart – Mark

Creative team:
April De Angelis – Writer
Nina Raine – Director
Lizzie Clachan – Designer
Peter Mumford – Lighting Designer
Paul Arditti – Sound Designer

LONDON LISTINGS INFORMATION – Royal Court at the Duke of York’s Theatre

Dates: Thursday 16 August to Saturday 3 November 2012

Performances: Monday – Saturday at 7.30pm.
Saturday and Wednesday matinees at 2.30pm

Ticket prices: £15-£52.50. 20 best price seats at £10 each, available in person only, at the box office from 10am on the day of the performance. Concessions and group discounts apply (Students £25 on Wednesday matinees / Seniors £32.50 Monday to Thursday in advance, £29.50 on the door). See website for full details.

Access Performances: Audio-Described: Saturday 6th October 2.30pm
Captioned: Tuesday 16th October 7.30pm

Address: Duke of York’s Theatre, St. Martin’s Lane, London WC2N 4BG

Box Office: 0844 871 7623*
Website: www.royalcourtatdukes.com

Royal Court Theatre Box Office: 020 7565 5000*
Website: www.royalcourttheatre.com
*Booking fees apply

For further information, please contact: Jo Allan, Jo Allan PR / Kate Gambrell
Jo Allen” / 020 7243 6176 / 07889 905 850
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CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM BIOGRAPHIES FOLLOW BELOW

CAST BIOGRAPHIES

Tamsin Greig – Hilary
FOR THE ROYAL COURT: Jumpy
OTHER THEATRE INCLUDES: The Little Dog Laughed (nominated for an Olivier Award), The God of Carnage (West End), Gethsemane (National); Much Ado About Nothing (RSC, won Olivier and Critics’ Circle Awards).
TV credits include: Episodes, White Heat, Friday Night Dinner, Black Books, Green Wing, The Diary of Anne Frank, Love Soup and the BBC adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma. She received a BIFA nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Tamara Drewe.

Seline Hizli – Lyndsey
Seline graduated from Rada in 2010.
FOR THE ROYAL COURT: Jumpy.
OTHER THEATRE INCLUDES: The House of Bernarda Alba (Almeida Theatre); One Night in November (Belgrade Theatre Company).
TV Credits Include: The Appropriate Adult, Law and Order UK, Land Girls II.

Richard Lintern – Roland
FOR THE ROYAL COURT: Jumpy.
OTHER THEATRE INCLUDES: Women Beware Women, The Royal Hunt of the Sun, His Girl Friday, Life After Life (National); Dial M for Murder (West Yorkshire Playhouse/Tour); The Real Thing (Salisbury Playhouse); The Circle (Chichester); As You Desire Me (Duncan Weldon Prods); The Philadelphia Story (Old Vic); Duchess of Malfi (RSC); Hamlet (Young Vic/Japan); My Night With Reg, Cabinet Minister (West End); The Merchant of Venice (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Donkey’s Years (Bath/Guildford); Hamlet (Bristol Old Vic); Treasure Island (Edinburgh Festival); Pain of Youth, Conduct of Life (Gate); Abolition (Paines Plough); Shylock (Riverside Studios); Another Country (Leeds Playhouse).

TELEVISION INCLUDES: Threesome, Spies of Warsaw, Hunted, The Minor Character, Endeavor, White Heat, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, The Shadow Line, Eastenders, Lead Balloon, Poirot, Summerhill, Honest, Montagu Trial, Wolfenden, Clapham Junction, Midsomer Murders, Lewis, The Bill, The Line of Beauty, Casualty, Ready When You Are, Mr McGill, Heartbeat, Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Sweet Revenge, Lost Soul, Imogen’s Face, Cadfael, The Beggar Bride, Plotlands, Taggart, Holding the Baby, The Bill, She’s Out, House of Eliott, After the Dance, The Fortunate Pilgrim, Covington Cross, The Good Guys, Forever Green, Starlings, The Storyteller, Victoria Wood Comedy, Playhouse.
FILM INCLUDES: All Is By My Side, World of Hurt, The Nanny State, Page Eight, The Domino Effect, Unmade Beds, Bank Job, Wasp 06, Gospel of St John, The Calling, Jinnah, Lucan, Misadventure.

Ben Lloyd-Hughes – Cam
THEATRE INCLUDES: The Way of the World (Sheffield Crucible).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: Young James Herriot, The Hour, Miliband of Brothers, Skins, Personal Affairs, Roman Mysteries, Casualty, A Touch of Frost.
FILM INCLUDES: Tell Me the Truth About Love, The Scapegoat, Great Expectations, First Days of Spring, Tormented.

Doon Mackichan – Frances
FOR THE ROYAL COURT: Jumpy, Sacred Heart (& NT Studio); Road, Killers.
OTHER THEATRE INCLUDES: The Government Inspector, A Respectable Wedding (Young Vic); Loot (Tricycle); Boeing Boeing (West End); Excuses (ATC/Soho); A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(Almeida/International Tour); Mother Courage (National); The Queen and I (Leicester Haymarket); Emma (Palace Theatre, Watford); Me and My Friend (Chichester); Abigail’s Party (West End/UK Tour); The Square (BAC); ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore (Stephen Joseph Studio); To Kill A Mockingbird (Birmingham Rep).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: _Plebs, Life Story, Sarah Jane Adventures, New Tricks, Taking the Flak, Q. I., Green Wing, The Good Housekeeping Guide, Nighty Night, A Bear’s Tail, The Comic Strip Presents…, A Very Social Secretary, Twisted Tales: Cursed House, Nathan Barley, Indian Dream, Smack The Pony, Wire in the Blood: Shadows Rising, Bedtime, Brass Eye Special, Beast, If I Ruled the World, Our Mutual Friend, Knowing Me, Knowing You, Agony Again, Glam Metal Detectives,
The Day Today, The Harry Enfield Show._
FILM INCLUDES: Anuvahood, Acts of Godfrey, Churchill – The Hollywood Years, Gladiatress, Wild About Harry, With Or Without You, The Borrowers.
AWARDS INCLUDE: 1999 International Emmy Award for Popular Arts for Smack The Pony, 2000 International Emmy Award for Popular Arts for Smack The Pony, BANFF Award for Smack The Pony.

James Musgrave – Josh
FOR THE ROYAL COURT: Jumpy, Wanderlust.
OTHER THEATRE INCLUDES: The Browning Version (Theatre Royal Bath); Tory Boyz, 20 Cigarettes (Soho/NYT).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: Joe Mistry, Silk, Fresh Meat, Doctors, Campus, Any Human Heart, The Curfew, Midsomer Murders, Genie in the House, Trial and Retribution.

Bel Powley – Tilly
Bel trained at YoungBlood Theatre Company
FOR THE ROYAL COURT: Tusk Tusk (Evening Standard Award nomination for Best Newcomer), Jumpy
OTHER THEATRE INCLUDES: Arcadia (Broadway).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: MI High, Whistleblowers,
FILM INCLUDES: The Nanny State, The Cabin, The Bill, Little Dorrit, Victoria Wood’s Mid Life Crisis, Murderland.

Amanda Root – Bea
THEATRE INCLUDES: The Country (Arcola); Norman Conquests (Old Vic/Broadway); Enemies, Conversations, King Lear (Almeida); The Plough and the Stars (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Caesar and Cleopatra (Greenwich); Troilus and Cressida; Love’s Labour’s Lost; The Seagull; Some American Abroad; The Man of Mode; Macbeth; The Constant Couple; Today; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Romeo and Juliet; The Merchant of Venice (RSC); Once in a While the Odd Thing Happens (National); The Dragon’s Tale (West End); and The House of Bernarda Alba (Lyric, Hammersmith).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: DCI Banks; Thorne: Sleepyhead; Law & Order: UK Robber Bride, Most Mysterious Murders, The Impressionists, Billy Two Sheds, Brief Encounters: Lost & Found, The Robinsons, Empire, All About Me, Rose and Maloney, Love Again, Little Britain, Foyle’s War, Touch of Frost, Midsomer Murders, Daniel Deronda, Waking the Dead, Forsythe Saga, Anna Karenina, Big Cat, Mortimer’s Law, Turning World, Original Sin, Breaking the Code, Harry Enfield and Chums, Omnibus – Hildegard, Love on a Branch Line, Buddha of Suburbia, The Man Who Cried, The House of Bernarda Alba, Mary Rose.
FILM INCLUDES: The Iron Lady, Whatever Happened to Harold Smith, Persuasion, In the West, Jane Eyre.

Ewan Stewart – Mark
FOR THE ROYAL COURT: Jumpy, Oh Go My Man, At the Table / Almost Nothing, Sacred Heart, Trade and Bluebird, Thyestes, Live Like Pigs.
OTHER THEATRE INCLUDES: Beautiful Burnout (National Theatre of Scotland, St Anne’s Warehouse New York); Dunsinane (RSC, Hampstead); The Pillowman (National Theatre tour); Green Field (Traverse); Sisters, Brothers (Gate), The Duchess of Malfi (Bristol Old Vic).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: Rivercity, Walter’s War, Taggart, Rebus, Time of Your Life, The Somme, Malice Aforethought, Dirty War, POW, Real Men, Silent Witness, Nature Boy, The Bill, Looking After Jo Jo.
FILM INCLUDES: Eliminate: Archie Cookson, Valhalla Rising, Straightheads, Alpha Male, One Last Chance, Young Adam.

CREATIVE TEAM BIOGRAPHIES

April De Angelis – Writer
FOR THE ROYAL COURT: Catch (a collaboration with four other female playwrights), Wild East.
OTHER THEATRE INCLUDES: A Gloriously Mucky Business (Lyric Hammersmith); Calais (Paines Plough/Oran Mor); Country (Terror Season, Southwark Playhouse); an adaptation of Wuthering Heights (Birmingham Rep Theatre); A Laughing Matter (Out of Joint Theatre Company, National Theatre); The Warwickshire Testimony (RSC, The Other Place); The Positive Hour (Out of Joint Theatre/National Tour) and Playhouse Creatures (Sphinx Theatre Company, later revived by Old Vic Theatre).

Nina Raine – Director
FOR THE ROYAL COURT: Tribes (nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Play and an Evening Standard Award for Best New Play), Shades (won Evening Standard and Critics’ Circle Awards).
OTHER THEATRE INCLUDES: Tiger Country (Hampstead Theatre), which she both wrote and directed, Rabbit (Old Red Lion, Trafalgar Studios, 59E59 New York) which won the Evening Standard and Critics’ Circle Awards for Most Promising Playwright.