Trust

James Nash is a director and writer, and has recently graduated from the University of Kent. Trust is his professional directing debut. His other directing credits include A Number and The Cherry Orchard for T24 Drama Society, and As You Like It for Canterbury Shakespeare Festival.

Joshua works as a Lighting and Projection Designer across theatre, dance, opera, music, film & art installation. He was nominated for Knight of Illumination Award 2017 for his work on Removal Men. Previous credits at the Gate include: The Iphigenia Quartet, In the Night Time (Before the Sun Rises), Medea, I’d Rather Goya Robbed Me of My Sleep Than Some Other Arsehole, No Place Like Home. Recent credits include: La Tragédie De Carmen (Royal Opera House, Wilton’s Music Hall); Frau Welt (Hackney Showroom); Cosminc Scallies (Royal Exchange & Graeae); How I Hacked My Way Into Space (UnLimited Theatre, Tour); Bullish (Milk Presents); The Shape of Pain (China Plate Theatre; Fringe First Winner); Burning Doors (Belarus Free Theatre); Bodies (Royal Court); Nest (Brighton & Take Off Festivals); How My Light is Spent (Royal Exchange); The Bear & The Proposal (Young Vic); Scarlett (Hampstead and Theatr Clywd); Years of Sunlight (Theatre 503); The Twits (Curve Theatre, Leicester); Removal Men (The Yard Theatre, Knight of Illumination Nomination); Broken Biscuits (Paines Plough); The Future (Company Three); Contractions (Sheffield Crucible); Julie (Northern Stage); We’re Stuck! (China Plate); Giving (Hampstead);  The Rolling Stone (Orange Tree Theatre); The Glass Menagerie (Nuffield Theatre, as Video Designer); The Merchant of Venice, Wuthering Heights, Consensual (Ambassadors Theatre); The Crocodile (Manchester International Festival); One Arms (Southwark Playhouse); The Trial Parallel, A Streetcar Named Desire Parallel (Young Vic); Amadis De Gaulle (Bloomsbury Theatre); Beckett Season (Old Red Lion); The Deluge (UK Tour, Lila Dance); Usagi Yojimbo (Southwark Playhouse); Pioneer (UK Tour, Curious Directive); Thumbelina (UK Tour, Dancing Brick). More info at: www.joshuapharo.com

Brothers Ben and Max Ringham have worked together in music for over 15 years. Initially as Narcosis producing Drum and Bass and Breakbeat for seminal dance label React, then as two thirds of avant-pop band Superthriller with whom they have released four albums, toured extensively in the UK and Europe, played to large festival crowds and supported Beck on the European leg of his Guerro tour.

In 2001 they became associate artists with the Shunt collective, collaborating on large scale site specific shows such as Dance Bear Dance (2002), Tropicana (2004) and Amato Saltone (2006). The last two of these were supported by the National Theatre and this led to an invitation from Nicholas Hytner to score Henry IV (2005) in the Olivier theatre.

To date Max and Ben have produced scores and sound designs for in excess of 40 major productions and have worked extensively in the West End, the National Theatre and RSC. They continue to be associate artists with Shunt and have collaborated on dance pieces with The Place and Sadlers Wells.

Ed takes a lead on making sure the spaces we work in are as accommodating as possible for incoming productions and their teams. He then provides support during show running, and for all staff throughout the year. He's keen on opportunities to tread lightly environmentally and lives for those barely-perceptible but unexpectedly devastating moments of sound design. Away from work, Ed is keen on being on or in water. Ed is an experienced Production Manager and has looked after several shows at the Gate including Chimera, Trust, Dear Elizabeth, and Land Without Dreams (2019); programmes for Shubbak, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (RWCMD) and Harrow Club; as well as various archive and online projects including 2020’s Letters. Ed has worked for the sound departments of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), The Royal Ballet, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, Shakespeare's Globe and Kiln Theatre. He has a postgraduate Engineering degree from University of Warwick and grew up in London and Norfolk. (he/him)

Trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Previous credits at the Gate include: I Call My Brothers, Assata Taught Me, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992.

Stage Manager credits include: #Hashtag Lightie, Thebes Land (Arcola Theatre); Pixel Dust/Wondr (Metta Theatre);  Upper Cut (W14 Productions, Southwark Playhouse); Sweet Charity (NYMT, Leicester Curve);  Danny the Champion of the World (London Contemporary Theatre, UK Tour); Lizzie Siddal (Peter Huntley Productions, Arcola Theatre).

Deputy Stage Manager credits include: House/Amongst the Reeds (Clean Break, Yard Theatre); The Buskers Opera (Park Theatre); Lotty’s War (Yvonne Arnaud, UK Tour); An Incident at the Border (Finborough Theatre/Trafalgar Studios 2).

Assistant Stage Manager credits include: The Importance of Being Earnest (Royal Opera House, Barbican Theatre); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Opera Holland Park); Dancing at Lughnasa (Theatre by the Lake); Spamalot (ATG, Playhouse Theatre); Farragut North (Southwark Playhouse). 

Trained at LAMDA

Stage Manager credits include: Margherita (Wexford Festival Opera); Carlos Acosta’s Classical Farewell (The Royal Albert Hall); Lela & Co. (Royal Court Theatre); Cubania (The Royal Opera House); Inala (UK tour).

Company Stage Manager credits include: The Dark Mirror (The Lincoln Center, National Theatre of Taichung, The Barbican); The Firework Maker’s Daughter (The Royal Opera House); The Virtues of Things (The Royal Opera House).

Deputy Stage Manager credits include: The Corridor and The Cure (Holland Festival / Aldeburgh); The Cunning Little Vixen (Garsington Opera); La Bohéme (Royal Albert Hall); How the Whale Became (Royal Opera House); Lionboy (Complicite UK and international tour); Carmen (Royal Albert Hall).

Bethany is a performance designer working across dance, theatre and installation and an Associate Artist with Middle Child, Hull. Recent work includes: Thank You Very Much (Claire Cunningham, MIF), All That Lives (Grief Series, Leeds International Festival), Us Against Whatever (Middle Child), The War of The Worlds (Rhum + Clay), Rallying Cry (Battersea Arts Centre), Busking It (HighTide), DISTANCE (Park Theatre), A New And Better You (Yard Theatre), TRUST (Gate Theatre), Party Skills for the End of the World (Nigel Barrett and Louise Mari, MIF), The Department of Distractions (Third Angel), All We Ever Wanted Was Everything (Middle Child). Work in development includes POPS (Charlotte Josephine, High Tide) and STORM (Search Party). An ongoing project, WARMTH, is a wood-fired mobile sauna and performance space, commissioned by Compass Live Art.

Jude Christian is a director, writer & performer. She is an Associate Artist at the Gate Theatre and the Lyric Hammersmith. She previously directed I’d Rather Goya Robbed Me of My Sleep Than Some Other Arsehole for the Gate in 2014.

Her directing credits also include My Mum's a Twat, Bodies, Lela & Co. (Royal Court Theatre); Parliament Square (Royal Exchange Theatre; Bush Theatre); Jack and the Beanstalk (Lyric Hammersmith); Split/Mixed (Maliza Productions).
As an Associate Director her work includes The Darkest Corners (Transform); Aladdin, Shopping and Fucking (Lyric Hammersmith), and Carmen Disruption (Almeida Theatre).
 

Maja Zade is a dramaturg at the Schaubühne Berlin, where she has worked with directors such as Thomas Ostermeier, Ivo van Hove, Luk Perceval, Benedict Andrews and Marius von Mayenburg. Her translations into German include works by Lars von Trier, Arnold Wesker and Caryl Churchill, and she has translated into English works by Marius von Mayenburg, Roland Schimmelpfennig, Lars Norén and Falk Richter.

Falk Richter is one of the most important German playwrights and directors of his generation. His plays have been translated into more than 25 languages and are produced all over the world. His plays include For the Disconnected Child, Rausch (written with Anouk van Dijk), Play Loud, My Secret Garden (written with Stanislas Nordey), Damaged Youth, State of Emergency, The Disturbance, Seven Seconds (In God We Trust), God Is A DJ. Apart from writing and directing his own plays, Richter has directed Shakespeare, Chekov, Schiller, Brecht, contemporary writers including Caryl Churchill, Harold Pinter, Martin Crimp, Sarah Kane and operas by Tchaikovsky, Strauss and Weber.

Kaajel is part of Prayer Workshop Kaajel Patel is a London based visual artist, set desinger, dancer & actor. She is trained in Bollywood & Indian Classical dance & is in the professional dance troupe Bollyfemme. Kaajel also works as a theatre and film set designer, teaches painting classes with Brush & Bubbles, and moonlights as a cabaret performer with her all asian drag family The Bitten Peach.