Howard Davies is the Associate Director of the National Theatre. Previously Associate Director for the Almeida and Royal Shakespeare Company. Davies established and ran the Warehouse Theatre for the RSC where he directed and produced 26 new plays in 4 years. Theatre includes: The Cherry Orchard, The White Guard, Blood and Gifts, Burnt by the Sun (Olivier and Evening Standard awards for Best Director), Gethsemane, Her Naked Skin, Never So Good, Present Laughter, Philistines, The Life of Galileo, Paul, President of an Empty Room, The House of Bernarda Alba, Cyrano De Bergerac, Mourning Becomes Electra (Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival & Critics’ Circle Award for Best Director), The Talking Cure, All My Sons (Laurence Oliver Award for Best Director and 3 other awards) Flight (Evening Standard Award for Best Director) Mary Stuart, Children’s Hour, Long Day’s Journey into Night, The Crucible, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Secret Rapture, The Shaughraun and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. For the Almeida Period of Adjustment, Conversations After a Burial, The Play About the Baby, The Iceman Cometh, (Laurence Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for Best Director), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? all at the National Theatre; The General from America, Penny for a Song, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Macbeth, Troilus and Cressida, The Iceman Cometh, The Time of Your Life, Good, Piaf, Jail Diary of Albie Sachs, for the RSC; The Cherry Orchard, Sydney Theatre Company; The House of Special Purpose, Chichester Festival Theatre; A Moon For the Misbegotten, The Old Vic Theatre Company; The Breath of Life, Haymarket Theatre and Private Lives (Evening Standard Awards Nomination for Best Director & Laurence Olivier Awards Nomination for Best Director), at the Albery Theatre. On Broadway; A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Iceman Cometh (Tony Award nomination for Best Director); Translations, My Fair Lady, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Tony Award nomination for Best Director & Drama Desk Award for Best Director); Good and Piaf. Opera includes I Due Foscari, Scottish Opera; Eugene Onegin, Welsh National Opera; Idomeneo also for the Welsh National Opera and The Italian Girl in Algiers for the English National Opera. Television includes Blue/Orange, BBC written by Joe Penhall, Armadillo for the BBC, written by Will Boyd from his own novel; Copenhagen, BBC adapted by Davies from the play by Michael Frayn and Tales from Hollywood for the BBC, written by Christopher Hampton Film includes: The Secret Rapture, screenplay by David Hare.

Arthur Miller is an award winning American playwright, and one of the leading figures in 20th century theatre. His plays include The Man Who Had All the Luck, All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, A Memory of Two Mondays, After the Fall, Incident at Vichy, The Price, The Creation of the World and Other Business, The Archbishop's Ceiling, The American Clock and Playing for Time. Later plays include The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, The Last Yankee, Broken Glass, Mr. Peters’ Connections, Resurrection Blues, and Finishing the Picture. Other works include novels, Focus; a screenplay, The Misfits, and the texts for In Russia, In the Country, and Chinese Encounters. He also wrote three books in collaboration with his wife, photographer Inge Morath. Memoirs include Salesman in Beijing, and Timebends, an autobiography. Short fiction includes the collection I Don’t Need You Anymore, the novella, Homely Girl, a Life and Presence: Stories. He was awarded the Avery Hopwood Award for Playwriting at University of Michigan in 1936. He twice won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, received two Emmy awards and three Tony Awards for his plays, as well as a Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement. He also won an Obie award, a BBC Best Play Award, the George Foster Peabody Award, a Gold Medal for Drama from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the Literary Lion Award from the New York Public Library, the John F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Algur Meadows Award. He was named Jefferson Lecturer for the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2001. He was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters and the 2003 Jerusalem Prize. He received honorary degrees from Oxford University and Harvard University and was awarded the Prix Moliere of the French theatre, the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Lifetime Achievement Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

Theatre includes The Mysteries, Undiscovered Country, The Critic, Pygmalion, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, and All My Sons, at the National Theatre; The Duchess of Malfi, Man is Man, Hamlet, Kafka's Dick, and Hitchcock Blonde at the Royal Court; Julius Caesar, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night, Richard III, Richard II and A Midsummer Night's Dream for RSC; The House of Special Purpose, Chichester Festival and The Line at the Arcola. The End of the Rainbow, All My Sons, Carousel, I Claudius, Mutiny! Kiss Me Kate, A Streetcar Named Desire, My Night With Reg, Lenny, The Breath of Life, The Woman in White, Betrayal, The Last Confession and The Importance of being Earnest, in the West End and Broadway. Set design includes: Roman Polanski’s acclaimed musical version of The Dance Of The Vampires, in Vienna, Berlin and Germany; The Ship, for Cultural Capital of Europe Year 1990 and The Big Picnic both in the Harland and Wolff Shipyard in Glasgow as well as the sets for a new cruise vessel entertainment for Princess Lines/Cunard; Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, the O2 and the USA. Opera designs include The Ring Cycle in Bayreuth; Un Ballo in Maschera - when he worked with Herbert von Karajan in his last Salzburg Festival production; Billy Budd, Metropolitan Opera; Lucia di Lammermoor, Opéra National de Paris; Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Der Rosenkavalier, Don Giovanni, The Cunning Little Vixen at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; The Silver Tassie at the English National Opera; The Seraglio and The Barber of Seville for Glyndebourne. Work in film and television include Persuasion for BBC Television & US Cinema, winning a Bafta and a Royal Television Society Award; The History of the 1587 Rose Theatre and Scenes from Marlowe's Plays .

Dominic Muldowney was the Director of Music at the National Theatre for 16 years. His work includes a series of classical concertos for violin, saxophone, percussion, oboe and piano which have been performed by some of the UK's major orchestras; yet he is equally at home writing and arranging for artists such as David Bowie and Sting. Orchestral and Opera music include: Piano Concerto, Peter Donohoe, BBC SO, Saxohpone Concerto, John Harle, London Sinfonettia; Oboe Concerto, Roy Carter, LSO; The Fall of Jerusalem, (oratario); The Voluptuous Tango, Opera, Prix Italia; Red Razzmatazz, Opera, BBC. His film and television work includes: Betrayal; The Ploughman's Lunch; Loose Connections; 1984; Singleton's Pluck; The Beggar's Opera; Defence of the Realm; Baal; The Black Candle; Tales from Hollywood; Black Daisies for the Bride; The Peacock Spring; Emma; The Moth; The Fix; Sharpe's Enemy; Sharpe's Sword; Sharpe's Regiment; Sharpe's Siege; Sharpe's Mission; Sharpe's Justice; Sharpe's Battle; Sharpe's Rifles; Sharpe's Eagle; Sharpe's Challenge; Sharpe's Peril; After Eskimo Day; King Lear; Bloody Sunday; War Oratorio and Margaret. His score for Michael Radford's fiilm of George Orwell's 1984 remains one of the most unique film soundtracks ever to be recorded.

Theatre credits include: Henry V, The Life of Galileo, All My Sons, The Man of Mode, No Man's Land, Luther, The House of Bernarda Alba, Once in a Lifetime, His Dark Materials, Summerfolk, Romeo and Juliet, The Cherry Orchard, The Coast of Utopia: Voyage, The Coast of Utopia: Salvage, The Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck, Present Laughter, Aristocrats, Stuff Happens, The Merchant of Venice, The Rose Tattoo, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to The Forum, Rafta, Rafta, Henry IV, Her Naked Skin, The Winter's Tale, The Cherry Orchard, Buried Child, Anything Goes, Bacchae, My Fair Lady, Love's Labour's Lost, Peer Gynt, Candide, South Pacific, The Royal Hunt of the Sun, The Habit of Art, Edmond, Cyrano de Bergerac, Oedipus, A Streetcar Named Desire, Tales from Vienna Woods and All My Sons, all at the National Theatre; Waiting for Godot, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Marguerite, The Sea, and The Country Wife. Parlour Song, The Lightening Play, Period of Adjustment,at Theatre Royal Haymarket and Marianne Dreams at the Almeida; Bad Girls, The Garrick and Merry Wives The Musical; Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon; The Soldiers Fortune at the Young Vic Theatre; Gone With The Wind, New London Theatre; Oliver! Theatre Royal Drury Lane; Sugar Mummies at the Royal Court; Porgy and Bess at the Savoy Theatre; Bent at Trafalgar Studios; Peter Pan-A Musical and The Lights in The Piazza, Curve Theatre Leicester.

Theatre credits include; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Iceman Cometh, The Judas Kiss, Copenhagen, Democracy, Hamlet, The History Boy, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Les Parents Terribles, The Real Thing, Rowan Atkinson in Revue (also World tour) The History Boys (2006 TONY award for Best Play) and Enron all on Broadway. In the West End credits include; The Sound of Music, Marguerite, Grease is the Word, Amy's View, Our House, Up for Grabs, On An Average Night, Tonight's the Night, West Side Story, Spend Spend Spend, Neville's Island, Follies, Mutiny, Passion, A Few Good Men, As You Desire Me, All My Sons and When We Are Married. Other productions include UK tours of Sunset Boulevard and French and Saunders Live, a Radio City and US tour of Eddie Izzard and Peter Pan at 360 Theatre (London and San Francisco). Opera and Dance includes productions for: The Met Opera, English National Opera, The Royal Opera, Welsh National Opera, Opera North, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Hong Kong Festival, The Royal Ballet, Rambert Dance and London Contemporary Dance Theatre. Television and Film productions include: The Tall Guy, Rowan Atkinson in Boston, Under Milk Wood and Choir of the Year for the BBC. Larger scale and televised projects include: Showtime at the Stadium at the Millennium Stadium Cardiff for the BBC; Royal Gala Opening of the Millennium Centre Cardiff; Amnesty Benefit concert at Wembley Arena for Channel 4; concert of the music from Dr.Who for the BBC in Cardiff and Oedipus Plays for the National Theatre at the 15000 seat Epidaurus outdoor Amphitheatre in Greece. He has worked on Fashion Shows for Laura Ashley, Zandra Rhodes, Hermes and Jasper Conran. His Architectural and Exhibition Work includes the Royal Court re-development and Madame Tussaud's (London, Las Vegas and New York). Mark is an Associate and Lighting Consultant to the Royal National Theatre in London and Lighting adviser to the Almeida Theatre. Mark was the recipient of the 1992, 1995, 2000 , 2002 and 2010 Laurence Olivier Awards for Lighting Design.