Cast & Creatives – The Wasp
Jocasta trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts where she was awarded the Laurence Olivier Bursary Award for drama school students across the UK. Since graduating, credits include: Miss Casewell in Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap (West End); Understudy Mollie and Miss Casewell in Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap (UK Tour); Emma in Shoot, I Didn’t Mean That and Ensemble in the first British translation and production of Krauss’ The Last Days of Mankind (both at the Tristan Bates Theatre).
Lucy trained at Drama Centre London. Theatre credits include: Moment of Grace (Seven Dials Playhouse); Market Boy (Union Theatre); Dinner is Coming (The Vaults); Conquest (Bunker Theatre); ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Seven Dials Playhouse); NewsRevue (Canal Café Theatre); Time and the Conways (Platform Theatre); The Rivals (Upstairs at the Gatehouse). Television includes: Humans (Channel 4/AMC).
Psyche is a freelance Theatre Director. Her work has taken her to Rome, Australia, Europe and throughout the UK. She is thrilled to be back opening the 2024/25 season for The English Theatre Frankfurt with The Wasp by the brilliant Morgan Lloyd Malcolm at Volksbühne Theatre. Previous productions for ETF include The Two Popes by Anthony McCarten, the German premieres of The Children by Lucy Kirkwood and Girl on a Train adapted by Rachel Wagstaff.
In what seems like a lifetime ago- she won the Channel 4 Regional Directors Award (now the Regional Theatre Young Director Award) enabling her to take up the role of Director in Residence at Northern Stage. Continuing as Associate Director for their UK tour of Our Friends in the North. Training also includes the National Theatre Studio. She is a regular guest Director for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and LAMDA. She is also on the audition panel for RADA. Productions for RADA include: Against by Christopher Shinn, Suddenly Last Summer, Something Unspoken, Kindertransport, The Five Wives of Maurice Pinder, Women of Twilight. Productions for LAMDA: Boudica, Duchess of Malfi, The White Devil and scenes from Shakespeare.
Some directing highlights include: Jekyll & Hyde, a new adaptation (Story House, Chester); Lucy Kirkwood’s NSFW (Platform Theatre London); The 20th anniversary production of David Farr’s Elton John’s Glasses (Watford Palace Theatre); The Fighting Bradfords, new commission (Gala Theatre, Durham); Blue Remembered Hills (Northern Stage & UK Tour); Skylight (Teatro Dell’Orologio, Rome); The Australian premiere of the Award winning British hit comedy Calendar Girls (for Gordon Frost Organisation, Lyric Theatre, QPAC Brisbane, Theatre Royal Sydney and Comedy Theatre Melbourne); Calendar Girls (Chichester Festival Theatre and New UK Tour); Pub Quiz (New Writing North and Northeast Theatre Consortium Regional Tour). Directing for BBC Radio: Brian Friel’s Hedda Gabler (produced by Sparklab for BBC Radio 4). www.psychestott.co.uk
Katie graduated with a First Class Degree from Royal Holloway University, before specialising and receiving a Distinction in Theatre Design from RADA. She was selected to work as a Resident Trainee Designer with the Royal Shakespeare Company, before embarking on her career as a freelance designer. She works on productions across the UK with shows touring internationally. Katie is an Associate Artist at The Watermill Theatre. She was recently nominated for two Broadway World Awards for Best Set Design for both Notes From A Small Island (Watermill Theatre) and Bleak Expectations (West End).
Work credits include: The Two Popes (The English Theatre Frankfurt); Sleeping Beauty (Salisbury Playhouse); The Importance of Being Earnest (Mercury Colchester); Burnt at the Stake (Globe Theatre); Dick Whittington (Queens Theatre Hornchurch); To Wong Foo The Musical (Hope Mill Theatre); Bleak Expectations (West End); Spike (UK Tour); Notes From A Small Island, Spike, As You Like It, Just So, Hamlet, The Prince and the Pauper, Journey’s End (The Watermill Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet (UK Tour and Wilton’s Music Hall); Lady Chatterley’s Lover (UK Tour); The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Storyhouse Theatre); Eclipse (Lyric Hammersmith); Cinderella, Dick Whittington and His Cat (Costume Designer, Lyric Hammersmith); The Lone Pine Club (Pentabus); Polka40 Exhibition, Grandad, Me and Teddy Too (2014 and 2022 revival); Alice in Wonderland, Shake Rattle and Roll, My Brother My Sister and Me (Polka Theatre); Nanny McPhee (Costume Designer, London Children’s Ballet); Address Unknown (Soho Theatre); The Welsh Boy, Deadkidssongs (Costume Designer, Ustinov Studio, Bath Theatre Royal); The Tempest, Shakespeare in a Suitcase (RSC Tour); Valhalla, Coalition, Word: Play 3 (Theatre 503); Treasure Island, Flip, The Angry Brigade, Love and Information, The Addams Family, Antigone, Song Cycles, and Table (Arts Ed); In the Summer House, Penthesilea, Man Equals Man (RADA); Tinderbox (Tooting Arts Club). www.katielias.com
Neill is a UK based Lighting Designer working on a wide range of opera, musicals, plays, dance and immersive theatre. His credits include: Don Giovanni (revival at Gothenburg Opera); Ghostbusters (Secret Cinema); The Flying Dutchman (Opera Up Close); Made in Dagenham (Mountview); Cinema Inferno (John Galliano at Paris Fashion week with Imitating the Dog); Afterite (revival for Wayne McGregor, La Scala, Milan); Katya Kabanova (revival at Teatro dell’opera, Rome); Dido and Aeneas, Jephthe, Bridgetower (all English Touring Opera); Blank (NT Connections, Dorfmann Theatre); Phantasmagoria (Coventry Belgrade); Merrily We Roll Along, Spring Awakening (Leeds Conservatoire); The Girl on the Train (The English Theatre Frankfurt); Alice’s Adventures Underground (Irish National Opera); The Dark (Fuel Theatre); Jekyll & Hyde (Chester Storyhouse); Hansel & Gretl (San Francisco Opera); In the Night Garden Live (Minor Entertainment); The Firm (Hampstead Theatre); Children of Killers (NT Connections, Olivier Theatre); Lohengrin (Greek National Opera); Mozart & Machine (Mahogany Opera); The Cutting of the Cloth (Southwark Playhouse); Dark Sublime, As is, Dessa Rose (Trafalgar Studios). As Associate LD: Everybody’s Talking about Jamie, (Apollo West End); Hansel und Gretl (ROH); 0 (Michael Clarke Company).
Based in London, Adrienne has been working as a sound designer/composer, both nationally and internationally for live performance. Most recent shows include multi-million-pound project Gunpowder Immersive at the Tower of London, The Tempest starring Alex Kingston for the RSC and Kim’s Convenience, Park Theatre and The Two Popes, The English Theatre Frankfurt.
She was part of the team behind the Olivier Nominated production of Cuttin’ It (Young Vic Theatre), best new play nomination at the UK theatre awards for Black Men Walking (Eclipse Theatre), and a nomination for best production at the Manchester Theatre Awards for Rose, starring Dame Janet Suzman (Home, Manchester).
She has worked at many respected venues including the Donmar Warehouse, The Young Vic, The Royal Court Theatre, The Abbey Theatre & The Gate (Dublin), National Theatre of Scotland, Schaubühne Berlin, Schauspiel Köln, The Barbican and Theatre Royal (Haymarket), as well as venues and festivals in Europe, USA and China. She is a long-term collaborator with Told by an Idiot and Improbable.
Adrienne was previously a radio producer, and recently remixed her sound design for A Tale of Two Cities in collaboration with Oscar-winning composer Rachel Portman for the album Incidental; Music for the stage. She also features on Artists Rifles by Piano Magic. She won Audible’s Audiodrama competition and worked on Mansfield Park. Film Credits include 7 Deadly Idiots and Lost Tango.
Joseph Reed is an actor, freelance fight director, and stage combat tutor at the London Academy of Dramatic Art. He is a qualified BGSC instructor and has been teaching and directing combat for the better part of a decade. He is highly skilled in many weapon arts, applying the principles of body mechanics passed on to him by John Waller and Rodney Cottier. He has worked extensively in theatre, on the West end, at the Globe, the Watermill, Southwark playhouse and many others, as well as on screen. He is a student of Kong dao kwan wing chun gung fu.
Marc trained as an actor at Drama Centre London before moving into casting. For The English Theatre Frankfurt, Marc has cast The Two Popes, Sylvia, Something Rotten!, Now and Then, Suddenly Last Summer, Sister Act, Secret Life of Humans, The Totalitarians, Young Frankenstein, The Girl on the Train, Switzerland, The Effect, Sweeney Todd, One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Children, Apologia, Cabaret, The Lion in Winter, Jekyll & Hyde – the Musical, Hand to God, Pygmalion, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Handbagged, Spamalot, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Glass Menagerie, Disgraced, Death and the Maiden, Other Desert Cities, Ghost – the Musical and Strangers on a Train.
Marc has also recently cast The Children (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds); The Walworth Farce (Southwark Playhouse Elephant); The Way Old Friends Do (Birmingham Rep/UK Tour); Sky Comedy Rep (Birmingham Rep); The Play what I Wrote (Birmingham Rep/UK Tour); Now Is Good (Storyhouse, Chester); Bang Bang (Northcott Theatre/UK Tour); The History Boys (Grand Theatre Wolverhampton); The Comedy of Errors, Baskerville, Aladdin, Moll Flanders, Pieces of String, Much Ado About Nothing, Clybourne Park, Noises Off, Macbeth (Mercury Theatre Colchester); The Full Monty (UK Tours); The Band (West End/UK Tour) and many more.
