The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby - Broadway Creative Team

Caid is a freelance director and writer working in theatre, opera and musical theatre, an Honorary Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Principal Guest Director of the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm (Dramaten) and author of Theatre Craft, published by Faber and Faber. Recent work in England includes: Macbeth (Almeida) and Hamlet (NT), both with Simon Russell Beale. In Stockholm his production of Strindberg’s Dance of Death is currently running at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, and in Japan he has just directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the New National Theatre and his own adaptation of Teru Miyamoto’s novel Kinshu at ... read more Since his arrival in London from New York many years ago, David Hersey has designed the lighting for hundreds of plays, musicals, operas and ballets. He was lighting consultant to the National Theatre for ten years and is a past chairman and current fellow of the Association of Lighting Designers. In 2002 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Middlesex University. His many awards include Tonys for Best Lighting Design for Evita, Cats and Les Misérables plus the 1996 Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design for Burning Blue, The Glass Menagerie and Twelfth Night. He received Tony nominations for The ... read more Nelle Nugent has produced more than 60 Broadway, touring, Off-Broadway and West End productions including: Dracula, The Elephant Man, Morning's at Seven, Mass Appeal (MTC) Amadeus, Nicholas Nickleby, Sly Fox (revival), American Buffalo (revival). She has produced many independent feature films and television movies, most recently completed feature film: Athol Fugard's Master Harold…and the boys. Her productions have received five Tonys, two Obies, two New York Drama Critics Awards, and numerous film and TV awards. She is currently producing Time Stand Stills starring Laura Linney, Brian D'Arcey James, Eric Bogosian and Christina Ricci at Broadway's Cort Theatre. Trevor Nunn was educated at Downing College, Cambridge, and in 1962 he won an ABC Director’s Scholarship to the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, where, as resident director, his productions included The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Peer Gynt and a musical version of Around the World in Eighty Days. He recently returned to the Belgrade to direct a production of Scenes from a Marriage. In 1964, Trevor joined the RSC, and was made the company’s youngest-ever artistic director in 1968. He was responsible for running the RSC until he retired from his post in 1986. Productions for the RSC included: The Revenger’s Tragedy, The Relapse, ... read more