The Birthday Party - West End Creative Team
Production Staff
Harold Pinter
Playwright
Simon Baker
Sound Design
Simon Baker is an Australian actor, director, and producer who began his career in television after landing his first acting role in a commercial. He went on to star in Australian series including E Street, Home and Away, and Heartbreak High, winning the 1993 Logie Award for Most Popular New Talent. After relocating to the United States in the mid-1990s, he appeared in the Academy Award-winning film L.A. Confidential (1997) before gaining wider recognition as Nick Fallin in the legal drama The Guardian.
Baker achieved international fame for his starring role as Patrick Jane in the hit CBS series The Mentalist, ... read more
Amy Ball
Casting
Quay Brothers
Design
Ian Rickson
Director
Rickson's first professional job as director was at the Royal Court Young People's Theatre in 1990. He was appointed to replace Stephen Daldry as artistic director of the Royal Court Theatre in 1998, after three years there as an associate director. He stayed as artistic director until 2006, overseeing the completion of the new theatre in 1999. While there, he directed Joe Penhall's play Some Voices, Jez Butterworth's play Mojo, Conor McPherson's play The Weir, and Butterworth's play The Night Heron.
Rickson has also directed a production of Hamlet at the Young Vic, starring BAFTA Award-nominee Michael Sheen. He also directed ... read more
Hugh Vanstone
Lighting Design
Hugh has designed the lighting for more than 160 productions and worked for most of the UK's national companies and extensively on Broadway. He has received three Olivier Awards for Best Lighting Designer: in 2004 for Pacific Overtures (Donmar); in 2000 for The Graduate (West End) and The Cherry Orchard (National Theatre); and in 1998 for The Unexpected Man (RSC) and The Blue Room (Donmar). In New York he received TONY® award nominations for Mary Stuart and Spamalot.
His most recent work includes: Ghost the Musical (West End); The Wizard of Oz (West End); Matilda (RSC); Deathtrap (West End); La Bête ... read more
Stephen Warbeck
Music
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