The Hills of California - West End Creative Team
Production Staff
Jez Butterworth
Playwright
Zoe Ford Burnett
Associate Director
Jez Butterworth
Writer
Jez Butterworth was born in London in 1969. His plays include Mojo (1995), The Night Heron (2002), The Winterling (2006), Parlour Song (2008), Jerusalem (2009), The River (2012), and The Ferryman (2017). His plays have won two Olivier Awards, three Evening Standard Awards, Four Writer's Guild Awards and Three Critics Circle Awards. In 2007 he was given the E.M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His screenwriting credits include Fair Game, Get on Up (2014), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), Black Mass (2015), and Spectre (2015).
Candida Caldicot
Musical Supervisor and Arranger
Amy Ball CDG
Casting Director
Natasha Chivers
Lighting Designer
Natasha is a London-based lighting designer with over 20 years of experience.
Her extensive work in theatre includes Enemy of People (The Armoury, New York); Kan Ya Ma Kan (Riyadh); Message in a Bottle, Electric Hotel, Dystopian Dream and Gravity Fatigue (Sadler’s Wells); Drive and Live: La Boheme (ENO); Ivanov (Staatstheater Stuttgart); Blood Wedding (Young Vic); The Doctor, Hamlet and Oresteia (Almeida); Oedipus (Toneelgroep Amsterdam); The American Clock and SYLVIA (The Old Vic); The Antipodes, Sunset at the Villa Thalia and Statement of Regret (National Theatre); The Deep Blue Sea, The Chalk Garden and The House They Grew Up In (Chichester ... read more
Rob Howell
Designer
Rob Howell has designed sets and costumes extensively in the theatre and opera in the UK and abroad including at The Royal Court, The Donmar Warehouse, The Old Vic, The National Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Royal Opera House and The Metropolitan Opera and on Broadway. He has received numerous Olivier and Tony nominations, including a current Olivier nomination for The Ferryman, and was awarded Oliviers for Best Set Designer in the years 2000, 2006 and 2012 and a Tony for Best Set Designer in 2013.
Ellen Kane
Choreographer
London based Tony & Olivier nominated choreographer, Ellen Kane is currently working on Legally Blonde for Regent's Park Open Air Theatre (dir. Lucy Moss) and has been working as the Choreographer for Matilda (feature film dir. Matthew Warchus for Netflix) and A Chorus Line (dir. Nikolai Foster) for the Curve in Leicester. Other credits include: Choreographer West Side Story (dir. Nikolai Foster) for the Curve in Leicester and Dance & Movement Supervisor on Cats (dir. Tom Hooper), Co-Choreographer of Groundhog Day The Musical (dir. Matthew Warchus), Old Vic Theatre London and the August Wilson Theatre Broadway (Tony and Olivier nominations); ... read more
Sam Mendes
Director
Sam Mendes began his theatre career after graduating from Cambridge in 1987, when he was hired as an assistant director at Chichester Festival Theatre. He made his professional directing debut in September 1987 with a double bill of Anton Chekhov's The Bear and The Proposal. In 1989, he became the inaugural director of the Minerva Theatre. That year, he took over a production of Dion Boucicault's London Assurance at Chichester and made his West End directing debut at the Aldwych Theatre with Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, starring Judi Dench. London Assurance subsequently transferred to the Theatre Royal Haymarket.
In 1990, Mendes ... read more
Verity Naughton CDG
Young Persons’ Casting Director
Nick Powell
Sound Designer, Composer and Arranger
