Game of Thrones: The Mad King - West End Creative Team

NICK BARNES studied drama at Hull University and theatre design at the Slade School of Fine Art and soon after began incorporating puppets into his designs for opera and theatre, nationally and internationally. Until recently he was joint artistic director of the puppetry company Blind Summit Theatre, which he co-founded. With Blind Summit Nick designed puppets for Madame Butterfly (ENO, Metropolitan Opera, Anthony Minghella), A Dog's Heart (ENO/DNO), Shunkin and Master and Margarita (Complicite, Simon McBurney), El Gato Con Botas (Tectonic Theatre, Moises Kaufman), On Emotion (Soho Theatre, Mick Gordon), Faeries (Royal Opera House, Will Tuckett), His Dark Materials (Birmingham ... read more Finn is a director, designer and performer; he is co-artistic director of Gyre & Gimble, a theatre company specialising in puppetry. As Gyre & Gimble work as Co-Director/Puppet Designer includes: The Hartlepool Monkey (UK Tour) and The Elephantom (National Theatre & West End). As Puppetry Co-Designer/Director: Running Wild (Chichester Festival Theatre & Regent's Park Open Air Theatre) and The Grinning Man (Bristol Old Vic). Upcoming work includes co-directing/Puppet Designing The Four Seasons (Globe Theatre). Other work includes Angels in America and The Light Princess (National Theatre); Groundhog Day (Additional Movement - Old Vic & Broadway); Dr. Seuss' The Lorax ... read more Jon is an Olivier Award winning and double Tony Award nominated lighting designer, based in the UK. Theatre includes NATIONAL THEATRE: The Lehman Trilogy (also Park Avenue Armory, New York and Piccadilly Theatre, West End), Manor, I’m Not Running, Absolute Hell, Amadeus, As You Like It, The Beaux Stratagem, Hamlet, Othello, The Effect, Collaborators, A Woman Killed With Kindness, Greenland, Pains of Youth, Our Class, Damned by Despair, Women of Troy, The Cat in the Hat, Beauty and the Beast, Hansel and Gretel. ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (RSC): Hamlet, The Tempest, The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, The Winter’s Tale, ... read more Recent Theatre Includes: Hamlet (Almeida/West End); A View From the Bridge (nominated for Best Sound Design Olivier Award 2015) (Young Vic/West End), Life of Galileo, Happy Days, A Season in the Congo, Disco Pigs (Young Vic) Hedda Gabler, Sunset At The Villa Thalia, The Red Barn, People, Places and Things (Winner for Best Sound Design, Olivier Awards 2016) (National Theatre/West End); Les Miserables (Wermland Opera, Sweden); The Lorax (Old Vic); The Crucible (Walter Kerr Theater Broadway); Oresteia (Almeida Theatre/Trafalgar Studios); Anna Karenina (Manchester Royal Exchange); The Moderate Soprano, Elephants (Hampstead Theatre); White Devil, As You Like It (RSC); Translations, Plenty ... read more Chloe trained in Theatre Design at Wimbledon School of Art. Chloe is Associate Designer at the Royal Court Theatre and a resident of Somerset House Studios. Theatre includes: Shoe Lady (Royal Court), The Antipodes (Co-Director & Set and Costume Designer, National Theatre), Hilary and Clinton (Broadway), John, Amadeus, Rules For Living, The World Of Extreme Happiness (National Theatre), Europe (Donmar Warehouse), The Duchess of Malfi (Almeida Theatre), The American Clock (The Old Vic), Our Ladies Of Perpetual Succour (National Theatre, West End, National Theatre Scotland), The Crucible (Theatre Basel), Hamilton Complex (Schauspielhaus Bochum), Jubilee (Royal Exchange Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith), 1984 ... read more Theatrical credits include Sweet Charity, Jolson, Buddy, Spirit of the Dance, Oh! What A Night, Fiddler on the Roof starring Topol, It?s A Dad Thing!, Weary ? The Life of Sir Edward Dunlop, Shout! The Musical and Brave Men Run In Our Family, Jekyll and Hyde starring Brad Little and The Rocky Horror Show starring Richard O?Brien as the Narrator, the Helpmann Award winning production of A Chorus Line through Australasia and at the London Palladium, Ian Fleming?s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Wedding Singer through the UK and most recently the acclaimed new production of Fiddler on the Roof ... read more Place of Birth: Toronto, Canada Theatre: Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God (Toronto) Film: Blues Brothers 2000, Ruby’s Bucket of Blood Other: Danced with Tavaziva Dance Company (UK), Dallas Black Dance Theater (US). Received a BA (Hons) Kinesiology from the University of Western Ontario and served as Dance Captain - Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines.