Trevor Nunn - Director

Trevor Nunn was appointed an associate director of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1965; three years later he became artistic director -- at 28, the youngest in the company's history. He retired from the post in 1986 and was recently named Artistic Director (Designate) of England's Royal National Theatre.

His productions for the RSC include "The Revenger's Tragedy," "The Relapse," "The Alchemist," "Henry V," "The Taming of the Shrew," "King Lear," "Much Ado About Nothing," "The Winter's Tale," "Henry VIII," "Hamlet," "Macbeth," "Antony and Cleopatra," "Coriolanus," "Julius Caesar," "Titus Andronicus," "Romeo and Juliet," "The Comedy of Errors," "As You Like It," "All's Well That Ends Well," "Three Sisters," "Juno and the Paycock" and "Othello." In 1982, Nunn opened the RSC's London home at the Barbican with his production of "Henry IV," parts I and II; he later oversaw the opening of the RSC's Swan Theatre at Stratford, directing one of its first productions, "The Fair Maid of the West." He also directed the first two productions in the new Other Place Theatre at Stratford, "The Blue Angel" and "Measure for Measure."

With John Caird, Nunn co-directed "Nicholas Nickleby" (which won five Tony Awards) and "Les Miserables" (winner of eight Tony Awards and the most performed musical in the world.) Outside the RSC, Nunn has directed the original productions of the award-winning musicals "Cats," "Starlight Express," "Aspects of Love" and "Sunset Boulevard" for Andrew Lloyd Webber; "Chess" and "The Baker's Wife."

Nunn's other theatre productions include "Timon of Athens," "Heartbreak House" and "Arcadia." For Glyndebourne Opera, he has directed "Idomeneo," "Porgy and Bess," "Cosi Fan Tutte" and "Peter Grimes." At the Royal Opera House, he directed "Katya Kabanova" and revived "Porgy and Bess."

Nunn's work for television includes several acclaimed versions of plays by Shakespeare, an Emmy winning version of "Nicholas Nickleby" and a film of "Porgy and Bess." He has directed two previous feature films -- Hedda (1975), based on the Ibsen play and starring Glenda Jackson and Lady Jane (1986), starring Helena Bonham Carter.

David Parfitt - Producer

David Parfitt was an actor for eighteen years before he co-founded the Renaissance Theatre Company with Kenneth Branagh in 1987. After Stephen Evans joined them as co-producer, the company mounted West End and touring productions of many Shakespeare plays including "Twelfth Night," "Much Ado About Nothing," "Hamlet," "As You Like It," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "King Lear" and "Coriolanus" (which was produced at the Chichester Festival Theatre.) Parfitt also produced contemporary work for Renaissance, including "Napoleon;" "Travelling Tales" written by John Sessions; and Kenneth Branagh's play "Public Enemy."

For Renaissance Films, Parfitt was associate producer on the Oscar-winning Henry V and line producer for Peter's Friends. He produced the successful film version of Much Ado About Nothing and Swan Song, which was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short. He was co-producer of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and most recently produced The Madness of King George for Renaissance, which was nominated for four Oscars (winning Best Art Direction) and won the Best Actress Award for Helen Mirren at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.

Stephen Evans - Producer

Stephen Evans became a member of the London Stock Exchange at the age of 25, specializing in private and institutional clients and corporate deals. In the late 1980's, his deep interest in theatre and film found expression through his involvement with Renaissance, for which he helped finance Kenneth Branagh's production of "Twelfth Night" at the Riverside Studios. Evans went on to arrange finance and sponsorship for many Renaissance theatre productions including the massive tour of three Shakespeare plays in 1989.

A director of Renaissance Theatre Productions, he set up Renaissance Films with David Parfitt and Kenneth Branagh, serving as president of the company. He was executive producer of Henry V, for which he assembled backing of $8.5 million. His projects since then include the films Much Ado About Nothing, Peter's Friends and The Madness of King George. Independently, he produced Galahad of Everest. Evans is currently producing Wings of the Dove.

Clive Tickner - Director of Photography

Clive Tickner has won the BAFTA award for Best Cinematography for Traffik and Agfa awards for Best Television Photography for The Borrowers. He was director of photography on Ken Loach's Cannes prize-winner Hidden Agenda and has filmed such acclaimed television productions as "Inspector Morse," "Anglo-Saxon Attitudes" and "Selling Hitler."

His feature credits include Loch Ness, The Puppet Masters, The Whipping Boy, Split Second, Getting It Right, The Fear, Mr. Love, She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas, The Frog Prince, Billy The Kid and The Green Baize Vampire, The Ploughman's Lunch, Loose Connections and Laughter House.

Peter Boyle - Editor

Peter Boyle's many film editing credits include Waterworld, Rapa Nui, Sommersby, Into the West, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Queen of Hearts, The Beast of War, A Prayer for the Dying, Florida Straits and The Razor's Edge.

Sophie Becher - Production Designer

Sophie Becher's film credits as production designer include The Borrowers I & II (both of which won her BAFTA nominations for Best Design and an RTS award for Best Design), Loch Ness, A Business Affair, Little Red Riding Hood And The Woolf, Good Friday, My Little Eye, Seventeen, The Final Frame, Deptford Graffiti, Coping With Cupid and The Kitchen Child.

Becher was art director on Mike Leigh's award winning Life Is Sweet, and also for Spooks and Elphida.

John Bright - Costume Designer

John Bright trained as a fashion designer before undertaking a two-year course at the E15 Acting School. He then designed and acted in repertory theatres and in 1965 founded COSPROP, the theatre, film and television costumers. In the early years, his individual designing was put aside while he built up his business, working on, among others, "The Forsyte Saga," "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and "Evita."

With Jenny Beavan, he designed the costumes for the Merchant-Ivory film The Bostonians, White Fang, Mountains of the Moon, and Sense and Sensibility. He went on to design for A Room With A View (which won a Best Costume Oscar), Maurice, Howards End and The Remains of the Day (all of which were nominated for Oscars). He also designed the costumes for the West End production of "The Women" and for "Eugene Onegin" at Venice's La Fenice Opera House. Bright's credit includes the Centenary Production of "La Bohème" at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Christine Beveridge - Makeup Designer

Before becoming freelance, Christine Beveridge worked for ten years as makeup designer for the BBC. Her work includes Nic Roeg's Eureka, Insignificance, Castaway and The Witches; and Merchant-Ivory's A Room With A View, Howards End and The Remains of the Day. Her many other films include Plenty, A Private Function, The Good Father, A Prayer for the Dying, Gorillas in the Mist, Mountains of the Moon, The Old Man and The Sea, Shadowlands, Legends of the Fall, Jack & Sarah, A Christmas Carol, Carrington, Haunted, The Innocent and Twelve Monkeys. Beveridge is currently working on a project to be filmed in Canada starring Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin.

Shaun Davey - Composer

Shaun Davey has written music for the television and film productions of "Ballykissangel," "Loving," "The Hanging Gale," for which he won the Ivor Novello Award and received a BAFTA nomination,