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THE LEHMAN TRILOGY,
AHEAD OF PERFORMANCES BEGINNING 24 JANUARY 2023
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Rehearsal images have been released for the National Theatre and Neal Street Productions’ critically acclaimed, five-time Tony Award® winning production of The Lehman Trilogy which begins a limited 17-week run at the Gillian Lynne Theatre on 24 January. Written by Stefano Massini, adapted by Ben Power and directed by multi-award-winning director, Sam Mendes with set design by Es Devlin, The Lehman Trilogy is an extraordinary feat of storytelling told in three parts on a single evening. Tickets are available from £20.
Michael Balogun, Hadley Fraser and Nigel Lindsay are playing the Lehman brothers, and a cast of characters including their sons and grandsons. They are joined by pianist, Yshani Perinpanayagam.
Returning to perform the roles of Janitor and understudy is Ravi Aujla, with Will Harrison-Wallace and Leighton Pugh also returning to their understudy roles. Erika Gundesen is the understudy pianist.
On a cold September morning in 1844, a young man from Bavaria stands on a New York dockside dreaming of a new life in the new world. He is joined by his two brothers, and an American epic begins. 163 years later, the firm they establish – Lehman Brothers – spectacularly collapses into bankruptcy, triggering the largest financial crisis in history. Weaving together nearly two centuries of family history, The Lehman Trilogy charts the humble beginnings, outrageous successes, and devastating failure of the financial institution that would ultimately bring the global economy to its knees.
Mendes is joined by set designer, Es Devlin; costume designer, Katrina Lindsay; video designer, Luke Halls; lighting designer Jon Clark; composer and sound designer, Nick Powell; co-sound designer, Dominic Bilkey; music director, Candida Caldicot; movement director, Polly Bennett and West End director, Zoé Ford Burnett. Company voice work is by Charmian Hoare with casting by Jessica Ronane CDG. They are joined by associate director, Rory McGregor; associate casting director Abby Galvin and associate designer, Amalie White.
The Lehman Trilogy was the most awarded play on Broadway in 2022, winning Best Play, Best Director, Best Set Design, Best Lighting Design and Best Actor at the Tony Awards®. It also won the Drama League Award for Best Play and six Outer Critics Circle Awards, including Best Play.
First commissioned by Neal Street Productions and developed and co-produced with the National Theatre at the Lyttelton theatre in 2018, followed by an acclaimed sold-out run at the Park Avenue Armory in the Spring of 2019, The Lehman Trilogy returned to London for a 16-week sold-out run at the Piccadilly Theatre in the West End from May until August 2019. Following Broadway’s 18-month shutdown, The Lehman Trilogy was the first British play to return to Broadway — where it had previously played four performances in March 2020 — for a much-lauded limited engagement at the Nederlander Theatre from September 2021 until January 2022. A Los Angeles transfer to Center Theatre Group’s Ahmanson Theatre followed from March until April 2022.
Prior to this, the world premiere of Stefano Massini’s The Lehman Trilogy opened at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan in 2015. It turned out to be Artistic Director Luca Ronconi’s final production before his death. A long-term admirer of Ronconi’s, Sam Mendes was inspired to begin planning an English adaptation for Neal Street Productions. Ben Power was commissioned by Neal Street Productions to create a new version of this epic play, using a literal English translation by Mirella Cheeseman.
The Lehman Trilogy in the West End is supported by American Express, the National Theatre’s Preferred Card Partner.
Listings Information
The Lehman Trilogy
Dates: From 24 January – 20 May 2023
Press Night: Wednesday 8 February 2023, 7pm
Address: Gillian Lynne Theatre, 166 Drury Lane, London, WC2B 5PW
Performances: Mondays – Saturdays at 7pm, with a matinee on Saturdays at 1pm*
*schedule may differ during bank holidays, check website for details
Assisted Performances:
Captioned Performance:Monday 20 February, 7pm Saturday 18 March, 1pm
Audio Described Performance: Monday 27 February, 7pm; Saturday 25 March, 1pm
BSL Performance: Saturday 11 March, 1pm
Tickets: Tickets from £20
Running Time: 3 hours 20 minutes, including two intervals
Website: [TheLehmanTrilogy.com](http://thelehmantrilogy.com/)
Twitter and Facebook: @LehmanTrilogy
Instagram: @TheLehmanTrilogy
Notes to Editors
– The Lehman Trilogy, Original Music by Nick Powell is available to stream via [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/0fxRcGNUHiefWAaPz7IjMS) and purchase online from major music retailers.
Biographies
Actors
Michael Balogun – Emanuel Lehman
Michael Balogun trained at RADA.
His work in theatre includes Death of England: Delroy (title role) and Macbeth at the National Theatre; Blue/Orange at the Royal & Derngate; UK tours of People, Places and Things and Barber Shop Chronicles; Macbeth at Chichester; and The Dark at Ovalhouse.
TV includes Top Boy, You Don’t Know Me, Vera, Casualty and War of the Worlds.
Hadley Fraser – Mayer Lehman
Hadley Fraser’s work in theatre includes The Antipodes at the National Theatre; The Deep Blue Sea and The Pajama Game at Chichester; Saint Joan, City of Angels, Coriolanus and The Vote at Donmar Warehouse; Long Day’s Journey into Night at Bristol Old Vic; The Machine at Manchester International Festival and Park Avenue Armory, NYC; A Christmas Carol at Birmingham Rep; The Shaughraun at Abbey, Dublin; Assassins at Sheffield Crucible; Pacific Overtures at Leicester Haymarket; Longitude at Greenwich; The Last 5 Years at Theater Aspen, Colorado; The Phantom of the Opera 25th Anniversary at the Royal Albert Hall; Les Misérables 25th Anniversary at the O2 Arena; The Pirate Queen on Broadway; and 2:22 A Ghost Story, City of Angels, Young Frankenstein, The Winter’s Tale, Harlequinade, Les Misérables, The Fantasticks, The Pirates of Penzance, Peter Pan and The Far Pavilions in the West End.
TV includes The Gold, Gentleman Jack, Decline and Fall, The Wrong Mans, Endeavour, Holby City, Doctor Who, Pompidou, Him and Sons of Liberty.
Film includes All Is True, Murder on the Orient Express, The Legend of Tarzan and Les Misérables.
Hadley Fraser wrote the book and lyrics for the musical Committee… for the Donmar Warehouse.
Nigel Lindsay- Henry Lehman
Nigel Lindsay’s work in theatre includes A Small Family Business, The Pillowman, The London Cuckolds, Blue Remembered Hills and Dealer’s Choice (also West End) at the National Theatre; Richard II at the RSC; Woman in Mind at Chichester; The Trials, The Same Deep Water as Me and The Real Thing (also West End and Broadway) at the Donmar Warehouse; Faith Healer (Irish Times nomination, Best Supporting Actor) at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin; God of Carnage at Theatre Royal Bath; Harrogate, Sucker Punch, Push Up and King Lear at the Royal Court; Guys and Dolls at the Phoenix and the Piccadilly; Bull at the Young Vic; Speed-the-Plow at the Playhouse; title role in Shrek the Musical (Olivier and WhatsOnStage nominations, Best Actor in a Musical) at Theatre Royal Drury Lane; Broken Glass (WhatsOnStage Award, Best Supporting Actor) at the Kiln; Under the Blue Sky at the Duke of York’s; The Homecoming, Awake and Sing (WhatsOnStage nomination, Best Supporting Actor), Romance, The Earthly Paradise and The Tower at the Almeida; The Tempest at the Old Vic; and Bedroom Farce at the Aldwych.
TV includes: The Capture, This Time with Alan Partridge, The Salisbury Poisonings, Tin Star, The Last Kingdom, Magnum PI, No Offence, Safe, White Gold, Innocent, Unforgotten, Victoria, Foyle’s War, Poirot, The Tunnel, Brass Eye, Best of Men, The Fear, Spooks, Waking the Dead, Rome and A Dance to the Music of Time.
Film includes Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, Breakfast with Johnny Wilkinson, Four Lions (British Comedy Awards nomination for Best British Comedy Performance in Film), First Night, Scoop, Mike Bassett: England Manager, On A Clear Day and Rogue Trader.
Nigel Lindsay has also worked extensively on radio.
Yshani Perinpanayagam – Pianist
As a multi-genre chamber musician, orchestral pianist and music director, Yshani Perinpanayagam has performed at venues and events such as Wigmore Hall, the London Palladium, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and Barbican Mime Festival and with artists including the Philharmonia and Nina Conti.
She is pianist of the Del Mar Piano Trio and Carismático Tango Band, and a regular guest broadcaster on BBC Radio 3.
Yshani Perinpanayagam was music director for triple-Olivier winning production of Emilia at the Vaudeville; Goat for Rambert Dance Company; circus troupe Circa at the Barbican; and Olivier Award-winning Showstopper! The Improvised Musical. She was Consultant MD for Olivier Award-winning Wolf Witch Giant Fairy at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Theatre. Most recently, she was MD/pianist for Lost Dog’s Ruination at the Linbury. She has premiered music by Charlotte Bray, Joe Cutler, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Gavin Higgins, Hannah Kendall and Benjamin Oliver.
As a composer herself, commissions include works for the London Sinfonietta, Onyx Brass, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and music for a play about Fanny Mendelssohn.
Yshani Perinpanayagam was winner of the tenth Yamaha Birmingham Accompanist of the Year Award, and was a scholar at the Royal College of Music.
Creative Team
Stefano Massini
Stefano Massini is the first Italian author to be awarded with a Tony Award. He is an internationally renowned novelist and playwright who regularly contributes to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. For several years he has served as artistic consultant at Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa. His works, including The Lehman Trilogy, have been translated into 27 languages, and his plays have been performed in more theatres around the world than those of any other living Italian writer, produced as far afield as Iran and Korea, and staged by directors such as Luca Ronconi and Sam Mendes. His most acclaimed works, beyond The Lehman Trilogy, include: Intractable Woman, a decades-long international success; Ladies Football Club, which premiered to wide acclaim in Spain; and 7 Minutes, hailed by LeMonde as a “masterpiece” at the Comédie Française. He has won numerous Italian and foreign awards, including the Premio Vittorio Tondelli, the Premio Ubu, the Tony Award, the Drama Guild Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award. Qualcosa sui Lehman (The Lehman Trilogy) was among the most acclaimed novels published in Italy in recent years and won the Selezione Campiello Prize, the Super Mondello Prize, the De Sica Prize, the Prix Médicis Essai and the Prix Meilleur Livre Étranger. He is currently creating a new multi-part play about the history of the atomic bomb, entitled Manhattan Project.
Ben Power
Ben Power is a Tony Award-winning writer for theatre, television and film. Since 2010, he has worked at the National Theatre, including six years as Deputy Artistic Director and two years programming The Shed. In addition to his internationally successful adaptation of the The Lehman Trilogy, his adaptations for the National include DH Lawrence’s Husbands & Sons, Euripides’ Medea and Ibsen’s Emperor & Galilean. He has worked as dramaturg and writer for companies such as the RSC, Complicite & Headlong, where he was Associate Director and created adaptations of Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author and Marlowe’s Dr Faustus. Work on screen includes his BAFTA longlisted adaptation of Robert Harris’ Munich: Edge of War for Netflix and the BAFTA winning BBC Shakespeare adaptation The Hollow Crown.
Sam Mendes
Sam Mendes founded and ran the Donmar Warehouse in London for ten years. He was the founding director of Neal Street Productions and The Bridge Project. His work has been seen at the National Theatre, RSC, Royal Court, Old Vic, Young Vic, BAM, the West End and on Broadway. Films include American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Jarhead, Revolutionary Road, Away We Go, Skyfall, Spectre, 1917 and most recently Empire of Light. Awards include the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture and three other Academy Award nominations, five BAFTA Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, three Tony Awards, five Olivier Awards, the Olivier Special Award, three Evening Standard Awards, two Directors Guild of America Awards, the PGA award, the Jason Robards Award, and the Hamburg Shakespeare Prize. He has also won the Director’s Guild Award for lifetime achievement. He is an Honorary Fellow of the National Film and Television School, and a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge. He was made a CBE in 2000, and knighted in 2020 for services to drama.
National Theatre
The National Theatre’s mission is to make world-class theatre, for everyone. The NT creates and shares unforgettable stories with audiences across the UK and around the world. On its own stages, on tour, in schools, on cinema screens and streaming at home, it strives to be accessible, inclusive and sustainable. The National Theatre empowers artists and craftspeople to make world-leading work, investing in talent and developing new productions with a wide range of theatre companies at its New Work Department. Our nation thrives on fresh talent and new ideas, so the National Theatre works with young people and teachers right across the UK through performance, writing and technical programmes to ignite the creativity of the next generation. Together with communities, the NT creates ambitious works of participatory theatre in deep partnerships that unite theatres and local organisations – showing that nothing brings us together like theatre. The National Theatre needs your support to shape a bright, creative future.
For more information, please visit [nationaltheatre.org.uk](https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/)
@NationalTheatre
@NT_PressOffice
Neal Street Productions
Neal Street Productions is one of the UK’s most respected production companies, producing award-winning film, television and theatre. Founded 2003 by Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris and Caro Newling, it makes distinctive, popular, award-winning projects on both sides of the Atlantic.
TV series include: Call the Midwife, Britannia, Penny Dreadful, The Hollow Crown.
Films include Mendes’ 1917, Away we Go, Revolutionary Road, Things We Lost in the Fire, and releasing December, Empire of Light.
Recent theatre: The Lehman Trilogy, Walking with Ghosts, The Ferryman, the new stage adaptation of Local Hero, and forthcoming the national tour of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory starting at Leeds Playhouse, co-productions of The Motive and the Cue with the National Theatre, and Hamnet with the RSC. In 2015 Neal Street moved under the umbrella of parent company, All3Media.
[nealstreetproductions.com](https://www.nealstreetproductions.com)

Testo Allegato:

For immediate release:
Tuesday 3 January 2023

REHEARSAL IMAGES
JUST RELEASED
FOR THE
TONY AWARD
®
–
WINNING
,

THE LEHMAN TRILOGY
,

AHEAD OF PERFORMANCES BEGINNING
24
JANUARY 2023

CLIC
K
HERE

FOR REHEARSAL IMAGES

Rehearsal images have been released for t
he National Theatre and Neal Street Productions
â??
critically
acclaimed,

five
–
time Tony Award
®

winning
production of

The Lehman Trilogy

which begins
a limited 17
–
week
run at the Gillian Lynne Theatre
on

24 January
.
Written by
Stefano Massini
, adapted by
Ben Power
and
directed by multi
–
award
–
winning director,
Sam Mendes
by

Es Devlin
,
The Lehman Trilogy

is an
extraordinary feat of storytelling told in three parts on a single evening.

Tickets are available from £20
.

Michael Balogun
,

Hadley Fraser

and
Nigel Lindsay

are

play
ing

the Lehman brothers, and a cast of characters
including their sons and grandsons
.
They
are

joined by pianist,
Yshani Perinpanayagam
.

Ravi Aujla
, with

Will
Harrison
–
Wallace

and

Leighton Pugh

to

their understudy roles.

Erika Gundesen

is the understudy
pianist.

On a cold September morning in 1844, a young man from Bavaria stands on a New York dockside dreaming
of a new life in the new world.

H
e is joined by his two brothers, and an American epic begins.

163 years
later, the firm they establish
â??

Lehman Brothers
â??

spectacularly collapses into bankruptcy, triggering the
largest

financial

crisis

in

history.

of family history,
The Lehman Trilogy

charts the humble beginnings, outrageous successes, and devastating failure of the financial institution that
would ultimately bring the global economy to its knees.

Mendes
Es Devlin
; costume designer,
Katrina Lindsay
; video designer,
Luke Halls
;
lighting designer
Jon Clark
;
composer and sound designer,
Nick Powell
;
co
–
sound designer,
Dominic Bilkey
;
music director,
Candida Caldicot
;
movement director,

and West End director,
Zoé Ford Burnett
.
Company voice work is by
Charmian Hoare

with casting by
J
essica Ronane CDG
.
They are joined by
associate directo
r,
Rory McGrego
r
;
associate casting director
Abby Galvin

and

associate designer,

Amalie
White
.

The Lehman Trilogy

was the most awarded play on Broadway
in 2022
, winning Best Play, Best Director, Best
®
. It also won the Drama League Award
for
Best Play and six Outer Critics Circle Awards, including Best Play.

First commissioned by Neal Street Productions and developed and co
–
produced with the National Theatre at
the Lyttelton theatre in 2018, followed by an acclaimed sold
–
out run at the Park Av
enue Armory in the Spring
of 2019,
The Lehman Trilogy

returned to London for a 16
–
week sold
–
out run at the Piccadilly Theatre in the
West End from May until August 2019. Following Broadway’s 18
–
month shutdown,
The Lehman Trilogy

was
the first British play

to return to Broadway
â??

where it had previously played four performances in March
2020
â??

for a much
–
lauded limited engagement at the Nederlander Theatre from September 2021 until
January 2022. A Los Angeles transfer to Center Theatre Groupâ??s Ahmanson The
atre followed from March
until April 2022.

Prior to this,

the world premiere of Stefano Massiniâ??s
The Lehman Trilogy

opened at the Piccolo Teatro in
Milan in 2015. It turned out to be Artistic Director Luca Ronconiâ??s final production before his death. A

long
–
term admirer of Ronconiâ??s, Sam Mendes was inspired to begin planning an English adaptation for Neal
Street Productions. Ben Power was commissioned by Neal Street Productions to create a new version of this
epic play, using a literal English translat
ion by Mirella Cheeseman.

The

Lehman

Trilogy

in

the

West

End

is

supported

by

American

Express,

the

National

Theatreâ??s

P
referred

C
ard

P
artner.

ENDS

For further information please contact

Clare McCormack
via

cmccormack@nationaltheatre.org.uk

/
07989950871

Listings Information

The Lehman Trilogy

Dates:

From 2
4

January
â??

20 May
2023

Press
N
ight
:

Wednesday
8 February

2023,

7pm

Address:

Gillian Lynne Theatre

166 Drury Lane

London

WC2B 5PW

Performances:

Mondays
â??

Saturdays at 7pm, with a matinee on Saturdays at 1pm*

*schedule may differ during bank holidays

Assisted Performances:

Captioned Performance

Monday 20 February, 7pm

Saturday 1
8

March, 1pm

Audio Described Performance

Monday 27 February, 7pm

Saturday
25

March, 1pm

BSL Performance

Saturday
11

March, 1pm

:

rom

£20

Bo
x

Office:

Book
via

lwtheatres.co.uk

/
call

020

3925 2998

(lines open Monday to Saturday 10am
â??

5:30pm)

Or book

via
nationaltheatre.org.uk

/ 020
3989 5455

(lines open Monday to Saturday 9:30am
â??

8pm)

For

Groups

1
0
+

and

Education 10+

contact

LW

Groups

at:

Running Time:

3 hours 20 minutes, including two intervals

Website

TheLehmanTrilogy.com

Twitter and Facebook @LehmanTrilogy

Instagram

@TheLehmanTrilogy

Notes to Editor
s

â?¢

The Lehman Trilogy
,
O
riginal
M
usic by Nick Powell is available to stream via
Spotify

and purchase
online from major music retailers.

Biographies

Actors

Michael Balogun
–

Emanuel Lehman

Michael Balogun trained at R
ADA.

His work in

theatre

includes

Death of England: Delroy

(title role) and

at the National
Theatre;

Blue/Orange

at the Royal & Derngate; UK tours of

People, Places and Things

and

Barber Shop

Chronicles
;

at Chichester; and

The Dark

at
Ovalhouse.

TV

includes

Top Boy
,

You Don’t Know Me
,

Vera
,

Casualty

and

War of the Worlds
.

Hadley Fraser
–

Mayer Lehman

Hadley Fraserâ??s work in theatre includes
The Antipodes

at the National Theatre;
The Deep Blue Sea

and
The
Pajama Game

at Chichester;
Sain
t Joan
,
City of Angels
,
Coriolanus

and
The Vote

at Donmar Warehouse;
Long Dayâ??s Journey into Night

at Bristol Old Vic;
The Machine
at Manchester International Festival and Park
Avenue Armory, NYC;
A Christmas Carol

at Birmingham Rep;
The Shaughraun
at Abbe
y, Dublin;
Assassins

at
Sheffield Crucible;
Pacific Overtures

Longitude

at Greenwich;
The Last 5 Years

at
Theater Aspen, Colorado;
The Phantom of the Opera 25th Anniversary
at the Royal Albert Hall;

Les
Misérables 25th Anniversary
a
t the O2 Arena;
The Pirate Queen

on Broadway; and
2:22 A Ghost Story
,
City
of Angels
,
Young Frankenstein
,
The Winterâ??s Tale
,
Harlequinade
,
Les Misérables
,
The Fantasticks
,
The
Pirates of Penzance
,
Peter Pan

and
The Far Pavilions
in the West End.

TV includes
The Gold
,
Gentleman Jack, Decline and Fall
,
The Wrong Mans
,
Endeavour
,
Holby City
,
Doctor
Who
,
Pompidou
,

Him
and
Sons of Liberty
.

Film includes
All Is True
,
Murder on the Orient Express
,
The Legend of Tarzan

and
Les Misérable
s
.

Hadley Fraser wrote the book and lyrics for the musical
Committee
â?¦ for the Donmar Warehouse.

Nigel Lindsay
–

Henry Lehman

Nigel Linds
a
y
â??
s work in

theatre includes

A Small Family Business
,

The Pillowman
,
The London Cuckolds
,

Blue
Remembered Hills
and

Dealerâ??s Choice
(also West End)
at
the National Theatre;
Richard II
at the RSC;
Woman in Mind
at
Chichester
;
The Trials
,

The Same Deep Water as Me

and

The Real Thing
(
also West End
and Broadway
)

at
the Donmar Warehouse
;
Faith Hea
ler
(
Irish

Times

nomination, Best Supporting

Actor)
at
the
Abbe
y Theatre, Dublin
;
God of Carnage
at
Theatre Royal Bath
;
Harrogate
,

Sucker Punch
,

Push Up

and

King Lear
at the Royal Court
;
Guys and Dolls
at the Phoenix and the Piccadilly;
Bull
at the Young Vic
;
Speed
–
the
–
Plow
at the Playhouse;

title role
in Shrek the Musical
(Olivier and WhatsOnStage

nominations, Best

Actor
in a Musical) at Theatre Royal Drury Lane;
Broken Glass
(
WhatsOnStage

Award, Best S
upporting

Actor)

at
the
Kiln;
Under the Blue Sky
at the Duke of York
â??
s;
The Homecoming
,
Awake and Sing
(WhatsOnStage
nomination
,

Best Supporting

Actor),
Romance
,
The Earthly Paradise

and

The Tower
at the
Almeida
;
The
Tempest
at the Old Vic
;
and
Bedroom Farce
at the
Aldwych.

TV
includes:

The Capture
,
This Time with

Alan
Partridge
,
The

Salisbury

Poisonings
,
Tin

Star
,
The

Last

Kingdom
,
Magnum PI
,
No Offence
,
Safe
,
White Gold
,
Innocent
,
Unforgotten
,
Victoria
,
Foyle
â??
s War
,

Poirot
,

The
Tunnel
,

Brass Eye
,

Best of Men
,

The Fear, Spooks
,

Waking the Dead
,

Rome

and

A Dance to the Music of
Time
.

Film
includes
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
,
Breakfast with Johnny Wilkinson
,
Four Lions
(
British Comedy
Awards nomination for Best British Comedy
Performance in Film),
First Night
,
Scoop
,
Manager
,
On
A Clear Day
and
Rogue Trader
.

Nigel
Lindsay has also worked extensively on
radio.

Yshani Perinpanayagam
–

Pianist

As a multi
–
genre chamber musician, orchestral pianist and
music director, Yshani Perinpanayagam has
performed at venues and events such as Wigmore Hall, the London Palladium, Huddersfield Contemporary
Music Festival and Barbican Mime Festival and with artists including the Philharmonia and Nina Conti
.

She is
pianist of the Del Mar Piano Trio and Carismático Tango Band
,

and a regular guest broadcaster on
BBC Radio 3.

Yshani Perinpanayagam was music director for triple
–
Olivier winning production of

Emilia

at the Vaudeville;
Goat

for Rambert Dance Company; circu
s troupe
Circa

at the Barbican; and Olivier Award
–
winning

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical.

She was

Consultant MD for Olivier Award
–
winning

Wolf Witch
Giant Fairy

at the Royal Opera Houseâ??s Linbury Theatre.

Most recently, she was MD/pianist for Lost
Dog
‘s

Ruination

at the

Linbury. She has premiered music by Charlotte Bray, Joe Cutler, Cheryl Frances
–
Hoad,
Gavin Higgins, Hannah Kendall and Benjamin Oliver.

As a composer herself, commissions include works for the London Sinfonietta, Onyx Brass, Orchestra
of the
Age of Enlightenment, and music for a play about Fanny Mendelssohn.

Yshani Perinpanayagam was winner of the tenth Yamaha Birmingham Accompanist of the Year Award, and
was a scholar at the Royal College of Music.

Creative Team

Stefano Massini

Stefano Massini

is the first Italian author to be awarded with a Tony Award.

He is an internationally renowned
novelist and playwright who regularly contributes to the Italian newspaper
La Repubblica
. For several years
he has served as artistic consultant
at Piccolo Teatro di Milano
–

Teatro d’Europa. His works, including
The
Lehman Trilogy
, have been translated into 27 languages, and his plays have been performed in more
theatres around the world than those of any other living Italian writer, produced as f
ar afield as Iran and
Korea, and staged by directors such as Luca Ronconi and Sam Mendes. His most acclaimed works, beyond
The Lehman Trilogy
, include
: Intractable Woman
, a decades
–
long international success;
Ladies Football Club
,
which premiered to wide acclaim in Spain; and
7 Minutes
, hailed by LeMonde as a “masterpiece” at the
Comédie Française. He has won numerous Italian and foreign awards, including the Premio Vittorio Tondelli,
the Premio Ubu,

the Tony Award, the Drama Guil
d Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award.

Qualcosa sui
Lehman

(
The Lehman Trilogy
) was among the most acclaimed novels published in Italy in recent years and
won the Selezione Campiello Prize, the Super Mondello Prize, the De Sica Prize, the Prix Médicis

Essai and
the Prix Meilleur Livre Étranger. He is currently creating a new multi
–
part play about the history of the atomic
bomb, entitled
Manhattan Project
.

Ben Power

Ben Power

is a Tony Award
–
winning writer for theatre, television and film. Since 2010, h
e has worked at the
National Theatre, including six years as Deputy Artistic Director and two years programming The Shed. In
addition to his internationally successful adaptation of the

The Lehman Trilogy,

his adaptations for the
National include DH Lawren
ce’s

Husbands & Sons
, Euripides’

Medea

and Ibsen’s

Emperor & Galilean.

He
has worked as dramaturg and writer for companies such as the RSC, Complicite & Headlong, where he was
Associate Director and created adaptations of Pirandello’s

Six Characters in Sea
rch of an Author

and
Marlowe’s

Dr Faustus
.

Work on screen

includes his BAFTA longlisted adaptation of Robert Harris’

Munich:
Edge of War

for Netflix and the BAFTA winning BBC Shakespeare adaptation

The Hollow Crown.

Sam Mendes

Sam Mendes founded and ran th
e Donmar Warehouse in London for ten years.

He was the founding director
of Neal Street Productions and The Bridge Project. His work has been seen at the National Theatre, RSC,
Royal Court, Old Vic, Young Vic, BAM, the West End and on Broadway. Films inclu
de
American Beauty
,
Road
to Perdition
,

Jarhead
,

Revolutionary Road
,

Away We Go
,

Skyfall
,
Spectre
,
1917

and most recently
Empire of
Light.

Awards include the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture and three other Academy Award
nominations, five BAFTA Awards, three Golden Globe Awards,

three Tony Awards, five Olivier Awards, the
Olivier Special Award, three Evening Standard Awards, two Directors Guild of America Awards, the PGA
award, the Jason Robards Award, and the Hamburg Shak
espeare Prize. He has also won the Directorâ??s Guild
drama.

National Theatre

The National Theatreâ??s mission is to make world
–
class theatre, for everyone.

The NT creates and shares
unforgettable stories with audiences across the UK and around the world. On its own stages, on tour, in
schools, on cinema screen
s and streaming at home, it strives to be accessible, inclusive and sustainable.
The National Theatre empowers artists and craftspeople to make world
–
leading work, investing in talent and
developing new productions with a wide range of theatre companies at

its New Work Department. Our nation
thrives on fresh talent and new ideas, so the National Theatre works with young people and teachers right
across the UK through performance, writing and technical programmes to ignite the creativity of the next
generati
partnerships that unite theatres and local organisations
â??

showing that nothing brings us together like
theatre. The National Theatre needs your support to shape

a bright, creative future.

For more information, please visit
nationaltheatre.org.uk

@NationalTheatre

@NT_PressOffice

Neal Street Productions

Neal Street Productions is one of the UKâ??s most
respected production companies, producing award
–
winning
film, television and theatre.

Founded 2003 by Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris and Caro Newling, it makes
distinctive, popular, award
–
winning projects on both sides of the Atlantic.

TV series include:
Call t
he Midwife, Britannia, Penny Dreadful, The Hollow Crown
.

Films include Mendesâ??
1917, Away we Go, Revolutionary Road, Things We Lost in the Fire,
and

releasing
December, Empire of Light
.

Recent theatre:
The Lehman Trilogy, Walking with Ghosts, The Ferryman
, the new stage adaptation of
Local
Hero
, and forthcoming the national tour of
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

starting at Leeds Playhouse,
co
–
productions of
The Motive and the Cue

with the National Theatre, and

with the RSC. In 2015
Neal Street
moved under the umbrella of parent company, All3Media.

nealstreetproductions.com