The Other Place

Alexander Zeldin is a writer and director for theater and film whose work has been performed in 16 countries and presented by the leading international arts festivals. In 2024, he was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture. His work in theater as writer and director includes Prendre soin, a Compagnie A Zeldin production on international tour; The Other Place, at the National Theatre in association with A Zeldin Company; The Confessions, an A Zeldin Company/Compagnie A Zeldin Production, at the National Theatre and on international tour; Faith, Hope and Charity and LOVE at the National Theatre and on international tours; Beyond Caring at Hackney Yard, National Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre Chicago, and currently in repertory at the Schaubühne, Berlin; and Une mort dans la famille at Odéon Théâtre de l’Europe and on international tour. Film includes LOVE. Awards and nominations include Quercus Trust Award, Arts Foundation Fellowship, and seven Drama Desk Awards nominations. Zeldin was selected by the Schaubühne as the Artist-in-Focus for their 2024 Festival of International New Drama (FIND). In 2019, he established his own theater company, A Zeldin Company, to produce his work and tour it internationally, and in 2022, he founded Compagnie A Zeldin in France.

Rosanna Vize is a critically acclaimed, award-winning international designer, working across multiple platforms of design in opera and theater. Credits include An Ark (The Shed), The Maids (Donmar Warehouse), Vanya (New York), Blank (Kungliga Dramatiska), The Other Place (National Theatre, London), The Winter’s Tale (Dailes Theater, Latvia), Macbeth (Donmar Warehouse and West End), Vanya (co-creator & designer, West End, Olivier Award for Best Revival), Julius Caesar (Royal Shakespeare Company), Britannicus (Lyric Hammersmith), Glass Menagerie (Royal Exchange Manchester), Gulliver’s Travels (Unicorn Theatre), Camp Siegfried (The Old Vic), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Leicester Curve Theatre), The Enemy (National Theatre of Scotland), Harm (Bush Theatre), Incantata (Galway Festival and Irish Rep Theatre, NYC), Hedda Gabler (Sherman Theatre), The Phlebotomist (Hampstead Theatre, Upstairs), The Audience (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton), Don Carlos (Exeter Northcott), and King Lear (Globe Theatre). Opera includes Giustino (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London), Turn of the Screw (Royal Danish Opera, Copenhagen), and Mavra and Pierrot Lunaire (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London).

James Farncombe’s work in theater includes The Other Place, Land of the Living, Playboy of the Western World, Phaedra, People, Places and Things (also West End, on UK tour and at St. Ann’s Warehouse, New York; Olivier Award nomination), When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, The Plough and the Stars, Man and Superman, Three Winters, Edward II, People, The Magistrate, London Road, Juno and the Paycock, Men Should Weep, and Double Feature at the National Theatre; Anatomy of a Suicide and House of Bernanda Alba, Hamburg Schauspielhaus; The Cherry Orchard at the Donmar; The Tragedy of King Richard the Second at the Almeida; John Gabriel Borkman at the Bridge; Yerma (also Park Avenue Armory, New York), Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, and Measure for Measure at the Young Vic; As You Like It, White Devil, and A Mad World, My Masters for the RSC; Anatomy of a Suicide at the Royal Court; The Duchess of Malfi at the Old Vic. West End includes Vanya (also Lortel, NYC), The Ladykillers, Jeeves and Wooster, The Dresser, Swallows and Amazons, Ghost Stories, and People, Places and Things. Opera includes The Makropulos Case, Giustino, Jenufa (also Chicago Lyric), Theodora and Lessons in Love and Violence at ROH; Lucia di Lammermoor at the Metropolitan Opera, New York and LA Opera; Don Giovanni, Innocence (also Finnish National Opera, RBO, Dutch National Opera, San Francisco Opera, Adelaide Festival), La traviata (also Garnier, Paris), Pelléas et Mélisande, Alcina (also Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow), Ariadne auf Naxos, and Trauernacht at Aix-en-Provence Festival; Le Vin herbé at Berliner Staatsoper; Jenufa at Dutch National Opera (also in Valencia); Street Scene at Teatro Real, Madrid (also in Cologne and Monte Carlo); Miranda at Opéra Comique, Paris; The Barber of Seville at Glyndebourne; Marriage of Figaro at Opera North; and Der fliegende Holländer and Ariodante at Scottish Opera.

Yannis Philippakis is the co-founder, lead vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter of the critically acclaimed UK band Foals. Over the course of a career that has spanned more than 15 years, he has led the band to numerous achievements including a number one album, a further five top-three records, multiple Mercury Prize nominations, and the 2020 BRIT Award for Best Group. Foals have topped the bill at festivals including Glastonbury, Reading, Leeds, and Latitude as well as selling out multiple arenas on their UK and European tour in 2022. Philippakis’s work in theater includes The Confessions at the National Theatre for A Zeldin Company. He also performed as an actor in Moderato Cantabile, directed by Alexander Zeldin.

Josh Anio Grigg completed a BA in theater and performance at Roehampton University. His work in theater includes The Other Place, The Confessions, Faith, Hope and Charity, LOVE (also Birmingham Rep and Park Avenue Armory, New York), and Beyond Caring (also Looking Glass Theatre, Chicago) at the National Theatre and on tour; Prendre soin (Théâtre national de Strasbourg); Multiple Casualty Incident, The Flea, Dirty Crusty, The Crucible, A New and Better You, This Beautiful Future, Removal Men, Made Visible, Lines, and The Mikvah Project at Hackney Yard; Desert Poet and E-Man-A at The Cockpit; Live to Tell for Omnibus; Une mort dans la famille at Odéon Théâtre de l’Europe; Lava and Fck the Polar Bears at the Bush; Inchoate Buzz at Sadler’s Wells; People Who Need People at The Vaults (Theatre and Technology Award for Creative Innovation in Sound); The End of Eddy at the Unicorn (Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland for Best Technical Presentation); The Unknown Island at the Gate, London; Oliver Twist at Regent’s Park; Parallel Macbeth at the Young Vic; Anarchy and Religion at Jermyn Street; and Butterfly Soup for E15.

Marcin Rudy is an actor, movement director, and lecturer in movement. He is currently the head of movement at East 15 Acting School in London. His work in theater as a movement director includes Une mort dans la famille at Odéon Théâtre de l’Europe, Paris; Faith, Hope and Charity and LOVE at the National Theatre; Britannicus at Wilton’s Music Hall; Doing the Idiots for the National Theatre Studio; Black Battles with Dogs at Southwark Playhouse; Disco Dementia at Banannefabric, Luxembourg; and Romeo and Juliet at Teatro Mercadante, Naples. Between 2000 and 2012, he collaborated with a multi-award-winning physical theater company based in Poland, Song of the Goat Theatre, as a performer/deviser. After leaving the company he focused on creating training for actors with special emphasis on the physical-emotional connection.

Alastair Coomer CDG, CSA is the director of casting at the National Theatre where he has led the casting for over 50 productions including The Playboy of the Western World, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, End, Hamlet, Inter Alia (also West End), Nye, The Importance of Being Earnest (also West End), The Grapes of Wrath, Mnemonic (2024), Till the Stars Come Down (also West End), The House of Bernarda Alba, Othello, The Crucible (also West End), Blues for an Alabama Sky, The Corn Is Green, The Normal Heart, The Welkin, and the original productions of This House; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; One Man, Two Guvnors (also West End and Broadway); and War Horse (also West End). In London’s West End, he was casting director for City of Angels, Company, American Buffalo, and Much Ado About Nothing. Coomer was previously the casting director at the Donmar Warehouse where his casting included The Weir, Coriolanus, My Night with Reg, Privacy, City of Angels, The Vote, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Faith Healer, and Limehouse. Casting for film includes Mary Queen of Scots starring Margot Robbie and Saoirse Ronan.

Sammy J Glover trained with CCA Contemporary Performance Practices and Anne Bogart SITI Group. Their work in theater includes Baby in the Mirror at Summerhall; The Last Show Before We Die at Hackney Yard, Bristol Old Vic, and The Roundabout and Vienna; Dear Young Monster at the Bristol Old Vic, Soho Theatre, and Sheffield Theatre; and Loose Lips at The Big House, Stoke Newington. As associate director, work includes The Unicorn at the Garrick; The Duchess of Malfi at the Almeida; Phoenix Rising for The Big House, Smithfield Market; and Redefining Juliet at the Barbican. Glover was previously associate director at The Big House, targeted work associate director at the Lyric Hammersmith, and a resident director at the Almeida. Baby in the Mirror won the Brag Award at Summerhall for excellence in New Writing and Dear Young Monster was nominated for Best Studio production at Whatsonstage and won a Fringe Theatre Award.

EK Intimacy is an industry-leading intimacy coordinating company, founded by Elle McAlpine and Katharine Hardman.

Theater credits include, for the National Theatre: The Other Place in association with A Zeldin Company; Mnemonic (2024) for Complicité; The Grapes of Wrath; The Confessions and Faith, Hope and Charity for A Zeldin Company (also on international tours). Other theater includes Arcadia (Old Vic), Porn Play (Royal Court), Born With Teeth (RSC/Wyndham’s), Our Last First (Union).

TV credits include The Death of Bunny Monro, The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Sky); The Witcher Series 4, One Day, Everything Now, Sex Education Series 4, Baby Reindeer, Wednesday (Netflix); Down Cemetery Road, Franklin, Silo (Apple TV+); Curfew, Insomnia (Paramount+); Dope Girls, The Winter King (Sony); Gangs of London Series 3; The Lazarus Project Series 2 (Sky); Interview with the Vampire Series 2, Mayfair Witches Series 2 (AMC); Such Brave Girls Series 1 & 2, Wolf, Best Interests, Gentleman Jack Series 2, The Pursuit of Love (BBC); Playing Nice, The Marlow Murder Club Series 2, Without Sin, The Long Shadow, DI Ray (ITV); Generation Z, The Gathering, The Undeclared War, It’s A Sin (Channel 4); The Great Series 1-3 (Channel 4/Hulu); The Forsytes (Channel 5); The Offenders (Amazon). As assistant intimacy coordinators: Brave New World (Sky).

Film includes Extra Geography, Moss & Freud, Poor Things, Good Thanks You?, Rise, Flux Gourmet, No One Gets Out Alive, Birds of Paradise, Joanne of Pompeii.

Sam Lyon-Behan works choreographing and performing action for leading production companies on large scales from Disney’s Marvel to award-winning games and theatrical productions.

As fight director: American Psycho; Moon for the Misbegotten; 1536; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Almeida); Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812; Fear of 13 (Donmar Warehouse); The Other Place; Coriolanus; Here We Are (National Theatre); Macbeth; Deep Azure (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Soho Place Theatre); Paranormal Activity (Ambassadors Theatre); Inspector Morse; 101 Dalmatians (UK tour); Blithe Spirit (Salisbury Playhouse); £1 Thursdays (Finborough Theatre); Dick Whittington (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); Gunpowder Plot (Tower of London).

As associate fight director: Stranger Things: First Shadow; Les Misérables; Sister Act; Phantom of the Opera (West End); House of Shades; Hamlet (Almeida), Till the Stars Come Down (National Theatre & West End); Heathers (The Other Palace Theatre).

TV, film, and games include, as performer: Mobland, Vikings, Black Doves, Red Eye, Masters of the Air, Bugonia, Bad Day at the Office, In the Grey, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Jackdaw, The Marvels, Norse, Elder Scrolls Online. As fight coordinator: London Kills, The Pact, Pobol y Cwm, Hidden/Craith.

As deputy stage manager: The Maids (Donmar Warehouse); Inside No.9 Stage/Fright (Wyndham’s); The Other Place, Absolute Hell (National Theatre); The Comeuppance, Shipwreck, Little Revolution (Almeida); Mates in Chelsea, A Fight Against, Scenes with Girls, The Woods, My Mum’s a Twat, Grimly Handsome, Victory Condition, Road, Torn, Unreachable, I See You, You for Me for You, Who Cares, Fireworks, The Mistress Contract, The Djinns of Eidgah, Collaboration, Narrative, No Quarter, Vera Vera Vera, The Westbridge, The Village Bike (Royal Court); The Confessions, LOVE (Europe & US tour); GOOD (Harold Pinter); A Christmas Carol-ish (Soho Theatre); Invisible Cities (MIF/Brisbane Festival); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure, The Changeling (Young Vic); Praxis Makes Perfect (NTW Berlin).

As stage manager: The Very Best & Worst of Mr. Swallow (Duke of York’s); Tiny Echoes, The Missing Light, Something Very Far Away, At the End of Everything Else (Unicorn/Old Vic/world tour); A Human Being Died That Night (BAM); The Site, Open Court (Royal Court Theatre); Richard Alston Dance Company (world tours).

The Other Place marks Labhaoise Magee’s third production at The Shed, having previously worked on Sonic Sphere and Viola’s Room. Her New York work includes Lincoln Center, Cherry Lane Theatre, Playwright’s Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Vineyard Theatre, Mabou Mines, Wild Project, The Cell, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Irish Repertory Theatre, Daryl Roth Theatre, and Mercury Store, where she is a company stage manager. Her UK and EU work includes Blue Elephant Theatre (London), White Horse Theatre (Germany), and producer on the multi-award-winning No One Is Coming by Sinéad O’Brien (Ireland). Magee was recently appointed artistic director of New York’s Origin Theatre Company, and she is also a co-founder of the cross-Atlantic management and production company Fair Play Productions.

Sarah Samonte is a Fil-Am theater and event production human. She was born in NYC, raised in the Arizona desert, and is based in Brooklyn. Recent credits: Cumulo (PSM, Culturelab), Neck Down (PSM, Exponential Festival), International Puppet Slam 2024 (PSM, Greenfeather Foundation), See What I Wanna See (ASM, OOTB), O.K. (PSM, WP Theater), Terce (ASM, Here Arts), Healing Shipment (PSM, La Mama). While being a resident stage manager experimenting at the Mercury Store and technician at Second City. Special thanks to Labhaoise and Luca!