Stu Barker returns to work with the company after his work on Wise Children (The Old Vic). He also worked extensively as composer/musical director with Kneehigh Theatre (1999-2016). His other work as composer/musical director includes Brief Encounter (Broadway / West End), A Matter Of Life And Death / Tristan And Yseult (National Theatre), Cymbeline / Don John, The Empress (RSC), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe), 946-The Amazing Story Of Adolphous Tips (Kneehigh), Hansel And Gretel (Bristol Old Vic), The Bacchae / The Wooden Frock (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Nights at The Circus, The Red Shoes (Lyric Hammersmith), The Wild Bride, Rapunzel, Midnight Pumpkin (BAC), and Pandora’s Box (Northern Stage), as well as work on The Grinning Man (West End), Pippi Longstocking (Royal & Derngate), and with the Donmar Warehouse, Bristol Old Vic, Welfare State International, Contact Theatre, Horse And Bamboo, Liverpool Lantern Company, And Now, and Travelling Light.

For television, his work includes The Cult of The Suicide Bomber, and Beyond Grief.