Katherine Chandler is an award-winning Welsh playwright and screenwriter. She has twice been a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, for Before it Rains and Parallel Lines, and has won the Theatre Critics of Wales Award, Writers’ Guild Playwright Award, Creative Wales Award and the Judges’ Award at the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting for Bird, which was co-produced by Manchester Royal Exchange and Sherman Theatre.

Her plays include Lose Yourself, Peggy’s Song, produced as part of the NHS’s 70th anniversary celebrations, and her adaptation of The Silly Kings, which won Best Show for Young People at the Theatre Critics of Wales Awards.

Katherine was the inaugural winner of the BBC and National Theatre Wales Drama Award and has worked with companies including Clean Break, National Theatre Wales, Theatr Clwyd, Sherman Theatre and Bristol Old Vic.

Her radio drama The Invitation won Best Original Single Drama at the 2025 BBC Audio Drama Awards. She was also a creator and writer on King’s Pawn, the BBC Radio 4 comedy drama set in a Cardiff pawnbroker’s, which has been commissioned for a second series.

Training / Education: First Class Hon in Dramatic Arts, Bretton Hall; Master of Philosophy, Birmingham University.  

Previously at The Rep: Jack and the Magical Beanstalk (Director); Little Red Riding Hood (Director); Starting Out (Director); For the Past 30 Years (Co-director); Of Mice and Men (Associate Director); The Mother (Assistant Director) 

Theatre credits include: A Leap in the Dark (Director, New Vic Theatre); Marvellous (Associate Director, New Vic and @SohoPlace); The King Who Banned the Dark (Dramaturg, Unicorn Theatre); Secret Sides Of Us (Director, Nottingham University); Captain Amazing (Director, New Vic Theatre); Salvaged (Writer and Director, Bedlam); Darkness Falls (Director, Edinburgh Fringe and national tour); The Masque of the Red Death (Director, University of Leeds).  

Awards include: JMK Regional Director Award, Leverhulme Arts Scholar 

Professional roles include: Associate Director, New Vic Theatre; Lead Artist Theatre Centre; Lead Artist Women and Theatre; RTYDS Connect Artist, Associate Artist Birmingham Rep, Graeae Beyond Artist  

Website:  www.carolinewilkes.co.uk

Training / Education: BA (Hons) Theatre Design, MA Scenography. (Birmingham Institute of Art & Design. BCU)

Previously at The Rep:  Caribbean Kitchen and Transmissions.

Theatre credits include: (1000) Millenia and Keyworkers Cycle (Almeida); Land of the Free (Simple8/Southwark Playhouse); Moby Dick, Starseeker, Second Star to the Right, Magical Mishaps and Knitwits (Royal & Derngate); I Believe in Unicorns (West End); Why the Whales came and The Mystery of…Show (DMS productions); The Glee Club and Wizard of Oz (New Vic); Underneath the Magical Moon (U.S tour) Snow Queen, Wild, The Snow Child and Yellow is the colour of Sunshine (Tutti Frutti/York Theatre Royal); Wind in the Willows (Wardrobe Ensemble); The Night before Christmas, Happy Harrys Café (Polka Theatre); Tabby Mctat (ABA. U.K tour/Hong Kong); Supernormal Extra Natural (Requardt & Rosenburg/The Place); Lost Origin (Costume Design. Factory 42/Almeida/Sky); The Borrowers and Pinocchio (MAC); Silent Engine and Precious Bane (Pentabus); The Smartest Giant in Town (Fierylight/Little Angel Theatre/St Martins Theatre); A Squash and a Squeeze (Lowry/Little Angel Theatre/Leicester Square Theatre);

Lighting Designer credits Include: An Oak Tree (The Other Palace); The Gods The Gods The Gods (Underbelly Cavendish Square, India Tour 2025 & 2026); The War Inside (The Albany); Maria! Daughter of a Mad Monk (Central School of Speech and Drama); Our Streets (Tara Theatre); Hope (London and UK Tour)

Associate Lighting Designer credits include: Thelma and Louise the Musical (Young Vic); Oedipus (Onassis Stegi, Athens); The Kings Speech (Barn Theatre); Diamonds and Dust (London’s West End); What Do You See (The Pappy Show, Shoreditch Town Hall & Jersey Tour); Home I’m Darling (Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds); Oliver! (Storyhouse Chester)

Relighter credits include: Prima Facie (UK & Ireland Tour), Inside No.9 (UK Tour), Chicago (UK & Ireland Tour), Hey Duggee the Live Theatre Show (UK & Ireland Tour)

Reisz ‘Odd Priest’ Amos is a Birmingham-born multidisciplinary artist, composer, writer, theatre director, actor-musician, singer-songwriter, producer and vocal architect.

Previously at The Rep: Composer for Little Red Riding Hood,  Jack and the Magic Beanstalk and Everybody Wants To Be Ronaldo

Other theatre credits include: Co-director, musical director and performer in Community Service (UK tour); composer for Twine (The Yard Theatre); vocal arranger and choir leader for Romeo and Juliet (Belgrade Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, Hackney Empire); sound designer for LAD and TRANS IT (Curve, Derby Theatre).

Other professional credits include: Former Artistic Associate, Birmingham Opera Company; creator and performer of Church in the Wild (Elgar Concert Hall). He founded Twin City, connecting Birmingham and Johannesburg through music, theatre and cultural exchange. His practice explores dramaturgy through music, using rhythm, harmony and voice to reveal character, shape narrative and deepen the audience’s emotional experience.

Jonathan is the Head of Sound & Video at Birmingham Rep, and has designed and production engineered sound & video for theatre, music, and events across theatres, concert halls, festivals, and site specific spaces.

Training / Education: BSc(Hons) in Sound, Light, and Live Event Technology, University of Derby.

Previously at The Rep: Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood and Covid Variations

Further Theatre credits include: various productions for Royal Birmingham Conservatoire