Cast
To be announced.
Creative Team
The Unseen is presented by special arrangement with BLG Theatrical LTD servicing Broadway Licensing Global
To be announced.
Plays include: Here In America (Orange Tree); Brassed Off (Theatre By The Lake, Bolton Octagon and Stephen Joseph Theatre); Steel (Theatre By The Lake); One Last Push (Wiltshire Creative); Murder In The Dark (UK Tour); The Real & Imagined History of the Elephant Man (Nottingham Playhouse); Family Tree (UK Tour); Duet For One (Orange Tree); Blue/Orange (Royal & Derngate); Nothello (Belgrade, Coventry); The Art of Illusion and The Death of a Black Man (Hampstead); Footfalls & Rockaby (Jermyn Street); Antigone (Mercury, Colchester); The Gift (Stratford East); Black Men Walking (Royal Exchange); Crongton Knights and Noughts & Crosses (UK Tour); Red Dust Road (National Theatre of Scotland); Giraffes Can’t Dance (Curve); The Children (English Theatre Frankfurt); Holes (Nottingham Playhouse and UK Tour); Twelfth Night and The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare’s Globe); Sleeping Beauty, The Ladykillers and Sleuth (Watermill); Ghosts (Theatr Clwyd) and Island (National).
Musical theatre includes: The Lord Of The Rings (Watermill and Chicago Shakespeare); Rehab the Musical (Neon 194); Whistle Down The Wind (Watermill); The Lion (Southwark); The Light in the Piazza (Royal Academy of Music); The Wiz (Hope Mill); Ghost Quartet (Boulevard); Assassins (Watermill and Nottingham Playhouse); Sweeney Todd (Shaftesbury Avenue and Off-Broadway, Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Set Design of a Musical); The Selfish Giant (Vaudeville); Cabaret (English Theatre Frankfurt); The World Goes Round (Stephen Joseph) and Saturday Night Fever (Theatre Royal Bath and UK Tour).
Theatre includes: Giant, Imposter 22, Hope has a Happy Meal, That Is Not Who I Am, and Poet in da Corner (& UK tour)(Royal Court); Paranormal Activity (Leeds Playhouse); Between Riverside and Crazy (Hampstead); The Band’s Visit, Appropriate, Becoming: Part One, and Salt Root & Roe (Donmar); All of Us (Dorfman); Othello, A Winters Tale, Hamlet, Henry VI, Richard III [as candlelight designer] (Sam Wanamaker); The Bolds (Unicorn); Gaslight (Watford Palace); The Nut Cracker, and A Christmas Carol (Bristol Old Vic); Leave to Remain, The Seagull, and Shopping & Fucking (Lyric, Hammersmith); The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich, Snow in Midsummer, and The Roaring Girl (RSC); Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, and The Chronicles of Kalki (Gate); Box of Delights (Wilton’s Music Hall); King Lear (Shakespeare’s Globe); Dutchman, The Secret Agent, Fireface, Disco Pigs, and Sus (Young Vic); Bank on it (Theatre-Rites/Barbican); On the Record, and It felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now (Arcola); Paradise, and Salt (Ruhr Triennale, Germany); Gambling, and This Wide Night (Soho); Rutherford & Son, and Ruby Moon (Northern Stage) and …Sisters (Headlong).
Dance includes: Merlin (Northern Ballet); Mothers, and Soul Play (The Place); Refugees of a Septic Heart (The Garage); View from the Shore, and Animule Dance (Royal Opera House).
Opera includes: Don Carlo (Grange Park); Orlando (Welsh National Opera/Scottish Opera/San Francisco); Cendrillon (Gyndebourne); Ruddigore (Barbican/Opera North/UK Tour); Critical Mass (Almeida); Songs from a Hotel Bedroom, and Tongue Tied (Royal Opera House); The Bartered Bride (Royal College of Music); Against Oblivion (Toynbee Hall).
Mike trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and is an Honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.
Chloe Blake's theatre as a casting director includes: The Turn of The Screw (Queens Theatre Hornchurch); Jekyll and Hyde, Barrier(s) and Hamlet (National Theatre); Odd and The Frost Giants, Huddle, The Odyssey, The Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse and The Three Billy Goats Gruff (Unicorn); and Warehouse (WiseCrack).
Casting associate theatre credits include : The Other Place, Nye, The Effect and Blues for an Alabama Sky (National Theatre).
Children's casting associate credits include: Standing at the Sky's Edge (also West End), Till the Stars Come Down and Small Island and additional casting for Kerry Jackson (National).
Casting associate screen credits include: Mordik, Divine Origins and Satisfaction.
Casting associate radio credits include: Pull the Door.
James trained as an actor at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.
As Director: Greatest Days: The Official Take That Musical (P&O Arvia & Iona); Cinderella and Beauty & The Beast (Swansea Grand); Amdram: A Musical Comedy (Leicester Curve); When I Grow Up and Billy The Kid (NYMT); Little Women (Trinity Laban); Anything Goes and Our House (Urdang); Half A Sixpence and Guys & Dolls (New Wimbledon).
As Associate Director: Ali Cook: Principles Of Deception (Northampton Theatre Royal); Project Hero (Disney Signature Entertainment); 2:22: A Ghost Story (Apollo); Shirley Valentine (Duke Of York’s); Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike (Charing Cross Theatre); Titanic The Musical (International Tour); and Midnight (Seoul, South Korea).
As Assistant Director: Calendar Girls The Musical (Phoenix); The Full Monty (Two UK & Ireland Tours); and Jerry's Girls (The Other Palace).
James also hosts the podcast Passing Out (Spotify) - A series of conversations with LGBT+ service personnel and veterans.