Creative Team
(Rc-Annie Ltd)Fight Director
The Unseen is presented by special arrangement with BLG Theatrical LTD servicing Broadway Licensing Global
Iya Patarkatsishvili is a dedicated political activist who advocates for human rights, with a particular focus on political prisoners in Russia. Leveraging her extensive knowledge of the arts and her firsthand experience in politics, she aims to use her platform to explore the nuances of human nature and societal dynamics.
Through her work, Iya encourages others to delve into the complexities of the modern political landscape, employing the arts as a powerful tool to convey stories of passionate human activism.
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.
Claire is an Associate Fight Director with Rc-Annie Ltd.
Recent Fight Direction credits: The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Liverpool Everyman); Red Speedo (Orange Tree); Oliver! (Chichester Festival); Art (UK Tour); Rough Magic (Shakespeare’s Globe); Wonder Boy (Bristol Old Vic & UK Tour); Two Gentlemen of Verona (Oxford Playhouse); Macbeth (Leeds Playhouse); The Fair Maid of the West (RSC); Feral Monster (National Theatre Wales); HIR (Park); Unfortunate (Southwark Playhouse and UK Tour); Peter Pan (Rose, Kingston); Pride and Prejudice *sort of (Criterion, UK Tour and Mirvish, Toronto); Never Have I Ever (Chichester Festival); The Life of Pi (Tour); Maud/Down in the Valley (Scottish Youth Opera); Midsummer Mechanicals (Shakespeare’s Globe); Peter Pan (Reading Rep); Around the World in 80 Days (Theatre by the Lake/Hull Truck); Kidnapped (National Theatre Scotland and Tour); 2:22 A Ghost Story (UK & Ireland Tour, Associate FD); Duet for One (Orange Tree); The Walworth Farce (Southwark Playhouse); Caucasian Chalk Circle (Rose Theatre); Oklahoma! (Wyndham’s); Evelyn (Metal Rabbit Productions); To Kill a Mockingbird (Gielgud); 71 Coltman Street (Hull Truck); Beauty and the Beast (Rose, Kingston); Carmen (OperaNorth); Don Giovanni (Nevill Holt); Witness for the Prosecution (London County Hall); The Prince of Egypt (Dominion, Associate FD).