DAVID COPPERFIELD

Abigail Pickard Price – Adaptor & Director
For GSC: Pride & Prejudice (59E59 New York, New Wolsey Ipswich, Wilton Music Hall). Work as Director includes: Three Hens (The Watermill Theatre/Reading Rep); Macbeth, Our Man in Havana, Just So, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Prince and the Pauper, Burke and Hare (The Watermill Theatre); Sophia (Film and Theatre Hybrid for Circle Productions); Pen Pals (Audio drama for Rural Arts); Macbeth (Big Brum); Bee Happy (The Old Red Lion Theatre); The Tinderbox (Charing Cross Theatre); Shrew (International Tour). She has also directed numerous productions for drama schools including LAMDA, Rose Bruford, GSA, Mountview and Drama Studio. Theatre as Associate/Resident/Assistant Director includes: A Voyage Round My Father, God of Carnage, The Nightingales (Theatre Royal Bath/Tour); The Argument (Theatre Royal Bath); Titanic (International Tour); Twelfth Night (Wilton’s Music Hall); Violet, Harold and Maude, The Woman in White, Ragtime, Death Takes a Holiday, Titanic (Charing Cross Theatre); Crazy For You (UK Tour); Twelfth Night/ Romeo and Juliet (The Watermill Theatre/International Tour); Crazy For You, The Adventures of Pinocchio (The Watermill Theatre). Abigail is a freelance director, she was also Associate Director of The Watermill between 2017 and 2025 and Associate Artistic Director of Charing Cross Theatre between 2018 and 2019.

Amy Lawrence – Movement Director & Associate Director
For GSC: Pride & Prejudice (59E59 New York, New Wolsey Ipswich, Wilton Music Hall). Theatre includes: Complete Works of Shakespare - Abridged (R&D); Beauty and the Beast, Jack and the Beanstalk (Chipping Norton Theatre); Love's Labours Lost (LAMDA); Aladdin (Norwich Theatre Royal); Twelfth Night (Stafford Gatehouse Theatre); Beauty and the Beast, Snow White (The Roses Theatre); The Little Mermaid, Our House, A Man of No Importance (Mountview); Vivaldi’s Four Seasons (Latitude Festival); In PerSUEt (The Other Palace); Pinocchio (Chichester Festival Theatre); Uncle Vanya (The Old Red Lion Theatre); A Doll’s House (Greenwich Theatre); Her Not Him (Theatre 503); The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus (Finborough Theatre); Lysistrata, Blood Wedding (UK Tour); The Tempest (The Cockpit); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (New Diorama Theatre). Amy studied Musical Theatre at CPA Studios, received a PG Cert in Collaborative Theatre Making in association with Frantic Assembly, and holds an MA in Movement: Directing and Teaching from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where she was also the recipient of the Litz Pisk Scholarship Award. Amy teaches dance and actor movement at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Mountview and Trinity Laban.

Neil Irish – Set and Costume Designer
Neil trained at Birmingham and later, at The Slade School of Art UCL. Neil has designed over 20 productions since 2009 for Guildford Shakespeare Company. For GSC: Frankenstein, The Comedy of Errors/A Company of Rascals, Pride & Prejudice (59E59 New York, New Wolsey Ipswich, Wilton Music Hall), Romeo & Juliet,  Jekyll & Hyde, Hamlet, Tales From Hans Christian Andersen, As You Like It, She Stoops to Conquer, Macbeth, All’s Well That Ends Well. Theatre includes: The Rivals (Orange Tree Theatre); A Tale of Two Cities (Chung Ying Theatre Company Hong Kong); Rigoletto, Hansel & Gretel (Opera Holland Park London); Cassandra (Ukrainian Institute); The Hound of the Baskervilles (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre); Amadigi (English Touring Opera); Rock n Roll Panto (New Wolsey, Ipswich); Alby Saves the Planet (Reading Rep); The Golden Cockerel, La Bohème (English Touring Opera UK Tour); One Man Two Guvnors, Tommy (Tour); Treasure Island, Hansel & Gretel, Peter Pan, Betrayal, Alice in Wonderland, A Christmas Carol (Derby Theatre); Dishoom (Rifco Theatre Co/Watford Palace); Carmen (Royal Academy of Music); Cosi Fan Tutti (Guildhall Opera); Carmen (New Zealand Opera); Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Switzerland (English Theatre, Frankfurt); Dr Miracle, Carmen (Royal Academy of Music); House & Garden, Peter Pan, Alice (Watermill Theatre); Don Giovanni, Barber of Seville, Madam Butterfly, Ill Trittico (Opera Holland Park); La Cenerentola (Danish National Opera/Opera Holland Park); A Tale of Two Cities (Hong Kong/Edinburgh Fringe Festival); Look Back In Anger (60th Anniversary UK Tour); The Shape of Things (Atak Theatre, Istanbul); Boy With A Suitcase (Arcola Theatre); Agamemnon, Prometheus, Frogs (Cambridge Arts); Woyzeck (Gate Theatre/St Ann’s Warehouse, NYC); Rodelinda and Amadigi (Dublin/ BAM New York); Jekyll and Hyde (Hong Kong/London). Neil also worked for both Set and Costume Departments at BBC TV.

Anett Black – Associate Designer & Costume Supervisor
Anett has been working as an Associate Designer and Costume Supervisor with GSC since 2014, on over 25 productions. Theatre includes: Yours Unfaithfully, The Tempest, Love All, Something In The Air, Beau Brummell (Jermyn Street Theatre); She Stoops to Conquer, The Rivals (Orange Tree Theatre); Pandora's Box (London Youth Opera); Interactive Christmas show at Polesden Lacey (National Trust); Cassandra (Ukrainian Institute); The Picture of Dorian Gray (Trafalgar Studios); Pippin, 9-5, Hair, The Fix, Blood Wedding, Our Country’s Good, The Rimers of Eldritch, First Lady Suite (Bellairs Theatre GSA); Jekyll and Hyde, Pygmalion, The Picture of Dorian Gray (European Arts - Italian Tour); Trails of Oscar Wilde (Theatre Royal Windsor); A Christmas Carol (European Arts); The Bacchae, Antigone - Sprucewood (Actors of Dionysus); Lysistrata; For ever young, The Price, Deep Water (W11); Don’t Dribble on the Dragon (PTC); MIL-STD -1815 (Alan Turing for Goldsmiths College); The Promise (Elizabeth Hall London); Bittergirls (King's Head Theatre); Yours Unfaithfully (Mint Theater, NYC).

Mark Dymock – Lighting Designer
For GSC:  Pride & Prejudice (59E59 New York, New Wolsey Ipswich, Wilton Music Hall), Frankenstein, Richard II, Jekyll & Hyde, Hamlet, Tales From Hans Christian Andersen, Macbeth, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Measure for Measure, Alice in Wonderland, Love's Labour's Lost, King Arthur, Grimms’ Fairy Tales. Other credits include: Noel and Gertie (Mayflower);Once (First National Tour); Tony! Tony Blair the Rock Opera (Harry Hill and Stephen Brown); Sizwe Banzi is Dead (Mast Mayflower Made); The Standard Short Long Drop (nominated for Offie Best Lighting Design- The Vanguard, Camden); Ken (Terry Johnson and Hampstead); House and Garden (Watermill Theatre); Clybourne Park (First National Tour); Return to the Forbidden Planet (25th Anniversary Tour); Don't Look Now (nominated for Offie Best Lighting Design - Queen's Theatre); Betty Blue Eyes (First National Tour); Michael Morpurgo's Butterfly Lion (Kenwright); Dell Computers Gala (Buenos Aires); The Full Monty, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Oliver! (Bermuda City Hall); working with Willy Russell on Educating Rita; Breezeblock Park (Liverpool Playhouse) Shirley Valentine (Royal Court Liverpool); Farm Boy, The Hired Man, Kissing Sid James (New York E59) and numerous pantomimes for Evolution including winner of Best Pantomime 2025 - Snow White at Sheffield Lyceum. @ld_dymock

Matt Eaton – Sound Designer
For GSC: Pride & Prejudice (59E59 New York, New Wolsey Ipswich, Wilton Music Hall), Frankenstein, the Comedy of Errors/A Company of Rascals, Boeing Boeing Gone, Henry V, The Canterbury Tales, Richard II, Jekyll and Hyde, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Richard III. Theatre as Sound Designer includes: Dick Whittington (Oxford Playhouse); Pictures of Dorian Gray, The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary (Jermyn Street Theatre); Brave New World (Creation Theatre Company); Furious Folly (14-18 NOW); The History Boys (UK Tour); The Time Machine (London Library); The Crucible, Orlando (The University of South Florida); Break The Floorboards (Rifco Arts, Watford palace Theatre). Theatre as Composer includes: The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (Midlands Arts Centre); The Picture of Dorian Gray (Trafalgar Studios). Film Includes : Hallam Foe (Channel 4 Films), Volkswagen 30 years in the makingcampaign, British Telecom 118500 campaign, Horizon (BBC2),11 Reflections on September (Art2Action, Tampa, Florida. Best Experimental Feature at Cannes 2022). Sound Art includes: Everything Must Go (Friction Arts, Birmingham); Faith and Fracture (York Minster); Twelve Tones (Ikon Gallery). Games include: Pool Panic (Nintendo Video Game).
Matt is a sound designer and composer in Theatre, Film, Sound Art and Games. He won the OffWestEnd Award for Best Sound Design for All’s Well That Ends Well (2020).

Philip D’Orléans - Fight Director
For GSC: Frankenstein. Theatre includes: Giustino, Die Wälkure, Il Trovatore (Royal Opera House); Merry Wives of Windsor (RSC); Death on the Nile, Kite Runner (National Tour); Company of Rogues, Comedy of Errors (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre); Three Musketeers, The Nutcracker (New Vic Theatre); What’s in a Name (Vienna English Theatre); Creditors, Poor Clare (Orange Tree Theatre); Murder on the Orient Express (China Tour); Treasure Island (Creation Theatre); Once on this Island (Regent’s Park Theatre); Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Measure For Measure (Shakespeare’s Globe); Brassed Off (Gala Theatre, Durham); Oleanna (Arts Theatre, West End); Medicine (Traverse Theatre); Shakespeare In Love (National Theatre of Norway); Ravenscourt, Fellowship (Hampstead Theatre); Romeo & Juliet (Rome’s Globe Theatre); Simon Boccanegra (Greek National Opera); Lion In Winter (Frankfurt English Theatre); Romeo & Juliette (Korean National Opera); Cabaret (Lido Paris); Film includes: King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword, Pan (Warner Bros); The Knife That Killed Me (Universal). TV includes: Romeo & Juliet (CBeebies Presents); Lockwood & Co. (Netflix).
Philip is an Equity Registered Fight Director, and a fight examiner for the BASSC. He teaches at RADA.

Hannah Walker - Company Stage And Production Manager 
Hannah trained at East 15 Acting School.For GSC: Frankenstein, Pride & Prejudice (59E59 New York, New Wolsey Ipswich, Wilton Music Hall),, The Comedy or Errors/A Company of Rascals, The Housetrap , Romeo & Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Boeing Gone, Henry V, The Canterbury Tales, Hamlet, She Stoops To Conquer, Tales from Hans Christian Andersen. Theatre includes: Sheila’s Island (UK Tour); The Snow Queen, Hound of the Baskervilles, Maggie and Ted (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre); Arabian Nights, Trap, The Laramie Project, The Gift of the Magi, Arthur: A Boy to a King, Selfish Giant, Much Ado About Nothing, Anne of Green Gables, You Can’t Take it With You, The Den, Swan Warf (The Mill Studio, Guildford).

Phoebe Buckland - Deputy Stage Manager 
Phoebe is a graduate from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Theatre includes: Tachwedd, Bungalow, Back To Terra Firma (Theatre503); The Weyard Sisters (Riverside Studios); Jack And The Beanstalk (Buxton Opera House).

“Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!”

GSC’s ‘unmissable’ adaptation of Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield is the whirlwind tale of a young man’s life from humble beginnings to literary renown; a journey of romance and adventure filled with lovable rogues, wily scoundrels and benevolent patrons.

Three actors bring to life over 20 larger-than-life characters with ‘delightful dollops of mischief and inventive comic eccentricity’ (Guardian) in an enchanting romp that ‘sparkles with wit, charm and bonhomie’ (West End Best Friend), 'Ensemble playing doesn’t come much sharper than this' (The Times)

‘A copper-bottomed sure-fire hit’ (Reviews Gate) with ‘Dickens’s irresistible richness intact’ (TimeOut).