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Pascal Theatre Company presents
Crossing Jerusalem
Writer & Director | Julia Pascal
Producer | Susannah Kraft Leven
Designer | Claire Lyth
Lighting Design | Ben Cowens
Sound Design | Zoe Blackford
Stage Manager | Chloe Turner
Director’s Assistant | Anna Roche
Original Graphic Design | Eugenie Dodd
Graphic Design | Jermaine Riley
Rehearsal photos | Habie Schwarz
Production Shots | Mia Hawk
Biographies
Julia Pascal | Writer/Director
Pascal worked as an actor before starting her directing career at the National Theatre where she was the first woman to direct there. This was with her adaptation of Dorothy Parker’s works Men Seldom Make Passes. Pascal has directed new works by a variety of new writers and has been supported by The British Council. Her own plays have been performed nationally and internationally. They include The Holocaust Trilogy, Woman In The Moon, St Joan and Old Newland for Walking The Tightrope season produced by Theatre Delicatessen. Theatre For BBC Radio 4 she has writtenThe Road To Paradise and Revelations in the series From Fact To Fiction. Among several awards she was given the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts Dream Time Fellowship. Writers’ residencies have been at The University of York, Kingston University and the Wiener Library. All her plays are published by Oberon Books.
Susannah Kraft Levene | Executive Producer
Susannah has worked extensively as Producer and in General Management for many new writing theatre companies, run venues and toured companies both in the UK and internationally.
Claire Lyth | Designer
Claire’s work includes Twelfth Night (National Theatre of Norway); Stormforce (Riverside Studios); The Man Who Thinks He's It (The Steve Coogan Show, Lyceum, London); Goodness Gracious Me (Tour); Macbeth (Residenz Theatre, Munich); The Talented Mr. Ripley (Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch); Misery (King's Head), Split Second, Mad and her Dad (Lyric, Hammersmith); All's Well That Ends Well and Comedy of Errors (Regent's Park); Peter Pan and The Three Musketeers (Crucible, Sheffield); Rigoletto (WNO); world premiere of Shirley Valentine, Winters Tale and Tosca (Everyman, Liverpool); My Fair Lady (Aarhus, Denmark); Oklahoma!(National tour); Fungus the Bogeyman (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry)
Ben Cowens | Lighting Designer
Lighting design includes: Inigo (Pleasance Theatre), iCoDaCo (Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Cardiff Dance), Showtime (Bridlington Spa), The Domino Heart (Finborough Theatre), We Happy Few (The New Diorama Theatre)
Zoe Blackford | Sound Designer
Zoe's design credits include: South African Season, Jermyn Street Theatre; St Joan, The Courtyard Theatre and Edinburgh Fringe; The Secret Listeners, Trent Park; After Miss Julie, London Classic Theatre.
Chloe Turner | Stage Manger
Work includes: productions at the Old Vic, Barbican and BBC. Chloe also works in events and recently worked for YouTube at their London Brandcast Event. This is her first time working with Pascal Theatre Company.