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Park Theatre presents the World Premiere of
Winner's Curse
ASSISTANT DESIGNER | JESS STATON
DANIEL TAUB
Daniel Taub is an international lawyer, diplomat and writer. He has participated in many Middle Eastern negotiations, both bilateral and multilateral, and lectures widely on negotiation theory and practice at universities, think tanks and foreign ministries around the world. He is an accredited mediator, and has conducted difficult conversation laboratories for groups with divergent ideological positions. Taub created and wrote the successful twenty-six episode series, The Court, for Israeli television.
DAN PATTERSON
Dan has been a television producer/writer for over 25 years, creating a number of hit TV shows including Whose Line Is It Anyway? (the British and American versions), Mock The Week (now in its 19th season) and Clive Anderson Talks Back. He was also responsible for bringing Room 101 to television.
Television: Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Channel 4), (Bafta Award, Royal Television Society award); Whose Line Is It Anyway? USA (ABC and The CW); Mock The Week, (BBC 2), (British Comedy Award nomination, National Television Award nomination, Broadcast Award nomination); Clive Anderson Talks Back (Channel 4, 10 Series), (Bafta nomination, British Comedy Award winner); Clive Anderson All Talk (BBC1), (Bafta nomination); Room 101 (BBC2); The Peter Principle starring Jim Broadbent (BBC1); The Brain Drain (BBC2); S&M: Slattery & McShane (Channel 4); Never Mind the Horrocks (Channel 4); Kelsey Grammar Presents the American Sketch Show (Fox); Fast and Loose (BBC2); Trust Us With Your Life (ABC); 29 Minutes of Fame (BBC1); Confessions (BBC1).
Theatre: Co-writer of The Duck House, which ran for 6 months at the Vaudeville Theatre in London’s West End and was nominated for an Olivier Award.
Radio: Saturday Night Fry; Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Sony Award winner). Dan has received a lifetime achievement award from the Chicago Improv Festival.
ISOBEL NICOLSON
Isobel is a Creative Associate for the Watermill Theatre. She was a Resident Assistant Designer with the Royal Shakespeare Company 2019-2020.
Design credits include: Rapunzel, Camp Albion, A Christmas Carol, Moonfleet, Digging for Victory, The Miller’s Child (Watermill Theatre); Lone Flyer (Hull Truck / Jermyn Street / The Watermill); Jessie’s Tattoo Club (Bristol Old Vic Ferment); Queen Mab (Iris Theatre); Jabberwocky (The Other Palace / Theatre Royal Margate); Tis Pity She's A Whore (Sherman Studio); Dream (The Other Place / The New Vic Staffordshire); Errol’s Garden (UK tour); Old Friends (Cambridge Junction / The Cockpit Theatre); D-Day75 (101 Outdoor Arts); The Witches (Watford Palace); Die Fledermaus (DEPOT / Spit & Sawdust Skatepark); Bright Young Things, Stay Brave Brian Gravy (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds).
Associate / Assistant Designer: My Neighbour Totoro (Barbican), A Winter’s Tale & The Magician’s Elephant (RSC); Island Nation (The Arcola); The Velveteen Rabbit & The Old Curiosity Shop (UK tour), Jason & The Argonauts (The Unicorn Theatre).
Training: Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.
SHERRY COENEN
Award winning lighting designer Sherry Coenen works across the UK and US. She has a BFA in Lighting Design from the University of Miami and is a member of APLD.
Theatre includes: XXXMas Carol (Wales Millennium Centre), Spitlip’s Operation Mincemeat (New Diorama Theatre, Southwark Playhouse and Riverside Studios – nominated for Knights of Illumination award 2019), Frankenstein (Beatbox Academy at BAC, Knights of Illumination winner 2019), The Singing Mermaid (Little Angel Theatre), Izindava (UK Tour), Brigitte Aphrodite’s Parakeet (Paines Plough Roundabout, Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe), Christopher Brett Bailey’s This is How We Die (UK Tour), The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch), Skin Tight (Park90), CELL (UK Tour), Conquest of the South Pole (Arcola), These Trees are Made of Blood (Arcola), Brrr! (UK Tour), 5 Guys Chillin’ (Kings Head Theatre), Anton Chekhov (Hampstead Theatre).
SOPHIE COTTON
Since graduating from the Royal College of Music she has worked as a composer, arranger and sound designer including productions at the RSC and as an associate at The National Theatre.
Some recent highlights include: The Sleepwalker (Royal Ballet / GDIF 2022); Where We Are (Short film, Royal Ballet / Rambert); Landscapers (Assistant Orchestrator - HBO, dir. Will Sharpe); Romeo and Juliet (RSC, dir. Erica Whyman); A View from the Bridge (dir Juliet Forster / York Theatre Royal); Remains of the Day (Out of Joint / Royal & Derngate, dir. Chris Haydon); Time and Tide (Winner of Best Short Film at London Independent Film Awards 2022); Rosenbaum’s Rescue (Park Theatre, dir. Kate Fahy); All You Need Is LSD - (Birmingham Rep / Tour, dir. Paul Hunter & Stephen Harper); A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian and Mighty Atoms (Hull Truck, dir. Mark Babych); Bang Bang (dir. Nicky Henson and written by John Cleese); Don't Wake Me: The Ballad of Nihal Armstrong (St James's Theatre, dir. Guy Slater); Little Black Book (Park Theatre; dir. Kate Fahy); Play On (BFI / Shakespeare’s Globe)
TABITHA PIGGOTT
Tabitha Piggott is a production manager for eStage working in theatre and opera, with a particular passion for new writing. She studied Production and Technical Arts at LAMDA as a Leverhulme Arts Scholar, and was production manager on Papatango and Bush Theatre’s Olivier Award winning Old Bridge in 2021.
Credits as Production Manager include: All of Us, Barrier(s), Connections 2022 (National Theatre); Only an Octave Apart (Wilton’s Music Hall); Paradise Now!, Favour, Red Pitch, Old Bridge, Overflow (Bush Theatre); Winner’s Curse, The 4th Country (Park Theatre); Faun (Cardboard Citizens); The Boys are Kissing, Moreno (Theatre503); Fefu and her Friends (Tobacco Factory Theatres); The Dancing Master (Buxton Opera House).
As Assistant Production Manager: The Pillowman (West End); Raising Icarus (Birmingham Rep)
STEPHANIE GREENSLADE
Stephanie trained at The University of The Arts London (UAL) in Costume Interpretation. Previous for The Park theatre La Cage Aux Folles as Costume Supervisor.
Most Recent Costume Supervisor roles include: The Sex party, Brian and Roger, The Boy Friend (Menier Chocolate Factory), The Paradis files (Graeae Theatre), Wonderful Town (Opera Holland Park), Stickman (Leicester Square theatre).
Other theatre credits include: Habeas Corpus as Head of Wardrobe and Pack of Lies as Costume Supervisor (Menier Chocolate factory) Fiddler on the Roof as Deputy head of Wardrobe (The Playhouse).
For television: BBC EastEnders
INDIA DILLON
India Dillon is a director, writer and recent graduate from the University of Exeter where she began freelance directing for several theatre companies in Devon. With these companies she co-directed an original musical for the Edinburgh Fringe, as well as a directing at Exeter’s Northcott Theatre and touring a production in the South-West. She’s currently undertaking a Directing Masters at East 15 Acting School.
NATASHA HARRISON
After studying at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Natasha completed a Masters in Movement: Directing and Teaching, graduating from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Natasha was part of the Old Vic 12 for 2019 and is Senior Lecturer and Training Lead for University of the Arts London.
As Director: Four Minutes Twelve Seconds (Oldham Coliseum)
As Movement Director/Choreographer: Ride (Charing Cross Theatre); Girl From The North Country (UK Tour); The Bolds (Unicorn Theatre); One Jewish Boy (Trafalgar Studios); A Single Man, Whodunnit Unrehearsed, Whodunnit Unrehearsed 2, La Cage Aux Folles, Building The Wall (Park Theatre) A Christmas Carol (Derby Theatre); Mold Riots (Theatr Clwyd); Shakespeare Nation, Julius Caesar: First Encounters (RSC); The Sweet Science of Bruising (Wilton’s Music Hall); La Belle Helene (Blackheath Halls); Trouble in Tahiti and A Dinner Engagement (both RCM); Handbagged (Salisbury Playhouse); Not Such Quiet Girls (Leeds Playhouse/Opera North); Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood (CAST Doncaster); Moll Flanders (Mercury Theatre); Wasted (Southwark Playhouse); The Rake’s Progress (British Youth Opera); Shed Crew, Leeds Lads, The Damned United, The Life and Soul (Red Ladder); Une Education Manquée, Les Mamelles de Tiresias (RCM); The Cardinal, Dear Brutus (Southwark Playhouse); Ode to Leeds (West Yorkshire Playhouse).
ARIANE NIXON
Ariane has worked as a technician across dance, theatre and outdoor events since 2013, with a wide range of organisations including Artichoke, Sadler's Wells and Bush Theatre. Ariane graduated from RADA in 2018, specialising in lighting.
JESSICA STATON
Jessica is Assistant Designer on Winner's Curse. She graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2016 with a First Class (Hons) degree in Design for Performance, where she met Isobel (designer of Winner's Curse). Alongside her assistant work, Jessica is a set and costume designer, puppet designer and maker, model maker, prop maker and scenic artist.
Design credits include: Tryst (as designer, nominated for an Off West End Set Design Award 2020, with the production winning the Standing Ovation Award for Outstanding Theatricality 2020 from the London Pub Theatre Awards); Fritz and Matlock (The Pleasance Downstairs); Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, Extra Yarn (nominated for The Stage Debut Design Award), King Lear, The Merchant Of Venice (The Orange Tree Theatre).
MAISIE JACKAMAN
Maisie is thrilled to be working on Winner's Curse as a wardrobe manager. She started her career in wardrobe after studying theatre in school and since has worked on the UK tours of Gangsta Granny and Billionaire Boy, and also the Dubai tour of Tom Gates Live on Stage. More recently she has worked on the live stage show Hey Duggee as a design assistant.
ELLEN HARRIS
Ellen has been working as the Development and Producing Assistant at Park Theatre since May 2022 and has assistant produced on Tony! [the Tony Blair Rock Opera], Rose, the Make Mine a Double Season, On the Ropes and Winner’s Curse.