About the artists

Photograph by Mike Laye Neil Bartlett. Photograph by Mike Laye

Neil Bartlett works as a performer, director, translator and writer and lives in Brighton. He set up The 1982 Theatre Company and was a founding member of Gloria theatre company; he has previously worked as director for Theatre de Complicite and Artistic Director of the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, leaving the latter in 2004 to return to independent directing creating work for Royal Shakespeare Company, The Brighton Festival and the Manchester International Festival amongst others. His novel Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall was Capital Gay’s Book of the year 1990 and another, Mr. Clive and Mr. Page, was nominated for the Whitbread prize in 1996; his most recent novel, Skin Lane was published in March 2007.

Nicholas Bloomfield is a composer, performer and founder member of Gloria. For Gloria he has composed the music for A Vision Of Love Revealed In Sleep, Sarrasine, Now That It's Morning, Twelfth Night, A Judgement In Stone (winner of the Time Out Drama Award), and others. He also wrote music for The Little Matchgirl and Then Again for the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, The Robbers for The Gate and It is For My Mouth Forever for QEH. He works with the Bloolips, in cabaret with Gertrude Thoma and Nicholas Mende and regularly at The Royal Vauxhall Tavern. He has worked with Liz Ranken, Annie Griffin, Matthew Hawkins, Jonathan Burrows and Nigel Charnockand, has written a String Quartet and numerous songs. His music for The Picture of Dorian Gray is available on Compact Disc.

Leah Hausman is a director, choreographer and performer and a founder member of Gloria. She trained at The American Ballet Theatre School, The Martha Graham School for Dance and Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris. As a director her productions include Rossini's La Cenerentola (English Touring Opera 1997/8); Berio's A Ronne (ENO Works 1997); the revival of Jonathan Miller's production of La Traviata (Minnesota Opera, ENO, 1997); Four Saints In Three Acts (Trinity College of Music, Spitalfields Festival 1996); Lady Into Fox (Gloria 1996). As a choreographer, her work for theatre includes As You Like It (Royal Shakespeare Company 1996); An Ideal Husband (Salisbury Playhouse 1995). Her choreographic work for opera includes Aida (Mid Wales Opera 1997); The Marriage of Figaro (English Touring Opera 1997), Ariadne, Jenufa (ENO). Leah choreographed the recent production of Il turco in Italia at the Royal Opera House, London.