TWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK)

Kit Buchan

Writer

Kit Buchan is a poet and journalist. His poems have been commended in the Poetry London and Ware Poets competitions and the Best British Poetry anthology. He works for the Observer New Review and the Woodland Trust.

Jim Barne

Composer

Jim Barne is a composer and orchestrator. He has written music for films including Oscar-nominated Living (2022), The Ghost Trap (2023) and Worth (2021). He has won the London Chamber Orchestra’s young composer competition, and Best New Score at the Horrorhaus Film Festival.

Tim Jackson

Director

Tim Jackson is a Director and Choreographer, and former Creative Associate of The Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch. Tim recently choreographed Neil Patrick Harris in Doctor Who: The Giggle and the critically acclaimed Broadway production of Merrily We Roll Along starring Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez.

As Director: Kinky Boots (New Wolsey Theatre); The Hound of the Baskervilles (UK Tour); Treasure Island (Bolton Octagon); The Season (Royal & Derngate/New Wolsey Theatre); The Oliviers in Concert (Royal Festival Hall) and The Stable (Lyric Theatre).

As associate director: High Society (The Old Vic) and A Little Night Music (Tokyo).

As Choreographer: Merrily We Roll Along (Hudson Theatre/New York Theatre Workshop/Tokyo National Theater/Huntington Theatre/Harold Pinter Theatre/Menier Chocolate Factory); A Christmas Carol (Dominion Theatre); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Apollo Theatre); Stepping Out (Vaudeville Theatre); Saturday Night (Arts Theatre); Little Shop of Horrors (Manchester Royal Exchange); Oliver! (Watermill); The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 (Curve Theatre) and Parade (Southwark Playhouse).

Opera includes: La Périchole (Garsington Opera), La Bohème (Middle East tour) The Marriage of Figaro (European tour).

Television includes: four Olivier Awards Ceremonies, Doctor Who, Let’s Sing and Dance for Comic Relief, BBC1’s New Year’s Eve.

Tim has an MA from Mountview Academy and a BA in Music from Oxford University specialising in Orchestration and Vocal Performance. Tim works as a singing coach and recently coached Bill Nighy for his Oscar-nominated performance in Living.

Soutra Gilmour

Designer

Soutra Gilmour has received huge acclaim for her work, recognised with five Olivier Award nominations and two Tony Award nominations including Best Set Design for Betrayal and Best Costume Design for Cyrano de Bergerac.

Theatre credits include: The Effect, Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, Twelfth Night, Les Blancs, Romeo and Juliet (National Theatre); My Brilliant Friend (National Theatre/Rose Theatre Kingston); A Doll’s House (Hudson Theatre, New York); Merrily We Roll Along (Menier Chocolate Factory/NYTW/Hudson Theatre, New York); Assassins (Menier Chocolate Factory); Further than the Furthest Thing, Bull (Young Vic); The Secret Life of Bees, Macbeth, Reasons to be Pretty (Almeida Theatre); Running with Lions, Out West, Angels in America (Lyric Hammersmith); To the Streets (Birmingham Hippodrome); Pinter at the Pinter, The Lover/The Collection, Cyrano De Bergerac (BAM, New York/Harold Pinter Theatre); & Juliet (Shaftesbury Theatre/Stephen Sondheim Theatre, New York); Evita (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Timon of Athens (RSC/TFANA, New York); Guys  and Dolls (Royal Exchange Manchester); The Band’s Visit, Knives in Hens, Inadmissible Evidence (Donmar Warehouse); Piaf (Donmar Warehouse/Teatro Liceo); The Seagull, Apologia, Richard III, The Maids, The Homecoming, Macbeth (Trafalgar Transformed); The Guards at the Taj (Bush Theatre); Pitchfork Disney, Killer (Shoreditch Town Hall); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Crucible/Northern Stage); I See You, The Pride (Royal Court); Reasons To Be Happy (Hampstead Theatre); Urinetown (St James Theatre); The Crucible, Duchess of Malfi (Old Vic); The Birthday Party (Sheffield Crucible/Northern Stage); The Caretaker (Crucible/Tricycle); Our Friends in the North, Ruby Moon, Son of Man (Northern Stage); The Commitments (The Palace Theatre) and From Here to Eternity (Shaftesbury Theatre).

Opera credits include: Breaking the Waves (Scottish Opera); Jack the Ripper (ENO); The Turn of the Screw (Regent’s Park); Quartett, Iris (Royal Opera House/Opera Holland Park); Carmen, Saul, Hansel and Gretel, Anna Bolena, Don Giovanni, Cosi Fan Tutte (Opera North); Mary Stuart, The Birds and Trouble in Tahiti (ETO).