Jeremy Dyson is best known as the co-creator and co-writer of the multi-award-winning comedy show The League of Gentlemen. Aside from The League he was co-creator/writer of the BAFTA-nominated comedy drama Funland and the Rose-d’or winning all female sketch show Psychobitches.  His play Ghost Stories, co-written with Andy Nyman was nominated for an Olivier award, and has enjoyed three separate West End runs since debuting in 2010, together with international productions in Toronto, Moscow, Sydney, Shanghai, Finland, Holland and Peru. The film version of Ghost Stories, written and directed by Andy and Jeremy won the Fangoria Chainsaw Award for best debut feature in 2019.

In addition, Jeremy has worked as script editor on numerous award-winning TV comedies including The Armstrong and Miller Show, Grandma’s House, The Wrong Mans, Bad Education, Tracey Ullman’s Show, We are Ladyparts and The Curse. He has written for many other TV shows including Killing Eve and Good Omens. Jeremy has published three collections of short stories, Never Trust a Rabbit, The Cranes that Build the Cranes (which won the Edge Hill award for short fiction), and The Haunted Book, together with a novel, What Happens Now. His latest book, The Warlock Effect co-written with Andy Nyman was published in 2023.

Andy Nyman is a multi award-winning actor, director and writer for his work in theatre, film and television.

Theatre work includes: Max Bialystock in The Producers (Menier Chocolate Factory) Horace Vandergelder in Hello, Dolly! (London Palladium); Tevye in Trevor Nunn's award-winning Fiddler on the Roof (Olivier nomination); Hangmen (West End/Broadway); Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins (Menier Chocolate Factory); Abigail’s Party (West End); Ghost Stories which Andy starred in, co-wrote and co-directed with Jeremy Dyson. 

Television includes: Andy will soon be seen in the new drama Lockerbie on Sky, A Small Light, The Capture, Unforgotten, Wanderlust, Hanna, The Eichmann Show, Campus, Dead Set, Winston Churchill in Peaky Blinders. 

Film includes:  Governor Thropp in Wicked, Jungle Cruise, Judy, The Commuter, Ghost Stories, Death at a Funeral, Kick-Ass 2, Black Death, The Brother’s Bloom, Severance, Shut Up & Shoot Me (winner Best Actor at Cherbourg Film Festival).  

Andy has collaborated with Derren Brown for over 20 years, co-creating the first 10 years of Derren's TV as well as co-writing / directing Derren's stage shows - winning an Olivier Award for Derren Brown: Something Wicked This Way Comes and the New York Drama Desk Award for Derren Brown: Secret.  Andy’s books on how to survive as a freelancer “The Golden Rules of Acting” and “More Golden rules of Acting” are bestsellers within the acting world. Andy and Jeremy Dyson's first novel The Warlock Effect, was released last year, became a Sunday Times book of the month and is out now in paperback. www.andynyman.com

Sean is currently Associate Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe. Prior to this, he was the Artistic Director of the Lyric Hammersmith.

Previous work for Shakespeare’s Globe includes Much Ado About Nothing (2024), Comedy of Errors (2023), The Winter’s Tale (2022), The Tempest (2022), Hamlet (2021), Twelfth Night (2020), Metamorphoses (2020, co-directed with Holly Race Roughan), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2021, 2019), and Henry VI (2019, co-directed with Ilinca Radulian).

Work for the Lyric Hammersmith includes The Seagull, Terror, Shopping and Fucking, Bugsy Malone, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (UK Tour; Manchester Royal Exchange; Brisbane Festival; Dublin International Festival), Herons, Secret Theatre Shows 1, 2, 3, 5 and 7, Cinderella, Desire Under the Elms, Morning, Have I None, Saved, Blasted (winner Olivier Award 2011, Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre), A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky, Ghost Stories (Duke of York’s; Liverpool Playhouse; Panasonic Theatre, Toronto; Arts Theatre), Three Sisters, and Comedians.

In 2016 Sean directed The Plough and the Stars at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin (also Irish / US Tour). Sean was an Associate Director of the Oxford Stage Company from 2001 to 2006 and has also worked at the National Theatre, RSC, Tricycle, Royal Court, Donmar Warehouse, Chichester Festival Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.

Originally trained in Music at Oxford University and Royal Academy of Music. Jon retrained on the Motley Theatre Design Course graduating as a Linbury Prize finalist In 2000. Since then he has designed extensively in dance, opera and theatre for companies worldwide including The Royal Opera House, Royal National Theatre, London, National Theatre of Scotland, Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Young Vic, London, Theatre de Complicité, and both Finnish and Norwegian National Ballets.

An associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he has designed numerous productions including Hamlet, King Lear, The Winter’s Tale and the entire 2012 season.

He designed the opening ceremony of the 2012 Paralympic Games in London and was recently nominated for an Emmy Award for his production design for the Red Bull film Human Pinball.

Theatre includes: the stage version of Miyazaki's legendary anime film, Spirited Away (Toho, Japan/ London Coliseum); King Lear starring and directed by Kenneth Branagh in the West End/The Shed, New York; Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods directed by Terry Gilliam (Theatre Royal, Bath); Bat Out of Hell (London/Germany/Toronto/New York/Las Vegas); WICKED (Stage Entertainment, Hamburg); The James Plays (National Theatre of Scotland/ Royal National Theatre/ World Tour); Ghost Stories (West End/Toronto/Moscow/ Melbourne); MAMETZ (National Theatre of Wales, winner Best Design UK Theatre Awards) and You For Me For You (Royal Court, Best Design, Evening Standard Awards).

Dance credits include: The Nutcracker (Norwegian National Ballet, Nationale Ballet de  Bordeaux), designs for Ballet Rambert, the Royal Opera House, Netherlands Dans Theater, and works by Liam Scarlett for the Royal Ballet, Norwegian National Ballet, and English National Ballet.

Opera credits include: Ainadamar (Metropolitan Opera); Serse, The Golden Dragon, Rigoletto, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Halle Opera); Cendrillon (Glyndebourne): Die Walküre (Bordeaux National Opera); The Knot Garden (Theatre an der Wien); The Lighthouse (Montepulciano); and Agrippina (Grange Park Opera).

Theatre includes: Phaedra, When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other, Macbeth, People Places and Things (West End, UK Tour & St Ann’s Warehouse, NY); The Other Place, Edward II, Twelfth Night, Three Winters, The Plough and the Stars, Man and Superman (National Theatre); Ghost Stories (West End & Tour); House of Bernarda Alba (Hamburg Schauspeilhaus); Vanya (Duke of York’s Theatre); Yerma (also Armory, NY); Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, The Changeling, Measure for Measure (Young Vic); The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Almeida); White Devil, As You Like It, A Mad World My Masters (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Tempest, Henry IV (St Ann’s, NY); The Cherry Orchard (Donmar Warehouse); Julius Caesar (Donmar at King’s Cross); John Gabriel Borkman (Bridge Theatre); Anatomy of a Suicide (Royal Court & Hamburg Schauspielhaus); The Duchess of Malfi (Old Vic); The Dresser (Duke of York’s); The Ladykillers (also Gielgud); Swallows and Amazons (Vaudeville); Ibsen Huis, De Meiden (Toneelgroep, Amsterdam).

Opera credits: Innocence (Aix-En-Provence International Festival, Finnish Opera Helsinki, Royal Opera House, San Francisco Opera, Metropolitan Opera New York, Dutch National Opera); Jenůfa (Lyric Opera Chicago), Lessons in Love and Violence (Gran Teatre del Liceu, Dutch National Opera, Opéra de Lyon, Hamburg State Opera); Theodora (Royal Opera House); Lucia di Lammermoor (Metropolitan Opera, LA Opera); Le Vin Herbé (Berliner Staatsopera); Pelléas et Mélisande, Alcina (also Bolshoi), Tristan und Isolde (also Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg), Ariadne auf Naxos, Trauernacht (Aix-en-Provence); La Traviata (Opéra de Paris, Wiener Staatsopera); Streetscene (Teatro Real, Madrid); Jenůfa (also Palau de les Arts, Valencia); Der Zwerg (Dutch National Opera); Francesca Da Rimini (Opéra National du Rhin); Miranda (Opéra Comique); The Barber of Seville (Glyndebourne); Marriage of Figaro (Opera North); Carmen, Die Fliegende Holländer, Ariodante (Scottish Opera); Pelléas et Mélisande (Den Norske Opera); Benjamin, dernière nuit (Opèra de Lyon); Blue, Die Tote Stadt (ENO).

Nick is Assistant Technical Manager at the Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House.

Theatre includes: Aladdin, Cinderella, Jack & the Beanstalk, Aladdin (Lyric Hammersmith); Ghost Stories (Lyric Hammersmith, Liverpool Playhouse, Duke of York’s – Olivier Award-nominated for Best Sound Design 2011); Jack & the Beanstalk, Terror, Seventeen, Shopping and Fucking, Herons, Cinderella, Tipping the Velvet (Lyric Hammersmith/ Edinburgh Lyceum); Dick Whittington & His Cat, Secret Theatre Show 1,2,3,4,5 & 7, Morning, The Chair Plays, Saved, 1984, Roald Dahl’s Twisted Tales, Dick Whittington and his Cat, The Big Fellah (Lyric Hammersmith/UK tour); A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky, Metamorphosis (Lyric Hammersmith/Vesturport – winner Elliot Norton Awards 2013 for Outstanding Design); Three Sisters, Jack and the Beanstalk, Comedians, The Jitterbug Blitz, Hang On, Cinderella, Spyski!, Depth Charge, Love – The Musical, The Birthday Party, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Beauty and the Beast, Accidental Heroes, Absolute Beginners, Ramayana, Too Close to Home, The Odyssey, Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others, The Firework-Maker’s Daughter, Don Juan, Oliver Twist, Pericles, Camille, A Christmas Carol, The Prince of Homburg, Aladdin, The Servant and Pinocchio (Lyric Hammersmith); Happy Birthday Sunita (Rifco/Watford Palace/UK National Tour); Tumulus (Soho Theatre/Vaults FestivaI 2018); I Capture the Castle (Watford Palace Theatre); Mr Swallow – The Musical (InvisibleDot); Trout Stanley (Southwark Playhouse); Candida (Theatre Royal Bath); Jumpers for Goalposts (Paines Plough, Watford Palace, Hull Truck); The Acid Test, The Empire (Royal Court); Grumpy Old Women 2, Britt on Britt, Grumpy Old Women (Avalon); Gizmo Love, Excuses, Out of Our Heads (ATC); The Unsinkable Clerk (Network of Stuff); Airsick, Crooked, When You Cure Me (Bush); Darwin in Malibu (Hampstead Theatre); Rabbit (Frantic Assembly) and Great Expectations (Bristol Old Vic).

Opera Includes: Susannah (Royal Opera House); The Intelligence Park (Royal Opera House/Music Theatre Wales).

Scott is a Past President of The Magic Circle and his awards within the industry include the Magic Circle Stage Magician of the Year Award, The David Berglas Award for “Services to Magic” and the Merlin for “Outstanding Contributions to Magic”. Apart from his skills as a performer, he is in demand for creating and designing magic effects for West End and Broadway theatre, film and television. For film and television, Scott has taught magic to the likes of Sir Michael Caine, Woody Allen, Daniel Radcliffe, Catherine Zeta Jones, Stephen Fry and HRH Prince Edward.

Theatre includes: Tiger Who Came to Tea (West End, UK Tour and Far East Tour); The Invisible Man (Devonshire Park Theatre); Influence (Collective Theatre); The Wizard of Oz(Leicester Curve Theatre and UK tour); The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber(Leicester Curve); Ladykillers: (West End and UK Tour); Spamalot (West End and UK Tour); Kooza (World touring show - Cirque du Soleil); War of the Worlds (UK Arena tour); Faust (New York Metropolitan Opera); Love Never Dies (Adelphi Theatre);  Canterville Ghost (UK Tour); Bend It Like Beckham (West End); Alice’s Adventures Underground (The Vaults); Mrs Henderson Presents (West End); The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (Southwark Playhouse); Doctor Faustus (West End); Scrooge (Leicester Curve); Sinbad The Sailor (Theatre Royal Stratford East); I Can’t Sing: The X Factor Musical (West End); Evening of Wonders (West End and UK Tour).

Film includes: The Illusionist; Cats; Brighton Rock; Dhoom 3; Scoop; The Magicians; Hot Fuzz; Me and Orson Welles; Is Anybody There? and Death Defying Acts.

‍TV includes: Jonathan Creek; QI; Hustle; Sunday Night at the London Palladium; The Royal Variety Show; The Slammer; The One Show; Derren Brown: The Events and Derren Brown Presents the 3D Magic Spectacular.

Ginny has been an in-house casting director for the RSC, Chichester Festival Theatre, Rose Theatre Kingston, ETT and Soho Theatre and has worked closely with Bath Theatre Royal and Ustinov Studio for the last decade.  She has cast extensively for the West End and touring circuit as well as for the Almeida, Arcola, Birmingham Rep, Bolton Octagon, Bristol Old Vic, Cambridge Arts, Charing Cross Theatre, Clwyd Theatr Cyrmu, Frantic Assembly, Hampstead Theatre, Headlong, Jermyn Street, Leicester Curve, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, Lyric Theatre Belfast, Menier Chocolate Factory, Northampton Royal & Derngate, Nottingham Playhouse, Oxford Playhouse, Plymouth Theatre Royal and Drum, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, Shared Experience, Sheffield Crucible, Traverse Edinburgh, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Wilton’s Music Hall, Young Vic and Yvonne Arnaud Guildford. Some recent productions include A View from the Bridge with Dominic West at the Ustinov and the Haymarket; Machinal at the Ustinov and Old Vic; Noises Off on tour and in the West End; The Starry Messenger at the Wyndham’s; The Other Boleyn Girl at Chichester and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel on tour, both directed by Lucy Bailey; and 4000 Miles for Richard Eyre at the Minerva, Chichester.  She has also worked on many television, film and radio productions, including the BBC Radio 4 series Nuremberg and Nazis: The Road to Power.

I Found my Horn (Riverside Studios / UK Tour); HONK! (UK Tour); Soldier On (The Other Palace / International Tour); Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Apollo Theatre); Doctor Faustus (St Paul’s; Islington); The Night Our Parents Disappeared (The Lowry;The Other Palace); The Tempest (The Actor’s Church); Three Little Pigs Live! (Palace Theatre / UK Tour); This Much (Soho Theatre).