The Gangof Three

Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky have been writing together for stage and audio since 2011. Their plays include Coalition, Making News, Kingmaker, Impossible, Brexit, The Gang of Three, In the Print and the forthcoming Saving Alan Turing. Their work has been performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and at venues in Brighton, Liverpool, Oxford and London, including the King’s Head Theatre, St James Theatre and Arts Theatre. They have also written numerous audio dramas for Big Finish Productions, including stories for both Doctor Who and The Avengers.

Robert studied law at Cambridge and Southampton Universities and was called to the Bar in 1995. He has worked in Parliament, law, public policy and communications, and served for eight years as an Islington councillor, where he was the first borough Arts Champion. He is also currently Chair of the Board of the King’s Head Theatre.

Tom is a writer, director, improviser and podcaster. He is Artistic Director of The Spontaneity Shop and co-author of The Improv Handbook. He produces the award-winning podcast The Guilty Feminist and co-created and hosts the film podcast Best Pick. His books include Best Pick: A Journey Through Film History, and he also hosts the podcast All British Comedy Explained.

Kirsty is a director and dramaturg and took part in the National Theatre Studio Director’s Course. She has been shortlisted for the JP Morgan Emerging Directors Award and was a finalist for the JMK Young Directors Award.

The Children, directed by Kirsty, opened at Nottingham Playhouse on 23 March 2024. Her production Manic Street Creature received glowing reviews and won a Fringe First, Stage Edinburgh Award and the Mental Health Fringe Award in 2022. She was also Dramaturg on Shebeen, which won the 2017 Alfred Fagon Award.

She wrote and directed her first short film, Kite Strings, which has been followed up with Progress. Kirsty is also pursuing other TV projects.

In 2023, Kirsty directed Strike! at Southwark Playhouse: ‘What is most striking about Strike! is the sophistication of Kirsty Patrick Ward’s direction’ (The Guardian).

In 2019, Kirsty opened the world premiere production of Mischief Theatre’s Groan Ups at the Vaudeville Theatre in London’s West End. The production subsequently toured the UK in 2021 and was produced internationally in 2022.

Notable previous productions include Kirsty’s revival of her own hit production of Joy Wilkinson’s play The Sweet Science of Bruising at Wilton’s Music Hall. After receiving four stars from The Times and five stars from the Daily Express, and being nominated for an Off-West End Award for Best New Play during its initial run at Southwark Playhouse, it went on to receive a number of four- and five-star reviews.

Prior to that, her show Chef, written by Sabrina Mahfouz, ran at Soho Theatre in 2015 and starred Jade Anouka. During its run at the Edinburgh Festival in 2014, it was announced as one of the first six winners of a Scotsman Fringe First Award and received rave reviews.

Libby Watson is a set and costume designer working across theatre, opera and dance. Libby trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and holds a First Class Honours BA from Wimbledon School of Art.

Recent credits include: Million Dollar Quartet (Barn Theatre, Cirencester); L’elisir d’amore and Samson et Dalila (Dorset Opera); Manic Street Creature (Kiln Theatre, Southwark Playhouse); The Rat Trap, Daisy Pulls It Off (Park Theatre); The Gang of Three (King’s Head Theatre); Being Mr Wickham (livestream/UK tour); Es & Flo (Wales Millennium Centre); Tony! [The Tony Blair Rock Opera] (UK tour); Strike! (Southwark Playhouse); Bring It On: The Musical (UK tour); Toast by Nigel Slater (West End/UK tour); Glitterball (Watford Palace Theatre); The Fellowship (Hampstead Theatre); The Witchfinder’s Sister (Queen’s Theatre); Dr Faustus (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse); The Philanthropist (Trafalgar Studios, West End); Single, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Sir Trevor Nunn, One Man, Two Guvnors, Guys and Dolls (New Wolsey Theatre); Once (UK tour); Fences (West End, Theatre Royal Bath).

Jamie trained at RWCMD and has been nominated for a Knight of Illumination Award, two Fringe Theatre Awards and five Offie Awards for Best Lighting Design.

Theatre includes: The Last Five Years (West End/international tour); Jellyfish (National Theatre); Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Goodman Theatre, Chicago); RIDE (Old Globe, San Diego); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Kiss Me, Kate (Leicester Curve); Word-Play (Royal Court Theatre); Tru (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Children, Moonlight and Magnolias (Nottingham Playhouse); The White Chip, Our House, Manic Street Creature, RIDE, The Last Five Years, Strike, Beast, Klippies (Southwark Playhouse); Dragonflies, Firewing, The Harmony Test, Octopolis, Nineteen Gardens, Either, Paradise, Yous Two (Hampstead Theatre); Here Comes J. Edgar!, The Gang of Three (King’s Head Theatre); The Rat Trap, 23.5 Hours, Cowboys and

Lesbians, SUS, Never Not Once, Gently Down the Stream, Alkaline (Park Theatre).

Associate lighting designs include: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Frozen, SIX (West End/international); Born With Teeth, INK, The Night of the Iguana, The Starry Messenger (West End).

Dominic Brennan is a sound designer from West London. His work is featured in A Taste of Ireland and Surinderella (both currently on tour). Previous shows include: Safety (Underbelly); The Children (Nottingham Playhouse); STRIKE! (Southwark Playhouse); Lost Watches, Mediocre White Male, We’re Staying Right Here, Shackleton and His Stowaway (Park Theatre); Surrender, The Misandrist (Arcola Theatre); Spiderfly (Theatre503); Cuckoo (Soho Theatre); The Noisy Dinosaur, The Cheeky Pirate (Toucan Theatre); Everest Mallory 24, Napoleon’s 100 Days, Mark Twain’s The Stolen White Elephant (Paradise Green); Tam O’Shanter, Tales and Whisky (Traverse Theatre) and The Universal Machine (New Diorama Theatre). In 2017, he won the Off-West End Award for Sound Design for Down and Out in Paris and London (New Diorama Theatre). Other work includes music for adverts, short films and a sound installation at Kew Gardens.

Naomi has created movement and choreography in productions for the National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Chichester Festival Theatre, Old Vic, Donmar Warehouse, Regent’s Park, Trafalgar Studios, Nottingham Playhouse, The Watermill, Northern Stage, the egg Bath, Stage Entertainment (Munich), Strike A Light, Coventry UK City of Culture and in the West End, Off-Broadway and on UK tours, including Beginning (NT, West End and UK tour); Quiz (Chichester, West End and UK tour); Disco Pigs (Trafalgar Studios and Irish Rep, NYC).

Naomi was Company Movement Practitioner for the RSC, Creative Learning Practitioner for Frantic Assembly and Movement Associate to Liam Steel on productions at the RSC, Regent’s Park and Opera Holland Park, and to Steven Hoggett on War Correspondents (Helen Chadwick/Birmingham Rep/GDIF). Acting work includes The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (NT, West End);

Dr Dee (ENO/MIF); 24 Hour Plays (Old Vic New Voices); The Gruffalo (West End/UK tour); A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Mikado (Stephen Joseph), and many workshops for NT Studio and The Wedge as writer-performer, funded by Arts Council England. Naomi has taught at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Oxford School of Drama, Royal Academy of Music, Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and on the NT Studio Director’s Course.

Nell Golledge is a lighting designer for theatre and opera. She trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Recent lighting design credits include: Elixir of Love (Wilton’s Music Hall); A DoL House (The Big House); Second Summer of Love, Lady Macbeth Uncut (Drayton Arms Theatre); Last Night at the Opera (Waterperry Opera Festival); Lost Watches (Park Theatre 90); Community Takeover Weekend (Orange Tree); StrangeWife (Lion & Unicorn); Callisto, The Beautiful Future Is Coming (Jermyn Street Theatre); Artists (Camden People’s Theatre); Tuesday (The Hope Theatre); Les Femmes (Royal Academy of Music/Pegasus Opera Company); My Brother’s A Genius, Blue Kimera, If It Didn’t Matter, Thicker Than Water, A Portable Grace, How We Swam, What Lies Above (National Youth Theatre); Drifting.漂浮 (The Place); And Then There Were None (The Wilde Theatre).

Recent assistant/associate credits include: Saving Face (The Place); Quiet Songs (Théâtres de la Ville Luxembourg); Friends the Musical Parody (UK tour); The Little Mermaid (Glasgow King’s); Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Milton Keynes); Flyby (Southwark Playhouse); Can You Feel It (Sadler’s Wells East); As You Like It (OVO Roman Theatre).

Harry was a BAFTA Breakthrough for the casting of his first TV show, G’wed (ITV), which was nominated for Best Scripted Comedy at the TV BAFTAs 2025. His first feature, Reawakening, starred Jared Harris, Juliet Stevenson and Erin Doherty and was released in the UK, Ireland and the US to critical acclaim.

Credits as casting director, theatre, include: The Gang of Three, In the Print (for the King’s Head); Going for Gold (for Park Theatre); and for TV: G’wed (ITVX) and Great Brittons (Channel 4 pilot).

For feature film: Reawakening, and for short film: Laundreams (LFF 2026); Wonderwall (CESAR 2026); The Wasp (LFF 2025); Scope (Best Thriller at Aesthetica); LIONS (BIFA nominated, 1st prize at Cannes 2023); We Used to be Fun, Motorbird, Underside, The Painting and the Statue, Home, Needleteeth, My Father Breaks Things, I’m Afraid of You.

Credits for co-casting, film, include: Truth and Conviction (Angel Studios); Alma, Powderfinger.

As casting associate, TV, credits include: WINTER (ITV); American Heiress (MGM+); Lockerbie: Flight 103 (Sky and Peacock); Belgravia: The Next Chapter (MGM+).

As casting assistant: SS Rajamouli’s worldwide success RRR; For TV: Hotel Portofino (PBS and ITV); Suspect (Channel 4) and The Control Room (Hartswood Films and BBC).

Harry has a number of screen projects in development and is a visiting tutor at the NFTS.

Helen is a freelance stage manager who trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Theatre includes: The Forsyte Saga (Royal Shakespeare Company, Swan Theatre); MILES. (Southwark Playhouse); In the Print, The Pitchfork Disney, This Is Not a Happy Room (King’s Head Theatre); Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare in the Squares); The Lonely Londoners (Kiln Theatre); The Forsyte Saga, A Single Man (Park Theatre); The Barber of Seville (Waterperry Opera Festival); Into the Woods (Royal Academy of Music); Succession Theme is My Ringtone, Peter Pan (Rose Theatre).

Bethany trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Her theatre credits include: In the Print (King’s Head Theatre); Blood Brothers (UK tour); Never Let Me Go, The Glass Menagerie (Rose Theatre tour); Love’s Labour’s Lost (outdoor tour); woman.life.song (Birmingham Opera Company); Quiet Rebels (studio tour); Kin -A New Musical (Teatro Technis); Period Parrrty (Soho Theatre); Soon, Pilot (Summerhall as part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe). Bethany has also worked on immersive experiences: Chat Noir! and 58th Street.

New Wolf Productions are Theatrical Architects that specialise in harnessing the power of an idea and transforming it into a spectacular and immersive experience. As visual storytellers, New Wolf thrive on pushing the boundaries of traditional theatre production. Serving the theatre and immersive experience markets, New Wolf masterfully connects the dots of a vision to create powerful and compelling stories.

Some of the stories we’ve enjoyed telling include: Diary of a CEO Live (UK tour); Allegiance (Charing Cross Theatre); Operation Mincemeat, MILES. (Southwark Playhouse); Ceilidh the Musical (UK tour); Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare North Playhouse); Captain Sandy Live, There’s No Place Like Home (Lyric Theatre); Private Lives (UK tour); Preludes (Southwark Playhouse).

General Manager/Producer: The Haunting of Hill House (UK tour); The Gang of Three (UK tour); Here Comes J. Edgar!, In the Print, Blink, Jack and the Beanstalk, Invasive Species, The Pitchfork Disney, The Gang of Three, Cinderella (King’s Head Theatre); Antics with Ash (Reading and Leeds Festival); Buyer & Cellar (King’s Head Theatre and Theatre Royal Plymouth); Steven Bartlett’s The Diary of a CEO Live (The London Palladium, UK & Ireland tour); Alyssa, Memoirs of a Queen! and Legends of Lockdown (Vaudeville Theatre); There’s No Place Like Home (Lyric Theatre); Captain Sandy Live (Lyric Theatre, Duchess Theatre & UK tour); Khiyon Hursey in Concert (The Other Palace Studio); Live at Lola’s (The Hippodrome London); Tori Scott: Tori with an “I”, Danielle Steers: So Much More and Dom Hartley-Harris: Live in London (Crazy Coqs); Next Fall (Southwark Playhouse); Step 9 (of 12); Precious Little Talent (Trafalgar Studios).

West End Co-Producer: Retrograde (Apollo Theatre); Kiss Me, Kate and A Strange Loop (Barbican Theatre); A Little Life (Harold Pinter Theatre and Savoy Theatre); Sweat (Gielgud Theatre); Good People (Noël Coward) and Barking in Essex (Wyndham’s Theatre).

Upcoming productions include: Dick Whittington and His Cat (King’s Head Theatre).

From 2014 to 2019, James was the producer for English Touring Theatre, where he produced the award-winning West End transfer of Equus (Trafalgar Studios).

James is currently the Interim Executive Producer for the King’s Head Theatre in London.

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