Cast & Creatives

Theatre Credits Include: Theory For The Attention Of Mr Einstein (Old Red Lion and Frankfurt); Doolally Days (Leicester Haymarket, Tour, Hampstead New End); This Much Is True – The Killing Of Jean Charles De Menezes, with Sarah Beck (Theatre503); At The Point Of Need (Old Vic); and The Promise.

Paul was the Artistic Director of the Bristol Old Vic. His productions there included In The Ruins (Bristol Old Vic and Royal Court); The Misanthrope (Bristol Old Vic and National Theatre co-production.)

He worked closely with Arthur Miller on the European premieres of two of his plays: The Man Who Had All The Luck and The Archbishop’s Ceiling (Bristol Old Vic and Young Vic.) His other productions included Hamlet, Othello, Uncle Vanya, The Clandestine Marriage, The Life Of Galileo, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, Tartuffe, In Times Like These (by Jeremy Brock) and The Three Musketeers. The community play he created A Town In The West Country, involved over three hundred Bristolians and was the subject of a South Bank Show on ITV.

As a freelance director, his productions include Uncle Vanya (Gate Theatre Dublin); Loot (the Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester); and the Misanthrope (Cambridge Theatre.)

Film Crdeits Include: His short Syrup was nominated for an Oscar, and a BAFTA, won the Cannes Jury Prize and the Amnesty International Award. The American with Matthew Modine and Diana Rigg (BBC Films); Elijah (CTV) won the Gemini and Leo Awards in Canada.

TV Credits Include: As a director The Bill, Eastenders, Bramwell, NCS, Poirot, Miss Marple, Messiah and Casualty.

He co-created Breathless with Peter Grimsdale, directed the first two episodes and wrote the bulk of the series.

He co-created Casualty and Holby City with Jeremy Brock. Casualty is now 37 years old and is the longest-running medical series in the world. To date, the BBC show has won six Royal Television Society awards and six BAFTAS.

Currently, he is working on 58 Seconds with Jeremy Brock and Heroes/Berlin for German TV.

Carolyn Downing is a Tony and Olivier award-winning sound designer working in a variety of fields including exhibitions, fashion, theatre and live events. Creativity and collaboration are at the heart of her work from initial concept development with fellow designers through to realisation with technical and project delivery teams.

Theatre and live events includes: Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony (Birmingham Alexander Stadium, 2022); Life Of Pi (West End, Boston A.R.T & Broadway - NY Times Critics Pick, winner of Tony Award for Best Sound Design 2023, nominated for Olivier Award for Best Sound Design 2021 and awarded UK Theatre Award for Best Design 2019); Fatal Attraction (UK Tour, 2022); Fantastically Great Women (UK Tour, 2021); Summer & Smoke (Almeida theatre, nominated for Olivier Award for Best Sound Design 2019); A Number (The Bridge Theatre); The Normal Heart (2021), The Welkin (2020), Downstate (also at Steppenwolf Chicago 2018/19), Mr Gum & The Dancing Bear - The Musical (2019), As You Like It (2015), Our Country’s Good (2015), The Motherf***er With The Hat (2015), Dara (2015), Protest Song (2012) and Double Feature (2011) (National Theatre); Death Of A Salesman (Young Vic/WE, 2019/20); All My Sons (Old Vic, 2019); White Teeth (Kiln Theatre, 2018); Gypsy (2019), The Producers (2018) (The Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Chimerica (Almeida Theatre/West End, awarded Olivier for Best Sound Design 2014); Carmen Disruption (2015), Blood Wedding (2006) (Almeida Theatre); Me And My Girl (2018), Fiddler On The Roof (2017) (Chichester Festival Theatre); BLANK (2019), Les Liaisons Dangereusse (also on Broadway 2015/16), Fathers and Sons (2014), Lower Ninth (2010), Dimetos (2009) and Absurdia (2008) (Donmar Warehouse); Hope (2014), The Low Road (2013), Choir Boy (2012) (Royal Court); Fantastic Follies Of Mrs Rich (2017), Julius Caesar (2017), Anthony & Cleopatra (2017), Coriolanus (2017), The Gods Weep (2010), The Winter’s Tale (2007) and Pericles (2007) (RSC); The Believers (2014), Beautiful Burnout (2010) and Love Song (2011) (Frantic Assembly).

Designs for opera include: Benjamin De Derniere Nuit (Opera De Lyon, 2016); How the Whale Became

(Royal Opera House, 2013); American Lulu (Opera Group, 2013); and After Dido (ENO, 2009).

Her work in exhibitions spans a variety of styles and venues including Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure (NYC and World Tour, 2022-ongoing); Reimagining Wordsworth (The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, 2020); Hut 11A: The Bombe Breakthrough (Bletchley Park, 2018); Mary Quant (2019) and So You Say You Want A Revolution? Records & Rebels 1965-70 (2016) (V&A); Exhibitionism: The Rolling Stones (Saatchi Gallery, 2016); Louis Vuitton: Series 3 (2015); Collider (2014) and The Constellation Storybox (2015) (Science Museum) and From Street to Trench (Imperial War Museum North, 2014).

Carolyn has created soundscapes for Shawn Mendes Illuminate Tour 2017 and Louis Vuitton: Spring/ Summer 2015, Fall 2015, Spring/Summer 2016, Spring/Summer 2017 Ready To Wear Collection shows at The Louis Vuitton Foundation & The Louvre, Paris. Carolyn has also co-created a geo-located audio experience as part of The Estuary Festival 2021 called Ness by Robert Macfarlane, developed with director Zoe Svendsen.

For further information and updates - www.carolyndowning.co.uk

Creative and Production team