Individuals

This is a list of some of the individuals active in alternative theatre during the timeframe c1968 to 1990 and includes performers, directors, writers, designers, musicians amongst others. Also included are the names of practitioners whose post-war work in the 1950s and early 1960s directly contributed to the evolution of alternative theatre. It is by no means definitive and is largely drawn from those individuals named in the interviews conducted so far, though not exclusively so. Long-term we hope to create pages for each person or link to material elsewhere on the web. If you have names, images and information to contribute to an existing page or if you would like to write a page for someone mentioned here or who should be mentioned here, please contact us.

Use the Search box at the top of each page to find where on the site and by which interviewee/s they are mentioned.

At the end of this page is an index of other influential individuals mentioned in the interviews.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A
Kay Adshead
Tim Albery
Jude Alderson
Bill Alexander
Sally Alexander
Mike Alfreds
Jamal Ali
Roger Allam
Trevor Allan
Sheila Allen
Michael Almaz
Adjoa Andoh
Yvon Appleby
Robyn Archer
Annabel Arden
Jane Arden
John Arden
Frankie Armstrong
John Ashford
Lyn Ashley
Brian Astbury
Ros Asquith
Pierre Audi
Liane Aukin
B
Bill Bailey
Parv Bancil
Mick Banks
Verity Bargate
Patrick Barlow
Helen Barnaby
Jenny Barnett
Neil Bartlett
John Barton
Linda Bassett
Anne Bean
Norman Beaton
Gerard Bell
Claire Benedict
Stuart Bennett
Steven Berkoff
ED Berman
Annalyn Bhanji
Sudha Bhuchar
Suman Bhuchar
Bruce Birchall
Bill Bland
Claire Bland
Eve Bland
Michael Bogdanov
Claudia Boulton
Chris Bond
Jack Bond
Elizabeth Bond
Jane Boston
Brian Bovell
Chris Bowler
Mike Bradwell
Yvonne Brewster
Pam Brighton
Chris Britton
Tim Britton
Jim Broadbent
Dinah Brook
Peter Brook
Pip Broughton
Ralph Brown
Jane Buckler
Sheila Burnett
Jimmy Bywater
C
Burt Caesar
Catty Calthrop
Bea Campbell
Ken Campbell
Hazel Carey
Jenny Carey
Gordon Case
Annie Castledine
Clair Chapman (aka Clair Chapwell)
Stacey Charlesworth
Penny Cherns
Peter Cheeseman
Caryl Churchill
Susie Clayton
Colm Clifford (Colm Clubhain)
Jackie Clune
Makeda Coasten
Norma Cohen
Nora Connolly
Ann Considine
Lavinia Coop
Helen Cooper
Lindsay Cooper
Tony Coult
Tony Craze
Felix Cross
Sheryl Crowne
Jeannie Crowther
Joel Cutrara
Kate Crutchley
Liz Custer
D
Teresa D’Abreu
Margaretta D’Arcy
Corinne D’Cruz
Pauline Daniels
Ron Daniels
Sarah Daniels
Paul B Davies
Andrew Davies
Anne Marie Davies
Poulomi Desai
April de Angelis
Debb’bora
Graham Devlin
Nancy Diuguid
Donna and Kebab
Elyse Dodgson
Claire Dowie
Stella Duffy
Katrina Duncan
Sue Dunderdale
Jan Dungey
E
Caroline Eaves
David Edgar
Ade Edmondson
Barry Edwards
Django Edwards
Christine Ellerbeck
Su Elliott
Tony Elliott
Roger Ely
Anne Engel
Ruud Engelander
Sarah Evans
Bernardine Evaristo
F
Tash Fairbanks
Alfred Fagon
Vicky Featherstone
Rachel Feldberg
Rose Fenton
Lesley Ferris
Mike Figgis
Deborah Findlay
Rick Fisher
Jill Fleming
Tim Fleming
Paddy Fletcher
Nigel Fountain
Lavinia Fox
John Fisk
Dario Fo
Julian Forsyth
John Fox
Maggie Fox
Sandra Freeman
Berta Freistadt
Nicole Freni
Brian Friel
Sue Frumin
Anna Furse
G
Nigel Gearing
Pam Gems
Nandita Ghose
Laura Gilbert
Geoff Gilham
Gill Gill
Sue Gill
Faith Gillespie
John Godber
Steve Gooch
Buzz Goodbody
Tony Gouveia
Noel Greig
Jill Greenhalgh
Sally Greenwood
Bonnie Greer
Annie Griffin
Susan Griffin
Drew Griffiths
Geraldine Griffiths
Malcolm Griffiths
Trevor Griffiths
Claire Grove
Penny Gulliver
H
Robert Hahn
Gloria Hamilton
Gillian Hanna
Charlie Hanson
Alex Harding
John Harding
Julian Harf
Anita Harman
Jenny Harris
Barbara Harrow
Jean Hart
Chris Hauke
Jim Haynes
Tony Haynes
Philip Hedley
Patricia Hilaire
Beverley Hills
Ian Hinchliffe
Guy Holland
Jacqueline Holborough
Julie Holledge
Joyce Holliday
David Holman
John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins
Didi Hopkins
Neil Hornick
Boris Howarth
John Hoyland
Doug Hughes
Dusty Hughes
Hilary Hughes
Albert Hunt

I
Tunde Ikoli
Ags Irwin
Walter Iselink
Sue Imerson
Cathy Itzin
J
Jenn Ben Jackov
Glenda Jackson
Tony Jackson
Janice Jarvis
Ann Jellicoe
Jimenez Sisters
Ed Jobling
Caroline John
Judith Johnson
Chris Johnston
David Johnston
David Jones
Judith Jones
Marie Jones
Stephen Joseph
K
Zofia Kalinska
Stefan Kalipha
Tadeusz Kantor
Nicola Kathryns
Jackie Kay
Tina Keane
Barrie Keeffe
Jude Kelly
Tricia Kelly
Moira Kelly
Lindsay Kemp
Noreen Kershaw
Paul Kessle
Naseem Khan
Roy Kift
Cath Kilcoyne
Don Kinch
Paul Kleiman
Debby Klein
Will Knightley
L
Lackadaisical
Trevor Laird
Kristine Landon-Smith
Angela Langfield
Bryony Lavery
Josie Lawrence
Lyn Layram
Peter Leaborn
Carol Leader
Jenny Lecoat
Vanessa Lee
Joy Lemoine
Sandy Lester
Annabel Leventon
Anita Lewton
Steve Ley
Liz Leyh
Vicky Licorish
Ted Little
Joan Littlewood
Errol Lloyd
Mark Long
Elaine Loudon

Claire Luckham
Oscar Lumley –Watson
M
Ruth Mackenzie
Ilona Macleish
Louis Mahoney
Elizabeth Mansfield
Miriam Margolyes
Laurel Jana Marks
Ruth Marks
Linda Marlowe
Charles Marowitz
Pam Martell
Bill Martin
Bob Mason
Libby Mason
Peta Masters
Masters and Griffiths
Kika Markham
Matt Matthews
Mustapha Matura
Rik Mayall S
Hazel Maycock
Joan-Ann Maynard
Nicola McAuliffe
Hannah McCusker
Mary McCusker
John McGrath
Marguerite McLaughlin
Sean McLaughlin
Clifford McLucas
Michael McMillan
Sarah McNair
Sally Meades
Julia Meadows
Nancy Meckler
David Medalla
Kay Mellor
Johnny Melville
Pauline Melville
Liz Merington
Clive Merrrison
Angie Milan
Tim Miller
Ann Mitchell
Bill Mitchell
Andrea Montag
Chris Montag
Ariane Mouchkine
Christine Moore
Mary Moore
Natasha Morgan
Mike Mould
Al Mueller
Roland Muldoon
Carmen Munroe
Bruce Myers
Jodi Myers
Saffron Myers

N
Amani Napthali
Sharon (Shaz) Nassauer
Jose Pepe Nava
Mica Nava
Lucy Neal
Roy Nevitt
Lloyd Newson
Maggie Nicolls
Penny Nice
Bill Nighy
Peter Noble
O
Penny O’ Connor
Joan Oliver
Peter Oliver
Olusola Oyeleye
Susie Orbach
Maria Oshodi
Philip Osment
Cindy Oswin
Kate Owen
P
Louise Page
Julie Parker
Karen Parker
Bob Peck
Mike Pearson
Birte Pedersen
Roger Perry
Kate Phelps
Greg Philo
Geraldine Pilgrim
Stephen Poliakoff
Eileen Pollock
Mic Pool
Barbara Poona
Beth Porter
Jill Posener
Roz Price
Alphie Pritchard
Sarah Pritchard
Fred Proud
Stephanie Pugsley
Q
Diana Quick
R
Victoria Radin
Paulette Randall
Carlyle Reedy
Roland Rees
Gavin Richards
Jo Richler
Joy Elias-Rilwan
Michele Roberts
Margaret Robson
Tom Robinson
Billy Roche
Tony Rohr
James Roose Evans
Helen-Anne Ross
Peter Rowe
Kate Rowlands
Jacqueline Rudet
Akua Rugg
Stephen Rumbelow
Clive Russell
Kate Rutter
Imogen Ryall
Chris Ryan
Sue Ryding
S
Barbara Samuels
Susan Sanders
Penny Saunders
Roxanne Schafer
Tessa Schneideman
Pam Schweitzer
Amanda Sebestyen
Parminder Sekkon
Nabil Shaban
Nona Shepphard
Jim Sheridan
Steve Shill
David Sibley
Tussy Silberg
Alexander James Simon
Pip Simmons
Corinne Skinner-Carter
Penny Slinger
Pippa Sparkes
Victor Spinetti
Max Stafford-Clark
Maggie Steed
Eleanor Stephen
Ellen Stewart
Seonaid Stewart
Lennie St Luce
Jenny Stoller
Richard Stourac
Clare Summerskill
Jim Sweeney
Cleo Sylvester
T
Jackie Tayler
Joelle Taylor
CP Taylor
Chris Taylor
Chris Tchaikovsky
Clive Tempest
Kully Thiarai
Tim Thomas
Melanie Thompson
Tierl Thompson
Lily Susan Todd
Ian Townson
Debs Trethewey
Steve Trafford
John Turner
Ken Turner
Mary Turner

U
V
Claire Venables
Jatinder Verma
W
Lou Wakefield
Alan Wakeman
Elaine Wallace
Neil Wallace
Sam Walters
Iris Walton
Michelene Wandor
Chris Ward
Nina Ward
Don Warrington
Michele Warsama
Bobby Weaver
Lois Weaver
Clive Webster
Timberlake Wertenbaker
Celia West
Hilary Westlake
Thomas Wheatley
Eileen White
Helen White
Steve Whitson
Frank Whitten
Jane Wibberly
Mike Wilcox
Maggie Wilkinson
Heathcote Williams
Roy Williams
Sally Willis
Snoo Wilson
T.Bone Wilson
Jude Winter
Emil Wolk
Victoria Wood
X
Y
Naftali Yavin
Z

INDEX OF OTHER INFLUENTIAL INDIVIDUALS MENTIONED IN THE INTERVIEWS
Maria Aitken

Oscar Bucelinck
Muriel St Claire Byrne

Anthony Cornish

David de Keyssar
Marguerite Duras

Harold Hobson

Ann Jellicoe

Richard Kennedy

Margaret Leighton
Joan Littlewood
Barry Long

Midge Mackenzie
Jonathan Meade
Juliet Mitchell
Laura Mulvey

Philip Saville

Polly Toynbee
Ken Tynan

Arnold Wesker
Peter Wollen

Mai Zetterling