Greg Banks' work as an actor, writer and director has taken him all over the world from Singapore to Seattle via the Arctic Circle. Greg's plays include Tir Na N'og (Travelling Light/West End, Broadway, Touring Winner of Samuel Beckett Award/TMA nominee for best play for young people 1998), Why The Whales Came (Plymouth Theatre Royal/ Theatre Alibi/West End) Dorian Grey (American Drama Group/International touring) Too Many Cooks (Travelling Light) Huck Finn, Pinocchio, Robin Hood, Antigone (Minneapolis Children's Theatre) Me and My Shadow (Theatre Alibi) Snow Queen (Norden farm) Arabian Nights, Hansel\n and Gretel, Keep on Moving, (Fair Game Theatre.) He has directed for many companies including The Bristol Old Vic (Endgame), The Unicorn Children's Theatre London (The Wizard of Oz), Minneapolis Children's Theatre (Romeo and Juliet. Winner of the 2009 Ivey award for Direction and voted best play of 2009 by Twin Cities.com, Antigone, Huck Finn, Pinocchio, Robin Hood) Vedogon Theatre, Moscow (Comedy Of Errors) American Drama Group (The Great Gatsby.) The Birmingham Stage Company (Kensukes Kingdom; nominated for a 2006 T.M.A. award, Treasure Island, Why The Whales Came),Polka Children's Theatre, (Just So by Jamila Gavin) New Perspectives, Travelling Light (Stones, Tir Na N'og, Too Many Cooks), M6 Theatre Company (Forever, Peacemaker, Trouble), 1157 Performance Company, Seattle Children's Theatre and The New York State Theatre (Tempest, King of Shadows by Adrian Mitchell).
Learn more about Greg at www.gregbankstheatredirector.co.uk
Thomas is a composer, musical director and musician. He studied at Oxford University. He has composed music for theatre companies including the National Theatre, Theatre Alibi, the Egg Theatre, Mean Feet Dance, Unicorn Theatre, Exeter Northcott, Theatre Royal Plymouth, Fairgame, Nottingham Playhouse, London Bubble, Ludlow Festival, Travelling Light, Birmingham Stage Company and TNT. His music has been performed to audiences worldwide, from Singapore to St. Petersburg, on the West End and Broadway. He has worked with theatre companies in Costa Rica, the US (including Into the West at Seattle Children's Theater), Russia and China. Concert compositions include an oratorio for orchestra and choir, Street of Bugles (performed at Birmingham Symphony Hall and Gloucester Cathedral), and a Three Choirs Festival commission, Four Songs for the End of Wars, composed for the Gloucester Cathedral bells and a choir. He has also written scores for several BBC Radio 4 drama productions. More at www.thomasjohnsoncomposer.com
