Leonard Bernstein was born on August 25, 1918, in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He took piano lessons as a boy and attended the Garrison and Boston Latin Schools. At Harvard University, he studied with Walter Piston, Edward Burlingame-Hill, and A. Tillman Merritt, among others. Before graduating in 1939, he made an unofficial conducting debut with his own incidental music to "The Birds," and directed and performed in Marc Blitzstein's "The Cradle Will Rock." Then at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, he studied piano with Isabella Vengerova, conducting with Fritz Reiner, and orchestration with Randall Thompson.
In 1940, he studied at the ... read more
Sound Design credits include: Dr Marigold and Mr Chops, Masterclass, Bath Theatre Royal; Twelfth Night, See How They Run, Dancing At Lughnasa, Original Theatre; Pandora, Standing on the Shoulder of Giants; After Troy, Lifeblood Theatre; Journey’s End, Icarus/Original Theatre; In The Solitude of Cotton Fields, Young Vic; The Space Between My Head and My Body, Gin in the Tea; The Only Girl in the World, Fractured Venus; The Railway Children, Sevenoaks Playhouse; Wagstaffe the Wind-up Boy, Rapunzel, Kneehigh Theatre; Souterrain, Cornwall, WildWorks. Associate Credits include: The Government Inspector, Young Vic; The Hound of The Baskervilles, Ian Fricker; Voyage Round My ... read more
Sally Cookson trained at LAMDA and worked as an actor for ten years before embarking on a freelance directing career.
She has worked on productions for theatres including the Old Vic London, the Bristol Old Vic, the National Theatre, the Duke of York's and the Rose Theatre Kingston.
Most recently Sally has directed A Monster Calls at The Old Vic, The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe at The Bridge Theatre and Peter Pan at The National Theatre.
She is an associate artist at BOV where productions include Jane Eyre, Sleeping Beauty, Peter Pan, Treasure Island, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, Papa Please ... read more
