The Wolf of Wall Street today announces full casting and reveals its venue location for the world premiere immersive production opening this Autumn. The Wolf of Wall Street will be taking over a landmark building situated in the heart of the City of London close to Liverpool Street Station at 5-15 Sun Street, Central London. The 2000sq metre property, spanning four floors and 25 rooms will undergo a major transformation to recreate ‘90s New York and the world of infamous stockbroker Jordan Belfort, whose life was depicted by Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese’s movie of the same name. This new production, adapted and directed by Alexander Wright (The Great Gatsby, Orpheus & Eurydice), will preview from 5 September 2019, with opening night for press on 4 October.
A cast of 16 will play multiple characters as featured in Jordan Belfort’s memoirs, from his Stratton Oakmont players to the FBI, plunging audiences into a world of greed, power and excess, and bringing to life the highs and lows of Belfort’s millionaire lifestyle in a night of Class A entertainment. Oliver Tilney will play Jordan Belfort with Rhiannon Harper-Rafferty as his wife Nadine, and James Bryant as his right-hand man Danny. The full cast also includes: Charlotte Brown, Caroline Colomei, Ivy Corbin, Alan Devally, Sam Donnelly, Fia Houston Hamilton, Samuel Hunt, Naail Ishaq, Andrew Macbean, Olivia Marcus, Jack Matthew, Razak Osman and Gail Sixsmith.
The creative team brings together Director Alexander Wright and Designer Ciaran Bagnall with costume design by Heledd Rees, lighting by Rachel Sampley, co-sound design and music supervision by Phil Grainger, co-sound design by Lara Gallagher and movement by Chi-San Howard. The team is completed by Associate Director Aileen Gonsalves, Dramaturg and Assistant Director Rebecca Hanbury, Assistant Director Fiona Kingwill and Safeguarding, Consent and Inclusion Coordinator Brodie Turner. The company, creative and production teams comprises a 50/50 male/female balance with 47% from a BAME background.
Jordan Belfort. Stock-market millionaire at 26. Federal convict at 36. By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could.
Stratton Oakmont is hiring. The FBI is closing in. You’re either with him or you’re against him.
The Wolf of Wall Street is presented by Stratton Oakmont Productions Ltd and comes from the creators and producers behind The Great Gatsby - the longest-ever running immersive show in the UK which continues an open-ended run in London Bridge, as well as playing in cities across Europe. Producers Louis Hartshorn and Brian Hook’s current shows also include Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5 The Musical in the West End and Amelie The Musical UK Tour and in the West End. The Wolf of Wall Street is adapted and directed by Alexander Wright.
Tickets are now on sale at www.immersivewolf.com
LISTINGS
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
Presented by Stratton Oakmont Productions Ltd
Original book written by Jordan Belfort
Adapted by Alexander Wright
Directed by Alexander Wright
Location: Immersive Wolf of Wall Street, 5 – 15 Sun Street, London EC2N 2PT
First Preview: 5 September 2019
Opening Night: Friday 4 October 2019
Currently booking until: 19 January, 2020
Performance schedule:
5 September to 29 September: Wednesday to Friday 7.30pm, Saturday 2.30pm & 7.30pm, Sunday 6.30pm
30 September to 19 January 2020: Tuesday to Friday 7.30pm, Saturday 2.30pm & 7.30pm, Sunday,6.30pm (no performance Tue 29 Sept, 26 Nov or 24 Dec, Wed 25 Dec, Thu 25 Dec, Wed 1 Jan 2020).
Box Office details
Website: www.immersivewolf.com
Tel: 0203 053 1500
Prices from £59.95
Lottery tickets £10, £25
The Wolf of Wall Street trader scheme for VIP upgrades and free entry – further details via the website.
Twitter: @ImmersiveWolf
Instagram: /ImmersiveWolf
#TheWolfOfWallStreet
BIOGRAPHIES
Stratton Oakmont Productions Ltd c/o Hartshorn - Hook Productions
Hartshorn – Hook Productions has produced over 120 productions across 5 continents, including the Olivier and multi-LADCC Award-winning Rotterdam (Arts, 59E59 in New York , Skylight in LA and UK Tour); Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5 the Musical (Savoy, West End), DreamWorks’ Madagascar - the Musical (UK tour); Urinetown (Apollo); American Idiot (Arts and UK tour) and Woody Sez (Arts). Their production of Amelie The Musical will transfer from its critically acclaimed UK tour to The Other Palace, West End this Christmas.
Immersive theatre credits include: the UK’s longest-ever-running immersive production, The Great Gatsby (London, Dublin, Brussels); NeverLand (VAULT Festival); West Side Story for the Prince’s Trust 2019 Invest in Futures, the dinner-theatre A Christmas Carol, with food from MasterChef winner Natalie Coleman (various locations) and Richard II, performed in the House of Commons.
Louis Hartshorn and Brian Hook hold the positions of Executive Director and Producer at the Arts Theatre in the West End, currently home to the hit musical Six.
Jordan Belfort, The Wolf of Wall Street
In the 1990s, Jordan Belfort built one of the most dynamic and successful sales organizations in Wall Street history. During that time, he soared to the highest financial heights, earning over $50 million a year, a feat that coined him the name “The Wolf of Wall Street”.
As the owner of Stratton Oakmont, Belfort employed over 1,000 stockbrokers and raised over $1.5 billion and started more than 30 million-dollar-companies from scratch.
He’s acted as a consultant to more than 50 public companies, and has been featured in virtually every major newspaper and magazine in the world, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The London Times, The Herald Tribune, Le Monde, Corriere della Serra, Forbes, Business Week, Paris Match and Rolling Stone.
Along the way to making lots of money, overwhelmed and seduced by the dizzying heights of the Wall Street lifestyle, Jordan endured a spectacular, and well-publicized, fall from grace. Learning invaluable lessons from his mistakes and money lost, he re-emerged to become a globally recognized potent force behind extraordinary business successes for himself and others.
Today, his proprietary Straight Line System allows him to take virtually any company or individual, regardless of age, race, sex, educational background or social status, and empower them to create massive wealth, abundance, and entrepreneurial success, without sacrificing integrity or ethics.
CREATIVE TEAM
Alexander Wright, Writer (adaptation) and Director
Alexander Wright is an internationally award-winning director and playwright based in North Yorkshire. He runs The Guild Of Misrule with Brian Hook with whom he adapted and directed The Great Gatsby and NeverLand. He is artistic director of The Flanagan Collective, where his work includes Orpheus, Eurydice, Fable, Babylon, Beulah and Some Small Love Story. He is one of the founding directors of the critically acclaimed Belt Up Theatre, and one half of The Lonely Arts Club. He lives in a water mill, which he is, slowly, turning into an arts and making place.
Ciaran Bagnall, Designer
Ciaran trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff and was made a fellow of the college in 2017. Credits for set & lighting design include The Magic Flute (Wexford Opera House/The Gaiety, Dublin), A Streetcar named Desire (Lyric Theatre, Belfast), Lady Magma (Atelier de Paris), The Last Yankee (Library Theatre, Bolton), Oliver Twist (Hull Truck), And Did those Feet (Macron Stadium, Bolton), Double Cross (Lyric Theatre Belfast & Abbey Theatre, Dublin), The Mai (Irish Tour/Dublin Theatre Festival), Lovers (Lyric Theatre, Belfast), Hard to be Soft (The MAC, Belfast), RED (Lyric Theatre, Belfast–Winner Best Design Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards), The Train, (Abbey Theatre, Dublin), Ashes, Educating Rita, Two, A view from the Bridge, Twelfth Night, Of Mice and Men, Tull, The Glass Menagerie (Octagon Theatre, Bolton), Cinderella (Hull Truck), Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe), Othello (RSC), Conquest of Happiness (Olympic Stadium, Sarajevo), Shoot the Crow (Opera House, Belfast), Snookered (Bush Theatre, London), The Killing of Sister George (Arts Theatre, London), A Slight Ache and Landscape (National Theatre). Ciaran has also won awards for his designs for Singing in the Rain (UK Tour–Winner Best Design Manchester Theatre Awards) and The Great Gatsby (Gate Theatre, Dublin–Winner Best Design Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards),
Heledd Rees, Costume Design
Helen trained at The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. For theatre, set and costume design credits include Merched Caerdydd (Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru), Nos Sadwrn o Hyd (Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru) Gladhearts Adventuring (Theatr Clwyd & National Trust), Llew a’r Crydd (Pontio & Theatr Clwyd), Twrw Dan a Dicw (Cwmni Fran Wen), Tabby McTat (Freckle Productions), The Great Gatsby (Theatr Clwyd) and The Guild of Misrule, Estron and La Primera Cena (Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru). For TV Helen has also worked as Assistant Set Designer and Costume Designer for Flood: To the Sea (BBC2). Helen is also an Associate Artist for Christmas at Blenheim (Blenheim Palace) and Assistant Designer for Flood & Fairy Portal Camp (Slung Low).
Rachel Sampley, Lighting
Rachel Sampley is a London based lighting and video designer. She has previously designed the lighting for The Great Gatsby and NeverLand for Guild of Misrule. Other recent credits include Misterman (New Wimbledon), Neck or Nothing (Pleasance London), Silk Road (Trafalgar Studios 2), Nele Needs a Holiday (Latitude Festival) and Scheherazade and 1001 Nights (Sadler's Wells). Rachel holds an MA in devised theatre from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and a BFA in lighting design from University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA).
Phil Grainger, Music Supervisor and Co-Sound Designer
Phil Grainger is a producer and performer. At the helm of his company Gobbledigook Theatre, Phil is best known for making large scale family adventures, including The Tales of Beatrix Potter (Castle Howard Walled Garden) and new versions of The Wind in the Willows and Robin Hood at Bolton Abbey. Phil is the sound designer on the Guild of Misrule's smash hit The Great Gatsby, which now approaches its third year in London. Phil originated the role of George Wilson and also composed the songs to be performed live in the show. Other works include the International award winning Orpheus and Eurydice which Phil co-created with the Flanagan Collectives. He wrote the music for both shows, and has Performed Orpheus over 200 times across four continents. The shows have won awards including Best Theatre (Adelaide fringe - 2019), and Best in Fringe (Dunedin Fringe 2019).
Lara Gallagher, Co-Sound Designer
Lara Gallagher is a sound designer, multi-instrumentalist and the current Musician in Residence with Music Network and the Arts Council Ireland. Having recently graduated from Music and Drama at Trinity College Dublin she joined the Irish Composer’s Collective and has begun working as a composer and sound designer. She is also a member of the Irish jazz group Draoi. Her theatre credits include Outlying Islands (Samuel Beckett Theatre), Big Love (Beckett Theatre), Madama Butterfly (Helix), The Chased (Scene and Heard), Fairytale Heart (Debut Festival), It’s a Puffin Classic (Debut Festival), The Great Gatsby (Gate Theatre), Beat. (Dublin Fringe Festival, Beckett Theatre), Shakers Re-stirred (Smock Alley Theatre) and Where Are You From (Abbey Theatre).
Chi-San Howard, Movement Director
Chi-San’s credits include Catching Comets (Pleasance Edinburgh), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Oxford Playhouse), Variations (NT Connections, Dorfman Theatre), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Southwark Playhouse), Let Kilburn Shake (Kiln Theatre), Skellig (Nottingham Playhouse), Under the Umbrella (Belgrade Theatre Coventry), Carmen the Gypsy (Arcola Theatre), Bury the Dead; Homos or Everyone in America, Adding Machine: A Musical (Finborough Theatre), Describe the Night (Hampstead Theatre) NeverLand (Guild of Misrule/Site specific), Cosmic Scallies (Royal Exchange Manchester/Graeae), Children of the Night (Oxford Playhouse/Oxford Arts Festival), These Trees Are Made of Blood (Arcola Theatre) Deposit (Associate, Hampstead Theatre Downstairs) Occupational Hazards (Associate, Hampstead Theatre) Moth (Hope Mill Theatre), Every You Every Me (Oxford Playhouse), The Tempest, Scarlet (Southwark Playhouse)
CAST
Charlotte Brown
Charly played Amy in CBBC's 4 o’ Clock Club and Agent U in CITV's Spy School. She has also been in a variety of Immersive shows and experiences for Redbull, Aussie Hair and EasyJet.
James Bryant
James has studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, as well as 4th Monkey Theatre Company and The Actor’s Class. James has appeared in feature film Pinky as well as Space Marshals. On stage, James’ credits include Street Magic (Amplified Theatre) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Rumdoxy Theatre).
Caroline Colomei
Caroline recently performed at Allington Castle, with McLeod What on Earth Productions Ltd, in the premier of Absolutely Everything, an immersive show based on the children's book. Previously she completed a tour of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter with TNT Theatre and several short films, including If Apps Existed 500 Years Ago with Yellow Stockings and Forever Eddie with Palikuku films, selected for screening in the Orlando Film Festival. Caroline toured Europe and Japan TNT’s Romeo and Juliet, playing the Nurse and Lily in Half Broke Horses. Other credits include Diana Nichols in California Suite at the St James Theatre and Lady Macbeth in Butterfly Theatre’s Germany tour of Macbeth.
Ivy Corbin
Ivy recently played Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby at Guild of Misrule before taking on the role of Jordan Baker in London. Other theatre includes Macbeth (Wilton's Music Hall), Mother Courage & Her Children (Southwark Playhouse), Much Ado About Nothing (Oxford Shakespeare Co.), Three Sisters (Phil Wilmott Co.), Flush (Matchstick Theatre), 5 out of 10 Men (Edinburgh Fringe). Ivy has previously worked with the likes of Secret Cinema and Immersive Ensemble.
Alan Devally
Alan’s theatre credits include Jimmys Hall (Abbey Theatre, Dublin), The Lonesome West (Royal Court, Liverpool), Mrs Affleck (National), Quality Street (Finborough), Tombstone Tales and Boothill Ballads (Arcola), The Beauty Queen of Leenane (L.C.T), Bound, Enduring Song (Southwark Playhouse), Life Support – An Indie Musical (Theatre Royal, York), Where the White Stops (Antler Theatre) and Portia Coughlan (Red Lion).
Sam Donnelly
Sam’s theatre credits include The Great Gatsby (Hartshorn - Hook Productions), The Best Man (Bill Kenwright tour), The Boys in the Band (Vaudeville Theatre), King Kong: A Comedy (Seabright Productions), Oliver! (Trinity Theatre), Richard III (Iris Theatre) and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Belt Up Theatre). On screen, Sam has appeared in BBC television series Doctors and feature films The Return and The Hooligan Wars. Sam has also featured in radio dramas A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich and The Corrupted (BBC Radio 4). He was long-listed for the BIFA 2015 Most Promising Newcomer Award and was nominated for Best Actor at the 2016 Top Indie Film Awards for his work in The Return.
Rhiannon Harper-Rafferty
Rhiannon’s theatre credits include Shakespeare Trilogy (Donmar Warehouse), War Horse (The Proms), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Apollo Theatre and National Theatre), Body Gossip (Royal Festival Hall), Beasts and Beauties (Hampstead Theatre) and The Seven Ages of Poetry (RSC). Rhiannon has also appeared in television series Midsomer Murders, EastEnders, Doctors, Being Human and The Bill.
Samuel Hunt
Samuel trained in Acting & Contemporary Theatre at East 15 Acting School. Theatre includes The Great Gatsby (Colab Factory), Wild Wood & The Water (Hampstead Heath), Cinderella (Compass Theatre), Mother Goose (UK Tour), Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On (Capstan House), The Closed Casket (Waterstones), Fifth Column (The Vaults), The House Of Love (Wimbledon Arts College), Macbeth (Balfron Tower), Kolbe’s Gift Workshops (Leicester Square Theatre), I Was There (ICA) and We Are Not Amused (Hoxton Hall).
Fia Houston Hamilton
Fia’s theatre credits include Mamma Mia! (UK Tour), Town is Dead (Abbey Theatre, Dublin), Yarico (Trestle Theatre Company), Ghost the Musical (Singapore), Violet (Bernie Grant Arts Centre) and Bare (Union Theatre). Fia has also appeared in a music video for the Years and Years’ song Desire.
Naail Ishaq
Naail has appeared in The Unfortunate Yet Surprisingly Average life of Franklin, Beauty and the Beast and Jack and The Beanstalk with Harrogate Theatre and The Famous Five (Gobbledigook Theatre).
Andrew Macbean
Andrew Macbean trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Theatre credits include Amadeus and Twelfth Night (National), Pressure (West End and 75th DD Anniversary Celebration), Titus Andronicus, Richard III and Measure for Measure (RSC), She Stoops to Conquer (Bath Theatre Royal), Vanity Fair (Middle Temple Hall), Twelfth Night (Reading Between the Lines), Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare in the Squares), Hedda Gabler (Old Vic), Richard III (Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory, Bristol), Cosmic Trigger (Liverpool), The White Whale (Slung Low), The Little Prince (BikeShed Theatre, Exeter), Killer Joe (Bristol Old Vic) and Scrooge The Musical (Tabard Theatre). TV credits include Doctors, ABBA the True Story, Poirot: Evil Under The Sun, Post Code, EastEnders, Torchwood, and The Great Escape. For film he has appeared in The Wrong Sea, Double Top, Dead Cat and The Keith Lemon Film.
Olivia Marcus
Olivia graduated from Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Theatre credits include Predrinks/Afterparty (Mack and Salt), Lord of the Flies (Theatr Clwyd/Sherman Theatre) and Girl in Nobody (Theare Uncut: Cardiff). For TV, Olivia has appeared in Muzlamic (BBC Three). She has also performed in the radio drama Arden of Faversham (BBC Radio 3).
Jack Matthew
Jack Matthew, has performed at the Olivier Theatre, the Arcola Theatre, Theatre Royal Stratford, Tristan Bates and many more. He trained at Jigsaw Arts, Silvia Young and with the NYT. Stage credits include Book of Actions (Camden People’s Theatre), Ruddigore (Theatre Royal Portsmouth), Allegro (Kings Theatre Portsmouth) and Mobile Phone Show (National Theatre).
Razak Osman
Razak trained at ArtsEd and since graduating has featured on Sky One's comedy series You, Me and the Apocalypse. On stage he has performed at Sadler’s Wells and the Barbican with dance company Boy Blue Entertainment. He has also worked with Richard Jones on the Olivier Award-winning production of Katya Kabanova at the Royal Opera House.
Gail Sixsmith
As an actress and co-creator Gail has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Manchester Royal Exchange, Coventry Belgrade, Young Vic, Queen Elizabeth Hall and her own Producing Company ‘Might & Main’. For 15 years she was an associate artist of prolific global touring ensemble TNT Theatre, based in Munich, and has toured extensively on the International stage. She also directed a new visual adaptation of Peter Pan for the German Theatre Circuit in 2015. Her Movement Coaching and lecturing spans work with professional Theatre Companies, the BBC and actor training Conservatoires: most notably ArtsEd where she was Head of Movement; creating and teaching a unique programme of Physical Practice coaching at Bachelor and Masters Levels.
Oliver Tilney
Oliver’s credits include The House (Americana Absurdum), The Great Gatsby (London and Brussels), Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare in the Squares), Some Small Love Story (The Arts Theatre, West End), Dial M For Murder (Vienna’s English Theatre), Loki, Lucifer, Vindici – The Capone Trilogy (Jethro Compton Ltd), Macbeth – Blood will have Blood (China Plate & Contender Charlie), Mamma Mia (Novello Theatre, West End) and Hunchback of Notre Dame (Jethro Compton Ltd for Belt Up Theatre).
