Who We Are
Management Committee
Mark Magill – Chief Executive
Has been with LOST since 1989. He has had a varied input working both backstage as set, costume & lighting designer, as well as stage managing before taking up the challenge of producing the annual Edinburgh shows, co-coordinating the One Act Festivals and directing. In this last role his credits include ‘Little Shop of Horrors’, ‘Oliver!’, ‘Heart of Darkness’, ‘To the Woods’ & ‘Blue Remembered Hills’. Outside of LOST he ran his own fringe theatre production company during the nineties, staging over a dozen new plays and gaining a Time Out Critics Choice in the process. He has been LOST’s Company Manager since 1997.
Jamie-Glyn Bale – Production Manager
Began his theatrical career in Spain where he worked at the Granada International Festival of Music & Dance, the English National Ballets tour of southern Spain & The Liceu de Barcelona’s Die Zauberflote. Jamie has been heavily involved with LOST Theatre since 2001. In this time he has been Stage Manager, Producer, Festival Coordinator and most recently Company Manager. In recent years he has complimented his time with LOST working both on the London fringe and in Theatrical Education with his association with the British American Drama Academy (London) & Escenica (Granada, Spain). In 2009 h returned briefly to Granada to translate and direct Neil Labute´s ´The Shape of Things´ before returning to London to re-join the LOST Theatre team.
Violaine Bailleul – Administrator
Born in Saint Malo (France). Violaine worked in Paris for a press-agency in charge of promotion of artists; and also for “Africolor”, an African music festival, as their communications officer. In 2004 she moved to Granada (Spain) where she worked as administrator and Company Managerfor “Animasur”, the leading Street Theatre Company in Andalucia. In 2007, with the Artistic Director of Animasur, she founded La Strada Arte, S.L., producing and promoting “Animasur” and others theatre and circus companies such as “Vaiven Circo y Danza” & “Volunto Teatro”. Having recently moved to the UK, Violaine has worked with Pindrop Theatre, Shapeshifter Productions and, most recently, ATC before joining LOST Theatre full-time.
President (Honorary) and Founder
Cecil Hayter
Founded the LOST Theatre Company in 1979, and has been its constant support and pillar of artistic integrity ever since. Hailing originally from South Africa, he started his career as the artistic director of the Lyric Theatre, Durban. There he was instrumental in bringing many West End and Broadway productions to South Africa for the first time, as well as international stars such as Marlene Dietrich. He has directed over 100 plays and 40 operas and worked in cities across the world including New York, Granada, Madrid and St. Petersburg. He has toured productions all over the United Kingdom and directed at the Swan Theatre Stratford-upon-Avon. In London he has directed plays at Young Vic, Haymarket, Cockpit and three operas for the Holland Park Open Air Festival. He choreographed 2 shows for young people for B.B.C. television. In New York he has directed and scenically designed musicals at various off-Broadway venues, and probably strangest of all – worked on lighting design for Pink Floyd at some of their earliest London gigs.
Trustees
Julian England - Chair
Joined LOST in 1985. He is a Director, Writer and Actor. He has worked extensively for the LOST Theatre Company in all these capacities and is now Chairman of the company’s trustee's committee. In Pantomimes he has played Baron HardUp in ‘Cinderella’ and the Emperor Chop Suey in ‘Aladdin’. His acting roles include Solyony in ‘Three Sisters’, Dr Prentice in ‘What the Butler Saw’, Dogberry in ‘Much ado About Nothing’ and the Interrogator in ‘Closetland’. His directing credits include ‘The Seagull’, ‘Hedda Gabler’, ‘Can’t pay! Won’t pay!’, ‘Leonardo’s Last Supper’ (Best Direction award – LOST One Act Festival). He has also written, directed and performed in the comedy sketch shows ‘The Leisure Virus’, ‘Spasm’, ‘The Invisible Bob Show’ and currently the ‘OXYshow’ at the Canal Cafe. He is currently co-producing and performing in his brand new venture 'Date Horse' at The Griffin (Vauxhall). Julian is an avid bike user.
Katherine Portman
Has been with LOST since 1993. Alongside her many acting credits – the highlight was playing a cauliflower in Cinderella – she was also LOST’s administrator. Currently she is working in theatre production.
Paul Costello
Paul Costello was born in Africa, studied at Oxford and now lives in London, where he has worked in theatre education for the last ten years, firstly at the National Youth Theatre and currently, for the British American Drama Academy. He can also be found on occasion playing comedy ukulele songs under the dubious moniker of Johnny Cashpoint. Paul is co-producing and performing in 'Date Horse' at The Griffin (Vauxhall) every Thursday evening.
Ben Carter
Ben Carter joined LOST in January 2009. He is a budding entrepreneur with too many ideas for his own good but during the day, for the last 3 1/2 years, he has been working as a Business Analyst for a large multinational company analysing offices' working structures and procedures and working out ways to improve them. For the 8 years before this, he was an actuarial analyst for pension funds, ensuring companies paid in enough money, taking in to account the probabilities of every thing that could happen in the next 50 years or so . He has been a keen follower of LOST for many years now, being friends with several of the "old guard". He's looking forward to discussing the benefits stochastic modelling has for revenue projections in such an unpredictable world as the theatre, as well as seeing some outstanding and original productions.
Elizabeth Redmond
Betty worked as Company/Association Secretary to trade associations in London for 35 years. Apart from her secretarial duties she had the responsibility of budgetting and controlling the organisations' finances and reporting to Trustees on a quarterly basis. She has a lively interest in all aspects of theatre, a passion which she passed down to her two daughters who are now "in the business".
