The Steam Industry

Artistic Director - Phil Willmott
Associate Producer - Suzanna Rosenthal
Finborough Theatre Artistic Director - Neil McPherson

The Steam Industry currently produces at its base The Finborough Theatre (Under the direction of Neil McPherson) and The Scoop - More London's 1000 seat open air amphitheatre, on the banks of the Thames near Tower Bridge.

2009 is the Steam Industry’s fourteenth birthday. After many years of balancing award-winning, cutting-edge fringe theatre at the Finborough Theatre, with populist Off West End hits at BAC, The Drill Hall, The Bridewell, The Kings Head and The Riverside Studios, the company has entered an exciting new stage of development for its teenage years.

Artistic Director, Phil Willmott, in collaboration with producer Suzanna Rosenthal, hopes to capitalise on the company’s past successes by creating innovative co-productions with theatres all over London and beyond. Following the critical and box office successes of HENRY VIII, THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO UI, VICTOR/VICTORIA (UK premiere) at the Bridewell Theatre, MEASURE FOR MEASURE MALAYA at the Riverside Studios, OEDIPUS, AGAMEMNON, ANDROCLES AND THE LION, THE LONDON NATIVITY, CHILDREN OF HERCULES, TREASURE ISLAND, THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE, CYCLOPS!, HELEN OF TROY, DISNEY’S JUNGLE BOOK, BLOOD WEDDING AND PETITE ROUGE - A CAJUN RED RIDING HOOD in the Scoop Amphitheatre at More London, we are delighted to be continuing our collaboration with More London to create London's seventh Free Open-Air Theatre Season.

2008 saw the launch of Steam Industry Free Theatre, our sister company, that has been created specifically to produce this season of free theatre and similar initiatives for the future.

IMAGES FROM BLOOD WEDDING AT THE SCOOP

Notable past Steam Industry successes have included award-winning development of new writing at the Finborough, particularly the early work of writers such as Conor McPherson, Naomi Wallace, Chris Lee, David Eldridge and Mark Ravenhill’s SHOPPING AND FUCKING plus popular productions of CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, THE GRAPES OF WRATH, TRELAWNEY OF THE WELLS, LOYALTIES, THE HIRED MAN, THE LOWER DEPTHS and Joe DiPietro’s controversial comedy F**CKING MEN which transferred for a sell out, extended run at the Kings Head. For BAC box office hits have included Germaine Greer’s LYSISTRATA, TITUS ANDRONICUS, original musicals of AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS AND UNCLE EBENEZER (A CHRISTMAS CAROL) plus innovative revivals of SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS, THE KING AND I, SWEET CHARITY, CALAMITY JANE AND THE SOUND OF MUSIC.