Rupert Goold is Artistic Director of Headlong Theatre. Productions for Headlong include ENRON, King Lear, Six Characters in Search of an Author, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Rough Crossings, Faustus, Restoration and Paradise Lost.

From 2002-5 Rupert was Artistic Director of the Royal and Derngate Theatres in Northampton where productions included Hamlet, Othello, Waiting for Godot, Insignificance, The Weir, Betrayal, Arcadia and Summer Lightning. He was Associate Artist at Salisbury Playhouse from 1996-97 during its reopening under Jonathan Church where he directed The End of the Affair, Dancing at Lughnasa and the national tour of Travels With My Aunt. He was a Trainee Director under Sam Mendes at the Donmar Warehouse 1995-96.

His work as a freelance director includes Turandot (ENO), Time and the Conways (National), Oliver! (West End), No Man's Land (Gate Theatre, Dublin/West End); The Glass Menagerie with Jessica Lange (West End); the world premiere of Speaking Like Magpies, a new play by Frank McGuinness, for the RSC; and a national and international tour of Scaramouche Jones with Pete Postlethwaite. In August 2006 he directed The Tempest with Patrick Stewart as Prospero for the RSC. Rupert's Macbeth, with Patrick Stewart, transferred from Chichester Festival Theatre to the West End in 2007, then to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York and finally to Broadway, finishing in May 2008.

Rupert's opera work includes Le Comte Ory (Garsington Opera) and L'Opera Seria, Gli Equivoci and Il Pomo D'Oro (Batignano).

Rupert won the 2007 Evening Standard, Critics' Circle and an Olivier award for Best Director for Macbeth as well as the 2009 Evening Standard award for Best Director for ENRON.

Henny's first job was at the Almeida Theatre under the Artistic Directorship of Jonathan Kent and Ian McDiarmid. Following a period working for theatrical agency London Management, she worked for West End production and general management company Act Productions from 2000-2005, where projects included Anything Goes (Theatre Royal Drury Lane, directed by Trevor Nunn); Don Carlos (Gielgud, directed by Michael Grandage); The Price (Apollo/tour, directed by Sean Holmes); Humble Boy (Gielgud/tour, directed by John Caird) and many other plays and musicals on tour, in the West End and internationally. In 2005 she joined Oxford Stage Company as Executive Producer and alongside Rupert Goold re-named and re-structured the company, which became Headlong Theatre in 2006.

Ben Power has worked as writer and dramaturg for theatre companies including the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. He was dramaturg and Literary Associate on A Disappearing Number for Complicite, which won the 2007 Evening Standard, Critics’ Circle and Olivier awards for Best Play.

For Headlong: Six Characters in Search of an Author (Gielgud Theatre, West End and Chichester Festival, 2008), Faustus (Hampstead Theatre and UK Tour 2006/7), Paradise Lost (Hackney Empire and UK Tour 2006).

Other Theatre includes: A Tender Thing (RSC, 2009), The Things She Sees (National Theatre Connections, 2009) Cinderella (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, 2008), A Disappearing Number (Complicite, Barbican and International Tour, 2007/8), The Tempest & Much Ado About Nothing (RSC Complete Works Festival 2006); Tamburlaine The Great (Bankside Rose, 2004).

Radio: A Disappearing Number (Radio adaptation, BBC Radio 3).

Jenni graduated from Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2002 with an MA in Arts Administration and Cultural Policy. Before joining Headlong Theatre in 2006 she was Administrator for London based new writing company ATC for 3 years, touring new work throughout the UK, including One Minute and Country Music by British writer Simon Stephens and A Brief History of Helen of Troy by US playwright Mark Schultz. Jenni is on the advisory board for site specific theatre company InSight.

Julie began her career in Arts Administration at the Customs House, South Shields. As Administrator she saw the organisation grow from a team of 3 people and a derelict building into a thriving arts centre. She later joined Box Clever Theatre Company as Administrative Director. Between 2002-2004, Julie worked in a freelance capacity, retaining the financial brief for Box Clever Theatre Company and acting as Administrator to The Samling Foundation, a charity dedicated to nurturing and offering opportunities to performing and visual artists. There followed 2 years as Finance Director of Arc, Stockton's arts centre, seeing the company emerge from the ACE recovery programme to become a financially successful organisation.

Julie currently splits her time between Box Clever Theatre Company and Headlong Theatre - holding the position of part-time Finance Manager at both organisations.

Lindsey graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2006 with a BA (Hons) in Drama and Sociology. She moved from Manchester to London in 2007 to follow her dream of working in theatre and began by completing an internship at the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill. Lindsey joined Headlong as Administrative Assistant in November 2007 and in August 2009 was promoted to the role of Administrator.

Lucinda first worked for Headlong in 2007, after spending a year doing an internship for Richard Frankel Productions in New York.  She has just spent two years in South Korea where she organised international tours for Cho-In Theatre and worked for the Seoul Performing Arts Festival.  She is currently doing a MA in Cultural Policy and Management at City University.