Mark Ireson

Photo by Alison Dale

SLT Member 2005 - Present

Stage Management

• Stage Manager The Sleeping Beauty (2006) (Bell Theatre)
• Stage Manager The Lesson and Our Man (2006) (Bell Theatre)
• Assistant Stage Manager Vincent In Brixton (2006) (Bell Theatre)
• Production Manager Tom Jones (2006) (Bell Theatre)
• Stage Manager The Positive Hour (2006) (Prompt Corner)
• Stage Manager The Dust Collectors (2006) (Bell Theatre)
• Stage Manager Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco (2007) (Prompt Corner)
• Stage Manager The Fire Raisers (2008) (Prompt Corner)
• Stage Manager The House Of Bernarda Alba (2009) (Prompt Corner)
• Stage Manager Daisy Pulls It Off (2009) (Bell Theatre) with Graham Clements
• Stage Management Dick Whittington (2009) (Bell Theatre)
• Stage Manager Mojo (2010) (Prompt Corner)
• Stage Manager The Thwarting Of Baron Bolligrew (2010) (Bell Theatre)
• Stage Manager 4Play (2011) (Prompt Corner)
• Stage Manager The Merchant Of Venice (2011) (Bell Theatre)
• Stage Manager Immaculate (2013) (Prompt Corner)
• Stage Manager House Of Several Stories (2014) (Prompt Corner)
• Stage Manager Spank House (2015) (Bell Theatre)
• Assistant Stage Manager Festen (2015) (Bell Theatre)
• Assistant Stage Manager Jack (2016) (Main Hall, Stanley Halls)
• Stage Management Love's Labour's Lost (2017) (Main Hall, Stanley Halls)
• Stage Manager Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense (2017) (Upper Hall, Stanley Halls) up to performance.
• Stage Manager The Great Christmas Vaudeville Extravaganza! (2017) (Main Hall, Stanley Halls)
• Assistant Stage Manager Next Fall (2018) (Old Fire Station)
• Stage Manager Skylight (2018) (Old Fire Station)
• Stage Manager She Ventures and He Wins (2019) (Old Fire Station)
• Stage Manager Di and Viv and Rose (2019) (Old Fire Station)
• Stage Manager Grimm Tales (2020) (Old Fire Station)
• Stage Manager Wasted (2021) (Old Fire Station)
• Stage Manager Swive (Elizabeth) (2021) (Old Fire Station)
• Stage Manager Blue Remembered Hills (2022) (Old Fire Station)
• Assistant Stage Manager Summer Shorts (2022) (Old Fire Station)
• Assistant Stage Manager The Last Of The Pelican Daughters (2022) (Old Fire Station)
• Stage Manager Beauty And The Beast (2023) (Old Fire Station) with Graham Clements

Productions as Director

• The Donahue Sisters (2007) (Bell Theatre)
• Be My Baby (2008) (Prompt Corner)
• Meeting Joe Strummer (2009) (Prompt Corner)
• Moonlight And Magnolias (2010) (Bell Theatre)
• The Dog In The Manger (2011) (Prompt Corner) with Charlotte Vaight
• The Importance Of Being Earnest (2012) (Bell Theatre) with Charlotte Vaight
• Chimps (2013) (Bell Theatre)
• Contractions (2014) (Prompt Corner)
• Educating Rita (2014) (Bell Theatre)
• Betrayal (2015) (Bell Theatre)
• Around The World In Eighty Days (2016) (Main Hall, Stanley Halls)
• Foxfinder (2017) (Upper Hall, Stanley Halls)
• Nell Gwynn (2018) (Old Fire Station)
• Old Fools (2019) (Old Fire Station)
• A Christmas Carol (2019) (Old Fire Station)
• A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) (2021) (Old Fire Station)
• The Phlebotomist (2022) (Old Fire Station)
• The Clear Out (Summer Shorts) (2022) (Old Fire Station)
• After Life (2023) (Old Fire Station)
• The Liar (2024) (Old Fire Station)

Set construction and get in

• The Sleeping Beauty (2006) (Bell Theatre)
• The Lesson and Our Man (2006) (Bell Theatre)
• Vincent In Brixton (2006) (Bell Theatre)
• The Sacred Flame (2006) (Prompt Corner)
• Tom Jones (2006) (Bell Theatre)
• Richard III (2006) (Bell Theatre)
• The Positive Hour (2006) (Prompt Corner)
• The Dust Collectors (2006) (Bell Theatre)
• The Donahue Sisters (2007) (Bell Theatre)
• Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco (2007) (Prompt Corner)
• The Fire Raisers (2008) (Prompt Corner)
• 'Dentity Crisis and Endgame (2008) (Bell Theatre)
• Be My Baby and The Brylcreem Boys (2008) (Prompt Corner)
• Meeting Joe Strummer (2009) (Prompt Corner)
• Accidental Death Of An Anarchist (2009) (Prompt Corner)
• The House Of Bernarda Alba (2009) (Prompt Corner)
• Schweyk In The Second World War (2009) (Prompt Corner)
• The Shagaround (2009) (Bell Theatre)
• The Birthday Party (2009) (Bell Theatre)
• Daisy Pulls It Off (2009) (Bell Theatre)
• The Wisdom of Eve (2009) (Bell Theatre)
• Dick Whittington (2009) (Bell Theatre)
• Mojo (2010) (Prompt Corner)
• The Actor's Nightmare and Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You (2010) (Bell Theatre)
• Blackbird (2010) (Prompt Corner)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (2010) (Bell Theatre)
• Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle And Dick (2010) (Bell Theatre)
• The Comedy Of Errors (2010) (Bell Theatre)
• Moonlight And Magnolias (2010) (Bell Theatre)
• Enchanted April (2010) (Bell Theatre)
• Saucy Jack And The Space Vixens (2010) (Prompt Corner)
• Burnt By The Sun (2010) (Bell Theatre)
• The Thwarting Of Baron Bolligrew (2010) (Bell Theatre)
• Entertaining Mr Sloane (2011) (Bell Theatre)
• The Blue Room (2011) (Bell Theatre)
• The Dog In The Manger (2011) (Prompt Corner)
• Whipping It Up (2011) (Bell Theatre)
• 84 Charing Cross Road (2011) (Bell Theatre)
• The Merchant Of Venice (2011) (Bell Theatre)
• Babes In The Wood (2011) (Bell Theatre)
• The Importance Of Being Earnest (2012) (Bell Theatre)
• The Penelopiad (2012) (Bell Theatre)
• Singles (2012) (Bell Theatre)
• Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead (2012) (Bell Theatre)
• Oh What A Lovely War (2012) (Bell Theatre)
• Jeffrey (2012) (Prompt Corner)
• As You Like It (2012) (Bell Theatre)
• Immaculate (2013) (Prompt Corner)
• Bent (2013) (Bell Theatre)
• The Boy Friend (2013) (Bell Theatre)
• Chimps (2013) (Bell Theatre)
• Little Shop Of Horrors (2013) (Bell Theatre)
• Hobson's Choice (2014) (Bell Theatre)
• Contractions (2014) (Prompt Corner)
• Educating Rita (2014) (Bell Theatre)
• Much Ado About Nothing (2014) (Bell Theatre)
• Clybourne Park (2014) (Bell Theatre)
• House Of Several Stories (2014) (Prompt Corner)
• Jack The Ripper (2014) (Bell Theatre)
• Henry V (2014) (Bell Theatre)
• Abigail's Party (2015) (Bell Theatre)
• We'll Always Have Paris (2015) (Prompt Corner)
• The Night Season (2015) (Bell Theatre)
• Betrayal (2015) (Bell Theatre)
• Festen (2015) (Bell Theatre)
• The Swan (2015) (Prompt Corner)
• The Government Inspector (2015) (Upper Hall, Stanley Halls)
• Oliver! (2015) (Main Hall, Stanley Halls)
• Two Into One (2016) (Main Hall, Stanley Halls)
• Around The World In Eighty Days (2016) (Main Hall, Stanley Halls)
• Jesus Christ Superstar (2016) (Main Hall, Stanley Halls)
• Bette And Joan (2016) (Upper Hall, Stanley Halls)
• Landscape With Weapon (2016) (Upper Hall, Stanley Halls)
• Scarborough (2016) (Upper Hall, Stanley Halls)
• Foxfinder (2017) (Upper Hall, Stanley Halls)
• The Crocodile (2017) (Upper Hall, Stanley Halls)
• Forget-Me-Not Lane (2017) (Upper Hall, Stanley Halls)
• Love's Labour's Lost (2017) (Main Hall, Stanley Halls)
• The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice (2017) (Upper Hall, Stanley Halls)
• Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense (2017) (Upper Hall, Stanley Halls)
• Bette & Joan: The Final Curtain (2017) (Upper Hall, Stanley Halls)
• God Of Carnage (2017) (Upper Hall, Stanley Halls)
• Edith In The Dark (2017) (Upper Hall, Stanley Halls)
• The Great Christmas Vaudeville Extravaganza! (2017) (Main Hall, Stanley Halls)
• The Servant Of Two Masters (2018) (Upper Hall, Stanley Halls)
• Most Of What Follows Is A Complete Waste Of Time (2018) (Upper Hall, Stanley Halls)
• His Dark Materials (2018) (Old Fire Station)
• Next Fall (2018) (Old Fire Station)
• A Chorus Of Disapproval (2018) (Old Fire Station)
• No Exit (2018) (Old Fire Station)
• The Misanthrope (2018) (Old Fire Station)
• Aspidistra Resistance (2018) (Old Fire Station)
• Nell Gwynn (2018) (Old Fire Station)
• Skylight (2018) (Old Fire Station)
• Postcards From God - The Sister Wendy Musical (2018) (Old Fire Station)
• Forty Winks (2018) (Old Fire Station)
• The Snow Queen (2018) (Old Fire Station)
• Radiant Vermin (2019) (Old Fire Station)
• She Ventures And He Wins (2019) (Old Fire Station)
• The Father (2019) (Old Fire Station)
• Out Of Love (2019) (Old Fire Station)
• Communicating Doors (2019) (Old Fire Station)
• Old Fools (2019) (Old Fire Station)
• The Ladykillers (2019) (Old Fire Station)
• Peter Pan (2019) (Old Fire Station)
• Sticks And Stones (2019) (Old Fire Station)
• Di and Viv and Rose (2019) (Old Fire Station)
• Lear (2019) (Old Fire Station)
• How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found (2019) (Old Fire Station)
• A Christmas Carol (2019) (Old Fire Station)
• Jumpers For Goalposts (2020) (Old Fire Station)
• Holes (2020) (Old Fire Station)
• Good (2020) (Old Fire Station)
• Do Not Disturb (2020) (Old Fire Station)
• The Bet (2020) (Old Fire Station)
• Grimm Tales (2020) (Old Fire Station)
• Being Friends & Lost (2021) (Old Fire Station)
• A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) (2021) (Old Fire Station)
• The Water Harvest (2021) (Old Fire Station)
• The Memory Of Water (2021) (Old Fire Station)
• Silence / Night (2021) (Old Fire Station)
• Waiting For Godot (2021) (Old Fire Station)
• Wasted (2021) (Old Fire Station)
• Picnic At Hanging Rock (2021) (Old Fire Station)
• Swive (Elizabeth) (2021) (Old Fire Station)
• Mirror, Mirror On The Wall (2021) (Old Fire Station)
• The Phlebotomist (2022) (Old Fire Station)
• Do Not Disturb (2022) (Old Fire Station)
• The Bald Prima Donna (2022) (Old Fire Station)
• Love & Money (2022) (Old Fire Station)
• Hapgood (2022) (Old Fire Station)
• The Habit Of Art (2022) (Old Fire Station)
• Twelfth Night (2022) (Old Fire Station)
• Blue Remembered Hills (2022) (Old Fire Station)
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (2022) (Old Fire Station)
• Summer Shorts (2022) (Old Fire Station)
• The Last Of The Pelican Daughters (2022) (Old Fire Station)
• The Children (2022) (Old Fire Station)
• Vampir (2022) (Old Fire Station)
• A Song At Twilight (2022) (Old Fire Station)
• The Funeral Director (2022) (Old Fire Station)
• Thumbelina (2022) (Old Fire Station)
• Chaos (2023) (Old Fire Station)
• An Intervention (2023) (Old Fire Station)
• The Elephant Man (2023) (Old Fire Station)
• The Venetian Twins (2023) (Old Fire Station)
• Spider (2023) (Old Fire Station)
• True West (2023) (Old Fire Station)
• After Life (2023) (Old Fire Station)
• The Girl On The Train (2023) (Old Fire Station)
• The Railway Children (2023) (Old Fire Station)
• Home, I'm Darling (2023) (Old Fire Station)
• Tilly Of Bloomsbury (2023) {Old Fire Station)
• The Same Deep Water As Me (2023) (Old Fire Station)
• Apologia (2023) (Old Fire Station)
• a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun) (2023) (Old Fire Station)
• You Stupid Darkness! (2023) (Old Fire Station)
• Beauty And The Beast (2023) (Old Fire Station)
• The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui (2024) (Old Fire Station)
• Jekyll And Hyde (2024) (Old Fire Station)
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2024) (Old Fire Station)
• Orca (2024) (Old Fire Station)
• One For Sorrow (2024) (Old Fire Station)
• The Liar (2024) (Old Fire Station)
• Whose Life Is It Anyway? (2024) (Old Fire Station)
• Gundog (2024) (Old Fire Station)
• Queers (2024) (Old Fire Station)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (2024) (Old Fire Station)

Set Design

• Moonlight And Magnolias (2010) (Bell Theatre)
• The Importance Of Being Earnest (2012) (Bell Theatre)
• Chimps (2013) (Bell Theatre)
• Educating Rita (2014) (Bell Theatre)
• Around The World In Eighty Days (2016) (Main Hall, Stanley Halls) with Chaz Doyle
• Foxfinder (2017) (Upper Hall, Stanley Halls)
• Nell Gwynn (2018) (Old Fire Station)
• Old Fools (2019) (Old Fire Station)
• Swive (Elizabeth) (2021) (Old Fire Station)
• The Phlebotomist (2022) (Old Fire Station) with Rebecca Vincent
• Hapgood (2022) (Old Fire Station)
• The Last Of The Pelican Daughters (2022) (Old Fire Station)
• The Liar (2024) (Old Fire Station)

Lighting Design

• The Shagaround (with James Webb) (2009) (Bell Theatre)

Lighting and Sound Operation

• The Shagaround (2009) (Bell Theatre)
• Love's Labour's Lost (2017) (Main Hall, Stanley Halls)
• Old Fools (2019) (Old Fire Station) with Carlos Guzman
• A Christmas Carol (2019) (Old Fire Station)

Sound Operation

• Oliver! (2015) (Main Hall, Stanley Halls)

Projections

• After Life (2023) (Old Fire Station) with Han Evans

Projection Operation

• The Dust Collectors (2006) (Bell Theatre)
• A Christmas Carol (2019) (Old Fire Station)

Production Photography

• Spank House (2015) (Bell Theatre)

Rigging

• The Birthday Party (2009) (Bell Theatre)
• The Ruling Class (2010) (Bell Theatre)
• Good (2020) (Old Fire Station)

Scenic Art

• Nell Gwynn (2018) (Old Fire Station) with Carole Ironside

"Performances"

• Passenger in Departure Lounge (2006) (Prompt Corner)
• Bystander / Fish Seller / Manservant in Tom Jones (2006) (Bell Theatre)
• Singing "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" with Alex Watts in Celebrating Shakespeare (2016) (Main Hall, Stanley Halls)
• Video extra in The Crocodile (2017) (Upper Hall, Stanley Halls)
• Stage Manager / The Miller in Grimm Tales (2020) (Old Fire Station)
• Interviewer in The Phlebotomist (2022) (Old Fire Station)

Programme designs

• Meeting Joe Strummer
• Schweyk In The Second World War
• The Shagaround
• The Ruling Class
• Moonlight And Magnolias
• The Dog In The Manger
• 84 Charing Cross Road
• The Importance Of Being Earnest
• The Deep Blue Sea
• Chimps
• Contractions
• Calendar Girls
• Blithe Spirit
• Educating Rita
• Much Ado About Nothing
• We'll Always Have Paris
• Betrayal
• Old Fools
• A Christmas Carol
• A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad)
• After Life

Other SLT Roles

• Theatre Committee 2013 - 2019

Interests

• #BEAD and other hashtags