The Barn Theatre, 2025

Creatives

Written By Michael Morpurgo

Adapted for stage by Simon Reade

UK tour 2025

Creatives

Based on the book: Rachel Bright & Jim Field

Adapted & Directed: Emma Earle    

Music & Lyrics: Eamonn O’Dwyer

Set and Costume Designer: Oli Townsend

Puppetry Director: Yvonne Stone

Movement and Choreographer: Kloé Dean

Lighting Designer: James Whiteside

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

The Watermill Theatre, 2024

Creatives

Written by Michael Morpurgo 

Adapted by Simon Reade 

Music & Lyrics by Chris Larner 

Co-Director: Elle While

Co-Director: Indiana Lown-Collins

Set and Costume Designer: Yoav Segal

Puppet Designer/ Maker/Director: Marc Parrett

Lighting Designer: Jonathan Chan

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlstrom

Movement Director: Asha Jennings-Grant

Musical Supervisor and Onstage MD: Simon David

Alexandra Palace and Nottingham Playhouse, 2021 & 2023

Creatives

Adaptation: Mark Gatiss

Director: Adam Penford

Designer: Paul Wills

Lighting Designer: Philip Gladwell

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Associate Sound Designer: Tom Shipman

Video Designer: Nina Dunn

Movement Director: Georgina Lamb

Composer: Tingying Dong

Puppet Designer and Director: Matthew Forbes

Musical Director: Tom Attwood

UK tour, 2024

Creatives

Based on the book by Rachel Bright and Jim Field

Adaptation: Sarah Punshon

Music & Lyrics: Eamonn O’Dwyer

Director: Sarah Punshon

Composer & MD: Eamon O’Dwyer

Movement & Puppetry Director: Laura Cubitt

Additional Choreographer & Puppet Associate: Emma Brunton

Designer: Oli Townsend

Lighting Designer: Ryan Day

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Costume Supervisor: Antonia Day

Menier Chocolate Factory, 2024

Creatives

Playwright: Paul Grellong

Director: Dominic Dromgoole

Designer: Paul Farnsworth

Lighting Designer: Oliver Fenswick

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Theatre Peckham and UK tour 2024

Creatives

Book, music, lyrics by Caroline Wigmore & Jen Green 

Based on the book by Gillian Hibbs  

Directed by Kate Golledge

Associate Director: Michelle Payne 

Musical Director: Josh Sood 

Designer: Isobel Nicholson ​

Lighting Designer: Holly Ellis 

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström 

UK tour, 2024

Creatives

Playwrights: Andy Hamilton & Guy Jenkin

Director: Derek Bond

Designer: Peter McKintosh

Lighting Designer: Peter Mumford

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Video Designer: Dan Light

Composer: Max Pappenheim

Associate Sound Designer: Tom Shipman

Criterion, London West End 2023

Chichester Festival Theatre, Minerva, 2022

Creatives

Playwright: Steven Moffat

Director: Mark Gatiss

Designer: Robert Jones

Lighting Designer: Mark Henderson

Video Designer: Andrzej Goulding

Sound Designer and Music: Ella Wahlström

UK tour 2023-2024

Ethel Barrymore, Broadway 2023

Apollo, West End, 2014, 2016

Creatives

Playwrights: Henry Lewis, Henry Shields and Jonathan Sayer

Director: Adam Meggido

Designer: Simon Scullion

Costume Designer: Roberto Surace

Lighting Designer: Matt Haskins

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Composers: Richard Baker and Rob Falconer

Associate Sound Designer: Tom Shipman

Photo: © 2013 Mischief Theatre

World Premiere: Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonics 2017

Composer: Esa-Pekka Salonen

Soloist: Yo-Yo Ma

Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen and Alan Gilbert

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Photo: @2017 Anne Ryan

Crucible, Sheffield 2023

Creatives

Playwright: Molière

Adaptation: Roger McGough

Director: Sarah Tipple

Designer: Colin Richmond

Lighting Designer: Johanna Town

Composer: Oliver Birch

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Casting Director: Ellie Collyer-Bristow

Movement Director: Ali James

Assistant Director: James Cottis

Hong Kong Ballet & 59 Productions

Hong Kong Cultural Centre 2023

creatives

Concept: Septime Webre and 59 Productions

Choreography and Direction: Septime Webre

Music: Nico Muhly

Script: Mark Grimmer

Video Designer: Tom Wexler (59 Productions)

Set Designer: Dayoung Shin (59 Productions)

Costume Design: Yoki Lai

Lighting Design: Sally Ferguson

Sound Design: Ella Wahlström

Lighting Associate / Programmer: Tamykha Patterson

Associate Sound Designer / Front of House Engineer: Tom Shipman

Photo © 59 Productions Ltd.

Complicité

Theatre Royal Plymouth, UK and European tour 2022 - 2023

creatives

Adapted from the novel by Olga Tokarczuk

Directors: Simon McBurney & Kirsty Housley

Set and Costume Design: Rae Smith

Lighting Design: Paule Constable

Associate Lighting Designer: Lucía Sánchez Roldán

Sound Design: Christopher Shutt

Associate Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Video Design: Dick Straker

Dramaturges: Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre and Laurence Cook

Original Compositions: Richard Skelton

Criterion, West End 2023

Creatives

Playwright: Mark Evans

Director: Caroline Leslie

Designer: Katie Lias

Lighting Designer: Andrew Exeter

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Regent’s Park open air theatre, 2022

Creatives

Book: Johnny McKnight

Music & Lyrics: Douglas Hodge

Director: Timothy Sheader

Design: Colin Richmond

Choreographer: Liam Steel

Puppet Designer & Director: Toby Olié

Lighting Designer: Howard Hudson

Sound Designer: Nick Lidster

Sound Designer (content): Ella Wahlström

Photo: Mark Senior

Golden Toad

Theatre Peckham and UK tour 2022

Creatives

Based on Michael Morpurgo's MUDPUDDLE FARM

Musical adaptation: Caroline Wigmore & Jen Green

Director: Kate Golledge

Designer: Stewart J Charlesworth

Choreographer: Chris Whittaker

Lighting Designer: Aaron J Dootson

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Puppets: Clare Johnson

Belarus Free Theatre

The Barbican Theatre, 2022

Creatives

Directors: Nicolai Khalezin and Natalia Kaliada

Design: Nicolai Khalezin

Lighting and Video Designer: Richard Williamson

Music: Mark and Marichka Marczyk of Balaklava Blues

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Associate Sound Designer: Keegan Curran

Photo: Linda Nylind

Mercury Theatre, 2022

Creatives

Adaptation: Ryan McBryde

Director: Ryan McBryde

Design: James Button

Lighting Designer: Ben Cracknell

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Associate Sound Designer: Leigh Davies

Musical Director: Jessica Dives

Movement Director: Michela Meazza

Photo: Pamela Raith

The Watermill Theatre, 2020 and 2022

Creatives

Book: Rhys Jennings

Music and lyrics: Darren Clark

Director: Charlotte Westenra

Designer: Anna Kelsey

Choreographer: Steven Harris

Puppet Designer: Finn Caldwell

Lighting Designer: Hartley T A Kemp

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Riverside Studios, 2022

Creatives

Playwright: Elizabeth McGovern

Director: Gaby Dellal

Designer: 59 Productions

Lighting Designer: Elliot Griggs

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Costume Designer: Fotini Dimou

Movement Director: Gemma Payne

Photo: Marc Brenner

The Royal Court, 2021

Creatives

Playwright: Al Smith

Director: Hamish Pirie

Designer: Moi Tran

Lighting Design: Lee Curran

Composer: Carlos Gutiérrez Quiroga

Sound Design: Ella Wahlström

Movement Director: Yami Löfvenberg

Photo: Helen Murray

Michael Grandage Company

UK Tour 2021

Creatives

Writer: Julian Barnes

Cast: Ian McDiarmid

Director: Michael Grandage & Titas Halder

Set & Costume Designer: Frankie Bradshaw

Lighting Designer: Paule Constable

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Associate Lighting Designer: Ryan Day

Photo: Marc Brenner

A binaural audio drama

Playwright: Alexandra Wood

Director: Natalie Abrahami

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Producer: Audible Theatre

Nottingham Playhouse, 2021

Creatives

Playwright: Pam Gems

Director: Adam Penford

Musical Director, Arranger and Orchestrator: Gareth Valentine

Designer: Frankie Bradshaw

Lighting Designer: Jack Knowles

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Photo: Marc Brenner

Frantic Assembly

UK tour, 2020

Creatives

Playwright: Sally Abbott

Directors: Scott Graham & Kathy Burke

Designer: Morgan Large

Lighting Designer: Paul Keogan

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Southwark Playhouse, 2021

Creatives

Book: Richard Hough

Music: Ben Morales Frost

Director: Charlotte Westenra

Designer: Anna Kelsey

Choreographer: Steven Harris

Lighting Designer: Clancy Flynn

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Associate Sound Designer: Leigh Davies

Musical Director: Alan Williams

Puppet Designer: Maia Kirkman-Richards

Magic Consultant: Scott Penrose

Photo: Geraint Lewis

Garrick, West End 2019

Creatives

Playwright: Michael Frayn

Director: Jeremy Herrin

Designer: Max Jones

Lighting Designer: Tim Lutkin

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Movement Director: Joyce Henderson

Arcola, 2019

Audible

Creatives

Playwright: Al Smith

Director: Josh Roche

Designer: Sophie Thomas

Lighting Designer: Peter Small

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Royal Court, RSC

Creatives

Playwright: David Edgar

Director: Chris Haydon

Designer: Frankie Bradshaw

Video & Lighting Designer: Will Reynolds

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

National Theatre, Dorfman

Bush,

Creatives

Playwright: Ben Wetherill

Director: Tim Hoare

Designer: Amy Cook

Lighting Designer: Jamie Platt

Sound Design: Ella Wahlström

Production Credits

Theatre: Nottingham Playhouse

Playwright: Ron Hutchinson

Director: Kirsty Patrick Ward

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Production Credits

Theatre: Rose Theatre Kingston

Director: Ciaran McConville

Composer: Eamonn O’Dwyer

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Production Credits

Company: Frantic Assembly

Director: Scott Graham & Simon Pittman

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Venue: Latitude Festival & National Theatre River Stage

Production Credits

Playwright: Ella Hickson

Director: Natalie Abrahami

Sound Designer: Ben & Max Ringham

Sound Operator: Ella Wahlström

Theatre: National Theatre Dorfman

Production Credits

Theatre: Royal Court

Producer: Clean Break

Director: Stacey Gregg & Deborah Pearson

Sound design: Ella Wahlström

Image: ©2019 Royal Court

Production Credits

Theatre: Bristol Old Vic

Director: Rob Watt

Playwright: Stef Smith

Producer: Headlong

Sound design: Ella Wahlström

Image: ©2019 Headlong

Production credits

Writer & Creator: Judith Adams

Installation at: Brontë Parsonage Museum

Video design: Leo Warner

Sound design: Ella Wahlström

Image: © 2018 White Stone Arts

Production Credits

Theatre: Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmed Cultural Centre

Director: Hisham Jaber

Video design: 59 Productions

Sound design: Ella Wahlström

Image: © 2018 Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmed Cultural Centre

Production Credits

Company: Complicite

Director: Simon McBurney

Sound Designer: Gareth Fry with Pete Malkin

Sound Operator: Ella Wahlström

Sound Operator: Helen Skiera

Photography: © 2015 Gianmarco Bresadola

Production Credits

Production: Robert Wilson & Mikhail Baryshnikov

Director: Robert Wilson

Sound Designer: Nick Sagar & Ella Wahlström

Photography: © 2015 Robert Wilson Company

Production Credits

Company: The Wrong Crowd 

Director: Hannah Mulder & Rachael Canning

Sound design: Ella Wahlström

Image: ©2019 Wrong Crowd

Production Credits

Theatre: Park Theatre

Playwright: Danny Robins

Director: Hannah Price

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Image: @2018 Park Theatre

Production Credits

Company: Fuel

Playwright: Danielle Pearson

Creator & Performer: Jesse Fox

Director: Jemima James

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Production Credits

Playwright: Charlene James

Director : Anastasia Osei-Kuffour

Sound designer: Ella Wahlström

Production: Royal Court School's Tour

Production Credits

Theatre: Sheffield Theatres and The Bush

Playwright: James Perkins

Director: Rob Hastie

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Photo: 2017 © Sheffield Theatres

Production Credits

Theatre: Theatre 503

Playwright: Cordelia O'Neill

Director: Kate Budgen

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Photo: 2017 © Small Things Theatre

Production Credits

Theatre: English Theatre Frankfurt

Director: Ryan McBryde

Musical Director: Paul Herbert

Production Credits

Theatre: Southwark Playhouse

Playwright: Greg Freeman

Director: Annabelle Brown & Tom Daplyn

Composer and Musical Director: Annabelle Brown

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Photography: © 2015 Graham Michael

Production Credits

Production: Jethro Compton

Director: Jethro Compton

Playwright: Jamie Wilkes

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Year: 2013-2015

Photo: © 2013 Jethro Compton

Production Credits

Company: Frantic Assembly

Director: Scott Graham

Sound Designer: Gareth Fry

Associate Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Year: 2014

Production Credits

Company: DV8

Director: Lloyd Newson

Sound Designer: Gareth Fry

Associate Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Year: 2014

Picture: © 2014 DV8

Production Credits

Theatre: Southwark Playhouse

Director: Chelsea Walker

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Photography: © 2015 Richard Lakos

"The short scenes are punctuated with a variety of sound effects created by sound designer Ella Wahlström. These are acoustic variants on a mix of panicky chicken sounds underscored with an industrial roar. Occasionally we hear lorries going by. All combined they create an atmosphere of itchy claustrophobia in which the human story of workers at a chicken farm dramatically unfolds." Public Review

Production Credits

Theatre: Finborough Theatre

Director: Chelsea Walker

Playwright: Ben

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Year: 2015

Photograph: © 2015 Jamie Platt

Production Credits

Playwright: Anna Jefferson and Alice Trueman

Director: Ria Parry

Company: Broken Leg Theatre

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Picture: 2016 © Broken Leg Theatre

Production Credits

Production: Jethro Compton Ltd

Director: Jethro Compton

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Picture: © 2015 Alberto Maria Melis and Jethro Compton Ltd

Production Credits

Production: Jethro Compton

Director: Jethro Compton

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Photography: © 2015 Jethro Compton

Production Credits

Theatre: Rosemary Branch Theatre

Playwright: Greg Freeman

Director: Ken McClymont

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Year: 2015

Production Credits

Theatre: Drayton Arms Theatre

Created by: Spindrift Theatre

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Year: 2014

Picture: © 2014 Adam El-Sharawy

Production Credits

Theatre: C Nova, Edinburgh Fringe

Director: Jethro Compton

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Year: 2014

Image: © 2014 Jethro Compton Ltd

Production Credits

Theatre: Southwark Playhouse

Director: Michael Kingsbury

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Year: 2014

Picture: © 2014 Spellbound Productions

Production Credits

Theatre: Southwark Playhouse

Director: Nicholas Thompson

Musical Director: Annabelle Brown

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Year: 2014

Photograph: © 2014 Tacit Theatre

Production Credits

Theatre: Arcola Theatre

Director: Zoé Ford

Playwright: William Shakespeare

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Year: 2013

Photo: © 2013 Adam Trigg

Production Credits

Theatre: Noël Coward Theatre, Broadway

Director: Michael Grandage

Playwright: Martin McDonagh

Sound Designer: Alex Baranowski

Associate Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Year: 2013

Photo: © 2013 Michael Grandage Company

Company: Michael Grandage Company

Production Credits

Theatre: Upstairs at the Gatehouse

Director: Zoé Ford

Playwright: William Shakespeare

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Year: 2013

Photo: © 2013 Adam Trigg

Production Credits

Theatre: Young Vic

Director: Kirsty Housley

Playwright / The Chance Encounter: Mohammad Al Attar

Playwright / The Break Out: Anders Lustgarten

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Year: 2012

Production Credits

Theatre: Old Red Lion Theatre

Director: Nicholas Thompson

Playwright: Thomas Middleton

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Year: 2012

Photo: © 2012 Richard Davenport

Production Credits

Theatre: Old Red Lion Theatre

Director: Henry Filloux-Bennet

Playwright: William Shakespeare

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Year: 2012

Photo: © 2012 Old Red Lion Theatre

Production Credits

Theatre: Old Red Lion Theatre

Director: various

Playwright: various

Sound Designer: Ella Wahlström

Assistant Stage Manager: Ella Wahlström

Year: 2012