Tamara Bick

Actor, 2005 Fringe NYC

Theatre credits; Thick (2003 Edinburgh, 2004 Summerworks), Conquest of the South Pole (Dora Award, Best Drama), Byte Me, American in Harris (Toronto Second City Main Stage, 2 Dora Nominations), Unleashed (Los Angeles Second City), The Interview, her one-woman show, published in the Canadian Theatre Review. Her variety show, A Cup of T, ran for 2 years. She currently improvises with Improv Olympic and The Second City Alumnae Players and does stand-up at the LA Comedy Store, Comedy Union, M Bar and Ha Ha Café.

Film and Television work; Close Up, Motel, Destination X, regular on Men Behaving Badly, Two Guys and a Girl,and a guest star on Seinfeld, Then Came You and Without a Trace.Radio; CBC's One-Minute Comedies (Gold Medal in the International Radio Festival).
Tamara is currently in development on a television show she co-created called Doggie Style. Her recent short films include GoreBox and the animated short, Random Acts of Kindness, www.newgrounds.com.

Rick Bland

Writer and actor, 2005 Fringe NYC
and 2005 UK Tour

Theatre credits; Thick (2003 Edinburgh, 2004 Summerworks), The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), The Complete History of America (abridged) and The Bible: The Complete Word of God, (abridged) (Reduced Shakespeare Company, West End, tours of Holland, Belgium, Ireland and the UK), Jerry Springer in Jerry Springer the Opera, (Battersea Arts Centre, 2001-2002, Edinburgh Festival, 2002), research and development for Cartoon De Salvo and Improbable Theatre (BAC), Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Royal Opera House), Strike (BAC Time Out Critics Choice Season), Angel (UK Tour and Place, Mark Bruce Dance Company)

Other credits; Unless and Stone Diaries (BBC Radio 4), Lenny Henry Show (BBC1).

Writing credits and devised pieces include, Bandaid Deception (Summerworks, 1994), Co-writing The Titanic Abridged (Belfast Opera House, Red Nose Day), Shakespeare In Love Abridged (BBC Radio 2, Criterion Theatre), and The Complete Presidency of George W. Bush (BBC Radio 4, Today Programme).

Mark Bruce

Director, 2005 Fringe NYC and 2005 UK Tour

Theatre Credits include Directing; Thick (2003 Edinburgh, 2004 Summerworks), Movement Director; Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, Way of the World, Peer Gynt, Fast Food (Manchester Royal Exchange), Vincent River (Hampstead Theatre), The Rink (Orange Tree), As a Contemporary Dance Choreographer; Dive, Black Bird/Red Rose, Helen, Angel, Love Sick (Mark Bruce Dance Company), Dance Hall (Mark Bruce Dance Company in collaboration with PJ Harvey and John Parish), Horse (Dance Productions), Higher Ground (Djazzex, Holland), Old Demons, Green fields of America (Introdans, Holland), River Run Dry, My Wild Love (National Youth) and Need (Probe).

Jo Carr

Tour Booking, 2005 UK Tour

Jo is responsible for all producing, booking and managing KAOS Theatre ( UK and international tour work). She also oversees all press and marketing campaigns for KAOS and works with the artistic and administrative directors on programming KAOS’ work.

Before joining KAOS, she was manager for UK Arts International during which time she booked and managed national and international tours for various artists and companies from the UK and overseas including; David Glass Ensemble, Shared Experience, Steven Berkoff, People Show, Northern Broadsides, Birmingham Stage Company, Lip Service, Phoenix Dance, Opera Circus, Sphinx, Pilot Theatre, Linda Marlowe, Laurie Booth, Arc Dance, Les Deux Mondes (Montreal), Thembi Mtshali (South Africa), Elizabeth Hess (USA) and RAM Vodou Band (Haiti).

Tamsyn Challenger

Phil Eddolls

Designer, 2005 Fringe NYC and 2005 UK Tour

Theatre Design credits; Thick (2003 Edinburgh, 2004 Summerworks) Co-Design, Hanging Man (TMA Theatre Award, Best Design), Sticky,OOMF (Improbable Theatre), Design Consultant, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Royal Opera House, 2004 Olivier Award, Best Opera). Other credits include designing aspects of the 2002 Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremonies, Head Technician the International tour of Shockheaded Peter, Fly Operator, 2004 Athens Olympics Games Opening Ceremonies, and 16 years as Technical Stage Manager at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.

Guy Hoare

Lighting Designer, 2005 UK Tour

Recent designs for theatre include Crossings (Sgript Cymru), The Little Fir Tree,Fen, Far Away, Macbeth (Sheffield Theatres), Could it be Magic? and Zero Degrees and Drifting…(Unlimited Theatre), The Ballad of Johnny 5 Star (The Manchester Library Theatre), Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Pleasance Theatre, London). He has been Resident Designer for The London Classic Theatre Company since 2000 and has lit their last eleven pieces, most recently Frozen,The Caretaker, and Closer.

He has also been Resident Designer for Henri Oguike Dance Company since 2000. Designs include Second Signal, Seen of Angels, White Space, Frames per Second Parts 1 & 2, Finale, Dido & Aeneas, Frontline, In Broken Tendrils, Melancholy Thoughts, Shot Flow, and A Moment of Give and he has recently performed at festivals in Paris, Monte Carlo, Tel Aviv, Sintra, Stuttgart and Damascus. Other designs for Dance include Dive (The Mark Bruce Dance Company), Flicker (Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company), and Show, Spirit Level, Bye, Lonely Hearts/ Suspicious Minds, Orange Gina, Sleep Talking, Flap, Allow Me and Small Hours (The Snag Project).

He regularly works at Longborough Festival Opera for whom he has lit Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung, The Magic Flute and Tosca. He has also lit Cinderella (ROH Education), Names of The Dead, Venus & Adonis, Lost in the Stars, Treemonisha (BAC).

Current projects include A Streetcar Named Desire (Clwyd Theatr Cymru), Puppetry of the Pops (Drill Hall), a revival of Names of the Dead (BAC), Hansel and Gretel (Longborough Festival Opera) and a collaboration between Henri Oguike Dance Company and Britten Sinfonia in Bury St Edmunds Cathedral.

Sarah Mitchell

Press and Marketing, 2005 UK Tour

THE SARAH MITCHELL PARTNERSHIP was established seven years ago as an independent press and publicity agency. The SMP specialises in live performance, working extensively in the fields of theatre and comedy. Their work incorporates a wide range of theatres, venues, individuals and companies that includes the West End and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to London and touring productions. The SMP also works in television and radio covering all the main terrestrial, satellite and digital stations.

The SMP’s current theatre work includes: Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (New Ambassadors starring Jonny Lee Miller, David Threlfall and Aidan Gillen), The Reduced Shakespeare Company ( UK tour), Stones in His Pockets (tour). Current comedians include Dara O Briain ( London and tour), Marcus Brigstocke (The Late Edition, BBC Four) and BAFTA nominated The Mark Steel Lectures (BBC2 and BBC Four).

Theatre includes: Reduced Shakespeare Company (10 years at the Criterion Theatre), Round the Horne…Revisited 2 (The Venue), Little Women (Duchess Theatre), The Vagina Monologues (London’s West End and tour), The Bush Theatre (30 th Anniversary and several theatre seasons), Stomp (Vaudeville Theatre), BAC Opera Festival (Battersea Arts Centre), TMA Theatre Awards, The Laurence Olivier Bursary, the Siobhan Davies Dance Company, Under the Doctor (Comedy Theatre), Anna Weiss (Whitehall Theatre), Notes From a Small Island (Edinburgh and tour), Rent (Tour and Prince of Wales Theatre), The Mysteries and Carmen (Wilton’s Music Hall), The Glee Club (Bush Theatre and Duchess Theatre), The Snowman (Peacock Theatre), West Side Story (Tour), Five Guys Named Moe (tour), David Helfgott (The Old Vic and national tour), Fascinating Aida (London and touring), The International Festival of Musical Theatre in Cardiff (2002).

Comedians: Recent clients at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, in London and on tour include: Jo Brand; Rich Hall, Brendon Burns, Adam Hills; Jeff Green; Ross Noble; Mark Felgate; Rob Rouse; the Waverley Care Comedy Galas; Noble and Silver; Andy Parsons and the Paramount Comedy Festival in Brighton.

Television and Radio credits includes: The Office (BBC2) and personal publicity for Ricky Gervais; Friday Night With Jonathan Ross (BBC1); “It’s Only TV… But I Like It” (BBC1); Peter Kay’s Phoenix Nights (Channel 4); Velvet Soup (Channel 4); Hudson and Pepperdine (BBC Radio 4).

Jane Perry

Actor, 2005 UK Tour

 Jane is a Canadian actress who relocated to the UK just over a year ago. Most recently, she played the lead role in the feature film The Score, produced by the CBC and Screen Siren.She has enjoyed 5 years as a member of the company at The Shaw Festival in Ontario, Canada; her most notable roles being Hypatia in Misalliance, Lizzy Borden in Blood Relations, the title role in Laura, Lorraine Sheldon in The Man Who Came to Dinner . Elsewhere she has enjoyed playing Rosalind in As You Like It, Kate Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer and Viola in Twelfth Night . While in Canada, Jane also played a number of roles on TV, including The X-Files, Dead Man’s Gun, Millennium, The Addams Family, Night Visions and various movies-of-the-week. Her voice can be heard in a cartoons such as Dragon Ball Z, Adieu, Galaxy Express 999, Vampire Hunter, Mega Man, Night Warriors, Ronin Warriors and Sabrina the Teenage Witch . Since being in the UK Jane has played Maria in Twelfth Night ( The Southwark Playhouse), Jennifer O’Conners in Provinceworld a spoof documentary for the BBC, and a number of commercials and corporate videos.

Ross Mullan

Actor, 2005 Fringe NYC and 2005 UK Tour

Theatre Credits; Thick (2003 Edinburgh, 2004 Summerworks), Selfish Giant (Polka Theatre, Leicester Haymarket, UK tour), David Copperfield, Gulliver’s Travels,The Murder of Sherlock Holmes and The Christmas Carol (Asian and European Tours, American Drama Group Europe), Moonlight Mischief and Don Juan (Odyssey Theatre, Ottawa), Twelfth Night (Bath Theatre Royal), Angel (UK Tour and Place, Mark Bruce Dance Company) Exhibit A (National Arts Centre), I Had A Job I Liked Once (Great Canadian Theatre Company) Other credits; developing Zippo for Hallmark TV’s Dinotopia.

Liz Pilley

Co-producer/ Administrator, 2005 UK Tour

Theatre management and administration credits; Company Manager for Henri Oguike Dance Company (Tour booking, fund raising, co-ordinating auditions, overseeing creation of a board of trustees and general administration), Director of Development and Administration for the Studio Theatre, North Westminster (Fundraising, budgetary control, marketing and general management of theatre), Trusts and Foundations Manager for English National Opera (Working with development department at the Coliseum to fundraise and create partnerships, charitable target, £540,000), Project Co-ordinator for Buckinghamshire Regional Dance Council .