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Roles: Shoe salesman, Louise, Bobby, Old Lady, Popcorn seller and Teacher
Actor, Brighton 2010
Genevieve is a graduate of the George Brown Conservatory in Canada and of East15 Theatre School in London, where she represented the school in the 2007 Carleton Hobbs Bursary Competition for BBC radio drama.
Her body of work includes radio drama, INVESTIGATING MR THOMAS (BBC), video game voiceovers, HEAVY RAIN, QUANTIC DREAM, Shakespeare, ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL (Victoria Shakespeare Festival), ROMEO AND JULIET (Barrie), Pinter OLD TIMES (Lean Beggar Theatre Company) and new play development FAITH (NAAA). She has worked with companies such as Theatre 503, TomBoy Films, the London Playwrights' Collective, and the Chinese Room.
She has performed across North America, in Europe, and in the UK.
Barbara Barnes
Roles: Mama and Grandma
Actor, Brighton 2010
Barbara's theatre work includes THE EXONERATED (Riverside Studios), BLUES FOR MR CHARLIE (Manchester Royal Exchange),DARWIN'S FLOOD (Bush Theatre) as well as INTIMATE EXCHANGESand DEAD GUILTY at Theatre Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Television appearances include MISS MARPLE, POIROT, MRS ARRIS GOES TO PARIS and STUART A LIFE BACKWARDS. Barbara has been in many BBC radio dramas, among them - THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, EMPTY BED BLUES and THE BLANK WALL, as well as many readings and audiobooks.
Rick Bland
Role: Rudolph
Actor/Writer - Edinburgh 2003, Toronto 2004, 2005 FringeNYC, 2005 UK Tour
Most recently, Rick appeared in the sold-out run of GENEROUS (Finborough Theatre, Time Out Critics Choice) and wrote and performed in the sketch show MAN AND MOUSE as part of PBH's 2009 Free Fringe. Other credits include being a long time member of The Reduced Shakespeare Company in THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED), THE BIBLE, THE COMPLETE WORD OF GOD (ABRIDGED) and THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF AMERICA (ABRIDGED) at the Criterion Theatre and on tour in the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands, originating the role of Jerry Springer in JERRY SPRINGER THE OPERA (BAC and Edinburgh 2002), STRIKE (Finborough Theatre/BAC Time Out Critics Choice Season), ANGEL, (UK tour, The Mark Bruce Company) FACE-OFF WITH UGLINESS (Cherry Lane Theatre NYC), STONE DIARIES and UNLESS (BBC Radio). He is a frequent collaborator with dancer/choreographer Darren Ellis writing and performing in ROMEO ERROR (Place Theatre) and most recently voicing STICKS AND BONES (UK and International tours).
THICK debuted in Edinburgh and sold-out the 2005 FringeNYC where Rick was awarded Outstanding Actor. It has recently been adapted into a screenplay.
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)
Gary Fannin
Roles: Dad, Priest, Pope John Paul ll and a taxi driver.
Actor Brighton 2010
Gary Fannin started working with the The Reduced Shakespeare Company touring MILLENIUM THE MUSICAL (ABRIDGED) then moved into the Criterion Theatre in the West End and performed in THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED), THE BIBLE, THE COMPLETE WORD OF GOD (ABRIDGED) and THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF AMERICA (ABRIDGED). For three years he was also Staff Director at the Criterion. He was the assistant director for their 2003/04 UK National Tour of ALL THE GREAT BOOKS (ABRIDGED and the following year directed the UK National tour of THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED). In 2005/2006 Gary continued as staff director for the subsequent tour of COMPLETELY HOLLYWOOD (ABRIDGED. He directed MAN AND MOUSE for PBH’s Free Fringe in 2009.
TV and Film roles include Michael da Silva in MORRIS: A LIFE WITH BELLS ON, THE INBETWEENERS, and THE VICE. He co-produced YOU, ME AND CAPTAIN LONGBRIDGE for Swing It Films and also directed the award winning short film.
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Mark Bruce
Director
Mark has choreographed and danced professionally in the UK and abroad, working with Rosas, Introdans, Extemporary Dance Theatre and DJazzex among others. In 1991 Mark launched The Mark Bruce Company. Productions include MOONLIGHT DRIVE (1991), LOVESICK (1995), HELEN/ANGEL (1996), HORSE and BLACKBIRD/RED ROSE (1998), DIVE (1999) and the celebrated collaboration with Polly Jean Harvey and John Parish titled DANCE HALL AT LOUSE POINT (1997).
In 2000 Mark moved to Somerset and took a break to pursue other projects. In 2005 he returned to make FEVER TO TELL for Probe, GREEN APPLES for the ROH’s Clore Studio Summer Collection and BAD HISTORY for the Place Prize 2006. In September 2006 SEA OF BONES premiered at Frome, Somerset’s Merlin Theatre, followed by a UK tour throughout 2007.
Mark’s theatre work includes Manchester Royal Exchange productions of ANTIGONE, THE GLASS MENAGERIE, THE REVENGER’S TRAGEDY, ANTONY & CLEOPATRA, PEER GYNT, AS YOU LIKE IT, FAST FOOD, STILL TIME and The WAY OF THE WORLD. He directed THICK for the Edinburgh Fringe and in Canada, New York and the 2005 UK tour. He has worked in a variety of new media, screen and interactive stage productions with Ruth Gibson & Bruno Martelli of Igloo. He also writes music, has made several short films and teaches professionally.
Mark created THE SKY OR A BIRD for Probe’s 2008 UK tour and STARS for Dance South West’s Rural Tour 2008. He devised SKELLIG- an opera based on the book by David Almond – for the Sage Gateshead in 2008 and is working with the Manchester Royal Exchange on THE BACCHAE in 2010. Bruce’s CRIMES OF PASSION, commissioned by Bern Ballet, premiered in January 2010. His next full-evening work,Love and War, premieres at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol as part of Mayfest on 7 May 2010.
Mark is an Affiliated Artist of the Merlin Theatre, Frome, Associate Artist of the Tobacco Factory, Bristol and Associate Artist of Dance South West.
Phil Eddolls
Designer
Recent design credits include ALEX - LIVE ON STAGE with Robert Bathurst at the Arts Theatre and on a world tour, CHASING FATE, (A contemporary musical at the Birmingham Hippodrome), THICK, THE COVENTRY MYSTERIES for Imagineer and GILGAMESH (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry), ANGELMOTH for Ballet Lorent (Sadler's Wells).
He has also worked extensively with Improbable Theatre with collaborations in various guises on productions including SHOCKHEADED PETER, STICKY, OOMF, THE HANGING MAN (TMA award Best Design with Julian Crouch) and SATYAGRAHA (ENO and The Met, New York).
Technical design work includes CARNIVAL MESSIAH (Harewood House) and LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK (Royal Opera House). He is currently part of the team designing Improbable's new show PANIC and the Metropolitan Opera's 125th Anniversary Gala in New York. |
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.
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. |
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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.
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