RADAR PERFORMANCE: Chalk Farm

As a writer, AJ Taudevin recent plays include: Some Other Mother which recently premiered at the Traverse Theatre, The YelloWing, Chalk Farm, and for Oran Mor The Jeans Jacques Rousseau Show and Demons. She won the Playwrights’ Studio Scotland New Writers Award in 2010. As an actor, Julia Taudevin has worked for companies including the National Theatre, the National Theatre of Scotland, Traverse Theatre, Magnetic North, The Arches and Tron Theatre. Her screen credits include the soon to be released feature film Sunshine On Leith. Julia is also Associate Artist at the Tron Theatre, and is currently on a year-long attachment with the Traverse Theatre as one of the Traverse Fifty. Julia co-directed Beats and Hitch, both by Kieran Hurley.

Jonnie is Creative Associate for ThickSkin. His directing and design credits for the company include: co-Director of Boy Magnet and White Noise; Director of Found (Albany Uncover); Associate Director of Chalk Farm and The Static; Associate Video Designer of In An Alien Landscape (with Birds of Paradise). Jonnie’s performance work for ThickSkin includes: Boy Magnet, Overture (Laurence Olivier Awards), Capital One Values Launch Event and These Imagined Stories. His other work as Associate Director / Movement Director includes: Cracking, Hooked and Bat Boy (Iso Productions). Other theatre credits include: Canticles (Brighton Festival / Aldeburgh Music / Frantic Assembly); The Marriage of Figaro (Opera Holland Park); Night Film (Stand + Stare Collective); Mortal: A Drama (Wellcome Collection); The Fear (Frantic Assembly’s Ignition); In His Image (Hampstead Theatre). Film Credits: Wild Lions (Otso Films); Dylan (Queen Mary Productions) and Arcane (BSU films).

Kieran is an award-winning writer, performer, and theatre maker based in Glasgow whose work has been presented internationally and throughout the U.K. His monologue Beats was developed with the Arches Platform 18 Award and was awarded Best New Play at the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland (CATS) before being presented at the Traverse theatre during the Edinburgh Fringe. Other recent works includes: Hitch (Arches, Forest Fringe, CATS Best New Play nominee); Rantin (National Theatre of Scotland / The Arches); and a number of short mini-plays including London 2012: Glasgow (Theatre Uncut) and Belcoo (Royal Court, Open Court Festival). Kieran is currently writer in residence with the National Theatre of Scotland as recipient of the Pearson Playwrights’ Scheme bursary.

Neil is co-founder and Artistic Director of ThickSkin. Directing credits for ThickSkin include: Chalk Farm, The Static (winner of the Scottish Theatre Award and ThreeWeeks Editors’ Award), Blackout (winner of The Arches Brick Award), Overture and These Imagined Stories. Co-direction for ThickSkin includes Boy Magnet and White Noise. As Associate Director / Choreographer: Blood Wedding and The Bacchae (The Royal & Derngate’s Festival of Chaos). For Frantic Assembly, Neil was Associate Director of Beautiful Burnout and Lovesong, and Assistant Director of Dirty Wonderland. As Associate Choreographer: The Full Monty (Sheffield Theatres) and The Light Princess (the National Theatre). Other directing credits include: Playlist for the Belgrade Theatre Coventry and Brave for BAC Homegrown. Other movement direction includes: Much Ado About Wenlock (Vamos Theatre); Platform (Old Vic New Voices); Henry IV Part One (Drum Theatre Plymouth); One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Secret Cinema); Stanley Pickle an animated short film (NFTS, winner of 31 awards worldwide). As Video Designer: In An Alien Landscape (Birds of Paradise).

Previously for ThickSkin, Simon designed the lighting for The Static. Simon is an associate artist of Magnetic North, and lit their productions of Kora (with Dundee Rep), Sex and God, Pass the Spoon, Wild Life and After Mary Rose. For Vox Motus his designs include the award winning Slick, Bright Black, The Not-So-Fatal-Death of Grandpa Fredo and their co-production with the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company The Infamous Brothers Davenport. Other recent theatre work includes: The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, Roman Bridge, Truant and A Sheep Called Skye (National Theatre of Scotland); My Name is Rachel Corrie (Mull Theatre); Cinderella (Lyceum); HeLa and Skewered Snails (Iron Oxide); The Mark of Zorro and The Hunted (Visible Fictions); PUSH (Curious Seed); 1000 Airplanes on the Roof (Red Note Ensemble); After the End and Top Dog / Under Dog (Citizens); Paperbelle (Frozen Charlotte); Honk! (Royal & Derngate); Encourage the Others (Almeida) and the 2010 season for Pitlochry Festival Theatre.

Previously for ThickSkin, Steph was Assistant Producer for The Static at the Cultura Inglesa Festival, Sao Paulo. Steph is also Creative Producer of Vertical Line Theatre (supported artists of Greenwich Theatre). For Vertical Line Theatre Steph has produced: Take Two Every Four Hours and Superhero Snail Boy. She also produces LineUp, a bi-monthly new-writing event curated by Vertical Line Theatre at Greenwich Theatre. She was Assistant Producer of Stationary Excess (Made in China).

Steph previously worked as Participation and Outreach Coordinator at Circus Space, coordinating the National Youth Circus Event 2013 and Got It! at the Royal Festival Hall as part of the U Dance Festival. She has also worked for the Gate Theatre, National Theatre of Scotland and Artichoke.

Vivienne began her career as a Lighting Designer and Technician but now concentrates on Production Management. Credits as Production Manager include: Mr. Happiness and The Water Engine (Theatre6); Yerma (Mountview); Mare Rider (Arcola / Europe Now); and for the Royal Opera House One Big Stage, SUM, Viscera / Infra / Fool’s Paradise, New Dance Commissions, Bastien Und Bastienne / Mozart and Salieri, Exposure: Opera, Exposure: Dance. Lighting design credits include: The Colour of Clouds / I Am Not Sick (National Youth Theatre); Shivered (Theatre6); Count Oederland, Holding Hands at Paschendale and The Police (Cerberus Theatre); Online Courting (Ruby Lou Productions); Alan Moore – Unearthing (Parallel Arts / The Old Vic Tunnels); Smugglers and Rebel Harbour (Shanty Theatre Company); Myths and Hymns and A Day by the Sea (Oystercatcher / Finborough Theatre).