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Ben Bull has been in theatre from a young age at the outset working at the Curve Theatre in Leicester on a broad variety of shows as well as freelancing in theatre and live events. Originally studying Lighting Design at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he has branched out into a career of theatre Video Design on top of that. Having established as a designer, he frequently works as a content assistant/animator for shows such as 9 to 5 The Musical at the Savoy Theatre and for P&O Headliner Shows on board a variety of ships. Previous credits include: Summer Fest (The Bunker Theatre); The Point of It (GBS Theatre); The Happy Prince (The Place); Woman and Scarecrow (GBS Theatre); The Pirates of Penzance (Wilton’s Music Hall); Eden (Hampstead Theatre); An Enemy of the People (Union Theatre); Philistines (Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre); The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre); Rotterdam (Gielgud Theatre); Fast (Edinburgh Fringe); Assassins the Musical (Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre); Henry IV (Gielgud Theatre).

Caitlin is a freelance events/productions professional and has been working as a stage manager for the past ten years. Credits include: Frogman (Curious Directive international tour); Keep on Walking Federico (Actors Touring Company UK tour and Barcelona); Paines Plough ROUNDABOUT tour 2016 and 2018 (UK tour); Suppliant Women (Actors Touring Company at Hong Kong Arts Festival); Romeo and Juliet (Orange Tree Theatre); Beauty and the Beast (Chichester Festival Theatre); Dry Room (Eldarin Yeong Studio at World Stage Design Festival, Taiwan); Running Wild by Michael Morpurgo (national tour); Goosebumps Alive by Tom Salamon (The Vaults); I Know All the Secrets in My World (Tiata Fahodzi national tour); The 39 Steps by Patrick Barlow (Criterion Theatre); Ben Hur by Patrick Barlow (Tricycle Theatre).

Cecilia trained at the Motley Theatre Design Course and previously in Graphic Design at Camberwell College of Arts. Her commissioned work covers a broad spectrum, from site-specific performances and traditional theatre to live events, installations and unique community performances.

Recent work includes: Jekyll & Hyde (Birmingham Rep); Tidy Up (Peut-Être/Great Ormond Street Hospital); Four Realms of Christmas (Westfield immersive for Disney); Consensual (Soho Theatre); Crimp 1, 2, 3 & 4 (Guildhall); ‘Vicky’s Place’ (re-design of an oncology ward at St Bartholomew’s Hospital); Vital Arts, ‘Beyond the Waterfall’ (Bompas & Parr, Westfield); Britten in Brooklyn (Wilton’s Music Hall); National Youth Theatre repertory season (Ambassadors Theatre); Fourplay (Theatre503); Brolly Project (Young Vic); The Late Henry Moss (Southwark Playhouse – nominated for Off West End Award for Best Set Designer); The Surplus (Young Vic); About Her (London Film Festival); Sense of an Ending (Theatre503); The Interventionists (Lyric Hammersmith); Pioneer (Curious Directive, Fringe First Award); The Red Helicopter (Almeida Theatre); Haining Dreaming (Haining Hall).

Ed is a production manager working in the UK and worldwide. Recent projects include: Impossible world tour for Jamie Hendry Productions; Mozart vs. Machine for Mahogany; Cathy for Cardboard Citizens; Black and Gold, a Google Christmas Party at the Roundhouse; a series of Star Wars launch events for HP; The Grand Journey European tour for Bombay Sapphire. Ed has worked for the sound departments of the RSC, Royal Ballet, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, Tricycle Theatre and various concert venues. He also dabbles in video design and provides broadcast engineering support for the BBC. Ed has a postgraduate Engineering degree from University of Warwick, and grew up in London and Norfolk.

Francesca has produced theatre in London, Edinburgh, on tour in the UK and internationally. She is the original producer of the multi-awardwinning and Olivier-nominated Fleabag by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, which she has presented in Edinburgh, at Soho Theatre, on UK tours, and in South Korea, Australia and most recently New York for DryWrite.

Francesca is also the former Producer of British new writing theatre company Paines Plough, where she worked on plays by leading UK playwrights including Dennis Kelly, Duncan Macmillan and Kate Tempest.

Other selected freelance credits include Mydidae by Jack Thorne (Soho Theatre/Trafalgar Studios), Spine by Clara Brennan (Underbelly/Soho Theatre/UK tour) and Gardening for the Unfulfilled and Alienated by Brad Birch (Pleasance Theatre). Francesca has received seven Fringe First Awards for her productions at the Edinburgh Festival and her company Francesca Moody Productions was officially launched in 2018.

Harriet is a theatre producer. She is currently Producer at Coney, for whom she has produced Companion: Moon (Natural History Museum), My Grandad the Spy (National Archives), 400 (Financial Times/Wellcome Trust) and The Accidental Revolutionist (Battersea Arts Centre). She was formerly Assistant Producer at new writing theatre company Paines Plough, where highlights included Pop Music by Anna Jordan, I Wanna Be Yours by Zia Ahmed and Come to Where I’m From. Her other freelancing credits include activist arts night Taking Back Control, and Extinguished Things by Molly Taylor and Vanity Bites Back by Helen Duff.

Jennifer trained at East 15 and is a movement director and actor.

Movement direction includes: Amsterdam (ATC/Orange Tree/ Theatre Royal Plymouth), Pops (Jake Orr Productions), I Wanna Be Yours (Paines Plough/The Bush), Death of a Salesman, Queens of the Coal Age, Our Town (Royal Exchange Theatre), Parliament Square (Bush Theatre/Royal Exchange Theatre),The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (New Vic Theatre), Be My Baby, Around The World in 80 Days (Leeds Playhouse), The Trick (Loose Tongue/Bush Theatre/High Tide), Philoxenia (Bush Theatre), Mountaintop UK Tour (Desara Productions Ltd), Mayfly, Out of Water (Orange Tree), Brighton Rock (Pilot Theatre /The Lowry), I Want To Be Yours, Island Town, Sticks and Stones, How to Spot an Alien (Paines Plough Roundabout), The Mountaintop (Young Vic), Black Mountain, How to be a Kid, Out of Love (Paines Plough & Orange Tree), Death of a Salesman (Royal & Derngate), The Ugly One (The Park), Why The Whales Came (Southbank Centre), Stone Face (Finborough Theatre), Debris (Southwark Playhouse/Openworks Theatre), Macbeth (Passion in Practice/Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), Silent Planet (Finborough), Pericles (Berwaldhallen), The Future (The Yard/Company Three), Other-Please Specify, Atoms (Company Three), Takeover 2017 (Kiln Theatre).

Assistant movement director: Lungs, The Initiate, My Teacher’s a Troll (Paines Plough Roundabout 2014).

Jon Brittain is a playwright, comedy writer and director. His critically acclaimed play Rotterdam earned him a nomination for the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards and won the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre. Other work includes the critically acclaimed Billionaire Boy: The Musical, the cult hit Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho and its sequel Margaret Thatcher Queen of Game Shows, and the Scotsman Fringe First Award-winning A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad). He directed John Kearns’s Fosters Award-winning shows Sight Gags for Perverts and Shtick, and the follow-up Don’t Bother, They’re Here, Tom Allen’s shows Both Worlds, Indeed and Absolutely, and is currently working on new shows with Mat Ewins and Tom Rosenthal.

For TV he has been a staff writer on Cartoon Network’s The Amazing World of Gumball and on Netflix’s The Crown.

Keegan has worked in theatre and live events for many years, from production managing open-air music festivals with The White Horse Project in East Lancashire to being an audio engineer and production manager on an array of events, festivals and shows. Since graduating from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School as a Sound Designer in 2014, he has worked as an in-house tech for Tobacco Factory Theatres, project managing for SFL Group internationally, and freelanced in the West End, around London and nationally. Previous sound designs include: Olivier Award-winning Rotterdam (Theatre503, Trafalgar Studios, Arts Theatre, 59E59 Theaters); Our Country’s Good (Tobacco Factory Theatres); The Internet Was Made for Adults (VAULT Festival); Soho Young Playwrights (Soho Theatre); Go Between (Young Vic); My World Has Exploded a Little Bit (Tristan Bates Theatre/Edinburgh Fringe); Infinity Pool (South West tour, Plymouth Fringe/Edinburgh Fringe); The Blues Brothers: Xmas Special (Arts Theatre, West End); Last Thursday (Prime Theatre); Trip the Light Fantastic (Theatre West, Bristol Old Vic Basement); Living Quarters (Tobacco Factory Theatres/SATTF); 140 Million Miles (Tobacco Factory Theatres/Traverse Theatre); Where We Are (The Egg, Theatre Royal Bath); Blue Stockings and The Winter’s Tale (Tobacco Factory Theatres); and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: A Musical (Redgrave Theatre, Bristol).

Nieta trained at Italia Conti and Kingston University, graduating with a First Class Honours from Kingston University. As a director while studying; reworks of A Taste of Honey (Rose Theatre), Antigone (Rose Theatre) and Journey to the Moon (Brighton Fringe). Nieta has also worked with Southwark Playhouse Young Company and Lewisham Youth Theatre as an assistant director.

Peter studied Lighting Design at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Since 2016 he has worked with Paines Plough on several projects, lighting their Growth Tour, Out of Love, Black Mountain and How To Be A Kid, all for ROUNDABOUT, their pop-up touring venue. He was nominated for two 2018 Off West End Best Lighting Awards for Black Mountain for Paines Plough at the Orange Tree Theatre and A Girl In School Uniform (Walks In To A Bar) at the New Diorama Theatre, for which he was also a finalist for the 2018 Theatre and Tech Award for Creative Innovation in Lighting.

Peter has lit musical productions throughout the UK and abroad, including All Or Nothing, which toured nationally and had a run in London’s West End, and Tom & Jerry the Musical, staged in Egypt at the pop up EventBox Theatre, seating 3,000 people. He has lit dance productions for Step Live Festival for the Royal Academy of Dance at the Royal Festival Hall and Sadler’s Wells Theatre as well as numerous theatre productions.

Other recent projects include lighting Orlando at the VAULT Festival; You Stupid Darkness! for Paines Plough at Theatre Royal Plymouth, as well as three shows for Paines Plough’s ROUNDABOUT tour 2018: How to Spot an Alien, Sticks and Stones and Island Town; Square Go for Paines Plough’s ROUNDABOUT at the Edinburgh Fringe; All or Nothing, the mod musical which transferred to the West End in 2018; Ad Libido at the VAULT Festival, Edinburgh Fringe and currently touring; Out of Love and How to Be a Kid, which toured alongside Black Mountain in the Paines Plough pop-up venue ROUNDABOUT in 2017 before transferring to the Orange Tree Theatre; Old Fools for To The Moon at Southwark Playhouse; Plastic for Poleroid Theatre at the Old Red Lion and Mercury Theatre, Colchester; and The Rape of Lucretia for Trinity Laban Opera.

Richard is a multi-award winning writer, performer, and actor. His show, Monkey See Monkey Do, won the prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival where it was also nominated for a Total Theatre Award for Innovation. The show subsequently had several sell-out runs at London’s Soho Theatre, toured the UK and Europe, and had a run at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, where it was nominated for the 2017 Barry Award and was broadcast on Comedy Central.

He subsequently developed a scripted television project based around Monkey See Monkey Do with Kudos Film and Television and Channel Four. His previous shows Waiting for Gaddot, Breaking Gadd, and Cheese & Crack Whores were also fringe hits and all went on to three week runs or more in the Soho Theatre. The former won the Amused Moose Best Show Edinburgh Fringe 2015 and was nominated for a Malcolm Hardee Award For Innovation.

In addition, Richard won a Chortle Comedian’s Comedian Award 2017, as well as being nominated for an Off West End theatre award for Best Performer in the same year.

Richard is also a successful actor, who starred opposite Daniel Mays in the BAFTA-nominated BBC2 single drama Against the Law – “surely a breakout role for him”, The Guardian. Other key acting credits include C4’s Humans Series 3, and leads roles in BBC3’s Clique Series 2, and E4’s Tripped Series 1.

Recently, Richard played a lead role in Sky Arts’ film One Normal Night. The Independent described his appearance as, “a quite wonderful performance” and The Times described it as, “moving and very well acted.”

Richard is currently filming alongside Stephen Graham and Daniel Mays, in Sky One’s new six-part comedy series Code 404. In addition, Richard is also a writer who has written episodes of Netflix smash-hit Sex Education, as well as Ultimate Worrier for Dave and The Last Leg for Channel Four where he is also one of their correspondents.

Richard has other scripted projects in development with Clerkenwell Films, Me & You Productions, Balloon Ltd. Fulwell, and Filmwave. He also recently recorded his own pilot for BBC Radio 4 with Dabster Productions, The Richard Gadd Show, which aired in July 2018.

Stoph is a comedy writer, performer, filmmaker and animator from East London.

Stoph studied for his MA in Screenwriting for Film and TV under ex-BBC boss Jonathan Powell, as well as poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, graduating with First Class Honours.

Stoph has been behind a number of viral web hits, gaining millions of views in the process, as well as creating visual effects and motion graphics content for countless production companies around the world.