CLAIRE PORTER (Actor/deviser)
Royal Ballet and
Rambert trained, Claire danced with London City Ballet at Sadler’s Wells and
internationally and was dancing David Bintley’s Sacrificed Maiden Pas de Deux
at Covent Garden when Mark Rylance asked her to join his company for The Tempest at the Globe Theatre. TV:
SILK BBC. Miss Drill in 3 series of The
Worst Witch for ITV (BAFTA - USA Syndicated) The Little Matchmaker, House
of Elliot, One Foot in The Algarve, BBC Theatre: The Royal Exchange Theatre,
The Globe Theatre, Haymarket Theatre Royal, E.N.O. and Opera North, Medea for Paines Plough, Stephen
Pimlott’s Carmen at Earls Court and
Tokyo; Sarah in Pinter’s The Lover, Joy in Bryony Lavery’s Last
Easter at the GBS Theatre; Queen
Clytemnestra in Ted Hughes’ The
Oresteia at Riverside Studios; Nia in ‘100’ (Edinburgh Fringe First) at The Soho Theatre and touring
Australia, Brazil and Canada. Beth in
Solo show: The Drowning Point at The
Regent’s Park Theatre Studio; Rebecca
in Tales From The Coast for Damont
Productions. Claire’s full-length play, Wine,
Chips and Funerals was developed at the Royal Court Theatre Writers’ Group.
Film: Space Invaders, Jewel and
Eme’s Story and A Hat For The Camel
for Brodie Films. www.bluegreenproductions.co.uk
GUS BROWN (Actor/deviser)
Theatre credits include: The
Busy Body (Southwark Playhouse); Faustus
(Headlong); Wolves At The Window
(Arcola and 59E59, NYC); Art (Holders
Festival, Barbados); The Waves (BAC);
Jeremy Lion - For Your Entertainment (Menier
Chocolate Factory); Laurence & Gus -
Next In Line, and Men In Love (Pleasance
Edinburgh)
TV includes: Fresh Meat (Channel
4); Toast of London (Channel 4); The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff (BBC); That Mitchell and Webb Look (BBC); The All New Harry Hill Show (ITV) For
BBC Radio 4: Laurence & Gus; Cabin
Pressure; What A Carve Up!; Rigor
Mortis; Safety Catch; Helen; Mrs Lirriper; The Death of Grass.
Theatre Short Plays from the Coast (King’s Head Theatre) Boeing Boeing (Vienna English Theatre) A Nightingale Sang (Southwold Summer Theatre); Noises Off (New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich); A Chorus of Disapproval (Mercury Theatre, Colchester); Dr Dee in Horrible Histories (Birmingham Stage Co. national tour); Mark Driscoll in Dangerous Obsession, Greg Poynter in Relatively Speaking, Roger Dervish in Outside Edge, Charley Wykeham in Charley’s Aunt and John Danby in Dry Rot (Southwold Summer Theatre); Paul Bratter in Barefoot in the Park (The Mill at Sonning); Fred/Fezziwig in A Christmas Carol (Creation Theatre, Oxford); Oliver in As You Like It (Orange Tree Theatre at Arundel); Christopher Isherwood in I Am a Camera (English Theatre of Hamburg); Captain Absolute in The Rivals (Wimbledon Studio Theatre); Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (Cliveden Open Air Theatre); Emperor/Genie in Aladdin (Musselburgh Theatre, Edinburgh); Hiram B. Otis in a musical adaptation of The Canterville Ghost (National tour of Italy).
TV and Film Eastenders (BBC); Heroes and Villains (One Vision Films); Fired (Virgin Media Shorts); Exhibit A (Bent Films); Tincture of Vervain (Pathétique Films) and Badinage (OH Films)
HENRY PETERS (Actor/deviser)
Henry’s career in
theatre began in London and New York as part of the original cast of Ella Hickson’s
‘Eight.’ After graduating from The Royal Central School of Speech and
Drama he appeared in Short Plays From The Coast at The King’s Head, Theatre,
London. Other work
includes Blast Off (Soho
Theatre) and Danny in Eight (Tantrums Productions) TV work includes Teen Talent, (Overtone UK) ; Also Rans, (Blurred Red) as well as Tom Brown's Schooldays
for BBC Radio 4. Henry is director of the improvised comedy troupe The
Improverts .
Lucie trained at the Arts Educational School and the London School of Contemporary Dance.
Andrew attended art school before becoming an actor. His first play, Red on Black, drew on the life of the painter Mark Rothko and was a winner of the International Playwriting Festival in 2000. It was nominated for the Mark Marvin Award the following year when it was also produced in London. His second play, Birdmen, was selected for Hampstead Theatre’s ‘Start Night’ in 2007. Short stories include Our Mr Kent, long-listed for The Bridport Prize the same year; Landmarks, also short listed for the Bridport Prize and The Sand Doll, short-listed for The Bristol Prize and subsequently published in the 2009 Anthology. Tales from the Coast is his most recent piece and has been developed in close collaboration with The King’s Head Theatre in London as well as the performers Claire Porter, Gus Brown, Charles Davies and Henry Peters with choreography and sound/lighting by Lucie Pankhurst and Noah Gwynn. Directing credits include Someone Who'll Watch Over Me for The Globe Theatre, Warsaw, Tales from the Coast at The King's Head, London, Richard III for Central School of Speech and Drama and lecturing posts at Wimbledon School of Theatre Design and Memorial University, Newfoundland.
LUCIE
PANKHURST Choreography
Lucie trained at the Arts Educational School and the London School of Contemporary Dance.
For theatre, her
credits include Troilus and
Cressida at the National
Theatre, directed by Sir Trevor Nunn and assistant choreographer to Arlene
Philips for the original choreography We
Will Rock You, directed by Christopher Renshaw.
Lucie has devised, directed and choreographed
shows for Ocean Village cruises for Micha Bergese Productions and a national
tour for the Generating Company.
Other work includes, Betwixt at the Kings Head, directed by Kate
Gollage. Also for theatre, Dancing
at Lughnasa, Twelfth Night, 3 Men in a Boat and Birdsong for the Original Theatre Company,
Mort, Love and Madness and Peter Pan for YMT (Peter Pan also as a workshop
production at the Lyric Theatre), The
Fast Show Live tour, directed
by Roxanna Silbert. Drowning
Point, BlueGreen Productions, Edinburgh Festival and Regents Park Open Air
Theatre. Television credits
include series choreographer Horrible
Histories - also the Prom
concert 2011, Viva Blackpool, The Omid Djalili Show and Dead Ringers (3 series), Watson and Oliver and Dead
Boss for the BBC.Hit Me Baby One More Time, X-Factor and Bonkers for ITV.Wedding Belles by Irvin Welsh, Paul
O’Grady Show, Boys Will Be Girls and bad Education for Channel 4.Caroline Quentins’ Little Cracker for Sky
Lucie has also
choreographed and directed movement for commercials for companies including ,
4Creative, RSA, Hungry Man and Homecorps. She’s worked on live events such as
contributions to the Cultural Olympiad, launches, hair and fashion shows in the
U.K and internationally. Films include scenes in Snow White and the Huntsman and Maleficent.
Her own productions
have been supported at the Place Choreodrome, seen at the South Bank, Lilian Baylis
Theatre and at the Place Theatre as part of the Spring Loaded season.
NOAH
GWYNN (Lighting /Sound design)
Noah began his career as a technical theatre apprentice at the
Barbican Theatre. Since then he has worked freelance at theatres such as the
Old Vic, Theatre Royal Stratford East, The Barbican and the Lyric
Theatre, Hammersmith. He was made the Technical Manager for Hack the
Barbican Festival 2013 at the Barbican. As a lighting and sound
designer Noah has worked for the Barbican and Red Dress Productions.
For Damont, he created the lighting/sound for Tales from the Coast at
The Kings Head and Nativity at the Poetry Café.
ANDREW BRIDGMONT Writer/Director
Andrew attended art school before becoming an actor. His first play, Red on Black, drew on the life of the painter Mark Rothko and was a winner of the International Playwriting Festival in 2000. It was nominated for the Mark Marvin Award the following year when it was also produced in London. His second play, Birdmen, was selected for Hampstead Theatre’s ‘Start Night’ in 2007. Short stories include Our Mr Kent, long-listed for The Bridport Prize the same year; Landmarks, also short listed for the Bridport Prize and The Sand Doll, short-listed for The Bristol Prize and subsequently published in the 2009 Anthology. Tales from the Coast is his most recent piece and has been developed in close collaboration with The King’s Head Theatre in London as well as the performers Claire Porter, Gus Brown, Charles Davies and Henry Peters with choreography and sound/lighting by Lucie Pankhurst and Noah Gwynn. Directing credits include Someone Who'll Watch Over Me for The Globe Theatre, Warsaw, Tales from the Coast at The King's Head, London, Richard III for Central School of Speech and Drama and lecturing posts at Wimbledon School of Theatre Design and Memorial University, Newfoundland.
DAVID DONEGAN Associate Producer
Trained at Rambert School and danced in numerous musicals, ballets and
operas. He was production assistant for Pola Jones Associates on several touring
and West End shows. Other producing credits include, Shamlet (Kings Head, On
Raglan Road, (Old Red Lion) and Dublin and Ireland tour. Joan Rivers with
Kit & the Widow, Edinburgh Festival, West End, Dublin and UK tour, and
several further productions at the Edinburgh Festival (Tambar Productions).
David was lead producer for the new musical - Kathy Kirby: Icon at The Etcetera Theatre for the 2012 Camden
Festival.
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