Ham (Presenter / Manager / Boss / Newsnight Journalist)
Paul’s theatre credits include Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare’s Globe), Fortune’s Fool (The Old Vic), Guns, Love and Chemistry (Define Choice), The Lights (Define Choice), Accomplice (Menier Chocolate Factory), Lush Life (Canal Café Theatre).
TV credits include EastEnders (BBC), Beautiful People (BBC). Film credits include Anna Karenina.
Nicola Harrison (Olenka / Leanne / Poppy / Journalist / Teacher)
Nicola’s theatre credits include Time and the Conways (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh), Fewer Emergencies (The Print Room), Fen (Finborough Theatre), Decade (Theatre 503), Blackbird (Norwich Playhouse), Apart From George (Finborough Theatre), Tryst (Grid Iron/Stavanger Festival), The Unconquered (Stella Quines/UK and NYC), The Glass Menagerie (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh), Ravenhill For Breakfast (Paines Plough), Stoopud Fucken Animals (Traverse), Once Upon A Dragon (Grid Iron), Angels Among the Trees (Nottingham Playhouse), Snow White (Tall Stories/New Victory Theatre Broadway NYC), The Last Valentine (Almeida Theatre).
TV credits include Doctors (BBC), My Mad Fat Diary (Tiger Aspect/ E4), Hollyoaks (Lime Pictures for Channel 4), Mayday (Kudos/BBC), Emmerdale (ITV), Misfits (Channel 4), Micro Men (BBC), Medea (BBC).
Film credits include The Impossible, My Brother the Devil, Control, Close, Southbank Unseen, Heaven on Earth.
Dharmesh Patel (Aashir Ahmad)
Dharmesh’s theatre credits include England Away (National Tour), Too Clever By Half (Manchester Exchange), The Snow Queen (Trestle), King Lear (RSC), Hamlet (RSC), Comedy of Errors (RSC), As You Like It (RSC), Romeo and Juliet (RSC), American Trade (RSC), The Grain Store (RSC), Morte Arthur (RSC), Happy and Married? (Freedom Studios), Satyagraha (Improbable, New York), Beauty and the Beast (Lyric Hammersmith), Satygraha (Improbable, ENO), Coast (Contact, Manchester), Too Close to Home (Lyric Hammersmith and Tour), Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Octagon, Bolton), Slow Time (National Theatre), Silent Cry (Red Ladder).
Steve John Shepherd (Paul Ryman)
Steve’s theatre credits include Bomber’s Moon (Park Theatre), Piaf (Donmar Warehouse and West End), Fives Wives of Maurice Pinder (National Theatre), Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads (National Theatre).
TV credits include playing Michael Moon in EastEnders (BBC), Waking the Dead (BBC), Lunch Monkeys (BBC3), Taggart (Scottish Television), On Expenses (BBC), Being Human II (Touch Paper Television), Material Girl (Carnival Television for Channel 4), Plus One (Kudos/Channel 4), Cold Blood (Granada Television Ltd), Bad Mothers Handbook (ITV), Bonkers (BBC), Lilies (BBC), Dalziel & Pascoe (BBC), New Tricks (Wall to Wall for BBC), Last Chancers (Angel Eye Scotland), Real Men (BBC), Spine Chillers (BBC), The Knock (LWT), Forgive and Forget (Scottish Television), An Unsuitable Job For A Woman (Ecosse Films), Maisie Raine (Fair Game Films Ltd), This Life (World Productions/BBC2).
Film credits include Romance, The Best Man, Too Much Too Young, Layer Cake, Boudicca, Spy Hole, Star Wars Episode II, Now You See Her, Me Without You, From Hell, Greenwich Mean Time, RPM, I Want You.
Chris Thompson (Playwright)
Chris’ debut play Carthage premiered at the Finborough Theatre in January 2014. He is a member of the current Royal Court summer group, having previously taken part in their invitation studio group. Chris is currently Channel 4 Playwright in Residence at the Finborough Theatre, after winning the Channel 4 Playwrights’ Scheme bursary (formerly the Pearson Playwright Award). In 2013 he was invited to take part in the Kudos/Bush Initiative.
In his previous career as a social worker, Chris worked in young people’s sexual health, child protection and with young offenders.
Ria Parry (Director)
Ria is Joint Artistic Director of Iron Shoes, an award-winning company and recipient of two Scotsman Fringe First Awards for its productions of Mad About the Boy by Gbolahan Obisesan and Crush by Paul Charlton.
Other directing credits include The Girl Who Never Looked Up (National Theatre), On Golden Pond by Ernest Thompson (Salisbury Playhouse), The Winter’s Tale Re-imagined (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Dr Korczak’s Example by David Greig (Unicorn Theatre), Tales of Winter (Southbank Centre), Fen by Caryl Churchill (Finborough Theatre) and Our Hearts in the Balance (British Museum).
Ria was awarded the Leverhulme Bursary for Emerging Directors and in 2010 became Resident Director at the National Theatre Studio.
James Button (Designer)
James’ recent designs for theatre include Worst Wedding Ever and On Golden Pond (Salisbury Playhouse), Velveteen Rabbit, Not Now Bernard, Henry the Fifth, A Winter’s Tale and Dr Korczak’s Example (Unicorn Theatre), Macbeth, Tory Boyz, Romeo & Juliet and Prince of Denmark (Ambassador’s theatre). Mad About the Boy (Bush Theatre and UK Tour), Absent Made Present (Linbury Theatre), Johann Strauss Gala (Barbican and Tour), Orpheus and Eurydice and Our Days of Rage (Old Vic Tunnels), The Seed (Goat and Monkey Theatre), Fen (Finborough Theatre), Machinal and Wonderful World of Dissocia (ArtsEd), The Trial, Gulliver’s Travels, Grimm Tales and Milestones (Watford Palace), Relish (Tramshed), Living the Dream (Expo 2010 Shanghai), The Savage (Arcola Theatre), Rewind, King Lear (Young Vic Clare).
Film credits include costume design for Watch Over Me and Spiralling. James was also Costume Designer for the welcoming ceremonies of the 2012 Olympic Games and the 2014 Commonwealth Games Theatre Co.
David W. Kidd (Lighting Designer)
David’s credits for dance productions include Absent Made Present (New Commissions for ROH2 Linbury, Royal Opera House), Peter and the Wolf (European/UK Tour and New York), Secret Garden Ballets (Hatch House, Somerset), Andersen’s Fairy Tales (Bulgarian National Ballet) and Die Walkuré (Denmark New Opera).
Recent theatre credits include Blues in the Night (Hackney Empire), Smallholding (Hightide Festival and Soho Theatre), Bloodshot (UK Tour, Vienna, Canada and St James’s Theatre, London), The Pillowman and The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Leicester Curve), The Sound of Music (Cork Opera House), Mad About the Boy (Unicorn, Young Vic and Bush Theatre), Puss in Boots (Hackney Empire), Fen (Finborough). Other work at the Unicorn Theatre includes The Velveteen Rabbit, Hannah, Henry the Fifth, Dr Korczak’s Example and A Winter’s Tale. Extensive work at the Nuffield Southampton includes Don Quixote, Twelfth Night, God of Carnage, Hamlet, Three Sisters (TMA Award), A Streetcar Named Desire, Frankenstein, Nelson and The Playboy of the Western World. Off-Broadway designs include Unsuspecting Susan starring Celia Imrie and Tabloid Caligula. David is an Associate of Iron Shoes.
Dave
