JOHN KAZEK (Various male roles)
John Kazek trained at RSAMD. Theatre credits include The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Lyceum), The Cherry Orchard, Dial M For Murder (Dundee Rep), Macbeth (Theatre Babel in Hong Kong), Tamberlaine Must Die (Tron), A Solemn Mass For the Full Moon in Summer (Traverse/Barbican), Roam (Grid Iron/ NTS); TV and Film credits include Spooks, Casualty, Taggart, Auf Wiedersehen Pet, Punch Drunk, Rab C Nesbitt; Young Adam and Batman Begins.
SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER: JESSICA BRETTLE
Jessica Brettle’s previous designs include Mish Gorecki Goes Missing; Suddenly Last Summer; Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot; Defender of the Faith (Tron Theatre); The Government Inspector (Communicado); Monacello (Napoli Festival); Love’s Time’s Beggar (Ankur); The Glass Menagerie (Royal Lyceum); Black Watch (NTS); Fierce (Grid Iron); The Lasses ‘O’; Ragged Lion (Rowan Tree); Federer Versus Murray (Assembly Theatre); A Slow Air (with the Tron Theatre at the Traverse).
LIGHTING DESIGNER: PAUL SORLEY
Paul Sorley trained in the 1980s at the Citizens Theatre and then moved onto Tramway as their chief Lighting Designer in 1988, working on Peter Brook’s Mahabharata and for many international and Scottish companies at Tramway.
VIDEO ARTIST: KIM BEVERIDGE
Kim Beveridge is a freelance digital artist, part-time college lecturer, documentary film maker and Audio Visual Designer for live performance. Recent work includes Wall of Death, a multimedia performance and Mixter Maxter (both NTS). She has designed video for Vox Motus, National Theatre of Scotland, The Royal Ballet, The Edinburgh International Festival, Wee Stories, David Leddy, Dogstar, Theatre By The Lake, The Arches, Random Accomplice, Dancebase and TAG.
ANIMATION ARTIST: MARTA MACKOVA
Marta Mackova is an experienced animator and 2D artist based in Edinburgh. Her work ranges from macabre animations for theatre productions to developing fun and interactive children’s mobile phone games. Her clients include Iron-Oxide, Ankur Productions, Pachamama Productions, Teebster Ltd., Red Kite Animations and Accidental Media.
DRAMATURG: PAMELA McQUEEN
Pamela McQueen is an Associate Dramaturg of the Tron. She has worked on Betrayed; The Drawer Boy; Six Acts of Love; Defender of the Faith; Friel’s Translations (Citizens) and Sixteen/ The Severed Head of Comrade Bukhari (The Arches). She also created the Open Stage playwriting competition.
SOUND DESIGNER / ASSISTANT DIRECTOR (Edinburgh 2010): HARRY WILSON
Harry Wilson is a theatre-maker and sound artist. A graduate from Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow, Harry has worked as a sound designer on Ankur Adult Community Workshop’s production Love’s Time’s Beggar (The Tron Theatre, 2008); RoadKill (The Tron and The Traverse, 2010); Magnetic North’s Wild Life (Cumbernauld Theatre and tour, 2011); Glas(s) Performance’s Generation (Tramway, 2011) and National Youth Theatre’s Ghost Office (The Lighthouse, 2011). He has also composed and performed music for David Overend’s production of Salome (RADA, 2007) and For We Are Many’s Rigmarole (The Arches, 2008). Harry’s directing work includes: Pictures of Heaven (Arches LIVE, 2009); Helium (an Arches New Work Commission, Arches LIVE, 2010); a series of performative tours for IETM Glasgow 2010 and assistant director on Generation.
MOVEMENT: NATASHA GILMORE
Natasha Gilmore is the Artistic Director of Barrowland Ballet, a Glasgow-based touring dance theatre company working in traditional and site-specific spaces. Natasha has developed her reputation as a collaborator, as well as freelance choreographer in large-scale productions like Get Set GlasGow, a site-specific piece for the Merchant City Festival. She also choreographs for other theatre companies’ productions (collaborating with Giant on the award-winning show The Songbird amongst others) and teaches dance and choreography for organisations such as RSAMD and Dance House.
PACHAMAMA PRODUCTIONS (Producer)
Pachamama is the Glasgow-based company set up by director/actor/ musician Cora Bissett. Pachamama was born as a company to allow Cora to explore compelling universal stories rooted in innovative collaborations across art forms. www.corabissett.co.uk/Pachamama Associate Producer for Pachamama Productions: Colin Baird.
RICHARD JORDAN PRODUCTIONS LTD (Producer)
Richard Jordan Productions Ltd is a London-based multi-award-winning UK and international production and general management company, enjoying associations with many of the world’s leading theatres and arts organisations. Since its formation in 1998 under the leadership of producer Richard Jordan, the company has produced over 160 productions in 16 different countries, including 40 world premieres and 37 European, Australian or US premieres of works by both established and new writers and artists.
Richard’s past productions have won a variety of awards including: The Lucille Lortel Award; The John Gassner Award for Best New American Play; six Scotsman Fringe First Awards; two Herald Angel Awards; The Carol Tambor Award; The Fringe Review Award; two Total Theatre Awards; The Spirit of the Fringe Award; The Tap Award; three Helen Hayes Awards; The Obie Award; The Icelandic Mask Theatre Award; the US Black Alliance Award; and The Adelaide Festival Award. Nominations for his productions include: The Stage Newspaper Awards; What’s On Stage Award; The Manchester Evening News Award; The Salzburg Festival Award; Tony Award; Outer Circle Critics Award and Drama Desk Award.
Richard is also an Associate Artist of London’s Bush Theatre, creative consultant for Teatros Artes; Brazil’s biggest chain of independently owned theatres, the UK Associate for New York’s Primary Stages, and the international producing partner of Merrigong Theatre at the Illawara Performing Arts Centre in Wollongong, Australia – winner of the 2010 Drover Award for Outstanding Regional venue. He is a Patron of Norwich Playhouse, and the Patron of the Brighton Fringe – the world’s third largest annual Fringe Festival.
In 2000 Richard became the first recipient of the TIF/Society of London Theatre Producers Bursary Award and in 2008 he was nominated for the TMA/Stage Award for Outstanding Achievement in UK Regional Theatre. In 2009 he was a finalist in the first-ever British Council Creative Entrepreneur Awards. He has been named five times in the UK’s Stage Newspaper’s Top 100 Theatre Professionals. In 2010, for recognition of his work and contribution to the UK and international theatre industries, Richard was chosen for lifetime inclusion in A and C Black’s annual publication, Who’s Who. For more information, contact; [email protected]
TRAVERSE THEATRE (Associate Producer)
The Traverse Theatre is Scotland’s new writing theatre. From its conception in 1963, it has embraced a spirit of innovation and risk taking that launched the careers of many of Scotland’s best-known writers including John Byrne, David Greig, David Harrower and Liz Lochhead. It is unique in Scotland in that it fulfils the crucial role of providing the infrastructure, professional support and expertise to ensure the development of a dynamic theatre culture for Scotland. www.traverse.co.uk
THE BARBICAN (London season producing partner)
The architecturally renowned Barbican Centre is one