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Richard Marsh

Richard’s one-man show Skittles was commissioned for Radio 4 as Love & Sweets, and won Best Scripted Comedy in the BBC Audio Drama Awards. Dirty Great Love Story (co-written and -performed with Katie Bonna) won a Fringe First in Edinburgh before transferring to New York then the West End. Wingman sold out in Edinburgh before touring and is being developed with Big Talk for UK TV and then with CBS Studios for American TV. It has yet to be on actual TV. Richard created Radio 4 poetry sitcom Cardboard Heart, starring alongside Phil Daniels, Olivia Poulet, Jemima Rooper, Rebecca Scroggs, Russell Tovey and Sam Troughton. Richard is currently developing various TV projects and writing a musical adaptation of classic indie movie Son of Rambow (with Miranda Cooper and Nick Coler of Girls Aloud fame). He is a former London poetry slam champion.

Darrel Bailey

Darrel is a West Midlands actor who trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and most recently performed in Small Island (National). Other credits include As You Like It, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Orsino / Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night (Open Bar), Oedipus (Almeida), Alice in Wonderland (Brockwell Park), Much Ado About Nothing (St Paul’s, Covent Garden), and an immersive production of One Hundred Trillion (Dot Collective). Darrel has previously starred in Shadow and Bone (Netflix), Eastenders (BBC), and in several short films including Role, Fixing War In Post, A&E, and The Zero Hour.

Hal Chambers

Hal trained at Bristol Old Vic and National Theatre Studio. As Director, his credits include The Ballad of Maria Marten (Stephen Joseph, Eastern Angles, & UK tour), Michael Morpurgo’s Shakespeare Tales (RSC), Hansel and Gretel, A Christmas Carol (South Street Arts), Henry V (Barn, Cirencester), The Bear (Polka, UK and world tours), Ruff Guide to Shakespeare (Bristol Old Vic, Tour, & Edinburgh Fringe), Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs: The Magic Cutlass (Southbank Centre, UK tour, & West End), The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (Eastern Angles & UK tour), The Lights (Royal Court & Oxford School of Drama), Leaper: A Fish Tale (Lyric Hammersmith & UK tour), Vanity Fair (Middle Temple Hall), Tommy Foggo: Superhero (UK tour), Ragnarok (Eastern Angles), Helver’s Night (York Theatre Royal); The Magical Playroom (UK tour), Jackajack, Tim & Light (UK tour); Sam Rose in the Shadows, The Golden Cowpat (Greenwich & UK tour).

Emma Webb

Emma Webb is a movement director, teacher and performer. She trained at RCSSD and has worked with Justice in Motion, Red Dog Theatre, Oxford Playhouse, Pegasus Theatre, Old Fire Station Oxford, Creation Theatre, as well as with numerous community organisations. She is currently teaching with Bristol School of Acting and co-directing The Government Inspector with Clive Mendus of Complicité. 

Robbie Butler

Robbie trained at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He is an honorary life member of the Association of Lighting Designers, has been twice nominated for an Off West End Award for Best Lighting Design and was the winner of the 2015 ETC Award. Theatre includes The Gunpowder Plot Immersive Experience (Tower of London), Our Man In Havana (Watermill), MUSHY: Lyrically Speaking (Watford Palace & UK tour), The Happy Tragedy of Being Woke (Complicité - Edinburgh International Festival), The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Bolton Octagon at the Macron Stadium), The Selfish Giant (UK tour), Down and Out: Live (La Generale, Paris), Abandoman (Underbelly). Robbie’s Opera credits include The Angel Esmeralda (Guildhall), Isabeau (Opera Holland Park), Fidelio (Polish National Opera - Associate), Il Trovatore (The Royal Danish Opera & Teatro Real Madrid - Associate), The Enchanted Pig (HGO). www.robbiebutler.com

Ben Hudson

Ben is a music producer and sound designer who has soundtracked films for Adidas, Vogue Italia, Lexus, Google, Nokia, Stonewall and Unicef among others.

Working closely with anarchic theatre makers, In Bed With My Brother, he has created sound for their shows PRIME TIME (Barbican), Tricky Second Album (Edinburgh) and their breakout production, WE ARE IAN. Other theatre credits include BEIGE (Magna), Ragnarok (Eastern Angles), The Mozart Question (The Barn Theatre), Helver’s Night (York Theatre Royal) and The Snow Queen, Hansel & Gretel, Henry I, Matilda The Empress, The Last Abbot (Rabble).

ALICE WHITE

Originally from Swansea, Alice is a Voice and Dialect Coach working in leading actor training institutions (including Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) and with professional performers and productions. Recent dialect support includes the short film Morning Star. Production support includes Sunday In The Park With George, Moon Licks (Richard Burton Company), Made in Dagenham, Spring Awakening, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (EDA/Factory Playhouse), Boudica (Unicorn/RBC). As an actor and voice over artist, Alice’s credits include The Crown, Casualty, Richard III and Henry VI (Wales Millennium Centre) and various commercial audiobooks.