— The Production Team —
CHRIS BARTLETT (Writer)
Chris Bartlett is a freelance journalist and writer, originally from the north-west but now based in London. He has written for The Bearded Ladies Radio 4 sketch show and is developing a radio serial, Little Fish, with Nick Awde. He has written about comedy and television for The Stage newspaper for the past five years and was a feature writer for magazines including Heat. He also writes editorial for ITV Productions, contributing to shows including Coronation Street, Hells Kitchen, Im a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! and This Morning.
NICK AWDE (Writer)
Nick Awde is a writer, journalist and cartoonist who was born in London, brought up in Africa and educated in Lancashire. He writes for The Stage newspaper as well as Theatreguidelondon.com. He has also written, edited or illustrated over 40 books, including Mellotron, Illustrated History of London, Women in Islam, and a Chechen Phrasebook. Previously performed dramatic works are Semtex and Lipstick (King’s Head, 1992) and Andrew Lloyd Webber the Musical (Canal Café Theatre, 1993), and he has also released Sweet Revolutions, an album of world pop songs. His first novel, The Virgin Killers, was published in 2003. With Chris Bartlett, he is developing a radio serial, Little Fish.
OWEN LEWIS (Director)
Owen Lewis has directed in venues including The Arts Theatre, Soho Theatre and The Bush Theatre in London, the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough and The Pleasance Theatre in Edinburgh. Stage directing credits include: How To Lose Friends and Alienate People (Tim Fountain/Toby Young), Loaded (Scott Capurro), Icons (Christopher William-Hill), Ever After (Neil Monaghan), Got To Be Happy (Simon Burt), Swimming In The Shallows (Adam Bock), and The Typographers Dream (Adam Bock). He has also been a recipient of the RSC Buzz Goodbody Award for directing.
JANET BIRD (Designer)
Janet trained at Nottingham Trent University and Wimbledon School of Art. Theatre includes: Twelfth Night (Guildhall); Baba Yaga (BAC); The Likes of Us (Really Useful, Sydmonton Festival) Hamlet, Gasping ,The Communication Cord and Emma (Haymarket, Basingstoke); Talking Heads (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds);Things We Do for Love (Harrogate); Markings (Southwark Playhouse/Traverse); Ridin’ the No 8, Wallop Mrs Cox and Descent (Birmingham Rep); I’ll Be Back Before Midnight (Oldham Coliseum); Peter Pan and Animal Farm (Millfield Theatre); The Elephant Woman (Population:3, tour) Problem Child (New End Theatre, Hampstead); The World Goes Round (Cabaret, NY); Romeo and Juliet (White Horse, Germany); Early Morning, Attempts on Her Life, The School for Scandal and Les Liaisons Dangereuses (RADA); Turcaret, The Clink, Music Lovers and Reality Show (Rose Bruford). Current projects include: The Rocky Horror Show (ATG tour) Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare’s Globe).
TIM MASCALL (Lighting Designer)
Recent lighting design credits include The Pool (Arts Theatre) Derren Brown - Something Wicked This Way Comes (Old Vic and Channel Four) Breakfast With Jonny Wilkinson (Menier Chocolate Factory) Lies Have Been Told - An Evening With Robert Maxwell (Trafalgar Studios) Behind The Iron Mask (Duchess Theatre), The Vagina Monologues (Wyndhams Theatre), The Road To Nirvana (The Kings Head) Why The Whales Came (The Comedy Theatre), Professor Bernhardi and Rose Bernd (The Arcola Theatre), Vote Dizzy (The Soho Theatre), Filler Up (The Drill Hall), ZooNation Dance (Sadlers Wells), When Harry Met Barry (workshop production at The Venue) Dazed (Fracture Dance Theatre at The Bloomsbury Theatre). Into The Hoods (Peacock Theatre). Other work includes national tours of The Alchemist for James Seabright and The Cornish Theatre Collective, Bad Jazz for The Actors Touring Company / Theatre Royal Plymouth, Off The Wall 06 for The David Glass Ensemble, Trainspotting for Mark Goucher Ltd and Gizmo Love for The Actors Touring Company. International work includes productions of Filler Up in Sydney, Washington DC, Montreal,Berlin, Babes In The Wood and Aladdin for Cork Opera House, Eire. Mahagonny Songspeil and Das Wunder Theater, Teatro Poliziano, Italy.
TOM LISHMAN (Sound Designer)
Tom’s work in the West End has included Pete And Dud: Come Again, Al Murray,
Medea, Badiel & Skinner Unplanned, I Love You You're Perfect Now Change, Brief
Lives, Twelve Angry Men, The Gin Game, Taking Sides, A Letter of Resignation, Life
Support , The Hothouse, Relative Values, Dangerous Corner, The Rivals, Vita and
Virginia, Hobson's Choice and Rope. He designed sound for Ashes to Ashes (Royal
Court), I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky (Royal Opera House
Linbury Studio), The Caretaker and Ghosts (English Touring Theatre), Tom’s Midnight
Garden, Kensuke’s Kingdom and Horrible Histories (Birmingham Stage Company),The
Prayer, Othello, Flyin' West, Unfinished Business and Long Time No See (Talawa), A
Tainted Dawn and Bill Shakespeare's Italian Job (Edinburgh Festival), The Man Next
Door (Hoipolloi), and South Pacific , Thais and L’Elisir d’Amore (Grange Park Opera), as
well as productions for repertory theatres including Guildford, Windsor, Farnham, Bristol,
Chester, Cheltenham and Derby, and many national tours.
Tom has created almost 60 sound designs for Chichester Festival Theatre. He
produced soundscapes for the world DVD launches of two Harry Potter pre-launch live promotions for the recent Thunderbirds film.
ALEX SILVERMAN (Composer)
Alex is a composer who works mainly in film and theatre. He has written two musicals: Hamlet! has toured nationally and internationally; The Rise and Fall of Horatio Bottomley was commission for the Countryside Agency. Other recent theatre work includes The Promise (Union Theatre), London Nativity (Scoop), Road to Pisa (Pleasance), Mafeking (Imperial War Museum) Its a Plot! (Assembly Rooms and national tour) and Factory Girls (Arcola). Outside of the theatre, Alex has recently worked with the Philharmonia Orchestra, and is increasingly successful as a composer of choral music: Triumph to Shame was commissioned for broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the autumn; The King of Love was recently shortlisted for this years James Armitage Memorial Concerts.
WEASEL & SONS (Producer)
Simon and Siobhan Rhodes-Johnson founded Weasel & Sons in 2004 as a vehicle for their various theatrical, film and television comedy projects. Weasel & Sons originally produced ‘Pete and Dud - Come Again’ at the Assembly Rooms as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2005. Siobhan is an independent producer of new comedy and the co-creator and producer of a new comedy for BBC3 The Everglades - which begins shooting in the spring of 2006. Siobhan has developed original comedy projects for various terrestrial and cable networks including ITV, BBC and Paramount Comedy. She spent two years in BBC Comedy Casting, working on shows such as Little Britain, Jonathan Creek and Absolute Power. Simon is currently studying for an MBA at London Business School. Prior to this he worked in senior trading and management positions in the City for Goldman Sachs and Royal Bank of Scotland. www.weaselandsons.co.uk
JAMES SEABRIGHT (Producer & General Manager)
James Seabright is an independent commercial theatre producer and general manager. In those capacities he has worked on over forty shows since establishing his business in 2001, including the premiere English language adaptation of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, which toured and played off-West End in 2005. As well as touring shows around the UK and producing in London, he takes a large number of productions to the Edinburgh festival each year. In 2004 he transferred two of his Edinburgh hits to the West End for limited seasons. In 2005 he was profiled by both The Independent on Sunday and The Stage as a leading young theatre producer. He has twice been the recipient of the Stage One New Producer Bursary (2002 and 2004). www.seabright.info
LEE MENZIES (Producer)
Pete and Dud: Come Again is the 53rd production that Lee Menzies has produced either in London or elsewhere in the UK. He has also produced in Dublin, Sydney, Houston and New York. He is a recipient of two Olivier Awards and is a Governor of the Central School of Speech and Drama.
