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CHRISTINE FOSTER (PLAYWRIGHT)
Christine’s plays have been seen in the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Denmark, Mexico, Korea and the US, as have dozens of TV scripts for CBS, CBC and the Family Channel, one of which won a Silver Medal at the New York International Film and Television Awards. In the UK she created new work for The Kipling Festival Rottingdean, as well as the hit pub plays series Mixed Doubles. Her black comedy, Four Thieves Vinegar, ran to four-star reviews in London in 2017 and sold out at the 2019 Brighton Fringe. In the same year she won the Marion Thauer Brown New Audio Script Competition and her monologue Cousins won the 2020 Soundworks UK Contest. Lost in the Willows, a bioplay about Kenneth Grahame, completed a tour of the South East in 2022. Her recent full-length, Off the Map, was a finalist in the 2022 Woodward/Newman New Play competition and won the Susan Glaspell Award and received its World Premiere at Centenary Stage in New Jersey in 2023. 
JAMES WEISZ (DIRECTOR)
James is an award-winning director and graduate of The University of Westminster, London Film Academy, Stage One Producers Scheme and Directing Shakespeare, The Globe. An RSA Fellow and member of Stage Directors UK. He has helmed over thirty professional theatre productions, including serving as the Artistic Director of EMPORIUM THEATRE, a 200-seat theatre in Brighton (Patron: Alan Rickman) for five years, during which time he created a thriving arts venue and community-engaged theatre, which was named 'Best Place to Visit' in the Brighton Venue Awards, 2015/2016. His short films, In Battle and Silver Lining have both gone on to garner nominations and selections at Film Festivals across the world. The Portuguese short, Caminho (based on The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost) was selected for Best Experimental Short at the Onyko Awards. He is a recipient of The Pioneer Bursary as a freelance filmmaker and The Ignite Fund for 'Alternative Perspectives in Screen Dance.' |
PIP HENDERSON (Bess)
Pip has had a diverse career both on stage and screen. She is an original core cast member of the Sarah Mann Company, Kouyou Theatre and the BAFTA nominated, satirical sketch team, The Treason Show, and has recently appeared in national and regional productions of Abigail’s Party (Beverly), Four Thieves Vinegar (Hannah), Hamlet (Gertrude) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Puck). In addition to narrating radio documentaries for the BBC, she is a current cast member of the US comedy podcast, Hickory Bench Playhouse, and a leading character in the audio drama Moira Moments (368), currently in its second season. Her TV credits include appearances in Zombie Apocalypse (Discovery), Sixth Sense (BBC2), All About Abigail's Party (BBC3) and The Greatest Show on Earth (Channel 4), as well as various adverts, virals and pop promos. Film work includes the award-winning 50 Kisses (LSF), Brothers of War (MCN Productions), Mirror Image (Phoenix Pictures) and The Man with 3 Hats (First Framework.) She can also be seen, covered in blood and chasing Robert Carlyle down a riverbank in Juan Carlos Fresnadillo/Danny Boyle's gore fest, 28 Weeks Later (Fox Atomic)! 
JOHN-CHRISTIAN BATEMAN
(Dr. Cousins/Theo Hardeen /Bernard Ernst) Film, television, stage, and voice-over actor, John-Christian Bateman is noted for his versatility. Originally from Toronto, he trained internationally and has worked in North America and Europe and performs a variety of American accents, RP, as well as French. JCB's stage roles include The Duke in Two Gentlemen of Verona, Duncan in Macbeth and Claudius in Hamlet, Tchubukov, Luka and Vershinin in Chekhov’s The Proposal, The Bear and Three Sisters, and Barney Cashman in Neil Simon’s Last of the Red Hot Lovers. Recently he has performed as Tom in the Emerge Production of Hayfever at Edinburgh Fringe. 
GWEN HOLMES (Anna MacDermott/May)
Gwen is a graduate of the Cygnet New Theatre professional CDC programme in Exeter, where she was seen as Trinculo in The Tempest, Sarah Siddons in Actor’s Nightmare, Joanna in Dear Brutus and Rirette in Intimacy by Jean Paul Sartre. She has appeared professionally in Canada and Mexico in roles as varied as Anne Frank, Agnes of God and Carole in Oleanna. In the UK she both co-created and starred in the hit pub series Mixed Doubles in Rottingdean, as well as in The Fever Trees and Just So! at the Brighton Fringe and The Kipling Festival. She holds a Diploma in Performing Arts Teaching (Distinction) and is also a certified Life and ADHD coach, having worked with the drama therapy community in Brighton, supporting special needs youngsters and adults with charities such as Samesky (Otherworld) and Brighton Shed.
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Angie Lawrence (Production Assistant)
Angie is a multi-lingual freelance arts administrator specialising in marketing and publicity. Among her many credits are: The Strange Affair of Herschel Grynszpan (The Other Palace Studio); Rags (Park Theatre); Barmitzvah Boy and The Great Jewish American Songbook (Upstairs at the Gatehouse and The Radlett Centre); Zorro (Charing Cross Theatre and Hope Mill Theatre); The Marvelous Wonderettes (Upstairs at the Gatehouse); Into the Woods (The Cockpit); My Land’s Shore (Theatr Soar, MerthyrTydfil); Bette Midler and Me (UK Tour); Forever Plaid (St. James Studio and The Radlett Centre); Rags The Musical – In Concert (Lyric Theatre); Jerry’s Girls (St. James Studio and Jermyn Street Theatre); Miss-Leading Ladies (St. James Studio); 110 in the Shade, My Land’s Shore, Wonderful Town, Out Of This World, The Kissing Dance, A Little Night Music, Into The Woods and The Apple Tree (Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre); Free as Air (Finborough Theatre); It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…It’s Superman (Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre and Leicester Square Theatre) and Cinderella: Boom or Bust! (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane). |