Artist Biographies

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Rachael McGill: Stage plays include Storeys (Finborough Theatre), Ten Fingers and Ten toes (Battersea Arts Centre), Butter Fish Parrot Fish (Stoke Newington Festival), The Lemon Princess (West Yorkshire Playhouse, published by Oberon). Radio: Scissors and Ribbons (Radio 4 afternoon play), Minor Characters (Radio 4 Women’s Hour serial, to be broadcast 13th-17th February 2006). Winner of the 2004 Revelations Gate Translation Award for her translation from German of Kirsten Specht’s Marieluise (Gate Theatre, published by Oberon). Upcoming projects include a short play, Gale Force Clothes Pegs (to be performed at Southwark Playhouse February 26th 06), a project with Y Touring and Watching Hands for BBC World Service radio

Gavin Skerrit: Trained at The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts,London and has completed an apprenticeship in puppetry under Christian Ferauge in Brussels. On returning from Brussels, he worked with the Norwich Puppet Theatre for three years working on Jack and the Beanstalk, Snow White and The Odyssey before deciding to create his own performance pieces Y Weledigaeth and Eastenda which have toured both the UK and Europe including The Festival Mondial, Charleville-Mézières. Eastenda will be performed in both Holland and India later this year and Gavin will start research on the third piece in his trilogy of work

The Love of a Good Woman

Maximum Humphries, arch showtographer, formed his first company, Jungle Puppet Theatre, at the age of 6. After training in scenography at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, he began work for Green Ginger. He is currently in the process of setting up a second theatre company, Neko Neko with some pals. His favourite colour is black.

Andrew Muir: Plays include Gaugleprixton, Edinburgh Festival 2005; Green Grass, selected for the London International Playwriting Festival; Tales from a Pier; Eight Foot Leap and Push (Time Out Critics Choice), all at the Union Theatre London. Short films; Perfect Day and A Family Man (awarded the British Council Short Film of the Year).

Actors

Tim Barlow trained at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and The Jacques Lecoq School in Paris and now works as an associate artist with Complicite. Other theatre work includes Cymbeline’, ‘As You Like It,’ ‘Wild Oats’ and ‘Privates on Parade’ with the RSC, Kin g Lear Bristol Old Vic, Death and the Plowman Gate Theatre, Kafkas Dick Derby Playhouse, Camelot Ipswich Arts. He has worked extensively in television and film. He founded the Rainmaker Theatre Company performing mime shows to deaf children and will perform a one-man show called Earfull about life as a deaf actor at BAC in April.

Finn Caldwell trained at the GSMD. Since graduating he’s worked on Declan Donallan’s Antigone at the Old Vic, Ed Halls Macbeth in the West End and spent a year and half with the RSC. Finn was sponsored by 20th Century Fox to study Mask Performance and Construction in Italy under Donarto Sartori. He recently helped to develop the puppetry in Anthony Minghella’s Madam Butterfly with the ENO and is currently performing with Blind Summit in their sell out production of Low Life as part of The London International Mime Festival.

Caroline Partridge: Since graduating from Rose Bruford College Caroline has performed extensively as an actor and a puppeteer in several productions with Kazzom Theatre. The Little Angel Theatre is where she first got a taste for puppetry and most recently appeared in their production of Fantastic Mr Fox which will be continuing its run at The Polka Theatre Wimbledon in April. Caroline has also worked with the Royal Court New Writers Programme and the Red Room

Eliza Wills recently graduated from her 2nd year at The Jacques Lecoq School in Paris. She previously trained at The Oxford School of Drama after which she’s performed in a sell out run of Fanny Hill at the Edinburgh Festival, worked as a voiceover artist for the BBC Scotland and toured internationally playing Juliet in Romeo and Juliet. Eliza’s Company ‘Blue Scream Theatre’ has just been awarded an Arts Council grant to create their forthcoming show, touring this summer

Jennie Fellows trained at the University of East Anglia, East 15, Ecole Philippe Gaulier and, most recently, with Angelo de Castro. Jennie was on the National Studio Directors’ Programme and was trainee director at the Gate Theatre. She has also directed at the Young Vic, Soho Theatre, Theatre 503, and BAC. She is Artistic Director of Tickle Theatre.