David Tarkenter - Huw
Born in Edinburgh, David now lives in Brightlingsea, in Essex.Over the last six years, most of David's theatre work has been at The Mercury Theatre in Colchester, most recently as Faulkland in The Rivals, having previously appeared for the Mercury Theatre Company as Abanazer in Aladdin, Muley in The Grapes of Wrath, in the title role of King David, Man of Blood, Under Milk Wood, the promenade performance of Depot at the old Tram Shed on Magdalen Street, Coleman Connor in The Lonesome West, Jim Lad in Dick Whittington and the Pi-rats of the Caribbean, Dan Peggotty in David Copperfield, all the male roles in Two, Cominius in Coriolanus, Stingo in She Stoops to Conquer, Howard Wagner/Stanley in Death of a Salesman, George in Of Mice and Men, Three Heads in the Well, Flake/Judge in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Orsino in Twelfth Night and Bob Ewell in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Other theatre credits include: Long John Silver in Treasure Island (Northern Broadsides tour), Hamlet and Betrayal (Rapture Theatre Company, The Byre St Andrews); Under the Apple Tree, Bagsy Me and The Family Cook Book (all Cleveland Theatre Company); Rafferty’s Café (Quondam Theatre Company); The Singing Ringing Tree (CTC with NTC Touring); The Big Picture, Cat in the Road and Pickets and Pigs (all for the Customs House, South Shields); The Tailor of Gloucester and The Mystery Plays (Tethera Theatre Company); Time Windows, The Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltskin, Scheherezade, The Old Curiosity Shop, Pinochio, The Flag, As You Like It, Mary Barton and Tartuffe (all for NTC Touring); The Recruiting Officer, Our Country’s Good, The Birthday Party, The Deep Blue Sea, Frozen, Seasons Greetings, Kiss of the Spiderwoman and The Tennant of Wildfell Hall (Theatre by the Lake, Keswick) and Cinderella, Aladdin and Snow White (The Sands Centre, Carlisle).
Television and film credits include Falling (YTV), Harry (BBC), Quayside (Zenith/Tyne Tees), Heartbeat and Micawber (YTV), Inspector Rebus (Clerkenwell Films), The King of the Road (Granada/Tyne Tees/Pilgrim Films), Danny and his Amazing Teeth (Ipso Facto Films), Byker Grove (BBC/Zenith), and most recently 55 Degrees North (BBC) and Lawless (Company Pictures).
David has also worked extensively as a voice over artist, including recording numerous audio books, commercials and radio plays.
Barbara Peirson - Carol
Barbara has led a wide-ranging career having performed in theatre and television.Her theatre credits include:
Live From Paradise (Station House Opera), And All The Children Cried (BAC/Hampstead New End), The Life and Death of Marilyn Monroe (Royal National Studio), Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf (Colchester Mercury Theatre), Pygmalion (Ipswich Wolsey), Blood Libel (Norwich Playhouse), Kicking The Habit (Royal Court), The Enemies Within (Young Vic), Hammetts Watch (Royal Court), A Doll’s House (Derby Playhouse), The Dark At the Top Of The Stairs (Derby Playhouse), Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay (Young Vic), No Worries (Young Vic), Moll Flanders (Worcester Swan), Self Portrait (Theatre Clwyd), Stags & Hens, The Seagull and Mother Courage (Everyman Theatre, Liverpool) The Enemies Within and most recently Love on the Dole (Octagon Theatre, Bolton).
Barbara’s film and television credits include:
Shaded From The Sun (Fat Kid Productions), Possession (Possession Films), Hope and Glory (Goldcrest), Emmerdale (ITV), A Dinner of Herbs (Festival Films), Close Relations (BBC), Flowers of Forest (BBC), Our Friends In The North (BBC), Blind justice (BBC), Mr Wroe’s Virgins (BBC), Brookside (Mersey TV), Grange Hill (BBC), Coronation Street (Granada).
Barbara has also worked extensively for BBC Radio drama and BBC Schools.
Kieran Knowles - Yann
Kieran trained at Loughborough University and LAMDA. Theatre credits include: The Exclusion Zone Southwark Playhouse (dir: Mark Ravenhill), Letters To A Loved One Kidderminster Town Hall (dir: Peter Leslie-Wild) Radio: Zero Hour, Penny Black Cantata, Prometheus and Sisyphus. Theatre whilst training: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Meatmoneyjesus, A Time to Keep, D.N.A and Three Sisters. This is Kieran's first trip to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.Emma Connell – Caitlyn
Emma trained at East 15 Acting School, graduating in 2010 with an MA in Acting with Distinction. Before training her roles included, Confidante in The Massacre, Jenkins in He's Much To Blame and Mrs Ledger in the rehearsed reading of Road to Ruin (all at the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds). Since graduating, recent credits include, Sarah Williams and Anne Mylner in Tony Robinson's Superstitions, (Documentary, Channel 4) and Ensemble in The Just So Stories, (The Pleasance, Islington) This will be Emma's debut performance at the Edinburgh Fringe. James Wallwork - Tony
James trained at LAMDA graduating in 2009.Theatre whilst training includes: Antipholus of Syracuse Comedy of Errors, Graham Cutter Speculators and Gruff Gas Station Angel
Theatre: Johnny My Beautiful Laundrette, Above The Stag Theatre
Radio: Captain Varian The Minister of Chance, Radio Static
Joshua Hayes - Dan
Joshua is thrilled to be returning to the Edinburgh Festival after making his debut in the award winning 'Territory' in 2009. Joshua trained at Arts Ed and whilst training was awarded the Lilian Baylis Award.Television credits include:
Dr Who (BBC) and Doctors (BBC)
Theatre credits include:
'Territory' (The Space @ The Radisson), 'The Frontline' (Arts Ed) and 'The Colour of Justice' (Arts Ed)
Nathan Wright - Ollie
Nathan graduated from Arts Educational Schools London in 2009. This is his debut appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe.Theatre credits include: As You Like It (West Yorkshire Playhouse) The Tempest (Kents Cavern, Torquay) 17 Hands (Theatre 503) The Meeting (The Pleasance) One Correct Answer (The Old Red Lion) Lush Life (Canal Cafe)
Television credits include: Being Human (BBC3) Doctors (BBC1)
Jonathan Lichtenstein – Writer
Jonathan Lichtenstein is from Wales. After a variety of careers, Jonathan studied drama at Bretton Hall. After graduation, he founded the Yorkshire Theatre Company, a writing company. This new venture led to a freelance directing and writing career. During this period he started the first ever living museum at Wigan Pier. Later, he founded the Centre for Theatre Studies as the University of Essex. His first play 'Station', was selected as the play to open the new building for Soho Theatre in Dean Street, after which he was immediately commissioned to write a short play for Radio 4 about how the Soho venue was transformed from a synagogue into a theatre.
He now combines a writing career with his work as the director for the Centre of Theatre Studies where he specialises in teaching playwrighting.
He is married to the actress Barbara Peirson and they have three children.
Gari Jones - Director
Gari’s work as Director includes: Look Europe (Almeida), Speak Truth To Power; Voices From the Dark (West End), Night Sky (Old Vic), Dearest Daddy, Darling Daughter (Young Vic), Merchant Of Venice, Hamlet (Creation Theatre, Oxford Castle), Beckett’s Rough For Theatre I & II (Arts Theatre), Rose Bernd (Oxford Stage Co), Manifest Destiny (An opera, Tricycle Theatre), Games People Play, Stevens Last Night In Town (Ben Folds Musical), Whacked, The Soldier (all Edinburgh Festival), Biloxi Blues (Jerwood Vanbrugh), Amadeus (L.A. and New York), Under Milk Wood, The Lonesome West and Accidental Death Of An Anarchist (Mercury Theatre, Colchester) plus numerous shows at other Theatres and Drama Schools.
In a long collaboration with Harold Pinter credits as Director and Associate Director include Monologue, Pinter Sketches, including two World Premieres, The Caretaker, Celebration, The Room, No Mans Land, The Dumb Waiter (Royal National Theatre, Almeida, English Touring Theatre and Lincoln Centre’s Pinter Festival, New York). And in collaboration with writer Nick Ward, credits include A Step In The Cave (RNT Studio), The Decameron (Gate), Trouble Sleeping (Warehouse) and Strangeness Of Others (Lamda).
As Writer/ Director credits include: Depot (for the Mercury Theatre in a derelict Tram depot), Tales From Grimms (Creation Theatre), By Parties Unknown (St Andrews church crypt), Somewhere Else (Cobden Night Club and film commissioned), Belly Of The Beast (Roundhouse/ Hampstead), Enough Is Enough, Utopian (Edinburgh Festival and European Tour). As well as shows, projects, club and event nights and ‘happenings’ in car parks, galleries and found spaces.
Pasco-Q Kevlin - Creative Producer
Pasco worked at Colchester Arts Centre for seven years as Director of Operations including working as Production Manager on the hugely successful Dr Roberts Magic Bus (Edinburgh 2006). He has been Artistic Director at the University of Essex for four years, during which time he has transformed the Lakeside Theatre into one of the most exciting performance venues in the region.
This year has seen Pasco develop in his role as a Creative Producer, working earlier in the year with Derek Walcott’s brand new play Moonchild, which premiered in the UK as a developed rehearsed reading at the Lakeside Theatre and Darkness by Jonathan Lichtenstein which he is taking to the Edinburgh Festival in 2011.
Laura Hammond - Company / Production Stage Manager
Laura’s technical credits include: Company Stage Manager for Escalator Futures (Arts Council East); Hotbed Festival 2009 (Menagerie in association with The Junction Cambridge), Technical Stage Manager for By The Way (ChoppedLogic), Technician for Not a Lover or a Fighter (Lloyd Langford); The Ginge the Geordie and the Geek (The Ginge, The Geordie and The Geek), Lighting Designer for Fruit of the Womb (Mossycoat Productions), Lighting, Sound and Technical Stage Manager for Adriano Adewale’s Sound Journey (SEGUE), Stage Manager for Stand By Your Van; Re:Design; Let Newton Be! (Menagerie); Fish (Gomito Productions); Between the Cracks; The Two Of Us (Theatre Royal, Bury St. Edmunds) and Production Manager for Headlands (The Hal Company in association with the Mercury Theatre). Her acting credits include Rachel in Brace (Mossycoat Productions). Laura has now started to create her own work using puppetry.
