Turner Plays
| Influenced by the paintings of Turner, 5 writers, including recent graduates of the MA program at City University, will be creating new 10 minute plays with the same titles as the paintings that inspired the plays. | |
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These productions will be debuting at the Camden Fringe in August, 2008 for 4 nights only!
3-6 August, 2008 If you are interested in finding out more about the Turner Plays, please contact contact@redonblackproductions.com. |
WRITERS (alphabetical):
Annalisa D’Innella (Rain, Steam & Speed)
Annalisa worked in documentaries for nine years before realising that it was more fun to just invent things. Her short film Work Experience was produced by Arts Ed and screened at BAFTA. She is currently writing her first feature film The Go Go Girls.
Sam Hall (Sea Monsters)
Before becoming a journalist, Sam won a national award for her first play, Dreamtime, written whilst still at school. After a few years, she decided journalism was not for her and returned to script-writing, as a member of the Royal Court Theatre Young Writers’ Programme. Full-length plays, Pretty Boy and He said, she said, were performed in London to sold-out houses, (The White Bear, The Landor Theatre).
Sally Horan (Fishermen at Sea)
Sally J. Horan is a published translator, writer and lecturer who speaks four languages.She has spent most of her career in education, teaching and translating French and Spanish plays, particularly those of Moliere and Lorca.She has been an assisant director on an emotionally charged in-house production of Bodas De Sangre, which was the catalyst for her love of theatre.
She will shortly be graduating with an MA in Creative Writing from City University and her first short play about an Irish tragedy will be produced at the Etcetera Theatre in August.
Mark Lindow (A River Seen from Richmond Hill)
Mark was a founding member of joinedupwriters. He produced their events at the Old Red Lion for over two years where over fifty pieces of theatre , including eight of his own, were staged . On Single Mums Are Easy? A short piece about male sexual values, “Cynically funny, a caustic antidote to Alan Bennett” Camden New Journal. In July 2006 his debut play Perfection was produced in conjunction with The Old Red Lion Theatre. “Lindow’s dialogue is peppered with wry and acute observations and he is highly skilled at weaving multiple timelines without once losing his audiences bearings.” Time Out. He has taken part in Greenwich Theatre’s 10 Minute Musical Challenge and worked with NYT on a twenty-four hour play project. He has also had work performed at Hampstead and Jermyn St Theatres, won The London Writers Competition twice and been short-listed for BBC Talent.
Heather Taylor (Throwing Overboard the Dead & Dying)
Heather Taylor is a Canadian writer, performer & educator, whose work has been published and produced throughout Europe, Asia & North America. This autumn she will be graduating with an MA from City University. As a playwright, her work has been on at the Tricycle, Soho Theatre, Canal Cafe, Greenwich Theatre, the Pleasance, Etcetera Theatre, & Theatre 503 in London as well as New Place in St. Albans, G12 in Glasgow as part of the NewWriting NewWorlds Festival and various venues in Canada. Her first feature film, The Last Thakur, will be released later this year in the UK. You can see more of her work on www.heathertaylor.co.uk. Agent: Michelle Arnold (Dench Arnold).
It is astounding to witness such a fierce emotional trajectory – a must see for anyone who wants to experience fearless and honest writing.
-Review of Hostage : Bleach : Burn, Naomi Woddis, Metaroar
DIRECTORS (alphabetical):
Kaitlin Argeaux (Throwing Overboard the Dead & Dying)
Kaitlin Argeaux (Tampa, Florida) is expecting her Theatre Directing MFA this December from University of Essex. She has recently been involved in 24 Hours:Underground (HallWay Productions) and is assistant directing Shut-up, Listen! showing at this years Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She had the opportunity to attend GITIS Academy in Moscow and has also studied under such influential directors as Michael Fry and Mick Gordan. Her directorial ambitions involve re-introducing classics with an urban appeal and emphasis on physicality.
Russ Hope (Fishermen at Sea)
Recent credits include THE JOKE THE RABBIT TOLD ME (Tristan Bates Theatre), THE LAST FIVE YEARS (West End), “a revelatory experience…
gorgeous and moving” – Mark Shenton; WIRED (King’s Head), LEFT BEHIND (Greenwich Theatre), 24 HOURS: UNDERGROUND (Canal Café) and THE FIX (Edinburgh Festival). Russ is a member of Old Vic New Voices and has trained with the RSC, Complicité and Improbable. He is also Artistic Director of “Throwaway” whose new production LUCKY NURSE plays C Cubed at the Edinburgh Fringe from 17th to 25th August – www.throwaway.org.uk
Catherine Paskell (A River Seen from a Hill)
Directing includes: Tell Me Lies (Arts Theatre and Tour), Top Bunk (Oldham Coliseum), White People (Theatre 503), Drama Queen (Unity Theatre, Liverpool), When the Lights Went Out (Tara Arts / National Tour), The Confidential Clerk (The Finborough, as Associate Director), Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci (Haddo House, Aberdeenshire as Associate Director), Eggs are for Breaking (Baron’s Court Theatre), Eleemosynary (Octagon Theatre, Bolton), Fat Men in Skirts (Edinburgh Festival), Be the Hunter (Soho Theatre), Seconds Out (North West Playwrights/Octagon Theatre, Bolton), The Road to Nashville (Capitol Theatre, Manchester) and Castle Walls (Chautauqua Theatre Festival, Santa Cruz, USA). Catherine trained on the MFA Theatre Directing at Birkbeck and was Director in Residence at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton and Contact, Manchester.
Arlene Vazquez (Sea Monsters)
Arlene Martinez graduated from an MFA in Theatre Directing from Middlesex University, where she also had the opportunity of training for a month in both Moscow and Bali. Since moving to London, she has worked with theatre company Collision on their first project Who Stole Mee?, Tangram Theatre Company on CASA Latin American Theatre Festival ’07 and ’08, Hallway Productions on 24 Hours: Underground and currently, Red on Black productions on their Turner Plays. She has also worked as a workshop leader for Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, WAC Performing Arts and Media College in England and Mahidol University International College in Thailand.
Lotte Wakeham (Rain, Steam & Speed)
Lotte’s directing credits include Dido, Queen of Carthage (Little Hawks Theatre Company), Play on Words (winner of the Cameron Mackintosh New Writing Festival 2007), The Threepenny Opera (Oxford Playhouse), Into the Woods (Oxford Playhouse), Travesties (O’Reilly Theatre), Woman in Mind (Burton Taylor Theatre), Attempts on her Life (EM Forster Theatre) and The Bar (rehearsed reading, Baron’s Court Theatre). As assistant director: Rita (Royal Opera House), Fiddler on the Roof (national tour), Voithia! (English Touring Opera), I Love You, You’re Perfect…(Upstairs at the Gatehouse), The Dreaming (National Youth Music Theatre) and rehearsed readings for Mercury Musical Development (Her Majesty’s Theatre). Lotte trained with the National Youth Music Theatre and read English at Keble College, Oxford.
Rachel Warr (Overall director)
Rachel’s previous directing work includes new writing projects at The Wolsey Theatre, Chester Gateway Theatre, Eastern Angles, Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, Windsor Arts Centre & Oxford House Bethnal Green. Rachel’s productions have been performed at the New Wimbledon Theatre & on European tours. She is a member of The Crescent Theatre Workshop and for them has directed new plays “National Amnesty” and “Baby Talk”. Her work has included casts of 100, orchestras and man-eating suitcase puppets, though not all in the same production.
DESIGNERS (alphabetical):
Mela Boev (Costume designer)
Mela is an artist and textile designer When not occupied in researching the infinite possible worlds, comes back to earth to make interesting things. She makes fancy clothes with pieces of rainbow, builds felt shelters, sews vessel sails , makes trees grow charming bells, brings invisible horses in tea houses, prints carrier bags warning you to save your soul, creates imaginary animal species and makes ladies dressed in white sing on the roofs with much amusement for pupils during math classes. Her work has often to do with myth and storytelling , even if when not directly related to fictional theatre.
Sarah Gooda (Lighting/ Sound design)
Sarah is a London based freelancer who has been working in stage management, technical theatre and film production for the last 4 years since graduating with a music degree. Recent lighting designs include ‘The Six Wives of Timothy Leary’ (Etcetera Theatre / Riverside Studios / Edinburgh Fringe). Sound designs include theatre and film, some containing Sarah’s original music. Sarah has worked in the UK, Ireland, New Zealand and Australia, where she has recently shot a music video. Sarah also runs her own production company, Spangled Aura Productions. www.sarah-gooda.moonfruit.com / www.spangled-aura.moonfruit.com
ACTORS (alphabetical):
Holly Berry (Carmel – Fishermen at Sea)
Currently touring A Midsummer Night’s Dream (British Touring Shakespeare). Holly’s recent credits include The Comedy of Errors (also BTS), Guinevere in King Arthur (National Geographic Channel), Much Ado and Richard III (Globe Players), Beyond the Battlefield (RADA),The Importance of Being Earnest (New Triad German Theatre Tour), Ever Wondered About Food? (BBC 1), Reasons Why I’m Single (Sky), and ongoing American voiceovers for US computer company Websense.
Jeronimo Best (Sea Monsters)
Jeronimo trained both at the LAMDA and The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, he has most recently finished a tour of the adaptation of the mexican novel LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE for Theatre Sans Frontières, during his training he played varied classical and contemporary roles such as Worcester in HENRY VI PART I & II, Yasha in THE CHERRY ORCHARD, Young Marlowe in SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER and Yuri as part of the devising ensemble of Connor Mitchell’s musical OTTO KLUMP. He also had the opportunity to participate in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Complete Works Festival in the production of TROILUS AND CRESSIDA directed by Peter Stein. In Mexico, he worked with Leonor Bonilla in a compilation of Ionesco’s short plays and a purely improvised play. He has also worked for Quantum Theatre and shot an educational short film for Spanish students. Spotlight pin 9819-1272-2795
Ralph Bogard (Sea Monsters)
Ralph recently performed in Branded at the Old Vic as a Satanic Air Stewardess and as Zebulun in the UK No1 tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. Some other UK credits include Bob Beckett in H.M.S. Pinafore (London), Merrick/Narrator in Enchanted (upstairs at the Gatehouse) and Herb in Godspell (Edinburgh) he also originated the roles of Roulin/Henri in Vincent (London). His New York credits include Haq in The Cinnamon Moths, Barnadine in Measure For Measure and Jerry in Valentine Hydra. Ralph studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute and Carnegie Hall in NYC. Ralph is delighted to be appearing in ‘Sea Monsters’ and would like to thank his family and friends for their long standing support and love.
For more information visit www.ralphbogard.com.
Elizabeth Elstub (Bridie – Fishermen at Sea)
Elizabeth trained as an actor at The London Centre For Theatre Studies. Theatre includes Mrs Alving in Ghosts[ Barons Court], Yelana in Uncle Vanja [The Union], Megs Murphy in Massa [ Camden’s People], Alice Farnell in Camera [Rosemary Branch], Hippolita in Tis Pity She’s a Whore [Jermyn Street Theatre], Mrs Needham in The Art of Success[Camdens’s People]. Film includes- 28 Weeks Later [ J.C. Fresnadillo], Sweeny Todd [Tim Burton]. Seeks Representation – Contact elizabethelstub@yahoo.com
Aiofe Madden (Throwing Overboard the Dead & Dying/ Sea Monsters)
Since graduating from Arts Educational drama school with an MA Acting, theatre credits include: Mairead, The Lieutenant of Inishmore (RSC UK Tour, Wilson Milam); By the Bog of Cats, (Wyndhams Theatre, Dominic Cooke); Dance Hall Days, (Riverside studios, Rosalind Scanlon); Crumble (Finborough theatre, Devon de Mayo), 24 hours (Canal Cafe Theatre, Margaret Hall). Film and Television credits include: The Time of your Life (Granada productions ITV, David Blair); Agnus (Ambient light productions, Eoin Coffee); The Last Drop, (Carnaby motion pictures, Colin Teague). Spotlight number: 7411-6755-8548.
Cheska Moon (Throwing Overboard the Dead & Dying)
Cheska was classically trained in London and LA. Theatre: Orpheus (BAC), 24 Hours Underground (Canal Café), I Met This Girl, (Camden People’s Theatre), No Talking (The White Bear), Twelfth Night, (Principal Theatre Co), It Started With A Kiss (The White Bear), A Bedroom Farce (The Globe, LA). Film/TV: Spooks (Dir: Omar Madha), Hippie Hippie Shake (Dir: Beeban Kidron), In The Music (Lisa Brunton-Wallace), They Call Him Khadir (Dir: Olivia Vergnon), Presenter for IotaMedia. Spotlight view pin: 2612-4537-8973
Cordelia Morrison (Rose – Rain, Steam & Speed)
Acting credits include The Crucible (Mary Warren); Cider With Rosie (Doth), Fen (Becky), Jealous River (Mary Hussey/Joan Batchelor), The House of Bernarda Alba (Bernarda Alba); Bold Girls (Marie), Nymph Errant (The Cocotte); Fingerprint (Dr Touché), Black Comedy (Miss Furnivall); Hamlet (Gertrude); Our Day Out (Carol); The Outside Dog (Marjory); A Tale of Two Cities (Madame Defarge); Vacant Possession (Violet); Dick Barton: Special Agent (Genevieve). Cordi trained with the National Youth Theatre. Contact – cordi_mo@hotmail.co.uk
Miranda Roszkowski (Philomena – Fishermen at Sea)
Miranda graduated from the MA course at East 15 Acting School last October. Roles during training include Sonya in Platonov, Val in Fen by Caryl Churchill and Helene in David Edgar’s Festen. Recent credits include Silvius in an all-female As You Like It and a children’s theatre tour. Miranda is passionate about new writing, having developed work with the ACT Swansea play-offs and Wales Millennium Centre Incubator Project and is very pleased to be part of the Turner Plays.
Rob Smith (Herbert – Rain, Steam & Speed)
Acting credits include: Soranzo in ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Rooster in Annie, Alex in A Clockwork Orange, Jason in Car, the Postmaster in The Government Inspector and Juror 8 in Twelve Angry Men. Rob trained with the National Youth Theatre. Contact – robsmith_22@hotmail.co.uk