Mush and Me. Karla Crome
(Eurostar Waterloo).
Chris Withers
Lighting Designer
Lighting Design credits include: Jack and the Beanstalk, Puss in Boots, Robin Hood, Aladdin, Heavy Like the Weight of a Flame, The Temperamentals (Greenwich Theatre); Hamlet, Thebes, Reptember, The Talented Mr Ripley, Romeo and Juliet, Joan of Arc (The Faction at New Diorama Theatre); Lucy and the Hawk (Northern Stage and Oval House); What the Animals Say (Hull Truck and Northern Stage); Othello, Hedda Gabler (UK and Ireland tour); A Quiet Life, Blind Date/27 Wagons full of Cotton (Riverside Studios); Hindle Wakes, December Man, Saturn Returns and The Killing of Mr Toad (Finborough Theatre); Change (Arcola), The Great British Country Fete (Bush Theatre and Tour); Gutted- A Revenger’s Musical (Assembly Ballroom, Edinburgh); Dirty White Boy - Tales of Soho (Trafalgar Studios); What’s Wrong With Angry? (King’s Head); The Canterbury Tales (Battersea Arts Centre) Recent credits as an assistant/associate include: The Seagull (Southwark Playhouse); Precious Little Talent (Trafalgar Studios); Lingua Franca (59E59 New York); Little Fish (Finborough); Well (Apollo Shaftesbury Ave) and How to Disappear Completely and Never be Found (Southwark Playhouse).
David Ridley
Composer
David is an associate composer with Bucket Club and Tap Tap Theatre companies. He gained a Masters in Composition from the University of Bristol where he studied as a full Faculty of Arts Scholar, and spent 6 months in East China where he served as the inaugural conductor of The Voices of Hangzhou Youth Choir. Recent theatrical composition work includes Lorraine and Alan (Bucket Club) which won the 2014 MTN award for innovation in music theatre; The Beasts (Bucket Club, Lyric Hammersmith and tour); Captain Morgan and the Sands of Time (TapTap Theatre), and orchestration work: Hansel and Gretel (Royal Ballet); The Secret of Crickley Hall (Dan Jones, BBC1).
David also writes concert music and is in demand as a composer for choirs and chamber ensembles.
To listen to David’s original music for Mush and Me, along with more of his work, please follow: www.davidjridley.co.uk.
Lip Sink
Producer
Lip Sink was founded in 2014 by performer and producer Daniella Isaacs, director Rosy Banham and writer Karla Crome. The company aims to create risk-taking new work influenced by real-life interviews with young adults. Their debut production, Mush and Me, received the Ideas Tap Underbelly Award and was performed at the Underbelly during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2014. The production was subsequently shortlisted for the Brighton Fringe Award and announced as the Winner of the Holden Street Theatres Award.
Francesca Clark
Producer
Francesca is an independent theatre producer and project manager, as well as being Producer at HighTide Festival Theatre. Producing as part of HighTide Festival Theatre includes: peddling by Harry Melling (Off Broadway, Arcola, HighTide Festival); Bottleneck by Luke Barnes (Soho Theatre, UK tour, Pleasance & Underbelly Edinburgh); Incognito by Nick Payne (Bush Theatre, Live Theatre, Newcastle, North Wall, HighTide Festival); The Big Meal by Dan LeFranc (Theatre Royal Bath, HighTide Festival); The Girls Guide to Saving the World by Elinor Cook (HighTide Festival); Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters adapted by Jack Thorne (Underbelly Edinburgh, Sheffield Theatres, Watford Palace Theatre); Neighbors by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Nuffield Theatre, HighTide Festival); Smallholding by Chris Dunkley (Soho Theatre, Nuffield Theatre, HighTide Festival); Boys by Ella Hickson (Soho Theatre, Nuffield Theatre , HighTide Festival); Mudlarks by Vickie Donoghue (Bush Theatre, 503, HighTide Festival ); Lidless by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig (Trafalgar Studios, Underbelly Edinburgh, HighTide Festival) Stovepipe by Adam Brace (Bush Theatre, National Theatre).
Awards: 2012 and 2010 Fringe First Awards for Educating Ronnie and Lidless; 2009 Whatsonstage Award nomination for Best Off-West End Production (Stovepipe).
Richard Jordan Productions
Collaborative Producer
Richard Jordan Productions is an Olivier and TONY Award-winning production company based in London under the artistic leadership of producer Richard Jordan. Founded in 1998, his company has produced over 190 productions in the UK as well as 19 other countries, including 60 world premieres and 70 European, Australian or US premieres enjoying associations with many of the world’s leading theatres and arts organisations. Described by The Stage newspaper as ‘one of the UK’s most prolific theatre producers’, Richard was the first recipient of the TIF/Society of London Theatre Producers Award and a finalist in the British Council Creative Entrepreneur Award. In 2009 for his work in the UK and international theatre industries he was selected for life time inclusion in A & C Black’s annual publication Who’s Who.
Richard has been at the forefront of developing and presenting works by a diverse range of established and emerging UK and international writers and artists such as: Alan Ayckbourn; Conor McPherson; Omphile Molusi; Alan Bennett; Cora Bissett; Athol Fugard; David Greig; Martin McDonagh; Valentijn Dhaenens; Cristian Ceresoli; Christopher Durang; Nick Steur; Pieter de Buysser; Robert Farquhar; the Q Brothers; Heather Raffo; Stefan Golaszewski and Belgian collective Ontroerend Goed whose work he co-produces worldwide. His productions have won a number of awards including: the TONY Award for Best Play; the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement at an Affiliate Theatre; the Emmy Award for Best Feature section; eight Scotsman Fringe Firsts Awards; two Herald Angel Awards; six Total Theatre Awards; The Spirit of the Fringe Award; the Off-West End Award; three Helen Hayes Awards; the Adelaide Festival Award; the US Black Alliance Award; Stage Award; Obie Award; the John Gassner Award for Best New American Play; Jeff Award; the Lucille Lortel Award; and the Drama Desk; Drama League; New York Critics, ; Outer Critic Circle Best New Play Awards. Richard has enjoyed a long association with the Bush Theatre where between 2006 and 2012 he served as an Associate Artist. His past productions at the Bush Theatre include; Nine Parts of Desire, which he subsequently also produced in New York and across North America, Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Qur’an, Chapel Street, which both also toured nationally and The Stefan Golaszewski Plays.
Holden Street Theatres, Adelaide
(Australian season Co-Producer)
Holden Street Theatres is a venue and production house located in South Australia that began in 2002. Holden Street Theatres presents productions from all over the world and tours work locally and in the UK.
With a strong focus on creative and artistic merit, Holden Street Theatres prides itself on presenting work that will enhance the local industry and cultural life.
In 2008 Holden Street Theatres created the Holden Street Theatres’ Edinburgh Award, presented annually at the Edinburgh Fringe. The award winning production is then produced with Holden Street Theatres the following year at the Adelaide Fringe. Many of these productions have subsequently gone on to win awards for Best Theatre in production and performance every year since the awards creation at the Adelaide Fringe Awards in both peer and media-judged award ceremonies.
Mush and Me is the recipient of the 2014 Holden Street Theatres Adelaide Fringe Award.
Other awards Holden Street Theatres has received includes, Best Overall Production at the Adelaide Fringe, Best Venue, Best Puppetry, Best Performer, Best Theatre and Good Partnering Recognition from the Australian Business Arts Foundation.