Silent Planet. Eve Leigh
To Win Against History (Ovalhouse), Body Electric, DISCOnnected (ABSOLUT Fringe Festival, Dublin), Treasure This? (Bush Theatre) and In Extremis (King’s Head Theatre). Theatre as Associate Designer includes Land of Our Fathers and A Handful of Stars (Trafalgar Studios).
Costume Design includes Cnoic Chlaonta and Shift(h)er (USA and Ireland) and Celebrity (Project Arts Centre, Dublin). Film includes Magpie, Way of the Monkey’s Claw, The 95th, PubMonkey, Blind Man’s Dream and Termination.
She is a Creative Associate at the Gate Theatre, and exhibited at the World Stage Design Exhibition in 2013.
RACHEL BOTTOMLEY
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Trained at LIPA.
Theatre includes Freak (Theatre503 and Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh), It Never Ends, ThatcherWrite (Theatre503), The Last Eden (The Kazimier) and A Clockwork Orange (LIPA).
Rachel was the winner of the 2012 Association of Lighting Designers Michael Northern Bursary Award.
DUNCAN GRIMLEY
SOUND DESIGNER
Composition and Production includes Wings of Desire (International Dance Festival Birmingham 2012 for Seeper, Circa and 2Faced Dance), BTown (International Dance Festival Birmingham 2014 for Morning of Owl, Pro Dance and Plague), Headphones (UK Tour for Corey Baker Dance), I Waz Ere 2 and Go! (UK Tour for Protein Dance), Other and Unsent Letters (The Drum for Hearth Theatre), For The Past 30 Years (Birmingham REP) and 5 Man Show (UK Tour for Bare Bones).
JENNIFER JACKSON
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR
Trained at East 15 and works as an actor, devisor and movement director. Movement Direction includes Debris (Southwark Playhouse), Macbeth (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), Knights (Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter), The Gut Girls (Brockley Jack Theatre), Fish Kill (Gap Salon), Corpus Christi (The Space), The Sisters Return to the Isle of Queef (Hen and Chickens Theatre) and Be My Baby (Etcetera Theatre). Assistant Movement Direction includes the 2014 Paines Plough Roundabout Season – Fringe First winners for The Initiate.
As a performer, Jennifer has appeared in Scenes from an Execution (National Theatre), Thérèse Raquin (Theatre Royal Bath), Death and the Maiden (West End), Humbug, Flathampton – winner of Argus Angel for Artistic Excellence at Brighton Festival 2013 (Royal and Derngate Theatres, Northampton), Macbeth (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), Sonnet Walks (Shakespeare’s Globe), Remote Control (National Theatre Studio), Soon Until Forever, Red Shoes (Theatre503), Amphibians, The Drawing Play (Offstage Theatre), Fixer (Ovalhouse), Moshing (Arcola Theatre) and The Box (Bush Theatre).
DANIEL BAILEY
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Daniel is currently Resident Assistant Director at the Finborough Theatre (with the support of The Richard Carne Trust) where he assisted on Rachel.
Studied Drama at Brunel University before participating in the Young Vic Young Directors Programme.
Theatre includes Satanic Panic (Drayton Arms Theatre), My Darling Wife (Talawa Theatre Company) and Pre Judgment Day (Paddington Arts and White Bear Theatre for New Heritage Theatre).
Assistant Direction includes Inherit the Wind (New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme) and Lonely Londoners, Rules for Living and Hotel O (National Theatre Studio).
Film includes Malachi, Floating on Clouds and Y.O.L.O Therapy.
Daniel was previously Resident Director at the National Theatre Studio.
RIANNA DEARDEN
PRODUCER
Trained on Uri Roodner’s BA Acting and Contemporary Theatre Course at East 15 Acting School.
Theatre includes KATE (Pleasance Edinburgh and Pleasance London), Play for September (Pleasance Edinburgh, Pleasance London and UK Tour) and The London Jungle Book (National Theatre Studios and Royal Festival Hall).
Rianna is the Artistic Director of Lost Watch Theatre Company, and was the recipient of the National Student Drama Festival Emerging Artist Award in both 2013 and 2014.
Upstart exists to create compelling and entertaining theatre which confronts the biggest questions facing the society we live in. We work with playwrights and theatre-makers to present work in London and on Tour.
Our productions include Microcosm at Soho Theatre (as an Associate Producer in collaboration with Turner and Co Productions and paper/scissors/stone), The Situation Room by Oscar Mike (UK Tour and full run at Shoreditch Town Hall), The Maddening Rain (UK Tour and 59E59 Theaters, New York City, in collaboration with Darbourne Luff), Oh Well Never Mind Bye by Steven Lally (Union Theatre), Water Sculptures and ZOO by Dawn King (Theatre503 and English Theatre of Bruges).
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Artistic Director
Tom Mansfield
Associate Director
Kate McGregor
Associate Director
James Blakey
Associate Artist
Steven Lally
Trustees
Jessica Beck
Anthony Biggs
Richard Darbourne
Zoë Lally
Louise Peckett
Roger Woodhouse
Upstart Theatre Limited is registered in England and Wales no. 6494297.
Registered Charity no. 1140419. Registered Office: 37 Gartmoor Gardens, London SW19 6NX.
118 Finborough Road, London SW10 9ED
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