The Soft of Her Palm. Chris Dunkley
The Tempest (Theatre Royal, Bath), Kes (Catherine Wheels Theatre), Romeo and Juliet and The Importance of Being Earnest (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh), The English Game (Headlong), The Home Place (Comedy Theatre), Buried Child (National Theatre), Jane Eyre (Shared Experience), The Crucible (The Touring Consortium), The Terrible Voice of Satan (Royal Court Theatre), The Cherry Orchard, The Phoenician Women, The Virtuoso, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Romeo and Juliet, A Woman Killed with Kindness and Amphibians (Royal Shakespeare Company), The Fairy Queen (Aix-en-Provence), Androcles and the Lion, Judy, Tartuffe, The Life of Galileo, The School for Scandal, The Rivals, The Comedy of Errors and Othello (Bristol Old Vic Theatre), For King and Country (Greenwich Theatre), The Misanthrope (Cambridge Theatre Company), Loot (Mercury Theatre, Colchester), One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and Peter Pan (Redgrave Theatre, Farnham) and Murder on the Nile (Worthing Theatre).
Film includes The Truth, Finding Mallory, A Rather English Marriage and Hamlet.
Television includes Robin Hood, Casualty, Judge John Deed, Dunkirk, Holby City, Serious and Organised, Silent Witness, Without Motive, Berkeley Square, Seaforth, The Bill, The March, A Wing and a Prayer, Peak Practice, Smokescreen, The Advocates, South of the Border, The Country Boy and EastEnders.
Chris Dunkley | Playwright Chris is currently commissioned by the Arts Council to research and write The Precariat, a new play that will premiere as part of the Finborough Theatre's Vibrant – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights in November 2012. His play Mirita premiered at the Finborough Theatre in 2001, was named Time Out Critics’ Choice, and transferred Off Broadway to the Cherry Lane Theatre, New York City, alongside his short play Lisa Says. An earlier version of The Soft of Her Palm was performed at the Finborough Theatre as a staged reading as part of Vibrant – An Anniversary Festival of Finborough Playwrights (2010), directed by Tim Luscombe.
Other plays include Almost Blue (Riverside Studios), How to Tell the Truth (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough), Lucy is a Minger (Spinney Hill Theatre, Northampton) and The Festival (Wimbledon Studio Theatre). Radio includes The All Colour Vegetarian Cookbook and The Architects, both for the BBC. Chris has been Writer in Residence at Royal and Derngate Theatres, Northampton, and Writer on Attachment at the Royal Court Theatre. He was the 2002 winner of the International Student Playscript Competition and winner of the PMA writers’ award in 2001.
Ola Ince | Director Ola is a former Resident Assistant Director and Senior Reader at the Finborough Theatre where she directed Namaskar as part of 2011’s Vibrant – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights. Trained at Rose Bruford College with a First Class Honours BA in Theatre Directing. Directing includes Pets Corner (Arcola Theatre), One Million Tiny Plays About Britain (Clare Theatre at The Young Vic), Games (Pleasance Theatre), Far Away (The Studio, Rose Bruford College), The Inconvenient Store (Tooting Hub), The Frame (Unicorn Theatre), The Island (Unicorn Theatre) and Pop (Warehouse Theatre). Ola has worked as an Assistant Director for the The Young Vic, Octagon Theatre Bolton, Tristan Bates Theatre, National Theatre Studio, King's Head Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company Fringe Festival. Most recently, she was Assistant Director to Sacha Wares on Wild Swans (The Young Vic).
Daniel Harvey | Designer Trained at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. Set Designs include Hedda Gabler (The International Ibsen Stage at Hoxton Hall), O Brave New World – based on The Tempest (Retz London). Costume Designs include the Australian premiere of Xanadu: The Musical (Australian Tour). Set and Costume Designs include Back from the Dead Red, which received a nominated for Best Design in the Green Room Awards (Melbourne Fringe Festival), Two Weeks with the Queen (Black Apple Theatre at the Midsumma Festival). Daniel has worked as Assistant to Paul Wills on My Fair Lady (Sheffield Crucible), Drumbelly (Abbey Theatre, Dublin), as Assistant to Chloe Lamford on Disco Pigs (The Young Vic), Salt, Root and Roe (Donmar Warehouse at Trafalgar Studios), An Appointment with the Wickerman (National Theatre of Scotland), Boys (Headlong at Soho Theatre) and The Little Sweep (Malmo Opera House), as Assistant to Christopher Oram on Uncle Vanya (Vaudeville Theatre), Privates on Parade (Noël Coward Theatre) and The Marriage of Figaro (Glyndebourne Festival Opera) and as Assistant to Anna Tregloan on the Australian premiere of Spring Awakening: A New Musical (Sydney Theatre Company). Wardrobe includes Priscilla – Queen of the Desert: The Musical (Palace Theatre) and the Melbourne seasons for both The Australian Ballet and Opera Australia.
Elliot Griggs | Lighting Designer At the Finborough Theatre, Elliot has been the Lighting Designer for Crush (2011), Perchance to Dream (2011), Portraits (2011), And I and Silence (2011) and Northern Star (2011).
Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Recent theatre includes The Boy Who Kicked Pigs (The Lowry, Manchester), MEAT (Theatre503), Belleville Rendez-Vous (Greenwich Theatre), Lagan (Oval House Theatre), Folk Contraption (Southbank Centre), Bitter Pleasures for a Sour Generation (Soho Theatre), The Custard Boys (Tabard Theatre), Brightest and Best (Half Moon Theatre), Dealing With Clair, One Minute, Nocturnal, dirty butterfly, Our Town (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art), The Mercy Seat (Royal Shakespeare Company Capital Centre, Warwick), The Lady's Not For Burning, West Side Story, By the Bog of Cats, ’Tis Pity She's a Whore, Elephant's Graveyard (Warwick Arts Centre), Much Ado About Nothing (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry) and Dido and Aeneas (St. Paul's Church, London, and Tour). His awards for lighting design include the Francis Reid Award from the Association of Lighting Designers and the ShowLight Award at the National Student Drama Festival.
Max Pappenheim | Sound Designer At the Finborough Theatre, Max designed the sound for Hindle Wakes, Barrow Hill and The Fear of Breathing (2012) and directed Perchance to Dream (2011).
Sound Designs include Borderland, Kafka v Kafka (Brockley Jack Studio Theatre), Being Tommy Cooper (Old Red Lion Theatre), Four Corners One Heart (Theatre503), Tangent (New Diorama Theatre) and Werther's Sorrows and Salome (Edinburgh Festival and Etcetera Theatre). Directing includes San Giuda (Southwark Cathedral), The Charmed Life (King's Head Theatre), Finchley Road (LOST Theatre) and Quid Pro Quo (Riverside Studios).
Max was nominated for an OffWestEnd Award 2012 for Best Sound Design.
Jenny Ogilvie | Movement Director At the Finborough Theatre, Jenny appeared in Wolfboy/Treatment (1999) and Beating Heart Cadaver as part of Vibrant – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights (2010).
Trained as an actress at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and as a Movement Director at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Movement Direction includes Sweeney Todd and Paul Bunyan workshops (Welsh National Opera), Vernon God Little (Guildford School of Acting), Three Sisters/Swan Song, which she co-directed with Ben Naylor, Richard III and Antony and Cleopatra (Central School of Speech and Drama). As an actor, theatre includes What Every Woman Knows (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester) for which she was nominated for the TMA Award for Best Performance in a Play, Noughts and Crosses (Royal Shakespeare Company), I Have Been Here Before (Watford Palace Theatre), Peter Pan and The Diary of Anne Frank (Birmingham Rep and National Tour), Our Country's Good (National Tour), Rebecca and Deadlock (Vienna's English Theatre) and Miss Julie (Theatre Royal, Haymarket). Film includes A Cock and Bull Story and The Clap. Television includes Law and Order, Torn, Five Days and Poirot.
Kevin McCurdy | Fight Director Trained at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and is an Equity professional First Director in Wales. He gained his Combat Teacher status in 1993 and Professional Fight Directors status in 1996. Theatre includes Mogadishu (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, and National Tour), Romeo and Juliet (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton),