ARTISTIC TEAM

Helen Tennison

Helen is a director, writer and theatre-maker. She won an Edinbinurgh Fringe First for Everything I See I Swallow, a show about intergenerational feminism featuring aerial rope and shibari. She is currently devising Forgive Me, about the positive impacts of gaming for autistic people, featuring pole dance and live gaming. Recent work include Dirty Corset, a piece of Restoration surrealism that toured the North of England, played The Pleasance, London and won Bergen Festivals WOW award, Shirley Valentine, Teatret Sorte Hest, Copenhagen, Navigating Margaret (Director and writer) a large scale community project about living with Dementia and a psychogeography project for building sustainable cities as part of her role as Associate Artist at Greenwich University.Previous work for Creation Theatre includes, Dracula (London Library, Blackwells Bookshop) ALICE (University Parks, The Mill, Banbury, Lady Margaret Hall) Cinderella (The Mill, Banbury) Antony and Cleopatra (SAID business school) Tales from King James (North Wall, St Barnabas Church). She has worked at Shakespeare’s Globe, directed numerous times for Midsummer Scene Shakespeare Festival in Croatia and taken work to Bermuda Festival, Stockholm Festival and Vienna’s English Theatre as well as numerous UK venues and festivals in including Theatre Royal Winchester, the Arcola and Soho Theatre. In Association with Fuildford’s Yvonne Arnaud and Rosemary Branch Theatre Helen produced and directed three regional tours, Breakfast with Emma (Madame Bovary), Sense and Sensibility and Wuthering Heights (which she also adapted). Helen has led numerous theatre projects within the community, in prisons and young offenders institutions. As part of the Belgrade

Theatre Community department. Helen lead theatre projects for the youth theatre, young refugees, older people and workshops in theatre for confidence and good mental health. From 2015-17 Helen ran the Two Year Acting Course at Drama Studio London, she lectured in Shakespeare at Goldsmiths University and teaches at numerous Drama schools. From 2013-2022 she was visiting artist in residence at University of South Florida developing work around embodiment of space, architecture and community. She’s currently developing her solo absurd lectureperformance Doggerland supported by ACE and Het Zuidiljk Toneel, Netherlands where it was first performed.

Amy Watts

Amy graduated from Wimbledon College of Art with a BA (Hons) in Theatre Design: Design for Performance. Since then she has worked in many theatres in different roles: Associate Designer: (Live Theatre) Wet House. Assistant Designer: (ENO) Othello, Costume Designer: (Waterloo East Theatre) Profumo, (East 15) Hunchback of Notre Dame, Rhinoceros, Frankenstein, Three Kingdoms. Designer: (Reading Rep) Midsummer Nights Dream, (East Riding Theatre ) Hound of theBaskervilles, ( Hexham Theatre) The Remarkable Robin Armstrongs Extraordinary Christmas Adventure (UK Tour) Legend of Sleepy Hollow, (Northern Stage) Hound of the Baskervilles. (Live Theatre) Good Timin, West End Girls. (Arcola Theatre) Story Project Rage, Romance and Resolution, Miss Havisham’s Wedding Night / 12 Poems of Emily Dickinson. (London School of Musical Theatre) Grand Hotel, Lend me a Tenor, 9 to 5, King of Hearts. (Chichester University) Spring Awakening, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Sweeney Todd,

Producers, Earthquakes in London and Footloose. (Touchpaper Theatre) Spaced 2014. (East 15) Revolution, (Guildford School of Acting) Love and Information, Spring Awakening, Mill on the Floss, Same Deep water as Me, Time and the Conways, The Government Inspector , Love and Money, Girls Like That, Come out Eli and Buckets.

Matt Eaton

Matt is a sound designer and composer in Theatre, Film, Sound Art and Games. He is an associate artist at Creation Theatre. Matt is an Off-West Award winner of Best Sound Design for Guildford Shakespeare Company’s and Jermyn Street Theatre’s All’s Well That Ends Well (2020), composer and sound designer for Shasha and Taylors

Everything I See I Swallow, Edinburgh Fringe

First winner 2019, and sound designer for Andrea Asaaf’s Eleven Reflections on September, winner of Best Experimental Feature Film at the Silk Road Awards, Cannes in 2021. The film has numerous selections and awards worldwide. He is a founder of the musicians collective Pram, creators of cross-platform productions Shadow Shows (Edinburgh International Film Festival 2014), The Photophonic Experiment (Oxford Contemporary Music tour) and numerous album releases on the Domino Recording Company imprint. Recent credits as sound designer include Pictures of Dorian Gray, The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary (Jermyn Street Theatre), Brave New World (Dir. Jonathan Holloway for Creation Theatre Company), Furious Folly (Mark Anderson’s large scale artwork, commissioned by 1418 NOW), The History Boys (UK Tour), The Time Machine (London Library), The Crucible and Orlando (as artist in residence at The University of South Florida), Pyar

Actually (For Rifco Arts). As composer credits include A Page of Madness {Flatpack Film festival 2019), For-wards (Birmingham, city-wide workshops in field recording, and commissioned work), Nosferatu (Warwick Arts Centre), Faust (Flatpack Film Festival 2017), The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (Midlands Arts Centre), The Picture of Dorian Gray (London,Trafalgar Studios). VW and British Telecom advertisements. Sound Art. Everything Must Go (Friction Arts, Birmingham), Faith and Fracture (York Minster), Twelve Tones (Ikon Eastside’s citywide project, Birmingham). Games. Pool Panic (Nintendo Video Game).

Giles Stoakley

Giles has been working as an actor and stage manager for more than a decade and in the last five years has moved into Production Management. His first production experience was as production manager for Pantomimes. Since then he has taken Sesame Street and Barney the Dinosaur shows on international tours, and expanded his production management experience in the UK. He has now been production manager for 12 pantomimes in 3 different venues in Peterborough, Northampton and Scotland. He has worked on a theatre tour of Spike Milligan’s Puckoon for Northern Irish company Big Telly and has toured with Theatre Royal Bath’s production of Driving Miss Daisy. He works regularly for Creation Theatre on their site-specific shows in Oxford, London and now online. In addition to this he works in a number of local schools supporting young technicians and actors in their productions. His website is www.gilesstoakley.com or you can follow him at @GilesStoakley

3 December 2023 – 6 January 2024

Adapted from the original work by Charles Dickens

Written and Directed by Gari Jones