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Talent Development

Liverpool’s Royal Court continues on its journey to work towards talent development across the city

Maurice Bessman

Music Access All Areas

Boisterous Stage Write

There is no doubt Liverpool is renowned for its wealth of talent but we, along with the rest of our city’s theatre organisations and institutions, recognise we need to do more to ensure we are accessible, engaging and aspirational if we are to be truly representative and inclusive of the communities we serve. It is a long-term continuing process and funding is key as is working together with the theatres across the region.

Over the past three years we have laid down the foundations, initiating our plans for meaningful and real change. This includes the theatre’s programming, engagement, accessibility and relationships with artistes, communities, creatives, individuals, institutions, organisations, Schools/FE. We are working towards ensuring our talent development programmes are applicable, realistic and robust.

Listening and engaging in the first instance to a wide cross section of creatives and communities – recognising and taking ownership of our failure to be fully inclusive and to take a proactive approach to ensure there is inclusivity and diversity across the sector A brief look at a few of our talent development projects so far:

Community Music AAA (Access All Areas) is a partnership project together with three grassroots organisations: Positive Impact, Capoeira For All, and Catalyst performing arts supported by funding from Youth Music. Children and young people aged 6 – 25 can access free musical instruments, musical theatre, hip hop, dance, singing, drama and performance

Raw Talent Young people from our youth theatre continue to have access to auditions and employment opportunities – during the past 3 years, 6 young people have been cast in Terriers, written by Maurice Bessman touring to schools and venues across the country.

More recently working with Fury films, 120 young people aged 15 – 25 from across the city took part in audition workshops for the film of Terriers at Fire Fit in South Liverpool, MYA’s Space in Bootle and The Vibe in Huyton. 8 young people will be working with the Director to support the script development.

Mentoring This is a pilot programme supported by PH Holt Trust and Curious Minds – eight mentors from the creative industries have been paired with mentees – providing support, guidance and shadowing opportunities in acting, marketing, production, directing, writing, set design, and music skills.

This talent development initiative will support eight young black, asian and minority artistes and creatives develop their skills as they progress through the industry.

Programming Our Boisterous Theatre strand of programming brought us a main house production of Bouncers, in August and September introducing four new actors to the main house stage – and new audiences to the theatre.

The Alternative Black Cabaret Showcase – now a regular bi-monthly show presenting some of the best black comedians and singers on the circuit and with a platform to showcase emerging and existing local talent.

Co-production with Red Ladder in September/October, with a cast of professional actors and 20 members of our community choir.

Stagewrite – our new writing classes/workshops to encourage and support new writers to develop their work to full production.

We continue on our journey with a number of other talent development initiatives in progress as a matter of priority to ensure we remain accessible, adaptable and continually listen and learn. It will take time and investment and with your continuing support for all we do. We will make a difference.

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STOCKING

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The Plays Derby Day Domestic: North Pole Edition by Racheal Hunter White Christmas Lies by Wallace Charles Shelter by Harvey Robinson Midnight Mass Bouncer by EJ Fisher Better Watch Out by Rachel Clark Santa On The Roof by Jacqui Dunne A Tipsy Christmas Fairy Tale by Liz Redwood

Company Emma Bird

Director

Jen Baron

Designer

Hermione B. Gould

Lighting Designer

Jamie Jenkin

Sound & Video Designer

Sean Gannon

Production Manager

Rae Woods Jamie Haining Marie Jones

Technical Stage Manager Chief LX Wardrobe Supervisor

Set by Liverpool’s Royal Court Sean Gannon

Workshop Manager

Derek Colley

Carpenter

Johnathan Defty

Carpenter

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Carpenter

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Carpenter

Jen Baron Abbie Jones

Scenic Art Manager Scenic Artist

Writer Biographies Wallace Charles

Jacqui Dunne

White Christmas Lies

Santa On The Roof

Wallace is a local lad still trying to make good, and hoping that this writing credit might be the first of many. He has always loved live theatre – watching it is great, but helping to create it is even better. In the past, Wallace has trodden the boards, but not with any great success. His performance as Robin Hood in his junior school Nativity Play (don’t ask – mainly because he’s still not sure what Robin Hood was actually doing in Bethlehem) didn’t exactly set the theatrical world alight. His final performance, as a non-speaking but very menacing jailer in an acclaimed (well, someone in the audience was shouting something) student production of Marat/Sade similarly failed to open any doors for him (not unless you count those of the DHSS).

Jacqui Dunne is a writer and poet based in Liverpool. Having written and performed poetry for many years, she gained an M.A. in writing studies in 2007 and her first solo collection was published in 2008.

She works with erbacce press as consultant editor and judge for their annual poetry prize. Expanding into prose, Jacqui discovered writing for theatre through the Royal Court’s Stage Write programme, and with the support and guidance of Karen Brown and the programme’s team, completed her play, Grace, as a result. Since then she has become addicted to putting words into other’s mouths and everyone she meets is source for a potential character. Even her postman features in a comedy short, though he doesn’t know it.

Wallace realised that if he wanted any future in theatre it had better be behind the scenes. Acting as publicity manager (he put up posters) and sound engineer (turning the tape player on and off a couple of times) he was involved in several touring productions, twice taking shows to the Edinburgh Fringe as well as visiting an inordinate number of village halls.

With a Welsh/German background, Jacqui has always loved language, what we say, how we say it. She is the eavesdropper in the pub, on the bus, don’t be surprised if that chat you had at the bar last year ends up in a play.

Finally, when even that backstage work had dried up, Wallace thought he’d have a go at writing, responding to a notice from his favourite local theatre about their new playwright development programme. And so a star was born. But in the star’s shadow, Wallace has somehow managed to cobble together several scripts, one of which he really hopes you will enjoy tonight. He would also very like much to thank Karen, Jess, Kevin and everyone else at the Royal Court for the opportunities they have given to him and many others, as he suspects they may never really know just how much they are appreciated.

Rachel Clark Better Watch Out Hello, my name is Rachel Clark, and I’m a writer from, and living, in Liverpool. I grew up in Speke, but decided I needed to see more of the world and moved to Garston. Which is where I live now with my husband and my dog.

Before then, I studied at London Metropolitan University, where I got my degree in Creative Writing. After graduating in 2014, I spent a few years living in Bangkok, Thailand, where I worked as a freelance writer and nursery teacher. I currently work in Communications for a local charity near Bootle.

I completed the Royal Court Stage Write Playwright Development Programme in 2021 and ‘Better Watch Out’ will be my first play at the Royal Court Studio this year. I love to write comedy plays, but I always have to add in a little sprinkle of weirdness to put my stamp on it.

Better Watch Out is a dark comedy with a big dollop of festive fear, I mean cheer... It’s a play about a Scouse couple whose car breaks down in the middle of nowhere on Christmas eve. Gary’s freezing, Heidi needs the loo, and the phones have got no signal. Their only choice is to find out who lives in the creepy cottage at the end of the lane.

Come and join us for mince pies, malice, and mayhem in Mrs C’s Christmas cottage, she’d love to have you…

Liverpool provides golden characters, rich humour, life and warmth.

Inspired by the greats, like Carla Lane and Victoria Wood, when asked to come up with a Stocking Filler short play, it was Liverpool that came up with the goods. Santa on the roof is essentially about heartache, hope and that old chestnut, love. Shaz and Tony reach a turning point in their relationship, while Steve deals with lost romance, which we’ve all done, though possibly not while clinging to a chimney pot. Set on an ordinary street, there is humour, warmth and a bit of Christmas magic, it’s Jacqui’s tribute to love, life and Liverpool.

EJ Fisher Midnight Mass Bouncer Hi, I’m Elizabeth Jane (E J) Fisher, a Tunnel Rat with a Fast Tag, so I spend a lot of time on this side of the water. Liverpool and its people have inspired me over the years. I’m a graduate of both the Royal Court and The Everyman Writer’s Programmes. I’ve had showcases for full length plays (Layla Sugar and Clown Revolution) performed at both theatres.

Being on the Royal Court Playwright’s Programme has taught me so much and generated loads of ideas for new plays. It’s a privilege to work with the development team and my fellow writers. I’ve also written pilots for TV series, one of them, Splicing, had very positive feedback from the BBC Writer’s Room.

I was delighted when Midnight Mass Bouncer was chosen for Stocking Fillers. My family is Catholic and Midnight Mass has been a ritual for so many years. What inspired me to write the piece was how special Christmas Eve is. We depart early from work straight into the Kings Arms and stumble out into the arms of Jesus for our yearly visit to the church. As we sit packed together in the pews it’s a time to reflect and remember those we miss most. It’s a powerful cocktail of emotions.

Midnight Mass Bouncer is about how the church deals with the bevvied but also asks, what really is the message of Christmas at a time when the most vulnerable need help? Who is going to step up? Who is just saying the words? And who’s life will be transformed when they reach out and connect?

Writer Biographies Rachael Hunter

Harvey Robinson

Derby Day Domestic

Shelter

Rachael is a Creative Writing graduate who has written in a range of forms, including copywriting, prose, and article writing, but scriptwriting is her favourite by far. Whether stage or screen, there is nothing quite like seeing your words brought to life. Besides her Stocking Fillers play, highlights of Rachael’s writing journey include being shortlisted for a Channel 4 Writing for Television Award, and also making the final round of Edinburgh TV Festival’s talent search: The Network. Alongside writing, she enjoys football and supports Liverpool. Her many years of matchgoing have provided great material for what you are about to see.

Harvey is an actor, musician and writer originally from the South West.

Now based in Liverpool, his credits include Jerusalem - West End, Hollyoaks - Channel 4, M.I. High - BBC, Detectorists - BBC, The Twins Macabre, - BBC Radio, What You Will - Shakespeares Globe, Offered Up - Royal Court Liverpool, The Rivals - National Tour. Harvey is currently appearing in Little Red at Ipswich’s Sir John Mills Theatre.

The Merseyside Derby divides friends, families, and even households across the city. Now imagine if that household was on the North Pole.

Santa’s a blue, Mrs. Claus is a red, and there’s a well-meaning but incompetent (and easily bribed) elf caught in the middle of their derbyinduced disharmony. With Christmas in jeopardy, and Mrs. Claus fuming, can they all find a way to save the day? I wouldn’t bet on it.

Derby Day Domestic: North Pole Edition has songs to sing, digs to throw, characters to relate to, and a sprinkling of memorable moments from derbies gone by that will definitely spark your emotions – wherever your allegiances lie.

Liz Redwood A Tipsy Christmas Fairy Tale I have always enjoyed writing, but started to write seriously three years ago. In 2020 I reached the shortlist of the Kenneth Brannagh New Drama Award at the Windsor Fringe Festival and the Sphinx Theatre Female Playwright Programme both with my play Blood’s Thicker.

During lockdown I wrote two short monologues for Grin Theatre’s LGBTQ Rainbow Monologues, which can be seen on their You Tube Channel. And in 2021 Make It Write Productions compiled an audio showcase of my work which can be heard on their You Tube Channel.

In April this year my short play Twisted Sister was performed as part of a showcase of new writing at Hope St Theatre. Blood’s Thicker was staged at The Casa in June and was well received by the audience and reviewers. I was also one of the writers who created Park Life which was staged at The Casa in May and October this year.

In 2020/21 I completed the Liverpool Royal Court Playwrights Programme and an excerpt of my play Sex Machine had a rehearsed reading at the Royal Court studio in March. I have just completed the Everyman Playwrights Programme and an excerpt of my play No Blue Lights will receive a rehearsed reading in The Playhouse Studio next year.

I am delighted that A Tipsy Christmas Fairy Tale was chosen to be in Stocking Fillers. My aim was to write a funny, big story in a short time frame, one that was magical and fantastical and set in modern-day Liverpool. I hope it makes you laugh, and I can guarantee that if you pass Church St Christmas tree on your way home you are going to look up at the top. And who knows who you might see up there?

Cast Biographies Television credits include: The Courtroom (Lime Pictures); Brookside (Mersey Television), The 4 O’Clock Club (CBBC).

Helen Carter Helen has been working in theatre for 15 years as an actor, having performed many times on the Liverpool Royal Court stage.

Helen trained at LAMDA. Her theatre credits include: My Fairfield Lady (Royal Court Liverpool); The Last Testament of Lillian Billoca (Hull Truck Theatre); Beauty and The Beast and Aladdin (Hope Street Theatre, Drops of Light); The Star (The Liverpool Playhouse Theatre); Father O’Flaherty Save Our Souls (Royal Court Liverpool); Mam I’m ‘Ere (Royal Court Liverpool); Scouse of the Antarctic (Royal Court Liverpool); The Sunshine Boys (Epstein Theatre;/Life in Theatre Productions); Word:Play Tour (Box of Tricks Theatre Company); The Last 5 Years (Life in Theatre Productions); The Gatekeeper (The Royal Exchange Theatre); Dead Heavy Fantastic (Liverpool Everyman) ; No Wise Men (Liverpool Playhouse); Hatch (Bolton Octogon/24:7 Theatre Festival); Dad’s Army Marches On (Calibre Productions Tour); Once Upon a Time at the Adelphi (Liverpool Playhouse); The Flint Street Nativity (Liverpool Playhouse) Top Girls (Royal Court Theatre London 50th Anniversary performance); The Honest Whore (William Poel Prize; The Globe Theatre; London).

TV Credits include: The Last Testament of Lillian Billoca (BBC Television); Wallander (Left Bank Pictures); Doctors (BBC Television);Beaten ( Coastal Productions);Judge John Deed (BBC Television); A470 (S4C) Film: 96 Ways to Say I Love You (Daisy Aitkens and Georgia Moffet)

Paul Duckworth Theatre credits include: Grand Old Lady (Epstein Theatre); The Big I Am, Othello, Paint Your Wagon (Everyman Rep Company); Beating Berlusconi, Twelfth Night, Bright Phoenix, The May Queen, Urban Legend, Sweeney Todd (Everyman Theatre Liverpool); A Barry White Christmas (Liverpool Echo Arena); Sink or Swim, Baron Munchhausen, Backwater, Jason & the Argonauts, The Man Who Cracked (Spike Theatre Company); Mam I’m Ere (Life in Theatre Productions); Reds And Blues The Musical, Little Scouse on the Prairie, Scouse Pacific, Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels, Down The Dock Road, Father O’Flaherty Saves Our Souls, The Lonesome West, The Scouse Nativity, The Scouse Cinderella, Yellow Breck Road and The Menlove Avenue Murder Mystery (Liverpool’s Royal Court); Family Business (M6 Theatre Company); The Quiet Little Englishman (ZHO Productions); Microdots (Contact Theatre Manchester); The Corrupted Angel, The Golden Boy (Base Chorus); River Fever (Unity Theatre Liverpool); My Bit of Sky (M.Y.P.T) and Horrible Histories (Christmas 2019, Blackpool Opera House).

Film credits include: I’ve Got A Bad Feeling About This, Donohue, Reds and Blues, Backbeat, To Know Him (short film).

Raised in Skelmersdale until he dug a tunnel and fled to Liverpool. He can now be found in the French Quarter of the Dingle, checking his Lobster Pots on the esplanade every Sunday.

Sinead Renaye Sinead Renaye returns to the Royal Court’s Studio once again after her appearance in Hey Bunny, Get Loose earlier this year. Since then she has taken the creative industry by storm, performing in Life on the Lane as part of the YEP directors programme as well as being nominated for best director for Envelopers (written by Sharon Colpman) at the Liverpool Fringe.

Joe Shipman Joe’s theatre credits include: Narvik (Box of Tricks Theatre Company),Unsung (Turflove & Dada Fest), The Maurie (Writing on The Wall Festival); Waiting for Brando (National Tour); Alice Through the Winter Gardens (Winter Gardens Blackpool); Hatch (Manchester 24/7) Ten Tiny Toes, The Way Home & Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons (Liverpool Everyman Theatre); Slow Time (20 Stories High); Wrong Place, Right Time (Contact Theatre); Macbeth, The Jungle Book & The Trial (Unity Theatre),

Company Biographies Emma Bird

Jen Baron

Director

Designer

Emma has directed critically acclaimed productions at Brighton,

Jen graduated from the Liverpool Institue for Performing Arts in

Manchester and Liverpool Fringe Festivals. Notable recent productions

2012. She has designed sets and costumes for shows such as Spring

are New Dawn Fades: A Play about Joy Division and Manchester

Awakening, Titanic, Terriers and acted as Art Director for a comedy

by Brian Gorman, (Dancehouse Theatre, Manchester 2018); King of

pilot ‘Training Daze’. She went on to work with companies such as

the World by Brian Coyle (Liverpool & Manchester Fringe Festivals,

Young Everyman Playhouse, Proper Job Theatre Company, Royal

2018); Two by Jim Cartwright (Manchester Fringe Festival 2018);

Court Youth Theatre and The Comedy Trust, designing sets, and

Bleeding with Mother by Sarah Cassidy (53Two, Manchester 2017);

working alongside their young people running sessions for Prop

We Apologise for the Inconvenience by Mark Griffiths, (3MT,

Making and Scenic painting.

Manchester, 2017); A Passion for Rationals (Sara Harris, Brighton

Jen currently holds the position of Scenic Art Manager at the Royal

Fringe Festival 2014). Emma will soon be directing Accidental Death of

Court, working on all shows on the main stage as well as the Studio,

an Anarchist by Dario Fo.

working on and overseeing all aspects of set finishes including Scenic

Emma began her acting career in 1990. Featuring in a lead role

Art and set dressing.

alongside Pete Postlethwaite, in BBC screenplay, Needle. Written by Jimmy McGovern and directed by Gillies MacKinnon.

She was series regular Maxine Price in Casualty (1992). Short films and features followed through her work with director Sandra Goldbacher in Seventeen (with Rachel Weisz, 1996), Piccadilly Circus by Night and The Governess (with Minnie Driver, 1997).

Notable theatre work includes The Good Hope alongside Frances de la Tour at The Royal National Theatre and UK tour, (2002); David Mamet’s Oleanna (Norwich Playhouse) and The Woods (The Finborough Theatre); Educating Rita (Norwich Playhouse) and Terms of Abuse (Hampstead Theatre).

Emma founded Liverpool Comedy Improv in 2015 teaching mprovisation to all. www.liverpoolcomedyimprov.co.uk

Hermione B. Gould

Marie Jones

Lighting Designer

Costume Supervisor

Hermione is a 2022 graduate from The Liverpool Institute for Performing

Marie studied fashion and then moved on to theatre costume

Arts, returning to Liverpool’s Royal Court Studio after Blackbird.

interpretation at Mabel Fletcher College. Marie’s work as a freelance costumier has included costumes for Oldham Coliseum, The Royal

Jamie Jenkin Sound & Video Designer Jamie is the in-house graphic and video designer at Liverpool’s Royal Court. Starting as marketing assistant at the theatre in 2005, he has designed artwork for over 100 shows.

Video Designs for Theatre include:

Exchange, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Jimmy McGovern’s film Liam, Beyond Friendship for Mersey Television and the many pantomime dames who have appeared on the Everyman stage.

She has worked extensively at the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse and has recently been employed as full time Wardrobe Supervisor. Most recently Marie’s work at the Everyman and Playhouse has included: Much Ado About Nothing, The Electric Hills, The Flint Street Nativity, The Tempest, Unprotected, Billy Liar, Who’s Afraid

Willy Russell’s Our Day Out - The Musical, A Fistul Of Collars,

of Virginia Woolfe, Urban Legend, Fly, Breezeblock Park, The

Lennon, Ladies Day, Hitchhikers Guide to Fazakerley, Ladies

Entertainer, Still Life And The Astonished Heart, Ma Rainey’s

Night, Canoeing for Beginners, The Scouse Nativity, Father

Black Bottom, The Anniversary, Dr Faustus, The May Queen,

O’Flaherty Saves Our Souls, A Miracle On Great Homer Street,

Cruel Sea and All My Sons.

Home, Going Halves, The Royal, The Scouse Cinderella, My

Marie’s other credits include: Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels, Lost

Fairfield Lady, Royal Court Selection Box, Macca & Beth, The

Soul, Good Golly Miss Molly, Stags and Hens - The Remix, On

Scouse Sleeping Beauty, The Menlove Avenue Murder Mystery,

The Ledge, Misery, Eight Miles High, Council Depot Blues,

The Scousetrap and Girls Don’t Play Guitars (Liverpool’s Royal

Night Collar, Dirty Dusting, Shirley Valentine, Our Day Out - The

Court); Masquerade, Knee Deep In Promises and Hey Bunny Get

Musical, The Salon, Funny Money, Merry Ding Dong, A Fistul

Loose (Liverpool’s Royal Court Studio); Cured (Liverpool’s Royal Court

Of Collars, Lucky Numbers, Lennon, Scouse Pacific, You’ll Never

in association with DaDaFest & Unlimited); The Dream Team and

Walk Alone, Little Scouse on the Prairie, Reds And Blues - The

VR Family (Liverpool’s Royal Court Youth Theatre); Macbeth and A

Musical, Ladies Day, Bouncers, Scouse Of The Antarctic, Pharaoh

Midsummer Night’s Dream (Liverpool Shakespeare Festival); Scouse:

‘Cross The Mersey and Down The Dock Road for Royal Court

A Comedy Of Terrors (Dome Liverpool); Judy & Liza (National

Liverpool, Brouhaha International Street Festival, Working Class Hero on

Tour); YNWA (Alterean Productions, international tour); The Big I

the recent Imagine DVD, Costume Supervisor for many shows at LIPA,

Am (Liverpool Everyman); Celtic The Musical (Alterean Productions,

The Splash Project at MYPT and Twopence To Cross The Mersey at

Pavilion Theatre Glasgow and SEC Glasgow); Something About

the Liverpool Empire.

George (Something About Productions, Epstein Theatre Liverpool and Edinburgh Festival Fringe); The Salford Docker (Salford Community Theatre, Lighthouse Salford); Our Country’s Good (Hope St Theatre); and Peter Pan (Storyhouse Chester). Jamie has also designed sound for Hey Bunny Get Loose and Offered Up (Liverpool’s Royal Court Studio) and Our Country’s Good (Hope St Theatre).

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