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TIM PRICE
JOHN E MCGRATH
TOM BEARDSHAW
Writer
Director
Multi-platform Designer
Tim Price’s theatre credits include: For Once (Pentabus, Hampstead Theatre and national tour) Salt Root and Roe (Donmar Warehouse, Trafalgar Studios), Demos (Traverse Theatre) Will and George shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award 2011, and Café Cariad (National Youth Theatre of Wales).
John E McGrath is Artistic Director of National Theatre Wales. Previously Artistic Director of Contact Theatre, Manchester, John trained in New York, where he was also Associate Director of Mabou Mines. In 2005, he was awarded the NESTA Cultural Leadership Award. He directed National Theatre Wales’ inaugural production, A Good Night Out In The Valleys, in March 2010, and Love Steals Us from Loneliness in October 2010.
Tom Beardshaw is a founding partner of NativeHQ, a social media agency based in Cardiff. Tom has worked with National Theatre Wales since 2009 developing their online community and the digital life of shows such as Love Steals us From Loneliness and The Passion in Port Talbot. He studied Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics, Social Ethics at Cardiff University and Multiplatform Production at the University of Glamorgan.
The Donmar Warehouse has been nominated for the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre for Salt Root and Roe.
JAMES DOYLE-ROBERTS CHLOE LAMFORD
MIKE BEER
NATASHA CHIVERS
Emerging Director
Sound Designer
Lighting Designer
I started my career in performing arts on large-scale outdoor shows in Manchester with Dogs of Heaven & Walk The Plank; I went on to train in Circus schools in London & France and spent a year performing high-wire aerial stunts in The Millennium Dome central arena show. My introduction to physical theatre came from devising & performing four separate characters for Theatre de Complicite co-founders Kathryn Hunter & Marcello Magni in their production of Aristophanes “The Birds” at London’s National Theatre.
Designer
Chloe’s designs for theatre include: Salt, Root and Roe (Donmar Warehouse), Disco Pigs and Sus (Young Vic), Knives In Hens, An Appointment With The Wicker Man (National Theatre of Scotland); The Gate Keeper (Manchester Royal Exchange), Ghost Story (Sky Arts Live Drama), Britannicus (Wilton’s Music Hall), My Romantic History (Crucible, Sheffield/ Bush), Joseph K, The Kreutzer Sonata (Gate), Songs from a Hotel Bedroom (Linbury Studio ROH + Tour), It Felt Empty… (Clean Break, installation at Arcola’s Studio K), Everything Must Go! and This Since returning to my home town of Wide Night (Soho Theatre), The Mother Cardiff, I co-founded Citrus Arts to Ship, How to Tell the Monsters from the create touring works and collaborate Misfits (Birmingham Rep), The Country with artists from broader disciplines, (Salisbury Playhouse), Desire Lines, The on shows which sit between Theatre, Snow Queen (Sherman, Cardiff), Small Circus and Dance. I’m currently Miracle (Tricycle/ Mercury, Colchesterdeveloping a circus ensemble show Best Design TMA awards), The Wild “Take Your Seats!” for London’s National Party (Rosie Kay Dance Company) Theatre, whilst Citrus Arts will later and The Shy Gas Man (Southwark this year be working in association with Playhouse). Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru on their tented touring production “Y Storm”. Designs for opera include: Working on NTW18 has been a great The Magic Flute (English Touring Opera), learning experience for me - many War and Peace (Scottish Opera/ Royal thanks to a brilliant team. Scottish Academy of Music and Drama), The Cunning Little Vixen, Orpheus in the Underworld (Royal College of Music) and La Calisto (Early Opera Company).
Mike started his career at the Sherman Theatre Cardiff 1986. Since then he has toured Theatre and Corporate events worldwide over the last 20 years with Companies including DV8 Physical Theatre, Theatre Royal Bath, Bristol Old Vic, Diversions Dance, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Birmingham Stage, Theatr Clwyd, Act Productions, Fiery Angel, Theatre Gwynedd, Imagination, Sony, and Ford Motor Car Company.
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Theatre / Opera credits include: A Few Man Fridays (Cardboard Citizens), Alice in Wonderland (Royal & Derngate), Judgement Day (Print Room), 27 and The Wheel (National Theatre of Scotland), No Sweat (Generating Company), One Monkey Don’t Stop The Show (Eclipse Theatre), Happy Days (Sheffield Crucible), Chekhov in Hell (Plymouth Theatre Royal), And The Horse You Rode In On (Told By An Idiot), Zaide (Classical Opera/Sadlers Mike’s designs include: Wells), The House of Bernarda Alba, Coasting and Treasure Island (Bristol Empty/Miracle Men, Home and Mary old Vic), A Provincial Life, The Passion, Stuart (National Theatre of Scotland), Love Steals Us From Loneliness and Statement of Regret (National Theatre), The Persians (National Theatre Wales), Sunday in the Park With George Deffro’r Gwanwyn (Theatr Genedlaethol (Wyndhams Theatre), The Wolves Cymru), BFG (Fiery Angel), Great in the Walls (NTS/Improbable), That Expectations (Aberystwyth Art Centre), Face (Royal Court Theatre/West End), Desire Lines, The Borrowers and Merlin Playhouse Creatures and Jerusalem (The Sherman Theatre Company), The (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Othello, Firework Maker’s Daughter and Danny Dirty Wonderland, Pool (No Water), the Champion of the World (Birmingham Peepshow, Hymns and Sell-Out Stage Company), Single Spies, Legal (Frantic Assembly). Fictions and The Importance of Being Earnest (The Theatre Royal Bath), Don Dance credits include: Quixote (West Yorkshire Playhouse). Electric Hotel (Sadlers Wells/Fuel), Much of Mike’s work for the last 5 God’s Garden (Arthur Pita/Open years has been with Stage Sound Heart/Linbury), Electric Counterpoint Services, working as Sound designer (Royal Opera House) and Scattered and production consultant on Theatre (Motionhouse-Tour/QEH). and Corporate events. Natasha won a Theatre Award UK in 2011 for Happy Days (Best Design) and an Olivier Award in 2007 for Sunday in The Park With George (Best Lighting Design).