Written by James Demaine & Alexander Knott
CAST & CREATIVE TEAM
SHEFFIELD.AlexanderKnott
FARRINGDON.JamesDemaine DirectedbyRyanHutton
SoundDesign&OriginalMusicbySamuelHeron
AssociateProducer &“AudreytheTechnician”-ZöeGrain
Length
Approximately 65 minutes
Content Notice
Age rating: 12+ - 'The Highgate Vampire' contains strong language, flashing lights and gore.
Many Thanks to Melanie Percy and to the whole team at The Glitch & VAULT Creative Arts.
ALL CHARACTERS & EVENTS HAVE BEEN FICTIONALISED. MORE OF THIS IS TRUE THAN WE WOULD LIKE.
Alexander knott
Patrick sheffield
Alexander Knott is an Off West End Award winning theatre maker who works as a writer, director and creative producer.
Alexander Knott trained at Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts. His acting credits include Richard III in ‘The Crown and the Quill’ (Bosworth Field, commissioned by the Richard III Society & Red River Theatre Company), ‘A Month in the Country’ (Red River Theatre Company), ‘The Browning Version’ (Oxford Theatre Workshop, for the Terence Rattigan Society), ‘Walking With Crutches’ (Red River Theatre Company), ‘Tipping the Velvet’ (Italia Conti Ensemble), ‘Piaf’ (Italia Conti Ensemble, Edinburgh Fringe & Tour), ‘Bath’ (The Bread & Roses Theatre, Bag of Beard), ‘A Christmas Tale’ (Theatre N16 & The Kenton Theatre) and ’Renaissance Men’ (Square Chapel Halifax, 53Two Manchester & Old Red Lion Theatre).
He has written and directed productions at the Bristol Old Vic, Barn Theatre, Theatre Royal Stratford East, VAULT, 53Two Manchester, Underbelly Edinburgh, the Old Red Lion Theatre (where he was Artistic Director) and numerous venues across London. He teaches Acting, Producing & Writing at Italia Conti and LAMDA and is the founding Producer of the Lambeth Fringe Festival.
James Demaine
Daniel Farringdon
James trained at Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts and works as a performer, musician, playwright and theatre maker. He is an Associate Director of Bag of Beard and a key member of the ensemble for BoxLess Theatre.
His work as a performer and musician includes Bath (The Bread & Roses Theatre), LOOP (Theatre Royal Stratford East, tour & Edinburgh Fringe), Buried (Tristan Bates Theatre & Old Red Lion Theatre - Off West End Award Finalist for Best Performance), Beauty & the Beast (Square Chapel Arts Centre) Private Peaceful (Barn Theatre, Bristol Old Vic and tour), and Ballooniana! (New Wimbledon Theatre). As both writer & performer – Renaissance Men (Old Red Lion Theatre and tour). He lives in Hackney with his girlfriend and his cat, Fred.
ryan hutton Director
Ryan trained at Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts. He has recently finished playing Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the RSC. In 2019, he was nominated for Best Actor in a Musical & the Joe Allen Best West End Debut at the Stage Debut Awards. His previous credits include People, Places & Things (Trafalgar Theatre), Only Fools and Horses The Musical (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Black Star (Arcola) and Pragma (Film, Silver Rose Productions).
Alongside acting, Ryan is a theatre maker and the Joint Director of Bag of Beard, for which he has directed Renaissance Men (Old Red Lion Theatre, Square Chapel Halifax & 53Two), jointly directed Buried (Seven Dials Playhouse & Old Red Lion Theatre) and was Associate Director for Cratchit (Park Theatre).
SAMUEL HERON
Sound Designer
Samuel is the Company Composer for Bag of Beard, creating the original music and sound design for 'Renaissance Men' (Old Red Lion Theatre and northern tour),‘Hedgehog’ (Lion & Unicorn Theatre, for BoxLess Theatre), 'Cratchit' (Bag of Beard, Park Theatre) ‘Buried’ (Bag of Beard, Seven Dials Playhouse) Simon Stephens' 'Nuclear War', and incidental music for 'A Triptych of Plays' (Old Red Lion Theatre), as well as scoring the Off West End Award Commendation winning 'Ballooniana!’ (for BoxLess Theatre, New Wimbledon Theatre).
Audrey Muggins, the technician
This is Audrey’s theatrical debut. She trained in Technical Operation at St Launcelot’s Amateur Dramatic Society, Crouch End, and is very excited to operate the lights and sound.
Audrey wants to thank her two cats - Frisky and Mr Wentworth.
"Bag of Beard show themselves to be at the forefront of contemporary theatre"
- Theatre Weekly
Bag of Beard are a multiple award nominated theatre collective, creating work for theatre and film, with original words and original music.
We work collaboratively, often with the process of devising and scripting what has come out of that process, along with elements of poetry, gestural and physical theatre, as well as dark humour. Our work has encompassed farcical comedy, real world war stories and reimagined Christmas classics, for venues across the UK.
Praise for Bag of Beard
“A modern masterpiece that could define the future of fringe theatre.”
- Theatre Weekly on ‘A Triptych of Plays’ “A tour de force”
- Broadway World on ‘Cratchit’ "Shocking and superb. Compulsive watching"
- London Pub Theatres on 'A Triptych of Plays’
"This is a play to savour"
- North West End on 'December'
