Fast in Edinburgh – Cast and Creatives

Fast in Edinburgh – Cast and Creatives2019-12-03T16:46:08+00:00

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Fast Cast and Creatives2019-11-27T15:36:10+00:00

Caroline Lawrie

Theatre includes: FAST Digital Drama, Brighton Festival, Deeds Not Words, Digital Drama, The Swiss Church, Last Tango In Little Grimley, Grin & Tonic, World Cruise.  A Jolly Sinister Jape, Grin & Tonic, World Cruise. Emma, The Good Theatre Company, National Tour. Original Spin, Oddkast Theatre Company, The Criterion Theatre & The New End Theatre Hampstead.  An Ideal Husband, The Peter Hall Company, The Old Vic Theatre. The Master Builder, The Peter Hall Company Theatre Royal Haymarket. On Approval, The Peter Hall Company, The Playhouse Theatre. As You Like It, DP Productions, National Tour.  Blithe Spirit, One For The Road, Dry Rot, Habeus Corpus & The Secretary Bird, all for The Gaiety Theatre.

Television Work Includes: Hard Sun, Peaky Blinders, Doctors, The Bill, & Barbara 2.

Radio includes: Various productions for The English Speaking Theatre Company most recently playing The Life story of Amy Johnson.

This is Caroline’s 3rd production for Digital Drama and 2nd visit to The Edinburgh Fringe Festival having played Lady Capulet in Romeo And Juliet for Shakespeare 4 Kidz.

Stephanie James

Theatre credits include: Assisted Suicide: The Musical (The Royal Festival Hall & Melbourne International Comedy Festival), The Lonely Soldier Monologues (The Cockpit, London), BNWT (The Arts Theatre, London),Alleluiah (The Lost Theatre, London), Shot At Dawn (The Mumford Theatre, Cambridge), Henna Night (Edinburgh Festival Fringe), Cabaret (The Workshop Theatre, London), The Critic (Rondo Theatre, Bath) Playhouse Creatures (Stage at Leeds) Arcadia, Cyrano De Bergerac (Appletree Theatre, Oxford).

Film includes: Mile End (winner of Best Narrative Feature at the New York City Independent Film Festival 2016 & nominated for Best UK Feature Film at Raindance 2015) and Independence Day (winner of the BFI Shorts Competition).

Stephanie also performs with award winning theatre company Look Left Look Right most recently tap dancing at the UNICEF Halloween ball; in You Once Said Yes (The Nuffield Theatre, Southampton) and Last Night at the Caledonia Club (The Oval Space, London).

Stephanie is one of the founding members of The Gazebo Effect: a writing, performance and consultancy collective: www.thegazeboeffect.co.uk

Kate Barton

Kate Barton is a playwright and actor and has been nominated for awards in both areas. She has an MSt in Creative Writing from Cambridge University and was mentored by playwright Craig Baxter and screenwriter Stephen Bennett.  Her final-year play Fast received a Distinction and the Kate Bertram prize from Lucy Cavendish College and is now under contract to Digital Drama.  Kate enjoys writing unique pieces for radio and stage and has also worked on commissions for the International Youth Arts Festival and The Museum of London.  She is currently developing material for a verbatim piece of theatre.

As an actor, Kate trained at The Poor School and with Shakespeare’s Globe practitioner Emily Jenkins.  Recent credits include Ava in the animation Being Good (short listed for Best Animation the Paris Art and Movie Awards and the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards) and classical roles including Kate in Taming of the Shrew and Richard in Richard II, both of which received Best Actor nominations.

www.katebarton.net

Stephen Critchlow

Theatre work includes;This House National tour for Headlong/RNT,Loyalty and Filthy Business at Hampstead Theatre, The Men From The Ministry Reloaded at The White Bear,The 39 Steps at The Criterion Theatre, Pygmalion at The Albery Theatre, Hamlet at The Gielgud Theatre, Cyrano De Bergerac at The Royal National Theatre. Seasons at Birmingham Rep, Theatre Royal Northampton and Salisbury Playhouse. Also a National tour of Round The Horne Revisited.

TV work includes; Downton Abbey, Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Prince And The Pauper, Cider With Rosie, Heartbeat, Red Dwarf 11, Miranda, Coronation Street, Casualty, Holby City, Doctors, Skins, Hattie, Fantabuloza, The Armando Iannucci show, The Railway Murder, The Thieving Headmistress, Guerrilla and Trial And Retribution.  

Film work includes;  A Way Through The Woods, Fogbound, The Calcium Kid and Churchill The Hollywood Years.

Many Radio Productions as a member of The BBC Radio Drama Company. Recordings include The Poems of William Blake, Classic Ghost Stories and A Christmas Carol as Audio Books.

Kate Valentine – Director

Kate is the founding director of Digital Drama and consequently has directed the immersive drama Deeds Not Words in Covent Garden, the audio drama Peace in Our Time, which won Gold at the New York Radio Festival and The Shakespeare Hut for which she won best multi-media producer at the Audio Awards.

As a child Kate attended  the Anna Scher drama school, acting in the theatre and TV before reading Drama at Hull University. As a director, she worked with Alan Ayckbourn at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, at the National Theatre, Royal Court and numerous fringe theatres. Kate trained as a drama producer in BBC Radio Drama, and directed numerous plays for Radio 4 and Radio 3.

Ben Bull – Lighting and Projection Designer

Ben is a student at RADA training in Lighting and Video design. Previous RADA credits: RADA Festival – Chief Electrician, Rotterdam – Lighting and Video Design, Women Beware Women – Lighting and Video Programmer, Assassins the Musical – Video Designer, Henry IV – Lighting Designer, Something Unspoken and Suddenly Last Summer – Production Electrician.

Professional credits: An Officer and a Gentleman – Automation Programmer (Directed by Nikolai Foster).He works regularly at the Curve Theatre, Leicester.

David Chilton – Sound Designer

David Chilton trained at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and has been making radio programmes for over 30 years, winning many awards (including BBC Audio Awards, New York Festivals Awards and Sony Gold Drama Awards) for his sound design, editing and music composition on radio dramas and features.

Rachel Smith – Stage Manager

Theatre credits: What we left behind (Barbican Open Lab Showcase), Hansel and Gretel (Iris theatre), Macbeth (Iris theatre), Connections Festival (National Theatre), New views (National Theatre).

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