UNHEARD (2013) Cast & Crew

Actors

Priscilla Adade-Helledy
as Honorata in Finally

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Priscilla has just graduated from LAMDA, her theatre credits include: Portia and Calpurnia in Julius Caesar (dir. Rodney Cottier), Hilda in Spring and Port wine (dir. Sarah Esdaile), Foiblein The Way of the World (dir. John Bashford) and Betty in The Virtuoso (dir. John Baxter). Being bi-lingual French, she has also appeared in feature films in France such as Supercondriaque by Dany Boon and Un Plan Parfait directed by Pascal Chaumeil.

Zena Carswell
as Amina in Finally
also performed in Fifteen & Walking

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Zena is a recent graduate from the Oxford School of Drama (Aug '12), having previously studied Drama at Manchester University. She is now a London based actress and since graduating has filmed several shorts, and most recently played the lead in 'Tender' filmed in conjunction with IdeasTap. She has performed in new writing nights at the Etcetera Theatre on a regular basis and was part of the OneActs festival at the Cornerhouse last month. She is very excited to be performing in 'Unheard' and feels privileged to be a part of the unique and highly relevant writing of the Goblin Baby Theatre Company.  

Jonathan Matthews
as Luke in Guidance & Colin in Animals

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Jonathan studied English and Drama at Sussex University. He has appeared in several plays around the south east, including Alan Strang in Peter Shaffer’s Equus, The Office of Humour Analysis at Theatre 503 and most recently as Chris Denton in Jersey Tales. 

Film roles include independent shorts such as A boy, a book and a bench and Auxilliary Organs.

Nadia Shash
as Shamail in Finally & performed in Walking

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Nadia trained at Birmingham School of Acting. Theatre credits include: Love/Hate (Lonesome Schoolboy Productions, Tristan Bates Theatre), The Lady Mother (Read Not Dead, Shakespeare's Globe), The Christmas Gathering (Little Lights Theatre Company), Beggar's Bush (Shakespeare's Globe/Latitude), Gorilla Banana (Theatre 503), Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (The Theatre, Chipping Norton), Antigone (Southwark Playhouse), The Bible (Shakespeare's Globe), First Draft (Etcetera Theatre), As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew (Cambridge Shakespeare Festival), Much Ado About Nothing (The Scoop), The Wrong Sleep (Cock Tavern), Stovepipe (HighTide/Bush Theatre/National Theatre). Short Films: Polished (Foughtnight Productions, directed by Nicholas Beveney), Do You Feel Lucky, Punk? (Tricksy Films), Suitcase (BBC Talent Boost). Nadia presents various videos on Halfords' YouTube Channel and has done voiceover work for Sky Sports Cricket.

Jiin Jang
as Mi-Sun in Finally
& also performed Rape (A Monologue)

Charlott Reinhold
as Heather in Guidance
& Woman in A Little Night Music

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Charlott has graduated from Drama Centre London in 2011. She has also trained as a dancer with the Alvin Ailey School of American Dance Theatre and was a scholarship student with the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance. Her credits include: Before I Sleep (dreamthinkspeak/Brighton Festival), Be Civil - Disobey (New Blood, Bare Bones/Bike Shed), Frenzy for Two/Ionesco (Owl Glass Theatre).

Sam Goodchild
as Tony in Animals

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Sam trained at the London School of Dramatic Art. Theatre credits include The Join (Brockley Jack Studio Theatre); Merry Christmas Gordon (Old Red Lion Theatre); Up4aMeet? (Waterloo East Theatre); Millennium (Southwark Playhouse); Circuit of Joy (Camden Roundhouse); Antigone(Cockpit Theatre); Emoticon (Brockley Jack Studio Theatre); Health and Safety (Southwark Playhouse). He has also been exploring and devising The Inner Life of Sophie Taylor alongside Prams in the Hall and the Young Vic Genesis Director Network. Other credits include Choking the Butterfly (rehearsed reading, Blackshaw Theatre Company); The Other Side of Simon (Staffy Films);Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Lost Theatre).

Felicity Walsh
as Tracey in Animals

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Felicity studied at East 15 Acting School. Since graduating in 2011 she has been in a number of short films including Darren H. Christ (Blurred Red), 15 Minutes to Spare (Truly Inspired Youth Company), and Reduced Seduction (Shadow Company). Felicity played the role of Lucio In Shakespeare's Measure for Measure at The Cockpit Theatre and recently played Margarita in The Suicide at The Space Theatre. She recently worked with Mike Bradwell for Hull Truck Theatre on the recent production Queen of the Nile. Felicity is thrilled to be working on this new writing project with Goblin Baby.

Gabby Wong
as Madam in A Little Night Music
& also performed in Walking

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Hong Kong born & British educated, Gabby is fluent in Cantonese, English with conversational Mandarin and German. Whilst studying Politics at University of Bath, she became heavily involved in the student theatre which saw her perform at NSDF and Edinburgh Festival. She then went onto train professionally at Italia Conti.   Recently Gabby originated the role of Angela in new musical 'Takeaway' at Theatre Royal Stratford East in which she received named reviews in The Guardian and The Times.  Other credits include: OTHELLO (Shakespeare's Globe),  COMPLIANCE (National Theatre Studio), GIANT & HERO (Birmingham Rep), STOCKHOLM (3P Entertainment), CLOUD NINE (Pleasance Edinburgh), DIALOGUE & REBUTTAL, DREAM OF RED PAVILIONS and EXPECTATIONS (Yellow Earth), AVENUE OF ETERNAL PEACE (BBC Radio 4), RANDOM 11 (Vertigo Heights), MERCUTIO'S DREAMING (B3 Media).  Gabby part of Papergang Theatre and was also on the writers programme at Royal Court Theatre.

Writers

A. C. Smith
Finally

A.C. Smith won the RSC/Cross Writing Competition with Finally in 2012 and the Soho Theatre’s Westminster Prize with This is a Play in 2009 (2nd place).  Commissions include: the feature-length film Cassandra’s Gift (with Carey Born) for First Born Films; The Disappearing Door for Cobham Hall, to commemorate the school’s 50th Anniversary.  Other writing credits include: Welcome Home (indevelopment with film director Ben Galster; stageplays 11:43pm (Theatre 503), Sight (Invertigo at High Tide 2013), This is a Play (Soho Theatre, Southwark Playhouse), Finally (Tristan Bates Theatre),Dr. Cloudy (Poetry Café), and rehearsed readings (RADA) of three full-length plays: The Collected Disturbances of Howard Hall, An Odd Fashioned Romance and Two Little Dicky Birds .  A.C. has a BA from Harvard University and an MA from RADA/King’s College London.  A.C. established and runs the writing group led by Tom Hunsinger.  She was Head of Academic Studies at RADA from 2009-2012, and now works part-time as a Development Executive for First Born Films.  She is a co-founder of Playwroot, and runs the London Playwrights Blog (www.londonplaywrightsblog.com).

Rachel Long
Fifteen

Rachel Long is a young writer, Live Literature performer and spoken word artist from London. She is currently writing and performing Live Lit excerpts from her debut novel, 'Smokers and Lambs', a cross-cultural love and loss story set between Nyali beach Kenya and Yorkshire, England.
'15' is typical of Rachel Long's writing; dark and honest, she explores the tragedies of everyday life. www.writesrachell.wordpress.com
@writesRachel - www.facebook.com/LiveLit

Amy Ng
A Little Night Music

Amy Ng is a writer and a historian.  She grew up in Hong Kong, and was educated at
Yale University and at Balliol College, Oxford.  She is a graduate of the Critical Mass Writers Program at the Royal Court Theatre in London.  She is currently working on a play about the profound and wrenching (though in Britain largely ignored) impact of Thatcher's policies on Hong Kong.  

Ethan R Chapples
Animals

Ethan is an actor, currently training at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Having acted for a number of years Ethan turned to writing poetry in 2011 where he self-published his first collection "From Where I Stand". Playwriting seemed a very natural progression and, having written a handful of short plays, he has just completed his first full-length play about the 30th Anniversary of the Falkland War, which he hopes to produce later this year. Ethan's second poetry collection "State of mind" is also in the process of being published and should be available later in the year. If you would like to find out more about Ethan's work you can visit www.ethanrchapples.com or follow him on Twitter @EthanChapples.
From Where I Stand can be purchased from amazon.co.uk.

Hebe Reilly
Rape (A Monologue)

Hebe Reilly, a writer for UNHEARD, is a theatre director and performer.  She is an East 15 Acting School graduate, working on new writing, collaborative theatre, as well as using theatre as a tool for personal and social change. Her latest project, Her Story of Bra & Knife, took place in Ljubljana, Slovenia and looked at performing political violence against women.

Amy Bethan Evans
Guidance

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Amy is a recent MA Playwriting graduate of Royal Holloway University of London. She has worked professionally as a dramaturg for Graeae Theatre Company and has studied on the invitation-only Royal Court National Writers' Program and the professional RADA Advances in Scriptwriting course. Her full-length MA play Connect Four has been staged at the Bristol Bierkeller and Guidance is inspired by a previous play Such Love. She is very pleased to be writing for such a good cause.

Amy is also an associate writer/dramaturg of Goblin Baby.

Tilly Lunken
Walking

Tilly writes mostly for theatre. She studied Creative Writing and Theatre Studies at the University of Melbourne on the MA in Scriptwriting at UEA where she was the 2012 recipient of the Malcolm Bradbury Development Award. Last year Tilly co-founded ‘Plays With Words’ a London-based play reading group that aims to link up actors and directors with writers, early during the writing process. This year she has had her work performed with the Bread and Roses Theatre Company, has consulted as a dramaturg for two new plays and most recently wrote a play that involved an unexpected horse coming to dinner. Tilly walks a much as she can.

Tilly is also an associate writer/dramaturg of Goblin Baby.

Directors

Becky Catlin
Guidance

Work as a Director includes: Knock Yourself Out (Courtyard, Hoxton)The Infant (Vivian Cox Theatre), Bluebird (NSDF 2011), Hand and Heart (The Hand and Heart Gallery, Nottingham), The Retreat(Edinburgh Fringe 2010) and Fresher. The Musical, Smile, Bluebird,The Winterling,The Country, and Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat, all for The Nottingham New Theatre. As an Assistant Director: Lot and His God (The Print Room), I am a Camera (Southwark Playhouse), An Incident at the Border(Finborough Theatre & Trafalgar Studios), Seizing Cinderella(HighTide Festival 2012), Roots(Colchester Mercury Theatre, Stoke New Vic, Hull Truck, Nottingham Playhouse), Inside Out of Mind (Nottingham Playhouse). As a Dramaturg: The Hole by Katherine Boon (Nottingham Theatre Writing Partnership Workshop), Smileby Stephen Lowe

Bradley Leech
Fifteen & Rape (A Monologue)

As a BA (Hons) Acting graduate from Italia Conti, Bradley has worked in a variety of performance related fields. Credits include acting, direction, producing, and movement / fight direction in both theatre and film, including work for NT Connections and tours of various shows to the Edinburgh Festival.

Kuba Drewa
Walking

Kuba Drewa is an emerging director and movement director. His recent works include new writing pieces for the Bread & Roses Theatre, he also choreographed a dancer and violinist duet 'Of Kin' for Jackdaw Theatre at Tell Tales (Bussey Building).  He is equally interested in text as in movement and dance, but also the technical side of theatre (currently employed as a venue technician at the Royal Albert Hall). 

Shan Ng
A Little Night Music

Shan Ng is a writer / director. She has just been selected by The Triangle scheme run by Screen Yorkshire. The Pilgrimage of the heart was funded by The Arts Council and was staged for a three week run in London and Slough. My Half Night with Him, a feature film, was shortlisted  by Microwave Film Fund, Film London. It had then gone through 3 phrases of selection and development to get to the last 6 finalists. It was presented at BAFTA in Dec 2012. My long-short film, …May Wong was premiered in London Royal Opera House and was screened at Hong Kong Arts Festival, Beijing Britain Now Festival and was invited to Verona Film Festival. My short film, Merry-Go-Round was the award winner of the Enfield Borough Film Fund, Film London.

Production

Tessa Hart
Producer  

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Tessa is an actress, director, producer and activist. As Artistic Director and founder of the Goblin Baby Theatre Co. she produced and oversaw the entire show.

Furthermore she also

directed the short plays
Finally & Animals
and appeared as Girl
in A Little Night Music

For more info see Tessa's complete bio or go to www.TessaHart.com.

Jude Malcomson
Sound & Lighting Operator

Trained at ALRA. Theatre includes as Technical Manager for Finborough Theatre; Technical Stage Manager for Desperately Seeking the Exit (Leicester Square Theatre), A Dickens of a Life (New Wimbledon Theatre), FOG (Finborough Theatre), Lysistrata (Rose Theatre, Kingston); Technician for The Print Room, Theatre503, Finborough Theatre, White Bear Theatre, Rudolf Steiner House, TheSpaceUK; Deputy Stage Manager for Sing Something Simple (UK Tour), Blast Off!, Terror 2012 (Soho Theatre), The Busy Body (Southwark Playhouse); Stage Manager for Splendid Isolation (Pleasance Dome), Only Human, MEAT (Theatre503), Political Me, The Underhero (Camden People’s Theatre), The Malcontent, The Cherry Orchard (White Bear Theatre), Summer, Bodies Unfinished(Brockley Jack) and Assistant Stage Manager for London Wall  (Finborough Theatre), Dick Whittington, Cinderella (Hertford Theatre).

A Little Night Music

Composer....... Ruth Chan

Ruth Chan is a British Chinese composer. Her concert commissions include choral work Lament for Ying of the Nine Declarations and theatre piece Pilgrimage of the Heart. Her most recent composition,Piccadilly Revisited, is a contemporary multimedia piece that was performed at the Royal Opera House, Hong Kong Arts Festival 2011 and in Beijing as part of the UK Now Festival. Ruth is also a renowned composer for film and television. Film scores include the award winning Undertow (Neil McEmery-West) and Variable(Wong Wai-Kit). Recent TV documentaries include Changing Fortunes (BBC World Series) and The Trouble with Pirates (BBC Storyville). 
Voice Over................. Dean Wright
Choreographer........ Thalia Charalambous

Special Thanks To

Adam Hemming & everyone at The Space, The Marylebone Gardens, Theatre Delicatessen & The Lab Collective, Italia Conti Academy – Avondale, Ye Olde Rose & Crown Pub (Walthamstow), Ainhoa Barriola-Fontana (performance photographer), Thomas Vilorio & every one who came to watch and support this unique show!