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Creative Team
Director: Rebecca Gould This is Rebecca's second collaboration with Adverse Camber, the first as director of The Twisting Field. She is currently working as an Associate with the RSC's Education Department and is developing a new musical for Made in Wales Stage Company, about Victorian Prostitutes, called Shreds. For young audiences at the National Theatre she directed The Fear Brigade by Adrian Mitchell and The Little Tempest by Lesley Ross and co-wrote, (with Mervyn Millar and Carl Grouse) and directed, The Wonderful Life and Miserable Death of Renowned Magician Doctor Faustus in the Cottesloe Theatre. Previously she has directed Every Breath by Judith Johnson for Y-Touring Theatre. As Associate Director at the Theatre Royal Plymouth she directed A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Marriage of Anansewa in the Drum Theatre. As a Director at the English Shakespeare Company she directed Romeo and Juliet, Drill Hall and Twelfth Night, tour. As Associate Director of Made in Wales Stage Company, Cardiff, she directed The Gorgeous Lives of Seahorses by Lesley Ross, Venus by Peter Morgan, Gulp (Dublin Festival) by Roger Williams, Singing the O'Reilly Song by Othniel Smith and three new musicals, Dare by Tim Riley and Tracy Spottiswood, Love in Aberdare by Roger Williams and James Williams and More Life by Jeff Teare and The Stereophonics. For The International Festival of Lilliput she directed The Jolly Folly of Polly The Scottish Trolley Dolly (Edinburgh and Sherman Theatre, Cardiff) by Lesley Ross and James Williams, Eggplant and Mad Magaret's Revenge (Drum Theatre, Plymouth and Hong Kong Fringe Club) Especially interested in working in international contexts Rebecca is currently producing a festival of newly translated Catalan plays in Cardiff. She has produced and directed festivals and workshops in Hong Kong, India and Ghana, for the British Council/NT Education, The International Festival of Lilliput and the Theatre Royal Plymouth. She co-founded Tinderbox Consultants, with Jeff Teare in 2002, and they have worked closely with the Wellcome Trust. They have produced several news plays as well as establishing a series of 'Imagining the Future' new writing workshops (Plymouth 2004, Bangalore 2007, London 2008 and Kolkata in 2009), these have brought together leading playwrights, research scientists in order to develop new plays in interesting dynamic ways. (www.theatrescience.com) Designer: Kerry Bradley Kerry trained at the University of Warwick, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and the National Film and Television School. She progressed from Design and Wardrobe assistant to Resident Designer at the Swan Theatre, Worcester and Palace Theatre, Westcliff. She became freelance on moving to London 13 years ago. She is currently Associate Lecturer at Wimbledon School of Art and works mostly as a Theatre designer and Buyer in Television and Film. This is Kerry’s first design for Adverse Camber. She has designed many new (and old) plays throughout London and on tour. Recent designs include Snowbound (Trafalgar 2), Heroes (National Theatre Education), Growing Up An Alien (Apples & Snakes) and Romeo and Juliet (The Lord Chamberlain’s Men). She has also worked for RADA, Leicester Haymarket, Pop-Up Theatre, Snap Theatre, Polka Theatre and London Bubble. Recent work as a Production buyer and Set Dresser: Jim, Jam & Sunny (Wish Films), Dolphins (Carnaby Films), Footballer’s Wives’ TV (Shed TV). Producer: Naomi Wilds Naomi Wilds set up Adverse Camber in 2006. The company’s first project was an Arts Council/National Lottery funded national tour of The Twisting Field, featuring Shonaleigh, Amy Douglas, Nick Hennessey and Simon Heywood. Adverse Camber seeks out projects which inspire new thinking about storytelling. We seek to develop new audiences, forge relationships particularly with arts venues and showcase excellence, investing in the creativity of individual artists. Adverse Camber tours to arts venues, literature festivals, rural touring and storyteller promoter networks.
Naomi Wilds has worked in literature development since 1999 as part of the East Midlands Literature Network. She is currently Storytelling Development worker for Arts East Staffs, in addition to producing Adverse Camber tours and working on freelance literature and arts development projects. She recently chaired the project group for Freedom Showcase, a Literature Network project in partnership with Apples and Snakes, Mainstream Partnership and Phoenix Arts.
In 2008-09 in addition to touring The Middle Yard, Adverse Camber will be touring the oldest story from The Mabinogion, Culhwch and Olwen – featuring Michael Harvey, Lynne Denman and Stacey Blythe.
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