ONE

the ONE
Festival
2017
Festival Programme

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The Space is a performing arts centre based in a converted church on the
Isle of Dogs, East London. We programme high quality theatre productions,
run our own in-house theatre company and have a cosy café/bar upstairs.
We’re committed to providing opportunities for new performers, writers,
directors, producers and theatre companies. Since our launch twenty years
ago, we’ve supported thousands of talented performers and artists.
The One Festival is our annual celebration of the art that is a solo
performance. With an exciting blend of work on offer from a huge number
of theatre artists, it’s an extension of the Space’s commitment to produce
work that is accessible, ambitious and inventive.
Over the years, we’ve programmed a variety of work within the Festival -
everything from a short piece to a full one-act play, and incorporating
theatre, spoken word, comedy, puppetry, movement and even solo musicals!
Our only restriction is that each piece must feature only one performer.
2017 is our fifth year of the Festival, and having received an
overwhelming number of submissions we’ve decided to go bigger and
better than ever - putting together five programmes over three weeks. We
hope you’ll enjoy the variety and quality of pieces on offer - and if you enjoy
a programme, don’t forget to come back for more before the Festival closes!
You can also share your thoughts and follow our artists - search #OneFest17
on Twitter or join us in the bar after each show!

PROGRAMME A
Performer - Chris Whotton
A modern day superhero
Chris trained at Rose Bruford. Previous credits include Tis Pity
she’s a Whore (Rose Bruford), Then Spoke the Thunder
(Theatre Centre), Rocket to the Moon (Rose Theatre), God of
Soho (Stratford East), Perfect Boy ( Barge House), Macbeth
& Romeo and Juliet (Young Shakespeare UK Tours), Scrounge
(Brockely Jack Theatre), Towers ( Theatre 503) , Twelfth Night
(Principal Theatre), The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Abridged ( Bread & Roses Theatre), State of Mind (Etcetera
Theatre), Involvement (NHS England).
Director - Katherine Timms
Katherine is a director and workshop leader, specializing in developing new writing and facilitating
outreach projects. She is Co-Artistic Director of Burn BrightTheatre, with whom she has directed/
co-produced; Vernon God Little (April/May 2015), All is Bright (Dec 2015), and The Complete
Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (May-June 2016). She has directed monologues for the
One Festival twice before, including Troll by Isabel Dixon in 2015 and The Unfortunates by Aoise
Stratford in 2014. Other directing credits include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Berlin
(The Space), Marlborough Road (Hen and Chickens), Heartlines (The Last Refuge).
Writer - Sherry Morris
Sherry is from a small town in Missouri, but has been residing in London since 2000, working as
a university administrator by day and writing short stories and dramas by night. Her short story
about her Peace Corps experience in Ukraine has been published in A Small Key Opens Big Doors.
Her work has been performed with Liars’ League London and published online with Gemini,
Molotov Cocktail and Horror Scribes. She works as a London Ambassador for the Scottish creative
writing centre, Moniack Mhor and is a member of Collier Street Fiction Group--who provide wonderful
feedback. She also writes with the support of family, friends, her partner, and Bella the cat—
who supervises writing sessions from her perch. This is her first One Festival and she is ridiculously
excited to be working with such talented people. Her work can be found at Uksherka.com and
she tweets @Uksherka.

EYES TO THE WIND
Performer - Samuel Curry
Samuel is a graduate from Jesus College, Cambridge. He
started acting at university and toured around Europe
and Japan in The Merchant of Venice and Two Gentlemen
of Verona, respectively. Professional theatre and TV
credits include: Jamie in The D-List (Underbelly, Edinburgh
Fringe) Brutus in Julius Caesar (Network Theatre), Hamnet
in Cesario (National Theatre); Laertes in Hamlet (ADC
Theatre); The Monster in Frankenstein (Lion and Unicorn
Theatre); Henry in The King and Queen of the Universe
(Edinburgh Fringe) and Gus in Arcadia (Bridewell Theatre). Samuel has appeared on television for
the BBC as Romeo in their Shakespeare 400 series. On film he will appear in The Pursuit of
Normality, due for release in 2017.
Writer - David Hendon
David is a broadcaster and journalist best known for commentating on professional snooker for
Eurosport. His plays include The Bench, From Me to 3792, Red or Blue and Unfriended. In 2016,
his play The D-List, a comedy about modern celebrity, was staged at the Edinburgh festival fringe.
Eyes to the Wind was a finalist in the Kenneth Branagh award for new drama writing in Windsor
in October 2016. His script The Name on the Bench has been selected for Tribute, a new drama
podcast launching in early 2017
Director - Hannah Banister
Directing credits include: This is Art (Riff), I Killed Rasputin (Edinburgh), Gardening for the Unfulfilled
and Alienated (Edinburgh/Latitude; 2013 Fringe first winner), Crimble (Old Red Lion), Trapp
(Old Vic), Best Man (Little Pieces of Gold, Southwark Playhouse).
Associate directing credits include: The Angry Brigade (Paines Plough), The Tempest (Shakespeare’s
Globe), Longing (Hampstead Theatre), Step in Time (24 Hour Celebrity Musicals Gala/The
Old Vic), Jumpy (Royal Court/West End), The Stock Da’Wa (Hampstead Theatre). Hannah was a
finalist for the JMK Award 2014.

ANGRY YOUNG THING
Performer & Writer - Sarah Tattersall
Sarah studied Drama and Performance at the University of East
Anglia, where she was awarded Best Comic Actress and Best
Supporting Actress, and at the Institute of Contemporary Music
Performance.She specialises in contemporary drama and comedy,
most recently performing her self-penned one-woman show,
Sally’s Alright, at the Etcetera Theatre to excellent reviews.
Previous roles include: Camilla, Mary No More (Aesthetica Film
Festival; No Gloss Film Festival; Norwich Film Festival; Leeds
Independent Film Festival) Masha, Three Sisters; Hermia, A
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Principal, The Vagina Monologues,
in addition to various devised and Fringe pieces.
In addition to performing and scriptwriting, Sarah works as a features writer and theatre reviewer.
She is thrilled to be debuting Angry Young Thing in such a creative and unique festival
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Performer - Sophia Eleni
Sophia trained at Rose Bruford and The Estonian Academy of
Music & Drama with First Class Honours. Credits include:
TEAR’S (Rose Theatre Kingston), 252AM After Man (The Vaults),
Fables for a Boy (LOST Theatre) and The Challenging Tide
(TheatroTechnis).Television includes: Tyrant (20th Century
Fox) and Mayday (BBC). Film includes: Love Eventually,
Nazanin’s Morning, Blade of Grass, Death of the Revolution,
Tube Etiquette, Romance is Dead and Watched. Recently
Sophia was commended on her acting by representatives
from The BBC and Channel 4 after her premiere screening
as the lead in mockumentary film Tube Etiquette at BFI,
Southbank.

Writer - Ivan Faute
Ivan is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago Program for Writers. In July 2017 his
physical theatre piece Life, Death, & Everything in Between, developed with choreographer
Suzanne Wiltgen, will premier at Capital Fringe (Washington DC). His stage adaptation of
CrisMazza’s novella Disability premiered at the Planet Connections Festivity (New York) in June
2016. His adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” won the City Lit
Theatre (Chicago) Art of Adaptation Festival. Recent prose appears in Litbreak, Rathalla Review
and Axolotl Magazine. He is currently an Assistant Professor in English at Christopher Newport
University in southeast Virginia.
Director - Cat Robey
Cat is Associate Artist of award winning company Ransack Theatre, a graduate of the Birkbeck
MFA in Theatre Directing and was Resident Assistant Director at HOME Manchester 2015-2016.
Directing includes No Signal (RADA), Weathered (HOME), Enveloped in Velvet (Arts Theatre),
One of Those (Henley Fringe Festival), Yerma (Fourth Monkey), Hatch (Park Theatre), Rewritten
(Tristan Bates), Freedom, Books, Flowers, and the Moon (Waterloo East), Unknown/Small Chances
(Brighton Fringe & Leicester Square Theatre), Ondine (White Bear), As Fate Would Have It…
(Etcetera, Lion & Unicorn, The Space), Hitting Town (White Bear), Feathers (White Bear &
Edinburgh Fringe), The Shape of Things (Cockpit), The Utility People, A Woman of No
Importance... or Somewhat Little Importance Anyhow, The Inappropriateness of Love (all at the
Hen & Chickens).
Assistant Directing includes The Emperor (Young Vic, HOME, Theatre de Villes Luxembourg),
Chamaco, Inkheart, The Oresteia, Wallflower (all at HOME), Summer. Autumn.Winter.Spring. (Old
Grenada Studios), and Dogs Barking (RADA).

ANTELOPES AND MISANTHROPES
Performer - Gemma Seren
Gemma has recently returned from a sell-out, award-winning run of
The Miserables, a Les Mis parody at the Edinburgh Festival. For her
starring role she was nominated for a ‘Best Performer In A Musical
award. Upon leaving drama school she made her professional debut
touring the UK as a Principal Vocalist in The Show Must Go On...
Musicals & More.
Over the last few years she has become a staple of the London fringe
scene. Highlights include ‘Wendy’ in Scream Queens Anonymous,
creating the role of The StoryTeller in the UK Premiere of the new
children’s musical Hedgehog’s Home and a sell-out London run of
Gay School Musical. She is also frequently found playing a fairy in pantomimes across the capital.
Gemma dedicates her performance to her Dad. In her mind, he is always in the front row.
Writer - Olu Alakija
Olu is a playwright, screenwriter and script reader. He has an MA in Scriptwriting (Fiction) for Film
and Television. He has completed the Royal Court Theatre’s Critical Mass Playwriting programme
and been shortlisted for the Make The Cut Writing competition and the 2016 Lime Pictures Writer
Development Programme. He is the winner of a CRE Race in the Media award for his short film
Guilty and his short play The Body was a winner of First Draft 2015. He has worked as a script
reader for The Bush Theatre, the William Saroyan Playwriting Prize and the Saroyan/Paul ADAA
Human Rights Playwriting Prize. His work has been produced by Talawa, Sixteenfeet Productions,
Women at Rada, Two Monkeys TV, Drift Theatre and Director’s Cut Theatre and performed at The
Young Vic, The Arts Theatre, The Proud Archivist, The Lambeth Readers and Writers Festival, The
Rosemary Branch, The Pleasance Theatre, Theatre Royal Stratford East and the St James Theatre.
Director - John Fricker
John is a member of the Space Arts Committee, Associate Artist at the Brockley Jack Theatre and
jointly runs OutFox Productions.
Directing credits include Standing By (A New Musical) (University of Cumbria), Numbers Up (Write
Now 7), Roleplay (Write Now 6), Without Reluctance and Without Relief (Ballast Theatre), Defiance
(Script6), Adam and The Probability of Love (The One Festival), Live With It and Cinderella Story
(Write Now 5), Corpus Christi, Rope, Carbon Dating and Spring Awakening (all OutFox
Productions).

PROGRAMME B
QUIET NIGHT IN
Performer - Amy Gough
Amy trained at Arts Ed. She has recently finished choreographing
and performing in The Snow Queen, directed by Anna Chancellor
(The Tabernacle).
Recent credits include: Grandma Josephine in Charlie and The
Chocolate Factory (Site specific), Songs from the Musicals (Barnes),
U/S Louise in Carousel (Catford Broadway Theatre), Sophie 10-33 Project (The Last Refuge), Jack in
Jack and the Beanstalk (Tour). Film Credits: Singer in WellChild Charity single (Metropolis
Studios), Sophie in Surprise Party and Rachel in True Fact (Threw A Glass Productions).
Amy is excited to be part of the ONE festival, working alongside her great friend Robert Elkin.
A history enthusiast, lover of travel and proud northerner; Amy would like to thank her family,
friends and partner Rob for all their support and to you for watching.
Director - Robert Elkin
Robert trained as an actor, graduating from RSAMD in 2011, and is associate artist of Bard in the
Botanics, playing roles including Viola (Twelfth Night), Mercutio (Romeo & Juliet), Richard II
(Richard II). He’s also appeared at The Space with Black Balloon’s ‘In This House’ in 2014.
Having taken part in The Space’s 29 Plays Later in 2016, he’s thrilled to be bringing ‘Quiet Night In’,
his piece from Day 15, to The Space’s stage and would like to thank Sebastian and Adam for their
support.
Robert is currently developing The Fair Youth and The Dark Lady, a piece inspired by the artist of
Shakespeare’s Chandos Portrait.

gypsy queen
Performer - Lauren Barnes
Lauren has recently graduated from Mountview Academy of
Theatre Arts with a BA in Acting. Credits whilst training include:
Barbara in the world premiere of Busters by Roy Williams, Kol in
The Grandfathers, and Judy in Balm in Gilead at the Arcola.
Since graduating this summer, Lauren has appeared as Viola in
an open-air production of Twelfth Night, as well as performing
at the Whitechapel Gallery and the Actors Centre. Lauren is
represented by Northbridge Talent, and can be found on
Spotlight under 9412-9087-9328.
Writer and Director - Sepy Baghei
Training: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (MA Advanced Theatre Practice),
Australian Academy of Dramatic Art (BA Performance).
Sepy is a theatre-maker originally from Sydney, Australia. She runs independent theatre company
Suitcase Civilians with whom she regularly presents work around the world. Recent directing
credits with Suitcase Civilians include: Click Café (Anywhere Festival Brisbane), Wilde Tales (The
Space), Re: Memory (toured to Camden People’s Theatre, Old 505 Theatre Sydney, Moor Theatre
Delicatessen and Wrought Festival Sheffield.)
Other directing credits include: Body Language (Brave New Word Theatre Company), Grimm Tales
(Sydney Fringe Festival), Short Fast & Messy (Adelaide Fringe Festival), and Something to be Done
(Short+Sweet Sydney, winner of Best Production).
Sepy is also an avid sound designer, regularly designing her own shows and having worked with
organisations such as Tricycle Theatre and Stonecrabs Theatre Company. www.sepybaghaei.co.uk

SPIT OR SWALLOW?
Performer and Director - Jennifer Oliver
Jennifer trained at Drama Centre and has a background in dance
and a love of comedy. Jennifer’s credits include; Victoria in
Fruitcake (Southwark Playhouse), Ellen in Outlying Islands (Soho
Theatre), Alyssa in Big Sister (Chelsea Theatre), Bet/Rose in Oliver
and Queesha in ZIP (both directed by Ray Shell for Giant Olive
Theatre Company), Rosencrantz in Hamlet (White Bear Theatre),
Angela in Wild West (French and Saunders/BBC) and Maya in The
Triumph and Tragedy of Tchaikovsky (Encore Films).
Writer - Jonathan Skinner
Jonathan is a London-based playwright and screenwriter whose work has appeared in London,
throughout the UK and internationally as far and wide as Sydney, Los Angeles, Ireland and Dubai.
He won the 2014 Paul Darby Prize for Dramatists, The Sterts One Act Play Competition, and was
shortlisted for the International Rubery Book Award. Recent stage credits include Indignitas,
(Stella Adler Theatre, Hollywood), Fallout (Theatre Royal, Stratford East), Guru (Waterloo East),
Penumbra (Arcola) and INTERCOURSE (Arts Theatre). Jonathan has written three short films for
ArtsEd and was a finalist in the Euroscript Screen Story Competition receiving the judges’ special
commendation. www.jonathanskinner.net @Jon__Skinner (double underscore)
VILLAIN
Writer & Performer - Steven Shawcroft
Steven is a writer and performer from East London. He has worked
with companies such Space productions, Rift Theatre, Gruff
and Amo Theatre. This is his second piece at the One Festival,
the first being Sylvia (directed by Damian Cooper in 2014).
Director - Jodie Botha

A COMIC BOOK ENDING
Performer - Ross Virgo
Hailing originally from Southampton, Ross is a London-based
actor who trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and
Drama, and Royal Holloway, University of London. Credits include,
Circa (Old Red Lion/Theater de Meervaart, Amsterdam) and
We’re Here Because We’re Here; a modern memorial marking the
centenary of the Battle of the Somme. Other recent credits include
work at the National Theatre Studio and Southwark Playhouse.
Since August 2016, he has been dabbling in improvisation too,
with comedy improv troupe Very Serious People.
A self confessed old soul, Ross is a keen handkerchief and jelly
baby enthusiast. He can also be found politely bumbling around
the twitter; @rosspvirgo.
Writer and Director - Elliot Baker
Elliot Baker is a playwright who splits his time between the cities of London and Chicago. In
2013, he graduated with a BFA in Acting from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
He went on to perform at venues such as Piccolo Theatre and A Red Orchid Theatre in Chicago,
IL. He is currently studying scriptwriting at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. In the
summer of 2016, his piece The Silence That Follows was commissioned and produced in
collaboration between Facility Theatre and A c a K e Experiment at A Red Orchid Theatre. His
one-man show, A Comic Book Ending was initially commissioned by Adam Line for Solos at The
Star of Kings in Autumn 2016.
He is currently the managing director of The Stoop Feast, and a contributing artist for A c a K e
Experiment. He can be followed on Twitter @elliotbaker88.

PROGRAMME C
DO YOU MIND?
Performer & Writer- Joni-Rae Carrick
Joni-Rae Carrack is a puppeteer and performer. She creates work
that touches on truth and populist subjects. She makes work mostly
with Sort Of Theatre and BearDog, where their shows get regularly
programmed for festivals and has performed at the Little Angel
Theatre, the Barbican Pit Theatre and the Brighton Fringe Festival.
She recently graduated from the Royal Central School of Speech
and Drama with an MA in Advance Theatre Practice.
Director & Writer - Calum Anderson
Calum Anderson is a Brighton based director, improviser, musician and technician. He has
performed across the country as both an improviser and a musician, regularly performing at the
Brighton, Camden and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals. His works focuses on realism and collaboration
and using those to create truly honest pieces.
DESIRABLE
Performer & Writer- Rabiah Hussain
Rabiah has performed poetry at venues including the Lost Theatre,
Brixton BookJam and Rich Mix. She was part of Battersea Arts Centre’s
London Stories Festival 2016. She is a participant on B3 Media’s Talent
Lab 2016 for emerging filmmakers and Tamasha Theatre’s Playwright
collective 2016-2017. She was longlisted for the Old Vic 12 programme
for playwrights. Her short play, ‘Fish Kill’, was produced by Three Pegs
Theatre in 2014. She was co-writer in Deckchair Collective’s, ‘Steam
Punk’, in 2012. Rabiah has taken part in writer programmes at
Arcola Theatre, Royal Court and Kali Theatre. She organised Six Hundred
Seconds of Words, an open mic and music event at Stratford Circus in
2012. Her poem ‘Child of the Colony’, was published in The Asian Writer’s
collection of contemporary Asian writing./

DAWN
Performer - Millie Binks
Theatre Credits include Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (The Vaults),
Dick Whittington (Mercury Theatre), Timon of Athens (The Willow
Globe) with The Factory Theatre Company, Chekhov with Cherries
(Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Fantastic Mr Fox (Regent’s Park Open Air
Theatre), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang(The London Palladium), The Shadow
Master (Kings Head Theatre Islington).
TV credits include, Pulchra in The Roman Mysteries for the BBC Radio
Credits include, Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner, Angel
Pavement, Buddenbrooks and Mrs.Mabb – all for BBC Radio 4.
Millie is also a regular voice over artist for EFS Television Productions,
Pearson Education and OMUK.
Writer - Rachael McGill
Born in Shetland, Rachael now divides her time between the UK and Lisbon. Credits include Chickens
Don’t Fly (Writers’ Guild Playwrights Progress Award 2014), Storeys (Finborough Theatre, 2000) and
The Lemon Princess (West Yorkshire Playhouse, 2005, published by Oberon). Short plays have been
performed at Southwark Playhouse, Arcola Theatre, Soho Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre and the
Liverpool Everyman. Radio includes Poppy Seeds (BBC Radio 4 afternoon play, 2008) and Minor
Characters (BBC Women’s Hour serial, 2006).
Rachael translates from French, German, Spanish and Portuguese, specialising in theatre. Her
translation of Marieluise won the 1998 Gate Theatre Translation Award.
Rachael’s short fiction has been published in Shoe Fly Baby (the Asham Award anthology) and the
Macallan/Scotland on Sunday Short Story Collection, and by Far Off Places, The Pygmy Giant and Litro.
She is currently trying to sell her first novel and working on a second.
Director - Simon Muller
Simon studied English Literature at Edinburgh University before training as an actor at LAMDA. As a director,
recent work includes Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe Summer School), Round 2 (The Factory) and
the award-winning show The Rebel Cell (Edinburgh Festival and touring). He has worked as an
actor in theatre, film, TV and radio and he most recently appeared in the critically acclaimed and
award-winning Visitors at both The Arcola and The Bush. Other theatre work includes roles at The
Young Vic, Edinburgh Lyceum and Traverse theatres, Bristol Old Vic and numerous seasons at
Shakespeare’s Globe. He has appeared as a guest lead in popular television shows including Silent Witness
and The Bill. Film work includes Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina and the forthcoming Madam Bovary,
directed by Sophie Barthes. He is an Associate Member and Associate Producer of acclaimed theatre
company The Factory and a founding member of the Poetry Ensemble Live Canon.

she said i do
Performer - Damian Cooper
Previous credits for Space Productions include lead
roles in Manifesto, The Graduate and The Suicide. As
ArtisticDirector of Amo Theatre, Damian has also
performed in and produced Tartuffe and A Comedy
of Errors at the Space.
Other theatre includes: Julius Caesar (The Merely
Players), Fridge and Fracture (High Tide Festival), The
Tempest and Macbeth (Rose Theatre Bankside). He
also won the Cameron Mackintosh Award as Steve in
Mikey the Pikey (Edinburgh/NSDF)
Damian can be heard on Spiteful Puppet’s HOOD as
Will Scarlett, and is currently filming as Loki in web
mini-series 2TINGZ.
Writer - Rachael Claye
Rachael spent fifteen years as a journalist working in Britain and the Middle East. Returning to the UK
to start a family, she began studying playwriting with Jemma Kennedy at City Lit. She was long-listed
for the Old Vic 12 mentoring scheme in 2015, and her first play, The Lighthouse, played at the Space in
January 2016 to critical and audience acclaim.
Director - Isabel Dixon
Isabel is Theatre Manager of the Space, an active member of the programming team and a producer for
in-house company Space Productions. Producing credits for the Space include the 2014, 2015 and 2016
One Festivals, Manifesto, The Lighthouse, The Man Who Found His Freedom and the English premiere
of Hamlyn. Isabel co-founded Burn Bright Theatre in 2014 with Katherine Timms, producing Spacer
best-seller Vernon God Little, and writing Troll for last year’s One Festival. This is Isabel’s directing
debut at the Space, and she is thrilled to once again be working alongside Rachael and Damian.

PROGRAMME D
THE TERRIBLE TALE
OF DR F
Performer and Writer - Neil Sinclair
Neil Sinclair has working in Australia as a stand-up
comedian and actor since 2008.
He has recently completed the full two-year course
at L’Ecole Philippe Gaulier and relocated to London.
His first show, after finishing the course, was
nominated for the inspiration award in the Prague
Fringe Festival.
Direction provided by Lucy Hopkins and Sam Baily

jericho’s rose
Performer and Writer - Lilac Yosiphon
Lilac Yosiphon is the artistic director of Althea Theatre,
an international ensemble of British and non-British actors
based in London. She graduated from Mountview Academy
with an MA in Theatre Directing followed by an MA in Acting
from Arts Educational Schools London. She wrote and performed
in There’s No Place Like (premiered at Brighton Fringe 2015,
transferred to the Arts Theatre and now touring internationally),
Jericho’s Rose (originally developed for The Northern Stage,
Edinburgh Fringe 2015) and Faux Amis (Memoire de l’Avenir,
Paris). Her short play Asylum won the Saving Endangered Species
International Playwriting Award in Los Angeles and had a
rehearsed reading at the Odyssey Theatre.
She directed The Freedom of the City (Cockpit Theatre), Salt (Karamel Club), Pablo (Greenwich
Theatre), ‘untranslatable.’ (The Space Theatre), You Tweet My Face Space (Greenside Royal
Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe) and and currently directing One Last Thing (For Now) to be premiered
at the Old Red Lion Theatre in March 2017
Director - Michael Cole
Originally from Sheffield, Cole is an actor-director and a member of Althea Theatre. He has
previously worked with the international ensemble ‘Just a Musts’English premiere of Elfriede
Jelinek’s ‘Sports Play’. He recently performed in Edward’s Bond’s premiere of Dea and has since
gone on to perform in the Camden Fringe and the Cockpit’s Voila Festival in other international
collaborations. For Althea, he also co-directed There’s No Place Like which recently returned from
an international tour
Music and Movement - Sam Elwin
Sam is an actor-musician as well as a composer. For Althea, he composed the music for and
performed in There’s No Place Like, which recently returned from an international tour. He has
acted in a variety of plays and short films, including a two person show at the King’s Head
Theatre exploring post-colonialism, gender, religion and power and a musical at Jermyn Street
Theatre based on Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure”. He also works as a photographer.

FLASK
Performer - Annabel Smith
Annabel’s credits at the Space include
Manifesto and The Lighthouse,
Theatre includes: The Ajax Project (Camden
People’s Theatre), Black Sheep (Soho Theatre),
Anna Karenina (Pegasus Theatre/Royal Court)
Radio includes: Road to Oxford (BBC Radio 4)
Annabel trained at The Oxford School of Drama.
Writer - Scott Mullins
Scott Mullen is a longtime Hollywood screenplay analyst
and screenwriter, a two-time winner of Amazon Studios’ s
creenwriting contest, whose short plays have been
performed around the world.
Director - Jodie Botha
After joining the Space in 2010 Jodie has worked on several productions at the Space, notably as
assistant director on Treasure Island and Caucasian Chalk Circle and more recently as director of
Retro Metro As part of the inaugural One Festival and the Script 6 performance of Wall.
Writing credits include Alice What’s the Matter as part of the Space’s Fifteen Festival and
Participation from 28 plays later.

BOLLOCKS!
Performer - Paul Thomas
Training: Drama Studio London. Credits include The Miniaturists
(Arcola Theatre), The Pensive Federation’s Collective Project &
Significant Other Festivals (Tristan Bates & Etcetera), Absent Friends,
Pygmalion, You Never Can Tell & John Bull’s Other Island (Michael
Friend Productions), Extreme Response (The Space), Thank Crunchie
It’s Not Friday (Park Theatre), The Complete History of the BBC
[Abridged] (Edinburgh), The Merchant of Venice & Twelfth Night
(Festival Players – open air tours), Shaw At The Park (Park Theatre),
The Focus Group (Theatre 503), Hamlet (CSF), Lost Soles (Riff Raff),
Winter Tales (King’s Arms), I’m Fine Thanks (BAFTA nominated),
Dark Matters (Royal Television Society award). Paul may currently
be seen grinning from your television screens whilst sipping milk in a commercial for Arla Best of
Both; and will be playing a mad inventor in the upcoming feature film Schadenfreude alongside Ronald
Pickup, Charles Kay, Dame Judi Dench and a host of other famous faces.
Writer - Mike Carter
Mike has been writing for theatre for over a decade. In that time he has written for venues and companies
across London. Examples include a musical for The Pensive Federation’s
Significant Other Festival, Poe: Macabre Resurrections for Second Skin Theatre, Insignificant Theatre’s
Speakeasies and Crow Theatre’s OFFIE Nominated “Jack The Ripper’s London” His third full length
play, Buster Keaton at The Hollywood Canteen... as told by Orson Welles, ran at The Space last year.
Mike is a co-founder of the London Playwriting Lab and runs the South London Writers’ Group in Brixton.
Director - Saffron Myers
Saffron Myers has worked as a director with Paines Plough (‘Crux’ Lyric Theatre Hammersmith – Time
Out Award); Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich; Hampstead Theatre; Graeae; Old Red Lion; Immediate Theatre;
Moving Parts; Red Ladder; Soho Poly Theatre; Theatre Royal Stratford East; Regent’s Park Open Air
Theatre; The Drum, Plymouth Theatre Royal; National Student Theatre Company; Money Spider Productions;
London Actors Theatre Company; Babel Theatre Company (‘Pin Money Opera’ at Battersea
Arts Centre - Best New Music Theatre Award).

posh, becks
and me
Performer and Writer - Milo Mint
Milo Mint is a graduate of the prestigious
Writers’ Programme at the Royal Court
Theatre. The year he spent training there
was life-changing, enabling him to workshop
many new plays. Milo also directed his play
Surgery whilst on the Writers’ Programme.
In 2016 Milo directed a new, short piece Pokemon Go Go Go! at Faith Drama in London.
Director - Jodie Botha
After joining the Space in 2010 Jodie has worked on several productions at the Space,
notably as assistant director on Treasure Island and Caucasian Chalk Circle and more
recently as director of Retro Metro As part of the inaugural One Festival and the Script
6 performance of Wall. Writing credits include Alice What’s the Matter as part of the
Space’s Fifteen Festival and Participation from 28 plays later.

PROGRAMME E
SEARCHING SHADOWS
Performer and Writer - Emily Orley
Emily Orley is a London-based artist, researcher and teacher
whose work includes performance, installation and art-writing.
She is interested in exploring ideas to do with memory and
mis-memory, maintenance and enchantment, history, heritage
and place (and how these all co-exist). She has been making and
showing work, in the UK and abroad, for fifteen years, sometimes
on her own and sometimes with other people. She trained at the
Jacques Lecoq School in Paris and has a PhD from the
University of Roehampton.
Director - Christopher Heighes
Christopher Heighes is one half of the partnership Forster & Heighes, makers of site-specific
performance and installation. For more than twenty years they have been developing new
methodologies of performance in relation to the built environment. Their early works involved
the retelling of often forgotten or neglected architectural histories. More recent commissions in
the UK and abroad have been developed out of complex networks of research using esoteric
presentational devices that challenge architectural orthodoxy.
They have presented work at The London Festival of Theatre (LIFT); Hebbel Theater, Berlin (HAU);
Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, and King’s Cultural Institute, Somerset House, London
Forster & Heighes are Creative Research Fellows at The University of Roehampton.

IF THE SHOE FITS
Performer and Writer - Cheryl Walker
Actor, Writer & Director, Cheryl Walker, is Artistic Director of Purple
Moon Drama. She recently mounted a sold-out run of Malorie
Blackman’s Noughts and Crosses at The Brady Arts Centre in East
London. Recent written work includes Tinderella and the Beast at
Arcola Theatre, Teviot Centre and Spotlight Theatre. Acting credits
include ‘Yassa’, in Alassane Sy’s short film Talibés, and touring as
‘Elsie’ in Matilda Ibini’s play, Muscovado. She is currently working on a
full length version of If the Shoe Fits, Mek Dem Wear It.
Director - Simone Watson
AMONG THE MISSING
Performer - Jess Neale
Jess Neale has been treading the boards for several years,
having graduated from East 15 with an MA in acting. She
has travelled to Japan with Whole Hog Theatre’s Princess
Mononoke, and was part of Camden Fringe with her own
theatre company Fabletop. She has a passion for animals
and when not acting works as a live interpreter at
ZSL London Zoo.
Writer and Director - Niamh de Valera
Niamh studied at Trinity College Dublin and RCSSD and is Executive and Co-Artistic Director of
Blue Elephant Theatre, Camberwell, where she supports emerging artists to produce new work.
She was previously a scriptreader for Space Arts Centre and completed their 28 Days Later and
29 Days Later playwriting challenges.

CORNET SOLO
Performer - Silas Hawkins
Silas has been acting since 1986 and has around 36 stage credits,
including 14 Shakespeare productions (where he has been twice cast
as Prospero’s wicked brother Antonio). Other actor/voice credits
include Narration for Latin Music USA (BBC4), Summerton Mill
(CBeebies) and Bob the bong-smoking cyber-dog in manga animation
Rogue Farm, along with audiobooks including William Morrris’s
The Well of the World’s End. Silas is the son of Peter Hawkins
(of Dalek, Flowerpot Men and Captain Pugwash fame).
Writer and Director - Benjamin Francis
Ben’s Ben’s short plays include Snaresbrook (The Bread and Roses and Ophelia Dalston), Mog
Pritchard’s Ton-Up (Theatre 503), Belisarus 5 (Horse & Stables), Everything Happens at the Starlight
Lounge (The Vaults). He has written book and lyrics for a musical version of They Shoot Horses
Don’t They? (Goldsmiths University) and has written and directed several times for radio, including
Luggage, Anonymous, Flowering Cactus, Christmas With The Gentlemen In Grey, Fly Air Icarus and a
dramatisation of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde. For several years he wrote for BBC Radio 2’s comedy show
The News Huddlines.
His essay on Into The Woods appeared in the Handbook of Stephen Sondheim published by Oxford
University Press, and this year one will also appear in the Handbook of the English Musical.

the one festival team
Festival Director - Adam Hemming
Festival Producer - Isabel Dixon
Lighting/Stage Management - Andy Straw
Sound/Stage Management - Keri Danielle Chesser
Festival Box Office Staff & Operators
Nikkole Maresa Baker
Melody Chien
Colin Daly
Alice Di Mattia
Max Faye
Andy Gourlay
Lucy Harrigan
Steven Shawcroft
With special thanks to the Space Arts Committee, Sebastian Rex, the intern and volunteer
team and all of our 2017 artists.

FESTIVAL PROGRAMME
Programme A:
Tuesday 10th January (7:30pm), Saturday 14th January (7:30pm), Thursday 19th January (7:30pm), Sunday
22nd January (6pm), Saturday 28th January (12 noon).
Programme B:
Wednesday 11th January (7:30pm), Sunday 15th January (3pm), Friday 20th January (7:30pm), Tuesday
24th January (7:30pm), Sunday 29th January (6pm).
Programme C:
Thursday 12th January (7:30pm), Sunday 15th January (6pm), Saturday 21st January (3pm), Wednesday
25th January (7:30pm), Saturday 28th January (7:30pm).
Programme D:
Friday 13th January (7:30pm), Tuesday 17th January (7:30pm), Saturday 21st January (7:30pm), Thursday
26th January (7:30pm), Saturday 28th January (3pm).
Programme E:
Saturday 14th January (3pm), Wednesday 18th January (7:30pm), Sunday 22nd January (3pm), Friday 27th
January (7:30pm), Sunday 29th January (3pm).
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