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Charles Balfour Lighting Designer Since 1987 Charles has lit over 100 theatre, dance and opera productions. Recent theatre includes: Country Music (Royal Court), Ghost City (Sgript Cymru), Cake (BAC), Through the Leaves (Duchess, West End and Southwark Playhouse); Bash (Citizens, Glasgow); Silent Engine for Pentabus; Witness (The Gate, Notting Hill); Victory Over the Sun (The Pit); TakeAway (Lyric); and Grace (Jade Theatre). He has been resident lighting designer for the Richard Alston Dance Company since 1996 producing 16 ballets: other work in dance include numerous collaborations with Matthew Hawkins, Aletta Collins, Rosemary Butcher and Rambert. Music includes: Writing to Vermeer (London Sinfonietta/QEH); Thimble Rigging (Scott Walker/QEH) and The Rakes Progress (Aldeburgh).

Jaimi Barbakoff Prue Jaimi graduated from LAMDA in 2003, having previously studied Psychology at Birmingham University. Parts played at LAMDA include Shen Te/Shui Ta in The Good Woman of Setzuan and Irina in Three Sisters. Since leaving she won the BBC Radio Carlton Hobbs Award and spent 6 months with the Radio Drama Company, during which roles included Lady Violet Effingham in The Pallisers, Joanna in From A to B and Marian in Auroura Leigh. She has also performed at the Gate Theatre as Marie in Pains of Youth.

Kate Bunce Designer Graduated from Birmingham UCE with a BA (Hons) in Theatre Design and an MA in Scenography. Kate also designed Smashed Eggs and Silent Engine for Pentabus. Other productions include Where’s The Bear? for Northampton Theatres (in collaboration with Pentabus);Transmissions and Caribbean Kitchen (Birmingham Rep); Four Seasons (mac) and The Score (BAC). Kate’s other work includes prop-making and assistant design for the National Theatre, Birmingham Rep, RSC, Young Vic, Oily Cart, the Almeida and the BBC.

Alison Carney Tivvy Theatre credits include The Absence of War, Murmuring Judges, The Ugly Eagle and The Gingerbread Pig, all for Birmingham Rep; Death of a Salesman (Leicester Haymarket); Macbeth (Salisbury Playhouse); The Gingerbread Pig (Lyric Hammersmith); Thicker Than Water and The Kitchen Floor (Southampton Nuffield); End Of Season (Red Ladder/Theatre Direct Canada); The Bad One and Touch Wood (Women and Theatre). On TV, she has appeared in Dalziel and Pascoe, Dangerfield, Out of Hours, and Crimewatch Solved, all for BBC1; Think About It (BBC2) and Noah’s Ark (Carlton). Alison has worked extensively in radio including BBC Radio 4 plays Beneath Dry Land, Live Alone and Like It, Angel of New Street, Skeggy and As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning. She also makes regular appearances on the Asian Network’s new radio soap Silver Street.

Jo Cattell Assistant Director Trained at Birmingham University. Wrote, directed and produced Dingo Queen (Camden People’s Theatre). Directed the first digital art installation for Canterbury Cathedral, 18: 1- 7, produced by C2atelyst Productions. Assistant directed a staged reading of Calculus (Royal Institute, London) and An Immaculate Misconception (Bridewell Theatre, London) for Andy Jordan Productions. Assistant Director for the BBC Talent Sketch Show initiative, developing a new sketch show at the Tabernacle Theatre, and directed and co-wrote a new show with the Sketch team for Radio l’s On the Road. Directed Skyscraping (Soho Theatre studio), which transferred to Southwark Playhouse.

Gwilym Havard-Davis Gideon Trained at Durham University and the Oxford School of Drama, where productions included After the Dance (Cockpit) and Pillars of the Community (Pegasus Theatre). He has since appeared in The Boy Who Fell Into A Book (English Touring Theatre) and the original production of Precious Bane for Pentabus. Television includes Life Begins (Granada), and he has just returned from filming an as yet untitled short film in Mexico.

Theresa Heskins Director Trained at Oxford University and Birmingham Rep. As a freelance director, as joint artistic director of Jade Theatre and as artistic director of Pentabus Theatre since 2000, she has directed over forty new productions including Sarah Woods’ Grace, Bryony Lavery’s Shot Through the Heart and Julian Garner’s Silent Engine (Fringe First winner 2002).

Alex Jones Beguildy Theatre work includes: Peter Pan, The Tempest, Swamp City and The Ash Girl (Birmingham Rep); Secret, Black and Midnight (Pentabus) and Dennis Potter’s Blue Remembered Hills (New Vic, Stoke). A regular actor for BBC radio drama, Alex plays Clive Horrobin in The Archers. He is also a playwright – productions include Noise (Soho Theatre), Phil and Jill and Jill and Phil (Coventry Belgrade), Heart of the Wood and The Bridge (Pentabus); Mr and Mrs Schultz and Deadwood (The Watermill, Newbury).

Mary Keith Composer and Musical Director Musical magpie has worked extensively as a multi-instrumentalist, singer, performer, MD and facilitator for companies such as Foursight Theatre, Horse and Bamboo, Opera North and the Halle. She composed music for Dancing with the Devil, The Byker King, The Bewdley Pirate, Possession and The Wright Stuff for Pentabus. She was artistic director of the Raising the Spirits International Festival of Women’s Voices. She runs a community based singing group – Loud Mouth Women – who enjoy a wide range of vocal styles, from Bulgaria to Blur! She now lives in Shropshire’s Lakeland, where Precious Bane is set.

Bryony Lavery Playwright Bryony Lavery’s most recent plays include a new version of A Dolls House (Birmingham Rep); Thyestes (RSC); and Frozen, which was has just transferred from off-Broadway to the Circle in the Square Theatre on Broadway, where it was the most nominated new play for the TONY Awards in New York this year. Frozen, which originally played at Birmingham Rep and the National Theatre, also won the TMA Best Play Award and the Eileen Anderson Central Television Award for Best Play in 1998. Other plays include Bag, Origin of the Species, Witchcraze, Wicked, Kitchen Matters, Nothings Compares to You, Ophelia, A Wedding Story and the award-winning Her Aching Heart. Work for young people include More Light and lllyria. Her extensive work for BBC Radio includes No Joan of Arc, Velma and Theresa, The Smell of Him, Requiem and adaptations of Wuthering Heights, High Wind in Jamaica and Lady Audley’s Secret for the Classic Serial. She has adapted Behind the Scenes at the Museum for York Theatre Royal and Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop for Shared Experience. She is an honorary Doctor of Arts at De Montfort University

Charlie McCarthy Kester Trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, graduating last July. Charlie has just completed his first tour with NTC playing Clamp in Bedazzled. On leaving Drama School he understudied the role of Jake in Stones in His Pockets (national tour), appeared in a new version of Jekyll & Hyde with Babayaga Theatre Company, and been a ‘Vicious Attacker’ on Crimewatch! During his training he appeared as Maurice in Dance Hall Days by Ros Scanlon at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith. Plays at Central include: Dancing to Lunghnasa, The Glory of Living, The Cosmonaut’s Last Message, Summerfolk and Macbeth.

Julia Munrow Mother Trained at RADA. Theatre includes Much Ado About Nothing for Mark Rylance’s LTI; Trojan Women (Drill Hall); Judgement (Artaud Theatre); Have The Men Had Enough? (King’s Head); Deathtrap (Eye Theatre); Romeo & Juliet (Open-Air Barnwell); Table Manners (Yeovil Octagon); Breathing Space (Toronto Festival). Film /TV: Great Balls of Fire, Emmerdale, Love Again. Radio: Letters From Chechnya (BBC). Formerly Director of MOMI Actors, her stage adaptations include Woe From Wit, Lickers and Kickers, Eisenstein in Action, The Needle’s Eye and currently her comedy MUTTON, which she is performing at The Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh this year.

Kirsty Wood Jancis Beguildy Trained at Dartington College of Arts and Arts Ed, London where she graduated with an MA in Acting in 2003. Roles at drama school include Catherine in Memory of Water, Beatrice in The Changeling; and Juliet in Eclipsed. Television roles include Mary in Only Girls (Channel 4) and Siobhan in The Bill. This is Kirsty’s first professional theatre role.

Karren Winchester Mrs Beguildy Trained at Guildford School of Acting, leaving in 1995. Theatre credits include Year 10 for the Royal Court Theatre’s Young Writers Programme; Sons and Lovers (Snap Theatre Company); The Browning Version and The Twelve Pound Look (Bath Theatre Royal), A Doll’s House and Electra (Compass Theatre Company); Oliver! (Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury); Beating Time (Lewisham Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing and Easy Virtue (Lilian BayIis Theatre); Love From Shakespeare to Coward (Covent Garden); A Clockwork Orange and Crystal Clear (national tours). Television and film includes The Ruth Rendell Mysteries; the BBC’s A Fight To the Death; After Now (Channel 4) and To Kill Again (Newlyn Productions).