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Artistic Associates

At bagg theatre we collaborate with a huge range of talented theatre practitioners
and artists. These are some of the brilliant collaborators we’ve been lucky enough to
work with.

To get in touch with any of these artists, email associates@baggtheatre.co.uk with the individual’s name in the subject box.

If you would be interested in working with bagg theatre, please contact us by email:
collaborations@baggtheatre.co.uk

Associates

Rebecca Applin – Composer

Rebecca Applin www.rebeccaapplin.co.uk

Rebecca studied Music as an undergraduate at Cambridge University and as a postgraduate at the Royal College of Music, where she completed the Master's course in Composition for Screen in 2003. She has been much in demand since then as a composer for theatre and as a practitioner and resident composer working with young people and adults alike. She composes for film and classical commissions for choirs and orchestras.

Rebecca is an eclectic and flexible composer who writes in a variety of styles to suit the dramatic need of the piece. Her natural style is rooted in a classical foundation and she is equally happy writing for live instrumentalists or creating recorded technological soundtracks in her studio. Using a wide bank of samples she can create recorded scores simulating orchestral or contemporary soundworlds. Rebecca has studied composition with Tarik O'Regan, Dario Marianelli and Joseph Horowitz.

As an instrumentalist Rebecca is a harpist (see www.thecambridgeharpist.co.uk) and plays the cello. She has also coached singing with theatre casts, groups of young people and adult classes. Rebecca is a founder member of bespoke songwriting company Songs for Occasions (see www.songsforoccasions.co.uk).

Michael Caines – Writer & Composer

Michael Caines Michael works for the Times Literary Supplement. He is currently working on a play for bagg theatre called Unclay, adapted from a book by T. F. Powys (see Productions). Michael’s other plays include adaptations of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey and Arthur Schnitzler’s Cassanova’s Return To Venice. He has also edited Major Voices, a collection of plays by eighteenth-century women playwrights, published by Toby Press and a volume on the actor David Garrick, published by Pickering & Chatto as part of their Lives of Shakespearian Actors series.

Michael is also a musician and composer, and collaborated with Jon Trenchard in writing and performing original music for bagg theatre’s rehearsed reading of Melancholy Play by Sarah Ruhl. He is a member of the band, Spirit of Play – to hear their music and for news of upcoming gigs, follow this link.

Phil Conrad – Photographer

www.amberroom.net

Amy Dunning – Producer

Amy Dunning A trained dancer with acting credits in theatre and television, Amy graduated from Reading University in 2002 with a First Class degree in English, Film and Theatre. Having worked as both ASM and DSM on a number of productions at the Questors theatre in Ealing, in 2005 Amy staged-managed Jade Theatre Company’s production of Cake on its second national tour. Experience in theatre management includes work for several off-West End venues including the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith. Amy joined the Dark Edge Theatre Company in 2006 as an Associate Producer. Productions for Dark Edge include Shelagh Stephenson’s Five Kinds Of Silence (Assistant Producer/Stage Manager) at Theatro Technis, and Neil Labute’s The Shape of Things (Producer) at The Space. Amy is the General Manager of Love&Madness, one of the UK's leading repertory touring companies, producing both new and classical work for the stage (www.loveandmadness.org). Amy met Laura in 2007 at the Young Vic Theatre, where they both attended a series of producing workshops led by Tim Hughes, Artistic Director of the Weaver Hughes Ensemble.

Peter Harrison – Lighting Designer

www.peterharrisonlighting.co.uk

Peter Trained at RADA. Recent lighting designs have included ‘The Doubtful Guest’ for Hoipolloi at the Watford Palace, ‘Orestes’ for Shared Experience, ‘The Viewing Room’ at the Arts Theatre, London, ‘Fingerprint’ for The Shout at the Linbury Studio, and ‘Up from the Waste’ at the Soho Theatre. Other designs have included ‘Romeo and Juliet’ at The New Wolsey, Ipswich, ‘Once We Were Mothers’ for the Orange Tree in Richmond, ‘The Comedy of Errors’ at the Cambridge Arts Theatre, ‘Chicago’ and ‘Les Miserables’ for Pimlico Opera, ‘The Biggleswades’ for Southwark Playhouse, ‘The Kindness of Strangers’, ‘Young Dick Barton’, The Mystery of Edwin Drood’ and ‘Being Olivia’ at the Warehouse Theatre, Croydon, and ‘Claw’ for Greenwich Playhouse. His dance lighting has included ‘Ballet Moves’ for the Orchard Theatre in Dartford, and work with Michael Popper, Ballet Central, LINK Dance and Intoto Dance companies.

Matt Hawksworth – Choreographer

www.spotlight.com/interactive/cv/0537-8942-2428

Training: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts (Sir John Mills Scholarship) and National Youth Music Theatre

Credits include: Oklahoma! (Kilworth House Theatre), Macbeth (Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Royal Albert Hall, National Tour & Sadler’s Wells), Alice in Wonderland (Birmingham Rep), Honda Civic Choir (Commercial - UK & International), Passion (Edinburgh Fringe), Songs For A New World (Mountview), Creation (NYMT), Into the Woods (NYMT) and Oklahoma! (NYMT – Peacock Theatre & UK Tour).

Choreography and teaching credits include: The Walpole Orange (Robert Atkins Studio, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), The Studio (YMT:UK), Cabaret (Bloomsbury Theatre), West Side Story (Radley College), Sgt. Pepper’s Children (Abingdon), Petersfield Youth Theatre & Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

Mamoru Iriguchi – Designer

www.iriguchi.co.uk

Edmund Jolliffe – Composer

Ed Jolliffe www.edmundjolliffe.com

Edmund's music embraces a huge range of styles from contemporary classical to songs for shows. He is at home in the concert hall but he also writes music for television, theatre, as well as music for children and musicals. His music is vibrant, colourful and above all enjoyable to listen to.

Simon Kenny – Designer

Simon Kenny www.simonkenny.co.uk

Simon trained in set and costume design at the Central School of Speech and Drama. His work in theatre, opera and installation has been seen across the UK, with productions in traditional theatre spaces and site-specific locations, and internationally, with shows touring across Europe and the USA. Productions include MACHINAL (Central), MERI CHRISTMAS (West Yorkshire Playhouse, and national tour for Rifco Arts), WATERSHIP DOWN (Oxford Botanic Garden), YOUNG WOODLEY (Finborough Theatre), THE MADRAS HOUSE (RADA) and THE COMEDY OF ERRORS (Cambridge Arts Theatre). His designs for THE VEILED SCREEN and TRUE OR FALSETTO? (Drill Hall, and international tour), were recently exhibited as part of COLLABORATORS: UK DESIGN FOR PERFORMANCE 2003-07. As associate designer, he has worked with the National Theatre, Headlong, Frantic Assembly, and Northern Stage.

Tim Klotz – Fight Director

www.timklotz.co.uk

James Woolf – Writer

James Woolfe www.jameswoolf.com

James read English at Nottingham University. Theatre work includes: House on the Promontory, Arcola Theatre; Single Fare to Zurich; Chicken and Mushroom Pie and Chips, King’s Head Theatre; “Bitter-Sweet and VERY Sexy…”, shortlisted in the International Playwriting Festival (Croydon Warehouse), By the Balls, Etcetera Theatre; Isle of the Departed (written with Christina Katic), Man in the Moon Theatre and Questors Theatre; and Hitting Home, Man in the Moon Theatre. His play After Amber was workshopped by Widsith and then given a reharsed reading at the King's Head Theatre in October 2007. James also co-wrote the musical City Lights with composer Edmund Jolliffe, which was showcased at the Old Vic Theatre.

James has also written for radio: Kerton's Story, (Radio 4 & shortlisted for the Richard Imison Memorial Award); Speak Out, (LBC). James worked for 2 years as Writer in Residence at Onley Young Offenders Institution with Philippa-Michelle Carr. He was recently awarded his second grant by the Peggy Ramsay Foundation.