The Creative Team
Christina Barrett-Jones | Writer
Christina Barrett-Jones is an emerging writer with a passion for writing pieces for performance and is interested in exploring relationships and the fragility and the enduring spirit of the human condition: that which is visible and that which goes unseen.
To date her work has been shown at the Stratford Circus (Without Breathe), Tristan Bates Theatre (Silk), The Cockpit Theatre (The Minotaur’s Cave) and has had two of her plays workshopped by The Chalk Circle, part of Norwich Writer’s Centre (The Good Daughter) and at the Arcola Theatre (The Minotaur’s Cave). Christina was also chosen to take part in the American Diasporic Literary Magazine Callaloo when they held their first UK writer’s workshop here in London in November 2013.
Gus Gowland | Writer
Gus Gowland originally trained as an actor at the RSAMD in Glasgow but has spent the last decade writing and creating his own work. He co-wrote and directed ‘Barren’, a one-woman show based on Lorca’s Yerma (special prize for merit at the LOST One Act Theatre Festival), ‘Love Love Love’ (Canadian Fringe Tour) & wrote & performed in ‘Tell Me On A Thursday’, a one-man musical, at the Camden Fringe. In 2011 Gus wrote two songs for ‘Copyright Christmas’, a festive show at the Barbican, produced by the Olivier award-winning company, Duckie. He completed his Masters in Musical Theatre at Goldsmiths in 2011, graduating with Distinction. Gus was shortlisted for the inaugural Perfect Pitch award in 2013.
Current projects include: book & lyrics for a new musical based on Euripedes' 'Medea' with Matthew Floyd Jones (for Johanson Productions & Cartwright Productions) & a new song cycle with Craig Adams.
His musical ‘Pieces of String’ (for which he wrote book, music and lyrics) is being developed with Perfect Pitch & is currently under option with The Booking Office. It is due to be produced in Spring 2015, directed by Craig Revel Horwood.
Sue Knox | Producer
Sue Knox is the Managing Director of this Stage Limited. With This Stage Limited, Sue has produced the London premiere of Paul Scott Goodman's Bright Lights, Big City and the Kerrigan and Lowdermilk project The Freshman Experiment. Sue also produces Show Off!, a musical theatre piano bar night that has been running since March 2010.
Before forming This Stage Limited, Sue was an Associate Producer of Fiddler on the Roof at the Savoy Theatre.
Sue started her professional life as a lawyer in New York City. She holds a B.A. (Hons) from the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Katherine Manners | Writer
Katherine has been an actress for twelve years and has worked regularly at the National Theatre, the west end and in regional theatre, for BBC radio and TV as well as touring internationally with Sam Mendes' Bridge Project production of Richard 3rd.
She is currently developing a script at the National Theatre with director Melly Still, and is also working on a sitcom with What Larks! Productions and Boxfly Media.
Asia Osborne | Director
Asia’s directing credits include Emma (Drink, Shop & Do, Leicester Square Theatre & Tristan Bates), Find Me (Colston Hall, Bristol), Woyzeck (St Andrew’s Crypt), Romeo and Juliet (Broadway Theatre), and Spring Awakening (Camden People’s Theatre). She trained on the Young Vic Springboard Course, and won an Emerging Directors bursary from JW3 in 2013, and a Young Company Directors' bursary from Company of Angels in 2010.
Asia is the Artistic Director of ONEOHONE, an award winning interactive and immersive theatre company. Its work has toured from the UK to Croatia, California, and Chicago, where in 2011, Asia was a Visiting Artist at Northwestern University. From 2012 to 2013, Asia was Director in Residence at Eton College.
Robert Shearman | Writer
Robert Shearman has written four short story collections (Tiny Deaths, Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical, Everyone's Just So So Special, Remember Why You Fear Me), and between them they have won the World Fantasy Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Edge Hill Readers Prize and three British Fantasy Awards.His background is in the theatre, resident dramatist at the Northcott Theatre in Exeter, and regular writer for Alan Ayckbourn at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough; his plays have won the Sunday Times Playwriting Award, the Sophie Winter Memorial Trust Award, the World Drama Trust Award, and the Guinness Award in association with the Royal National Theatre. He regularly writes plays and short stories for BBC Radio, and he has won two Sony Awards for his interactive radio series, ‘The Chain Gang’. But he's probably best known for reintroducing the Daleks to the BAFTA winning first season of the revived Doctor Who, in an episode that was a finalist for the Hugo Award. His forthcoming collection of stories, They Do The Same Things Different There, is to released this summer.
Jeremy Lloyd Thomas | Director
Jeremy trained at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, graduating with distinction in 1984.
He now divides his time between acting and directing.
He is currently involved in a weekly rep season at The Theatre Royal Nottingham both as actor and director, following on from a season at The Theatre Royal Windsor.
He is a regular director/tutor at The Mountview Academy where recent productions have included ' The Wedding Singer', ' My Fair Lady', ' Me And My Girl', 'Fiddler On The Roof', 'Nicholas Nickleby', 'David Copperfield' & 'The Gut Girls'.
He directed 'Carousel' at The Landor Theatre for Almost Normal Productions, one of his all time favourites.