Write Side Of The Brain 2008

Anastasia Revi has worked extensively in London and abroad. She is the Artistic Director of Theatre Lab Company. Most recent work as director includes: From The Pit Of My Stomach (Etcetera Theatre, London, 2007); Velvet Scratch(Edinburgh Festival & Prague Fringe Festival 2007); Guernica(National Theatre of Greece, Athens, 2006, Ovalhouse Theatre, London 2006); xxx anonymous (Edinburgh Festival 2007, Prague Fringe Festival, 2006, King’s Head Theatre, London, 2005; Dublin Fringe Festival, 2004; Pleasance Theatre London, 2003); Urban Stories (Riverside Studios, 2002, Pleasance Theatre, London and UK tour, 2003).

Brooke Hender recently appeared as Judge Brack in Hedda Gabler for Galleon Theatre Company. Other theatre includes Duncan in Macbeth for Dancing Shadows (Pleasance, Islington); Dom Miguel in Thankfully There Is Moonlight(Galleon); Antonio in The Duchess Of Malfi (Trocadero); Zabulon in Narcissus (Act Provocateur) and Stuart in Beyond Therapy (Raw EM). He has appeared in numerous short films and these include the lead roles of John in LMN Productions’ Forgive Me Father; Richard in First Class for UCCA and played the SS officer in Pegbet Production’s Footsteps. Brooke played Davey in the pilot for the TV series In The Morning for Bleached Blonde Productions.

Chryssanthi Kourie trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, graduating in 2005. Roles include, among others, Kattrin and Yvette in Mother Courage and Her Children, Pakeesa in Suburbia, Sally Stokes in The Passing-Out Parade, Queen Margaret in Henry VI and Kabi in the short film Hush. She is also a budding filmmaker, having produced and directed two short films and music videos.

Stamatina Papamichali Of Greek-Polish origin, Stamatina studied Acting and French language & literature in Athens before moving to Paris for two years. In Paris, she studied the work of Theatre du Soleil and completed a MA in Performance Studies at University Paris VIII. Since 2004, she has been living in London and has worked as an actress on shows and films in London, Paris, and Athens. Most of her work is in physical and devised theatre, often collaborating with dancers and visual artists. In theatre she has worked among others with: Quicksilver Theatre, Theatre Intent, Theatro Technis, missfit Productions, and regularly collaborates with Theatre Lab Company. In 2007, she co-founded WOLNA presenting Capek’s The Insect Play at the Shunt Vaults. Their next project, Thorns, will be presented at the Scene Pool festival. A Dog Has Died Inside Me is her directorial debut.

Aoife Mannix is an outstandingly lyrical poet, currently performing her one-woman show Growing Up An Alien across the country following the success of her debut collection The Elephant In The Corner. Intimate, enchanting and funny, Growing Up An Alien is the new show from captivating Irish writer and performer Aoife Mannix. In the company of mesmeric accordionist Janie Armour, Aoife revisits her nomadic childhood, exploring the relationships that bind all families together and the secrets that pull them apart. Born in a snowstorm in Stockholm on the stroke of midnight, Aoife reveals a wondrous coming of age tale about searching for a place to belong.

Conor Irwin is from Dublin, Ireland where he studied at The Gaiety School of Acting. He has just completed his training in physical theatre at the London International School of Performing Arts (LISPA) having previously performed and studied Commedia dell’Arte in Italy. He has appearances in the UK include The Dumb Waiter (Albany Theatre), Big Love (Gate Theatre). His theatre credits in Ireland includeCoriolanus, Can’t Pay Won’t Pay, Lysistrata, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me,Translations, Sharon’s Grave. Film & Television appearances include: The Clinic (RTE Productions),Goldfish Memory (Goldfish Productions).

Georgie Edwards This is Georgina’s first production since leaving The Actor’s Company in November 2008 where she starred in productions including, Our Country’s Good, Trelawney of the Wells, The Crucible and The Voysey Inheritance. She is also performing in a new writing festival in Nottingham in February playing Lady Foxley in TwinSS by Alistair Blackwell.

David Debreczeni started his experiment with sounds in 2000 as a part of his digital music composition learning process. Since then he designed the sound for many concerts and performances, includingFirebirds, which is Hungary’s most popular and much sought-after contemporary juggling, firedancing and acrobatic performance group. Currently David lives in London to expand his knowledge on Sonic Arts at Middlesex University.

Nikoletta Szedenics started her carrier as an artist at the International Festival of Visual Arts in Hungary. More recently, she contributed to the drapery design of The Masque of Red Death, the successful new production by the acclaimed Punchdrunk site specific theatre at BAC in London. Currently Nikoletta Szedenics is studying Theatre Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and assisting for Paul Burgess set designer.

Tanith Lindon trained in English with Writing and Performance (theatre/film/tv) at York Uni Director/ producer: The Monday Mouthful, new writing theatre/film showcase at Etcetera Theatre, Camden, with Full Moon Production; Electronica (written by Chris Guy), 80s Musical, Red Hedgehog, Highgate (also costume designer), Chris Guy Productions; Fewer Emergencies (Martin Crimp), Dixon Drama Studio, York University. Also played part of ‘two’ Dresser at the National Theatre. Shows include Warhorse, Emperor Jones, Saint Joan, Royal Hunt of the Sun Costume. Designer/supervisor : Far Away (Caryl Churchill) at York Theatre Royal, Out of the Blue Production Company. Actress: Mrs Voynitsky in Uncle Vanya(Chekov) at York Stagecoach Theatre, Amber Room Theatre Company; Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams) at Drama Barn, York University.

Heather Phillipson Filmmaker. Meditation (2005), Waltz (2004), Looking Glass Letter (2007)

Craig Griffin Filmmaker. ‘[P]‘

Fred Grace Filmmaker. The Parkeeper

Pipo Tafel Filmmaker. Les Souvenirs

David Hutchison Filmmaker. Carousel, Eyeloch and Kitschen

Alex Lopera Filmmaker. flimflam

Dockers MC Laura Dockrill is a spoken word artist and illustrator from south London. Raised by a family where eccentricity is the second thing checked by the nurse, on request, her moniker ‘Dockers MC’ is enthralling. Verbally drowning the audience with a treasury of words, she feeds the audience monologues of characters she had created with her ability to absorb traits of people by face, voice and observation alone. She manages to collect pockets of words together to create a type of ‘flo-etry’ that makes your brain tap its feet and smile at the same time. Its Dockers’ clarity and hilarity combined that makes her talent immensely entertaining. Delivered in a captivating way that literally has the audience indulging on her every word, and vying to be caught in her dottily dressed eye contact. As well as having an audience in the palm of her hand, her hands are also the second string to her bow. At her fingertips she is blessed with an illustrative talent that not only consumes the on looking eye, but it is a pictorial overview of the slideshow in her mind. Her drawings are enough to make you wish that ‘see’ had invited his other 6 sense friends to get involved when she was drawing it. Artwork for Kate Nash and Scroobius Pip have been the perfect expressive platform for her creativity. A treat for the eyes and ears is a rarity but she easily combines the two, usually wearing a colorful dress.

Ben Mellor was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire and I’ve been acting in plays, and writing poems, stories, scripts, and song and rap lyrics since about 14, or before if you want to count my pre-adolescent scribbling. After a year out in Tanzania with Neo-Colonialists Worldwide (I think that’s what they were called) I moved to Manchester in 2000 to do a degree in English & Drama and when I graduated in 2004 I couldn’t think of a good reason to leave. Since then I’ve cycled around the country to research a long term arts project on climate change and sustainability (see my ‘changing cycles’ blog) and am in the process of establishing a company to enable this, called Moksha. I’ve also performed at poetry gigs and in theatre productions all over the country at venues including Contact, The Royal Exchange, The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Latitude Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Poetry Cafe, and various others. Over the last year or so I’ve been developing my beatbox and freestyle hip hop skills with the Freestyle Mondays crew, and have recently started performing and recording with a new jazz project, called Current Affairs.

Write Side Of The Brain 2008 ran from January 21–February 6 at the Miller Theatre in London.