Emily is co-founder and Artistic Director of MokitaGrit Productions.

She is passionate about producing new writing, working with new and emerging writers to develop emotionally and intellectually challenging drama. She loves working with new writers on dramaturgy, and with actors in workshops developing new writing. She would love to meet writers and other directors currently working on new writing.

www.mokitagrit.com
www.emilyagnew.com

Rikki Beadle-Blair

Director, actor, screenwriter, playwright, singer, aerobics teacher, designer, choreographer/dancer and songwriter and all round phenomenon.

He also founded and runs his own company, Team Angelica.

http://www.myspace.com/teamangelica

Russell Bolam

Harry Bradbeer

http://unitedagents.co.uk/film/harry-bradbeer/

Extensive credits as a director include: Change For The Angel by Bernard Kops at the Arts Theatre, and produced and directed a 50-minute film for Channel 4, There’s Something I Must Tell You.

As an actor theatre work has included: The Diary Of Anne Frank (National Tour and Birmingham Rep), The Designated Mourner (RNT), Hysteria (Royal Court), The Archbishop’s Ceiling (RSC), The Shawl (Royal Court), and earlier Duet For One (Duke Of York) –London Critics Award. Films have included: Sunshine, Simon Magus, Yentl, King David, The Designated Mourner, The Nine Lives Of Thomas Katz, A Touch Of Class… and the usual suspects on TV. Many radio performances have included The Attractive Young Rabbi.

Ariella has extensive experience as director and has worked at Lyric Hammersmith, Soho Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, King’s Head, and the Union Theatre, to name but a few. 

Ariella also teaches and directs in various acting school and run workshops at the Actors centre, The City Lit and for London Actors Company.

Joe’s directing career now spans nearly twenty years.  In that time he has forged close associations with some of  British theatre’s most significant voices including Harold Pinter, David Hare, Trevor Nunn, Peter Hall,  Ronald Harwood, Peter Ustinov and Bill Kenwright.  He is in constant demand not only as a director, but also as a consultant on new writing projects and has directed the world premieres of several plays and musicals.  His feel for period drama has led him to create the hugely commercially and critically successful Agatha Christie Theatre Company with Bill Kenwright while at the other end of the spectrum he continues to champion new writing projects on the fringe.

www.joeharmston.com

Jonny is the Artistic Director of European Arts Co, a touring theatre company producing classics both in this country and abroad.
Jonny’s teaching and workshop experience includes directing graduate students at Drama Studio London, devising and delivering the Shakespeare Workshops for Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre as well as writing and delivering numerous workshops and lectures on Aristophanes and Ancient Greek Comedy for the British Museum and universities across the USA.
Jonny also continues to have a long and successful acting career including major roles at The National, the West End and the BBC.

www.stevemarmion.com

David trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and made his professional debut as a child actor in Sir Laurence Olivier's production of Eden End for the National Theatre/Old Vic alongside Joan Plowright, Geoffrey Palmer and Michael Jayston. In recent years he has been a regular face on British TV.

David also works as an actor/facilitator specialising in improvisation as a training technique.

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Scott is a leading expert on the Meisner Technique, and teaches internationally.

www.impulsecompany.co.uk

Sarah Punshon is a freelance theatre and television director based in York.  She trained at RSAMD and the West Yorkshire Playhouse as a theatre director, and with the BBC as a television director.

Freelance theatre directing includes work for the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Theatre by the Lake, and Salisbury Playhouse, amongst others.

Freelance television directing includes multi-camera shows such as EastEnders and Emmerdale, and single-camera shows such as Doctors.

www.sarahpunshon.co.uk