The Sluts of Sutton Drive. Joshua Conkel
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Horse, Holy Cannoli and Dirty Work. Awards include the Tyrone Guthrie Award (Stratford Festival) and the Christopher Plummer Award (Shakespeare’s Globe Centre, Canada).
Joshua Conkel | Playwright Joshua Conkel is a playwright and blogger from rural Washington State. He is the author of MilkMilkLemonade, The Chalk Boy, Lonesome Winter (co-written with Megan Hill), I Wanna Destroy You and Sprawl as well as numerous short plays. MilkMilkLemonade was named Best Off-Broadway Show of 2009 by NY Press, and is consistently one of Playscripts’ top three most-produced plays. It has become a cult hit in the USA, recently receiving its 25th production in only two years. In 2011, Joshua was nominated one of NEXT Magazine’s “Who’s Next”. His work has been developed by The Management, Soho Rep, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Old Vic New Voices, Dixon Place, The Flea and more. He is a member of The Management, where he served as Artistic Director for six years, and of Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Soho Rep Writers/Directors Lab, Sons of Tennessee, and The Dramatists Guild. He is currently finishing a graphic novel adaptation of The Chalk Boy for First Second Books, an imprint of Macmillan, and editing his first short film, Power Lunch. He is an alumnus of Youngblood and the TS Eliot Old Vic New Voices US/UK Exchange. He holds a BFA in Theater from Cornish College of the Arts and lives in Brooklyn, New York. The Sluts of Sutton Drive is his UK debut.
Rebecca Atkinson-Lord | Director Rebecca Atkinson-Lord is a hybrid theatre maker who directs, writes, devises and produces theatre and performance. Rebecca read Ancient History and Classics at Bristol University, specialising in ancient Greek drama. She trained as a Director at RADA and with Frantic Assembly, Complicite, Told by an Idiot and at The Young Vic. Her work has taken her from major international companies like Shakespeare’s Globe, Scottish Opera and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, to intimate found spaces in London and beyond. As a writer-director, her credits include Seeking Oblivion (BAC Scratch), Mrs Edna Way (Arch 468) and an original adaptation of Medea (Baron’s Court Theatre). Direction includes Mother Clap’s Molly House and The Flies (Crescent Theatre, Birmingham), Romeo and Juliet (Teatro Technis), Five Eleven (King’s Head Theatre and Tour) and numerous new plays by emerging writers including Janice Okoh, Chad Armistead and Louise Monaghan at venues including Arch 468 and Theatre503. She is Director of Theatre at Ovalhouse and Founding Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Arch 468.
James Turner | Designer At the Finborough Theatre, James designed All Good Men and Thermidor (2012). James is resident designer at The Last Refuge and trained on the Motley Theatre Design Course. Theatre includes Mercury Fur (Old Red Lion and Trafalgar Studios), Execution of Justice (Southwark Playhouse), Oh What a Lovely War and Much Ado About Nothing (British American Drama Academy), Thrill Me - The Leopold and Loeb Story (Tristan Bates and Charing Cross Theatre), Plain Jane (Royal Exchange Studio, Manchester) That Moment (Underbelly, Edinburgh), Some Stories (Templeworks, Leeds), Over the Moon (New Wimbledon Studio), No Wonder (Library Theatre, Manchester) and A Man of No Importance (Union Theatre and Arts Theatre, Leicester Square). www.jamesturnerdesign.com
Tom Cooper | Lighting Designer Tom Cooper is a London-based lighting designer working in theatre, opera and dance. He trained at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, graduating in 2010 with a first class degree in Theatre and Performance Technology. Designs include The Well And Badly Loved (Ovalhouse), Nevermore (Courtyard Theatre), Goose’s Dream (The Place), The Impresario and A Hand of Bridge (Redbridge Drama Centre), Instants (Royal Opera House, Linbury Studio), Arabian Nights (Chelsea Theatre), It’s Never Enough to Live in the Now (Hampstead Theatre) and Kindertransport (Unity Theatre, Liverpool). www.tomcooperlighting.com
Edward Lewis | Sound Designer At the Finborough Theatre, Edward was Sound Designer for Vibrant – An Anniversary Festival of Finborough Playwrights (2010), In The Blood (2010), The December Man/L’homme de Décembre (2011), Accolade (2011), Bed and Sofa (2011), Beating Heart Cadaver (2011), Vibrant – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights (2011), Mirror Teeth (2011), Blue Surge (2011), Portraits (2011), Perchance to Dream (2011), Drama at Inish (2011), Rigor Mortis (2011), Fog (2012), Autumn Fire (2012), Don Juan Comes Back From The War (2012), The American Clock (2012) and His Greatness (2012). Studied Music at Oxford University and subsequently trained as a composer and sound designer at the Bournemouth Media School. Theatre includes Gravity (Birmingham Rep), On The Rocks, Amongst Friends, Darker Shores (Hampstead Theatre), Slowly, Hurts Given and Received, Apple Pie (Riverside Studios), Measure for Measure (Sherman Cymru), Emo (Bristol Old Vic and Young Vic), The Beloved (Bush Theatre), I Am Falling (Sadler’s Wells and Gate Theatre), Once Upon A Time In Wigan and 65 Miles (Paines Plough/Hull Truck), Krapp’s Last Tape and Spoonface Steinberg (Hull Truck), The Stronger, The Pariah, Boy With A Suitcase, Le Mariage and Meetings (Arcola Theatre), Hedda, Breathing Irregular (Gate Theatre), Madness in Valencia (Trafalgar Studios), Orpheus and Eurydice and Quartet (Old Vic Tunnels), The Madness of George III (National Tour), Love, Question Mark (New Diorama Theatre Club and US Tour), Kalagora (National and International Tour), Mad, Funny, Just and Mimi And The Stalker (Theatre 503), The London Plays (Old Red Lion Theatre), Cyrano De Bergerac, Bloody Poetry, Madman’s Confession (White Bear Theatre), No Way Out (Hen and Chickens Theatre), Striking 12 (Waterloo East Theatre).
Lucy Casson | Casting Director | Choreographer At the Finborough Theatre, Lucy is Resident Casting Director where she has worked on casting for Through the Night (2011), Rigor Mortis (2011), Crush (2011), Autumn Fire (2012), Merrie England (2012) and the forthcoming production of The Fear of Breathing (2012). Other theatre casting includes The Art of Concealment (Riverside Studios). Film includes Tested (currently in post-production) and Casting Assistant to Sam Claypole on The Dark Road starring Con O’Neil. Lucy was a professional dancer for many years working with companies and choreographers including English National Ballet, Wayne McGregor, Peter Darling, Susan Stroman, Rob Ashford, Arlene Phillips and Will Tuckett.
Ian Wooldridge | Production Manager | Stage Manager Trained at Rose Bruford College. Stage Management includes Icicle Bicycle (Half Moon Theatre and National Tour), The Way Of The World (Ovalhouse), Finger Print (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden), Cabaret (Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park, Studio Theatre) and Blue (Oily Cart Theatre National Tour). As Assistant Stage Manager, 42nd Street (National Tour) and Happy’s Circus (National Circus Tour). West End theatre includes Ghost (Piccadilly Theatre) and Crazy For You (Novello Theatre) as Follow Spot Operator, The Lion King (Lyceum Theatre) as Follow Spot/Stage Electrician and Blood Brothers (Phoenix Theatre) as Follow Spot/Board Operator. Television includes Footballers’ Wives.
Helen Richardson | Design Assistant Trained in Design for Performance at Wimbledon College of Art. Theatre includes Gulch, Dash Dash Dash (BAC), Azincourt (WCA Theatre) and Exits are here, here and down (The Place). She has recently been working as a runner for the Globe to Globe Olympics team.
Stephanie Psarros | Costume Assistant Trained at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Designs include 10-33 Project (The Last Refuge). As Design Assistant, theatre includes Emoticon (Brockley Jack Theatre), Mercury Fur (Old Red Lion and Trafalgar Studios), Concrete Jungle (Riverside Studios), Execution of Justice (Southwark Playhouse) and The Water Engine (Old Vic Tunnels). Events include POP Bakery, Topshop and the Forever 21 Launch.
Celeste Dring | Assistant Director Read English at Cambridge University. Direction includes Swingtime Sweethearts and Everybody Dance Now (Central Youth Theatre). Assistant Direction includes Britain’s Got Bhangra (Watford Palace Theatre). Celeste also writes and performs her own work, most recently for scratch nights at BAC and The Brockley Jack.
Vicky Graham | Producer Vicky Graham is an independent producer and founder