REVELATIONS
creative team
Liam Steel
Director/Choreographer/Performer Revelations
Director, Stan Won’t Dance
Liam has gained an international reputation as being one of Britain’s leading Physical Theatre practitioners, having directed, choreographed or performed with all of the foremost physical theatre companies in this country, including Complicité, Volcano Theatre Company, Nigel Charnock and Company, and David Glass Ensemble. He is probably most widely recognised for his work with Frantic Assembly (for whom he has directed and choreographed four productions), and DV8 Physical Theatre, where he was a core member for eight years, working as a performer, assistant director, and designer for the company. During his time with DV8 he worked on five international tours and the Emmy Award winning film version of Enter Achilles. He has extensive experience as a director and choreographer in the repertory sector including the Royal National Theatre, Nottingham Playhouse, Birmingham Rep, Northampton Theatre Royal, The Royal Court, Manchester Royal Exchange, The RSC, and five productions at the Library Theatre, Manchester. He was awarded a Herald Angel for outstanding achievement for his work on Strictly Dandia for Tamasha Theatre Company at the 2004 Edinburgh International festival, and his production of Knots for CoisCeim Dance Theatre was awarded Best Production at the Dublin International Theatre Fesival in 2005 and was a Fringe First winner at Edinburgh in 2006.
Rob Tannion
Co-choreographer/Performer Revelations
Director, Stan Won’t Dance
Rob is a London based director/performer/choreographer and he co-founded Stan Won’t Dance with Liam Steel and Ellie Beedham in 2004. He co-directed, choreographed and performed Sinner 2004/5 and is creative collaborator, co-choreographer and performer in Revelations. In 2005/06 he was Associate Choreographer on the original stage version of Lord of the Rings premiering in Toronto, Canada in March 2006. (Winning a Dora Maver Moore Award for Choreography 2006). He first collaborated with Peter Darling during the casting process for Billy Elliot The Musical during 2003/04.
His choreographic and directorial work includes Take Action: Stunt Dancing (combining dance and martial arts 2005 for the Royal Festival Hall, London. Apparition (dance and new media 2004) with Austrian cross-media artist Klaus Obermaier touring and performing internationally in 2004/05; Intent (2003 choreographer/performer) - Purcell Room, South Bank, London, UK; ‘Fetish: Stories’ (2003, director/choreographer) City Hall Theatre, Hong Kong; Dinner (2002) National Palace of Culture, Sofia.
As a performer he has also collaborated with DV8 Physical Theatre between 1995-2000 (Enter Achilles, Bound to Please, Happiest Day of My Life, Cost of Living) and Complicite 2002 & 2004 (Noise of Time, Strange Poetry), and Russell Maliphant Company (Critical Mass, 1998,2001). His screen credits include Stig of the Dump (BBC, 2001, International Emmy); Resident Evil (feature film, 2001); Function at the Junction (short film, 2001), Flex (Chris Cunningham short, 2000); ‘The Truth’ (dance film with Ricochet Dance Company, 2003); Enter Achilles (dance film 1996, International Emmy).
Ellie Beedham
Creative Research Revelations
Executive Director, Stan Won’t Dance
Ellie is Executive Director and a founder member of Stan Won’t Dance. In Jan 2006 she worked on Choreolab at DanceXchange and the Residency at The Lowry to develop Revelations. Ellie has produced projects including two UK and a US/Canadian tour of Sinner (which was nominated for a Tapa Dora award), Jerwood Stairworks 2001, Friday is Faraday (award winning Heritage Festival 2000) and worked with DV8 on the Sydney Olympic Arts Festival Commission The Cost of Living. She has also worked with Transitions Dance Company, Southwark Arts Forum (1994 – 2003), Islington International Festival (1994-5), Horniman Museum and Dulwich Picture Gallery (1991-3).
Most recently, Ellie was Head of Marketing and Sales at The Lyric Hammersmith and part of the team that revitalised the theatre. In 2003 she joined Laban as Head of Communications. Ellie is currently Advisor to the Bonnie Bird Choreography Fund, on the Board of Directors of Kaos Theatre Company and Deptford X Arts Festival.
Damian Llambias
Company Manager, Stan Won’t Dance
Having studied BSc. Honors Degree in Business and Psychology in Birmingham and BA Fine Art at Byam Shaw and MA Fine Art at Central Saint Martin’s, in London, has worked on arts based projects throughout the UK both creatively and administratively. His work has included Marketing and Press for both the Lyric Hammersmith Studio and Discover, in Stratford. He has also been involved with many contemporary art exhibitions including the Geneva’s Greene Gallery, with English Heritage at Marble Hill House, Twickenham, and a large scale public sound installation at Kibble Palace, Glasgow. Recently he designed The East London Design Show’s Children’s Space to create an interactive education and activity installation. He specialises in developing interdisciplinary and innovative arts projects and bringing them to new spaces and audiences. Damian has managed Stan Won’t Dance’s second and third UK tours of Sinner, a series of its education projects and a two month US tour of ‘Sinner’ in Spring 2006.
Nigel Charnock
Writer
Nigel Charnock was a founder member of DV8, founded his own company - Nigel Charnock + Company in 1995. Renowned as a maverick and totally captivating performer with a string of internationally renowned solo shows to his name, Nigel ruptures the boundaries of performance, continually exploring and developing dance as a genre through working across different disciplines and media.
He has made and performed a quartet of solos since 1990, Human Being, Hell Bent, Original Sin and Resurrection. He has choreographed dance works in the UK, Portugal, Finland, Germany and elsewhere and made dances especially for film, directed theatre pieces, created an installation performance piece, choreographed for The Pet Shop Boys UK television appearances and international tours, and wrote & directed Asylum. In 2002 Nigel was appointed Artistic Director of Helsinki Dance Company, returning to London in Winter 2005.
Production highlights include Fever, an improvisational performance inspired by Shakespeare’s sonnets for Nigel, jazz Saxophonist Michael Reissler and a string quartet and Frank, Nigel's current show, a funny, fierce, intelligent, cocktail of dance, words, song, music and jokes.
Michael Pavelka
Set and Costume Design
Michael trained at Wimbledon School of Art, where he has since returned to lead the Design for Performance (www.wimbledon.ac.uk) course. Michael has designed some 150 productions, most of which have been new plays or new musicals. His work includes two plays for the late Lindsey Anderson: The Fishing Trip and Holiday, Old Vic Theatre. His work with Edward Hall and the Propeller Company includes productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry V and The Winter’s Tale currently on tour in the USA, and the adaptation of Henry VI plays, Rose Rage, at the Watermill Theatre, at the Theatre Royal Haymarket and new production at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre which transferred to New York and earned him the Best Costume Design nomination at Chicago’s Jeff Awards. The Winter’s Tale has recently completed a world tour. The next Propeller production is The Taming of the Shrew which will be part of the RSC’s 2006 complete works of Shakespeare season which will also double bill with Twelfth Night for a season at the Old Vic before a world tour in 2007. At the Library Theatre Manchester designs include The Life of Galileo (Best Design Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (winner Best Production MEN Awards) also The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Angels in America and most recently with Liam Steel, Oliver Twist. Other productions in the West End include; The Constant Wife, How the Other Loves, Other People’s Money, Leonardo, Blues in the Night performed in Dublin, New York, Tokyo after two West End seasons, Macbeth starring Sean Bean and in 2005, A Few Good Men with Rob Lowe at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Designs for the Royal Shakespeare Company include, The Odyssey, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Henry V and Julius Caesar and for the National Theatre in the Olivier, Edmond starring Kenneth Branagh.
Jonathan Cooper
Original music and song arrangements
Jonathan Cooper studied music at St. Catherine's College, Oxford and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He composes music for theatre, film, dance, television and the concert hall and recent commissions include work for The National Theatre, theatre-rites, Belgrade Theatre, Thomas/Carter Projects, The Royal Ballet, West Yorkshire Playhouse, DV8, Battersea Arts Centre, BBC1 and Channel 4. Recent films include Melusine (Viper Productions) and Service (IWC Media). Jonathan has produced five CDs of his music which are regularly broadcast on BBC Radio 3. For more information see www.jonathancooper.com
Ian Scott
Lighting Design
Recent theatre credits: The 39 Steps (Criterion Theatre), Push! (Riverside Studios), Dysfunction (Soho Theatre), Thalidomide: The Musical (BAC), Child of the Divide (Tamasha/Polka Theatre), Knots (CoisCeim Dance Theatre), Blasted (Graeae) and The Escapologist (Suspect Culture).
Ian is an Associate Artist of Suspect Culture and a regular collaborator with the pioneering theatre company, Graeae. Outside of his work in theatre, Ian designed the lighting for the Unknown Amazon exhibition at the British Museum, the new installation at the London Planetarium, the ice-rink at Somerset House and the recently opened Madame Tussauds in Shanghai.
Andy Pink
Sound Design
Andy Pink specialises in sound and music composition for the arts.
He began work at London's Royal Court Theatre and progressed to freelance commissions from theatre groups including seminal companies such as Lumiere & Son and Station House Opera.
Andy has covered a broad range of assignments including work with English National Opera, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the first Native American Fashion Showcase at The Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 2003 Andy collaborated with Bollywood film composer Sandeep Chowta for Escapade, a Hindi style film extravaganza on the South Bank produced by South Asian Arts.
In 2004 Andy was commissioned by The Siobhan Davies Dance Company to compose the soundscore for Bird Song which toured nationally and internationally to critical acclaim. Bird Song was selected by Tate Modern for inclusion in the successful 2012 London Olympic bid and is to be included in the GCSE national curriculum for dance.
In 2005 Andy composed music for Imperial Borders, part of Mavin Khoo's Chandra Luna, designed the sound for Les Liaisons Dangereuse in Japan, wrote the music for a film by Native American director Gabriel Abeyta and worked on a new Royal Opera House commission with Mem Morrison that explored the world of the childhood bully. The end of the year brought a collaboration with Gerry Pilgrim's Corridor group, a site specific work in Soho's Marshall Street swimming baths.
Matt Spencer
Video Design
Matt Spencer produces video art and animation for performance and publicity. Recent work includes, Stan Won’t Dance (Sinner), Nitro (Slam Dunk, Mass Cari), Laban (Transitions Dance Company), Tamasha (A Fine Balance, Child of the Divide, The Trouble With Asian Men). Matt has been a member of the David Glass Ensemble for 4 years touring extensively, directing and editing documentary films and delivering participatory projects (The Lost Child) in South East Asia.
Nicky Fitchett
Costume Supervisor
Nicola trained as a theatre designer in Nottingham, but works mainly in costume design and supervision. Most recent projects include supervising Midnight Cowboy for the Edinburgh Festival,and L'enfant et les Sortileges at the Britten Theatre. Her television productions include Random Quest and Number Thirteen, both for BBC Drama, and Worth for Acceber Films, all due to be screened this Autumn. Nicola has worked with a supervisor for dance companies including Phoenix Dance, The London Children's Ballet and Mark Bruce company. This is her first production with Stan Won't Dance.
Fergus Mount
Sound Technician
Fergus graduated from Central School of Speech and Drama in 2005. Sound design credits include Stormforce (Mermaid Theatre London), and Fair (Trafalgar Studios London, and national tour). Sound operator credits include The Father (Chichester Festival Theatre), Dancing In the Streets (Aldwych Theatre London), I Am My Own Wife (Duke Of York's Theatre London), My Name Is Rachel Corrie ( Royal Court Theatre London), Harvest (Royal Court Theatre London). Fergus also works as a freelance sound production engineer on productions and events around London.
Tony White
Lighting Technician
Tony’s always had a passion for lighting, his first opportunity being the Embassy Centre in Skegness, learning all aspects of theatre and gaining qualifications in Electrical Installation.
After three years Tony moved south to the White Rock Theatre in Hastings as Assistant Stage Manager.
Ambition grew and in 1995 Tony was head hunted by Fountain TV. Building up a reputation as a competent and professional lighting technician he was soon promoted to senior electrician, working on a diverse range of light entertainment shows including, Talking Telephone Numbers, National Lottery, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, several of the “An Audience with…” shows featuring Julian Clary, Diana Ross, and many more. A particular highlight was working with Madonna. After five years at Fountain Tony went freelance successfully working in television, film, theatre and various corporate events.
Tony is delighted to be joining the Revelations Tour.
Andy Rushton
Stage Manager
Andy was born in Newcastle upon Tyne and trained at North Tyneside College for Performing Arts. After completing his training he designed for a variety of productions whilst continuing to work as an electrician.
In 1993 he moved to Opera North to re-light several of their operas including La Boheme & Orpheus in the Underworld. Following Opera North he moved to Leeds Grand Theatre where he was involved in a varied programme of ballet, opera, musicals, dance and drama. He then joined Northern Ballet Theatre in 1998 and was responsible for re-lighting the companies repertoire including, Dracula, A Christmas Carol, Madame Butterfly and Wuthering Heights. Andy also designed the lighting for I Got Rhythm, Requiem!!, Dangerous Liasons, Dividing Silence and A Midsummer Nights Dream for the company.
During 2006 he has worked on various large scale music gigs including Robbie Williams, Isle of White Festival, Take That Ultimate Tour, Simply Red, Pink Floyd and Van Morrison.
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