Who are we?
Nell Leyshon
Winner Evening Standard Award for most promising playwright
"No one else in British theatre today is writing like Nell Leyshon"
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Nell is an award winning playwright and novelist. Her play Comfort me with Apples won the Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright award, and her work has been produced by Hampstead Theatre, Sheffield Lyceum and Lyric Hammersmith. She won the Richard Imison award for radio, and writes regularly for Radio 3 and 4. Her prose is published by Picador and includes the novels Black Dirt and Devotion. She has been working with recovering addicts in Bournemouth for four years.
Lee Hart
Lee trained as an actor at Rose Bruford College. He’s worked with Company of Angels, Boilerhouse, Theatrum Botanicum, Footsbarn, Rotozaza, Polka, Theatre 77, Kiev Experimental Theatre, and National Dance Company Malawi. He has also worked as a Movement Director with Birds of Paradise, DatCo, WCT and Walk the Plank. For the last four years Lee has been working with members of the Bournemouth community recovering from drug and alcohol addiction, running theatre workshops and developing and directing performance.
Greta Hennessy and Will Plowman
Greta and Will have been collaborating since they met at Dartington College of Arts. Since then their music has been used by Adidas, The National Geographic Channel, and Big Up Productions, on the Emmy award winning film ‘King Lines’. Earlier this year they worked with Walk the Plank, composing the soundtrack to ‘Ghost Ship: A Pageant for Portsmouth’, a large outdoor theatre spectacular.