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Buckland Theatre Company in Association with Park Theatre present

Some Girl(s)

by Neil LaBute

AUTHOR | NEIL LABUTE
DIRECTOR | GARY CONDES
SET & COSTUME DESIGN | PJ MCEVOY
LIGHTING DESIGN | JOE PRICE
SOUND DESIGN | ANDY HINTON
CASTING DIRECTOR | ANNE VOSSER
PRODUCER/GENERAL MANAGER | TONY GREEN

Biographies

AUTHOR | NEIL LABUTE

Neil LaBute received his Master of Fine Arts degree in dramatic writing from New York University and was the recipient of a literary fellowship to study at the Royal Court Theatre. Films include In the Company of Men (New York Critics Circle Award for Best First Feature, Filmmakers’ Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival), Your Friends and Neighbors, Nurse Betty, Possession, The Shape of Things — a film adaptation of his play by the same title — The Wicker Man, Lakeview Terrace and Death at a Funeral. Plays include bash: reasons to be pretty, latter-day plays, The Shape of Things, The Distance From Here, The Mercy Seat, Autobahn, This Is How It Goes, Some Girl(s), Wrecks, In a Dark Dark House, Helter Skelter, The Furies and The War on Terror. LaBute is the author of several fictional pieces that have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar and Playboy, among others. A collection of his short stories was published by Grove/Atlantic.

DIRECTOR | GARY CONDES

Gary has spent over 20 years as a professional actor with an extensive career in Film, TV and Theatre. Career highlights include working alongside: Sam Rockwell (Moon), Helena Bonham Carter (Wings Of The Dove), Ray Winstone (Five Seconds To Spare) and Colin Firth (Fever Pitch).

For the last 10 years he has also become a renowned acting teacher and coach, running courses in London and all over Europe and privately coaching clients for roles on various high profile productions, including: Lars Von Triers ‘Nymphomaniac’, Paolo Sorrentino’s ‘Youth’, HBO’s ‘Game Of Thrones’, BBC1’s ‘The Three Musketeers’, Fox’s ‘The Bastard Executioner’,  Sky1‘s ‘24: Live Another Day’, The Young Vic’s ‘Hamlet’, Hampstead Theatre’s ‘The Arrest Of Ai Wei Wei’ and The Globe Theatre’s ‘Troilus & Cressida’.

After winning a number of short film awards at International film festivals for directing, writing and acting, Gary has now teamed up with Buckland Theatre Company to direct their 2016 season of play’s. The first being Miss Julie by August Strindberg, which ran in February and March to unanimous critical success: “This is as impressive an example of the masterpiece as any. You probably need a very good reason to miss it.” Broadway World.  Website:

SET & COSTUME DESIGN | PJ MCEVOY

PJ McEvoy designs Sets, Costumes & Projection Content having completed a degree in Professional Production skills at Guildford School of Acting. PJ has worked with Jack Galloway as Assistant Costume Designer and her credits include Punchdrunk Theatre: The Drowned Man (Temple Studios) and Batman Live (World Arena Tour) and has designed Paper Props & Graphics for Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal Drury Lane). In addition to this PJ’s other prop designs include The Girls (Grand Theatre Leeds), 2015 Rugby World Cup (Various), Young Chekhov (Chichester Festival Theatre), Hamlet (The Barbican), Bend It Like Beckham (Phoenix Theatre), American Buffalo (Wyndham’s Theatre), Memphis (Shaftesbury Theatre), The Nether (Royal Court Theatre), Clarence Darrow (Old Vic Theatre), The Commitments (Palace Theatre), Barnum (Chichester Festival Theatre), Richard III (Apollo Theatre London) and The Phantom of the Opera (UK Tour).

LIGHTING DESIGN | JOE PRICE

Joe Price trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and received the 2015 Francis Reid Award for Lighting Design. Joe’s Lighting Design credits include The Selfish Giant (Blue Apple Theatre Company, Tower Arts Centre), Some People Talk About Violence (Barrel Organ, Camden People's Theatre), Assistant Lighting Designer on Barbarians (JMK Award Winner 2015, Young Vic), Dry Land (Damsel Productions, Jermyn Street Theatre), Blue Moon (Fat Git Theatre Company, Courtyard Theatre), Hitchhiker's Guide to the Family (Ben Norris Presents, Edinburgh Fringe & UK Tour), Plastic (Poleroid Theatre, Latitude Festival), A Third (Fat Git Theatre Company, Finborough Theatre), Alternative Routes (National Dance Company Wales, Dance House WMC), The Duchess of Malfi (Richard Burton Theatre Company, Richard Burton Theatre RWCMD), Animal (Royal Court/Richard Burton Theatre Company, Gate Theatre), The Endless Ocean (National Theatre Wales/Richard Burton Theatre Company, Gate Theatre), Y Twr (Invertigo Theatre Company, UK Tour), Grimm Tales (Blue Apple Theatre, Tower Arts Centre), I Feel Fine (Fat Git Theatre Company, New Diorama Theatre), The Snowqueen (Blue Apple Theatre, Tower Arts Centre) and West Side Story (SJ Theatre Productions, Theatre Royal Winchester).

SOUND DESIGN | ANDY HINTON

Andy's sound design credits include: OFF THE KING'S ROAD (Jermyn Street Theatre); THE PILLOWMAN (ACT Aberdeen); CABARET (ACT Aberdeen); LOVEBIRDS (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Pleasance Courtyard); POSITIVE (Park Theatre); SWEENEY TODD (which won the Whatsonstage award for Best Off West End Production, Twickenham Theatre); ARMSTRONG'S WAR (Finborough Theatre); THE CAT'S MOTHER (Hoxton Courtyard); THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA, FIRE ISLAND, THE PRODUCERS, HELLO AGAIN, YERMA, TROJAN BARBIE (Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts); SPAMALOT, HAIRSPRAY, CRAZY FOR YOU, KISS ME KATE, THE DROWSY CHAPERONE (Theatre Severn).

Non-design credits include: FUTURE CONDITIONAL (Old Vic); THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS (Vaudeville Theatre); BUDDY – THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY (UK Tour); HANDS ON A HARDBODY, SNOOPY!!!, INTO THE WOODS, LEGALLY BLONDE, TWANG!! (Guildford School of Acting); A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (Stafford Castle); THE HIRED MAN, BESAME MUCHO (Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts).

Andy is also currently Associate Tutor for Sound at Guildford School of Acting.

CASTING DIRECTOR | ANNE VOSSER

Anne started casting in 1992 whilst at the Apollo Leisure Group.  She has cast numerous West End and touring productions. 

Recent musical credits include: Guys & Dolls (UK Tour); Eurobeat (Edinburgh Festival); The Sessions – The Beatles at Abbey Road (Royal Albert Hall); The Life (English Theatre of Frankfurt); concert versions of Follies at the Royal Albert Hall starring Christine Baranski and How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at the Royal Festival Hall starring Jonathan Groff; Olivier nominated Dance ‘Til Dawn (West End, Aldwych Theatre); What’s On Stage Award winner Sweeney Todd (Twickenham Theatre).

Recent play credits include: Stalking The Bogeyman (Southwark Playhouse); The Old Vic New Voices Festival (The Old Vic); The Mentalists by Richard Bean (West End, Wyndhams), Barking In Essex starring Lee Evans (West End, Wyndham’s Theatre); What The Butler Saw (West End, Vaudeville Theatre); Pygmalion starring Alistair McGowan (UK Tour); and Flare Path by Terence Rattigan (UK Tour).  www.vosser-casting.co.uk