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Park Theatre presents the world premiere of
Stroke of Luck
Director | Kate Golledge
Designer | Bob Bailey
Production Manager | Adam Pritchard
Lighting Design | James Whiteside
Sound Design | Theo Holloway
Company Stage Manager | Rachel Reeve
Assistant Stage Mgr. | Dan Miller
Costume Supervisor | Daisy Woodroffe
Dialect Coach | Penny Dyer
Press and Publicity | Kate Morley PR
Larry Belling | Playwright
Larry worked in radio and theatre in the San Francisco Bay Area before starting his career in New York as a theatrical press agent for more than 60 Broadway and off-Broadway shows. In the ‘70s he publicised films shooting on location in England including Women in Love and The Battle of Britain and had a side career in the music business managing record producers for groups including the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd. In Los Angeles in the ‘80s he wrote and produced Clio-Award winning radio commercials for clients such as American Express, Molson Beers and Greenpeace as well as Hollywood film studios and television networks. He has also narrated documentaries for PBS, Discovery Channel and the BBC and voiced numerous commercials. Larry’s online tools for writers, including the web’s only slang thesaurus, can be found at www.writersdreamtools.com and he created a successful iPad/iPhone app called HistoryTools, a daily calendar of historical events going back 2,000 years. Stroke of Luck is Larry’s first play and is based on a true incident in his life. He lives in London and on a lake in the Catskills with his wife, the film and TV producer Davina Belling.
Kate Golledge | Director
Kate trained as a director at the Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts, and early in her career she was a finalist in the JMK Trust Award presented annually to a promising young director for her conceptual production of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Her recent directing credits include Red Riding Hood and Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox for the Singapore Repertory Theatre, for whom she will be directing The Emperor and the Nightingale later this year. Other credits include The Road to Qatar! at the Landor and Edinburgh Festivals, Parade and Spring Awakening at the Pleasance, London, and Men Are From Mars, Women are from Venus in Edinburgh and on tour in the UK. Kate has also directed a new musical adaptation of Passport to Pimlico performed on the streets of Pimlico as part of SouthWestFest, and a promenade production of Carmen for Opera La Goziniere. Kate was Resident/Associate Director at the London Palladium (The Wizard of Oz) and the Menier Chocolate Factory and West End productions of Sweet Charity, Shirley Valentine and Educating Rita, which starred Tim Pigott-Smith. Visit her website at www.kategolledge.co.uk
Bob Bailey | Designer
Bob Bailey has designed sets and costumes for theatres all over Europe and in England including the Royal Court, Liverpool Everyman, Hampstead Theatre, Crucible Sheffield, The Bush, and Theatre Royal Old Vic. He recently returned from Vienna where he designed The Woman in Black and from Copenhagen, Denmark where he did the sets for La Cage Aux Folles for the Aarhus Theatre. He has also designed All Nighter and Horseplay for the Royal Ballet and for many operas in Holland Park, London, Guildhall Opera, British Youth Opera and Nationale Reisopera in the Netherlands. His designs for Anything Goes, Lieutenant of Inishmore and Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing have been seen on national tours and he did the set for the Take That musical Never Forget at the Savoy Theatre in London and on two tours. Bob was awarded Time Out Designer of the Year in 1999 for his set design for the UK and European tours of DV8’s The Happiest Day of My Life.
James Whiteside | Lighting Designer
James has over ten years experience as a lighting designer. As well as work in the West End, he has lit productions for the Chichester Festival Theatre, Library Theatre in Manchester, Mercury Theatre in Colchester, Citizen’s Theatre, Glasgow, Perth Theatre, Lyric Theatre, Belfast, Salisbury Playhouse, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Rose Theatre, Kingston, Bush Theatre, St James Theatre and the Print Room. James has worked extensively on productions for a younger audience with the Tall Stories Theatre Company, Chichester Festival Youth Theatre, Chicken Shed, Birmingham Stage Company and Theatre Royal, Bath.
Adam Pritchard | Production Manager
Adam graduated Middlesex University with a BA (Hons) in Drama And Theatre Arts and the Central School Of Speech and Drama with an MA in Music Theatre. Adam is Technical Manager of Park Theatre where he has worked on These Shining Lives, Daytona, Adult Supervision and Sleeping Beauty. Previously he was Deputy Chief Electrician of the Dominion Theatre in London's West End, home to We Will Rock You. He has also worked at Trafalgar Studios, Aldwych Theatre, Lyceum Theatre, Royal Albert Hall and Lyric Hammersmith. Lighting design credits include Volpone (Upstairs/Gatehouse), Peter Pan (UK Tour), The Audition (Baron's Court), Punk Rock, Top Girls and Great Expectations (Tristan Bates), Deep Cut/Stories For Boys (Landor), Summit Conference (New Wimbledon Studio), My Best Friend (Courtyard), Vagina Monologues (Upstairs/Gatehouse). Adam is also Artistic Director of Hidden Talent Productions and co-wrote/produced Heaven Sent at the New Wimbledon Studio.
Theo Holloway | Sound Design
Theo has more than sixty professional credits as a sound designer and composer including many of the Park Theatre’s first season productions and four seasons at the Scoop at More London. Among his projects were Hedda Gabler, Spring Awakening, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth and Hamlet (UK Tour for Icarus Theatre), Charley Bear’s Christmas Adventure (The Ambassador’s Theatre), Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus (UK Tour, Edinburgh), Gutted, Shalom Baby, The Graft, Two Women, There's Something About Simmi (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Third Floor (Trafalgar Studios), The Moon is Halfway to Heaven (Jermyn Street Theatre), Parade (Southwark Playhouse), Sign of the Times (Duchess Theatre – Musical Arrangements), Corrie! (The Lowry), A Plague Over England (Duchess Theatre) and pantomimes for Qdos, First Family, Newbury Corn Exchange and Theatre Royal Stratford East. He also works as a technical consultant and developer for live sound, specialising in radio frequency engineering.