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The Script Readers in association with Park Theatre presents
The Old Room - Rehearsed Reading
William Stanton – Writer
As a playwright and dramaturg William is interested in what connects our culture’s past with the contemporary public, political and private.
For BBC Radio 4 he has written plays about colonialism and espionage, education and the environment, the legend of Orpheus and an Azorean story he was told while working in Brazil.
For stage William has written about the destruction of a Devon village by the sea (an award winner at King’s Cross New Writing Awards), satires about the privatisation of the Post Office, the Department of Work and Pensions, universities and the NHS.
Before The Old Room he wrote Exposure, a play about a war photographer suffering from PTSD and his current play is about a family corroded by a secret from its past.
William’s work has been performed at Theatre 503, The Courtyard Theatre Hoxton, the Canal Café Theatre, The Bike Shed Theatre Exeter.
Anna Mors – Director
Recipient of The Sir John Gielgud Charitable Trust Bursary in 2008, The Rose Bruford Directing Bursary in 2011 and 2012, and The Kevin Spacey Foundation grant in 2013.
Her debut play, Hannah, was awarded a joined runner-up place for the New Writing South New Play Award at the Brighton Fringe Festival in 2010.
Occupied by Carla Grauls, staged in April 2014 received very positive reviews and was nominated to two Off West End Theatre Awards.
Anna first trained acting in Poland and after that theatre directing at Rose Bruford College, where she gained First Class BA Directing degree in 2009.
Other directing credits include: Lest We Forget by Marcia Zanelatto (Theatre503), The Frame by Michael Bhimm (Soho Theatre Upstairs) Showmance by Anna Jordan (Theatre503), A Night Out by Harold Pinter (Rose Bruford College), Someone Like You by Anna Jordan (Theatre503, PLAYlist) Sid by Matt Cunningham, Coming Home by Anna Jordan, (Theatre503: Rapid Write Response), Friends and Family and Other People by Sean Buckley and David Watson (BAC), Holloway Road by Darren Murphy (Theatre503, Urban Scrawl), Dead Dog at Dry Cleaners by Angelica Liddell (Pleasance Theatre).
Shenagh Govan - Producer & Founder of Script Readers/Actor
As Founder of The Script Readers, Shenagh is thrilled to be supporting this rehearsed reading in the next stage of development of The Old Room from its original workshop in 2015
Shenagh trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School & has worked extensively in theatre, TV, film & radio. Recent work includes Madame Rastoil in The Musketeers for BBC, feature film The Man Who Knew Infinity with Dev Patel & War Crimes for the Home currently in production. Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee & also Frozen by Bryony Lavery at The National Theatre Studio for Fingersmiths Theatre Company.
TV film credits include Aunt Gritty in The Mill on the Floss with Emily Watson & Bernard Hughes, Sally Masey in Peter Kosminsky’s Innocents with Tim Pigott Smith, Bookish Woman in Stuart A Life Backwards with Benedict Cumberbatch & Tom Hardy and Summer in The Suburbs & The Vascillations of Poppy Carew.
Shenagh’s TV extensive credits include 8 years as Joy, S.O.C.O in The Bill, & episodes of Murder in Mind, Sea of Souls, Holby City, Doctors, Casualty, Midsomer Murders, Without Motive, Eastenders, Taking Liberties, Dear Dilemma & Inside Victor Lewis Smith.
View Shenagh’s Spotlight CV here: www.spotlight.com/5313-5643-7279