Pip Utton - Collaborators
 Mae
Brogan – Mary – Son of the Father
Mae made
her Fringe debut as Mary in Son of the Father.
She is
equally at home with drama or comedy, having played roles as diverse as Joy
Gresham in Shadowlands to Michele in the stage version of Allo Allo.
She works with CragRats and Wigan Pier Theatre Company as well as performing in
murder mystery and themed events, playing a variety of comedy and straight
characters,
Recently
played Medic Sophie De Paul in Attack of the Killer Brain – a film spoof
of B horror movies, and ‘Mother’ in comedy sketch show The Fix.
Mae lives in Wigan and is
currently studying for her Degree in Modern Languages (French and English) with
the Open University.
 Guy
Masterson – director –
Adolf, Resolution
Educated
Christ's Hospital School and University of Wales, Cardiff. He emigrated to the
USA in 1982. In 1984 he received acting tuition at UCLA.
Between
1985-89 he performed in over twenty plays in Los Angeles including The
Caretaker (Mick), City Gents, The Elephant Man (Ross),
Othello (Iago), Hamlet (Hamlet), The Taming Of The Shrew (Petruchio),
Henry V (Henry), and Romeo And Juliet (Mercutio). In 1989 he
returned to the UK to attend LAMDA. In 1991 he formed Guy Masterson Productions
to produce Peter Flannery's The Boy's Own Story which then toured
domestically until 1992. Early in 1993, he appeared in Cyrano De Bergerac
(Bellerose/Ligniere) at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. Since late 1993, he has
produced & performed solo versions of Under Milk Wood, Animal Farm
and A Soldier's Song touring all three extensively on the domestic and
international. His newest solo work, Fern Hill And Other Dylan Thomas
premiered at Edinburgh 2001 and garnered him Best Actor, The Stage Awards 2001.
Soon afterwards, he took the role of the Narrator in Theatr Clwyd's production
of Under Milk Wood directed by Terry Hands.
Most
recently, he played John in Oleanna on a full National Tour.
Directorial
credits include: A Slight Tilt To The Left, Goering's Defence, Resolution and
Adolf, Mom I'm Not A Lawyer, All Words For Sex, Bye Bye Blackbird, Playing
Burton (UK & NZ
productions), The House Of Correction, The Private Ear & The Public Eye.
In 2003 Guy directed 12
Angry Men for Assembly productions.
More information on Guy's
company may be found at
www.theatretoursinternational.com
Geoff Bullen
director –
Son of
the Father, Chaplin
Geoff Bullen
is a teacher and director with over 30 years experience in the professional
theatre in Britain and abroad. His career encompasses Commercial Touring & West
End Theatre, Regional Theatre, Drama Training, Theatre in Education and the
Community Theatre, and Adult Education in the Arts.
He was born
in Cornwall, and graduated from Manchester University in 1969. Working at first
as an actor, he later began a long association as a teacher and director at
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he continues to direct the annual showcase
presentation of final-year students and to specialise in the teaching of
Shakespeare. He is currently Course Director of the joint New York
University/RADA Shakespeare in Performance programme.
A 4-year
appointment as Associate Director and Writer at Theatre Centre (Britain’s
longest established company dedicated to work for schools) has led to work with
numerous other companies working in the field of education. From 1995 to 1999,
he was Course Director of Nottinghamshire Next Stage – a pioneering Local
Government project in Adult Education Performing Arts.
As translator
and adaptor – notably of the work of Steinbeck and Feydeau – and author of
numerous plays on social issues for schools, his work has been performed around
the world.
Recent
Commercial work includes No 1 tours of To Kill a Mocking Bird
(Centreline Productions/Barclays Bank New Stages), and The Dark Side
(Bill Kenwright Prodns).
His work in
Regional Theatre includes productions at Exeter, Plymouth, Watford, Leeds and
Colchester. In the West End he directed the London premiere of John Logan’s
Never The Sinner, and the award-winning revival of Of Mice and Men at
the Mermaid.
More recently
his work has ranged from directing Murder in the Cathedral (in Japanese)
at the Sambyakunin Gekijo in Tokyo; assisting the life inmates of D Wing, H. M.
P. Wormwood Scrubs with Oliver!; 4 productions for Roundabout (Nottingham
Playhouse Resident Theatre in Education Company; David Storey’s Jubilee
at Colchester; and Alice, with disabled actors’ company Graeae at
Nottingham Playhouse and the Drill Hall, London. New writing projects include
Worthless Thing (Michael Jones) at the Etcetera Theatre, London: and
Beside Picasso (Brian McAvera) at the Edinburgh Festival and for a National
Tour.
He is a Guest
Lecturer in Elizabethan Verse Acting at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio.
Recent
productions include Guys & Dolls, The Crucible and The House of
Bernarda Alba at RADA; The Tempest (adapted for a cast of two men),
toured by AJTC through England and performed at the Stadsshouwburg Theatre in
Amsterdam, and the world premiere of David Rudkin’s Red Sun.
Jeremy Towler director - Labels, Kean
and Bacon
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