Synopsis
Mark trained at East 15.
In 2017 he co-founded Project Lockout, a physical theatre company, who have since created 3 shows that have been taken to multiple fringe festivals including Southend and Camden. Their latest show ‘The Maniac Complex’ will be playing at Vault festival next Spring.
Mark worked with Peer Productions for 9 months and with Theatrino for 6 months in Italy, performing to over 30,000 children in 2 years between 2014 and 2016.
Mark toured with Pied Piper Theatre Company in ’Star in the Jar’.
He is very excited to be joining the company again for ‘Robin’s Winter Adventure’.
Maria is thrilled to be making her professional theatre debut with Pied Piper, having just graduated from The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts, MA Acting. She is also a writer who loves creating musical comedy. Having previously worked as a secondary school teacher, she is passionate about the arts being made accessible to all children.
Nick acts, stage manages and creates sets and puppets. He has his own production company scratchbuiltproductions.com which has been making theatre since 2006 and is an Associate Company of Proteus in Basingstoke.
Nick has been making puppets and acting with Pied Piper for several years and helped to create a new strand of work for babies and young toddlers ‘DIG!’ And ‘BEACH’. He made the puppets for the popular ’Sarah & Duck’ tour from the television series, for ’Snowflakes’ at Oxford Playhouse and for ‘Gorilla’ at Polka Theatre.
Tina Williams is the Artistic Director of Pied Piper Theatre Company, which she set up in 1984 having trained as both an actor and a teacher.
Tina has written, adapted, directed and produced over twenty five plays for the company including a large scale national tour of Anne Fine's "The Book of the Banshee", and "A Little Princess" involving eight actors and eight young people.
Tina's recent original plays include ‘My BIG Little Sister’, Robin’s Winter Adventure’, ‘The Big ENORMOUS Present’ and ‘DIG’ Pied Piper’s current play for babies and young toddlers which she wrote together with Nicola Sangster.
For more details about Tina's work visit 'About Us'.
Movement Direction credits include: Macbeth (Chichester Festival Theatre); It Is So Ordered (The Pleasance); Bunny (White Bear); Wish List (Royal Exchange & Royal Court); Redefining Juliet (Barbican); See Bob Run (Bread & Roses); Sizwe Banzi is Dead (Young Vic and UK Tour); Love is Easy (music video; McFly); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Custom/Practice); The Kitchen (Fourth Monkey); Faith, Hope & Charity (Southwark Playhouse); Emma Thompson Presents: Fair Trade (Shatterbox - Latitude, Rich Mix).
Direction Credits include: Jon Udry Punches Gravity in the Face (Jon Udry); Life on Wheels (Bella Kinetica); Rapunzel (Fourth Monkey).
Angela teaches at RADA. Most recently Angela has directed the movement in Frankenstein for The Royal Exchange, Manchester.
Princess and Pea (Tutti Frutti), The Fever Chart (Pilot Theatre), The Diver (Soho Theatre and Setagaya Public Theatre, Tokyo), Fly in the Ointment, Cover her Feet (Stephen Joseph Theatre), King Arthur, As You Like It, The Crucible (costume design), Wind In The Willows,Coram Boy, 1984, Keys to the Kingdom, Bouncers, September in the Rain, The Trial, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (York Theatre Royal). For Pied Piper, Burglar Bill, Robin’s Winter Adventureand Hare and Tortoise.
Nick is an actor, stage manager, puppet and scenery maker and puppetry director. Nick is the co-founder of Scratch Built Productions, based at Proteus in Basingstoke. website:-scratchbuiltproductions.com
Nick has made sets and puppets for Pied Piper for the last six years and in this year's production takes the role of stage manager and puppetry director for ‘Zoom!’
Nick has appeared in two Pied Piper productions for babies and young toddlers ‘DIG!’ and ‘BEACH’.
Julian is an associate artist of Pied Piper Theatre Company. As well as music for Pied Piper he has composed music for lots of theatre shows for children and young people, including Charlie and Lola's Best Bestest Play, Charlie and Lola's Extremely New Play and Gorilla (Polka Theatre, directed by Roman Stefanski), Up and Down (GaGa Theatre Company), The Paper Washi Wish and Little Sunshine, Little Rainfall (A Thousand Cranes Theatre), and A Christmas Carol (Lakeside Arts, Nottingham). He has written several musicals for young people including Beauty and the Beast, Red Riding Hood and Flat Stanley(with Mike Kenny, Engine House Theatre) and Run! A Sports Day Musical (with Lisa Evans, Polka Theatre).
Most recently Julian has adapted The Everywhere Bear for the Polka Theatre and on tour.