James Baldwin - Peter Panic

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Peter Panic was first performed at the Pleasance Theatre on Wednesday 1st August 2012 as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

The play previewed in London at the Camden Peoples
Theatre on Sunday 15th July 2012.

Cast (in order of appearance)
Stephen I Richard Popple
Wendy I Imogen Vinden-North
Peter I Jack Johns

Creative Team
Writer I James Baldwin
Director I Elgiva Field
Design I Elly Tabberer
Lighting I Joshua Pharo
Sound I Jamie Flockton
Stage Manager I Louise Quartermain
Assistant Producer I Gemma Bergomi
Press I Ben Clare
Cover image I Tom Guy www.tomguy.co.uk

Produced by function theatre
www.functiontheatre.co.uk

James Baldwin, Writer
James is a graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. His work has been developed by the National Theatre Studio, the Young Vic and through the Young Writers Programme at the Royal Court. Previous credits include: A Neon Fairytale (the Roundhouse, Camden), Rodney Dillyweeds Undesirable Demise (Wet Picnic), Around the World in Eighty Days (Brute Farce). James is the recipient of The Lilian Baylis Award for Theatrical Excellence and an Ideastap Innovators Award. James is co-founder of function theatre.

Gemma Bergomi, Assistant Producer Gemma currently works at the Bush Theatre, and has been involved in a variety of theatre projects, most recently on Discombobulation at the Rosemary Branch as part of the Branching Out Festival. She has also worked for the theatre company The Honourable Society of Faster Craftswomen on shows including Holiday and Patchwork.

Elgiva Field, Director
Elgiva Field is Artistic Director of Oblique House www.obliquehouse.org.uk
For the company she has directed the UK premieres of Purge (Arcola Theatre), Eight Women (Southwark Playhouse), The Time of the Tortoise (Theatre503), Faultlines (Union Theatre), the concert drama 10,000 Feet and Falling (Aldeburgh) and the 25th anniversary production of Was He Anyone? (Union Theatre). She has worked with Punchdrunk, theatre-rites, Unlimited Theatre, Pentabus, Les Enfants Terribles, Lyric Hammersmith and Warwick Arts Centre. Elgiva is co-founder of function theatre and directs their inaugural production Peter Panic.

Jamie Flockton, Sound Recent Credits: Elephant Man/4.48 Psychosis, TheSpaceUK Edinburgh Fringe. Purge, The Areola London, Assassins, The Crescent Birmingham. www.jsound.co.uk

Jack Johns, Peter
Jack trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Theatre includes: Through the Night (Finborough Theatre), My Previous Self (Wardrobe Theatre), Orphans (Trafalgar Studios), Peer Gynt (TheatreState), Loves Labours Lost (Circomedia, Bristol), Cinderella (Redgrave Theatre, Bristol) and Something Out Of Nothing (Bristol Old Vic).

Joshua Pharo, Lighting
Joshua works as a Lighting Designer, Photographer and Scenographer. Since graduating from Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance, he has worked across theatre, dance, opera, music, film & art installation.
Recent work:
The Prophet (Associate The Gate), Kreutzer Sonata (The Gate, LaMama NYC), Revolutions in Costume (V&A Museum, Raphael Room), Purge (Borealis Theatre, Arcola), Do We Look Like Refugees? (National Theatre Studio, Riverside Studios, Drum Plymouth), Les Enfants Terribles: The Infant (Associate UK Tour), Vaudevillains (Charing Cross Theatre, UK Tour), Saint Saviour (Channel 4, Bush Hall, Somerset House, Hoxton Hall, International Tour), Choir, Cracking (Iso Productions, Wimbledon Studio). www.joshuapharo.co.uk

Richard Popple, Stephen
Richard trained at the LIPA. Recent theatre credits include: Much Ado About Nothing (Etcetera Theatre), A Night Before Christmas (Canal Caf), Richard III (Brighton Festival), Wuthering Heights (Crewe, Lyceum), An Inspector Calls (Manor Pavilion, Sidmouth), Proof (LIPA). in 2011 Richard presented a travel charity documentary in The Gambia and filmed sketches for COMEDY CENTRAL, Australia. Richard is a writer and producer with his company, Serjeant Popple Productions.

Louise Quartermain, Stage Manager
Now entering her final year of her BA(Hons) degree in Stage Management at the Central School of Speech and Drama, Louise has been involved in backstage theatre since 2007 where she started as stage crew on Collingwood Colleges production of Oliver! directed by Jane Roberts. Other stage management credits include: Bugsy Malone, Sweeney Todd, Grease (all with Collingwood College Productions), Epsom Downs, Richard II (British Youth Film Academy feature film), Travelling in Packs, Breathing Corpses & Scenes From the Big Picture (all with CSSD), as well as work experience with the Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House.

Elly Tabberer, Designer
Elly Tabberer is a designer with a background in architecture and community engagement. Her work is often based around ideas of narrative within site-specific installation and urban interventions. Over the last five years she has been involved in large and small-scale installation and performance-based projects with a number of practitioners and has most recently worked as production designer for Cos fan tutte and La Bohme for Vignette Productions.

Imogen Vinden-North, Wendy
Imogen Vinden-North trained at The Actors Company. Recent theatre credits include Solange The Maids (BAC), Honorine Trilby (Finborough Theatre), Pandora Newall God Sports (New End Theatre), Nurse Romeo and Juliet (Leicester Square Theatre), Luciana Comedy of Errors (Fast and Loose), Portia The Merchant of Venice and Overdone and Mariana Measure for Measure (Cambridge Shakespeare Festival), Blueberry Hill A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer (New Players Theatre), Martirio The House of Bernada Alba (New Players Theatre). Also this year she has recorded the new Harry Potter game for Warner Brothers and The Fright Team, a pilot for E4.

function theatre was established in 2011 by playwright James Baldwin, independent director Elgiva Field and Young Vic Assistant Director in Residence Rachel Bagshaw. We are a company committed to exploring challenging and taboo subjects surrounding every individuals human rights. We are inclusive and committed to accessibility for all.

www.functiontheatre.co.uk

James Baldwin would like to thank all the people who have made this project possible: