Martín Zimmerman - On the Exhale

China Plate and Audible present

On The Exhale

by Martn Zimmerman

in association with New Theatre Royal Portsmouth

Tour dates

July 26th & 27th 2018 (preview performances)

South Street, Reading

August 2nd 26th 2018

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh (Edinburgh Fringe Festival)

August 28th September 1st 2018

Burton Taylor Studio at Oxford Playhouse

On The Exhale is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French Ltd.
It is supported using Public Funds from The National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Supported by South Street, Reading.

This production received its British premier at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.

Running time: 1hr 10 mins

Age guidance: 14+

CREATIVE TEAM

Written by Martn Zimmerman

Directed by Christopher Haydon

Performed by Polly Frame

Produced by China Plate

Special thanks to John Luther at South Street, Reading; Ric Watts, Mark Distin & Matt Lever at Royal Exchange Manchester; National Theatre New Work Department; Jerwood Space; Matthew Austin at MAYK; Abigail Gonda, Kate Navin & the Audible, Inc team; Scott Ramsay at New Theatre Royal Portsmouth; Di Glazer at ICM Partners; Jeanette Hunter at Shepherd Management; Iona Firouzabadi; Lucy Ellinson; Kaya Stanley-Money; Kirsten Burrows; Vikesh Godhwani and Esmee West-Agboola.

Martn Zimmerman is a prolific, multi-ethnic, bilingual playwright and screenwriter based in Chicago. Plays include: Seven Spots On The Sun, On The Exhale, White Tie Ball, The Making Of A Modern Folk Hero, The Solid Sand Below , and Let Me Count The Ways . Hes a recipient of multiple awards and prizes, including the Terrence McNally New Play Award, Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award Citation, Humanitas Prize New Voices Award, Sky Cooper New American Play Prize. For TV: Martn is an Executive Story Editor on Netflixs Ozark , was a Staff Writer on Netflixs Narcos & has been the Alliance for Latino Theater Artists (ALTA) Artist of the Month. This will be the first time his plays have been performed on UK stages.

Christopher Haydon was artistic director of the Gate Theatre from 2012-2017. Prior to that he was an associate director of the Bush Theatre from 2008-2011. Shows at the Gate included: The Convert, Diary of a Madman (also Traverse Theatre), The Christians (also Traverse Theatre, Winner: Fringe First Award), Grounded (also Traverse Theatre, Studio Theatre Washington DC, national and international tour. Winner: Fringe First Award, Off West End Award for Best Production), Image of An Unknown Young Woman (Winner: Off West End Award for Best Production). Freelance directing includes: The Caretaker (Bristol Old Vic/Royal & Derngate, Northampton), Twelve Angry Men (Birmingham Rep/West End). His first short film Martha is currently playing at festivals around the world and won the Best Short Film Award at the Vail Film Festival in Colorado.

Polly Frame trained at Bristol University. Theatre credits includes: Jekyll & Hyde (English Touring Consortium), A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian (Hull Truck), Frankenstein & Hedda Gabler (Northern Stage), Henry V (Regents Park Open Air Theatre), The Odyssey (English Touring Theatre), Mermaid (Shared Experience), Arcadia (Tobacco Factory), Twelfth Night (Filter Theatre), Pastoral (Soho Theatre), After Miss Julie (Young Vic), The Crossing 66 Books (Bush Theatre), The Comedy Of Errors (Stafford Shakespeare Festival), Earthquakes in London (RNT), The Count of Monte Cristo (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Macbeth (Chichester, West End & Broadway), Home-Work (Bodies in Flight for Singapore Esplanade), A Response to Twelfth Night (Filter), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie & Poor Mrs Pepys (New Vic), ACDC (Royal Court), Cleansed (Arcola).

Television credits include: Doctors, Casualty, Man Down, The Tunnel, Coronation Street, Holby City, The Curse of the Hope Diamond, Silent Witness, EastEnders, Bunnytown, Sea of Souls, Accused, Life Begins, New Tricks, Meet the Magoons, The Giblets, Servants .

Film credits include: Macbeth, Half Light, Duplicity .

Frankie Bradshaw is a set and costume designer for theatre and performance. She was a Jerwood Young Designer in 2017, she won the Off West-End Best Set Design award in 2016 for Adding Machine (Finborough Theatre) and was a Linbury prize finalist in 2015. Frankies designs for theatre include: Cookies (Haymarket Theatre, London), Jerusalem and Nesting (Watermill Theatre), Hansel (Salisbury Playhouse), This Is (Arts Educational Schools), Easter (RADA), Oxy and the Morons (New Wolsey Theatre), Private Lives (London Classic Theatre UK Tour), Di and Viv and Rose (Stephen Joseph Theatre), Assata Taught Me (Gate Theatre), Moth (Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester), Trestle and Orca (Southwark Playhouse), La Ronde (Bunker Theatre), Clickbait and A First World Problem (Theatre503), Barbarians (Young Vic JMK Award 2015, Olivier Award Nominated) Grav (Torch Theatre, Wales), Stories from the Sea (Unity Theatre, Liverpool) Punk Rock (Actors Studio, Liverpool) and A Picture of Dorian Gray and The Comedy of Errors (LIPA, Liverpool). She has also worked as associate designer to Christopher Oram on many productions in the West End and at the National Theatre.

Colin Grenfell is a lighting designer. His credits include: Pandas, Spoiling, The Devil Masters (Traverse Theatre), The Cherry Orchard (Bristol Old Vic & Manchester Royal Exchange), The Mentor (Theatre Royal Bath & Vaudeville Theatre West End), Theatre of Blood, Lost Without Words, Lifegame (Improbable/Royal National Theatre) Black Watch, 365, Men Should Weep, The Bacchae (National Theatre of Scotland), Beauty and the Beast (MCA, Chicago, Abrons New York, Adelaide Festival), The Caretaker (Liverpool Everyman, Trafalgar Studios West end), A Midsummer Nights Dream, Half Life, The Mother, Forever Yours, Marie-Lou (Theatre Royal Bath), The Mother (Tricycle Theatre), Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, Christmas Carol, The Nutcracker, Snow Queen (BBC - CBeebies), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Theatr Clwyd, Best Lighting Award at the 2017 Wales Theatre Awards); The Elephant Man (Best Design CATS award).

Donato Wharton lives and works in Reading, UK, as a musician and sound designer. Recent theatre sound design includes La Maladie de la Mort (The Malady of Death) (Thtre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris and European tour), De Meiden (The Maids) (Toneelgroep Amsterdam), Schlafende Mnner (Men Asleep), 4.48 Psychose (4.48 Psychosis), Glckliche Tage (Happy Days) (Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Germany), all dir: Katie Mitchell, and Playing Cards 2: Hearts (Robert Lepage/Ex machina Co-design with JS Ct). He has toured extensively as the Sound Manager for Robert Lepage/Ex machinas shows The Blue Dragon , and Playing Cards 2: Hearts . Donatos music has been published on the Manchester/Berlin-based City Centre Offices label and on the Cardiff-based Serein label, and has been used in radio features, television programs, and theatre productions internationally. Donato also teaches Sound for Theatre and Performance at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, in London, UK.