Eve Nicol - One Life Stand

Cast

Cast

Tanya Loretta Dee Kat

Tanya trained in acting, singing and dance at the prestigious Guilford School of Acting gaining a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Acting. Tanya received the Highly Commended Award for her performance as lead role Willow in Boots by Jessica Butcher and Sacha Voit at Vault Festival 2018. Tanya played lead role Mickey/Emma Clarke, in Futures Theatre premiere production of Offside by award-winning writers Sabrina Mahfouz and Hollie McNish, which toured across the UK and had a successful run at Edinburgh Fringe, Pleasance Theatre in 2017.

Other theatre credits include: 1867 (The Albany Theatre); Marcel for Melody (The Royal Court); Scumbags (Rosemary Branch) and Long Sentences (The Albany) directed by Ellen McDougall and Deborah Pearson.

TV credits include: playing Tanya Harvey in Law and Order UK (ITV), as well being seen in The Bill (ITV), In the Line of Beauty (BBC 1) and various commercials for both ITV and Channel 4. Tanya also played the lead character Olivia in the feature film, Vehemence by Meshack Enahoro. Tanya is also a writer and poet, and was nominated Best Debut Performance Poet at the Zoo Awards, the longest running poetry awards ceremony in London, as part of Farrago Poetry. Tanya is currently is writing her first play Love in the time of Anxiety - due to be in production in 2019.

Edward Cole Kit

Edward trained at Drama Centre London, The Vakhtangov Institute Moscow, Shakespeares Globe and Hull University.

Theatre credits include: Ten Storey Love Song, Weekend Rockstars, Mercury Fur, Apples, When You Cure Me (Middle Child); Kiss Me (East Riding Theatre); Early Doors (Not Too Tame); A Dashing Fellow (Belka Productions); A Midsummer Nights Dream, Much Ado About Nothing (Chapterhouse Theatre) and Sign Of The Times (Hull Truck). Edward is a founding member of Middle Child. #hwtl

Anna Mitchelson Momo

Anna is an actor/singer currently living in Hull. She graduated from the University of Hull and was cast in her first role in Middle Childs production of Weekend Rockstars , which went on to a run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and on tour to venues including Birmingham Rep and Battersea Arts Centre.

Other credits with Middle Child include: Modern Life is Rubbish, Jack and the Beanstalk, Aladdin and Ten Storey Love Song . As well as these, she also made it to the final four in the televised national search to play Cilla Black in Cilla the Musical . She also performed in the Hull Truck Theatre 24 Hour Plays and has sang at various events for them.

Production Team

Eve Nicol Writer

Eve Nicol is a playwright and director from Glasgow who has worked on new writing projects for the National Theatre of Scotland, Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, and Tron Theatre, Glasgow. She is the artistic director of Heroes Theatre with whom shes created theatre for fields, festivals, pools, pubs and stages across Scotland. One Life Stand marks her professional debut as a writer.

Paul Smith Director

Paul is a founding member and the artistic director of Middle Child. His work focuses on audiences, specifically creating an environment which attracts the working classes and those who often feel alienated by the word theatre.

Credits with Middle Child include: One Life Stand, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, I Hate Alone, Ten Storey Love Song, Weekend Rockstars, Mercury Fur and Saturday Night & Sunday Morning . He is an associate artist of Hull Truck Theatre, where he was assistant director on The Rise and Fall of Little Voice and A Taste of Honey . He graduated from the LAMDA Directing Course in 2011. He is the proud father of Ronnie, the worlds greatest Shihpoo. #mufc

James Frewer Musical Director

Composition credits include: Mixtape (Royal Exchange); The Hundred and One Dalmatians (Birmingham Rep); I Hate Alone, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, Mercury Fur, Weekend Rockstars: An Album Play, Modern Life Is Rubbish: A Musical Manifesto, Saturday Night & Sunday Morning (Middle Child); Twelfth Night (Orange Tree); Folk (Birmingham Rep/Watford Palace/Hull Truck Theatre); Get Carter (Northern Stage/UK Tour); Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, A Taste of Honey (Hull Truck Theatre) and The Thing About Psychopaths (Red Ladder Theatre/National Tour).

Musical director and performer credits include: The Snow Queen (New Vic Theatre); Dancehall (Cast Doncaster); The Night Before Christmas (Soho Theatre) and This House (National Theatre, dep performer).

Sound design credits include: The Season Ticket (Pilot Theatre/Northern Stage); This Land, Red Sky at Night (Pentabus); A Further Education, Deluge (Hampstead Theatre); Love Me Do (Watford Palace Theatre) and The Ugly Sisters (Rash Dash/National Tour).

Honeyblood Composers

Honeyblood are Glaswegian duo Stina Tweeddale and Cat Myers, whose 2016 album, Babes Never Die , was described by Clash Magazine as one of the years best guitar albums, a record of spite, venom, humour, and melancholy.

Natalie Young Designer

Natalie is a set and costume designer based in Hull. She graduated from university in 2011 and has since developed her skills as a theatre designer, focusing mainly on modern and abstract design.

Design credits include: I Hate Alone, Dick Whittington, Dancing Dead, Tomorrow Never Happens, Ten Storey Love Song, Aladdin, Till Death Do Us Part, Mercury Fur, Jack and the Beanstalk, Modern Life is Rubbish and Cinderella (Middle Child); The Tempest (Royal Shakespeare Company/Hull Truck Theatre) and Cosmic (Root Theatre).

Assistant credits include: Drip (Root Theatre) and All We Ever Wanted Was Everything (Middle Child).

Costume credits include: A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) (Silent Uproar).

Jose Tevar Lighting Designer

Jose is a freelance lighting designer from Hull. Jose studied MA Design for Performance (Lighting) at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and has worked as a lighting technician for Hull Truck Theatre and Royal Caribbean International. Jose has recently designed for National Dance Company Wales and Middle Child.

Recent lighting design credits include: Betty Blue Eyes (Richard Burton Theatre, 2018); NDCWs Alternative Routes (Dance House, 2018); La Cenerentola (Dora Stoutzker Concert Hall, 2018) and Middle Childs One Life Stand (Tour, 2018).

Ed Clarke Sound Designer

Ed Clarkes theatre credits include: All We Ever Wanted Was Everything (Middle Child); Leave Taking, The Royale, The Invisible, Perseverance Drive and Fear (Bush Theatre); A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) (Silent Uproar); A Christmas Carol and A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian (Hull Truck Theatre); Showboat (New London Theatre); The Infidel (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Orpheus (Little Bulb Theatre at BAC/Worldwide); Baddies (Unicorn Theatre); The Realness, Politrix, Phoenix, KnifeEdge and Babylon (The Big House); Beauty and the Beast (Young Vic/Worldwide); Danny Boyles Frankenstein (Olivier, National Theatre - Olivier Award nomination 2012); Backbeat (Duke of Yorks Theatre); The Mysteries and The Good Hope (National Theatre); The Railway Children (Waterloo International Station/Roundhouse Theatre, Toronto); Fatal Attraction (Theatre Royal Haymarket); His Teeth (Only Connect Theatre); Baby Doll (Albery Theatre); Alex (Arts Theatre/UK and International Tour) and Old Times and A Dolls House (Donmar Warehouse).