Rested is a new company of young industry professionals, specifically formed to produce A Real Humane Person Who Cares and All That. Dedicated to new writing and an experimental artistic process, we are a dynamic team committed to producing high-octane, challenging theatre.
Performer: Daniel McGowan
Dan is an Associate Artist with the double Fringe-First winning En Masse Theatre, with whom he has toured internationally. Other credits include Jason and the Argonauts for Schtanhaus/Beggars Belief (national tour), Winter at the Soho Theatre, Paul McCartney in 'In His Life: The John Lennon Story (NBC), and the acclaimed To A Sunless Sea at the Etcetera Theatre, which he also wrote.
Co-Producer & Performer: Benjamin Peters
Ben has recently appeared at the Soho Theatre in Cutlery Wars directed by James Campbell, and Sound Dust at Theatre 503 directed by Jamie Harper. He played Toad in the 2007 Illyria Theatre Company tour of Wind in the Willows and has toured extensively with En Masse Theatre Company. Production credits include How Many Ducks in Stacy at the Union theatre (Time Out, Critic’s Choice) Ben is an Associate Artist of En Masse Theatre.
Performer: Tiffany Wood
Tiffany studied in Paris under Phillippe Gaulier. She was the recipient of the Sunday Times Playwriting Award for her first play Shaking Cecelia which was performed at the Smirnoff Underbelly in 2004. Tiffany is an Associate Artist of En Masse Theatre.
Writer: Adam Brace
Adam Brace was born in London in 1980. He studied Performance Writing (MA) at Goldsmiths College and is Dramaturg with the company Simple8. His London-debut Stovepipe was produced by HighTide in collaboration with the National Theatre and the Bush Theatre. He is currently under commission to the National Theatre.
His play Stovepipe (2008) was selected for professional production at High Tide Festival. The play went on to become a site-specific promenade piece produced by The National and Bush Theatre under the West 12 shopping centre in Shepherd’s Bush.
Director: Jamie Harper
Jamie Harper trained on the Directors’ Course at LAMDA. He is currently the Associate Director at the Rose Theatre Kingston.
Recent directing includes: Invisible Storms (Cochrane Theatre); Prevent (Rose Theatre Kingston); A Real Humane Person Who Cares and All That (Edinburgh Festival); Sound Dust (Theatre 503); The Six-Days World (Finborough Theatre); The Things Good Men Do (The Old Red Lion/ Lyric Hammersmith Studio); The Vanek Plays (Tristan Bates Theatre); The Infant (The Old Red Lion and Edinburgh); A Lie of the Mind (BAC) and Left, an improvised play for BBC Radio 4.
He is the recipient of the 2005 Northern Ireland Arts Council Tyrone Guthrie Bursary, the 2006 James Menzies-Kitchin Directors’ Award, and the 2006 John S. Cohen Bursary for which he was Resident Director at English Touring Theatre and the National Theatre Studio.
Designer: Bronia Housman
Bronia trained at the Motley Theatre Design Course.
Recent design includes: Don Juan Comes Back From The War, The Laramie Project and Loveplay [Arts Educational School] The Execution of Damiens and Three short plays from Africa [Momentum Festival, Nottingham], The Promise [New Wimbledon Studio], Cosi Fan Tutte [Classical Opera Company], After Miss Julie [Nottingham Playhouse], For One Night Only [Pleasance Theatre, London].
As Associate Designer: Knight Crew [Glyndebourne], Take That; The Circus [UK Stadium Tour], I Puritani [De Nederlandse Opera & Greek National Opera] Pet Shop Boys; Pandemonium [World Tour], Salome [ROH], Carmen [ENO].
Lighting Designer: Michael Nabarro
Michael is a graduate of the RADA Lighting Design course. He previously graduated from Cambridge University and spent three years managing the ADC Theatre in Cambridge.
Recent lighting designs include The 14th Tale (BAC, touring & Cottesloe Theatre in Feb 2010), The World’s Wife (touring & Trafalgar studios in Jan 2010), Catalysta & Shooting Rats (Oval House Theatre), Ghosts in the Gallery (Polka Theatre); The Ballad of Crazy Paola, The Lady from the Sea, An Enemy of the People & The Blind (Arcola Theatre); Lough/Rain, Limbo & 1984 (York Theatre Royal); Thyestes (Battersea Arts Centre); Simpatico (Old Red Lion), Rivers Run Deep & Fight Fight Fight! (Hampstead Theatre Studio); The Ash Girl (Unicorn Theatre); White People & Cocoa (Theatre 503); Crazy For You & Me and My Girl (London Palladium); Of Two Days (Pleasance, London); The Revenger’s Tragedy & CASA Latin American Theatre Festival (St Andrew’s Crypt).
Stage Manager: Paul Swarbrick
Paul Swarbrick graduated from De Montfort University in 2009 and has since been involved with a variety of performances ranging from Jools Holland to Question Time.
Co-Producer: Bailey Lock
Bailey is part of the Stage One internship programme for new producers, funded by SOLT. Following a placement with Act Productions she is currently a Production Assistant with Sonia Friedman Productions. Bailey is a freelance script reader for the Soho Theatre, the Old Vic and the Verity Bargate Award.
