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Blue Touch Paper Productions, OPM Productions and Adam Kenwright in association with Park Theatre present the European Premiere of
23.5 Hours
WRITER | CAREY CRIM
DIRECTOR I KATHARINE FARMER
PRODUCER | PAUL O’LEARY
SET AND COSTUME DESIGN | CARLA GOODMAN
SOUND DESIGNER AND COMPOSER I JULIAN STARR
LIGHTING DESIGNER | JAMIE PLATT
CASTING DIRECTOR | ELLIE COLLYER-BRISTOW CDG
FIGHT DIRECTOR | ALISON DU BURGH
STAGE MANAGER | NELL THOMAS
PRODUCTION MANAGERS | IAN TAYLOR AND LEWIS CHAMPNEY (FOR ESTAGE)
PRODUCTION MANAGER | ANNE DILLOW AND JULIET BARRY (FOR MOBIUS INDUSTRIES)
PR | EMMA BERGE (FOR MOBIUS INDUSTRIES)
SPECIAL THANKS TO ADAM KENWRIGHT
Carey Crim
Carey Crim is an award-winning playwright, screenwriterand graduate of Northwestern University’s acclaimed theater arts program. Her play Never Not Once was the winner of the Jane Chambers award, a finalist for the O’Neill (National Playwrights Conference) and opened last February at Park Theatre to rave reviews. Carey adapted her play Wake for the screen and the feature film (starring Jo Koy) has won numerous film festival awards and was released October 8th by Gravitas Ventures. Morning After Grace ran to sold-out houses at The Purple Rose Theater starring Randolph Mantooth. It has continued to be produced every season at such luminary theaters as Asolo Repertory Theater, The Royal Manitoba Theater Centre, Shakespeare and Company, The Barter Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Florida Repertory Theatre, Gulfshore playhouse and many more. It was published by Theatrical Rights Worldwide. TRW also published her one-act play Distance Learning written for Laurie Metcalf. Paint Night was chosen for the 2020 Kilroys list, premiered at The Public Theatre in Maine and is slated for multiple productions next season. Her newest play The Islanders is currently in development and her comedy What Springs Forth will premiere at The Purple Rose in June. Carey is represented by Mark Orsini at Bret Adams and Brandy Rivers at Industry Entertainment where she is developing the television drama Blessed.
Katharine Farmer
Katharine’s directing credits include Carey Crim’s Never Not Once at Park Theatre in 2022; The Least We Could Do at The Hope Theatre; The Mullah of Downing Street at Warwick Arts Centre; Other People’s Money at the Southwark Playhouse; Kiss Me at The Wardrobe Theatre Bristol; and Pig Farm at the formerly known St. James Theatre. For 8 years, Katharine held an O1 visa and worked as the Director of International Programming at Rubicon Theatre Company in California, where her production of Gulf View Drive won Best Production of a Play (large theatre) at the LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards. She has received 7 LA Times Critic’s Picks for her productions at Rubicon, and a total of 16 Ovation nominations. Her other plays at Rubicon include Never Not Once, Heisenberg, South Pacific, Gulf View Drive, Incognito, See Rock City and Last Train to Nibroc. Katharine’s productions of Arlene Hutton’s The Nibroc Trilogy is available to download on Digital Theatre. Katharine has also co-directed 23.5 Hours by Carey Crim at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre in Canada and taken work to the Bermuda Festival. She is the Artistic Director of The Playwright’s Laboratory, is an Artistic Associate at Arcola Theatre, and runs her own theatre company Blue Touch Paper Productions.
Paul O'Leary
Paul is Production & Theatre Adviser for Nederlander Theatres (Aldwych) Ltd, London. Current production: Tina: The Tina Turner Musical. Executive Producer for Sir Michael Codron, CBE. Productions include Mr Foote’s Other Leg, The Elephant Man (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Quartermaine’s Terms (Wyndham’s Theatre), and produced Other People’s Money for OPM Productions Ltd at Southwark Playhouse. Paul is a Trustee of the Theatre Workshop Trust, a Member of the Society of London Theatre, and ABTT Skillscene & Safety committees.
Jamie Platt
Jamie trained at RWCMD and has been nominated for a Knight of Illumination Award, a BroadwayWorld Award and five Offie Awards for Best Lighting Design. Lighting designs include: The Last Five Years (West End & International Tour); Suddenly Last Summer, Sister Act (English Theatre Frankfurt); Jellyfish (National Theatre); RIDE (Leicester Curve & Southwark Playhouse); Word-Play (Royal Court Theatre); Kes (Octagon Theatre & Theatre by the Lake); The Barber of Seville (Nevill Holt Opera); Kinky Boots (New Wolsey Theatre); That Face (Orange Tree Theatre); Nineteen Gardens, Octopolis, Either, Paradise, Yous Two (Hampstead Theatre); Something in the Air (Jermyn Street Theatre); Manic Street Creature, The Last Five Years, Strike, Beast, Klippies (Southwark Playhouse); Kiss Me Kate (Leicester Curve); RIDE, Mythic (Charing Cross Theatre); Whose Planet Are We On?, Cracked, Remembrance (Old Vic Theatre); Anna Karenina (Silk St. Theatre); Le Grand Mort (Trafalgar Studios); SUS, Never Not Once, Gently Down The Stream, Alkaline (Park Theatre); Moonlight and Magnolias (Nottingham Playhouse); Beauty and the Beast, Absurd Person Singular (Watford Palace Theatre); The Beat of our Hearts (Northcott Theatre); Singin’ in the Rain (The Mill at Sonning); To Dream Again (Theatr Clwyd & Polka Theatre); Blood Orange, The Moor, Where Do Little Birds Go? (Old Red Lion Theatre); One Who Wants to Cross, Checkpoint Chana, Quaint Honour, P’yongyang, We Know Where You Live, Chicken Dust (Finborough Theatre); Pattern Recognition (Platform Theatre & world tour); Reared, Screwed, Grey Man (Theatre 503).
Associate lighting designs include: Frozen, SIX (West End & International); INK, The Night of the Iguana, The Starry Messenger, Bitter Wheat (West End); Albion, The Hunt, Three Sisters, Machinal (Almeida Theatre); Piaf (Buenos Aires); The Phantom of the Opera (Thessaloniki); Stumped (Hampstead Theatre).