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Reboot Theatre Company in association with Park Theatre presents the London premiere of

Candy

By Tim Fraser

WRITER | TIM FRASER
DIRECTOR | NICO RAO PIMPARÉ  
LIGHTING DESIGNER | JONATHAN CHAN 
ORIGINAL MUSIC  | STEPHEN WALLER
SOUND DESIGNER | ANNA SHORT
SET AND COSTUME DESIGN | ALYS WHITEHEAD
STAGE MANAGER | FAE HOCHGEMUTH

Nico Rao Pimparé

Nico Rao Pimparé is a British-Indian-French director for stage and screen. As a theatre director his credits include: Diary of a

Somebody (Seven Dials Playhouse), Rainer (Arcola Theatre), Candy (Underbelly, King’s Head Theatre, Blue Elephant Theatre/ZOOTV, Park Theatre), Reboot: Shorts 2, The Interpretation of Dreams (Bunker Theatre), Jules César (Voice4Thought

International Festival, Dakar), Dead Souls (Theatre N16), and Nozdryov (Young Vic, Freshworks).

Student productions includes: Three Sisters (LAMDA) and The Great Stage (East 15).

His film work includes: The Start of Nothing (short) and They Just Use The Sky (short).

Nico is also an actor, with credits in Hollywood, UK and European TV & film productions, and theatres across the UK.

Tim Fraser

Candy is Tim Fraser’s debut play. With Sarah Soh, he is the co-writer of Juniper Mae, a series of illustrated children's books, the first of which was published by Flying Eye Books in March this year.

Tim has an MA in Screenwriting from the NFTS and was part of BBC Writersroom’s London Voices in 2022.

Stephen Waller

Stephen is a pianist, composer, teacher, Head of Music in Newcastle (and brother of Michael). He has worked with composer Stuart MacRae and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and arranged for conductor John Wilson. Stephen has a passion for choral music

and theatre, having written for Voices of Hope and Robert Icke. He is currently working on his second musical with lyricist Craig Dacey.

Jonathan Chan

Jonathan trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

His credits include: Love Bomb (NYT), Duck (Arcola), Grindr: The Opera (Union), Snowflakes (Park Theatre; Old Red Lion), All Roads (London Tour), Get Happy (Pleasance), Emmeline (UK Tour), In the Net (Jermyn Street), Grandad Me and Teddy Too (Polka), The

Solid Life of Sugar Water (Orange Tree Theatre), Heroin to Hero (Edinburgh Fringe), Move Fast and Break Things (Camden People’s & Edinburgh Fringe), Pussycat In Memory of Darkness, The Straw Chair (Finborough), Maybe Probably, Belvedere (Old Red Lion),

Different Owners at Sunrise (The Roundhouse), Barstools to Broadway, Amphibian (King’s Head), Time, Random (Tristan

Bates), Urinetown: the Musical, Opera Makers (Guildhall School), Fidelio (Glyndebourne - Assistant Lighting Designer) and The Passenger R&D (Guildhall - Associate Lighting Designer).

Fae Hochgemuth

Fae is a freelance Stage Manager who studied at the MBO Theater school Rotterdam and worked on multiple productions at the

International Theatre Amsterdam, including A Little Life (Ivo van Hove), Falling Man (Julien Gosselin), and Death in Venice (Ramsey Nasr) as well as doing a National tour of Showponies II: de Alex Klaasen Revue (Gijs de Lange).

After graduating from the Stage Management course at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama she has worked as a Production Manager at Ugly Duck, an Assistant Stage Manager on Farm Hall (Stephen Unwin), Stage Manager on Paper Cut and is delighted to work on Candy.

Anna Short

Anna trained at LAMDA.

Theatre credits as Sound Designer include: Lady Dealer (Roundabout, Summerhall); Bad Ladz (Studio at New Wimbledon Theatre); Spy for Spy (Riverside Studios); Primary Shakespeare: As You Like It (Orange Tree Theatre); Crackers (Polka Theatre); Ravenscourt (Hampstead Theatre); Press /4 (Park Theatre); Seven Celebrations (Orange Tree Theatre); Don’t Smoke in Bed (VAULT); Nothing on Earth (UK Tour); In This Smoking Chaos (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); Camp Albion (Watermill Theatre/UK Tour); I Know I Know I Know (Southwark Playhouse); The Straw Chair (Finborough Theatre).

As Co-Sound Designer: Get Happy (Pleasance Theatre). As Associate Sound Designer: My Son’s a Queer (But What Can You Do?) (Turbine Theatre); Folk (Hampstead Theatre); Lesbian Space Crime (Soho Theatre); Two Billion Beats (Orange Tree Theatre).

Alys Whitehead

Alys Whitehead is a Scenographer based in London and the Southeast. She likes working with new and abstract writing and is passionate about making work thoughtfully with a particular aim to be as sustainable and waste-free as possible. She is an Associate Designer of Dissident Theatre and NDT Broadgate.

As designer, theatre includes: Sorry We Didn’t Die At Sea (Park Theatre); Snowflakes (Park Theatre); The Retreat (Finborough); Lysistrata (Lyric Hammersmith); SAD (Omnibus); Maddie (Arcola).

As associate designer, theatre includes: Wordplay (Royal Court); Zoe’s Peculiar Journey Through Time (Theatre Rites/Southbank Centre; International Tour); Sea Creatures (Hampstead). As assistant designer, theatre includes: Dixon and Daughters (National Theatre).