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Grist to the Mill Productions present the world premiere of Ross Ericson's

Casualties

Harry Burton - Director

Harry trained as an actor at Central and with BBC TV as a director. He has made two films for Channel 4: a documentary Working With Pinter and a drama titled Thinspiration. Theatre credits include The Lover (Bridewell), The Dumb Waiter (Trafalgar Studios), Quartermaine’s Terms (Touring), I Found My Horn (Chichester, Hampstead), Where I Come From (Kentucky Rep) and The Leisure Society (Trafalgar Studios).  Harry will direct Lee Evans and Sheila Hancock in Barking In Essex in the West End in September 2013.

Ross Ericson - Writer

Ross has been acting since the mid 1990s and has appeared in productions of Othello, Teechers, Macbeth, A Man for All Seasons, and The Little Shop of Horrors.  More recently he has appeared as Lennie in Of Mice and Men (Lighthouse, Poole), a Corner man/Bailiff  in Sucker Punch (Royal Court, London),  Ben in The Dumb Waiter (The Mill Theatre, Guildford),  Number 4 in Fewer Emergencies (The Print Room, London), Pembroke/Austria in King John (Union Theatre, London) and Ned in Parlour Song (Cockpit Theatre, London). 

Among his writing credits are a stage adaptation of Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones – which has been optioned by LA Theatre Works in California – Punchline, Life and The Autumn of Han.  The last three are all being produced for the Edinburgh Festival 2013 and will hopefully tour the following year.

Michelle Yim – Producer

Michelle graduated from Alra and is one of the founders of Grist To The Mill Productions working on their pre-productions of Punchline and 27 Wagons Full of Cotton.  She is also an established actress and has appeared most recently in The Rape Of Lucrece (Bookshop Theatre), The King and I (Mill Theatre, Belfast) and Christmas Carol (Lion and Unicorn Theatre).  She has also appeared in numerous short films and in small roles on television, and works extensively as a voice over artist in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.  Currently she is producing four shows for Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Punchline and Life with Grist To The Mill and, with her own company Red Dragon Fly Productions, The Autumn of Han and The Princess And The Pea – a new musical adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersson story that she has written with her sister.

Katharine Heath – Set And Costume Design

Katharine Heath trained in Theatre Design at Wimbledon School of Art and Central Saint Martins and her recent Set and Costume designs include: The Importance of Being Earnest, The Two Worlds of Charlie F (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Bee Detective (Southbank Centre & National Tour); Savitri, The Wandering Scholar (The Arcola);  Bush Bazaar (The Bush); My Heart is Hitchhiking Down Peachtree Street (Contact, Manchester & National Tour); The Canterbury Tales (Southwark Playhouse & National Tour); Henry V, Shelf-Life, A Christmas Carol, Chaika Casino (Theatre Delicatessen), L'Orfeo (Trinity Buoy Wharf), La Boheme, Flocking/ Crowd Joy, Dido and Aeneas, Edward Sharpe (The Old Vic Tunnels) and Cosi Fan Tutte (Upstairs at the Gatehouse).  She has also been costume designer for Othello (The Secret Theatre, New York), Free Run (E4 Udderbelly Festival), The Man With the Flower in His Mouth (Jacksons Lane & National Tour), Hamlet (Harrogate Theatre & National Tour), A Doll’s House (Theatre Delicatessen), Otieno (Southwark Playhouse), La Prima Donna (Latitude Festival) and Lift & Separate (V&A Museum)

Ziggy Jacobs – Lighting Design

Ziggy is a London-based lighting and media designer specializing in collaborative and devised productions of all kinds. She graduated from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama’s Lighting Design course in 2011, after winning the 2010 Michael Northen prize for Remembrance of Things Past. Her credits include Silent Opera’s site-specific L’Orfeo, Joseph Mercier’s international tour of Giselle, Greek and East at Curve Theatre, Leicester, and numerous productions with physical theatre company PanicLab and puppetry collective The Rainbow Collectors.

Fergus Waldron – Sound Design

Fergus is a theatre technician who learnt through osmosis in English fringe theatre in Brussels where he was raised.  His sound designs include Henry V (Theatre Delicatessen, Marylebone Gardens) for which he was nominated for an Off West End Award, Word:Play 4 (Box of Tricks, New Arcola), I am a Camera (Cornelius Cooke, Rosemary Branch),  Other Hands (Vital Signs Theatre, Riverside Studios & on tour) and A Doll's House (Theatre Delicatessen, Latitude festival). Other credits include Shelf-Life (HalfCut, Marylebone Gardens), Bush Bazaar (Theatre Delicatessen, Bush Theatre), Third Man and Bugsy Malone (Secret Cinema), Mercury Fur (Theatre Delicatessen), Otieno (Metta Theatre, Southwark Playhouse), Head/Heart (Box of Tricks touring) and Larisa & the Merchants (Insite Performance, Arcola) Fergus is one of the key members in the creation and running of Theatre Delicatessen's Marylebone Gardens venue, an artistic hub in the old BBC London building, and has recently been touring with Blind Summit's production of The Table an existential piece about a puppet on a table.

Christopher Smith – Stage Manager

Chris trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in Stage Management and Technical Theatre. He was Assistant Stage Manager for Touched (Kilburn Theatre), Deputy Stage Manager for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Greenwich Theatre) and Stage Manager for Julius Caesar (Wilton's Music Hall / 5 venue tour in Paris).  Chris was an Assistant Stage Manager for both the London Olympic and Paralympic opening and closing ceremonies, a role which he is very proud of, and his other notable theatre credits include  Assistant Stage Manager for Travels with my Aunt (Menier Chocolate Factory), Stage Manager for the Off Cut Festival (Riverside Studios), Assistant Stage Manager for Beasts and Beauties (Hampstead Theatre) and Assistant Stage Manager for Hair (Krizanke, Slovenia).

Harry Mackrill – Assistant Director

Harry trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and his directing credits include The Dwarfs (LAMDA), Coffee And Whisky (Ovalhouse Theatre), Look Back In Anger (New Wimbledon Studio) As Assistant Director Mother Courage (Library Theatre, Manchester), I Gaze From My Kitchen Like An Astronaut (Jaybird Live Literature), Hedda Gabler (Hoxton Hall)

Lucy Jenkins CDG and Sooki McShane CDG - Jenkins McShane Casting

Recent work includes War Horse in the West End for the National Theatre and on tour, The Kite Runner for Liverpool & Nottingham Playhouses / Brighton Festival; Hired Man for Mercury / Curve Theatre; A Walk On Part for Live at Soho / The Arts Theatre; Serpent’s Tooth for the Almeida and Pitmen Painters on tour.  Other work includes Steven Berkoff’s Six Actors In Search of a Director at the Charing Cross Theatre; Chalet Lines for The Bush / Live Theatre and Dangerous Lady at Theatre Royal Stratford East. Other recent West End theatre: Journey's End and Cool Hand Luke. Recent theatre includes The Butterfly Lion for New Perspectives, Close The Coalhouse Door for Northern Stage / Live Theatre directed by Sam West; Horse Piss for Blood, Grand Guignol and Chekhov in Hell for The Drum / Soho; The Roman Bath and Road to Mecca at the Arcola Theatre, Clockwork at Theatre Royal Stratford East, Bedroom Farce at Wolsey Theatre Ipswich and several productions for Birmingham Rep, ETT and Live Theatre Newcastle. They are resident casting directors for Nottingham Playhouse, Mercury Theatre Colchester and Live Theatre, Newcastle. TV includes Skins, Wild at Heart, The Bill, Break Kids, Samuel Johnson Dictionary Man, Family Affairs, and Babyfather. Films include: Drone Strike, The Somnambulists, NFA, Extraordinary Rendition, Fascination, Between Dreams, H10; Entity and the Oscar nominated short The Confession.