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Essee Productions in association with Oli Sones and Park Theatre presents the World Premiere of

Dark Tourism

by Daniel Dingsdale

Rebecca Brewer | Caroline Briggs
Daniel Dingsdale | Max Stafford
Josie Dunn | Becky Watson
Damien Lyne | Richard Powell
Tom Maller | Robert Torn
Huw Parmenter | Milton Rose
Tamaryn Payne | Gemma Stone
Jill Winternitz | Jennifer Chapman


Biographies

Rebecca Brewer | Caroline Briggs

Theatre credits include: Rupert Goold's The Merchant of Venice (Almeida), Friday Night Sex (Royal Court), Relative Values and A Chorus of Disapproval (West End), Song of Songs, Marat/Sade & The Homecoming (RSC), Aspects of Love (Menier Chocolate Factory), Far From The Madding Crowd and Where Have I Been All My Life (New Vic) and In the Jungle of Cities (Arcola).
Television credits include: Jane Eyre (BBC), All in the Game (Channel 4) and Girls in Love (ITV).
Writing includes Maxine Carr Has Moved in Round the Corner (Theatre 503/RWR) and various spoken word poetry gigs.

 

Daniel Dingsdale | Writer and Max Stafford

Daniel Dingsdale is a St Helens-born writer and actor, he trained in acting at Rose Bruford College. Dark Tourism is his first full length play.
Theatre credits include: The Tempest (UK and Norway tour), The Taming of the Shrew (Kensington Palace Gardens), Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Miller’s Crossing, and Back to the Future (with Secret Cinema), Lights! Camera! Improvise! (New Diorama), The Haunting of Godstow (Drayton Theatre), Ghost Hunt (Etcetera Theatre), The Shakespeare Band (with Bred in the Bone), Herons (Barn Theatre), Othello (C too), Robin Hood (Merchant’s Hall, Edinburgh Fringe), and he was involved in the creation of the site-specific musical drama Tales of the Woo (Worcester’s Guildhall).
Television credits include: Preston Passion (BBC One).


Josie Dunn | Becky Watson

Josie Dunn trained at Rose Bruford College.Theatre credits include: James and the Giant Peach (Colchester Mercury); A Night of Unwriting (The Cockpit); The Story Giant (Shanty Theatre Company); Occupied (Theatre 503); The Bridge (Rose Theatre, Kingston); Backbeat (Duke of York's, West End; Royal Alexandra, Toronto; Ahmanson, Los Angeles); Faust (Greenwich Theatre); Blind Date (Southwark Playhouse).
Television includes: Doctors (BBC); Playhouse Presents: Hey Diddly Dee (Sky Arts).

 

 

Damien Lyne | Richard Powell

Theatre credits includes: The Academy of Melancholy (Old Operating Theatre), Pig Girl (Finborough), Way Out West (UK Tour), Of Mice and Men (Stageworks), Changing Rooms (UK Tour), The Goodnight Bird (Finborough), The Heiress (The Mill at Sonning), The Pillowman (Leicester Curve), Grave Gifts (Theatre Royal Bath), Pride With Prejudice (Gatehouse), Tess (King’s Head), The Hummingbird (Royal Court), The Hostage, The Country Wife, The Venetian Twins, King Lear, Love's Labour's Lost, and The Merchant Of Venice (all Royal Shakespeare Company).
Character comedy includes: Newsrevue, The Fun Lovin' Tobaccanists, and Chuck Parker.
Television credits include: Midsomer Murders, Hollyoaks, Doctors, The Vice, The Bill, Is This It?, Neverwhere, Yesterday's Dreams, and Harry Enfield.
Film includes: Surprise (Peter Hewitt), Section 44 (Atom Films).



Tom Maller | Robert Torn

Tom Maller trained at Drama Centre London.
Theatre credits include: The Mousetrap (St Martins Theatre), Summerfolk (Cochrane Theatre), Read Not Dead (Shakespeare's Globe), Unrestless (Old Vic), Twelfth Night (UK Tour), Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Miller’s Crossing, and Back to the Future (Secret Cinema/Disney).
Film credits include: Last Orders, Demon (Clerkenwell Pictures) 

 

 

 

Huw Parmenter | Milton Rose

Huw Parmenter trained at Rose Bruford College. 
Theatre credits include: The Ballad of Lost Dogs (Chaskis Theatre); Subterranean Sepoys (National Theatre/Tara Arts); Rebel Rebel (Theatre 503) Home Theatre UK (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Hearing the Song (Orange Tree Theatre); Basket Case (UK Tour)
Television credits include: Vikings (History/MGM/Amazon); Eastenders (BBC)
Film credits include: The Bridge (Little Spoon Prod.)
Huw is also a founding member of Chaskis Theatre Company. 


 

Tamaryn Payne | Gemma Stone

Tamaryn Payne trained at Arts Ed, and is best known to TV audiences as series regular Annalise Appleton in Hollyoaks.
Other television credits include: Casualty.
Film credits include: Vendetta, Stalled and Small Town Folk.
Theatre credits include: Ghosts (Greenwich Theatre), Blood Wedding (Courtyard Theatre), Secret Cinema 21 - Miller's Crossing, Love In The Past Participle (Tabard Theatre) and The Heresy Of Love (Shakespeare's Globe)
Tamaryn is very proud of friend Dingsdale for writing such an important piece of theatre.

 

Jill Winternitz | Jennifer Chapman

Jill Winternitz trained at RADA.
Theatre credits include: Girl in Once (Phoenix Theatre, West End), Baby in Dirty Dancing (Piccadilly Theatre, West End), Hamlet, The Canterbury Tales (Cunard), A Handful of Soil (Drayton Theatre), Sunday in the Park with George (Interlochen Center for the Arts), The Seagull (Moscow Art Theatre School).
Television credits include: Doctor Who, Children in Need, ITV This Morning
Film credits include: The Sorrows, The Replacement Child