SAM PARKER
Sam Parker is a Playwright based in Plymouth. Having studied Theatre at Brunel University in 2016 he was selected for the Royal Court Young Writers Programme, worked as a script reader for the Finborough Theatre & his first short film was chosen for Channel 4’s Random Acts scheme. In 2018 he was shortlisted for the BBC’s Drama Writersroom & had 2 short plays staged in the Drum at Theatre Royal Plymouth. This year, Sam has been chosen for a residency at the Charles Causley Trust & written a play for TRP Young Company as part of the PlayLAB festival.
Sam is the co-founder and co-artistic Director of Down Stage Write, a theatre company committed to providing development opportunities for Devon/Cornwall based playwrights.
HELEN BOVEY
Helen Bovey is an Emerging Producer who graduated from East 15 Acting School in 2013 with a 1st Class (Hons) in BA World Performance. Since graduating she has produced work for Above Bounds (children’s theatre collective) the Theatre Royal Plymouth, Vision Redbridge, the Narwhal Ensemble & Beyond Face CIC. She has been mentored by independent producer Sam Worboys and is receiving training by Emily Williams.
In 2017 Helen was a selected participant on the prestigious Edinburgh Emerging Producers Programme receiving training,1-2-1 advice & networking opportunities.
CHELSEA VINCENT
Chelsea Vincent graduated from the Actors' Wheel (University St Mark & St John) in 2016 with a First Class (Hons) in Acting and has since toured internationally, as well as working professionally as an actor and writer. Most recently, she performed in a national outdoor tour of Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’.
Chelsea’s writing credits include ‘Put on Your Red Shoes’ for FUSE dance theatre’, ‘Broken’, a solo stand-up theatre show (which toured to local fringe festivals, and in which she also performed), ‘Silence Falls’ (Sibiu International Theatre Festival, Romania), and ‘Picking Up the Fallen’, a production to mark the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War.
JOHN INKERMAN
John Inkerman is an Actor, Musician and Playwright from Plymouth. He completed the Cert HE at East 15 School of Acting in 2016, and since graduating has worked consistently in theatre around the South West of England. His professional acting credits include Macbeth at the Barbican Theatre (2018), two tours with Above Bounds Theatre Collective (2017 & 2018), A Carn To Cove tour with Drake’s Drummers Theatre Company (2018) and multiple short play nights in the Lab at the Theatre Royal Plymouth.
John is also a Playwright, with credits including ‘Things What We Do’ (co-written with Alex Robins) at the House Studio for the Plymouth Fringe 2018 and ‘The Sundial is a Fascist Monument’ for Down Stage Write’s Astor 100 Celebration in the Lab at the Theatre Royal Plymouth (2019).
Roxane Boulbin
Roxane Boulbin received a Distinction in her Higher National Certificate obtained from City College Plymouth in 2015, where she toured throughout Plymouth in both devised movement pieces and a Pantomime version of Snow White. She has performed in Finland and Sweden whilst working for Transun, devising and directing a short play and being part of day long improvisations as Snowflake the Elf for families of various ages. She has also performed with Drake’s Drummer’s in their show The Shodessey as part of The Waterfront Festival. Last Summer, Roxane took part in The ArtsLab scheme run by The North Wall Theatre in Oxford, a three-week training scheme with The Wardrobe Ensemble.
Roxane also has training in dance and movement, training with Attik dance and Spindrift dance collective.
ALEX ROBINS
Alex Robins is a writer, director and performer. After training on the Theatre Royal Plymouth's Lab Company programme, alongside a Foundation Course with the Dorset School of Acting, he has gone on to work professionally in multiple theatrical disciplines whilst touring and producing his own shows.
Recently he helped write and devise the show ‘SAFARI’ with the Wardrobe Ensemble as part of The North Wall's ArtsLab project, and directed (co-written with John Inkerman) the show ‘Things What We Do’ at the Plymouth Fringe as well as being shortlisted by BBC Writersroom as part of their monologue submission window. He has been supported by the Theatre Royal Plymouth to produce the short plays ‘Bear With Me’ and ‘Dangle’ for IdeasLab and Writer Response respectively.
In 2019, Alex will be developing his play 'Fireworks' to be performed in the Theatre Royal Plymouth in December.
DAISY HIGMAN
Daisy Higman has worked as a theatre-maker and musician for nearly 10 years. She trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and specialises in voice skills and actor-musicianship. Recent composition and musical direction work includes A-tissue, A-tissue (Above Bounds Theatre Collective, 2018), Total Immersion: The Album (CEDA Arts, 2018) Whey Down South (Narwhal Ensemble, 2017), Lady of The English (dir. Emma Latham 2017), The Soul Bird (FarFlung, 2017), and 2018 summer tour with the Roz Birch Band. She identifies as an Artist with Disabilities due to a congenital nerve disorder affecting her vision. Daisy worked with Nicole Redfern to design the sound for Narwhal-Associate show 'BULLS***'.
NICOLE REDFERN
Nicole Redfern is an emerging theatremaker & director. Her expertise is in studio-scale visual devised work incorporating sound & text. Nicole graduated from Oxford University in 2010 with a Double First, was selected for the Frantic Assembly International Summer School (July 18), and has taken part in Young Vic Reach Out workshops (2017-18). Nicole also has her own company, Kick the Dirt, and last year produced & directed her first independent project, 'BULLS***', with support from Arts Council England.
Currently, Nicole is directing the 2019 Young Company Playhouse production for Theatre Royal Plymouth (part of a nationwide collaboration with York Theatre Royal, Polka Theatre, Birmingham Rep & Bristol Old Vic), and the Narwhal Ensemble's second show, '2021: A Cornish Space Odyssey'. As a practitioner, Nicole specialises in facilitation for under-engaged groups, managing and delivering a wide range of public engagement work for charities and social enterprises across Devon.