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Menagerie aims to create, support and inspire new writing in the East of England. We work with artists at all levels from first-time writers to nationally recognised playwrights, designers actors and producers. Over the past five years the company has focused on establishing a middle ground that can discover new work, feed other companies with playwrights and productions and operate as a regional resource for individuals and organisations. We have developed a way of working that focuses on partnerships. The commitment and sustainability of our work is strong because writers, actors and producers are given the opportunity and time to develop together. In the East of England, Menagerie acts as a conduit to support initiatives run by other agencies and organisations whilst creating our own independent and flexible focus for playwrights. This way of working supports our primary goals:
The resulting work reflects the richness of intensive preparation, the depth of joint ownership and the spontaneous vitality of original theatre. Menagerie is a company limited by guarantee (registered in England, no. 04192235) and a registered charity (no. 1105090).
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Menagerie work with a variety of writers, actors, directors and other partners to help us achieve our aims (thanks to all of you by the way!); the following are people who work with the company on a day to day basis.
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 | PAUL BOURNE, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Previously Artistic Director at the Frankfurt Playhouse and Center Stage New York, his focus is on creating and developing new work for the stage, offering appropriate productions that entertain, challenge and inspire. Paul also runs the corporate training arm of menagerie and has delivered training and support for companies at all levels including Liverpool F.C the BBC, EEDA, Standard Life and IOM.
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PATRICK MORRIS, ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR For Menagerie, he has appeared in The Cull by Steve Waters, Hard Sell by Craig Baxter and directed premieres of Naomi Wallace's The Retreating World and Claire Macdonald's Correspondence. Patrick is Associate Artistic Director of Menagerie and currently directs the Writer Attachment Programme.
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RACHEL ASPINWALL, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Recent directorial credits include Motherf***er Island by Tim Etchells (Forced Entertainment), Michelle and the Landlady by Caroline Forbes and Intake/Outake for Tiebreak Theatre. Rachel also recently worked as a practical dramaturg on Frobisher's Gold by Fraser Grace and directed its first staged reading. Recent designing credits include Hard Sell for Menagerie Theatre. Rachel is an Associate Director of Menagerie Theatre Company.
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HOLLY RACE – LITERARY ASSOCIATE Holly graduated with a degree in English from Oriel College, Oxford. She has since been working as a freelance director and script reader. She has trained with Katie Mitchell and Desmond Jones and was selected to attend the prestigious Television for Young People course 2007. Directing credits include Philip Pullman’s I Was a Rat! (C venues, Edinburgh), Bed/Absurdities (Brighton Fringe Festival), Troilus and Cressida (rehearsed reading, White Bear Theatre) and The Icarus Girl (Arcola Theatre). Assisting credits include The Siren Song of Stephen Jay Gould (Bridewell Theatre), A Woman Thing (Windsor Fringe Festival), King Arthur (Arcola Theatre), The Mayday (The Staging Post, Leeds) and Feature (a film directed by internationally renowned artist Shezad Dawood, which will tour galleries across the UK in 2008). She has worked as a script reader for Menagerie, Golconda Films, the Old Vic Theatre and Hampstead Theatre. Last winter she spent a month working in the Literary Department at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco, where she assisted on rehearsed readings of Telethon, Bruise Easy and Dark Matters.
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LESTER LLOYD-REASON - CHAIR Lester teaches Strategic Management on undergraduate, postgraduate and professional courses, is a member of both the European and International Council for Small Business, is a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Small Business Affairs (ISBA) in the UK and serves on the Editorial Board of a number of Journals, including the International Small Business Journal (ISBJ). Regularly involved in the Arts, he is on the Arts & Business National Westminster Skills Bank and Board Bank and continues to advise a number of arts organisations on strategic matters.
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ROB CAMERON
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JAMES BARLOW
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SUE GRACE Previously Sue was Director of Performing Arts at Eastern Arts Board and Music Officer at West Midlands Arts Board working with a wide range of performing arts companies. Sue spent ten years touring with a small-scale theatre company as a performer, administrator and latterly general manager. Sue obtained a Degree in Music and an MBA in Public Policy both from Birmingham University.
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CATHERINE SLACK Catherine is joint founding partner of Propect Row LLP which provides strategic project management services to deliver regeneration and renewal projects in the built environment. Based in Cambride, the company currently focusses on projects in the East region.
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LIZ HUGHES
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