Calling all Directors, Writers + Teachers! /// Would you like to Guest Direct a Workshop?

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What you get out of TRANSMISSION as a Guest workshop Leader/Director.

> Be part the TRANSMISSION community, a professional workshop that is proving to be one of the most unique and effective of its kind. Structured, diverse, affordable - a hotbed of creativity, a playground & meeting place for the industry professional.

> Expand your circle. Build relationships with actors, writers and other creative types you may wish to work with in the future.

> A gym class for you! Flex all your creative muscles in a room full of dedicated artists & working pros. We provide the space & the actors and you run the workshop of your choice. TRANSMISSION gives you the freedom to work on whatever you wish using your own unique style and technique -- a platform to explore the play, scene, script or new piece of writing you’ve been dying to sink your teeth into. Whether prepping for a new project, brushing up old techniques or testing out new ones, the time is yours.

> Establish a relationship with THE PARK THEATRE, the eventual home of TRANSMISSION.

> Increase your reach in our entire community through our mail outs, postings on networking platforms and most importantly working with new people in the workshop.

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JEZ BOND /// T1, T3 + T8.
Jez Bond is the Artistic Director of The Park Theatre. Previously a freelancer, Jez has directed at the Salisbury Playhouse, Watford Palace Theatre, Kings Head Theatre, Hong Kong Arts Centre and has staged successful tours of Switzerland, Austria and France.

SOPHIE LIFSCHUTZ /// T2
Sophie Lifschutz trained at Bristol University, Drama Studio London the NT Studio directors' programme. Directing work includes "Stockwell" (Landor/ Tricycle Theatre - Evening Standard Award nomination), "In Touch" (Trafalgar Studios 2), "Retreat" (Edinburgh Festival FringeReview Award winner/ New End Theatre). As an assistant director she has worked at the Soho Theatre, Shakespeare's Globe, the Rose Theatre, Kingston.

GAVIN McALINDEN /// T4
Gavin is Artistic Director of Charm Offensive. Most recent credits include the Short Film Citz, commissioned by Cardboard Citizens/Neal Street Productions. Citz received its first screening at the Gala European Premiere of Revolutionary Road, introduced by Kate Winslet, in January 2009 to critical acclaim. Other recent theatre includes The Help by Sarah Woods (with Adrian Jackson) October 2008, and Pinter @ Crisis March 2009 both for Cardboard Citizens. Recent productions include the critically acclaimed Revenger's Tragedy featuring Kris Marshall (produced by Doublethink Theatre and Halflight - directed by Gavin McAlinden), the British premiere of Frank McGuinness’ Gates of Gold featuring William Gaunt. The production begun at The Finborough Theatre and transferred to Trafalgar Studios in the West End . Gates of Gold was Critics' Choice in The Sunday Times, Evening Standard, Financial Times, Time Out and Metrolife (ES magazine).Gavin directed The Gigli Concert by Tom Murphy, with Paul McGann, Niall Buggy and Catherine Cusack. This production subsequently transferred to the 630 seat Music Hall Space at the Edinburgh Assembly Rooms and was Critics' Choice in The Independent, The Evening Standard, Metro, Fest and The Edinburgh Festival Guide. In November 2007 Gavin directed You Can't Take It With You by Moss Hart and George S Kaufmann. The production featured an 18 strong cast led by RNT veteran Gawn Grainger. In September 2009 Gavin directed a new theatrical adaptation of Porridge by Multi Award Winning UK comedy legends Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.Short films include Tainted Heart (Cinefoundation Shortlist - Cannes Film Festival) and Target: Audience which was Shortlisted for the BBC Talent Newfilmaker Award. Gavin is currently in pre-production for Misconceptions - a new comedy film by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.

HARRY BURTON /// T5
Harry Burton acted for 20 years before moving into directing. His long association with Harold Pinter has seen him acting in Pinter plays and films, directing Pinter plays in the West End, and teaching workshops all over the world. He also made a documentary for Channel 4 called WORKING WITH PINTER which is being released on DVD on November 25th. He is currently editing a volume of Pinter's letters for a book to be published by Faber & Faber. For more about Harry's work, go to: www.mataharifilms.com

JASON DEACY /// T6
Jason Deacy is a lead writer and Executive Producer, working with a brand new independent television production company called 'We Scare Monsters' that he co-directs along with two other partners. Having completed preliminary work on his first project, 'The Gap', Jason is looking to get the ball rolling on an entirely new piece whilst the interminable wheels of the television commissioning process smash the life out of his previous work.

MATTHEW REYNOLDS /// T7
Performer, deviser and workshop leader -- from an early age Matt has had a passion for telling stories. After leaving Birmingham University he co-founded Labyrinth Theatre and has since been creating adaptations of novels and short stories for the theatre as well as acting and devising with companies across the UK. Matt also runs Labyrinth Pathways – the training and education department of the theatre company and is currently working on an adaptation of Spanish novel Abel Sanchez.

MELANIE BOND /// T9, T12 + T14
In addition to being the Associate Director of The Park Theatre, Melanie is a professional actress, choreographer & workshop leader. She trained at The University of South Carolina going on to receive her Masters from The University of Hull. Starting out as Director/Leader for The Delaware Theatre Company, in the years following she has gone on to teach workshops in theatre around the world. From London to Los Angeles and Hong Kong she has tailored workshops for school programs as well as professional actors. For the past five years she has led the New End Theatre Academy of Performing Arts where she has developed the skills of young aspiring artists. She is currently working on N4 Stories, a commissioned piece that will launch at The Park Theatre in 2012.

PAULINE FLANNERY /// T10 + T17
Pauline Flannery has worked in theatre and colleges as a director and tutor; she has extensive directing experience from The Greeks through to new writing, to recent credit We Will Rock You. For four years, Pauline has worked in partnership with the National Theatre on both the Shakespeare schools festival and the connections programme; and her stage adaptations have been produced in London, Edinburgh, The Coterie Theatre, Kansas and the De Moyne Theatre, Vermont, USA.

ANTHONY BIGGS /// T11
Anthony is Associate Director of Jermyn Street Theatre, where he has directed the new musical All I Want For Christmas (4 stars WhatsOnStage), Stewart Permutt’s Many Roads To Paradise (‘A rare, real and heart-warming find’ Time Out), and produced Words Of Honour: The Mafia Exposed (Assembly @ Edinburgh Fringe, London). Other directing credits include Fraser Grace’s Gorgons and Beth Steele’s Temptations for Decade, Sam Shepard’s Savage/Love, Amir The Lost Prince of Persia, The Working Girl (all Theatre503), This Story of Yours (Old Red Lion), Carolyn Pertwee’s Between Friends (OSO Barnes) Brecht's The Wedding (Edinburgh Festival and tour), Hounslow West and Piccadilly Circus (Urban Scrawl), and Francis Turnly’s Hiding with Claire Goose, Tanya Franks and Michael Smiley (Watford Palace). He has also directed for Shakespeare’s Globe, Menagerie Theatre Company and LAMDA. He was Education Associate on Mother Courage and The Changeling for English Touring Theatre (ETT), and Resident Assistant Director to Lawrence Till at Watford Palace Theatre. His next project is Ibsen’s Little Eyolf for Jermyn Street Theatre.

SVETLANA DIMCOVIC /// T13 + T24
Svetlana Dimcovic trained at the University of Birmingham and the National Theatre, London. She was Associate Director of the Gate Theatre (2003-2005), Associate Director of the Caird Company (2002-2005) and a Trainee Director at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond (2001-2002). Svetlana also trained at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Text and Language with Cicely Berry and recently originated and set up the BEE programme at the Bush Theatre. Her new writing work includes workshops for young playwrights and numerous translations for the Royal Court Theatre, RSC, BBC, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Company of Angels and the Caird Company. Credts: The Potting Shed by Graham Greene ( two sold out runs at the Finborough Theatre, 2010 and 2011), Oasis ( Scene Nationale de la Guadeloupe), Nine Night, 45 Minutes from Here (Bush Theatre, Square Chapel Halifax, Theatre in the Mill, Bradford), The God of Hell (Belgrade, Serbia), The Outside (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond), Lithuanian Festival (Southwark Playhouse), Zuva Crumbling (Lyric Hammersmith), The Professional (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow), Mushroom Pickers (Southwark Playhouse), Writer’s Generation (Arts Printing House, Vilnius, Lithuania) and The Broken Heel (Riverside Studios).

DAN HORRIGAN /// T15 + T23
Dan Horrigan is a writer and director. His writing credits include: "Face The Camera And Smile" developed at Soho Theatre, The Rosemary Branch, and The Pleasance Theatre with Writers Avenue and Camden Peoples Theatre with Scenepool. The play was shortlisted for The Kings Cross New Writing Award. Other plays include: "Allowance" at The Colourhouse, Camden Peoples Theatre, The New Diorama, and Jermyn Street Theatre 'an excoriating attack on middle class attitudes and prejudices and the dangers inherent in personal desire', "There Ought To Be Clowns" and "Learning To Swim" with Talawa and the BBC directed by Sally Avens with Alison Pettitt and Tony Bell. Directing Credits include: "Mountain Language", "Precisely", and "The New World Order" by Harold Pinter at The Windsor Arts Centre (now The Firestation Arts Centre), "The Possibilities" by Howard Barker at The King's Head, "Orestes" at The Space, The Lion And Unicorn, "The Broken Heart" by John Ford at The White Bear, "The Just" by Albert Camus at The White Bear and "The Duchess of Malfi" at The Charring Cross Theatre. Dan is soon to start The Adults Adventure Playground - which seeks to develop work using structured play and improvisation over a sustained period of time to create work that has depth, craft and technique - a true ensemble with a shared vision. He can be contacted on danhorrigan1@gmail.com

OLUMIDE AKINTOYE /// T16
Olumide Akintoye studied film at Roehampton University and since then has been making short films and guest directing workshops for actors.

SUSAN DE MUTH /// T18
As a director, Susan de Muth is most interested in physical, multi-disciplinary, collaborative and dynamic theatre. Her most recent theatrical work has been based on translations, by her, of French Dada and Surrealist texts. The Greatest Ever Dada Show traveled extensively over a period of a couple of years, ending with a bang at Tate Modern in 2009. What Lovely Weather! Featuring a cast of animals, plants and insects, written by Andre Breton, Benjamin Peret et al. premiered at London's Barbican in July 2010.

ADAM DATTIS /// T19
Adam Dattis is a native of Philadelphia. He has studied and worked in architecture, scenography, lighting design, performance and theatre directing in Los Angeles, South Africa, Bangkok, London, and Moscow. His work in London has been seen at the Rosemary Branch Theatre, The Leicester Square Theatre, and most recently at The New Wimbledon Theatre Studio (Mad Women In Attics). Adam is also Creative Director and partner for urban öst, an intimate east London design studio and think tank.

JOSS BENNATHAN /// T20
Joss Bennathan is Artistic Director of Present Moment (www.present-moment.co.uk) of whom Time Out wrote “Present Moment perform centuries old plays centuries as if they were written yesterday”. When not doing interesting things with the classic repertoire, Joss’ other directing credits include premieres of John Guare’s Landscape of the Body (Southwark Playhouse), Christmas on Mars by Harry Kondoleon (Finborough Theatre), Blue by Ursula Rani Sarma (Theatre 503) and the sell out A Team: The Musical (Gilded Balloon). Joss has worked at and for such theatres as Soho Theatre, The Lyric Hammersmith, Riverside Studios, The Gate and the Tricycle. He directs regularly at various drama schools, including Mountview, East 15 and Birmingham School of Acting.

IAONNIS BALASKAS /// T21
Ioannis is a theatre-man and trained architectural designer. In the past he has acted, directed, produced, written and designed for the theatre. Writing and Directing credits include "The Liars" (SUTCO, Edinburgh Fringe, 2007) and "Erect!" (Plynth Theatre, London, 2008) while acting credits include "The Inadequate Man" (Fireman's Room, Edinburgh Fringe, 2010). These three shows in particular have been created through improvisation and have formed the backbone of his methodology. He has undertaken two academic case-studies of theatre spaces: a 1960's studio theatre in Sheffield and an ancient Greek "fringe" theatre in Athens with the ultimate aim of rewriting the history of theatre space. He joined the Young Vic Directors Network in 2008.

GABY SANTINELLI /// T22
Gaby Santinelli is a British-American actress, singer, director & coach who has lived in London since 1996. She trained at Interlochen Arts Academy, Chicago’s Northwestern University and Mannes College of Music (NYC). Further Acting Training includes The Practical Aesthetics Workshop with W.H. Macy, David Mamet and Scott Zigler at New York’s Atlantic Theatre Company, and Advanced Meisner Technique at The Actors’ Temple in London. Gaby is an Olivier Award Winner (Jerry Springer – The Opera, National Theatre/West End) who has also coached actors since 2003. She has worked as an actress and singer, on stage and screen, with Colin Firth, Jessica Lange, Halle Berry, Iain Glen, Marianne Faithfull, Derek Griffiths and Lisa Eichhorn, and with directors Robert Wilson, Tom Waits, Simon Callow, Jonathan Kent, Benjamin Luxon, Stewart Lee, Gary Griffin, Dominic Kelly, Jessica Dromgoole, Jackie Oudney, Stephen Gyllenhaal & Michael Winterbottom. As a coach, Gaby specialises in American Accents & Cold Reading/Audition Technique. She has also developed a unique Text Analysis System, applicable to any text the actor wishes to prepare and perform. For Testimonials, Reviews, Photos, Show Reel, IMDb & Spotlight links: www.bagend.net/gaby
 
DAVID CROOK /// T24
David is a writer. His first play, 'The Invisible Monkey', was for children and was written entirely in rhyming verse; it gained a number of five star reviews, and an excerpt was subsequently broadcast on Radio 4. His translation of Da Ponte’s libretto for Mozart’s 'Don Giovanni' was originally performed by Opera East, and has since been used by many touring opera companies. David is a Classicist by background, and his translation and adaptation of Euripides' 'Hippolytus' was produced last summer. David is currently putting the finishing touches to a musical play, 'Don Juan', and to a comedy, 'The Liar'.

ELLEN MCDOUGALL /// T25
Ellen is Artistic Associate at ATC, and an Associate Reader at Soho Theatre. Directing credits include Ivan and the Dogs (ATC/Soho Theatre), nominated for an Olivier Award 2011; Golden Girls (GSA); Am I Comforting You Now? (Company of Angels); (I'm in) Brooklyn (Not Dagenham Parkway) (Miniaturists/Arcola); The Invisible Woman (Young Vic/ATC - work-in-progress); A Kind of Alaska (BAC). Assisting credits include Wastwater (Royal Court); Our Class (National Theatre); The Brothers Size (Young Vic). She was awarded the Runner Up Prize in the JMK 2008, and was Director in Residence at the NT Studio 2009.

ANTONIO FERRARA /// T26
Antonio is Artistic Director of Firstborn Theatre and Literary Associate at Jermyn Street Theatre. He trained on the Birkbeck Theatre Directing MFA and has directed for Theatre Royal Stratford East, Theatre503, RADA, and Watford Palace Theatre. Other work includes the site specific show "Winter Tales", "After Circles" at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the audio drama "Leicester Square" for Urban Scrawl and "Identity Swap Shop", a performance installation in Brixton Village Market. He also directs and provides dramaturgical support for the London Playwrights Collective.