BIOGRAPHIES
CLARE DUFFY
Clare is a founding member of Unlimited Theatre, a freelance playwright
and currently researching a PhD by practice in writing for performance.
Her first full length play, Crossings was commissioned by Sgript
Cymru, won a Pearson award and a year long residency at the West Yorkshire
Playhouse where she wrote A Good Man. Crossings was
published in March 2005 and toured the UK. Current
work includes Home Street with Stellar Quines;
Arctic, a one person show for a man and a woman and Seeing
in The Dark which she will show in development at the Centre of Contemporary
Art, Glasgow. She is also commissioned as a co-writer in the collaborative
project between Canadian company Imago, Edinburgh based Stellar Quines
and the Timisoara National Theatre.
JON SPOONER
Jon is an actor, director, founder member and the artistic director of Unlimited Theatre. For Unlimited he has directed and performed in Static, Neutrino (both awarded Fringe Firsts for "innovation in theatre and an outstanding production"), Could It Be Magic? (with Sheffield Theatres), Tangle (with The Corn Exchange, Newbury), The Ethics of Progress (with Oxford Playhouse) and The Moon The Moon (with Curve, Leicester). Also for Unlimited and Sheffield Theatres he has directed Safety by Chris Thorpe and Zero Degrees & Drifting (nominated for Best Fringe Production in the MEN Theatre awards). As an actor he has played The Man in the BBC Radio 4 production of Chris Thorpe's Static, appeared in An Oak Tree with Tim Crouch and was most recently seen in the one man show Infinite Lives - written for him by Chris Goode. Jon has worked as a visiting lecturer in colleges and universities throughout the UK and run workshops with students, theatre professionals, journalists, soldiers and passers by across the world. He is an associate of the Quantum Information Group at the University of Leeds and the father of two small boys.
CHRIS THORPE
Chris is a writer and performer from Manchester and a founder member of Unlimited Theatre. For Unlimited he has performed in all but two productions since 1997 and written Static (awarded a Fringe First and subsequently recorded for BBC Radio 4) and Safety (which has also been produced in New York, Los Angeles, Lisbon and Tokyo). Recently for Unlimited he has co-written The Ethics of Progress and The Moon The Moon with Jon and Clare. He has written for the National Theatre and was writer in residence at the West Yorkshire Playhouse 06-07. Chris also writes drama for BBC Radio 4 and is constantly redrafting his first commissioned screenplay for Ruby Productions. He works closely as a writer and performer with Sheffield's Third Angel both here and abroad, currently with their shows Presumption and Parts For Machines That Do Things (for Sheffield Crucible). He translates new work, mainly from the Balkans, and has a close working relationship with Serbian playwright Ugljesa Satinac. Chris is a selector for the National Student Drama Festival. And he likes loud music.