BIOGRAPHIES
KATE BOWEN
Kate is a producer who has taken mid and large scale performances to theatres throughout the UK and to leading venues and festivals across the world in countries as diverse as Canada, USA, Malaysia, Taiwan and Cyprus. Before joining Unlimited she was Executive Producer for Glasgow based Theatre Babel where she managed the company and led its development until 2007. She has worked for the British Council's Arts Unit in Scotland and alongside her work with Unlimited, continues to work as a freelance producer for other UK companies and directors.
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 from March – June. Current
works in progress include Home Street, a reading of which is
scheduled for November 2007 at the Traverse Theatre 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.
LIZ MARGREE
Liz is a founding member of Unlimited Theatre, performing in and collaboratively writing or devising for most of their shows. She is also Execuive Director, responsible for fundraising and business planning and leads the training arm of Unlimited: working with people in business organisations to develop personal impact and unlock individual and group capacity to innovate. She has recently completed a Psychology Degree with the Open University, graduating with First Class honours.
JON SPOONER
Jon is a 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) and The Ethics of Progress (with Oxford Playhouse). 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. His ambition is to one day appear in The Bill or Casualty. 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 artist of Sheffield Theatres, 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.