Trained at Rotherham College of Arts and Dance and Rose Bruford College. Theatre includes: Cool Water Murder (Belgrade Theatre); Certain Young Men (Almeida); Down Red Lane and Rough (Birmingham Repertory); Tartuffe (PW Productions Mobil Tour); Orpheus (Actors Touring Company); Pitchfork Disney and Marowitz Hamlet (Glasgow Citizens); Weldon Rising (Royal Court Theatre); Birdy (Lyric Theatre Hammersmith) and comedy theatre (West End). Television includes: Wing and a Prayer; Where the Heart Is; Crocodile Shoes; 99-1; Sam Saturday; Out of the Blue; Peak Practice; Clarissa and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.

JOE WHITE (Assistant Director)

Most recently, Joe assisted Drummers and Our Country’s Good, both for Out of Joint During his thirteen years of imprisonment he was involved in the production and promotion of theatre as both director and performer. Prison productions include: East, The Love of a Good Man, Our Country’s Good, Crime and Punishment, Death and the Maiden and The Possibilities. He has assisted Steven Pimlott’s Vieux Carre (Nottingham Playhouse) and Nicholas de Jongh’s Traveller Without Luggage (Battersea Arts Centre). He has also contributed a chapter, ’The Prisoner’s Voice’, to the publication Prison Theatre: Perspectives and Practice.

CO-PRODUCERS

Some Explicit Polaroids is co-produced with Karl Sydow and the Ambassador Theatre Group.

KARL SYDOW

Formerly Chief Executive of First Call plc. Has produced / co-produced: Drummers, Macbeth, A Swell Party, Our Country’s Good (which was nominated for six Tony Awards and received the New York Critics’ Award for Best Foreign Play), Hysteria Pest Comedy, Olivier Awards), The Quern and I, Karl is a Board member of Out of Joint.

AMBASSADOR THEATRE GROUP

Ambassador Theatre Group Ltd (ATG) has three main areas of activity: the ownership and management of theatre buildings, theatre production (in the West End but also nationally and internationally) and the development of new productions. ATG currently owns and operates the following arts buildings: The Duke of Yorks and the New Ambassadors in London, The New Victoria Theatre and Ambassaaors Cinemas in Woking, The Victoria Hall and Regent Theatre in Stoke-on-Trent, The Milton Keynes Theatre and the historic Theatre Royal Brighton. It is also in the process of developing and acquiring other regional and London theatres.

ATG and its management company the Turnstyle Group Ltd, have a considerable track record in producing and co-producing for the West End and on national and International tours. Recent productions include: Carmen Jones, The Rocky Horror Show, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, The Royal Court Classics Season, Slava’s Snow Show, The Late Middle Classes, Last Dance at Dum Dum, Drummers and the Royal Court’s Olivier Award winning play The Weir in London and on Broadway. They are about to produce a major new production of the classic musical The Pajama Game directed by Simon Callow.