David Webber’s theatre credits include: Barber Shop Chronicles at the National Theatre and in Australia, New Zealand, USA, UK and New York, Arms And The Man (Watford Palace Theatre), The Hudsucker Proxy (Liverpool Playhouse and Nuffield Theatre, Southampton), When Blair Had Bush And Bunga (Lee Menzies Productions at Edinburgh Festival), Catch-22 (Northern Stage and UK Tour), Sweet Bird of Youth (Old Vic), The Government Inspector (Young Vic), Death and the King’s Horseman; Leave Taking (National Theatre), Twelfth Night (Nottingham Playhouse), Dame in Jack and the Beanstalk (Theatre Royal, Stratford East), The Wizard of Oz (Theatre Royal, Northampton), Aladdin (Watford Palace), The Big Life (Apollo Shaftesbury Avenue), Othello in Othello; The Sneeze (Good Company); What’s in the Cat (Contact Theatre / Royal Court), Aladdin (Watford Palace), The Bassett Table; One Love and Master Harold and The Boys (Bristol Old Vic), The Beatification of Area Boy (West Yorkshire Playhouse and world tour), Two Tracks and Text Me (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Antony and Cleopatra; The Lion; The Road; Smile Orange; Flyin’ West; The Looking Glass and King Lear (Talawa Theatre), The Merchant of Venice (Manchester Library Theatre), Ragamuffin, The Colored Museum (Double Edge Theatre Company), Remembrance (Carib Theatre Company). His television credits include: Death in Paradise, Year of The Rabbit, Chewing Gum, Holby City, Youngers, The Catherine Tate Show, The Royal Bodyguard, How Not to Live Your Life, Sarah Jane Adventures, Being Human, series regular in Grass, Prime Suspect, London’s Burning, The Knock, Coronation Street and The Bill.

His film credits include: The Children Act, Captain Phillips, Broken, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont, Tipping The Velvet, All or Nothing, The 51st State, Among Giants and The Avengers.

Creatives

TEMI WILKEY – WRITER

Temi Wilkey is an actor and writer from North London. She trained as an actor with the National Youth Theatre REP company. Her acting credits include Comedy of Errors (National Theatre), Hamlet and Cymbeline (RSC), Jubilee (Manchester Royal Exchange), Manhunt (ITV), Years and Years (BBC) and Land Without Dreams (Gate Theatre, London). Temi was also the cofounder and co-director of Pecs, the Drag King collective, and performed in sell-out runs of their productions at venues including Tate Britain, Soho Theatre and The Yard theatre. Temi was a member of one of the Royal Court Introduction to Playwriting groups in 2017. In 2019 she became a member of BBC London Voices and a recipient of the High-End Television Levy Writer’s bursary scheme, developing her first pilot under the mentorship of Lucy Prebble.

The High Table is her first and debut play.

DANIEL BAILEY – DIRECTOR