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We love developing long term relationships with artists, and we work with a pool of talented professionals to produce exciting theatre.

We want to provide support, encouragement and opportunities for artists of all backgrounds, ages and genres. Check out some of the artists featured below working on our current production Snapshots. Find out more about working with us.

Svetlana Dimcovic

Svetlana Dimcovic

Director

Svetlana trained at the University of Birmingham, the Royal National Theatre, London and the Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon.
She is part of a new writing collective in the Caribbean (The Other Seas collective, Guadeloupe/Martinique), and holds new writing workshops and programmes for young writers across the world.

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Svetlana Dimcovic

Director

Svetlana originated and led the Bush BEE Programme at the Bush Theatre, London (2009-2010), was Associate Director of the Gate Theatre, London (2003-2005), Associate Director of the Caird Company, London (2002-2005) and a Trainee Director at the Orange Tree Theatre (2001-2002).

Svetlana’s 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.
Directing: Belfast Girls ( National Theatre Studio, London), Memory Play ( Tiata Fahodzi, Africa Centre), Mr Punch (Swan Theatre, Worcester), Belfast Girls (Kings Head Theatre), 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), The Broken Heel (Riverside Studios), A Kind of Alaska (Orange Tree Theatre).
UK Critics on Svetlana Dimcovic’s work:
“Svetlana Dimcovic’s revival builds up a sense of mounting pressure.” Michael Billington, The Guardian

“this fascinating rarity…a compelling spiritual detective story … given a gripping, lucid revival by Svetlana Dimcovic”  Paul Taylor, Independent

“Svetlana Dimcovic’s production is both tactful and authentic. As James, Paul Cawley delivers a performance that blends feverish frustration and genuine agony” Henry Hitchings, Evening Standard

“Greene’s script crackles with mordant wit, and Svetlana Dimcovic’s revival is propulsive, engrossing and boldly characterised.”  Andrzej Lukowski, Timeout

“Svetlana Dimcovic’s fine production, nicely framed in a series of quiet 1950s interiors, keeps the tension well and makes gripping work of the big revelation scene”  Sarah Hemming, Financial Times

Shaida Chaudhury

Shaida Chaudhury

Writer

Shaida is a solicitor with a law firm in Bradford.  She used to be an actor with Freedom Studios Asian Theatre School and took part in the Street Voices 1 and 3 playwriting programmes.  Her twenty minute play ‘ Licence to Conceive’ was performed at Theatre In the Mill, Bradford and The Bush Theatre in London in 2010.

Jez Coram

Jez Coram

Moving Image Artist

Jez conceives, devises and makes his own animations and videos and creates trailers and films for theatre companies such as 1812 and ClapTrap.  He is keen to create a spectrum of digital video art and moving image that builds collective conversations and generates interactivity, connecting physical and digital spaces, and tracing and embellishing different kinds of relationships across places, times and communities.

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Jez Coram

Moving Image Artist

Jez Coram – Artist Statement

“I am a determined, motivated and resourceful Video Artist working to create a spectrum of digital video art and moving image that builds collective conversations and generates interactivity, connecting us to our physical and digital spaces, tracing and embellishing different kinds of relationships across places, times and communities.

The questions and provocations that run through my work are a culmination of my experiences and practice, not only in realising my work to date but also in my enthusiasm for the subjects and themes of changing landscapes, digital topographies, psycho-geography, information systems, future technologies, digital video art language and practice, power and empowerment, our personal stories and how we physically and psychologically adapt to the spaces we inhabit and the technologies we use.

I have proven creative flair and technical understanding in developing, producing and directing diverse artistic videos and moving image and in the future I am looking for contracts, funding and commissions that will utilise and build upon my skills further, specifically allowing me to work with new technologies, in spaces and with people, processes and methodologies that I have not worked with before and situating and exhibiting my work across differing spaces helping me to broaden, deepen and diversify my audience.”

Lila Dupree

Lila Dupree

Producer/Actor

Lila is an actor and producer who lives in Los Angeles and she is working with the company in various roles over the next 12 months, including the sharing of American entrepreneurial skills.  We look forward to learning.

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Lila Dupree

Producer/Actor

Lila Dupree is a proud co-founder of The Common Tongue. An actor, producer and sometime director she was awarded the Henry Evans Traveling Fellowship upon graduation from Columbia University in order to facilitate the creation of an original musical production in the township of KwaMashu in Durban, South Africa.

NYC Acting credits include: Named, Rising Phoenix Rep and Young, The Ars Nova Building (both Lucy Thurber World Premieres); All Over, Linda Gross Theater (Staged Reading, collab. With Edward Albee) and 14th St. Theaterlab; What The Sparrow Said, 2011 FringeNYC, Teatro La Tea; The B-File, 78th St. Theatre Lab; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Abingdon Theatre. Regional: Main Street, Collected Stories, Barefoot in the Park all with Acadia Repertory Theatre. Film/TV: The Golden Boys with Bruce Dern and David Carradine (Roadside Attractions), The Pigpen (webseries), ManchVegas (pilot).

Producing Credits include: Grenadine (Staged Reading, 2008 Yale Drama Award Winner), Theater for the New City, NYC; What The Sparrow Said (World Premiere), Teatro La Tea, The 2011 New York International Fringe Festival; Dancing for Krumholtz (Staged Reading), Elephant Stages, Los Angeles; Connect Five (Wendy MacLeod and Lucy Thurber World Premieres), The Ars Nova Building, NYC; All Over, Linda Gross Theater (Staged Reading, collab. With Edward Albee) and 14th St. Theaterlab. Director/Producer credits: KwaMashu Dreams, Ekhaya Multi Arts Center, Durban, South Africa; Freedom Train, Columbia University (collaboration with Olivier-award-winning playwright Katori Hall).

Training: London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), Atlantic Acting School, The Atlantic Theater Company (NYC and LA). B.A. with Distinction, Columbia University.

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Jan Thomas

Actor

Jan worked with Freedom Studios on ‘ The Mill – City of Dreams’. Jan also appeared at Edinburgh 2011 Festival Fringe in Jan Perry’s award winning play ‘Click’.

Most recent parts at venues in Yorkshire include Bernarda in ‘The House of Bernarda Alba’ as Lorca and Miss Shepherd in Alan Bennett’s ‘The Lady in the Van.’

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