In-house Companies
Don't Look Up
Kate Gilbert formed Don't Look Up in 2008. Prior to that Kate has been creating and performing at different events including many different cabaret nights.
Over the past five years Kate has created and performed her own style of performance poetry, fusing song and poetry. She has performed across the north including, Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield and has performed in New York.
In 2006 Kate wrote and acted in her first piece, a one woman show called Butterfly, which gained interest from both the Arts Council and The Royal Exchange Studio Theatre.
Kate has since developed her writing and produced a piece for SFX at the Royal Exchange, a one hour show with script, physical theatre and song. Kate was invited back to perform at SFX and created a piece called, Piano Keys, a story about a white woman who falls in love with a black American GI in war-time Britain. This was presented as a work in progress and following positive feedback this piece is now in further research and development.
Most recently Kate has written and produced Watching Stars which was selected for the 24:7 Theatre Festival in Manchester. Watching Stars is a two hander that explores love, sex and consent. Watching Stars was also performed at Studio Salford and The John Thaw Studio Theatre.
Kate has most recently been invited to write for Verbally Challenged at Contact and is currently co-writing a sit-com as well as working on a piece for radio and another stage play.
Mission Statement
Don't Look Up, seeks to produce and create work of a high quality and work that is challenging and exciting. I also have an interest to fuse together different art forms where appropriate. My focus is mainly to stage plays that offer the female perspective. This is not exclusive of men but is focused on creating interesting roles and more parts for women. Or facilitating and overseeing other female writers to have their work performed to a high standard.
Don't Look Up seeks to work as professionally as possible within the confines of the budget and to draw in new people and seeks to give others the opportunity to be involved as a showcase for either their acting, directing or writing talent.
Contact : Kate Gilbert - Send message
Don't Look Up, c/o Studio Salford, The King's Arms, 11 Bloom St, Salford, M3 6AN
House of Orphans
Formed in 2010, House of Orphans produce innovative and cutting-edge theatre and film. Based in Manchester and Salford, we are a new company with vision, passion and commitment to creating and collaborating with some of the most talented actors, directors, writers, musicians and technicians. Although we are based in the NW with our primary focus on encouraging and supporting local artists, we are inclusive and open-minded.
House of Orphans was founded by Lucia Cox in March 2010. With a background in performance and writing, House of Orphans was born out of a desire to not only write and create but also to work in collaboration with other talented individuals. Proud of producing award-winning, quality theatre and film. There is no style or genre preferences, just good stories, told well.
Contact : Lucia Cox - Send message | www.www.houseoforphans.com
House of Orphans, c/o Studio Salford, The King's Arms, 11 Bloom St, Salford, M3 6AN
Mediamedea
Contact : Mike Heath - Send message
Mediamedea, c/o Studio Salford, The King's Arms, 11 Bloom St, Salford, M3 6AN
Swine Theatre
What is SWINE THEATRE? Ha! Where to begin....?
SWINE THEATRE are the shadowy cabal of freaks and mentalists responsible for twisted plays such as THE PACKAGE and BROKEN BISCUITS. They are affiliated to writer Tam Hinton - an odd, repellent man - who brought us the wonderful one-man shows THE NAKED SOUL OF KIRK GODLESS and THE TRUTH IS, I CAN'T STOP TELLING LIES.
Actors and artists associated with SWINE THEATRE include Ian Curley, Rachel Priest, Karen McLeod, and Tom Liggett. These are all gorgeous, highly motivated individuals, beautiful yet deadly.
Do you love the theatre? Are you strangely aroused by the macabre, the magical, and the monstrous?
Then come and see a SWINE THEATRE production. Do so, and feel your heart filled with joy and terror and delight.
If you don't, the Tories will get in at the next election, your husband will leave you, and your last thoughts will be ones of regret.
Contact : Tam Hinton - Send message
www.kirkgodless.com | www.youtube.com/swinethea | www.youtube.com/thetamhinton
Swine Theatre, c/o Studio Salford, The King's Arms, 11 Bloom St, Salford, M3 6AN