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CWTCH THEATRE: Totally original theatre. We are young individuals linked by our education, understanding and passion for the live and performed arts. Culturally the roots to CWTCH lies in the Welsh Valleys, and we feel that the mine of creative talent that has come out of this deprived area of the country needs to be promoted and celebrated, we have since based ourselves in London and met new people from around Europe. We are now based in London, Basel, Paris, Athens, Barcelona and Wales. Regularly performing and communicating through the use of technology, we would like to create a style of theatre that is all encompassing and yet thoroughly original. Original in terms of script, visual impact and presentation.

Heather O'Shea

Heather O'Shea is a talented playwright with a bank of resources; she just requires the ability to showcase her talents. A recent member of the Soho Theatre and Writers Centre Core group, Heather has worked with Jon Lloyd as a dramaturg to enable her to write a full-length play. Trying received a reading at the Soho Theatre in August 2005. She has also had a shorter play, Elasticity read at the Guardian Hay festival 2004 in conjunction with Sgript Cymru as part of their LiveWire programme for new writers. Extracts of the play featured in Sgript Cymru Community Writer. From this contact, she was chosen to attend a residential course in Cardiff in December 2004 which aimed to bring together to best of contemporary Welsh writing in order to develop new voices for the Welsh Stage.

Rod Thomas

Rod Thomas is primarily a musician. He has been writing and performing songs for over 10 years, and with his band has started to appear on the London scene over the last year. His haunting vocals embellish folk routes with indie and jazz influences. He also ran the Theatre Society at Warwick University for two years, where he produced plays and performed in many venues throughout the West Midlands.

Owen Parry

Owen Glydwr Parry is a performer, director and Risk Taker. He featured in the 2004 East End Collaborations, supported by the Live Art Development Agency, and since then has worked with The Washroom Projects, Blast Theory and Escape Artists. He has experience of working as a workshop leader for young offenders learning about drama and film-making.

Rebecca Collins

Rebecca Louise Collins is a talented scholar artist. She has performed at various venues across London and the UK as well as Internationally. In 2006 she performed at Performance Studies International #12, the video documentation of which is currently on tour with the Performing Rights library www.performingrightslibrary.org She performs solo pieces yet also produces work in collaboration with Cwtch Theatre, Strange Works Collective www.myspace.com/strangeworkscollective and Owen Glyndwr Parry. Her work is varied and diverse. She is interested in the dynamic between audience and performer and in different performative states ranging from the passive to the active and what the political implications of certain performative modes may be. She often uses audio and multi media devices to aid her exploration and research.

Alun Davies

Alun Davies is a set designer for fashion and performance. Born in Wales he studied Art Foundation at Swansea school of Art and Graphic Design at Kingston University London. He has created interactive installations and art directed visual pieces with CWTCH Theatre. Currently assisting Shona Heath and working on projects including Dior, Emma Cook, Rebecca Taylor and Armani. His work has been exhibited at the Truman Brewery Gallery in London and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Personal editorial credits include Tank, Esquire, O magazine, Vision and Net a Porter. He is interested in the process of changing the dynamics of a space and how the human form can affect and be affected by this.

Maria Agiomyrgiannaki

Maria was born in Crete, Greece; she is an artistic researcher and uses video and photography as documentation of artistic production. Coming from a languages and cultural studies background she is engrossed by art as a medium of expression and as an object of anthropological study. She also cultivates a keen interest in cultural identity, ethnicity and notions of home and belongingness. In London she has worked on setting up and managing a social enterprise, the Oh! Artists’ Agency at Oxford House, which comprised curating a programme of Live Art and has also worked on the production of the Artsadmin Curious project (be)longing, and Elasticity by CWCTH. She currently provides support to the leadership team of Rich Mix Cultural Foundation, a multicultural arts centre in the East End of London.

Tina Caballero

Born in Barcelona, studied photography at  the Institut Catalá de Fotografía (IEFC) after living in Paris for some years, where she also studied and then worked as a window displayer for Nature et Decouvertes all over France.
She assisted the photographer David Allan Harvey (Magnum, National Geographic) in various photo-documentaries in New York, Washington, North Carolina and Gubbio (Italy). She has been experimenting with video since then, collaborating with musicians and street performers in Barcelona. She has also worked as a video editor and camera assistant for the Fundación de Arte y Diseño in Barcelona (FAD), and produced promotional videos for Calzedonia / Intimissimi in Italy. Currently working on personal projects, which include a video documentary about the Proieto Boracea (a cooperative that works with the people collecting recyclable materials for a living in the streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil) and on video documentation on areas of East London in danger of disappearing due to works to be carried out for the 2012 Olympic Games. She's been living in London for the past year and working as a projectionist for a cultural foundation in East London.

Jess Gormley

She has a background in performance, having trained and taught contemporary dance in London and Leeds. She completed a Masters in Spanish Surrealism at the Courtauld Institute of Art inspired by her year long sejour and ongoing passion for Barcelona. She is currently working for Teatre de Complicite as a script editor and resercher on their new production "A Dissapearing Number", due to be performed at the Barbican in September this year. As is the ethos of both her and the theatre company, she attempts to interpret, with movement, the dynamics of her environment using continual play and improvisation. She is based in London but escapes to other worlds and realities most of the time.

Nikolas Fragkos

Born and raised in Crete, Greece, Sydonistis (Nikolas Fragkos) was introduced to the sounds of black music from an early age and became interested in DJing and producing music. After some years of experimenting he became one of the founding members, the DJ and producer of Face 2 Face. In 2000 came their first CD single Panikos, which received excellent reviews and was regarded as the first genuine rap-metal sound in the music scene of Greece. Sydonistis has worked in music production studios and his work has expanded from Assistant Sound Engineer and Studio sound recordist/engineer to Audio post-production and from Music producer to Sound design for performances.
Carrying the legacy of Face 2 Face forward, he currently produces and remixes music for other artists, always keeping a strong focus on black music. He currently runs frequent rap and hip-hop parties with Face 2 Face in the biggest night venues locally. Their parties are honoured by the presence of guests i.e. Sparky T, G-Child etc., whose names appear in the list of the most important artists of the respective scene in Greece and Europe.

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