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Marie McCarthy, director. Marie studied Master of Fine Arts degree in Theatre Directing (Birkbeck, University of London) where she won the Sir Peter Cheeseman award for achievement. In 1995 she co-founded Lightning Ensemble Theatre Company and ten years later became its co-artistic director with writer Sarah Weatherall.

Directing credits include:
Shore Crabs (Landor Theatre); Pride and Prejudice (National Tour); Come Back Yesterday (Lightning Ensemble); Ma Kelly’s Doorstep (Attic Theatre Company) Alice in the Walled Garden (Sixteen Feet Productions), The Secret Garden (Heartbreak Productions), Not In My Name (Associate Director, Theatre Veritae), The Bonds (Oval House Theatre), Wind in the Willows (Heartbreak Productions) Shakespeare's Sonnets (Globe Theatre), Regarding X (Old Red Lion), SE1 (Lightning Ensemble), Watch This Space (National Youth Theatre), Lizzy, Darcy & Jane (Tabard Theatre),The Chess Players (Wandsworth Arts Festival), The Mayday (Lightning Ensemble Site specific revival in Leeds) Dissonant World, (Hampstead Town Hall), National Poetry Day 06, 07, 08, 09 (Wandsworth Arts Festival), Like Love, (European and American Tour), Love and Understanding (Library Theatre Company, Manchester), The Mayday 1 (Wandsworth Arts Festival), Tartuffe (White Bear, London), Losing It (Soho Theatre Studio), Work/Life (Toucan Theatre), Slip Road (Bridge House Theatre, Warwick), Two plays for radio: Brent Life, (Life FM), Out catching Criminals (Resonance FM).

Writer, Sarah Weatherall studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, where she won the Slade Prize. After graduating she worked as research assistant to Stephen Poliakoff, and later Assistant to Mark Rylance and Dominic Dromgoole, Artistic Directors at Shakespeare's Globe. Credits: How I Became Indian (writer, director) 1995, short film, Silver Plaque, Chicago Film Festival and the Southern Arts Award, broadcast BBC2. Last Days of the Post Office, 2000, (writer director) short film (Film Council). Plays: Private View (studio, Soho Theatre) The Mayday, (A dreamy Western in East Leeds), SE1: A play (a play interwoven through a party). Also, Out Catching Criminals, a radio play (Resonance FM), and Brentlife (a radio soap opera for Life 102.3 FM.).

Victoria Hibbs, General Manager.

Contact: marie@lightningensemble.co.uk | sarah@lightningensemble.co.uk | victoria@lightningensemble.co.uk

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