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Marie McCarthy originally an actor, retrained as a director completing a 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:
Regarding X (Old Red Lion), SE1 (Lightning Ensemble), Watch This Space (National Youth Theatre), Lizzy, Darcy & Jane (Tabard Theatre),The Chess Players & National Poetry Day 07 (Wandsworth Arts Festival), The Mayday (Lightning Ensemble Site specific revival in Leeds) Dissonant World, (WAC, Hampstead Town Hall), National Poetry Day 06, 07, 08 (Wandsworth Arts Festival), Like Love, (European and American tour of a live advert on behalf of Visit London), Love and Understanding (Library Theatre Company, Manchester), The Mayday 1 (Wandsworth Arts Festival), Tartuffe (White Bear, London), Losing It (Soho Studio), Work/Life (Toucan Theatre), Slip Road (Bridge House Theatre, Warwick), Three plays for radio: Brent Life: a radio soap-opera, (Life FM), Playton Sands and Out catching Criminals (Resonance FM).

Writer, Sarah Weatherall went to the Slade School of Fine Art at University College
London, where she won the Slade Prize.  After graduating she worked as a research
assistant for Stephen Poliakoff whilst writing and directing her own short films,
winning a silver plaque at the Chicago Film Festival and the Southern Arts Award
for How I Became Indian which later broadcast on BBC2. Then she worked as
Assistant to the Artistic Director at Shakespeare’s Globe. She’s written two plays
Private View, The Mayday, a radio play and devised an improvised radio soap-opera.

marie.mac@virgin.net
sarah.weatherall@virgin.net

Lightning Ensemble, 43a St Johns Road , London, N15 6QJ