Collaborators: The Threat of Silence
Jill Greenhalgh - Director
Jill Greenhalgh has been a professional theatre maker for 35 years. She has traveled and worked extensively within Europe, Australasia and the Americas in her career as a producer, director, performer, and teacher. In 1986 she founded the Magdalena Project - International Network of Women in Contemporary Theatre and has remained its artistic director since. Her most recent performance projects include The Water[war]s a long term investigation in collaboration with different groups of women performers across the globe, Las Sin Tierra 7 - Attempted Crossings of the Straits and The Acts - Vigia a performance project that explored a response to the murders of hundreds of young women in and around the US Mexico border town of Juarez.She is also Lecturer in Performance Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She has two teenage daughters and lives on the west coast of rural Wales.
Margaret Cameron - Writer
Margaret Cameron (AUSTRALIA) is a writer, director, performer and teacher, dramaturge and arts consultant. Over 30 years she has created work that is informed by individual need, rigorous dialogue and enduring collaborative exchange with arts practice and her audience. She is uniquely articulating performance through workshop and performance forums nationally and internationally, utilising both industry and academic contexts as places of sentient research to develop association, collaboration and her own practice. Margaret has an MA in Performance Studies and she is currently undertaking a PHD project though Victoria University, Melbourne. Margaret received the prestigious Australia Council Theatre Fellowship in 2004, The Gloria Dawn and Gloria Payten Fellowship in 1997, The Eva Czajor Memorial Award For Female Directors in 1998 and recently was short-listedf or the Kit Denton Fellowship for courage and excellence in writing.
Zoe Christiansen - Video, performance and installation artist
Zoe Christiansen works with performance, theatrical installation and video art.
Born and raised in Denmark. Has worked and toured as a scenographer and stage director in a number of European cities 1980 - 1996. Lives in Oslo since 1994 where she has been the founder of a number of performance and art projects, a.o. Hollow Creature 97-01 and Mobile Homes 03-07, both of which have been supported by the Norwegian Art Council.
The last 10 years she has produced a number of large-scale stage productions involving electro high-tech sound processing in combination with video installation and text. Parallel with this work she has developed a more intimate work which takes its point of departure in a site-specific engagement, and a content evolving from questions concerning identity, roots and displacements in the perspective of the transformations brought upon us by globalisation.
Born and raised in Denmark. Has worked and toured as a scenographer and stage director in a number of European cities 1980 - 1996. Lives in Oslo since 1994 where she has been the founder of a number of performance and art projects, a.o. Hollow Creature 97-01 and Mobile Homes 03-07, both of which have been supported by the Norwegian Art Council.
The last 10 years she has produced a number of large-scale stage productions involving electro high-tech sound processing in combination with video installation and text. Parallel with this work she has developed a more intimate work which takes its point of departure in a site-specific engagement, and a content evolving from questions concerning identity, roots and displacements in the perspective of the transformations brought upon us by globalisation.
Nicola Thomas - Musician
Nicola Thomas attended Chetham’s School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music. She studied with William Pleeth and Moray Welsh and won the Barbarolli and Bach cello prizes. She later studied with Ralph Kircshbaum and Jaqueline Du Pre.
Nicola performed in many chamber ensembles whilst living in London, as well as working for the London Mozart Players and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. In 1989 she joined the Archduke Piano Trio of London.
Now living in Wales Nicola continues a passion for chamber music and recital work and has founded the West Coast School of Chamber Music as artistic director. She has a busy teaching practice and is committed to raising the profile of classical music in her rural community. Nicola has recorded for Signum records and has many chamber concerts forthcoming. She plays a JB Ceruti cello of 1801.
Nicola performed in many chamber ensembles whilst living in London, as well as working for the London Mozart Players and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. In 1989 she joined the Archduke Piano Trio of London.
Now living in Wales Nicola continues a passion for chamber music and recital work and has founded the West Coast School of Chamber Music as artistic director. She has a busy teaching practice and is committed to raising the profile of classical music in her rural community. Nicola has recorded for Signum records and has many chamber concerts forthcoming. She plays a JB Ceruti cello of 1801.
Eddie Ladd - Performer
Eddie Ladd was born and brought up in Wales and makes performances which feature dance, bilingual text, music and new media technologies. She has made site-specific work in opera houses, fields, farmyards and tonnes of corn as well as more regular theatre pieces.
Subjects range from creative biographies of Maria Callas and Leni Riefenstahl, through to remakes of Hollywood films in the wrong place and wrong language. All the shows make use of newer and older technologies and over the last three years she has collaborated on projects performed on the web.
Subjects range from creative biographies of Maria Callas and Leni Riefenstahl, through to remakes of Hollywood films in the wrong place and wrong language. All the shows make use of newer and older technologies and over the last three years she has collaborated on projects performed on the web.
Sara Penrhyn-Jones - Film maker
Sara learnt technical camera skills in 1998, when she joined a new feminist production company in Wales. Later, she won a BBC scholarship to study Broadcast Journalism at Postgraduate level, but found that she didn’t thrive in a newsroom environment. Observational Documentaries were a more natural home, and Sara went on to follow homeless heroin addicts for eight months in North Wales. This two-part series for S4C won BAFTA and Royal Television Society Awards. A more recent documentary for BBC2’s series, ‘Underground Britain’ was also short-listed for a BAFTA Wales. Sara has since worked as a mentor and video-trainer for young people in Wales, with her own and participative work appearing on websites like BBC Education, Youthnet, and the British Council. She has also trained female ex-offenders in London, for the peer-support website ‘freeasabird’. Political concerns took her to the climate change talks in Copenhagen 2009, creating daily-turnaround campaigning videos. Quietude represents a completely new way of working, with the luxury of slow contemplation and the challenge of having to slow down .
Gerald Tyler - Production Manager
Trained in choreography at Dartington College of Arts at the end of the 1980’s, Gerald Tyler went on to work and tour with dance and physical theatre companies including National Dance Company of Wales, Volcano Theatre, Scottish Dance Theatre, Brith Gof and Bafta award winning dance theatre company, Earthfall. This last association developed into a 10 year creative partnership.
As an individual artist he has created and produced small, moderate and large scale site-specific and multi platform theatre productions ranging in content from the genuinely “drive-in” theatre show Bonnie & Clyde (co-created with Eddie Ladd) in which an audience watched live action from within their own cars whilst experiencing the complex sound track as a live radio broadcast – to the highly successful Big Hands – where a supernatural Film Noir detective story is created and envelops an audience in an empty office block.
Current projects (other than this one of course) include writing the story and scripts for two comic book saga’s and working with a feature film producer on a theatre / cinema project based on the same source material.
As an individual artist he has created and produced small, moderate and large scale site-specific and multi platform theatre productions ranging in content from the genuinely “drive-in” theatre show Bonnie & Clyde (co-created with Eddie Ladd) in which an audience watched live action from within their own cars whilst experiencing the complex sound track as a live radio broadcast – to the highly successful Big Hands – where a supernatural Film Noir detective story is created and envelops an audience in an empty office block.
Current projects (other than this one of course) include writing the story and scripts for two comic book saga’s and working with a feature film producer on a theatre / cinema project based on the same source material.
