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Alan Meadows
Alan
has played many leading roles in Rep and on tour.
He has
directed most things from Panto to Pinter,
as
Associate Director of the Manchester Library Theatre and
freelance.
He has
written for stage and radio and appeared in Heartbeat,
The
Royal, Coronation Street, The Clinger, Emmerdale and How
We Used to Live.
While
living in Greece for some years he wrote dozens of short
plays to assist in the learning of English,
and
children’s stories on the Internet.
For
Cotton Grass, he directed
Sherlock Holmes and
Final Problem
In 2002 , with two other actors, he started
Yellow Leaf
Theatre
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Louise
Page
Louise
is a professional writer who lives in the Derbyshire
Dales.
She adapted Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler
for a stage
production by Cotton Grass Theatre in 2004.
Louise
Page's published plays have been performed in repertory theatres all over the
country.
They
include Salonika (Royal Court) for which she won the George Devine Award
in 1983,
Real
Estate (Tricycle Theatre) Golden Girls (Royal Shakespeare Company)
and
Adam
was a Gardener (Chichester Festival Theatre).
Television
credits include: Crown Court, Broken Lives, Jailbirds,
Bad
Girls and Doctors. Her numerous radio plays for the BBC include a
major adaptation of Sense and Sensibility
by Jane
Austen. She was a member of The Archers writing team from 1991 to
2000.
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Fiona Paul
Fiona
is an actress and choreographer based in Derbyshire.
With
Cotton Grass, she performed the monologue The Age of
Consent as part of
Coupled Up
and
choreographed the young people's project
Time Tales
Link
to Fiona Paul's Agent and CV
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Garry Preece
Garry teaches stage craft for the
Performing Arts Department of the Sheffield College
He created
the stage lighting and ran workshops for the The Hollow Country
The Glorious Tale of the
Golden Whale
Gardens of Delight
La
Ronde
and
Sherlock Holmes and
Final Problem
Gary
and Stuart Taylor created the lighting for Black Bread
& Tired Feet
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Katie
Raughton
Katie joined Cotton Grass in March 2002 on work experience,
from Highfields School in Matlock,
assisting with the stage management and prop making for La Ronde
at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield
and The Unreturning Army
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David Shimwell
David
Shimwell was born and brought up in the Derbyshire Dales.
In recent
years, as an actor, he has worked with the Royal National Theatre,
The
English Shakespeare Company, York Theatre Royal and the Manchester Royal
Exchange.
His
television and film work includes : Hillary &Jackie, The Bill,
Inspector Morse, Eastenders,
Dangerfield, Hetty Wainthrop Investigates, Peak Practice,
Lost for Words, and Monster
Cafe for Children's BBC TV.
With
Cotton Grass Theatre, he directed Bazaar and Rummage
and performed in Coupled Up
and The Unreturning Army
David
currently works in educational theatre with Brief
Candle Theatre Company
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Caroline
Small
As writer
and performer working in the Hope Valley,
Caroline Small has worked
regularly with Cotton Grass Theatre
since 1997.
She has
written and scripted The Hollow Country
Into the Rose
Garden
The Glorious Tale of
the Golden Whale
Black Bread & Tired Feet
Gardens of Delight
and The
Unknown Land
For for information about other works by Caroline Small: email
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Nicholas
Stacey
Nicholas is a professional musician from the
Derbyshire Dales.
composed and arranged the music for Gardens of Delight
Since
1993, He has worked with orchestras and ensembles throughout the Midlands as
principal clarinet.
These
include the Chalumeau Clarinet Quartet, Peak Performance Stage Orchestra,
Countrywide Orchestra,
Phoenix Concert Orchestra, Chesterfield Gilbert & Sullivan
Orchestra and the Peak Chamber Orchestra.
He
acquired an MA in music from the University of Salford in
1999
and
is an experienced teacher of clarinet, flute, saxophone, recorder and
theory.
email:
Nicholas Stacey
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Tom Tunstall
Tom is a
native of Bolton, trained at East 15 Acting School, who has
worked extensively in touring theare,
notably
with Third Theatre in the 1990s producing issue-based
physical theatre.
More
recently, he has worked making historical drama and
dramatic reconstructions for Granada TV.
With
Cotton Grass, Tom played Tom Stephenson in A
Conversation Between John & Tom, by Roly Smith.
Performed as part of the programme for the National Park
Authorities Conference in 2007.
Link to Tom Tunstall's agent and CV
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Justin Webb
Justin has been an actor since
the early 1990s, working primarily in the theatre.
He has worked for TNT
theatre (Munich) touring as far a field as Japan
and northern Norway and
also long standing
association with the Barbican
Theatre in London.
Justin is presently a core
company member of NTC Theatre ensemble.
He
has been a Sherlock Holmes fan since
childhood
and for Cotton Grass, he wrote
Sherlock Holmes and
Final Problem
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David Westbrook
David has
worked in theatre and television since the 1980s
Appearing
in Emmerdale, Coronation Street, Heartbeat and Cold Feet.
He was
an actor composer and arranger for Sheffield based Compass
Theatre productions.
In Cotton Grass's
Sherlock Holmes and
Final Problem
he played Sherlock
Holmes.
Link to
David's agent and CV
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Chris
Wilkinson
Chris
graduated from Bristol University Drama Department in the early 60's and spent
a year at the Hampstead Theatre Club
and
five years at the Sheffield Playhouse.
He was
also co founder and director of Meatwhistle - a theatre and arts
workshop for young people set up in Sheffield in the 70's.
He
recently toured extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company, in The
Taming of the Shrew in Stratford, London,
the
Far East Kong and America.
TV
appearances include the last few years inclued
Heartbeat, Seeing Red, Coronation Street,
City Central, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, Brass Eye,
Emmerdale, Brookside,
Cardiac Arrest, The Beiderbecke Tapes
and the BBC's Jane Eyre 2006.
In 2002, with two other actors, he started Yellow Leaf
Theatre
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