A month of 2012 gone already! In this update we'll be announcing the Stormin' Norman film crew and auditions, talking about our next theatre production Who is Moloch? looking for a Co-Producer and have a medically-themed article on our last play What It Feels Like. We also have website and Outreach updates and will be welcoming our brand new Head of Events to the company!
STORMIN' NORMAN - FILM CREW AND AUDITIONS!
Auditions for the first Encompass production on film
Stormin' Norman are on Saturday 18th with callbacks on Sunday 19th of February. All details including how to apply and character breakdowns are on our
website (edit - deadline to apply has now passed and auditionees contacted!).
After a lengthy decision-making process we are excited to reveal the full film crew for this project, a mixture of old Encompassers (if we can call them that) and a lot of new! Please join us in welcoming our new members who will be with us for the duration of this exciting project. The Stormin' Norman team is:
Director - Paul G Raymond
Producer - Jonathan Woodhouse
Executive Producers - Christianna Mason & Sam Holmes
Music by Alex Burnett
Screenplay by Paul G Raymond, Christopher O'Shaughnessy & Thomas Mayo
Cinematography - Alfred Thirolle
Costume Design - Theresa Jouliac
First Assistant Director - David Courtneidge
Second Assistant Director - Jonathan Woodhouse
Production Coordinator - David Courtneidge
Props Mistress - Zara Malik
Sound - Panagiotis Papagiannopoulos
Assistant Camera - Sonja Linnanvuo
Second Unit Camera Operator - Thor Eliasson
Unit Stills Photographer - Harriet Armstrong
Script Supervisor - Matt Hayoukane
Production Runners - Anthony Anthimou, Ashney Chawla, Zainab Fagge, Joshua Ramirez
Transport Coordinator - Joshua Ramirez
CO-PRODUCER WANTED FOR OUR NEW THEATRE PRODUCTION!
Our recently announced next theatre production Who is Moloch? by Pamela Carralero is looking for a Producer to join the team in bringing this exciting project to the stage. They will be joining long-time associated artists Zuri Warren (Director), Rachael Owens (Associate Director) and Encompass' Artistic Director Jonathan Woodhouse (Producer) in a key role working behind the scenes of this post-apocalyptic surrealist drama.
For details on the position and how to apply please click
here or email
recruitment@encompassproductions.co.uk.
NEW ARTICLE & REVIEW FOR 'WHAT IT FEELS LIKE'
Dr Ellen Welch has offered a unique perspective on
What It Feels Like in her recently published review for medical journal
InnoVAIT, written for the Royal College of General Practitioners. The 2011 hit Encompass Production focused on the aftermath of an accident that causes Nick to fall into a coma and subsequently the 'in-between' of life and death, where he and his wife Sarah go on a brutal tour of human nature at its best and worst. Dr Ellen Welch describes the play as:
"Stunning...unique and very moving. For medical professionals this play offers an opportunity to reflect on universal human issues."
To read the rest of the article visit the
InnoVait website.
LAST MONTH'S RESIDENCIES...AND A WELCOME TO OUR NEW HEAD OF EVENTS!
The Winter Residency was another fun-filled evening and a great event to end our run of Egham events for a while - but we'll be back there in a few months for one (or two) last goodbyes to the place that gave birth to The Residency events!
The Residency: Live Music at Mascara Bar, London was a terrific night that made us feel very lucky to have such powerful new talent entertain and help us fundraise for our projects. The night featured BBC playlisted
Harry David, Residency favourite
Vivienne Youel, the immensely talented
Blushing Bones, the powerful
NE(B)IA and the delightful
Lizzie Fisher. Check out music and more from these acts by going to our webpage for them
here!
The Residency events will now be taking a break until March as we go heavily into pre-production with our 2012 projects - but feat not! We are pleased to welcome our brand new Head of Events - Sophie Anderson! Sophie will be taking over our events for the next few months and we're very much looking forward to what she'll bring to Encompass - including some exciting new endeavours! Expect our events to be bigger and better come March...
OUTREACH IN EAST LONDON
Encompass has recently begun assisting the
Theatre Royal Stratford East in their '
Winging It' project, which gives 13 to 16 year olds a chance to build their confidence in performing and storytelling through improvisation.
Luke Manning (Associate Performer),
Christianna Mason (Associate Artistic Director) and
Jonathan Woodhouse (Artistic Director) are very much enjoying contributing to the artistic development of young people in East London and look forward to seeing the progress of this great project.
Whilst the slightly Christmassy wintery theme is gone (ironic since it's started to snow this weekend) we do have a few changes to the website:
-A new '
Press' page which includes a plethora of fantastic quotes and features from the press on our productions and events. We were surprised by just how many there were when we compiled them so why not check them out yourself?
-The brand new '
Associated Artists' page allows you to see who is/has been with Encompass on each production both past and present, and in what roles. There are many bios/photos available with more coming soon for our 2012 projects!
We hope you've enjoyed reading this update - it's going to be quite an exciting year for us. Thanks for your support!
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