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CHRIS GOODE

Chris Goode is a writer, director, performer and sound designer, who has been described as “one of the most exciting talents working in Britain today” (Guardian) and “an extremely highly regarded alternative theatre maker” (Caroline McGinn, Time Out). His work has included two Fringe First award-winning shows: Neutrino (with Unlimited Theatre: Soho Theatre, London, and international tour), and his own solo debut Kiss of Life (Pleasance, Edinburgh; Drill Hall, London), which in 2007 travelled to Sydney Opera House as part of the Sydney International Festival. In 2008 he won the inaugural Headlong / Gate New Directions Award for his production …Sisters at the Gate Theatre. More recently he was part of the international touring cast of Tim Crouch’s controversial and acclaimed play The Author, winner of the John Whiting Award and a Total Theatre Award for Innovation.

Other notable recent work has included: 9 (West Yorkshire Playhouse); GOD/HEAD (Ovalhouse and Theatre in the Mill); Open House (West Yorkshire Playhouse and Mayfest); The Adventures of Wound Man and Shirley (BAC and UK tour); Keep Breathing (London Word Festival and Drum Theatre Plymouth); The Loss of All Things (as part of 66 Books at the Bush), a trilogy, Who You Are (Tate Modern), Where You Stand (Contact Theatre, Manchester) and Where We Meet (site-responsive, Edinburgh); Glass House (Royal Opera House Covent Garden); Landscape / Monologue (Ustinov, Bath); Hey Matthew (Theatre in the Mill, Bradford); King Pelican and Speed Death of the Radiant Child (Drum Theatre, Plymouth); Longwave (Lyric, Hammersmith). Chris’s The History of Airports: Selected texts for performance 1995-2009 was published in 2009 by Ganzfeld. As a poet he has published three chapbooks with Barque Press, and he has recently edited Better Than Language: An anthology of new modernist poetries for Ganzfeld.

RIC WATTS

Ric Watts is an independent producer based in Manchester, and a co-founder of Chris Goode & Company, for whom he has produced all of the company’s major work to date. Ric is also Producer for Unlimited Theatre (resident company at West Yorkshire Playhouse) for whom he has produced Mission To Mars, The Ethics of Progress and The Giant & The Bear, alongside developing new shows, including Money the game show and The Noise; and for Analogue, for whom he has produced Mile End, Beachy Head, Lecture Notes on a Death Scene, Living Film Set and 2401 Objects in Edinburgh and on UK Tour.

He started his career as Producer at Your Imagination, where he produced work by Cartoon de Salvo, Ridiculusmus and Kazuko Hohki. Since 2006, Ric has been working independently, with notable successes including: FOOD by theimaginarybody; Particularly in the Heartland by The TEAM; FIT by Rikki Beadle-Blair for Queer Up North; The Adventures of Wound Man and Shirley by Chris Goode in co-production with Queer Up North; Twelfth Night with Filter Theatre and Schtanhaus; Paperweight and Free Time Radical by The Frequency D’ici; Running on Air by Laura Mugridge; Flathampton for Royal & Derngate and Avon Calling by The Other Way Works. Ric was also the Festival Producer for the 2010 Queer Up North International Festival.