CURRENT PERSONNEL

Annie McKean - Artistic Director

Email: Annie.McKean@winchester.ac.uk
Annie was trained at New College of Speech and Drama in London and started teaching at a South East London Comprehensive School with 2,500 pupils and later became Head of Drama at schools in Peckham and Tower Hamlets. During her time in London Annie ran Youth and Community Theatre groups. She was closely involved in the work of several Theatre in Education companies including GYPT and Theatre Centre. She also worked closely with English National Opera on opera projects with pupils and with the Education Department of the National Theatre. She is co-founder of the Charity New Games UK which promotes cooperative play for people of all ages and abilities. In 1987 she studied for an MA in Women's Studies at the University of Kent, Canterbury . She worked as an advisor for Drama in the Inner London Education Authority before becoming Head of Drama at a rural comprehensive school in Wiltshire. She then took up an advisory post in Drama for Hampshire LEA and was seconded to work at Reading University during this period of time. She took up her post at the University of Winchester in 1992 and since then she has been actively involved in developing a portfolio of work in Drama and Theatre in Education and Applied Drama and Theatre.
Under Annie's guidance, Playing for Time Theatre Company was set up within the Drama Department at Winchester in 2001. Since 2003 there have been annual productions which are open to an invited audience. Playing for Time has received a range of funding from sources such as Arts Council England, Lloyds TSB, T Mobile and the Ernest Cook Foundation. The productions are collaborations between the Education Department and the university and bring together students engaged in drama and performing arts courses and programmes across the university. Students work as mentors with prisoners and the work is supported and by education staff at HMP Winchester, and delivered by professional directors, designers and playwrights.
In 2009 HMP Winchester was awarded the Koestler Trust's Bronze Award for the 2008 production of Brian Woolland's play Stand or Fall. In the same year Playing for Time Theatre Company was awarded the prestigious MacJannet Prize for Global Citizenship in recognition of its 'exceptional' work with prisoners and undergraduate engagement in volunteering and civic activities. Annie was awarded an MBE in the Queen's New Year's Honours list in January 2010.

Bethan Clark - Project Worker and Administrator
Bethan has BA HONS in Drama from Exeter University and an MA in European Classical Acting from Drama Centre in London. She has worked as an actor and facilitator in a variety of settings from mainstream theatre to youth clubs, pupil referral units and conferences. Bethan began working with Playing for Time Theatre Company in 2008. She worked as drama tutor and assistant director for Stand or Fall, then returned to co- direct The Convict’s Opera in 2009 and directed The Government Inspector in 2010. Bethan also co-ordinates the OCN accreditation and ensures that participates complete up to level 3 qualifications in drama and performance. Bethan is passionate about drama and its ability to act as a stimulus for personal growth and the real changes it can make within us.

Richard Daniels- Musical Director

Ben Rosser - Production and Stage Management

LaunchPad Productions - Documentary Makers

David Buss- Technical Manager

Toby Farrow - Photographer

PREVIOUS PERSONNEL

Brian Woolland - Playwright and Director for Stand or Fall
http://brianwoolland.website.orange.co.uk/

Martin Constantine - Director of Oh What a Lovely War
Directing credits include: The Silent Twins (Almeida), Giasone (Early Opera Company), Scenes From An Ordinary Life (English National Opera), Smugglers (Shanty Theatre), The Elixir of Love (Grange Park Opera / UK Tour), Oh! What a Lovely War (Playing for Time), War and Peace (English National Opera) Aeroplane Bones (Bristol Old Vic), Gringos (Bristol Old Vic / BAC), The Man with the Flower in his Mouth (Chichester Festival Theatre), Reunion, Dark Pony (King’s Head), The Fat Stock Show (Chichester Festival Theatre, Bristol Old Vic), Summer in the City (Bristol Old Vic, Southwark Playhouse, BAC), Bath Time (Bristol Old Vic, Pleasance, Southwark Playhouse).
Martin has worked as assistant director at National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, English National Opera and Opera North. He is currently Associate Director of Pentabus Theatre.

Marianne Sharp - Director for Our Country's Good
Email: mariannesharp@hotmail.com
Phone: 07712 988313
Marianne studied Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway College, University of London before training at The Central School of Speech and Drama. She lectures in Drama at the University of Winchester. She has toured extensively as a performer in the UK and Continental Europe and has taught and directed theatre work at several London drama schools and universities. Theatre includes: Nora and I (in development (current), funded by Arts Council England); Pride and Prejudice (Northampton Theatres); The Sword and The Crown (Vienna’s English Theatre); Canterbury Tales (Full Cry Theatre); Directing includes: Sarah Kane's Crave (Theatre Royal Winchester and Pendfringe festival venue at the Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh); Juliet’s Dream I, II and III (devised/own company); Our Country’s Good (Playing for Time Theatre Company in Winchester Prison); True West (theatre project with youth offenders in Feltham Young Offenders Institution); Hesitant Eyes (devised project, Central School of Speech and Drama); Antigone's War (devised/physical theatre project, Central School of Speech and Drama); Scenes of the Other, I.D., and Love Handles - devised performance projects with Drama Undergraduates at the University of Winchester. She also has extensive experience of devising/directing youth theatre performances at The Theatre Royal Winchester and Winchester Hat Fair and has run drama workshops on advocacy for Winchester Social Services.

Mark Friend - Designer for Oh What a Lovely War

Kerryn Davies
Family Action Plan Manager
Safe Ground
020 7228 3831
http://www.safeground.org.uk/home.php