Marion Reed
Photo: Mark Gudgeon |
After graduating from the Drama Department at Bristol University, cut her teeth as a
director while Head of Drama in a comprehensive school, also acting and directing with the
Bristol Arts Centre Company; after further training at the BOVTS, worked as an actress
in theatre, television and audio production; credits include Amanda in Private Lives; Miss
Skillon in See How They Run; Harriet in I’ll Get My Man; eponymous heroines in Lady
Audley’s Secret and The Good Person of Setzuan; Lady Mary in Fresh Fields; Countess
of Lister in The Chiltern Hundreds; Mrs Bramson in Night Must Fall; work with the
Brighton Combination and at the Royal Court.TV:Counterstrike, Crimes of Passion,
Robin of Sherwood, News at Twelve. BBC Radio 4: The Weeping Child by Jane Gardam.
Directing:Say No To Europe- also writer/producer (Oval House); Under Milk Wood; An
Italian Straw Hat; Noah; The Dumb Waiter; The Trigon; The Orchestra; Lost Property
(Women in Theatre), Old King Cole (BOVTS) For The Playwright's Company: over thirty
rehearsed readings of new plays; Double Vision (Sherman Arena); The Cuddy Trap
(Arnolfini). Founded The Hotwells Theatre Project: The Mysteries by Tony Harrison. For
Crisp Theatre: Female Parts; Sweete Shakespeare; Effie's Burning; The Trojan Women;
April in Paris.
She has written plays, poems, scripts, sketches, translations, as well as articles and
reviews; run classes and workshops.
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Kim Hicks
Photo: Bob Willingham |
Bristol born, bred and still resident, Kim trained for three years at the BOVTS: she is
best known locally for her one woman shows Courtship and Couples? based on the
writings of Jane Austen and Dorothy Parker. Other work includes The Midwife in The
Choice; Solveig and the Green Clad Woman in Peer Gynt; Hazel in Up and Under; Viola
in Twelfth Night; Nora in A Doll’s House; the Art Student and Dorelia in Self Portrait by
Bristol playwright Sheila Yeger (over the course of three different productions Kim
painted over a hundred copies of the Gwen John Self Portrait in a Red Blouse live on stage
in oils in full view of the audience). Television: Jessie Bronn in The Master of Ballantrae;
Karen Pym in Just Like Eddie; Mattea Cabot in Who Killed Cabot?; a recent episode of
Casualty: regularly records unabridged audio books, which have a worldwide circulation,
for Chivers. Her latest one woman show was All Aboard: A Triton among the Minnows
based on the wonderfully evocative diaries of passengers on the famous SS Great Britain
during her voyages to and from Australia in the mid 1800s. |