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Ben Fensome is an actor/writer (and content creator) who studied playwriting at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Previous work includes Every Seven Years (directed by Scott Le Crass, New Wimbledon Theatre), Linck (directed by Danny West, Edinburgh Fringe), as well as numerous short plays in venues such as The Bush, Park, and Theatre Royal Stratford East. He has been longlisted for the Bruntwood and Papatango prizes and was a finalist as a musical theatre book writer for the Perfect Pitch Award. BUFF is his first full length production and the first time taking a show on a national tour.

Scott was born in Bristol, grew up in Birmingham, trained as an actor at Arts Ed and was a director on the Birmingham Rep’s first Foundry Programme. In 2022, he completed the National Theatre Director’s Course.

He is an Associate Director for Pleasure Dome Theatre Company and has directed all of their productions to date. 

Scott directed the Off Com award winning digital revival of Rose by Martin Sherman starring Maureen Lipman (Hope Mill Theatre/Sky Arts/Broadway HD). In 2023 he was nominated for Best Creative West End Debut at The Stage Awards for his production of Rose. In 2022, he received an Off West End and Broadway World nomination for Best Director for Rose. Last year Rose won an Off West End award for Best Solo Performance. 

Credits include:
Director- Rose (West End), Cut The Crap starring Sharon Osbourne (West End), Toxic (UK Tour), Elmer (UK and International Tour/Sell A Door), Sid (Arts Theatre and UK Tour), The Witches (Watford Palace), Alice in Wonderland (Old, Rep, Birmingham), Jab (Finborough Theatre/Park Theatre), Rose (Hope Mill Theatre/Park Theatre), Country Music (Omnibus Theatre), Zanna Don’t (Old Joint Stock Theatre), Shooting Star, The Musical (The Two Brewers, Clapham), Mad Gay King (King’s Head Theatre), My Life As A Cowboy (Omnibus Theatre), Did You Mean To Fall Like That (Edinburgh Fringe), Pillock (Contact Theatre/Edinburgh Fringe), Wormholes (Omnibus Theatre), Toxic (HOME, Manchester), Buff (Vault Festival/Edinburgh Fringe/Plymouth Theatre Royal).

In 2023, Scott's Vault Festival production's of Buff and Thirsty received an Off Fest nomination. Scott’s revival production of Simon Stephen’s, Country Music won an Off West End award in 2020. He received a Best Director

Jamal trained at the University of Northampton.

Theatre credits include: Little Shop of Horrors (Crucible theatre); Limp Wrist & The Iron Fist (Brixton House); The Big Life (Theatre Royal Stratford East); On Railton Road (Museum of the Home); Midsummer Mechanical (Shakespeare’s Globe); King Lear (Duke of York’s Theatre); Jack and the Beanstalk (Lyric Hammersmith); Sleeping Beauty and the Beast (Battersea Arts Centre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Queen’s Hall, Belfast).

Television credits include: Ruby Speaking (ITV2).

Film credits include: King Lear (National Theatre Live), Giddy Stratospheres, White Noise, Plunge.

Julian studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA), was detailed in Australia’s Stage Whispers as one of the ‘Top 4 Sound Designer and Composers in Australia’ and is currently the Associate Sound Designer at the Finborough Theatre.

Recent sound design work includes: Dear Martin (Arcola Theatre); Acid’s Reign (Pleasance Theatre); Miracle on 34th Street (HOME Manchester); The River (Greenwich Theatre); The End (Bush Theatre); Bombay Superstars (UK Tour); 23.5 Hours (Park Theatre); F**king Men (Waterloo East); The Picture of Dorian Gray (Associate to Clemence Williams - Theatre Royal Haymarket); Sharon Osbourne – Cut The Crap! (Fortune Theatre); The White Factory (Marylebone Theatre - Offie Nomination for Best Sound Design); Miss Peony (Australian Tour); Song From Far Away (HOME Manchester, Hampstead Theatre and BBC Radio 4); ZOG (West End and UK tour); Rose (Hope Mill, Park Theatre, Ambassadors Theatre - Offie Nominated for Best Sound Design); Return To The Dirt (Queensland Theatre Company); Animal (Park Theatre and UK Tour);  Sleepwalking (Hampstead Theatre);  Scrounger (Offie Nomination for Best Sound Design); The Dwarfs (White Bear Theatre – Offie Nomination for Best Sound Design) and Aisha (Tristan Bates – Offie Nomination Best Sound Design). 

Dominic is a Lighting Designer and Production Technician based in Greater Manchester.

He has been working within Music and Theatre since graduating from The University of Hull in 2019 and has worked alongside larger artists across the UK as well as assisting up and coming producers and Playwriters share their unique stories with the wider world.

His Previous Design Credits include;

‘BI-TOPIA’ By Sam Danson [Emmerson and Ward & Sam Danson Productions] (World Premiere- Waterside Arts 2024/25 Tours) Lighting & Sound Designer, Technical Stage Manager. ‘Daddy’s First Gay Date’ By Sam Danson (World Premiere – Chester Storyhouse 2025) Lighting and Sound Designer, Technical Stage Manager. ‘The Steps Between’ By Kenzie Allison [IC Theatre] (World Premiere – Manchester Dance-house, 2025) Lighting Designer & Technician
‘Macbeth’ [IC Theatre] (April 2024) Lighting Designer & Technician. ‘Why Here? Why Them?’ By Kenzie Allison [IC Theatre] (World Premiere – Manchester Dance-house, 2023) Lighting Designer & Technician. ‘A Night with Me, Myself & Bipolar Brenda’ By Natasha Naomi Rae (Touring 2023) Lighting Designer, Sound Designer & Production Technician
‘The Formidable Lizzie Boone’ By Selina Helliwell [Selina Helliwell Productions] (Touring 2021-23) Lighting Designer, Sound Designer & Production Technician

Production Credits Include:

‘So Unfair’ by Daniel Bye [One Tenth Human] (2025 Tour) Co-Technical Stage Manager
‘SHOCK HORROR’ by Ryan Simons [Thunder Road Theatre] (2024 Tour) Technical Manager & Re-Lighter.
‘ROTTEN’ By Josie White [Emmerson and Ward Productions] (2024 Tour) Deputy Technical Stage Manager.

Rob Ward is a writer, performer, producer and Creative Director of Emmerson & Ward. He has penned previously ACE funded plays Away From Home (2013), Gypsy Queen (2016) and The MP, Aunty Mandy & Me (2020) as well as performing in all three shows. Rob received the 2014 Manchester Theatre Awards for Best Fringe Performance and Best New Play for Away From Home and was named as one of the British Council’s Emerging Artists in 2017. Rob’s work has toured across the UK and also at international venues in Auckland, Barrie (Ontario, Canada), Belgrade, Dublin and Frankfurt.

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