DAWN FINNERTY

artistic director

Dawn is an actor and director. She is a graduate of the Arden School of Theatre.

Her credits as a director include The Jungle Book,  Alice in Wonderland, Whale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Road, and for fEAST Salt,Twas the Night Before Christmas, Signal Fires, Comfort and Joy (Merrily on High), Dulcie, Walter, and  Hansel, and Gretel, Elephant, Red Riding Hood and Tales from The Motherland.

As an actor for fEAST theatre, Dawn performed in The Canada Boys, Parachute, Winter ’53, Into Thin Air, Signal Fires, ‘Oh Come Let us Adore Him’ (Merrily on High), Rosa Mendoza, Post, The Hollyhock Trilogy and Tales from The Motherland.

Other theatre credits include: Ladies’ Day (Sheringham Little Theatre), Nectarine and 5K Marriage (INK festival 2023), Our Town (Sheringham Little Theatre), For the INK Festival 2019 – The Ties that Bind us (play),  Footsteps and Another Retreat from Dunkirk (Radio). On the Piste, Hunchback of Notre Dame (Hull Truck), Hold Ya (Red Ladder Theatre Company), Forever (M6 Theatre Company), The Way of the World (Royal Exchange), Too Much Punch for Judy, Legal Weapon (Ape Theatre Company), Romeo & Juliet, The Macbeth Files (Manchester Actors), United on a Wednesday Night (Sheffield Crucible).

Film and television credits include: BAFTA winning TV film Britz, The Ghost Squad, The Royal, Children’s Ward and Casualty.

ROB JOHN

co-founder & associate director

Rob John is a teacher, playwright and theatre director. His published stage plays include, The Spaceman, For Ever and Ever and Living with Lady Macbeth which has been performed in over thirty countries worldwide.

Rob is a co-founder of fEAST  theatre for whom he wrote One Eighty, The Canada Boys, Parachute, Winter ’53 and Into Thin Air, Signal fires and Merrily on High (with Robin McLouglin) and Rosa Mendoza, The Hollyhock Trilogy and Tales from the Motherland.

Rob has written for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Schools’ Radio. His recent work for the BBC includes Archie Dobson’s War, a children’s online radio play about World War One.  His  A-Z of World War One won a Royal Television Society Award in 2015. Rob is co-author (with Patrice Baldwin) of Inspiring Writing Through Drama.

More recently, Rob was commissioned by the INK festival to write a play for young people addressing the topic of suicide. “The Drummer Boy” received funding from the Suffolk Safeguarding Partnership and Suffolk Public Health, and toured schools and colleges in Suffolk during the Summer term 2025.

ROBIN MCLOUGHLIN

associate director

Robin is an actor, writer and producer. He trained at Bretton Hall and the Central School of Speech and Drama.

For writing, he won a Fringe First for Dumbstruck in 2013 and has written several scripts for The Guildhall School of Speech and Drama including Blackout, Derry Halloween and Beasts of London. In 2018 he adapted Jeremy Page’s novel Salt for fEAST, he also wrote Comfort and Joy in Merrily on High (2020). His latest play is The Peggottys which will tour Norfolk and Suffolk in 2026. Robin has also worked as a dramaturg for The Lord Chamberlain’s Men, contributing abridged versions of Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet.

As an actor for fEAST Theatre, Robin has played Dennis in One-Eighty, Charlie in Battery, Jack in The Canada Boys, Jimmy in Parachute, Malcolm in Winter 53, Kipper in Salt, Melvin in Into Thin Air, Keith in Rosa Mendoza, Manny in Elephant and Malcolm and Rich in Tales from The Motherland.

Other stage credits include Waiting for Godot, The Rover, Druthers, The Factory, Firing Blanks, Such Stuff as Dreams, Unplugged, Midnight at the Boar’s Head, Dumbstruck and Our Town.

FERN BLEVINS

set and prop design

Fern Blevins: Set & Prop Design Fern Blevins is a theatre designer, scenic painter and puppet-maker. Recent design credits include: Elephant,  Rosa Mendoza, Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, Dulcie and Walter (fEAST Theatre), The Witch And The Egg (Luminous Tales), Lorefolk, Horse Play, Voices of Norfolk (Whiting’s On The Wall). Scenic, prop and puppet credits include: There’s No Place Like Cromer (Whiting’s On The Wall), American Idiot (The Arts Theatre), Dear Lupin (Apollo Theatre), In Praise Of Love (Theatre Royal Bath), MEEK (Headlong), The Roundabout (Park Theatre), Love Me Tender (UK tour,) Alice in Wonderland (Guildford Shakespeare Company), Trouble in Mind (Theatre Royal Bath), Robin Hood (Theatre Chipping Norton) and The Perfect Murder, Dead Simple and Not Dead Enough (Jass Productions). A cradle-to-grave approach, with a focus on re-use and re-purpose, means her work is as low-impact environmentally as possible.

Fern’s versatile skills and imaginative approach to design help to bring fEAST’s stories to life in visually striking ways.

MARK FAWCETT

sound design and composer

Mark runs the audio business Fish Need Snorkels. He studied physics at Durham University and has over twenty years’ experience in the recording industry. His work includes solo artists, string quartets, rock bands and symphony orchestras, both in the studio and on location throughout the UK. Mark has worked with internationally renowned artists such as Nicholas Daniel (Oboist/Conductor), Mike Cox (first flute BBC Symphony Orchestra, London sinfonietta, Professor at the Royal Academy), Julius Drake (internationally acclaimed pianist, working with many of the world’s leading artists), Bob and Barn (film and Sony video game composers) and the Bingham, Coull, Castalien, Artesian and Maggini String Quartets. Mark plays guitar in bands and is a founder member of the Neil Young tribute band Don’t Spook The Horse. He is a singer songwriter and has produced three albums and written music for BBC World Service’s ‘Farming Today’. He has designed sound for the last ten fEAST productions and a number of other dramatic commissions.

Mark’s musical ear and technical expertise in sound design ensure that fEAST’s productions resonate emotionally and atmospherically. Mark also tours and operates every show.