Staff & Board

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, WhaleA Midsummer Night’s DreamRoad, and for fEAST Salt,Twas the Night Before Christmas, Signal Fires, Comfort and Joy (Merrily on High), Dulcie, Walter, and  Hansel, and Gretel.

As an actor for fEAST theatre, Dawn performed in The Canada BoysParachuteWinter ’53,  Into Thin Air, Signal Fires, ‘Oh Come Let us Adore Him’ (Merrily on High), Rosa Mendoza and Post!

Other theatre credits include: 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 PisteHunchback 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 JudyLegal Weapon (Ape Theatre Company), Romeo & JulietThe Macbeth Files (Manchester Actors), United on a Wednesday Night (Sheffield Crucible).

Film and television credits include: BAFTA winning TV film Britz, The Ghost SquadThe 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 includeThe SpacemanFor 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 EightyThe Canada BoysParachuteWinter ’53 and Into Thin Air, Signal fires and Merrily on High (with Robin McLouglin) and Rosa Mendoza.

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.

Frequent Collaborators

ROBIN
MCLOUGHLIN

actor, writer and producer

MANDY
MCKENNA

co-founder and director

TABITHA WOODGETT

performer and set designer

MARK FAWCETT

sound design and composer

OWEN EVANS

performer

Sally Blouet

SALLY BLOUET

performer and graphic and web designer

DAVID GREEVES

photographer

LES CHAPPELL

lighting designer

Board of Directors

DES REYNOLDS

ROB JOHN

DAWN FINNERTY