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.

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 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 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.

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.