Creators
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Other Acting credits include: The Remarkable Robin Armstrong’s Extraordinary Christmas Adventure (Queens Hall, Hexham) The Snow Queen, Get Santa!, The Little Detective Agency, The Goblin Who Saved Christmas, The Hoppings (Northern Stage) Pause, (The Stage’s top picks for 2021) Three Shorts, Wrong Place Wrong Time, Bricks and Mortar, Christmas Carol (Alphabetti Theatre) Woven Bones Shortlisted for Performance of The Year Living North 2019 (Cap-a-Pie) Stand ‘n’ Tan (Open Clasp) The Christmas Tree (Gala Theatre, Durham)
Landslide (PP Productions) Finding Away (Chilli Studios) Rat Boy,
A Man in A Dress Talking About Football (Luke Barnes, Live Theatre) Emmerdale (ITV).
As Director: Then Leap (commissioned by & premiered at The Lowry) Landslide (PP Productions) Listen Up! Wilfred, Bonnie And The Bonnettes Response piece 40 Kola Comedy Rolla (Alphabetti Theatre, NE Comedy Hothouse); County Lines (Kendal Brewery Arts) Space: A Herstory (Curious Arts) Chained Reaction, Networking: Your Voice North East, 10 Minutes to…. (Live Theatre)
Stupid R&D (Northern Stage)
Paula is a regular host & collaborator for Women Are Mint and is ongoing Associate Artist with Theatre Royal, Newcastle’s training programme Project A and Associate Artist with Alphabetti Theatre. Her participatory work has led to collaborations with National Theatre and the RSC and in 2009 she was awarded the Channel 4 Just For Laughs’ Best Actress Award for short film Car Trouble.
PAULA PENMAN
DIRECTOR
Paula has twenty-three years experience working as an actor, director and theatre maker, most notably for regional and national tours of solo shows Donna Disco (Live Theatre, Winner of Wimbledon Theatre’s Best of the Fringe Award) and Brown Bird (Bush Theatre).
ANNA ROBINSON
WRITER/DESIGNER
Anna is a stage designer and theatre maker from and based in Newcastle upon Tyne. She works across many genres and is particularly passionate about theatre with a strong social commentary.
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Stage Design credits: Fat Chance (Live Theatre, Pleasance Dome at Edinburgh Fringe) Flux, When This Is Over (Mortal Fools) No. 9 (Alphabetti Theatre, Northern Stage) Goblins, Santa Must Die, 10 Things to Do in a Small Cumbrian Town (listed in Exeunt Writers’ favourite shows of 2021), Sucking Eggs (Alphabetti Theatre) Care About Care (Curious Monkey) After Winter (Streetwise Opera, Middlesbrough Town Hall) Mama Rhi’s Lady Garden (Northern Stage) Am I Alone in This?, Where Do We Go Now?, Where Do We Belong?, Heritage (Northern Stage Young Company) Chicken Licken a TaleJam (Gala Theatre) Turning Points (Live Youth Theatre) Christmas Crackers (Live Theatre) The Untitled (Goldsmith’s University, Tristan Bates Theatre)
Assistant credits: Midsummer Night’s Dream (Not Too Tame, Shakespeare North Playhouse, Northern Stage) Love From (Alphabetti Theatre) Ella Grey (Northern Stage) Antigone (Actors of Dionysus)
Tv/Film design credits: Offended (Sky Arts short) Inner God (Gateway Studio) Ruby (Meerkat Films) Becoming a Karen, 5 Signs You’re Becoming a P.R*C.K (BBC Laugh Lessons) Feast (BBC Short, collaboration with New Writing North)
Anna wrote, co-produced and designed No. 9 at Alphabetti Theatre in February 2022 which gained four stars in The Stage and was mentioned in the Houses of Parliament.
Current Projects: The Rime (Scenographer, Matthew Tuckey) No. 9 (Spring 2024 tour)
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Training: LIPA.
Theatre Credits: The Secret Garden (NE Tour), Wor Bella (NE Tour), The Snow Queen, The War of The Worlds (Northern Stage), The Importance of Being Earnest (Hangfire Theatre/ Durham Gala), Skellig (Nottingham Playhouse), Wormtown (The Customs House/Alphabetti), Faustus (The Globe, Sam Wanamaker Festival), Three Jumpers (Unearthed Theatre at Edinburgh Fringe), Sleeping Beauty, Robinson Crusoe, Snow White, Robin Hood (Durham Gala), Pericles (Brighton Open Air Theatre).
TV/ Radio: The World’s Worst Dinner Party (Channel4), The Dumping Ground (CBBC), Vera (ITV), The Infirmary (Amazon/Audible), and a series of Radio Shorts (Cranked Anvil).
Other: Hylton, We Have a Problem (Tiny Dragon Productions)
LAUREN WAINE
PERFORMER
Lauren is thrilled to be back performing in No 9. Lauren truly hopes you enjoy the show and would like to thank Anna and Paula for the opportunity, as well as her Mam, for just being her Mam (and because she’d get in trouble for not mentioning her!).
Producers
Eilis Mcgowan
Producer
Eilis graduated with a degree in English Literature BA and Cultural and Creative Industries Management MA.
Eilis worked as General Manager of Alphabetti Theatre before moving into producing.
Credits include Opolis (2022) A Place To Fall To Pieces (2022).
Soda road
producers
Soda Road is a creative producing company set up by Paula Penman and Caroline Liversidge. Based in the North East, we create funny, challenging, and entertaining work that bridges the gap between theatre, comedy, and screen. We make work for fun, for mental wellbeing, and for the craic.
COLLABORATORS
Rebecca
glendenning LAYCOCK
Stage manager/
lighting design
for 2023
Rebecca is a Stage Manager and technician based in Newcastle Upon Tyne specialising in small to mid-scale touring productions. She has been working as a freelance stage manager since 2016 and works regularly with Northern based artists, companies, and organisations on regional and national tours. Her most recent credits include Three Bears at Christmas (Kitchen Zoo), Meggie Magicia (Dir. Natasha Haws) and My Mate Ren (Dir. Holly Gallagher).
LUCY
CURRY
CHoreography supported by
Lucy is a creative artist and theatre-maker from the North East. Her role as a movement director has seen her work across the region at venues such as Alphabetti, Northern Stage, The Customs House, Live Theatre and with various independent companies. Lucy’s movement directing has also expanded and she now also works as an Intimacy Director.
Lucy is passionate about telling important stories and working with new, innovative writing. She is especially interested in raising the voices of women. So, when asked to be part of the No9 team, it was an absolute no brainer.
NICK TYLER
TECHNICAL
CO-ORDINATOR /
STAGE MANAGER For 2022
Nick is a musician, sound designer and theatre technician based in Newcastle upon Tyne. He plays guitar with folk rock group Holy Moly and The Crackers and has been working in theatre since 2018. Recent productions he’s worked on at Alphabetti include Santa Must Die, Rocket Girl, Sucking Eggs and Three Shorts.
LUKE MADDISON
VOICEOVER
Luke is a professional actor from the North East. Beginning his career at 18 Luke has gained a wealth of experience in many different genres of performance from Stage and Screen to Radio and Opera.
Luke is extremely excited for the No.9 team and can't wait to see what happens next with the project!
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“We have a number of opportunities to get involved in such as performing in the space for theatre companies, writers, directors, poets, comedians and musicians. If you would like to be programmed at Alphabetti please visit our Programming Policy page for more information.”
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Some previous credits include:
'Inspector George Gently' - BBC
'War of the Worlds' - Northern Stage
'Whale of a time' - Peachplant Productions
'Leaving' (National Tour) - Curious Monkey
'Der Rosenkavalier' (National Tour) - Opera North
'Isolation' - Alphabetti theatre
'When the boat comes in' Pt1/Pt2- Customs House
'1916 No turning back' - Gala
'Supernova' - Live theatre
Alphabetti Theatre
Co-producers for 2022
Alphabetti Theatre is a small independent producing theatre in Newcastle upon Tyne. It is a creative space to experiment, evolve and discover.
No. 9 was part of their programming opportunity - pitch an idea to them and if they select it they co-produce a three week run.
Creators
PAULA PENMAN
DIRECTOR
Paula has twenty-three years experience working as an actor, director and theatre maker, most notably for regional and national tours of solo shows Donna Disco (Live Theatre, Winner of Wimbledon Theatre’s Best of the Fringe Award) and Brown Bird (Bush Theatre).
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Other Acting credits include: The Remarkable Robin Armstrong’s Extraordinary Christmas Adventure (Queens Hall, Hexham) The Snow Queen, Get Santa!, The Little Detective Agency, The Goblin Who Saved Christmas, The Hoppings (Northern Stage) Pause, (The Stage’s top picks for 2021) Three Shorts, Wrong Place Wrong Time, Bricks and Mortar, Christmas Carol (Alphabetti Theatre) Woven Bones Shortlisted for Performance of The Year Living North 2019 (Cap-a-Pie) Stand ‘n’ Tan (Open Clasp) The Christmas Tree (Gala Theatre, Durham)
Landslide (PP Productions) Finding Away (Chilli Studios) Rat Boy,
A Man in A Dress Talking About Football (Luke Barnes, Live Theatre) Emmerdale (ITV).
As Director: Then Leap (commissioned by & premiered at The Lowry) Landslide (PP Productions) Listen Up! Wilfred, Bonnie And The Bonnettes Response piece 40 Kola Comedy Rolla (Alphabetti Theatre, NE Comedy Hothouse); County Lines (Kendal Brewery Arts) Space: A Herstory (Curious Arts) Chained Reaction, Networking: Your Voice North East, 10 Minutes to…. (Live Theatre)
Stupid R&D (Northern Stage)
Paula is a regular host & collaborator for Women Are Mint and is ongoing Associate Artist with Theatre Royal, Newcastle’s training programme Project A and Associate Artist with Alphabetti Theatre. Her participatory work has led to collaborations with National Theatre and the RSC and in 2009 she was awarded the Channel 4 Just For Laughs’ Best Actress Award for short film Car Trouble.
ANNA ROBINSON
WRITER/DESIGNER
Anna is a stage designer and theatre maker from and based in Newcastle upon Tyne. She works across many genres and is particularly passionate about theatre with a strong social commentary.
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Stage Design credits: Fat Chance (Live Theatre, Pleasance Dome at Edinburgh Fringe) Flux, When This Is Over (Mortal Fools) No. 9 (Alphabetti Theatre, Northern Stage) Goblins, Santa Must Die, 10 Things to Do in a Small Cumbrian Town (listed in Exeunt Writers’ favourite shows of 2021), Sucking Eggs (Alphabetti Theatre) Care About Care (Curious Monkey) After Winter (Streetwise Opera, Middlesbrough Town Hall) Mama Rhi’s Lady Garden (Northern Stage) Am I Alone in This?, Where Do We Go Now?, Where Do We Belong?, Heritage (Northern Stage Young Company) Chicken Licken a TaleJam (Gala Theatre) Turning Points (Live Youth Theatre) Christmas Crackers (Live Theatre) The Untitled (Goldsmith’s University, Tristan Bates Theatre)
Assistant credits: Midsummer Night’s Dream (Not Too Tame, Shakespeare North Playhouse, Northern Stage) Love From (Alphabetti Theatre) Ella Grey (Northern Stage) Antigone (Actors of Dionysus)
Tv/Film design credits: Offended (Sky Arts short) Inner God (Gateway Studio) Ruby (Meerkat Films) Becoming a Karen, 5 Signs You’re Becoming a P.R*C.K (BBC Laugh Lessons) Feast (BBC Short, collaboration with New Writing North)
Anna wrote, co-produced and designed No. 9 at Alphabetti Theatre in February 2022 which gained four stars in The Stage and was mentioned in the Houses of Parliament.
Current Projects: The Rime (Scenographer, Matthew Tuckey) No. 9 (Spring 2024 tour)
LAUREN WAINE
PERFORMER
Lauren is thrilled to be back performing in No 9. Lauren truly hopes you enjoy the show and would like to thank Anna and Paula for the opportunity, as well as her Mam, for just being her Mam (and because she’d get in trouble for not mentioning her!).
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Training: LIPA.
Theatre Credits: The Secret Garden (NE Tour), Wor Bella (NE Tour), The Snow Queen, The War of The Worlds (Northern Stage), The Importance of Being Earnest (Hangfire Theatre/ Durham Gala), Skellig (Nottingham Playhouse), Wormtown (The Customs House/Alphabetti), Faustus (The Globe, Sam Wanamaker Festival), Three Jumpers (Unearthed Theatre at Edinburgh Fringe), Sleeping Beauty, Robinson Crusoe, Snow White, Robin Hood (Durham Gala), Pericles (Brighton Open Air Theatre).
TV/ Radio: The World’s Worst Dinner Party (Channel4), The Dumping Ground (CBBC), Vera (ITV), The Infirmary (Amazon/Audible), and a series of Radio Shorts (Cranked Anvil).
Other: Hylton, We Have a Problem (Tiny Dragon Productions)
Producers
Eilis Mcgowan
Producer
Eilis graduated with a degree in English Literature BA and Cultural and Creative Industries Management MA.
Eilis worked as General Manager of Alphabetti Theatre before moving into producing.
Credits include Opolis (2022) A Place To Fall To Pieces (2022).
Soda road
producers
Soda Road is a creative producing company set up by Paula Penman and Caroline Liversidge. Based in the North East, we create funny, challenging, and entertaining work that bridges the gap between theatre, comedy, and screen. We make work for fun, for mental wellbeing, and for the craic.
COLLABORATORS
Rebecca
glendenning LAYCOCK
Stage manager/
lighting design
fROM 2023
Rebecca is a Stage Manager and technician based in Newcastle Upon Tyne specialising in small to mid-scale touring productions. She has been working as a freelance stage manager since 2016 and works regularly with Northern based artists, companies, and organisations on regional and national tours. Her most recent credits include Three Bears at Christmas (Kitchen Zoo), Meggie Magicia (Dir. Natasha Haws) and My Mate Ren (Dir. Holly Gallagher).
LUCY
CURRY
CHoreography supported by
Lucy is a creative artist and theatre-maker from the North East. Her role as a movement director has seen her work across the region at venues such as Alphabetti, Northern Stage, The Customs House, Live Theatre and with various independent companies. Lucy’s movement directing has also expanded and she now also works as an Intimacy Director.
Lucy is passionate about telling important stories and working with new, innovative writing. She is especially interested in raising the voices of women. So, when asked to be part of the No9 team, it was an absolute no brainer.
LUKE MADDISON
VOICEOVER
Luke is a professional actor from the North East. Beginning his career at 18 Luke has gained a wealth of experience in many different genres of performance from Stage and Screen to Radio and Opera.
Luke is extremely excited for the No.9 team and can't wait to see what happens next with the project!
NICK TYLER
TECHNICAL
CO-ORDINATOR /
STAGE MANAGER For 2022
Nick is a musician, sound designer and theatre technician based in Newcastle upon Tyne. He plays guitar with folk rock group Holy Moly and The Crackers and has been working in theatre since 2018. Recent productions he’s worked on at Alphabetti include Santa Must Die, Rocket Girl, Sucking Eggs and Three Shorts.
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Some previous credits include:
'Inspector George Gently' - BBC
'War of the Worlds' - Northern Stage
'Whale of a time' - Peachplant Productions
'Leaving' (National Tour) - Curious Monkey
'Der Rosenkavalier' (National Tour) - Opera North
'Isolation' - Alphabetti theatre
'When the boat comes in' Pt1/Pt2- Customs House
'1916 No turning back' - Gala
'Supernova' - Live theatre
Alphabetti Theatre
Co-producers for 2022
Alphabetti Theatre is a small independent producing theatre in Newcastle upon Tyne. It is a creative space to experiment, evolve and discover.
No. 9 was part of their programming opportunity - pitch an idea to them and if they select it they co-produce a three week run.
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“We have a number of opportunities to get involved in such as performing in the space for theatre companies, writers, directors, poets, comedians and musicians. If you would like to be programmed at Alphabetti please visit our Programming Policy page for more information.”