People

Co-Artistic Directors

Liam Jarvis

Liam Jarvis is Co-Artistic Director and Co-founder of Analogue. He graduated from Royal Holloway, University of London with First class Hons. before being offered a place to train in directing at one of Britain's leading drama schools, LAMDA. Since graduating, he has worked nationally and internationally with recognised theatre artists and institutions such as Gecko, Theatre-Rites, Chris Goode and The Young Vic. He has successfully founded award winning company Theatre Trash, as well as co-founding a New Writing Festival, Doing Lines, in association with writers from The Royal Court Young Writer's Course. Liam is also a freelance director having directed on events for large brand campaigns; most recently Diesel's 'Fuel For Life' campaign (to re-open the company's flagship store on the King's Road, London). Liam has been working as a Visiting Lecturer at Royal Holloway University since 2004, where he teaches contemporary theatre practice. He has run theatre workshops, residencies and Master classes both throughout the UK and internationally with all ages. Alongside his pedagogical practice, Liam is a scholar researching contemporary performance. In 2007, he was offered an AHRC award to complete an MRes in his chosen field, exploring the shifts in performance practices amidst a climate of increased mediatisation (for which he received a Distinction). In 2010 he will commence his PhD at Royal Holloway (funded by the AHRC), researching the ethics of performance in participatory live performance and contemporary sculpture drawing on neuroscientifc discourses.

Hannah Barker

Hannah Barker is Co-Artistic Director and Co-founder of Analogue. She spent a year working in conjunction with VSO using drama for AIDS-awareness initiatives, before studying an undergraduate Theatre degree at Royal Holloway, University of London, and an MA in Advanced Theatre Practice at Central School of Speech and Drama. She further trained as a performer at The Desmond Jones School of Mime & Physical Theatre and The Actor's Studio in association with Pinewood studios. Hannah is an associate performer of Theatre Trash, co-devising and performing Battery Operated Birds at Pleasance Above in 2002.  She co-found Moot Theatre and has since been involved in work with site-specific group, Punchdrunk and toured with award winning theatre-in-education company, Quantum. She has written, directed and performed at the Edinburgh and Dublin Fringe festivals, BAC, Hoxton Hall, The Young Vic, Hackney Empire, The Stiwt and abroad in New York and with members of Theatre workshop in Dar es Salaam. Hannah worked at Sayle Screen, an agency for writers and directors, heading foreign licensing for Shelagh Delaney (A Taste of Honey) and Patrick Barlow (39 Steps) and has since been working with Blink productions and GinRiot to develop new scripts for World productions, Babycow and the BBC. Hannah has worked and continues to write for YoungMinds Magazine, edited by recognised journalist Angela Neustatter, as well as facilitating theatre workshops for Analogue, Bigfoot, NYT and the Lyric.

Producer

Ric Watts

Ric Watts has been Producer for Analogue since September 2007. Ric studied Theatre and Performance Studies at University of Warwick (First Class, BA Hons) and as a Creative Producer on the MA Advanced Theatre Practice course at Central School of Speech and Drama.  He started his career as Producer at Your Imagination, where he produced work by Cartoon de Salvo (The Sunflower Plot, The Chaingang Gang), Ridiculusmus (The Importance of Being Earnest, How To be Funny), Kazuko Hohki (Evidence for the Existence of Borrowers), and Your Imagination / BAC (The Ratcatcher of Hamelin). Since 2006, Ric has been working as an independent producer, and has produced a number of shows including: the multi-award winning FOOD for theimaginarybody, Particularly in the Heartland by NYC based company The TEAM, FIT by Rikki Beadle-Blair, Filter's Twelfth Night, The Adventures of Wound Man and Shirley by Chris Goode and Paperweight by The Frequency D'ici.  He is currently Festival Producer for the Queer Up North International Festival where is working with Quarantine, Christopher Green and Development Lab, alongside which he is developing new work with Analogue, The Frequency D'ici, Starving Artists and Unlimited Theatre.

Associates

The key people we have collaborated with:

Alexander Garfath - Sound Designer for Mile End and Beachy Head.

Emma Jowett - Co-writer, devisor and performer for Mile End and Beachy Head

Thor Hayton - Multimedia Designer for Mile End and Beachy Head.

Lewis Hetherington - Co-writer, devisor and performer for Mile End and Beachy Head.

Edmund McKay - Lighting Designer for Beachy Head.

Chris Pye - Lighting Designer for Mile End and Beachy Head.

Dan Rebellato - Co-writer for Mile End and Beachy Head

Simon Slater - Composer for Mile End and Beachy Head.

Caroline Steinbeis - Associate Director for Mile End.

Sam Taylor - Devisor and performer for Mile End and Beachy Head

Daniel Tobin - Devisor and performer for Mile End and Beachy Head