Mark Espiner

Mark Espiner has worked as a multimedia producer, researcher, national journalist and in the theatre. He is a co-founder of Sound&Fury and co-directed their debut show War Music at BAC as part of its In The Dark season. He has subsequently directed The Watery Part of the World for the company, which he adapted from Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (BAC and national tour). As a freelance writer and journalist he was written for The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, Sunday Times, Wired and the Wire magazine where he was a columnist for three years on new forms of music. He is a regular music critic for the Evening Standard and has made feature pieces on music and the arts for BBC Radio 3 and 4.

Tom Espiner

Studied Drama at Birmingham University and trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Since leaving theatre school in 1999 his acting credits include : Peggy For You (Hampstead Theatre & West End), Twelfth Night, The Winter’s Tale & Macbeth (Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory and Barbican Pit), Anything Goes & Love’s Labours Lost (National Theatre), The Firework-Maker’s Daughter (Told By An Idiot / Lyric Hammersmith), Jason and the Argonauts (BAC), George and the Dragon (Warwick Arts Centre), Yikes (Unicorn Theatre).

For Sound&Fury : War Music, The Watery Part of the World, Ether frolics.
TV & Film  :  Anybody’s Nightmare (Carlton), The Jewish Revolt (BBC), Stoned (Scala Films)

Tom has also worked as a Foley artist since 1996 providing sound effects for numerous Natural History films, animation films aswell as TV and radio dramas

Dan Jones

Dan Jones trained in theatre direction at the Banff Centre for the Arts and in composition as recipient of the Ralph Vaughan Williams electro-acoustic scholarship at the Centro Richerche Musicali, Rome. His commissioned scores for theatre and film include Slippage for the Rambert Dance Company, Tom Rerts’ Death Train (C4 True Stories), and sound design for Each Day Dies with Sleep and the House Among the Stars by Michel Tremblay (The Orange Tree, Richmond). He wrote the score for the Academy Award nominated feature film Shadow of the Vampire starring John Malkovich and Willem Defoe and produced by Nicholas Cage, and he wrote the score for the BBC’s natural history series Mammals, presented by David Attenborough. His music is published by Faber.

Fuel

Fuel produces fresh work for adventurous people by inspiring artists. Founded in 2004 and led by Louise Blackwell and Kate McGrath, Fuel is a producing organisation which works in partnership with some of the most exciting theatre artists in the UK to develop, create and present new work for all ages. Fuel is currently working with Will Adamsdale, Dave Blake, Clod Ensemble, Inua Ellams, Fevered Sleep, Paul Hodson, Peepolykus, Peter Reder, David Rosenberg, Sound&Fury, Richard Thomas, Will Tucket, Univited Guest and Melanie Wilson. Currently working with Louise and Kate are Ed Collier, Penelope Easton, Christina Elliot, Rebecca Hanna-Grindall, Stuart Hayes and Jenny Paton.