Mark Espiner
Mark Espiner has worked as a multimedia producer, researcher, national journalist and in the theatre. He is a co-founder of Sound and 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 by Louise Blackwell, Kate McGrath and Sarah Quelch, Fuel produces the work of some of the most exciting theatre makers in the UK. Working in partnership with national and international venues and festivals, funders and investors, Fuel is committed to exploring and developing the broadest potential of the artists and their work. Creativity, strategy and interaction are at the heart of Fuel.
Since its inception, Fuel has produced 24 projects, with more than 700 performances staged for over 29,000 audience members. Fuel received a Herald Angel for its work in 2005. Fuel is currently working with Will Adamsdale, Blind Summit, The Clod Ensemble, Gecko, the Lyric Hammersmith, Mark Murphy, Peter Reder, Sound&Fury, and Uninvited Guests. Fuel is supported by BAC and the Jerwood Charity’s Young Producer Bursary.
