JAYNE WOODHOUSE (WRITER)
www.jaynewoodhouse.wordpress.com
Jayne is the author of many successful non-fiction books and novels for children, school curriculum resources and an eBook collection of short stories for adults. She teaches creative writing in her home town of Salisbury, and has encouraged many new writers to achieve their own successes. Since she began writing for the stage in 2015, Jayne has had short and full-length plays performed in theatres in London, Brighton and Salisbury, to critical acclaim.
In 2017 she created Loosely Based TC with co-artistic director Calum Robshaw, to further their shared vision of contemporary theatre. After creating work online during the pandemic, she is delighted to be presenting their fourth live production, Lost Souls. Last year Jayne completed the Criterion Theatre New Writing Programme in London’s West End, one of the most prestigious opportunities for emerging playwrights. She continues this involvement through a new initiate to explore AR /VR technology in drama and storytelling.
CALUM ROBSHAW (DIRECTOR)
http://www.calumrobshaw.com/
Calum is a multi-talented actor, writer and theatre practitioner based in London. Having graduated from East 15 Acting School, Calum went on study Commedia dell’Arte in Italy, with one of the world’s leading practitioners in physical comedy: Antonio Fava. He returned to Italy to further his physical training in the Advanced Diploma in Commedia dell’Arte. In 2015 Calum trained with Fourth Monkey Theatre Company on the ‘Year of the Monkey Course’ and performed at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Calum’s most recent acting work includes his performance of Gus in Never Trust a Man Bun at The Stockwell Playhouse, hosting Online Murder Mysteries with The Digital Murder Mystery Co, Woebot for Loosely Based Theatre and playing Charles Manson in a new immersive musical production based on the life of Janis Joplin. Furthermore he recently had a sell out run at the Wandsworth Fringe in his highly successful and critically acclaimed one-man Clown show, Sonder. Calum is Co- Artistic Director for both Loosely Based Theatre and Into The Fire Theatre. He also leads workshops for professional actors on physical comedy and acting.