2014 Company Profiles

Chris Bianchi

ACTOR

This season: The Dukes in AS YOU LIKE IT, Jellaby in ARCADIA. Previously for SATTF: Edward IV and James Tyrell in RICHARD III. Murellus & Cinna the Poet in JULIUS CAESAR, Agrippa in ANTONY & CLEOPATRA, Lear's Fool in KING LEAR and Gaev in THE CHERRY ORCHARD.

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LIZ PURNELL

Trained: Bristol University - M.A.(Mus) music composition
       
For SATTF: Richard III, Anthony and Cleopatra, Othello, Hamlet, Much ado about Nothing, Love's Labour's Lost, Three Sisters, Macbeth (MD), Coriolanus, Twelfth Night, Troilus and Cressida, Richard II, The Comedy of Errors, King Lear and The Cherry Orchard

Other Theatre: Hackney Empire - Angle Theatre, Commercial Road, The Sea at Night, Khadija is 18
Rondo Theatre, Bath
Searchlights over Bemmy
Ustinov Theatre, Bath
Knives in Hens
Show of Strength- The Wills' Girls, The Camp,
Tobacco Factory Productions, Treasure Island, Huck Finn, A Christmas Carol, Robin Hood, Wozzeck, School for Wives, Topless Mum in Dead Hero Shocker!

Kaos Theatre, Cirencester-
Resident composer 1992-95 - numerous productions

Film/TV/radio: A Season in Hell (Radio 3)
She, (Radio 4)
The Element of Water (Radio 4)
A Triton Amongst the Minnows (Radio 4)
Wildlife on One (BBC)
A Bitter Inheritance (BBC)
VATV (Granada)
Mindgames and Playgrounds (Zagreus)
Spud (Charybdis computer games)

Concert works included:
Electric Water, SWA commission (live electronic music to early underwater films)
Wetland Water Wings, for ensemble and soundbeam (Festival of Birds 2008)
Careless Talk Costs Lives, for brass ensemble and tape (SWA Commission)
Such Furious Fires, song cycle (Brunel Ensemble Commission)
Homage to an Industrial Past, electroacoustic piece (finalist in BBC Talent)
For Gabriel, electroacoustic piece featuring Andy Sheppard (Mixing It, Radio 3)
Music for Metal Instruments (Bristol Brass Consort Commission, Lottery funded)
Not Waving but Drowning (Brunel Ensemble, Brighton Festival)

Short Film:
Murmuration, soundtrack features Shelia Chandra. Created for Festival of Birds and  Abolition 200 weekend, 2007.