About Reveal Theatre Company
Reveal is a member of the ITC (Independent Theatre Council) and ACA (Action for Children’s Arts).
Artistic Director: Robert Marsden
Associate Director: Andrew Raffle
Associate Artist: Dominic Meir
Resident Designer: Laura Clarkson
Touring Consultant: Donald Auty
Freelance Practitioners: Dominic Meir,
Emily Bowman, Eleanor Bott
As Artistic Director of Reveal Theatre, Robert has produced and directed productions in the Midlands, London and touring including Singin’ in the Rain, Sticks and Stones, The Most Dangerous Man in England, Hitting Town, Trench Kiss, Two, the documentary play On The Home Front, Charley’s Aunt and Teechers.
Since 1999, Robert has been heavily involved in pantomime, and has written and directed numerous productions for Stephen Boden, WISH Theatre at Crewe Lyceum; New Vic Theatre, Queens Theatre Stoke on Trent, Stiwt Theatre Wrexham, Compass Theatre, Ickenham, DGO and Courtyard Theatre, Belfast.
As a freelance director, Robert has worked at the Yvonne Arnaud Guildford, Stephen Joseph Scarborough, Bolton Octagon, Southwark Playhouse, Oxford Playhouse and Aberystwyth Arts Centre on productions ranging from working with Alan Ayckbourn on his play Sugar Daddies (National No 1 Tour) and Harvest (devised), Some Enchanted Evening and Romeo and Juliet. He has enjoyed directing the musicals Merrily We Roll Along, Barnum and Fiddler on the Roof.
Most of Robert’s work from 2001 to 2006 was with the New Vic Theatre, Stoke and was Associate Director (Borderlines). Robert directed or assisted on over twenty five productions for mainstage, studio and the internationally acclaimed Borderlines department. Work there included Some Enchanted Evening, Stealing Dreams, Fight for Shelton Bar (also adaptation), Face It, and assisted on Carmen (2003 Tour version)and Outside Edge.
Robert has directed at Drama Schools and Universities in London, Wales, Keele, Manchester. He also is a Guest Lecturer in Drama Practice (Acting and Directing) at Staffordshire University.
Writing has included A Sense of (re)Direction and The Story of Mrs M (New Vic) and The Most Dangerous Man in England. He is a member of the Directors Guild of Great Britain and has had articles published in The Sunday Times, Direct magazine and The Stage and has worked for BBC Radio 4 Drama.
Training: Middlesex University / RESAD (Madrid).
MA Theatre Directing The University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
BA (Hons) Drama.
For Reveal Theatre: Sticks and Stones, One World, A Woman Alone.
Andrew is currently Artistic Director of Burnley Youth Theatre where he has directed Rufus Norris’ Sleeping Beauty and Aesop’s Fables.
Directing Credits: Jesus Christ Superstar, Oliver! (Millfield Arts Centre, Edmonton); Pinocchio and Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Applause Productions, Tour: UK theatres); The Empty Chair (White Horse Theatre, Germany); The Playboy of the Western World (Triskellion Theatre Company); Teechers (Carlton TV Workshop); Extremities (Transient Theatre Company); Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Wind in the Willows, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Peter and the Wolf, Beauty and the Beast, Frosty the Snowman, Mother Goose and Recycling Roadshow (TIE, various companies).
Assistant Director: Hamlet and As You Like It (RJ Williamson Company); Macbeth and Promised Land (White Horse Theatre, Germany).
Other: Education Associate for Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Drama Live Director/Tutor for Rod Natkiel Associates and The Prince’s Trust, Guest Acting Tutor for The Midlands Academy of Dance and Drama, Carlton TV Workshop and Nottingham City Council.
Writing/Adaptation: Love, Honour & Obey (Transient Theatre); Oliver! – abridgement (Millfield Arts Centre); Goldilocks – additional material (Applause Productions); George Orwell’s 1984 – in development (Reveal Theatre). Various scripts for youth theatre performance.
Trained: Arden School of Theatre, Manchester.
For Reveal Theatre: Singin’ In the Rain, On The Home Front, Sticks and Stones.
As Designer: All Mixed Up, Blow the Whistle, Fright Fest (New Vic Borderlines, Newcastle under Lyme); Some Enchanted Evening (New Vic Theatre, Newcastle under Lyme); Katy Clay, The Government Inspector, ( New Vic Education) The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Good Woman of Schezwan (Arden School of Theatre Guest Designer). WLTM (new writing for Stoke Rep) Beauty and the Beast floor design for Crewe Lyceum plus work for Geese Theatre Company UK.
Laura is also in the process of designing her first main stage production at the New Vic Theatre of Great Expectations.
As Assistant Designer: Laura has been Assistant Designer / Senior Props Maker at the New Vic Theatre for the past 3 years and has assisted Patrick Connellan on Abigail’s Party, Lis Evans on Kes and Beauty and the Beast and Kate Bunce on The Wizard of Oz (New Vic Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent) Laura has worked at the New Vic Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent for the past seven years as Scenic Artist and props maker working on approximately 80 shows.
Other Scenic Artist/ Prop maker work: The Barber Of Seville And Dr Faust (Mid Wales Opera); Vurt (Contact Theatre); And A Nightingale Sang, Return To The Forbidden Planet, Frame Of Mind (Bolton Octagon); La Bayadere (French Paris Opera); Polychronicon (Chester Gateway).
Television and Film: Britannic Street, BT Talk Works Promotion, BP, International Climate Control, Manchester Mardi Gras (Ric Mellis Productions); Hollyoaks and Brookside (Mersey Television).
Training: Guildhall.
For Reveal Theatre: On the Home Front, Teechers, Hitting Town, Two and Charley’s Aunt.
Theatre: Beast in Beauty and the Beast (WISH/Crewe Lyceum); Once We Were Mothers (New Vic Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent); Hold Tight,it’s Dennis’s 60s Panto Night (David Graham Productions); The Fight for Shelton Bar! – 30 Years On!, Aladdin (New Vic Studio, Stoke-on-Trent); Lost (New Vic Borderlines, Stoke-on-Trent / York Theatre Royal); Blow the Whistle, Face It, Break the Silence, No Ball Games, Dr Danger and the Soul Survivor and Finding Me (New Vic Borderlines, Stoke-on-Trent); A Clockwork Orange (European Tour).
Film: Dream (Acier); In His Life – The John Lennon Story (NBC).
Television: In a Land of Plenty and Doctors (BBC).
Radio: Hitting Home (BBC Stoke/New Vic Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent).
Other: Dominic is an Associate Artist for New Vic Borderlines, Stoke-on-Trent