BIOGRAPHIES - Cast and Crew - Is This A Bolt In Your Neck

Abigail Anderson (Writer and Director)
Abigail directed Gonzo Moose’s previous show, the highly acclaimed You Don’t Need to Know That. Currently she is the Associate Director at the Theatre Royal in Bury St Edmunds where she has directed: Twelfth Night, a new adaptation of Three Men in a Boat and Art. Other recent productions as a freelancer include: a national tour of Oliver Twist (Love and Madness); Between the Dark and the Daylight (Southwark Playhouse); Sweet Witchery and Dark Fancies (Scary Little Girls), Food of Love (Hamptons Shakespeare Festival), and sonnet walks in various cities in the UK and US.

Angus Barr (Writer and performer)
Trained at the Poor School before co-founding Ridiculusmus, with whom he worked for five years. He then made a string of short films before returning to theatre with his ecological satire, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Godard! In 2005 he created the musical, Wink the Other Eye, for Wiltons Music Hall, which plays there again this summer. When not working with Gonzo Moose he tries to be artistic director of Bristol-based touring theatre company, Publick Transport. He is also one half of cabaret act, The Banjulele Brothers, though some may prefer to remember him as the keyboard player from 80s pop band, The Pet Dolphins.

Mark Conway (Writer and Performer)
Trained at Circomedia, Centre for Physical Theatre and Circus in Bristol. He is co-founder and artistic director of Gonzo Moose and has appeared in all five of their shows. Theatre includes Table-top tragedies (barbican) and Dick Wittington (Corn Exchange, Newbury). Other work includes: appearing in a ballet version of the Dickens’ classic, A Christmas Carol and being a stunt man in the film short, The Deal. Television includes: Teachers, Casualty, Torchwood and Dr Who. Directing includes the sketch double act Kiosk of Champions.

Cariad Lloyd (Writer and performer)
Previous theatre credits include Movieplex (National Theatre Studio), The Road not Taken (English Lovers, Vienna), Pack up Your Troubles - 50 hour improvathon (Sticking Place), The Good Guide (Soho Theatre), Ripe & Rotten (Shunt/BAC), Ashes (Pleasance Edinburgh), Newsrevue (Canal Cafe), Shakespeare for Breakfast (C venues). Film works includes Hallo Panda (Film4). She is also an experienced improviser working with The Institute, Ken Campbell's School of Night and Die Nasty in Canada, as well as regularly performing as a character act on the comedy circuit. She also directed and devised this year's Edinburgh sell out Shakespeare for Breakfast.

Tom Richmond (lighting Design)
Tom Richmond graduated from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in
2004. Since then he has largely been doing lighting design for small
scale companies like Gonzo Moose, for whom this is his third show. He also toured extensively around Europe with the Caravan Stage Company. He is currently employed at the Bristol Old Vic.

Martin Stansbury (Sound Design and Production Manager)
Based in Cornwall Martin divides his time between theatre and music. He works at The Hall for Cornwall, covering all aspects of technical theatre (stage, lighting and sound) as well touring with companies such as Gonzo Moose, Moving Hands and The DT's. Martin also operates live sound for local venues, events and festivals and has worked with many companies including the Bonzo Dog Band. In the studio he has recorded and produced such contemporary classics as Mama's "Crow, Coyote, Buffalo", Damn!Chakra’s "Social Statements" and Tracy Story's "O Brother" as well as working with the new shining lights of funk The Underbelly). Martin also composes and arranges, including working with songwriters such as Zoe Pollock and Ministry of Sounds recent signing Tara McDonald. For pleasure Martin can be found performing in heavy rock and punk bands, and has occasionally been financially convinced to partake in music for theatre on productions such as the Hall for Cornwalls 'Barabas'.

Helen Stewart (Set Designer)
Helen studied at the University of Kent. Past theatre design credits include: Rome and Rime of the Ancient Mariner (The Nuffield, Southampton) Sleeping Beauty, The Dukes, Lancaster; The Fair Maid of the West, Third Party Productions directed by John Wright; The Marriage of Figaro, Opera East Productions; Griot and Liason Come with me, Bernie Grant Arts Centre; The Tempest, Chalkfoot