THE GREAT BRITISH COUNTRY FETE

Anthea Williams is the Associate Director at the Bush Theatre in charge of bushfutures, the company's outreach and development arm. She also manages bushgreen.org – a new social networking and play publishing website for playwrights.

While at the Bush she has directed TURF by Simon Vinnicombe and TWO CIGARETTES by Jack Thorne and developed and directed 50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER and 50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER AT CHRISTMAS by Leah Chillery, Ben Ellis, Stacey Gregg, Lucy Kirkwood, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm and Ben Schiffer; suddenlossofdignity.com with Zawe Ashton, James Graham, Joel Horwood, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm and Michelle Terry.

Prior to working at the Bush she lived in Auckland and was the Co-Artistic Director of SmackBang Theatre Company and the Producer of Massive Company, where she produced new plays and national and international tours. Anthea trained as a director at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne and the University of New South Wales in Sydney.

Chris graduated from the BA(Hons) Lighting Design course at Rose Bruford College with first class honours. He now works as a freelance lighting designer and production electrician.

Recent credits as lighting designer include: Dirty White Boy – Tales of Soho (Trafalgar Studios), Scouts in Bondage (King's Head Theatre), What’s Wrong With Angry? (King’s Head Theatre), Dreamland (Theatre Royal, Margate), The Killing of Mr Toad (Finborough Theatre), Estranged (Courtyard Theatre), Edges (Union Theatre) Frankenstein (Barbican Theatre Plymouth), The Canterbury Tales (Battersea Arts Centre) and Please Look At Me Now (Lorretto Theatre).

Recent credits as an assistant include: Well (Apollo Shaftesbury Ave) and How to Dissappear Completely and Never be Found (Southwark Playhouse).

This summer Chris will be doing the lighting design for The Great British Country Fete for the Bush Theatre and Gutted for The Assembly Rooms at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Fly trained at RADA in Technical Theatre Arts and Stage Management. She then specialised in set and costume design at Motley with the graduating exhibition held at the National Theatre in July 2009.

Her recent credits include Assistant Designer to Peter Gill on the Playhouse: Live season at Riverside Studios and Sky Arts TV. Associate Designer to John Napier on Disconnect- Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, and its transfer to Elephant and Castle for their Theatre Local Season. Design Assistant on The Whisky Taster at the Bush Theatre.

As set and costume designer her shows include: Bush Theatre’s national tour of The Great British Country Fete. It tours this summer to North Wall Oxford, The Ustinov at Theatre Royal Bath, Tobacco Factory Bristol, Latitude Festival and the Drum Theatre Plymouth, and the Bush Theatre. The Man at The Finborough Theatre, When the Lilac Blooms at Leicester Square Theatre main house, My 15 Minutes, The Musical at New Wimbledon Studio, Bloody Poetry, and A Madman’s Confession both at the White Bear Theatre, The Malleables at the Arcola Theatre.

Fly has also worked as a costume and design assistant for English National Ballet’s Nutcracker and Giselle at the Coliseum, Paines Plough’s A Play, A Pie A Pint Season at the Shunt Vaults, Nabokov at the Shoreditch Village Underground, and Punchdrunk’s Masque of the Red Death at Battersea Arts Centre.

She is the Associate Designer to the physical theatre company Dumbshow, and is the Co Artistic Director of Catapulting Cocoon.

Michael is a composer, lyricist and musical director who has recently joined the team at the Bush as its first ever resident composer.

After training at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts his writing credits include the four times nominated and double MTM award winning musical ED at Trafalgar Studios and the Edinburgh Fringe, as well as HEY DIDDLE DIDDLE, BEYOND, THE GRIMM OF STOTTESDEN HALL, HOLES and RIGGED. He is also resident composer and orchestrator for the West End NOTES FROM NEW YORK concert series with whom he has worked on a variety of concerts and recordings including RUTHIE HENSHALL IN CONCERT, three instalments of the festive show CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK for which he wrote the title song, as well as the album recording of the same name. Winner of the NOTES FOR THE STAGE PRIZE for songwriting, Michael hosted a star-studded evening of his work, MICHAEL BRUCE: A LITTLE LESS ORDINARY at London's Apollo Theatre last November. His debut theatrical album comes out this year.

Acclaimed stand-up, writer and performer RUSSELL KANE has firmly established himself as one of hottest tipped comics in the UK. Fresh from being shortlisted once again for the highest accolade at the Edinburgh Festival, the triple-Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee is currently on the road, resuming his twice-extended tour – Human Dressage – which saw him play to sell-out crowds at the prestigious Bloomsbury Theatre in October in addition to touring his critically acclaimed hit Fakespeare: The Tragickal Saveings of King Nigel, a bawdy romp set in a modern-day Essex where everyone speaks in Shakespearean verse.

In a prolific year for RUSSELL, he has: joined ITV2's I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here Now presenting team, broadcasting live each night from the Jungle; made an acclaimed appearance on BBC ONE'S flagship live comedy show Live at the Apollo, alongside host AL MURRAY, THE PUB LANDLORD; embarked on two national tours, within just six months of the other; hosted series 5 and 6 of Out To Lunch, BBC Radio 2's Saturday lunchtime comedy show; completed a nine-week national tour of Australia, which included a full run at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival; and played Fakespeare, by special invitation from the RSC, at Stratford upon-Avon. A regular on TV and radio, other credits include presenting an acclaimed week-long residency on Big Brother's Big Mouth (Channel 4 & E4) and travelling across the US filming a series of travelogues and celebrity interviews for five US.