Baby Reindeer

Ben studied at the Royal Academy of  Dramatic Art in Lighting and Video Design. In January 2020, his work on Baby Reindeer saw him as a finalist at the 2020 Offies for Video Design. 

Theatre credits include: HMS Pinafore (2020 UK Tour); The Effect (English Theatre Frankfurt); Tom Brown’s School Days (Union Theatre); Symphony (RMS Queen Mary 2); Mr Tickerton’s Clockwork Circus (MS Brittania); Baby Reindeer (The Bush Theatre/Edinburgh Fringe); Fast (Park Theatre); Hello Again (Union Theatre); Late Lunch With Biggins (Edinburgh Fringe); Musik (Edinburgh Fringe); Summer Fest (The Bunker Theatre); The Point of It (GBS Theatre); The Happy Prince (The Place); Woman and Scarecrow (GBS Theatre); The Pirates of Penzance (Wilton’s Music Hall); Eden (Hampstead Theatre); An Enemy of the People (Union Theatre); Philistines (Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre); The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre); Rotterdam (Gielgud Theatre); Fast (Edinburgh Fringe); Assassins the Musical (Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre); Henry IV (Gielgud Theatre).

Caitlin is a freelance events/productions professional and has been working as a stage manager for the past ten years. Credits include: Frogman (Curious Directive international tour); Keep on Walking Federico (Actors Touring Company UK tour and Barcelona); Paines Plough ROUNDABOUT tour 2016 and 2018 (UK tour); Suppliant Women (Actors Touring Company at Hong Kong Arts Festival); Romeo and Juliet (Orange Tree Theatre); Beauty and the Beast (Chichester Festival Theatre); Dry Room (Eldarin Yeong Studio at World Stage Design Festival, Taiwan); Running Wild by Michael Morpurgo (national tour); Goosebumps Alive by Tom Salamon (The Vaults); I Know All the Secrets in My World (Tiata Fahodzi national tour); The 39 Steps by Patrick Barlow (Criterion Theatre); Ben Hur by Patrick Barlow (Tricycle Theatre).

Cecilia trained at the Motley Theatre Design Course and previously in Graphic Design at Camberwell College of Arts. Her commissioned work covers a broad spectrum, from site-specific performances and traditional theatre to live events, installations and unique community performances.

Recent work includes: Green Eggs and Ham (Opera North); The Snow Queen (Sherman Theatre);Jekyll & Hyde (Birmingham Rep); Tidy Up (Peut-Être/Great Ormond Street Hospital); Four Realms of Christmas (Westfield immersive for Disney); Consensual (Soho Theatre); Crimp 1, 2, 3 & 4 (Guildhall); ‘Vicky’s Place’ (re-design of an oncology ward at St Bartholomew’s Hospital); Vital Arts, ‘Beyond the Waterfall’ (Bompas & Parr, Westfield); Britten in Brooklyn (Wilton’s Music Hall); National Youth Theatre repertory season (Ambassadors Theatre); Fourplay (Theatre503); Brolly Project (Young Vic); The Late Henry Moss (Southwark Playhouse – nominated for Off West End Award for Best Set Designer); The Surplus (Young Vic); About Her (London Film Festival); Sense of an Ending (Theatre503); The Interventionists (Lyric Hammersmith); Pioneer (Curious Directive, Fringe First Award); The Red Helicopter (Almeida Theatre); Haining Dreaming (Haining Hall).

Ed is a production manager working in the UK and worldwide. Recent projects include: Impossible world tour for Jamie Hendry Productions; Mozart vs. Machine for Mahogany; Cathy for Cardboard Citizens; Black and Gold, a Google Christmas Party at the Roundhouse; a series of Star Wars launch events for HP; The Grand Journey European tour for Bombay Sapphire. Ed has worked for the sound departments of the RSC, Royal Ballet, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, Tricycle Theatre and various concert venues. He also dabbles in video design and provides broadcast engineering support for the BBC. Ed has a postgraduate Engineering degree from University of Warwick, and grew up in London and Norfolk.

Francesca Moody Productions commissions, develops and presents brave, entertaining and compelling new theatre. They work with the UK’s leading playwrights and discover and nurture new talent to produce bold, award-winning shows with universal appeal and commercial potential.

Since launching in 2018 the company has been awarded an Olivier, four Scotsman Fringe First’s and produced work in London, New York, on tour across the UK and at the Edinburgh Festival.

Current and upcoming productions include: A Streetcar Named Desire (Phoenix Theatre), A Doll’s House (Hudson Theatre, New York), Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons (Harold Pinter Theatre), Berlusconi: A New Musical (Southwark Playhouse Elephant), Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder (Underbelly Edinburgh, Bristol Old Vic, HOME Manchester), Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible is Going to Happen (Bush Theatre).

Recent productions include:, Kathy and Stella Solve A Murder (Roundabout), Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible is Going to Happen (Roundabout), Mum (Soho Theatre), Leopards (Rose Theatre), Baby Reindeer (Bush Theatre, Roundabout).

FMP are also the creators of SHEDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL an online live-streamed festival of theatre, comedy and music created in lieu of the Edinburgh Fringe in 2020. Since its launch the festival has raised over £40,000 towards a fund to support the next generation of artists to make it to the Fringe.

FMP is led by Francesca Moody MBE who is best known as the original producer of the multi-award-winning FLEABAG by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, which she has produced globally on behalf on DryWrite, most recently at the Wyndhams Theatre, when it was also recorded and broadcast by NT Live, playing in cinemas throughout the world. In 2020 Francesca led and coordinated the Fleabag for Charity for campaign and later the Theatre Community Fund with Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Olivia Colman, raising over £2million to support theatrical artists and professionals whose livelihoods and creative futures have been threatened in the wake of Covid-19.

Harriet is a theatre producer. She is currently Producer at Coney, for whom she has produced Companion: Moon (Natural History Museum), My Grandad the Spy (National Archives), 400 (Financial Times/Wellcome Trust) and The Accidental Revolutionist (Battersea Arts Centre). She was formerly Assistant Producer at new writing theatre company Paines Plough, where highlights included Pop Music by Anna Jordan, I Wanna Be Yours by Zia Ahmed and Come to Where I’m From. Her other freelancing credits include activist arts night Taking Back Control, and Extinguished Things by Molly Taylor and Vanity Bites Back by Helen Duff.

Jennifer trained at East 15 and is a movement director and actor.

Movement direction includes: Amsterdam (ATC/Orange Tree/ Theatre Royal Plymouth), Pops (Jake Orr Productions), I Wanna Be Yours (Paines Plough/The Bush), Death of a Salesman, Queens of the Coal Age, Our Town (Royal Exchange Theatre), Parliament Square (Bush Theatre/Royal Exchange Theatre),The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (New Vic Theatre), Be My Baby, Around The World in 80 Days (Leeds Playhouse), The Trick (Loose Tongue/Bush Theatre/High Tide), Philoxenia (Bush Theatre), Mountaintop UK Tour (Desara Productions Ltd), Mayfly, Out of Water (Orange Tree), Brighton Rock (Pilot Theatre /The Lowry), I Want To Be Yours, Island Town, Sticks and Stones, How to Spot an Alien (Paines Plough Roundabout), The Mountaintop (Young Vic), Black Mountain, How to be a Kid, Out of Love (Paines Plough & Orange Tree), Death of a Salesman (Royal & Derngate), The Ugly One (The Park), Why The Whales Came (Southbank Centre), Stone Face (Finborough Theatre), Debris (Southwark Playhouse/Openworks Theatre), Macbeth (Passion in Practice/Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), Silent Planet (Finborough), Pericles (Berwaldhallen), The Future (The Yard/Company Three), Other-Please Specify, Atoms (Company Three), Takeover 2017 (Kiln Theatre).

Assistant movement director: Lungs, The Initiate, My Teacher’s a Troll (Paines Plough Roundabout 2014).

Jon Brittain is a playwright, comedy writer and director. His play Rotterdam earned him a nomination for the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards and won the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre. Other work includes the critically acclaimed Billionaire Boy: The Musical, the cult hit Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho and its sequel Margaret Thatcher Queen of Game Shows, and the Scotsman Fringe First Award-winning A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad). He directed John Kearns’s Fosters Award-winning shows Sight Gags for Perverts and Shtick, and the follow-ups Don’t Bother, They’re Here and Double Take and Fade Away, as well as shows for Tom Allen, Mat Ewins and Tom Rosenthal.

For TV he has been a staff writer on Cartoon Network’s The Amazing World of Gumball and on Netflix’s The Crown.

Keegan has worked in theatre and live events for many years, from production managing open-air music festivals with The White Horse Project in East Lancashire to being an audio engineer and production manager on an array of events, festivals and shows.

Since graduating from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School as a Sound Designer in 2014, he has worked as an in-house tech for Tobacco Factory Theatres, project managing for SFL Group internationally, and freelanced in the West End, around London and nationally. Previous sound designs include: Olivier Award-winning Rotterdam (Theatre503, Trafalgar Studios, Arts Theatre, 59E59 Theaters), Our Country’s Good (Tobacco Factory Theatres), The Internet Was Made for Adults (VAULT Festival), Soho Young Playwrights (Soho Theatre), Go Between (Young Vic); My World Has Exploded a Little Bit (Tristan Bates Theatre/Edinburgh Fringe); Infinity Pool (South West tour, Plymouth Fringe/Edinburgh Fringe); The Blues Brothers: Xmas Special (Arts Theatre, West End); Last Thursday (Prime Theatre); Trip the Light Fantastic (Theatre West, Bristol Old Vic Basement); Living Quarters (Tobacco Factory Theatres/SATTF); 140 Million Miles (Tobacco Factory Theatres/Traverse Theatre); Where We Are (The Egg, Theatre Royal Bath); Blue Stockings and The Winter’s Tale (Tobacco Factory Theatres); and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: A Musical (Redgrave Theatre, Bristol).

Nieta trained at Italia Conti and Kingston University, graduating with a First Class Honours from Kingston University. As a director while studying; reworks of A Taste of Honey (Rose Theatre), Antigone (Rose Theatre) and Journey to the Moon (Brighton Fringe). Nieta has also worked with Southwark Playhouse Young Company and Lewisham Youth Theatre as an assistant director.

Richard is a multi-award winning writer, performer, and actor. His most recent show Baby Reindeer premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2019 where it won two awards – the Scotsman Fringe First Award for New Writing and a Stage Award for Acting Excellence. The show then went onto a five-week run at The Bush Theatre in London and was nominated for an Off West End Theatre Award for Best Performer. 

His preview show, Monkey See Monkey Do, won the prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival where it was also nominated for a Total Theatre Award for Innovation. The show subsequently had several sell-out runs at London’s Soho Theatre, toured the UK and Europe, and had a run at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, where it was nominated for the 2017 Barry Award and was broadcast on Comedy Central.

His other shows Waiting for Gaddot, Breaking Gadd, and Cheese & Crack Whores were also Edinburgh Fringe hits and all went on to three week runs or more in the Soho Theatre. The former won the Amused Moose Best Edinburgh Fringe Show Award 2015 and was nominated for a Malcolm Hardee Award For Innovation 2015. In addition, Richard won a Chortle Comedian’s Comedian Award 2017, as well as being nominated for an Off West End theatre award for Best Performer in the same year.

Richard is also a successful actor, who starred opposite Daniel Mays in the BAFTA-nominated BBC2 single drama Against the Law – “surely a breakout role for him,” The Guardian. Other key acting credits include SKY’s Code 404, BBC3’s Clique, and E4’s Tripped. He also recently played a lead role in Sky Arts’ film One Normal Night. The Independent described his appearance as, “a quite wonderful performance,” and The Times described it as, “moving and very well acted.”

Richard is currently filming alongside Stephen Graham and Daniel Mays, in Sky One’s new six-part comedy series Code 404. In addition, Richard is also a writer who has written episodes of Netflix smash-hit Sex Education, as well as Ultimate Worrier for Dave and The Last Leg for Channel Four where he is also one of their correspondents.He also recently recorded his own pilot for BBC Radio 4 with Dabster Productions, The Richard Gadd Show, which aired in July 2018. He has also had several written projects broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Scotland.

Stoph is a comedy writer, performer, filmmaker and animator from East London.

Stoph studied for his MA in Screenwriting for Film and TV under ex-BBC boss Jonathan Powell, as well as poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, graduating with First Class Honours.

Stoph has been behind a number of viral web hits, gaining millions of views in the process, as well as creating visual effects and motion graphics content for countless production companies around the world.