Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen

Blythe has worked as an associate and director for a range of companies including the National Theatre, Donmar Warehouse, House Productions, Soho Theatre, and HighTide Festival, as well as drama schools including LAMDA, ArtsEd, Guildhall and Oxford School Of Drama. She has been nominated twice for Best Director at the Off-WestEnd Awards.

Recent credits include: Associate Director on The Crucible (National Theatre, Gielgud Theatre) and Resident Director on The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (UK and Ireland Tour). She was the Donmar Resident Assistant Director between 2019 – 2020.

Chloë’s stage management work includes Guys & Dolls, A Christmas Carol, Straight Line Crazy (Bridge Theatre), Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen (Paines Plough Roundabout, Summerhall), Platinum Jubilee Pageant, Peggy For You (Hampstead Theatre), little scratch (Hampstead Theatre), Deciphering (Curious Directive/New Diorama Theatre), Arthur/Merlin (Iris Theatre).

Dianne Roberts is thrilled to be involved with Feeling Afraid… which captivated her at Edinburgh Fringe. She is a producer and investor in an exciting range of productions. She was a producer on Olivier and Tony award-winning Girl From the North Country and more recently, Disney’s Newsies. Other recent shows include 2.22 – A Ghost Story, Vanya and Patriots. Her support for new productions include several Edinburgh fringe shows and working with a new company creating original musical theatre. Her philanthropic work includes support for the Musical Theatre and Jazz programmes at the Royal Academy of Music.

Theatre work includes Blue Mist, all of it, Purple Snowflakes and Titty Wanks, A Fight Against, On Bear Ridge, Yen (Royal Court); Beautiful Thing (Theatre Royal Stratford East/Leeds Playhouse); Jitney (Old Vic/Leeds Playhouse/Headlong); Amélie the Musical (Criterion Theatre/The Other Palace/Watermill Theatre/UK Tour); The Wild Duck (Almeida); The Lover/The Collection (Harold Pinter Theatre); Fleabag (Wyndham’s Theatre/New York/Soho Theatre/Edinburgh Festival/Tour); No Pay? No Way!, Queens of the Coal Age, The Night Watch (Royal Exchange); Sleepova, The P Word, Hir (Bush Theatre); An Octoroon, Pomona (National Theatre/Orange Tree); Ivan and the Dogs (Young Vic); Richard III (Headlong); Disco Pigs (Trafalgar Studios/Irish Rep, NY); The Swell, The Misfortune of the English, Last Easter, The Sugar Syndrome, Low Level Panic, Sheppey, buckets (Orange Tree); The Oracles (Punchdrunk).

Awards include Off West End Award for Best Lighting Designer (Pomona).

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 and four Scotsman Fringe Firsts, been nominated for a Tony Award, and produced work in London, New York, on tour across the UK and at the Edinburgh Festival.

Productions include: Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder (Underbelly Edinburgh, Bristol Old Vic, HOME Manchester, Roundabout), Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible is Going to Happen (Bush Theatre, Roundabout), Nutcracker (Southbank Centre), Never Have I Ever (Chichester Festival Theatre), School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play (Lyric Hammersmith), An Oak Tree (Festival d’Avignon, Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh), A Doll’s House (Hudson Theatre, New York), A Streetcar Named Desire (Phoenix Theatre), Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons (Harold Pinter Theatre), Berlusconi: A New Musical (Southwark Playhouse Elephant), Mum (Soho Theatre), Leopards (Rose Theatre) and 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 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.

Kat Heath trained in Design for Performance at Wimbledon School of Art and Central Saint Martins.

For Clean Break: Typical Girls (Sheffield Crucible); Through This Mist.

For The Bush: The Burning Tower (SPID Theatre); Bush Bazaar (Theatre Delicatessen) and Fun Palaces.

Recent designs include The Third Day: Autumn and Audiences of the Future (Punchdrunk, HBO/Sky); Fire Songs, Sensory Studio, The Isle of Brimsker, 2065, A Night Out in Nature (Frozen Light); A Curious Quest, Punchdrunk Bus, Woolwich Hall of Fame (Punchdrunk Enrichment); Our Man in Havana (Watermill Theatre); Odds On (Dante or Die); Il Tabarro (Copenhagen Opera Festival); Peaky Blinders (Rambert); Punk Alley (Moxie Brawl); Drive Thru (BLINK Dance theatre); Dirt, WOW Everything is Amazing, Fire in the Machine (SOUNDS LIKE CHAOS); MSND (Rift); The Forest of Forgotten Discos (Contact Theatre); The Redux Project (Richard Dedomenici, BAC/BBC); The Hollow Hotel (DifferencEngine); Macbeth, I’m Super Thanks (Proteus); Princess Charming (Spun Glass); Bridges y Puentes (Theatre Royal Stratford East); You’ve Changed, Big Girl’s Blouse (TransCreative); Così fan tutte (Bury Court Opera); The Importance of Being Earnest, The Two Worlds of Charlie F (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Henry V, A Doll’s House, Shelf Life, Chaika Casino, A Christmas Carol (Theatre Delicatessen); L’Orfeo, La bohème, Dido and Aeneas (Silent Opera); and Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance (Belle & Sebastian).

Kater Gordon is an Emmy award-winning writer (Mad Men) and an Olivier and Tony award-nominated producer.

Recent projects include: Vanya (Duke of York’s); 2:22 — A Ghost Story (Noël Coward, Gielgud, Criterion, Lyric, Apollo, Ahmanson, Her Majesty’s Melbourne, UK Tour); Broadway’s A Doll’s House (Hudson); Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons (Harold Pinter); Disney’s Newsies (Troubadour Wembley); One Woman Show (Greenwich House); and Kathy and Stella Solve A Murder (Roundabout, Underbelly, Bristol Old Vic, Manchester HOME).

Marcelo is an award-winning Latinx British-Brazilian-Australian writer.

He has been a writer on attachment at the National Theatre, the Bush Theatre, HighTide Festival Theatre as well as the Royal Court Theatre. Marcelo was also a member of the BBC Drama Room and is developing several television projects with companies including Avalon TV, Mam Tor Productions and Drama Republic.

In 2014 he adapted the critically acclaimed best-selling Zizou Corder novel Lionboy for Complicité which toured extensively in the UK (★★★★ – The Guardian, Mail on Sunday, The Times, Evening Standard, Financial Times) and internationally, including to the New Victory Theater on Broadway where it was Critics Choice in the New York Times.

In 2022, Marcelo won a Scotsman Fringe First award for Excellence in New Writing for his monologue Feeling Afraid as if Something Terrible is Going to Happen directed by Matthew Xia, starring Tony and Olivier-nominated Samuel Barnett (The History Boys, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency) produced by Francesca Moody, producer of Pheobe Waller Bridges’ Fleabag and Richard Gadd’s Baby Reindeer.

Critics hailed the play as ‘A masterclass in comic delivery’ (★★★★★ – WhatsOnStage), ‘razor sharp’ (Scotsman) and ‘Frank, funny and occasionally filthy… following in the footsteps of Fleabag‘ (The Independent).

Backstairs Billy recently marked Marcelo’s West End debut as a writer, and starred Luke Evans and Penelope Wilton in the lead roles. The show was directed by Michael Grandage and produced by MGC productions.

Previous theatre work includes Trigger Warning (Camden People’s Theatre), The End of History (A site-responsive play staged at St Giles In The Fields in Soho), Open Plan (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama), Knights (directed by Michael Longhurst, Tristan Bates Theatre) and New Labour, (RADA, directed by Richard Wilson), Play Without a Title (A new interpretation of Lorca’s final unfinished play for Oxford School of Drama).

Matthew Xia is the award-winning Artistic Director of ATC (Actors Touring Company). He was previously Associate Artistic Director at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, (where he established OPEN EXCHANGE, an artist development scheme for over 400 next generation theatre-makers); Director-in-Residence at The Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse; and Associate Director at Theatre Royal Stratford East. He was Associate Artist at the Nottingham Playhouse alongside James Graham and Amanda Whittington.

Matthew has directed some of the UK’s most talented actors, including Daniel Kaluuya, Cynthia Erivo, Maxine Peake, David Haig, Samuel Barnett, Matt Henry, Karl Collins, Martina Laird, Christopher Colquhoun, Malachi Kirby, David Moorst, Natasha J Barnes, Yolanda Kettle, Erin Doherty, and Joseph Quinn.

Directing includes: Hey Duggee – The Live Theatre Show (Kenny Wax Family Entertainment/Cuffe & Taylor); the Fringe First award winning Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen (FMP/Roundabout); Rice (ATC/Orange Tree); The Wiz (Ameena Hamid Productions/Hope Mill/BBC Big Night of Musicals); Family Tree (GDIF/ATC); 846 Live (Stratford East/GDIF); Amsterdam (ATC/Orange Tree/Plymouth Theatre Royal); Blood Knot (Orange Tree); Eden (Hampstead); One Night In Miami… (Nottingham Playhouse/Bristol Old Vic/HOME); Into The Woods, Frankenstein (Royal Exchange); Wish List (Royal Exchange/Royal Court); Shebeen (Nottingham Playhouse/Stratford East); Sleeping Beauty, The Blacks (Stratford East); Dublin Carol (Sherman Theatre); Blue/Orange, The Sound of Yellow (Young Vic); Sizwe Banzi is Dead (Genesis Future Director Award Winner, Young Vic/Eclipse); I Was Looking At The Ceiling and Then I Saw The Sky (Co-Director, Stratford East/Barbican); Suckerpunch Boom Suite (Barbican/NitroBEAT).

Matthew has worked with an array of renowned writers as a director and a dramaturg, including; Joe Penhall, Vikki Stone, Arinze Kene, April D’Angelis, Katherine Soper, David Levi-Addai, Yasmin Joseph, Mojisola Adebayo, and Nessah Murty. He has been a respected panellist for the Evening Standard Future Fund, Yale Drama Series, the Alfred Fagon Award, BEAM, the Bruntwood Prize and most recently the Eurovision Song Contest!

DJ/Composing/Sound Design includes: award winning Hip-Hop show on BBC 1XTRA (DJ); London Paralympics Opening Ceremony (DJ); The People Are Singing (Royal Exchange); Free Run (Underbelly); That’s The Way To Do It (TimeWontWait); Pass The Baton, Bolero Remixed (New London Orchestra); Da Boyz, Family Man, The Snow Queen, Hansel & Gretel, Medea and Squid (Stratford East).

Matthew is a founding member of Act for Change. In 2019, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the Arts London for his efforts to make theatre universally accessible by working to promote minority groups as theatre leaders, makers and consumers.

Recent theatre includes Boy Out The City, The Night of the Iguana, Cruise (West End); A Doll’s House Part 2, The Way of the World (Donmar); Henry V (Shakespeare’s Globe/Headlong); Anthology, Blackout Songs, Sea Creatures, Linck and Mülhahn, The Fever Syndrome, Labyrinth (Hampstead Theatre); The Children (Royal Court/Broadway); Old Bridge (Bush Theatre. Off West End Award for Sound Design, Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre); Ophelias Zimmer (Royal Court/Schaubühne); Village Idiot, One Night in Miami (Nottingham Playhouse); The Ridiculous Darkness (Gate Theatre); Humble Boy, Blue/Heart, The Distance (Orange Tree Theatre); The Cherry Orchard, A Kettle of Fish (Yard Theatre); The Mirror Crack’d, Wish You Were Dead, Being Mr Wickham, The Habit of Art, The Homecoming, My Cousin Rachel (UK Tours).

Opera and Ballet includes The Limit (Royal Ballet); The Marriage of Figaro (Salzburger Festspiele), Miranda (Opéra Comique, Paris); Hansel and Gretel (BYO/Opera Holland Park); Scraww (Trebah Gardens); Carmen: Remastered (ROH/Barbican).