S2 Ep 4: (Samu(El)egy)

Chippy Lane’s Podcast

Welcome to Chippy Lane’s Podcast, series two the PICTURES / LLUNIAU PROJECT. This series celebrates Welsh and Wales-based writers and their stories. Each episode focuses on a new writer, a personal picture of there’s and a story they want to share with you. So, sit back and enjoy.

Episode 4(Samu(El)egy)by Jacob Hodgkinson

Writer: Jacob HodgkinsonA graduate of the 2013 Royal Court Young Writers Programme and the 2016/18 New Welsh Playwrights Programmes at the Sherman Theatre supported by The Carne Trust. His play BETWEEN ETERNITY AND TIME was produced at the RWCMD and the Gate Theatre, London, as part of the RWCMD’s NEW:2019 season. Jacob's other works have received rehearsed readings at the Sherman Theatre and Theatre503 and have been shortlisted for BBC Writersroom Scriptroom 8 and the 2016 Wales Drama Award, and longlisted for BBC Script Room Drama 2019, the 2017 Bruntwood Prize and the 2017 Papatango New Writing Prize. Jacob is the Associate Playwright at Chippy Lane Productions.

Director: Hannah NooneAlumni of the Sherman Theatre’s JMK Directors Group (supported by The Carne Trust), Co-Artistic Director of Opera'r Ddraig and an Associate Director for Chippy Lane. Directing credits include: Elixir of Love (Opera’r Ddraig & Kings Head); Arcadia (Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama); Worlds Apart in War (Theatr Clwyd & The National Trust); Between Eternity and Time (RWCMD & Sherman Theatre); BoHo (Hijinx & Theatr Clwyd). Credits as Associate and Assistant Director: Uncle Vanya (Theatr Clwyd & Sheffield Theatres); The Assassination of Katie Hopkins (Theatr Clwyd). Credits as Staff Director: Mr Gum & The Dancing Bear (National Theatre); Home, I’m Darling (National Theatre & Theatr Clwyd).

Actor: Oliver Morgan-ThomasA Welsh actor who graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2015. Most recently Oliver played the lead in Winners, a Nova Theatre and Sherman Theatre collaboration directed by Samantha Alice Jones. His other theatre credits include Land of my Fathers (Lurking Truth Theatre Company), Woman of Flowers (Theatr Pena), Claw Hammer (Theatre 503), Ugly Lovely (Old Red Lion), Mercury Fur (Company of Sirens) and Passion in Port Talbot (National Theatre of Wales). His Film and TV credits include Forgotten Journeys (Tornado Studious), Canaries (Maple Dragon Films), Orson Welles Complex (BBC Wales) and How The Warrior Got His Name (Evans-Pughe Productions). Oliver is also a co-founder of the theatre company Dalton $wine Clwb and co-wrote their debut play The Book of Now which was selected as one of the top ten shows of 2019 by the GM reviewer.

Produced by Steve BennettSound Design by Charlie Foran Music by Grand Tradition

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