CENTRIC
A WEST MIDLANDS COLLECTIVE TELLING STORIES NATIONALLY
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Centric is a West Midlands based colloboration between Stephanie Dale (writer), Peter Cann (Director) and Pippa Frith (Producer). They work with a talented pool of freelance artists and makers on each indivual project to ensure the most exciting work that can be made is made. They have a focus on creating original works for audiences nationally and are particularly interested in touring work to areas where audiences are unlikely to have access to mainstream arts and venues.
Centric was formed in 2014 with debut production A World Beyond Man. After a successful Edinburgh Festival Fringe run, the show toured in spring / summer 2015.
In 2015 the team are working on a new project; Giants on the Hill. Giants on the Hill will explore the impact of wind turbines and windfarms on rural communities.
Stephanie Dale writes for stage, radio and large-scale theatre. Recent work include: Passion; (As One Theatre, touring 2014) and Alice (Theatre in the Quarter, Chester, 2014).
Other recent projects includes: Chester Mystery Plays; (Chester Cathedral, June-July 2013), an adaptation of Moonfleet; which toured the South West (Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, May – June 2013). Believe Me (nominated for the Tinniswood Award 2011, BBC Radio Four, 2011) and The Witches’ Promise (Birmingham REP @ Weoley Castle Ruins, July 2012).
Stephanie teaches Applied Drama at Loughborough University, Writing and Devising at Birmingham School of Acting and is a visiting tutor on the Mphil in Playwriting at the University of Birmingham. Stephanie has facilitated playwriting workshops in over 500 schools, colleges and universities and has facilitated over 50 pieces of community based theatre projects. She has also written four large- scale plays for schools.
Peter Cann is a director and writer who works across opera, theatre and radio. He is a former Artistic Director of Pentabus Theatre and an Associate Artist with O Teatro Do Montemuro in Portugal.
Recent work includes Troy Story an opera based on The Illiad and The Odyssey for The Orchestra Of the Swan and Ant and Cleo – The Musical for the same company. For Talking Birds he directed The Trade In Lunacy and A Malady of Migration – the first two plays in The Assylum Trilogy. The third piece – as yet untitled – will be produced in 2016. He is currently working with Absolute Theatre on The Portland Cantata a multi site performance on the island of Portland.
His collaborations with Stephanie Dale include The Witches’ Promise for Birmingham Rep and Mary Mcarthur for Birmingham Actors’ Theatre.
Pippa Frith is an Independent Producer based in Birmingham. She works with a range of artists and partners to make creative projects happen.
She is long-term Producer to solo maker Francesca Millican-Slater, producing hit show Me, Myself and Miss Gibbs, and new works The Forensics of a Flat and My Dearest Girls (commissioned by Arts Alive). In spring 2014 she produced HOAX in association with Manchester Royal Exchange, and in spring 2015 she co-produced Unknown Male with Birmingham REP. She was awarded the Peter Brook / Mark Marvin Rent Subsidy Award in November 2014 for Unknown Male. She
She was co-producer for international collective Babakas on their debut show Our Fathers. She is a co-director of the regional scratch platform PILOT Nights and a visiting lecturer at the University of Birmingham.