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"Mayhem creates fantastic opportunities for young people, their dedication and enthusiasm is infectious and they consistently produce diverse and unique drama"
Shaheen Baig Casting Directorr
The Mayhem Company... produce at least one major piece of work a year that is developed through a process of devising, improvisation and script writing with a professional writer. The core company is made up of young people between the ages of 16 and 25.
Ben May - Artistic Director
Directing for The Mayhem Company: Elephant 21, Unit 215 - Elephant and Castle Home to Royal Court Theatre Local, Family Matters - Royal Festival Hall, Real Life Sex Makes Baby - Royal Festival Hall, The Butterfly Club – Southwark Playhouse, See you Tomorrow – Southwark Playhouse/Nabokov, Deluxe – Southwark Playhouse, 100° Fahrenheit – Southwark Playhouse and. Hamelyn Heights – Young Vic Studio.
Other Directing includes: It’s Behind You - International Theatre Festival, Sibiu, Romania, premiere of Philip Ridley’s Brokenville with Young Kosovan refugees in Dagenham, Iphigenia - Southwark Playhouse , Two - The Actors Centre and Spring Awakening - The Place. Training includes the Young Directors scheme with the National Theatre Studio.
Assistant directing with: David Hare (Heartbreak House - Almeida), David Lan (Pericles NT Studio) and Katie Mitchell (Endgame - Donmar Warehouse).
Acting: Gulliver’s Travels – Fox and Golden Age - Working Title.
Ben has worked extensively with young people both in this country and abroad including: CARE International in Macedonia with young people from Kosova living in refugee camps and host communities.
Sarah May - Associate Writer
Fiction includes: The Rise and Fall of a Domestic Diva (HarperCollins) The Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia (HarperCollins) The Internationals (Chatto & Windus) Spanish City (Chatto & Windus) The Nudist Colony (Chatto & Windus) - shortlisted for The Guardian First Book Award.
Plays include: Elephant 21 (Unit 215 - Elephant and Castle home to Royal Court Theatre Local), Family Matters (Royal Festival Hall), Real Life Sex Makes Baby (Royal Festival Hall), The Butterfly Club (Southwark Playhouse), See You Tomorrow (Southwark Playhouse), De-Luxe (Southwark Playhouse), 100° Fahrenheit (Southwark Playhouse) and Hamelyn Heights (Young Vic Studio).
Sarah’s currently completing her seventh novel due to be published by Harper Collins in April 2011 - The Missing Marriage.
TMC MEMBERS
When you become a TMC member, you are invited to join the company's Advisory Board and are actively encouraged to participate in the decision making and idea sharing that shapes the company's future.
Alex Simpson - Assistant Artist
Alex has been a member of the company for 6 years. He has been employed by the company as part of the Future Jobs Fund scheme.
Acting: Elephant 21 - Unit 215 - Elephant and Castle home to to Royal Court's Theatre Local, Real Life Sex Makes Baby - Royal Festival Hall, See You Tomorrow - Southwark Playhouse, Butterfly Club - Southwark Playhouse and Deluxe - Southwark Playhouse.
Project Manager: Elephant 21 - Tooley Street, Nabokov - Royal Festival Hall, Street Genius - Southwark Playhouse.
Assistant Director: Elephant 21 - Unit 215, Elephant and Castle: home to Royal Court's Theatre Local.
Training: Essentials to Youth Work - SE1 United - Southbank Centre, Mayhem - Royal Festival Hall and Udder Belly Training Academy - Southbank Centre.
Alex will be travelling to South Africa with New Deal of the Mind in November!
