Who we are
Brigit Forsyth — Executive Producer
Brigit has been an actress for over 50 years.
She trained at RADA where she won the Emile Littler prize and has toured theatres internationally and nationally, including London’s West End where she played Dusa in Dusa,Fish, Stas and Vi the Pam Gems hit play, and Mare in Calendar Girls. She has toured with The National in Alan Bennett’s play People and recently enjoyed working at the Arcola on Now This is Not The End.
Brigit has had a considerable television career, and is best remembered for Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? in which she played Thelma. She can currently be seen in Still Open All Hours in which she plays Madge.
She is also a musician, composes for the cello and sings with a band of actors called The Fircones. Brigit has done countless radio plays.
Brigit has enjoyed collaborating to redraft Killing Time several times over the past couple of years. They look forward to working together on this production.
Zoe Mills — Artistic Director
Zoe trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Her work in theatre includes: Lady Macbeth in Macbeth - Directors Cut for Volcano Theatre, The Drowned Man for Punchdrunk / The National Theatre, Lost Lending Library for Punchdrunk, Hweol for LASTheatre, Great Expectations, Dry Rot and Bedroom Farce at Theatre By The Lake, Brazil and Back to the Future for Secret Cinema, Effie's Burning at Soho Theatre.
She has also helped to develop and create work with companies including : Knaive Theatre, Holy Mountain, Princes trust, Secret Cinema, Punchdrunk, Elan/Frantoio, Baz productions as well workshopping scripts and giving feedback as a freelance creative associate for numerous directors, writers and solo artists.
For TV and film, she has appeared in Emmerdale, The Casimir Effect, Mr Nice and serveral short films.
She also freelances as a professional voice artist specialising in computer game and motion capture, audio drama, education and audiobooks.
As a writer, Killing Time is her first full length play, with several others in development for stage, film, audio and multidisciplinary formats.
Christian From — Associate Movement Director
Originally from Denmark, Christian has worked extensively in the UK, United States and throughout Europe as a contemporary dancer, physical performer, actor and puppeteer for the last 20 years. After training at London Contemporary Dance School, he has enjoyed a diverse career within the performing arts spanning; theatre, site-specific work, children’s theatre, dance, opera, film and puppetry.
As a performer he has previously worked with the National Theatre, Scottish National Theatre, The Young Vic, Punchdrunk, WarHorse Productions, Peut-Etre and many others. Christian has since graduated from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with an MFA in Movement Direction and specialises in Contact Improvisation for actors. He recently presented his first TEDx Talk.
He has previously been Movement Director for National Theatre of Faro islands, and as an Assistant MD has worked for Houston Grand Opera, Make Amplified and is looking forward to assisting again at Glyndebourne Opera this summer. Most recently he has been Associate Movement Director for Headlong and Royal Exchange Manchester.
Christian is also an Associate Movement Director for Jennifer Irons (IronINC.), and works on projects as a freelance MD under CoRDirection- his own company.
Antony Eden — Associate Producer on Killing Time
Antony has had a career in theatre spanning 27 years starting he was 9 years old. As an actor, he has worked in regional theatre, toured nationally and internationally, as well as working in the West End in shows such as Woman in Black and Les Miserables.
As co-founder of his theatre company Dead Letter Perfect, he most recently directed and produced The Gathered Leaves by Andrew Keatley at The Park Theatre.
Director credits: The Gathered Leaves for Park Theatre, Effie’s Burning, Soho Theatre, Sweeney Todd and Kiss of the Spiderwoman at C venues, Edinburgh fringe, Sweet Charity at The Bloomsbury Theatre, The Vice and State of Affairs at The Stag Theatre, Sevenoaks.
Assistant Director credits: Vanity Fair, Trumpets And Raspberries at The Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh, director Tony Cowney
Antony is now Associate Director for the UK Tour of Woman in Black.