Gary Lagden

Writer / Actor

Gary comes from Port Talbot, South Wales and trained as an actor at RADA. Since graduating in 1994 he has acted in over 80 productions. He has toured nationally and internationally, including work in Russia, Denmark and Azerbaijan. He has worked for many companies including Manchester's Royal Exchange, Theatre Centre, The Touring Consortium, Tangere Arts, The Young Vic, The Royal Court, Hull Truck and Nottingham Playhouse Roundabout. His first job was a season of weekly rep at Frinton on Sea summer theatre.

Fly Half is the first play Gary has written and began life in his beloved Aberavon Rugby club in September 2017. It opened the 2018 RADA Festival, was part of Wales Week in London at the RADA studios in 2019 as well as touring to Rugby Clubs, Pub Theatres, Social Clubs and Theatres.

Over the last 15 years Gary has focused on one person and storytelling productions. These began with a trilogy of Noël Greig plays that Noël wrote for Gary to perform for Tangere Arts, they were Hood In The Wood, A Tasty Tale and Noël's final play Tin Soldier which won the 2013 OFFIE award for Best Production For Young People. He then went on to A Thousand Slimy Things a version of The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner by Sally Siner and Lewis Gibson for Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre. Gary's final piece for Tangere Arts was The Unicorn Theatre's The Pardoner's Tale by Lewis Gibson.

Following this he acted in The First by Jayne Williams for Spark Arts For Children.

Since 2015 he has directed many Shakespeare plays for the different courses at RADA these include Timon of Athens, The Tempest, Coriolanus, Othello, Hamlet, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear and Macbeth. He has also directed T.I.E shows for Tangere Arts and Shakespeare and Ibsen productions for Mountview Academy.

Gary is an associate tutor at RADA.

Gareth Moulton

Composer / Musician

Born in a Triple Crown winning year for Wales, Gareth picked up his first guitar aged 11, and by the time he was 16, was earning a living playing in the then-thriving working men’s clubs of South Wales, West Yorkshire and the North East. He has been writing and releasing his own music since the age of 18.

In a career spanning over 30 years, he has become in demand worldwide as a singer and guitarist, onstage and in the studio, for a host of artists, (including Wang Chung, Go West, Holly Johnson, Jim Diamond, M People, Paul Young, Shaboom, DJ Sneak, Snake Davis).

He is guitarist with the Grammy nominated Cutting Crew (USA number 1 hit: (I Just) Died in Your Arms) and over the past decade has also released albums with the critically acclaimed Prog-Rock group Combination Head, and composed wide-ranging music for tv and film.

His songs for Fly Half mark a return to his roots as a solo acoustic, singer-songwriter.

Buy the 6 track EP of the songs from Fly Half at garethmoulton.com

Geoff Bullen

Director

Geoff Bullen is currently RADA’s Director of Short Courses, where he also specialises in teaching Shakespeare. He was formerly the academy’s Director of Actor Training.

He has worked extensively in the commercial and subsidised theatre.

A four-year appointment as director and writer at Theatre Centre (Britain’s longest established company creating work for schools), has led to work with numerous other companies working in education. From 1995 to 1999, he was course director of Nottinghamshire Next Stage – a pioneering local government project in adult education performing arts. In 2003 he designed and started a community arts management training course for CADT in Liverpool.

For RADA, he most recently directed Chez Feydeau, in his own translation. Work elsewhere includes All’s Well That Ends Well and The Winter’s Tale at the Cleveland Playhouse, Ohio; Cavalleria Rusticana and Tosca for Magdala Opera; the Edinburgh Festival premieres of Beside Picasso and Bacon; The Tempest at the Stadsschouwburg in Amsterdam; the first performance of David Rudkin’s Red Sun; and his own adaptation of Penlee - The Loss of a Lifeboat.

In 2013, he directed the 60th birthday production of The Mousetrap at the St Martin’s Theatre: proud to be the 24th director in that production’s history.

Jayne Williams

Producer

Jayne has been a producer of professional performance and community theatre for ten years. Growing up in a working class town, with no cultural venues, Jayne is passionate about producing performances in non traditional spaces that reach audiences who may not consider themselves to be theatre go-ers. Jayne is also a writer and participatory arts practitioner.