Writer
Kate Tempest

Kate Tempest is a poet and rapper from South East London. As well as writing and performing poetry as a solo artist, she also fronts the hip hop inspired live three piece Sound of Rum - who have recently signed with UK independent label Sunday Best and whose first single 'Slow Slow' was released in February 2011, with debut album 'Balance' following in April 2011.

She has played gigs at every festival going, including Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds, the Big Chill and Latitude as well as having gigged all over London, in venue's as grand as Camden's Koko and London's Barbican Centre, and as humble as Deptford's Birds Nest Pub. She has supported legendary punk poet John Cooper Clarke, firebrand Billy Bragg and afrobeat legend Femi Kuti, as well as touring the UK with label mates Dan le Sac VS Scroobius Pip. Her poetry has been commissioned by Louis Vuitton, children's charity Barnado's and the Royal Shakespeare Company.  One of her poems was illustrated by Turner Prize winning artist Chris Ofili. Her debut spoken word release 'Broken Herd' - a limited edition boxset - came out in December 2009 on PureGroove Records and sold out within 3 months. Her second spoken word release 'Patterns' - an independently produced and published book of poetry and cd of live performance - sold out of its first edition print run in three days. The second editionwas released in summer 2011.

Director
James Grieve

James Grieve, Joint Artistic Director of Paines Plough will direct. He was formerly co‐founder and Artistic Director of nabokov and Associate Director of the Bush Theatre.

His credits include, for Paines Plough: Love, Love, Love by Mike Bartlett, Fly me to the Moon by Marie Jones, Tiny Volcanoes by Laurence Wilson, Wasted by Kate Tempest, You Cannot Go Forward Where You Are Right Now by David Watson and The Sound of Heavy Rain by Penelope Skinner.

For The Bush: The Whisky Taster by James Graham, St Petersburg by Declan Feenan, Psychogeography by Lucy Kirkwood and A Nobody by Laura Dockrill (66 Books).

For nabokov: Artefacts by Mike Bartlett (nabokov/The Bush, National Tour & Off-Broadway); Kitchen, Bedtime for Bastards and Nikolina by Van Badham. Further credits include the world premieres of Old Street by Patrick Marber (nabokov Arts Club) and The List by David Eldridge (Arcola).

Designer 
Cai Dyfan 

Cai Dyfan studied Theatre Design at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Cai’s theatre Credits include, Your Last Breath (Pleasance Dome), The Passion (Wildworks/National Theatre Wales), The Butterfly Hunter (Theatre NaNog) and The Beach (National Theatre Wales).

Film Credits include, Frankenweenie (Disney), Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Disney) and  The Security Guard (Fiction Factory).

Lighting Designer
Angela Anson 

Angela trained in Lighting Design at the Central School of Speech and Drama where she received an MA in Advanced Theatre practice.

Her credits include; The Fidelity Project (Freddy Opoku-Addaie & Frauke Requardt / The Place Prize 2011), Relight for Babel (Stan Won't Dance, UK tour), Ignition (Frantic Assembly, Toynbee Studios), The Feminine Body Triple Bill (Rich Mix studios), Panoramic (Stratford Circus & Jackson Lane), Love and Understanding (Battersea Arts Centre), Flying Too Close to the Sun (Performance Studio, Central School of Speech and Drama), Kaligazeri (Embassy Studio, Central School of Speech and Drama), Cosi Fan Tutti (Opera a La Carte), The Pirates of Penzance (London), Orheus (Battersea Arts Centre), YPT3 Spring Term Sharing (Battersea Arts Centre), Miniaturist 11 (Arcola Theatre), Nissan Micra 1998 (Shannon Theatre), Production Assistant for The Luna Club (Lyric Hammersmith),  Ghosts (Battersea Arts Centre).

Angela also currently works for the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden as lighting crew on the Main Stage.

Sound Designer
Tom Gibbons 

Tom trained at Central School of Speech and Drama in Theatre Sound and is resident sound designer for the international physical theatre company Parrot{in the}Tank.

Recent design credits include: Dead Heavy Fantastic (Liverpool Everyman), Plenty (Crucible Studio, Sheffield), Love Love Love (Paines Plough, National Tour), Faith, Hope and Charity, The Hostage, Toad, Present Tense (Southwark Playhouse), Sold (503), The Chairs (Ustinov Bath), The Country, The Road To Mecca, The Roman Bath, 1936, The Shawl (Arcola), The Knowledge, Little Platoons, 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover, 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover@Xmas, Broken Space Season (Bush Theatre), Bagpuss, Everything Must Go, Soho Streets (Soho Theatre), The Machine Gunners (Polka), Holes (New Wimbledon Studio), Terror Tales (Hampstead Studio), Faustus (Watford Palace, Tour), Faithless Bitches (Courtyard), FAT (The Oval House, National Tour), Just Me Bell (Graeae, Tour), Blue Heaven (Finborough), Pitching In (Latitude Festival, Tour), US Love Bites (Old Red Lion, Tristan Bates), I Can Sing A Rainbow with Nabocov and Sheffield Theatres (Lyceum Sheffield), Pendulum (Jermyn Street), Journalist and Hope (ICA London), Machinal (Central), Bar Of Ideas (Paradise Gardens Festival and Glastonbury/Shangri-La).

As Associate Designer: The Aliens (Bush Theatre)

Composition
Kwake Bass

Kwake Bass, real name Giles King-Ashong is a musician from south London. Playing regularly for numerous music projects as a session drummer, Kwake also plays for Speakers Corner Quartet, an accomplished London instrumental quartet consisting of double bass, flute, violin and drums, who have opened for the like of The Roots Crew, Herbie Hancock, Ornette Colman, to name but a few.

As a solo musician, drumming from age 5 and composing from age 14, Kwake has now moved into live producing and arranging as a composer and drummer. Paines Plough commissioned and debuted Kwake’s latest project, composition of a score accompanying Kate Tempest’s debut play WASTED, performed live on stage during the performance.

Film Design
Mathy Tremewan & Fran Broadhurst 

Directing team Mathy Tremewan and Fran Broadhurst live in Hackney, London. Together they create original narrative film and moving image work.

Film Credits include: The Lights and Then the Noise (Pico Pictures/ Run Productions),  Elsewhere (UKFC/ Film London), Parade (Four Docs/ Channel 4) and De Sul (Cornwall Film Festival).

Promo credits include:  Diagrams - Night All Night (Full Time Hobby Records), MSTRKRFT - Paris (Last Gang Records) and Galliano’s Graffiti (Elle UK) 

They are currently in post production with a sci-fi short starring Emily Taaffe and featuring the Californian experimental punk band No Age.