FAT TONGUE at Riverside Studios
Dates: (7/28/2023 - 7/29/2023 )
Riverside Studios |
101 Queen Caroline St
London, W6 9BN
Phone: 07834378102
Tickets: £10/£6.50
FAT TONGUE is a gig-theatre-pop-rock musical exploring identity, healing through music and growing up in the West Midlands. Following a lonely teenager who overcomes a debilitating stammer through singing and writing music, the piece explores themes of trauma, death and friendship.
The semi-autobiographical piece is directed by Christa Harris (Back To The Future, Les Enfants Terribles) and is written and performed by Dylan Wynford.
Wynford - with support from director Christa Harris and Creative Producer Joe Rose - will undergo a rigorous development process for this new piece of theatre. The piece will be workshopped at Riverside Studios in advance of two work in progress sharing’s on 28th and 29th July.
Joining the cast are Brenock O’Connor (Sing Street, Alex Rider) and Jacob Loveman (A Christmas Carol, The Jungle Book) and Olivia Arnold (Peter Pan, Pride In London).
Cast and Creative team for FAT TONGUE at Riverside Studios
Cast
Dylan Wynford
FT
Dylan Wynford is a non-binary creative from the Midlands who trained at Mountview. Their first musical Bright Young Things was performed and showcased at The Other Palace in 2017. They have also written and developed two further productions – The Throwaways at The Other Palace alongside Lambert Jackson Productions, and 111 Dates and an Apocalypse with Iris Theatre.
Dylan composed the music for The Lost Ones alongside SEVAN and Tania Azevedo, which was showcased at BEAM in 2018 and workshopped at the Bush Theatre. As an actor, they have worked on a range of new musicals, including originating the parts of ‘Barry Bray’ in Sing Street by Enda Walsh, John Carney and Gary Clark, and Larry Walters in 42 Balloons by Jack Godfrey.
Jacob B Loveman
DARIUS / DR. TINDALL / OLLIE
Jacob graduated from Mountview In 2019 with a BA in Actor-Musicianship. Credits include Cyrano (The Company, 2016), Pericles (Mountview, 2018), Dead Dog in a Suitcase (Mountview, 2019), Our House (Mountview, 2019), A Christmas Carol (Jellyfish Theatre, 2019), and The Jungle Book (Jellyfish Theatre, 2020).
Brenock O'Connor
SCOTT / MUSIC TEACHER
Brenock O’Connor has just wrapped on new international series RIDE OUT, and on the third series of Amazon’s critically acclaimed television adaptation of Anthony Horowitz' hit series Alex Rider, playing Alex's best friend and sidekick, ‘Tom’. Other television work includes: ‘Olly’ in HBO’s Game of Thrones; Sky's series Living the Dream as ‘Freddie’; ‘Jon’ in Channel 4's BAFTA nominated Irish comedy Derry Girls; and BBC series' Dickensian and The Split.
In 2019, Brenock starred as the leading role ‘Conor’ in the new musical adaptation of hit film Sing Street, which opened at the New York Theatre Workshop.
Olivia Arnold
BECKY / MR HULL / DAD
Liv graduated from Mountview in 2017 with a BA in Musical Theatre.
Credits include Peter Pan (Qdos Entertainment 2017), Pride in London (Academy Films 2018), Sleeping Beauty (Jordan Productions 2018); she has also performed unique covers at Piano Smithfield cabarets, part of the 'DIVAS presents' series in association with The Singers Space (Michael Thomas Freeman Prod. 2023).
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