FLIGHT PATH - cast and creative team
CARY CRANKSON
Cary trained at RADA. His theatre includes Silverland (Lacuna Theatre.Co/New York); Coriolanus (Brockley Jack Theatre); Medea (Bridewell Theatre); Othello (Love & Madness); Romeo in Romeo & Juliet (Lost Theatre); The Fall (Young Vic); Wind in the Willows (Brit School). Television includes Doctors. Films include Underneath and You’re Gonna Wake Up One Morning (Empire Film Award for Best Short Film).
WILL KNIGHTLEY
Will appeared in The Permanent Way for Out of Joint and the National Theatre (Sydney & UK tour) and was previously at The Bush in Crimes of the Heart. For Joint Stock Theatre Company he appeared in Fanshen, I Can Give You A Good Time, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Yesterday’s News, A Mad World My Masters and Epsom Downs. Other theatre includes Cinderella (Oxford Playhouse); Sleuth, The Tempest (Salisbury Playhouse); Our Country’s Good, Cyrano De Bergerac (Nuffield, Southampton); School for Scandal (English Touring Theatre); Death and the Maiden (Library, Manchester); Hush, Hamlet (Royal Court); Romeo and Juliet (Lyceum, Edinburgh); The Triumph of Love, Summerfolk (Minerva, Chichester); Macbeth (Bristol Old Vic) and Wild Honey (National Theatre). Television includes City of Vice; Charles I & the Regicides; Rosemary & Thyme; The Brief; Heartbeat; Foyle’s War; Midsomer Murders; Kavanagh QC; Cracker; A Touch of Frost; Goodbye Cruel World; The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Life of Shakespeare. Films include The Mill on the Floss.
ASHLEY MADEKWE
Ashley trained at RADA. Her theatre include The Indian Boy (Royal Shakespeare Company); 93.2FM (Royal Court); The Prayer Room (Edinburgh Lyceum/Birmingham Rep); Little Sweet Thing (Hampstead Theatre/Tour). Television includes Drop Dead Gorgeous II; Prime Suspect; Vital Signs; Casualty; Doctors; Teachers; Hope and Glory; The Bill. Film appearances include How To Lose Friends and Alienate People; Cassandra’s Dream; Venus; Storm Damage. Radio includes Far From Home and Tell Tale.
JASON MAZA
Jason’s theatre includes The Cage (Nuffield Theatre) and Gutted and Taken In (Tristan Bates Theatre). Television appearances include My Boy Jack, The Bill, The Lawrences, Holby City, Casualty, Life Begins, Eastenders. Films include The Rise of the Foot Soldier, Special People, Dolphins, Outlaw, Brick It, Life n Lyrics, Hush Your Mouth and Pit.
MOSSIE SMITH
Mossie appeared in Out of Joint’s O go my Man in 2006. Other theatre includes Longitude (Greenwich theatre); Getting to the Foot of the Mountain (Birmingham Rep); Howard Katz, Wild Oats (National Theatre); Road, Shirley, The Recruiting Officer, Our Country’s Good, Three Birds Alighting on a Field (Royal Court); and Sex Please, We’re Italian and The Crucible (Young Vic). Television includes regular appearances as Aunt Megan in Hearts of Gold and Petula Belcher in The Riff-Raff Element as well as appearances 2000 Streets Under the Sky, Midsomer Murders, Goodnight Mr. Tom, Tom Jones, Rough Justice, French and Saunders, Harry Enfield and Chums and Absolutely Fabulous and Prime Suspect I and IV. Her Films include House, Breathtaking, Janice Beard 45 wpm, The Girl with Brains in her Feet, Up the Valley, Second Best and Memoirs of a Survivor.
SCOTT SWADKINS
Flight Path is Scott’s first theatre role. Most recently he appeared in the film Special People (also with Jason Maza) which premiers at the 2007 Edinburgh International Film Festival. In 2001, Scott joined Forward 4 Work, a key part of Disability Employment Services within Birmingham City Council. He gained a number of qualifications with work placements at a book shop at The Custard factory in Birmingham and the city’s Nature Centre. Scott began acting in King Fu, made by 104 Films as part of their series DisLife made by people with disabilities. The following year he played the lead in their film The Dance Off. Scott is very excited at taking this opportunity to become a professional actor.
DAVID WATSON (writer)
David is 22. His first play, Just A Bloke, was staged as part of the Royal Court’s Young Writers Festival when he was just 17.
Naomi Jones (director)
Naomi recently directed One Million Tiny Plays About London (Clerkenwell) and After Miss Julie (Gothenburg, Sweden), as well as the revival of Russell Barr's hit Sisters Such Devoted Sisters. As Out of Joint’s assistant director she has worked on all the company's recent productions.
Polly Sullivan (designer)
Polly recently designed Naomi Jones' production of Machinal (BAC/Oxford School of Drama). Other theatre designs include Called to Account and How Long Is Never? Darfur - A Response (Tricycle); The Atheist (Theatre 503); You Might As Well Live (New End Theatre); Free The Lady – Aung San Suu Kyi and The 24 Hour plays (The Old Vic); Seduced (Finborough Theatre); and The Snow Dragon (US tour, UK tour, Soho Theatre).
Natasha Chivers (lighting designer)
Natasha received the 2007 Olivier Award for Sunday in the Park with George, for the Menier Chocolate Factory production at Wyndhams Theatre. Extensive work with Frantic Assembly includes Pool (No Water), Peepshow, Tiny Dynamite, Hymns and Sell-Out; and for Paines Plough Mercury Fur, Pyrenees, The Straits, Small Things and On Blindness. Other theatre includes That Face (Royal Court) and The Wolves in the Walls (Improbable/National Theatre of Scotland). Natasha designed lighting for the recent Ballet for the People gala at the Royal Festival Hall and the Encore tour, both for George Piper Dances (the “Ballet Boyz”). Operas include Tristan and Isolde at the Linbury Studio (Royal Opera House) and work for The Opera group.
Carolyn Downing (sound designer)
Carolyn’s designs include Absurdia (Donmar Warehouse); Alaska (Royal Court); the recent major revival of Angels in America (Headlong, Lyric Hammersmith, Citizens Glasgow); The Winter’s Tale, Pericles, Days of Significance (Royal Shakespeare Company); A Whistle in the Dark, Moonshed (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Blood Wedding (Almeida); Gone to Earth (Shared Experience); Habitats, Under the Curse (Gate Theatre) and several shows at Southwark Playhouse. Carolyn was associate sound designer on The Overwhelming (National Theatre in association with Out of Joint) and on Out of Joint’s O go my Man and Macbeth. She was Assistant to the Sound Designer on Billy Elliot: the Musical and number one sound operator on Blood Brothers (Phoenix Theatre).
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