TESTING THE ECHO
Writer, creative team, cast

MATTHEW DUNSTER - director
Matthew was in the original cast of our production of The Permanent Way. He is associate director at the Young Vic where productions have included Some Voices, the Olivier-nominated Love and Money and most recently the acclaimed The Member of the Wedding:

"Beautifully directed by Matthew Dunster, it could hardly be better done"
The Guardian on The Member of the Wedding
"An atmospheric, moving piece, lovingly revived in Matthew Dunster's fine production" Financial Times on The Member of the Wedding

TERESA BANHAM

Teresa’s theatre includes extensive work with the RSC, recently including Thomas More, A New Way to Please, Believe What You Will and Speaking Like Magpies. Other theatre includes The IO Passion (Almeida); One Minute (The Bush); Othello (Northampton/Greenwich); The Shawl (Sheffield Crucible); My Best Friend (Hampstead Theatre); Snake in the Grass (Old Vic); Anna Karenina (Shared Experience) and Here (Donmar Warehouse). Television includes Dalziel & Pascoe, Trial and Retribution, Vincent, Rose and Maloney, Redcaps, Trust, The Project, Gentleman’s Relish, Monsignor Renard, Touch and Go, Out of Hours, The Six Sides of Steve Coogan, Roughnecks, Massage (Ghost Hour), The Healer, The Bill, Reasonable Force, After the War, Cariani and the Courtesan, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

KIRSTY BUSHELL

Kirsty appeared in the world tour of Out of Joint’s Blue Heart. She was recently nominated for a TMA award for her performance in Angels In America (Headlong/Glasgow Citizens Theatre/Lyric Hammersmith). Other theatre include Twelfth Night (Filter/RSC); The Voysey Inheritance (National Theatre) and An Inspector Calls (National Theatre/West End). Television includes Pulling, Eastenders, Midsomer Murders, Talk to Me, Holby City, The Bill, Family Man, Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee, Roger Roger. Film: Really.

SUSHIL CHUDASAMA

Sushil’s theatre includes the New Writing Festival at Oldham Coliseum; The Kindness of Strangers, (Everyman Liverpool); Toba Tek Singh (Gateway Theatre Edinburgh); Flip the Script (LeKoa); Krindlekrax (Birmingham Rep/Nottingham Playhouse); Mapping the Edge (Wilson Wilson Co.) Queuing for Everest (Crucible, Sheffield); Choice, East Meets West (Royal Court). Television includes Waterloo Road, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Coronation Street, Northern Exposure, Blue Murder II, Clocking Off III & IV, Casualty, A+E, Off Side, Strumpet, Doctors, Belonging, The Cops, Shipman, Cold Feet and The Dream Team. He appeared in the film Chicken Tikka Masala. Radio includes Silver Street (series) and A Minus.

FARZANA DUA ELAHE

Farzana’s theatre appearances include Catch (Royal Court); Burn & Citizenship (National Theatre);The Pilgrimage (Young Vic); Family Ties (Greenwich Theatre); Fresh Start (Round House Space); Dust (Albany Theatre). Television credits include Omid, Britz, Spit Game, Doctors, M.I.T., England Expects, The Bill. Film includes Saxon.

IAN DUNN

Ian’s theatre includes : Cruising (Bush Theatre), Osama The Hero, A Single Act (Hampstead Theatre); Terrorism, Fucking Games, Toast, I Am Yours, Babies (Royal Court); Luminosity, Love Play (RSC); Chips With Everything, Somewhere (National Theatre); Our Boys (Donmar Warehouse/Derby Playhouse); Six Degrees of Separation (Royal Court/Comedy Theatre) and Invisible Friends, Wolf at the Door, Brighton Beach Memoirs (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough). Television includes Waking the Dead, Holby City, Pulling, French & Saunders, Holby City, Doctors, Murphy’s Law, Sea Of Souls, Red Cap, Girls In Love (series 1&2). Films include American Friends and Bye Bye Baby. He has also been in numerous radio productions.

ROBERT GWILYM

Robert’s recent theatre includes Antigone, Aladdin, and the title role in Macbeth (Bristol Old Vic). Other theatre includes: Cymbeline, Pericles, Baal, The Suicide (RSC); The Seagull, The White Devil, The Way of the World (Greenwich); Behind Heaven (Manchester Royal Exchange/Donmar Warehouse); Sgt Musgrave’s Dance (Oxford Playhouse); Much Ado About Nothing, Ivanov (Strand); Dancing at Lughnasa (Abbey Theatre, Dublin/West End/Broadway); The Mai (Tricycle); Othello (Nottingham Playhouse) and over 25 productions at The Citizen’s Theatre, Glasgow. Robert is well known from 4 years playing Dr. Max in Casualty.

SYRUS LOWE

Syrus graduated from RADA in 2007. Just after graduating he was part of the Old Vic's The Sky's The Limit project and then began filming an eight episode special for The Bill (January 2008). Testing The Echo is Syrus's professional stage debut.

SIRINE SABA

Sirine’s theatre credits include Baghdad Wedding (Soho Theatre); Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Nights Dream (Regents Park Theatre); Twelfth Night, HMS Pinafore (Open Air Theatre); Beauty and The Beast, Midnight’s Children, The Tempest, Pericles, The Winter’s Tale, A Warwickshire Testimony, Tales from Ovid, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC); Our Town, The Pillars of Society, Sparkleshark (RNT Studio); House & Garden (Northampton); The World’s Wife (The Other Place); The King and I (BAC); Paper Husband (Rosemary Branch). Television & Film include Silent Witness, Footballers Wives Extra Time, Death of the Revolution, The Bill, Do’s and Don’ts, Prometheus. Radio includes Love and Loss.

PAUL WILLS: Designer

Paul is also designing The Man Who Had All The Luck (Donmar Warehouse). Other theatre credits include Crestfall (Theatre 503); We The People (Globe); The Changeling, Mother Courage (ETT); Tracy Beaker Gets Real (Nottingham and Tour); Prometheus Bound (New York and The Sound Venue); The Cut (Donmar & Tour); Little Voice (Watermill); Total Eclipse (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Field (Tricycle); Mammals (Bush & Tour); Breathing Corpses (Royal Court); a Pinter triple bill - A Kind of Alaska, A Slight Ache and Precisely (Gate); A Number (Sheffield Crucible & Chichester); Oliver! (Hereford); Car Thieves (The Door, Birmingham Rep) and The School of Night (The Other Place). He also designed Sweetness and Badness for Welsh National Opera’s Max project and The Magic Flute for The National Theatre of Palestine.

PHILIP GLADWELL: Lighting designer

Most recently Philip has lit: Terminus at The Public Theatre New York; Anansi Trades Places for Talawa Theatre Co. Crestfall at Theatre 503. Other theatre includes: Kebab (Royal Court); The Member of the Wedding, Winners, Interior, The Exception and the Rule, The New Tennant, When The World Was Green, The Soul of Ch?ien Nu Leaves Her Body (Young Vic); Melody, In The Bag (Traverse); Midnight Cowboy (Assembly); A Whistle in the Dark (Citizens); HOTBOI, Tape (Soho Theatre); Jack and the Beanstalk, Aladdin (Hackney Empire); Dead Funny, Mother Courage (Nottingham Playhouse & UK tour); Into The Woods, Macbeth, Way up Stream (Derby Playhouse); The Morris (Liverpool Everyman); Bread & Butter (Tricycle). Opera & Ballet include Il Trittico (Opera Zuid); Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci (Haddo House Opera); An Operatic Evening (Royal Opera House); Another America: Fire (Sadlers Wells); The Canterville Ghost (Peacock); Awakening (Sadlers Wells).

IAN DICKINSON: Sound designer

Ian designed the sound for Out of Joint and Hampstead Theatre?s King of Hearts. He is Head of Sound at the Royal Court where productions have included The Family Plays, Rhinoceros, My Child, The Seagull, Krapp?s Last Tape, Piano/Forte, Rock ?n? Roll (& West End & Broadway), Motortown, The Winterling, Alice Trilogy, Stoning Mary (& Drum Theatre, Plymouth), Breathing Corpses, Wild East, Dumb Show, Shining City (& The Gate, Dublin) and Hitchcock Blonde (& West End). Other theatre includes: Love and Money (Young Vic); The Hothouse, Pillars of the Community (National Theatre); A Few Good Men (West End); Dr Faustus (Chichester Festival Theatre) and Night of the Soul (RSC/Barbican).