Just Add Water
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Just Add Water's influences include:
Cirque du Soleil
Stomp
Nine Inch Nails
Fila Brazillia
Forced Entertainment
Frantic Assembly
Imogen Heap
Vast
The David Glass Ensemble
Add n 2 (x)
Piesn Kozla (Song of the Goat)
Bjork
Knee High Theatre Company
Michael Jackson
Company Directors:
Ben Moores
Co-Founder/Director of Just Add Water (Theatre) Company and Shot in the Dark Theatre
Movement Director and collaborator for Norfox Theatre, the Library Theatre's youth theatre company
Former Acting Tutor and Facilitator for the British Youth Film Academy and Contact Theatre
Ben spent his teenage years training in classical Dance, Drumming, Performing Arts and Singing. Having toured the country with Musical Theatre and Cabaret he moved to Manchester to expand his education and further his training in other areas of performance. Through helping to form Just Add Water and establish Shot in the Dark he found a platform for his freshly formed poetry talents and how to combine them with his vast array of skills in movement, voice and music. After three runs at the Edinburgh Festival with Just Add Water and two at the Contact Theatre and Library Theatre with Shot in the Dark, Ben wrote a full length play called: Why Me? His writing was nominated for an award at the Buxton Fringe and was developed further, culminating in an ambitious and successful run at the Contact Theatre.
Alongside his exciting and thought provoking work as a performer and writer Ben has developed his own workshop programs and is now a longserving collaborator for the Library Theatre's Youth Theatre: Norfox. Expanding on his roles as a facilitator for The British Youth Film Academy and Contact Theatre he has again combined his other skills and is involved in Research & Development, Devising and Writing for Norfox's shows.
Ben, Niven and Tom where brought together for the telling of the fascinating true story of artist, Joash Woodrow in autumn 2011. As part of the newly formed company, Small Things, members of Just Add Water and the now disbanded Shot in the Dark found themselves working on the same project, culminating in an intimate ensemble piece in the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.
Tom Barry
Co Founder/Director of Just Add Water (Theatre) Company
Actor and collaborator for Folka Theatre & Shot in the Dark Theatre
Former Head of Acting & Casting Director for the British Youth Film Academy
Long before discovering he wanted to go in to performance, Tom trained in Karate and football untill leaving school. Before attending drama school a few years later he worked extensively in amateur, community and street theatre. Drama school in London and Manchester and the creation of Just Add Water followed. Having graduated and taken Just Add Water to three Edinburgh Fringe Festivals Tom and Ben took on several seperate projects and directions. Tom attended many workshops and courses with practitioners from all over the world in Physical and Experimental Theatre and Clowning. This lead to work as Casting Director & Head of Acting for The British Youth Film Academy as well as workshop programs for Just Add Water.
Tom joined forces again with Ben for Shot in the Dark's production of Lost/Found and then helped Felicity with her new company's maiden production: Folka Theatre's 'Projekt Jude', a devised production intended to encourage awareness of the Holocaust and mass genicide across the world
After a couple of years on other projects Just Add Water developed Why Me? with Matt and Niven who they'd worked with in Shot in the Dark. Buxton, Cheshire and Manchester followed before each member's continued success on individual paths.
Tom and Felicity recently travelled across the world exploring new communities and cultures before returning to embark on new projects and breathe new life into already established ones. After working on Small Things' production at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Tom will work on several projects in Cheshire as an actor and director.
Performers and collaborators:
Felicity Goodman
Actor & Collaborator for Just Add Water (Theatre) Company
Founder & Director of Folka Theatre
Former Head of Acting for the British Youth Film Academy
Matthew Rothwell
Actor & Collaborator for Just Add Water (Theatre) Company and Shot in the Dark Theatre
Former Acting Tutor for the British Youth Film Academy
Curently touring as an Actor with Manchester Actor's Company
Debbie Brannan
Actor & Collaborator for Just Add Water (Theatre) Company
Acting Tutor for the British Youth Film Academy
Currently training at Central School of Speech and Drama
Niven Ganner
Actor & Collaborator for Just Add Water (Theatre) Company & Shot in the Dark Theatre
Co-Founder & Collaborator for Pen-Ultimate, the spoken-word hip-hop theatre collective
Recent projects: 'A Day On The Tiles', 'A Night On The Tiles' and 'The Resonance of Seclusion'