Bill has worked in a variety of roles, art forms and contexts for the past 20 years, most recently as a creative producer working with a variety of art form practices for diverse audiences, particularly in outdoor and public realm contexts.

Currently Bill is the UK and International Creative Producer for 3rd Ring Out: Rehearsing the Future by Metis Arts. Bill is also the inaugural producer of a major new International Festival in Milton Keynes, co-Artistic Director of the Inside Out festival in Dorset and is UK producer for Dutch theatre maker Dries Verhoeven.

As an Associate Producer with Artsadmin he is regularly invited to speak, give papers and undertake strategic research projects for Arts Council England and other agencies into work in the public realm. Recently Bill was researcher and author of the ACE publication Beyond Their Walls, Dec 2009.

Operating through a combination of programming seasons or festivals and directly producing artist’s projects, whilst specialising in outdoor and public realm work, Bill continues to work with artists from a range of art forms and through the years has worked with theatre, dance, music, visual arts, live art, spoken word, participative arts, film and video. Recent projects include Nutkhut’s Movieplex and Theatre Consultant Programmer for the National Theatre’s Watch This Space.

Bill is currently the Chair of the Independent Street Arts Network and sits on the boards of both Rachel Davies Film Ltd and Inbetween Time Productions Ltd, he is also a Regional Council member for ACE, East Midlands. Previously he has been a Board Member of IOU Theatre Company, Intermedia Film and Video and sat on various ACE panels. Bill is regularly invited to speak at conferences and symposia, write articles and publications focusing on his work in the arts in the public realm and as an Independent Producer.

Bill provided consultancy on a range of projects to clients including ACE South East, Roundhouse, Greater London Authority, East Lindsey District Council, Southwark Borough Council, Boilerhouse Theatre Company, Arundel Festival, Architects of Air and The Corn Exchange. Earlier roles included Arts and Events Manager for Canary Wharf Group Plc. festival director, freelance consultant and project producer: notably responsible for initiating the NOTTDance festival and directing Barclays New Stages festival in Nottinghamshire as well as being a founding member of Touch & Go Arts Co-operative, a touring theatre company based in Loughborough.

Bill is supported by Arts Council England, London as a Regularly Funded Organisation. This enables his role as an independent producer, his advisory work to emerging and mid-career artists and his leadership role within the Outdoor sector as well as advocating for the continuing support of Independent Producers.

Sarah Belcher: Performer
Sarah Belcher is an actress. Her theatre appearances include: Six Characters in Search of an Author (Headlong Theatre, Sydney & Perth Festivals 2010 and UK tour), The Weather Man (Opera North), Ghosts in the Gallery (Polka Theatre and The National Portrait Gallery), The Elephant Man (Sheffield Theatres), The Last Lot (Talking Birds), Roam (National Theatre of Scotland and Grid Iron), Magic Carpet (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith), The Devil’s Larder (Grid Iron – Winner of Herald Archangel, Fringe First, Total Theatre and Carol Tamber Awards), The Swing Left and Zero Degree’s and Drifting (Unlimited Theatre),13 Objects, He Stumbled, The Ecstatic Bible and Ursula (UK tours and Adelaide Festival 2000, all for The Wrestling School), A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, Ghost Ward (Almeida Theatre) Edmond and The Collection (Northern Stage), The Nativity (Young Vic) Sunspots (The Red Room) Stranded (Scarlet Theatre, Young Vic), A River Sutra (RNT Studio at Three Mills), Leonce and Lena, Candide, and Ballad of Wolves (The Gate) Red Ladies, Metamorphoses, Silver Swan, andMusical Scenes (The Clod Ensemble).

Radio includes Knowledge and a Girl BBC R4 and Film and TV work includes Talk to Me Company Pictures and Beginner’s Luck Angel Eye/Latenight Pictures.

She has previously worked with Zoe Svendsen at the National Theatre Studio and with Grid Iron and is delighted to be part of 3rd Ring Out: Rehearsing the Future.

Fiona Byrne: Performer
Trained: Rose Bruford College
Musical Theatre credits include: Daisy, 1916 The Musical (West End Live, 2010 and original cast recording at Abbey Road; Eve, Children of Eden; Ado Annie, Oklahoma and Cinderella, The Slipper and the Rose (Premier)

Theatre includes: Emilie, Les Liasons Dangereuses;  Jo, Differentia (National Tour) Cordelia/Helena/Kate,  Love Bites – Shakespearean Spats, (Premier) Maggie, Dancing at Lughnasa and Lepouchke, Acting the Russians.

Film/TV: A series of Vignettes for the Knowledge and Understanding Framework, an online learning course raising awareness of Personality Disorder.

She is a performance poet, and has appeared at the Arcola Theatre, Dalston and was recently invited to perform her work at the Tate Modern as part of an exhibition challenging stigma surrounding mental health diagnosis.

Fiona works as a freelance workshop leader, facillitating writing and acting groups involving adults with mental health difficulties, both in the community and in residential settings.

She has worked extensively in Theatre in Education, working for Cragrats, touring with the BT ‘Talkworks’ project and React, performing plays and running workshops dealing with issues relevant to young people today.  She also works with Shakespeare 4 Kidz, visiting schools across the country and running Shakespeare workshops.

Lucy Ellinson: Performer
Lucy is a performer-practitioner with a special interest in devised, experimental and queer performance and new European writing. An associate artist with Third Angel and Forest Fringe, she regularly collaborates with Unlimited Theatre and writer/director Chris Goode. Lucy makes solo work, supported by Theatre in the Mill/Development Lab and also mentors young and emerging artists. She was nominated for the ‘Best Solo Performance Award’ as part of The Stage Awards for Acting Excellence at the Edinburgh Festival 2009 for her role in the UK premiere of Land Without Words by Dea Loher, directed by Lydia Ziemke.

Recent performances include: Who you are (Chris Goode/Tate Modern), Consequences (Mapping4D/The Place/BAC/Forest Fringe), Two Perspectives(Divided Skies Festival/Soho Theatre), They only come at night (Slunglow/BITE/The Barbican), Land Without Words (Shunt/ETB:Berlin/Edinburgh), UK premiere of Monsters by Niklas Rådström (Strawberry Vale/Arcola Theatre), Presumption (UK/Europe/Asia touring) and Homo Ludens (international co-production with Tig7/Schillertage 09) both for Third Angel. Lucy is a member of the UK’s first allgirl boyband: northstar.

She has been involved in short periods of research and development and devising for ’3rd Ring Out’ before performing in the piece on tour.

Mary Endo: Performer
Mary Endo is a performer and theatre maker who was born and raised in Berlin, with Japanese and Burmese parents. When 19, she moved to London amazed by the cultural diversity the city had to offer. After living in the city for a few years and finishing her studies at the Arts Educational Schools, she realised, that London was a too big a city to live in and moved to Amsterdam to find a new base. She worked on projects in Cooperation with Das Arts, mainly with Andrea Paciotto’s indifference project, producing shows such as Exit and Bad Bugs Bite, as well as with the Grand Theater Groningen and the AHK Amsterdam. The very closely linked international artists’ community in Amsterdam gave her the opportunity not only to work with people in theatre, but to co-operate with dancers, musicians, visual and fine artists to develop projects together. With two performers Lena Jovanovic and Charlotte Braithwaite, she organised Far-Out, a monthly podium and party for performers and musicians.

Now based in Berlin, she has been working on Post Theater productions Struwwelmensch and Grossmuetterchen Freiheit and is part of the international artist network Naturaleza Humana. Her theatre productions with them include: Autobahn and Pavlov’s Lab and they are currently developing a performance based on the play The Bitterness of the Merringue by Jorge Kuri.

She could recently been seen at the Panometer installation Amazonas.

Mary Endo has worked with METIS on the London:Lima LAB and is now back in the UK for 3rd Ring Out: Rehearsing the Future.

Sébastien Lawson: Performer
Sébastien read drama at the University of Hull and the University of Washington, Seattle. He is an award winning theatre maker/performer who has worked with numerous companies including Chris Goode’s Signal to Noise (Escapology / Homemade), Plymouth Theatre Royal (Speed Death of the Radiant Child), the Royal Court Theatre (First Time, First Love / Heart in Case), CPT (Icarus 2.0), Tangled Feet (Home), Song Theatre (Irreversible), and the company he co-founded, Top of the World.

He is also a member of The Frequency D’ici collective whose first show Paperweight won critical acclaim and a Scotsman Fringe First Award. They are currently working on their second show, Free Time Radical.

Lucille Acevedo-Jones: Costume Supervisor

Allison Jeny: Technical Stage Manager

Allison Jeny is a technical stage manager with extensive experience in theatre, public art/performance installations and events. A graduate from Australia’s premier performing arts college, the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Allison has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Stage Management and Technical Production. 3^rd Ring Out: Rehearsing the Future is a continuation of Allison’s involvement in public art/performance installation with previous experience including Production Manager for nationally acclaimed One & Other in Trafalgar Square. Allison has worked on numerous productions with Australia’s leading theatre production company, Sydney Theatre Company, including Stephen Soderbergh’s internationally acclaimed Tot Mom, The Narcissist and Ying Tong tours.

More locally, Allison’s theatrical experience include stage management and technician roles for the National Theatre Studio/Shunt Vaults’ Spill Festival London, Chelsea Theatre’s Sacred: A Season of Live Theatre and the Serpentine Gallery’s Poetry Marathon.

Well versed in production management for large scale events, Allison has had a longstanding association with Sydney New Year’s Eve Lord Mayor’s Party and Lord Mayor’s Picnic in Stage Manager/Assistant Stage Manager roles over the past decade. Other notable events include Logistics Coordinator for the 2009 Chinese New Year Parade in Sydney, Stage Manager for the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Chief Electrician for the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.