Who's who.
Below is a little more about the creative team behind many of Barefaced's shows.
Writer/Performer/
Producer: Berri George
Berri is a London based playwright and performer. A graduate of both the Belgrade Theatre’s Critical Mass and the Royal Court Theatre local invitation playwriting schemes and 2014 alumni for the Orange Tree Theatre’s invitation writers’ group. An Old Vic 12 shortlist for 2016, longlisted for both Bruntwood 2015 and Verity Bargate 2013 awards plus runner up in the 2017 Mercury Playwriting Award. 2017 BBC Hot Talent List and BBC Drama Room and BBC/Talawa London Voices 2016. And this year was awarded the 2019 Channel Four Playwright bursary for playwright residency at Theatre503.
A range of the UK’s leading new writing venues has staged her work. Her one-woman show LARP, which she also performed received five-star reviews and toured a selection of local and regional venues. Conjointly she has written for screen; with short film TITS (BBC Writersroom/BBC 3), and audio, with KAIZEN (Audible) and development script WALNUT WHIP (Radio 3) and commissioned to write her first promenade theatre play VIRTUALLY BLACKFRIARS (Milow Ladek, Southwark).
Director/Designer:
Adam Dattis
Adam is a native of Philadelphia, USA. He has studied and worked in architecture, scenography, lighting design, performance, movement, writing, and theatre directing in Los Angeles, South Africa, Bangkok, London and Moscow. He Is associate director of Barefaced Theatre Company, London, UK.
Recent London Credits: SHADOW KINGDOMS (Theatre 503, Camden People’s Theatre) LARP (Talawa, The Space, Bread + Roses); SOMEONE WITH A NATURALLY CHEERY DISPOSITION (The Space), Spare Parts (Old Red Lion). Going Method (Charing Cross Theatre), Mumbo Jumbo (Bussey Building, Royal Court Space), ICU (Kings Head Theatre), Mad Women (Portobello Cinema); MAD WOMEN IN ATTICS (New Wimbledon Theatre studio), THE 52 SHOW (Leicester square theatre), LIVING THE DREAM… (Rosemary Branch Theatre). UK Tour: LARP (Courtyard Hereford)
Adam holds a B. ARCH and B.F.A. from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles and M.A. from Middlesex University, London.
Professional actress, director and writer Katie has worked extensively in theatre since she graduated from ALRA and has collaboratively written and devised on many productions for Barefaced and Osip Theatre which include Mad Women in Attics, Whore, Stephen and the Sexy Partridge & Birds. Her West End acting credits include the DONMAR/Wyndhams production of A Voyage Round My Father with Derek Jacobi as well as many performances at the Garrick Club with Huge Bonneville, Geraldine James and Geoffery Palmer.
Her directing credits include the London premiere of Electricity by Murray Gold. Katie has also written and performed her published solo piece Collapsed for SHORTS and is currently co-creator/writer on a new TV sitcom.