demi-paradise productions


	WHO'S WHO

Stephen Tomlin (Producer) Stephen was both producer & director of Richard II and Measure for Measure. Thereafter he has produced all subsequent shows, as well as directing the 2003 Deck The Hall ... and the premiere of Richard III - On Trial for Murder. His other work as a director/designer includes The Rivals, The Crucible and A Man For All Seasons for Brewery Theatre Co at The Brewery Arts Centre Kendal, and Our Country's Good for The University of Cumbria at Carlisle. A west country man by birth and upbringing Stephen has been in happy exile in Lancaster since 1976. Trained as a specialist speech and drama teacher at the Central School in London he has enjoyed a long and varied career as an actor in all media. A keen local pub quiz league player Stephen is still remembered by many as the 1991 BBC TV Mastermind champion.
Ian Blower (Associate Director) Ian is an actor and director of many years standing. A native of the West Midlands, he began his professional career at The Greenwich Theatre in 1969 and since then has worked in Theatre and television both in this country and abroad. His directorial credits include work for Theatre Centre London, Merseyside Young Peoples Theatre, Gwent Young Peoples Theatre and The Next Stage in Nottingham. For a number of years he produced a string of pantomime hits for The Duke's Playhouse Lancaster which earned the appellation from The Guardian “The Best in the North West”. Most recently he directed Khabaloush for Ms Diva at The Contact Theatre Manchester. For demi-paradise Ian previously directed Macbeth and All's Well That Ends Well, and co-directed Richard III.
Sue McCormick (Associate Director) After 25 years as a performer Sue is delighted to find herself juggling 3 careers as an actress, writer and director. In 2008, with her acting hat on, she played the Nurse in Romeo & Juliet for Northern Broadsides, toured in Ladies Down Under with Hull Truck and was Niall's foster-mum in Hollyoaks. She recently finished playing bingo nightly in Everybody Loves A Winner at The Royal Exchange, Manchester. Quondam Arts toured her play Unruly Women in 2007 and she continues to perform her self-penned one-woman play Wild as the White Waves. For demi-paradise, Sue co-directed Richard lll and Hamlet, played the Queen in Richard ll and devised, directed and performed in Blood Red Roses and several Deck the Halls. This year she is directing the tenth anniversary production of The Merchant of Venice.
Jude Glendinning (Musical Director) Having studied at the Royal Northern College of Music, Jude works as Musical Director, teacher, group leader, and occasional performer. She acted as MD for the Brewery Theatre Co for The Crucible and A Man For All Seasons, and at Lancaster Castle for Deck The Hall. Currently a full time member of the Singing department at the Arden, Manchester, she is also a vocal professor at Lancaster University. Jude conducts a world music singing group HumHoller'n'Sing and a classical choir. As part of the a cappella group Five In A Bar, she sings close harmony folk/jazz and as a classical or operatic soloist, she was the mother of Hansel and Gretel for Northstar Opera, and in November, the soprano in Haydn's Creation. Jude was demi-paradise's musical director for Macbeth, All's Well That Ends Well, Richard III & Hamlet.
C. P. Hallam (Associate Director) Chris first collaborated on direction with his two one man shows The Prime Minister's Son and Get Oscar! Both produced in collaboration with the writer. Chris has had a long association with new writing with pieces ranging from his help in developing It's Difficult to Say with Any Certainty for Coal Theatre Company at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, through to the monologue show Bruised; social pieces such as The Blue River dealing with the difficulties of asylum seekers, Pretty Witty Nell a one woman how about Nell Gwyn, to Quadruped looking at man's relationship with animals. He is currently devising a new play through improvisation around the script of Twelfth Night. He has taught at the University of Salford, Northern Actors Centre and Urban Stage in Manchester, where he directed Daisy Pulls it Off. Chris's work as an actor has included Bolton Octagon, West Yorkshire Playhouse, The Queen's Hornchurch and various middle scale touring companies. He previously acted at Lancaster Castle in All's Well That Ends Well, Richard III and Deck The Hall ... Chris co-directed the demi-paradise production of Hamlet.