Associate Artists

The Junction's Associate Artists are Rich Rusk, NIE and Bryony Kimmings. 

Rich Rusk

Rich Rusk is a theatre maker based in Cambridge, he is the artistic director of Night Light Theatre Company (The Lamplighter's Lament 2010/11 Romeo and Juliet 2011/12.) and was a founding member of Gomito Productions working as a writer and director for the devising company from 2001-2008. Over the past ten years Rich has devised 15 original productions for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, since 2008 he has worked and toured internationally with physical theatre company Gecko Theatre and is also an associate of Cambridge based Hoipolloi Theatre working with the emerging artist Hugh Hughes on his Wonderful World project.

From September 2011 Night Light Theatre will be touring their unique vision of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. This production is co-commissioned by The Junction and The New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich and will world premiere and run at The Junction from Mon 19 – Wed 28 Sept before touring nationally.

Rich is committed to supporting young, emerging theatre makers / performers running The Junction Young Company (JYC) alongside Kindling a development project set up through Night Light Theatre for talented young people mentoring their first piece of professional work. Each year one project is showcased at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2011 this piece is called is Vertigo and tells the story of two separate shows booked at the same time and place. This summer Rich is also co-directing a project called To Avoid Precipice, Cling To Rock devised with 10 young performers from Cambridge. Both shows will be performed at the Edinburgh Fringe from Sun 07 – Sat 13 August at Bedlam Theatre. Click here to visit The Bedlam Fringe website.

www.nightlighttheatre.co.uk

Twitter : @richrusk and @NLTheatre

^{Night Light Theatre's Romeo & Juliet will premiere and run at The Junction from Mon 19 Sept - Wed 28 Sept.} 

NIE (New International Encounter)

New International Encounter (NIE) are an international theatre company based in Cambridge (UK) with an office in Oslo (Norway). The company are known for their unique and dynamic style of physical theatre using a European ensemble of artists from over 20 countries, storytelling, multiple languages and live music. In 2011 the company celebrate not only their 10th anniversary but also winning an astonishing three international awards in two months.

In May 2011NIE were selected to take part in the renowned Assitej World Congress in Copenhagen/ Malmo - an international festival celebrating children’s theatre where they were awarded the prestigious 2011 Assitej award for Artistic Excellence. Alongside this international award, NIE have also won two other awards in April this year -  one for best production in schools touring in Norway which was presented by the Norwegian Minister of Culture for their production Everything Falls Apart, and one from the Norwegian Association of Performing Arts for Artistic Bravery.

The UK premiere of their latest show Tales from a Sea Journey was held at The Junction in March, followed with touring to festivals and venues across the UK. The Company have recently started work on The Junction’s Christmas show Hansel and Gretel which will run from Wed 07 Dec – Tues 03 Jan 2012. Click here for research and development updates on the show’s blog.

www.nie-theatre.com

Hansel and Gretel Show Blog

Twitter: @NIEtheatre #HanselandGretelNIE

^{Hansel and Gretel a Junction and NIE co production will run from Wed 07 Dec - Tues 03 Jan 2012}

Bryony Kimmings

Bryony Kimmings is a Live Artist based in Cambridge, she creates full length performance works, cabaret, homemade music, short films, and spoken word. Her work is larger than life, haphazard, loud, often dangerous, somewhat unpredictable but above all fun. She is inspired by the taboos and anomalies of British culture and her work promotes the airing of her own dirty laundry to oil conversations on seemingly difficult subjects. In 2010 Bryony won a Total Theatre Award for her Escalator East to Edinburgh show Sex Idiot, a glittering, unabashed tour through her true-life sexual misadventures and self-realisations.

This year Bryony hosted Junction Sampled: Festival of Performance where she also presented Mega, an individual audio piece exploring those moments in life when the magnificent becomes the mundane. Her new full length show 7 Day Drunk is co-commissioned by The Junction and Soho Theatre and investigates the historical links between artists and mind enhancing drugs. Created solely from material made during a 7 day experiment in which Bryony was kept in various states of scientific drunkenness. Performed sober. Catch the show as part of the 2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe at Assembly (George Sq) Fri 05 – Sun 28 August. Click here to visit Assembly’s website.

www.bryonykimmings.com

7 Day Drunk Show Blog

Twitter: @BryonyKimmings

Bryony Kimmings 7 Day Drunk runs at Edinburgh Fringe from 5 - 28 Aug at Assembly (Photo: Christa Holk