Show Programme

SEVEN and a half YEARS

Written and performed by Mark Glentworth

Creative Team

Director: Julia Stubbs

Lighting Designer for Jack Studio 2022/Riverside Studios 2023: Jonny Danciger

Sound Designer: Mark Glentworth

Technical Operator for 2024 Tour: Sushant Nair

Technical Operator for Edinburgh Fringe 2022/National Tour 2023: Julia Stubbs

Production Manager for Jack Studio 2022/Brighton Fringe 2023: Marcus Glentworth

Photographer: Tim Stubbs Hughes at Grey Swan

Director of original Edinburgh 2021 production: Jonny Danciger

Produced by MMGMUSIC PRODUCTIONS | Co-Producer: Julia Stubbs

MARK GLENTWORTH – writer/performer

Mark Glentworth’s work as a composer spans a wide spectrum, from commercial songwriting to orchestral compositions and opera. Most recently, he has composed and performed his award-winning “Off-Fest” nominated solo autobiographical gig theatre show, SEVEN and a half YEARS. Mark has also begun collaborating with singer-pianist Frida Bollani on a new show titled TWO LIVES.

At 16, Mark became the youngest percussionist ever to attend the Royal Northern College of Music. His first published percussion composition, Blues For Gilbert has become the most studied, recorded, and performed tuned percussion piece of all time, amassing thousands of performances on YouTube with over a million collective views.

He is also renowned for his over 40-year collaboration with British playwright and actor Steven Berkoff on many of his celebrated theatre productions including Kafka’s Metamorphosis with Tim Roth and Sink The Belgrano! at the Mermaid Theatre, Coriolanus at the Edinburgh Festival, Kafka’s The Trial at the National Theatre, and Greek and On The Waterfront in the West End..

Throughout Mark’s career, he has travelled the world, performing his live scores in theatre and playing as a percussionist with the late Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s contemporary ensemble, Fires of London as well as with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta.

Mark’s first commercial single, These Three Words is now available on all streaming platforms, including Bandcamp and SoundCloud.

JULIA STUBBS – director

Julia Stubbs is a freelance director, producer, and dramaturg and the Artistic Director of 20 South Street where she works in theatre, new writing and short film.

Recent theatre directing credits include the revival of Sparks by Simon Longman for Upper Hand Theatre (Jack Studio Theatre), and the premieres of What I Really Think of My Husband by David Pinner for And Tomorrow Theatre Company (Golden Goose Theatre) and Still Here by Mari Lloyd for 20 South Street (Jack Studio Theatre). Other theatre credits include Anne Bertreau’s solo play with music A Voice (Brighton Fringe and Edinburgh Festival Fringe); the UK premiere of the landmark play Desire by Catalan theatre’s most renowned playwright Josep Maria Benet i Jornet (White Bear Theatre); and the Off-West End transfer of Steven Hevey’s debut play In My Name (Trafalgar Studios).

Julia has recently produced and directed the original short film To Womb It May Concern by emerging writer Georgia Lovell, which is currently on its festival circuit.

For more information on the show, please visit the website: https://www.sevenandahalfyears.co.uk

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