CAST & CREW

The creative team behind Red Valley.

JONATHAN WILLIAMS
Co-Director / Writer / Warren Godby

Jon is a writer of feature and short screenplays, audio drama and prose, alongside his career as a healthcare worker based in Bristol, UK. He has co-written and performed in several award-winning short films including the sci-fi/horror Eddie that featured at 18 film festivals around the world.

@redvalleyjon

ALAN MANDEL
Co-Director / Producer / Gordon Porlock

Alan Mandel has enjoyed a varied career in the entertainment industry, working both as an actor and director across both stage & screen. As an actor he has appeared in films such as Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Rocketman, War Horse, Pride, Captain America and most recently Eastenders, as well as many other projects across film and theatre.

As a director and producer Alan has worked in both Film and Theatre with credits including; festival and fight director of the Stroud Shakespeare Festival (including directing Romeo + Juliet andTwelfth Night), the critically acclaimed sell out off West End run of Frankenstein: The Metal Opera (The Space Theatre), After a Storm (Exeter Northcott Theatre), In The Space Between (Camden People’s Theatre) and Those That Remain (Berkeley Power Station). For film, his credits include; music videos for Electric Swing Circus and Belly of the Steel Beast, assistant directing The Underwater Realm, fight directing the music video Friend or Foe for Madcap and developing a series of anthropological documentaries for the Pitt Rivers Museum.

@alan_mandel

RICHARD CAMPBELL
Post-Production / Music / Additional Voices

Richard is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who runs a recording studio in Hackney (Orpheus Studio), working with a variety of artists across many genres. He writes and produces music under his own name and as Belly of the Steel Beast. He wrote and produced Frankenstein: The Metal Opera, and also manages and performs with a function band (Bad Mutha Covers).

@orpheusstudio

ORPHEUS STUDIO

ORPHEUS STUDIO YOUTUBE

CAROL PESTRIDGE
Creative Consultant / Additional Voices

Carol Pestridge has worked in the theatre industry as a freelance Stage Manager for the last 13 years. She has worked with many theatre companies including: Told by an Idiot, Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, Frantic Assembly, National Theatre Wales, The Young Vic, Improbable, Barbican Theatre, Manchester Royal Exchange, The Menier Chocolate Factory, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, SOHO Theatre, and the west-end premiere of the multi Olivier award nominated Emilia at the Vaudeville.

Carol is also a songwriter (with Belly of the Steel Beast), singer (with Bad Mutha Covers), and writer and producer of Frankenstein: The Metal Opera.

@carolpestridge

TASH REITH-BANKS
Dr. Aubrey Wood

Tash Reith-Banks trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and is an actress and journalist. Previous work includes numerous audiobooks, devised work with companies such as Slung Low, sketch comedy shows including Newsrevue and stints at the Cambridge Shakespeare Festival. She currently works as a production and commissioning editor for The Guardian.

@tashreithbanks

MAY CUNNINGHAM
Karen Godby

May Cunningham is a London based actor who trained at the Oxford School of Drama, LAMDA and the Sylvia Young Stage School. She has appeared at a number of fringe theatres at Theatre503, The Old Red Lion Theatre, Theatre N16 and Theatro Technis. Other work includes voiceover work for E4, the RSC and various short films and music videos. She is also a writer and has worked with the Royal Court's Unheard Writers Program and Yellow Earth Theatre on her plays. She is so excited to be working with the Red Valley team.

@may_cunningham

ALEXANDER BROAD
Clive Schill

Alexander has been a London based sound engineer for over 14 years and is currently working on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in the West End. His previous work includes Head of Sound for Chicago: The Musical (Garrick Theatre), Assassins, She Loves Me, Adrian Mole: The Musical, Barnum (Menier Chocolate Factory), Stepping Out (Vaudeville Theatre), The Audience (Apollo Theatre) and Annie Get Your Gun (UK Tour). Alexander performs as part of the function band Bad Mutha Covers and is a frequent collaborator with the Red Valley team and finds it a welcome change to be performing in front of the mic!