Who we are

Artistic Director:

Mark Beeson

Mark Beeson is a playwright and anthropologist who grew up on Dartmoor. He read classics at university before switching to human sciences and working briefly as a primate ecologist. He has conducted and published research into the history of Dartmoor and its mythology. As a writer he has read his long poem The Blue Monkeys of Zomba on BBC Radio 3, had four verse plays broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and written a book on Dartmoor for the Countryside Commission. He has created over twenty community plays, working extensively with teenagers and in primary schools as a workshop leader and director, and is the founder of MED Theatre, where he is Artistic Director.

If you want to contact Mark,

please call 01647 441356 or email markbeeson@medtheatre.co.uk

Education Officer:

Abby Stobart

Abby has been MED Theatre's education officer since October 2008. She gained a first class honours degree in drama from Exeter University in 2003, and went on to do her actor training at East 15 drama school in London, where she achieved an MA. Throughout her training Abby has gained experience in stage combat techniques, physical theatre, music and dance. Having held down an acting career in London and also touring as an education worker in schools across Britain and Ireland, she returned to Devon where she was keen to work with a company that would reach out to local communities, particularly young people, through creating work of a high standard about issues that are important to her. She feels she has found exactly that in MED Theatre.

If you want to contact Abby,

please call 01647 441356 or email abbystobart@medtheatre.co.uk

Gillian Webster has been involved with MED Theatre since 1987 on a freelance basis as as a musician, composer and creative music workshop leader. She also has experience in arts administration and fundraising, joining MED Theatre's staff base as Company Development Officer in September 2009, working 3 days a week.

Gillian studied physics with geophysics at Exeter University, completing research for a PhD in crystallography before changing direction to pursue a career in the arts and music, her original love.

Her compositions have been used on a TV advertisement for Kent's Cavern, for two computer games, to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day in Exeter and to celebrate a choir exchange between South Brent and Châteauneuf-du-Faou.

If you want to contact Gillian,

please call 01647 441356 or email

gillianwebster@medtheatre.co.uk

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