SMALL TRUTH THEATRE - A COLLECTIVE OF BRILLIANT THEATRE MAKERS

Nicola T Chang is Small Truth Theatre's Creative Associate and regular sound designer and creative collaborator on all our Digital Caravan Theatre and Caravan Theatre live shows. 

Nicola is an award winning multidisciplinary sound designer/composer for theatre, film, audio dramas and commercial media. 

Growing up originally in Hong Kong, Nicola is now currently based in London.

Awards include:

• Evening Standard Future Theatre Fund (Audio Design) - Co-Winner with Francesca Amewudah-Rivers
• Old Vic12 Composer/Sound Designer (2020/2021)
• 3x Off West-End Awards Nominee (Sound Design)
• BFI x BAFTA Crew Member

See Nicola's bio at: 

https://www.nicolatchang.com/ 

Emma Dennis-Edwards is Small Truth Theatre's Creative Associate and wrote SPIRIT OF CARNIVAL, starring Danielle Vitalis - originally part of the Kensington Karavan Festival and later transferred onto audio/BSL/Film for Digital Caravan Theatre.   

Emma is a writer and performer of Jamaican and Trinidadian heritage. Emma has been a participant at Royal Court, Soho Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith and Oval House writers programmes. This year she has been chosen as part of the Almeida Theatre's Genesis Writers Programme and her play Bricks has been shortlisted for the Alfred Fogan Award.

In 2018 Emma’s play Funeral Flowers (which Emma wrote and stars in)  was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018 and won the Scotsman’s Fringe First Award and the Filipa Bragança award for best female solo performance. It has since enjoyed sold-out London transfers to The Bunker, Free Word Centre,  Bernie Grant Arts Centre, The Roundhouse and Hackney Empire. 

See Emma's bio at: 

https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/emma-dennis-edwards,

Abi Zakarian is Small Truth Theatre's Creative Associate and wrote ENOUGH, starring Lilly Driscoll - originally part of the Kensington Karavan Festival and later transferred onto audio/BSL for Digital Caravan Theatre. 

Abi Zakarian is an award-winning British-Armenian playwright based in London, and has written and staged plays at venues and companies ranging from Shakespeare's Globe, Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Soho Theatre, the Vaults, Jermyn Street Theatre, RSC Other Place, Arch468 Royal Docks, Damsels Theatre Outdoors, Royal Court Theatre, Drayton Arms, BRIT School, Southwark Playhouse and Underbelly Edinburgh as well as the Caravan Theatre.  

Abi was awarded an MGCFutures bursary in 2018 and is also the recipient of a Peggy Ramsay Foundation grant. 

She is currently developing her Fringe First award winning play FABRIC for television and is under commission with Shakespeare’s Globe and 45North.

See Abi's bio at: 

https://www.dalzellandberesford.com/writer/abi-zakarian

  Charlotte is a performer who has appeared as a regular collaborator for Small Truth Theatre.  

A graduate of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, her credits include: 

Jade in Nest by Katy Warner (Vaults Festival 2018 for Small Truth Theatre), Jackie in On the Line (Small Truth Theatre, tour), Juliet, Miranda and Beatrice for BBC Bitesize Shakespeare(BBC + A Productions), Eve in ADA/M (entreZ, VR pilot), Chloe in Viking Seige (Tornado Films), Tia in Locks – State We’re In (Theatre503), Rose in Little White Lies (Waterloo East for Small Truth Theatre), Mirrorball(Etcetera Theatre and Latitude Festival for Small Truth Theatre and Arcola) and Chloe in The Man Who Left is Not The Man Who Came Back (Farnham Maltings, R+D). Charlotte is also a regular performer for the improvisation company Gingerline.

Charlotte can be heard playing Siri and other parts in the radio play David Rathband by Christopher Hogg that was released to critical acclaim in Spring 2017 winning a BAFTA. 

As a Creative Associate/Company founder, Jamie regularly supports the Small Truth Theatre team and mucks in wherever useful - from producing, project management, driving the Caravan Theatre about, setting-up tech, to getting in the coffees & doughnuts. 

An experienced senior arts leader - staunchly proud of his working class Scottish roots - in his day job, Jamie is Executive Director at Watford Palace Theatre, a beautiful 600 seat Edwardian regional producing Theatre based in Hertfordshire (the major ACE NPO funded Theatre serving the Three Counties region). He is also Director of Imagine Watford and Imagine Luton international outdoor arts festivals.  

Prior to that Jamie is proud to have worked at some brilliant arts organisations - including as General Manager at Arcola Theatre, Head of Operations & Public Events at Shakespeares Globe, FOH Management & Production Manager for The Playhouse Theatre (West End), Company Director for Realeyes Theatre Company, Senior Manager for Perform Drama Schools, Team Manager at Ticketmaster/First Call, tour booking at Avalon, as well as various freelance roles for other arts organisations/touring companies across the UK as a theatre director, arts manager, workshop facilitator and performer - having originally trained at East 15 Drama School -  under founder Maggie Walker (training derived from Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop). 

Outside of Theatre, Jamie also worked at Anne Frank Trust UK/Anne Frank House International Department as National Programmes Director, representing UK at various European and International conferences and International Task Force for Holocaust Education, Human Rights and Anti-Racism education. Jamie is also a fellow of the Imperial War Museum.