Timothy Hughes - Artistic Director

Tim has recently directed Pebbles on the Beach, which premiered at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where his successful production of The Six Wives of Timothy Leary also played, following its revival at Riverside Studios in June. Pebbles on the Beach will transfer to London in November.

Training: as an actor, a Diploma in Theatre from Manchester Polytechnic School of Theatre and as a director, a Master of Arts in Theatre Direction from Goldsmiths College, London.

For WHen. as a director: The Six Wives of Timothy Leary, The Importance of Shoes, The Flats, The Smashed Blue Hills, Solace, Sara, Unlucky for Some, The Silent Time and Duck Hunting.

Other directing credits: The Promise and A Place with the Pigs.

Other producing credits: Broken Voices, Wilde Tales and Scotch & Water / Ponies.

Other experience: Has led workshops at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg and also co-ordinated Storming the Net at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in 1997, which brought together five international playwrights on the internet to collaboratively write a play for performance. He has also been Press Officer on Sunay’ha and Gaffer! and Production Manager for The Biggleswades and The Chimes.

Julia Stubbs - Artistic Director

Julia has recently directed the West End transfer of In My Name by Steven Hevey for Yaller Skunk Theatre Company at the Trafalgar Studios. Her next project sees a return to South Africa to begin developing a new play with South African and UK actors for 2009/2010. Julia is currently collaborating with the writer Nick Harrop in the next of WHen's Writers Ensemble programmes.

Training: as an actor, a Diploma in Theatre from Manchester Polytechnic School of Theatre.


For WHen. as a director: Thin Toes, Remembering You like something I'd Forgotten and It's A Girl.

For WHen. as an actor: Mrs. Taylor in The Flats, Kathy in English Journeys, Marlene in The Smashed Blue Hills, the title role in Sara and Laura in The Silent Time.

Other acting credits include: the title roles in Berenice and Hedda Gabler, Nora in A Doll's House, the London premiere of The Lament for Arthur Cleary and tours of King Lear and The Taming of the Shrew (playing Kate). At the National Theatre, several platforms for both the NT2000 and NT25 seasons, including Plenty (with Paul Freeman and Stephen Moore), Long Day's Journey into Night (with Susannah York) and Robert Lepage's The Seven Streams of the River Ota.
Acting credits in readings of new work include: the UK premiere of Desire by Josep Maria Benet i Jornet, The Diagnosis by Steve Waters and the title role in Thatcher by Keiron Butler.

Go here for more on Julia's West End directing debut - In My Name