DROPPING TO ZERO - A Comedy by Susie Spencer

WORLD PREMIERE at the EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE

TV Weather-girl diets to Zero

TV Chef Husband wants her dead

WHY?

Rebecca Ann Lovell as Candice

Dominic Goodwin as Robert

Director - Stephanie Preacher

ASM - Annabel Preacher

Sound editor - David Tildsley
Body cut-out - John Goodwill

Design - Clare Nelson

Rebecca Ann Lovell

Rebecca graduated in 2004 from Bretton Hall with a BA (Hons) in Theatre Acting. Rebecca's pedigree comes from Shakespeare's The Tempest in her role reversal as Stephano; Macbeth playing Lady Macbeth; and A Midsummer Nights Dream as Helena. Rebecca also has a varied interest in contemporary writing, with credits including My Mother Said I Never Should as Rosie, Wounds To The Face as the Prisoner and her own adaptation of a one woman show Virginia Woolf .

Straight from Bretton she was on tour in Australia starring in Piccasso's Women as Marie Therese. Her Film Credits include Australia's Tropfest Film Festival It's in the Voice. More recent work includes Radio drama and voice overs. She has also just finished a Northern tour of Stone Soup as Mrs North with Konflux Theatre Company.

In her spare time Rebecca teaches dance and drama to under-8s

Dominic Goodwin

Dominic Goodwin's first role onstage was back in 1979 in the musical The Dracula Spectacular, when at the tender age of 13 he played the deformed man-servant Genghis (and only because his best friend was in it!). His acting credits have included Northern tours of Two by Jim Cartwright; The Long Mirror by J B Priestley; Siegfried Sassoon in the World War One play Not About Heroes by Stephen MacDonald; and Jack in Godber's September in the Rain. Other roles have included Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream at The Beck Theatre; Oscar in The Odd Couple; Freddie in Noises Off; as well as two appearances as Hercule Poirot in Black Coffee and Peril At End House.

Dominic's directing credits include: Ayckbourn's How The Other Half Loves and Sisterly Feelings, Twelfth Night, Canterbury Tales, and the musicals; Billy and Carrots. He directed the Ratatat Theatre's first Edinburgh Fringe show last year, Mike Kenny's Whose Shoes?

Dominic was Co-Producer of the Ian McMillan musical about the life and work of Jake Thackray, Sister Josephine Kicks the Habit, and is also closely involved with the new Thackray musical, The Thackray Arms, written by Alan Plater.

Stephanie Preacher, Director

Stephanie Preacher trained at Central School of Speech & Drama, London and has worked in almost all forms of theatre including street, community & forum theatre, festival, touring and Theatre-in-Education. She worked through the last days of fortnightly repertory theatre, as well as in the West End (playing Flora in Humble Boy), television, film and radio. She has worked as actress, model, director, stage manager, voice over, a tree, and a (hopeless) understudy. Recently, she has played Mildred Cranshaw in Coronation Street, and solicitor Miss Donaldson in Emmerdale.

Her directorial credits include: Gaslight, Duet For One, Separate Tables and The Donohue Sisters. In devising and forum theatre this also includes: The Spanish Conquest of Peru, Zampano's Circus, Ready Steady STOP! and The Mirrors of Chartres Street, based on the writings of Nobel prize winner William Faulkner.

Her hobbies are walking the dog, learning Portuguese and working her magicienne skills.

Susie Spencer, Writer

Susie Spencer has recently graduated from the University of Salford with an MA in TV & Radio Scriptwriting. Susie previously gained her BA (Hons) in Fashion Design and Marketing and subsequentley worked in the Fashion Trade, travelling the world as a Buyer. Whilst working as a publicist she wrote her first stage play, Dead Lines, directed by Helen Cadbury and performed at York Theatre Royal.

Her other Theatre Script credits include: Photo Finish, produced and toured by Ratatat Theatre Company; Body Blow, produced by Equity Leeds and performed at Garforth Community Theatre and directed by Damien Cruden at York Theatre Royal.

Susie's Screen script credits include: Magdelena's Onion, Fast Lane, Facing Mecca, Fashion Victims, Bless You, Turn up the Sun, Spirit of the House, and the more recently Small Furry Animals produced by Funny Bone UK.

Her radio script credits include Real Mum, Sorry, Wheels on Fire and Soul and Ice. The latter was short listed in the BBC Imagine Competiton 2006. Susie also enjoys adaptation, having recently dramatised for radio a novel written by David Nobbs, Sex and Other Changes.

In Dropping to Zero, Susie wanted to determine what would cause an intelligent young woman to starve herself down to a pre-pubescent shape… but she didn't want the piece to turn into a lecture about eating disorders. In Dropping to Zero she uses comedy as a potent means to approach the more serious subtext of the play.