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Hannah Rose Caton
About Me: Creative Producer (Multi-hyphenated Writer & Actor) Hannah started her career as an actor, with a background of twelve years in theatre, TV and Film, with deep roots in collaboration and storytelling, working with Pulitzer Prize winning playwrights, to award-winning directors and executive producers. She studied a Liberal Arts Degree at the Juilliard School, NYC - Drama (Acting) BFA. A passionate advocate for the arts power to impact major, positive difference to society and the world. She is also an enthusiast for the value of inter-disciplinary ideas having also studied philosophy, arts & aesthetics, social sciences, media, technology and the arts. Creative Producer and Administrator - Alfred Fagon Award - https://www.alfredfagonaward.co.uk/ Playwright/Screenwriter - Hannah currently has a feature film in development, with the acclaimed director Amanda Boyle. Actor - Caton has performed in a number of acclaimed films; notable performances include her role as Titch in BFI’s 2014 film The Falling (dir. Carol Morley) opposite Florence Pugh, Morfydd Clark, and Maisie Williams, and her role as Lily, the daugher of Bartok (Morgan Freeman), in the 2015 film Last Knights. Oscar-winning film editor Mark Sanger commented that Caton’s performance in Last Knights was ‘phenomenal’. Recently, she worked with acclaimed director Luke Sheppard in the stage adaptation of The Da Vinci Code, in which she played the role of Sophie Neveu. After Juilliard, she was cast in theatre, TV and film in the US and the UK.
Featured Play
Another Greenland
‘A good teacher gives knowledge; a great teacher gives himself.’ Leo Greene, teacher in a sixth-form college is suffering a Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. He is teaching at the school he attended as a teenager when the trauma occurred. Back in 1977 things were different. Punk rock, Star Wars. Well, not that different. 17 year-olds are 17 year-olds. But the ghost of Leo’s 17 year-old former self revives unsettling memories of the tragic incident that has cast a shadow across his life. Vanessa Greene has never quite got to the bottom of her husband’s post-traumatic stress disorder but when she discovers his current lesson-plans reference an ill-fated 1977 school trip to see ‘the bricks’ at the Tate Gallery, alarm bells start to ring. Suspicions surrounding Leo’s relationship with a bright but unconfident and emotionally vulnerable student (Lily) intensify when Lily disappears from her family home. Her mobile-phone reveals the last thing she did before going missing was to send a series of cryptic text messages to Leo. Spinning back in time to a school Parents Evening the week before Lily’s disappearance, Leo’s encounter with Lily’s guardian triggers a long-forgotten memory that reveals a far more complex relationship with Lily’s family and his concerning influence over her.
Playwright: Drew Hewitt