Clive Nolan - Writer, Composer, Producer
Clive is a British musician, composer and producer who has played a prominent role in the recent development of progressive and symphonic rock. He has been the regular keyboard player in Pendragon (1986 to present), Shadowland (1992 to present), Strangers on a Train (1993-1994), Arena (1995 to present) and Caamora (2006 to present) as well as writing music and lyrics. He is also the founder member of The Caamora Theatre Company.
The premiere of his first musical 'She' took place at the world-famous Katowice Wyspianski Theatre in Poland in October 2007, with further performances in Bolivia and Holland. 'She' debuted in the UK at the Cheltenham Playhouse Theatre in 2012.
Clive followed 'She' with his second musical 'Alchemy' - the first instalment of 'The Professor King Chronicles' - in 2013. In February 2013 the live show was recorded for DVD at the Wyspianski Theatre before full theatrical shows by the Caamora Theatre Company at the Cheltenham Playhouse that September. In 2013 and 2014 'Alchemy' headlined musical and theatre events in both the UK (CRS, Wath) and Holland (Zoetermeer) before heading to the Reichenbach in Germany. The CRS concert was nominated for the Best Live Act of 2014.
In October 2016 Clive staged concerts in Uruguay and Norway. The Norwegian show 'An Evening with Clive Nolan and Friends' was released on DVD in 2017. Clive’s third musical, 'King’s Ransom', was released on DVD following its grand premiere at the Cheltenham Playhouse in September 2017. The third King musical 'The Mortal Light' is due for release in the coming months.
Clive has been voted Best Keyboard Player by Classic Rock Society ten times since 1995. In 2010 the Bolivian Government awarded him Honorary Visitor to Santa Cruz, Bolivia for his theatre work. In 2013 he received the Polish MLWZ Golden Lexicon Award for Outstanding Achievements in Music for 'Alchemy'.
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Neil Monaghan - Producer, Director
Neil is a writer and director for film, theatre, television and radio. He trained with the BBC, working in post-production for the Film Department. He subsequently left to set up his own production company. He has written several award-winning shorts as well as undertaking multiple feature commissions. His first feature, MADE IN ROMANIA, a comedy 'mockumentary' about independent filmmaking, starred Jason Flemyng, Jennifer Tilly and Elizabeth Hurley.
He recently made his debut feature as a writer director. ELECTION NIGHT a movie that examines our increasingly divided society and the rise of right-wing populism through the lens of a home-invasion horror movie. The film has won numerous awards, including several best feature and best screenplay awards at film festivals around the world. The film is now available on Sky, Virgin, Amazon Prime, Tubi and others.
Neil's theatre work includes four plays staged at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Alan Ayckbourn's famous theatre in Scarborough. One of these, Dot's Net, was later adapted for broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
His play Eye Contact was staged at the Riverside Studios where it had a sell-out run.
His play 100 won an Edinburgh Fringe First Award and transferred to London's Soho Theatre. The play is published by Nick Hern books and is now on the GCSE school drama syllabus.
His screenwriting commissions include the screenplay KISS AND TELL with producer Mark Crowdy (Saving Grace, Doc Martin) and director Nigel Cole (Calendar Girls, Made in Dagenham).
Ben Pickering - Producer
Born in London to Welsh parents, Ben’s film career spans three decades. Starting with his first feature-film BACKSTREET in 1995 – when he was just sixteen and studying for his GCSEs – he has since produced over a dozen features ranging from micro-budget to multi-million pound projects.
Seventeen years later, he finally took the plunge and directed his first feature TWO DAYS IN THE SMOKE, starring Matt di Angelo (Borgia), Lili Bordán (Battlestar Galactica) and Alan Ford (Snatch). The London- and Paris-set feature was released in the UK in October 2014 and internationally throughout 2015 as London Payback. It has recently been available on Netflix.
He returned to the director’s chair for the Cornwall-set psychological thriller WELCOME TO CURIOSITY, the world’s first wholly equity crowd-funded feature-film (which he also produced). It starred Amrita Acharia (Game of Thrones), Jack Ashton (Call the Midwife), Richard Blackwood (Eastenders) and Stephen Marcus (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels). After a limited North American theatrical run, it was released worldwide in 2018 and is currently available on Amazon.
Since then he has produced, co-produced or line produced features including the award-winning political thriller ELECTION NIGHT and the multi-award-winning GIVE THEM WINGS, the 1980s-set true story of a disabled man growing up in northern England. Both were released internationally in 2022.
He also published his award-winning debut novel FREIHEIT, a dystopian alternative history exploring what Britain would have looked like today if the Nazis had won the Battle of Britain.
Alongside line producing features for international clients including the Hallmark Channel, he is currently developing a slate of features and TV projects. His projects LOCAL BOYS and THE COPPER KINGS were finalists and semi-finalists respectively in the 2020 Filmarkethub UK Online Pitchbox, while in 2021 he was a double-finalist with HOSTAGE and LET IT GO and semi-finalist with THE TANK. Ben specialises in sub-£5 million features, with extensive knowledge of UK Creative Tax Reliefs, SEIS/EIS tax incentive schemes and international co-productions.