Ali Anderson-Dyer (UK)

Ali Anderson-Dyer trained originally as an actress with Bodyworks Dance Company and Drama Studio London before gaining an MA (Merit) in Theatrical Directing from St Mary's University College, London. Recent directing credits include; The Echo Effect by Paul Charlton (LoNyLa / TimeWave), The Bonk by Lisa Fulthorpe (Bunbury Banter, starring Nichola McAuliffe) Land of the Dead by Neil LaBute (Old Red Lion) Moon On A Stick & Fancy Meeting You Here by Lisa Fulthorpe (Bunbury Banter), Rain Stops Play by Lee Ravitz (Bunbury Banter, starring Timothy West and Prunella Scales), Handmaidens of Death by Herbert Tremain (University of Hertfordshire), Memories of Loss by Hannah Walton Williams (Riverside Studios), The Fastest Clock in the Universe by Philip Ridley (Battersea Arts Centre), Stiff by Matthew Davies (Rosemary Branch Theatre), Settled by Samantha Mitschke (Rosemary Branch Theatre) and Gaelic Storytelling; The Bravery of Love (St Mary's University College). More information and further credits are available on her website: www.ali-anderson-dyer.moonfruit.com Aside from her freelance work, Ali is also the Artistic Director for The Bunbury Banter Theatre Company, who specialise in audio drama and new writing. For more information see their website: www.bunbanter.com.

Cesar Barlo (Spain)

Cesar Barlo holds a M.A in Theatre and Scenic Arts from UCM-ITEM (2011), a B.A. in Stage Direction from RESAD (2009) and a degree in Acting from La Lavanderia Theatre School (2004). He founds AlmaViva Teatro in 2007, and from there on he directs, among other performances, Los comendadores de Cordoba, by Lope de Vega (Festival Internacional de Teatro Clasico de Almagro, 2008), El pleito matrimonial del Cuerpo y el Alma, by Calderon de la Barca (Celebration of the Corpus Christie in Yepes, 2008); Revelacion (The Secret Rapture), by David Hare (Festival Escena Contemporanea, 2010) and "S" (International Congress, Universidad de Alcala de Henares, 2011). Other works as stage director are: Cimbelyne, by W. Shakespeare for Yambo Teatro(2008); four performances within the "Ciclo Poesia en Escena," at the Corral de Comedias de Alcala de Henares, during the seasons 2009-10 and 2010-11. In March 2011 he premieres within "La noche de Max Estrella" the text written by Javier H. Calvo Don Latino visita a Max Estrella, at the Ateneo de Madrid. He takes part in the I Jornadas de Teatristas hispanoamericanos (UCM-ITEM), with performances about the texts Felicidad, Marca Registrada, by Diana I. Luque, and Gunter, by Maria Velasco. With the latter, he also takes part in the art exhibition, produced by Calipsofacto Curators, "LimonOcho," in June 24th 2011. In July 8th 2011, he premieres Las maravillas del retablo o El Retablillo de La Barraca, by Javier H. Calvo, as inauguration of the exhibition "Barraca: Teatro y Universidad. Ayer y hoy de una utopia." This show is performed in every city where the exhibition produced by Accion Cultural Espanola and the Instituto del Teatro de Madrid tours. Since 2011, he directs the Project Don Juan Tenorio, staged in October and November 2011/2012 at El Campo de Cebada (La Latina, Madrid).

Lewis Gray (UK)

Lewis Gray is a director based in the North East of England. He has contributed extensively to new writing projects at Newcastle's Live Theatre, where recent script-in-hand directing credits include The Filleting Machine and I Knew Him, Horatio. As an assistant director at Live, Lewis has worked on DNA, Mindy, Tyne and the current national tour of Lee Hall's The Pitmen Painters. Further assisting credits include Blue Boy (Northern Stage & tour), Jack and the Beanstalk (Dance City) and 4Scene (Alnwick Playhouse & tour). At university, he directed productions of The Comedy of Errors, The Real Inspector Hound, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Moonlight, Celebration and Creditors. Lewis is training with the Traverse Emerging Directors scheme, resulting in opportunities to direct developing work by members of the Traverse Fifty. He is a script reader for Hull Truck Theatre, and contributed in 2012 to the cataloguing of the Alan Ayckbourn Archive at the Borthwick Institute for Archives in York.

Katherine Hayes (UK)

Katherine Hayes has been working as a director and writer since 2005. Her work as director includes productions at RADA Gielgud, The New End theatre, the Etcetera theatre, Theatre503 and Leicester Square theatre. She has worked as a freelance rehearsal director most recently for the Charm Offensive theatre company. A finalist in the Lost theatre 5 minute Festival 2012, she is also a member of the TBC Offies Award assessor team and the Young Vic Genesis Directors Program. Katherine is currently developing scripts for film and is delighted to be involved with Timewave 2013.

Drayton Hiers (Singapore/UK)

Drayton Hiers is a writer, director and dramaturg. His plays, films, and performances have been seen in Singapore at the Arts House, 72-13, and the SPORE Arts Salon; in New York at Eyebeam, the Bushwick Starr, Anthology Film Archives, and The Tank NYC; and in Amsterdam at Het Muiderpoort Theatre. He has worked as a director and dramaturg with Jean Tay ("Between Us"), Chong Tze Chien ("The Book of Living and Dying"), and Su Ching Teh ("Call Me Bea and Ubin"). He lectures at NYU Tisch School of the Arts Asia and Singapore Repertory Theatre, and holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch Asia.

Neil LaBute (US - NYC)

Neil LaBute: Writer/Director. Theatre includes: Bash: Latter-Day Plays (Douglas Fairbanks Theatre, Almeida Theatre); The Shape of Things (Almeida Theatre, Promenade Theatre); The Distance from Here (MCC Theatre, Almeida Theatre); The Mercy Seat (MCC Theatre, Almeida Theatre); Filthy Talk for Troubled Times (MCC Theatre); Fat Pig (MCC Theatre, Trafalgar Studios); Autobahn (MCC Theatre); Some Girl(s) (Gielgud Theatre, MCC Theatre); This is How it Goes (Donmar Warehouse, The Public Theatre); Land of the Dead/Helter Skelter (Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Bush Theatre); Wrecks (Everyman Palace Theatre, The Public Theatre, The Bush Theatre); In a Dark Dark House (MCC Theatre, Almeida Theatre); The Break of Noon (MCC Theatre, Geffen Playhouse); Reasons to be Pretty (MCC Theatre, Almeida Theatre); In a Forest, Dark and Deep (Vaudeville Theatre, Profiles Theatre); The Heart of the Matter (MCC Theatre); Woyzeck - adaptation (Schauspielhaus Zurich); Things We Said Today (Profiles Theatre, Sala Beckett); The Furies/The New Testament/Romance (59E59); The Great War (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Taming of the Shrew - additional scenes (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); Short Ends (Open Fist Theatre); The Money Shot (The Cape Cod Theater Project); Lovely Head (Spoleto Festival-Italy, Fringe Festival-Madrid, La Mama); In The Beginning (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Theatre Row); Miss Julie - adaptation (Geffen Playhouse); Reasons to be Happy (MCC Theatre). Film includes: In the Company of Men; Your Friends & Neighbors; Nurse Betty; Possession; The Shape of Things; The Wicker Man; Lakeview Terrace; Death at a Funeral; Some Girl(s); Some Velvet Morning; Tumble (short); After-School Special (short); Sexting (short); Denise (short); Double or Nothing (short); Bench Seat (short); Sweet Nothings (short); BFF (short). Television includes: Bash: Latter-Day Plays (Showtime), Full Circle (Directv). Fiction includes: Seconds of Pleasure (Faber & Faber).

Elina Lim (Singapore)

Elina Lim is a freelance director, props/costume maker and stage manager. She received her Bachelor's Degree in Theatre Production in Melbourne's Victorian College of the Arts and spent half a year in Carnegie Mellon's School of Drama. She has worked in various capacities in shows like Lion King the musical, Singapore Repertory Theatre's Three Little Pigs, Singapore Dance Theatre's Peter and Blue Goes Around the World, and etc. She is the Artistic Director of Pinball Collective (pinballcollective.com). Through Pinball Collective, she directed and produced Singapore's first crowd-funded theatre production 'Bedok Reservoir' in 2012. She is now in the process of directing a double bill of translated plays by Jeremy Tiang at the Arts House for 2014. She works with Universal Studios Singapore and makes strange and wonderful props and costume pieces.

Orvis Evans (Singapore / Collaborator with Elina Lim)

Orvis Evans is a maker. He has worked most notably in theatre, theme parks, and cosplay in the realms of sets, props, costumes and puppetry. A graduate of the University of North Carolina in the United States and the Victorian College of the Arts in Australia, Orvis was trained in the combined art and science of telling a story and making that which is required to tell it. He has come to Singapore to be with his long time partner and future wife, Elina Lim.

Antonio Merenda (US)

Antonio Merenda is a director, writer, and performer. As a director, he received a Best Directing Award for Jim Gordon's Making Ends Meet from The American Globe Theater & Turnip Theater Company's 12th Annual Play Festival. Other recent credits include: The Long Ride Home by Robert Charles Gompers at the 5th Annual Fresh Fruit Festival (awarded Best Play & Best Ensemble), Kelly Kinsella, Live!...Under Broadway by Kelly Kinsella (New York International Fringe Festival), Women of Manhattan by John Patrick Shanley, The Jubilee, and In Moscow by Anton Chekhov (Philadelphia Fringe Festival). Mr. Merenda wrote and performed It's a Wonderful Lie, directed by Joan Evans. Acting credits with The Fourth Unity Theatre Company include: Mr. Ellis in the New York Premiere of Edwin Sanchez's Icarus (OOBR Award for Excellence), Nightingale in Vieux Carre, Pun in The Date, Scott in Refreshments, and Hughie in What I Missed in the 80s. Mr. Merenda received his BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied with Stella Adler. He is also a graduate of the National Shakespeare Conservatory.

Ben Mills (UK)

Ben graduated from the University of Westminster in 2010 with a first class BA (Hons) in Film and Television Production. Directing includes Scatter Like Ash (Camden People's Theatre) for Plunger, Maid Marian (Germany/France/Japan schools tour, playing to an audience of 30,000) for White Horse Theatre - the world's largest educational touring theatre company, Simon (Hen & Chickens), Dead Without Dying (The Horse, Lambeth) and a number of award-winning short films available at benmills.tv - including Wrestling Yetis ("funny, heart-warming" - Alice Jones in the Independent, screened at the BFI Southbank, Olympic Park and the House of Commons). Assistant Directing includes: The Laramie Project (Greenwich Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Trafalgar Studios 2), Deirdre and Me (national tour), The Temperamentals (Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, Courtyard Theatre Hereford, Greenwich Theatre), White Horse Theatre's 2011/12 season (including The Shape of Things), Lansley's Bill (Department of Health, Whitehall), Lilies (Marlborough Theatre Brighton, Greenwich Theatre), The Secret Garden and Missing In Action (both national tours for Proteus Theatre).

James O'Donnell (UK)

James O'Donnell as Director: The Poet by Alan Fielden for Offcut Festival/Riverside Studios, Shakespeare Project at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, Improvisation Evening at Natural History Museum Lates, The Space Between Us by Myself at the Northumberland Arms, Venue Director for Shakespeare Schools Festival/Various Theatres. As Assistant Director: The Village of Broken Dreams - Camp Bestival, The Bell Jar/Tupelo Elvis at the Stratford Upon Avon Community Festival. Directed Workshops: Oceans of Loneliness and The Whitest Frothiest Blossom both by Aaron Anthony Wallace, The Rialto Burns at the Theatre 503 (assistant director), Classic Scene Studies - Exploring with actors various classic plays which include King Lear, Oedipus the King, The Cherry Orchard, The Country Wife and The Homecoming. Rehearsed Readings: The Just by Albert Camus, Scenes for the Hitchhiking Game by Milan Kundera, The Bard Ambition by Alan Gilmour, Radio: Wrote and Directed The Dark Places for Resonance FM. Education: BA (hons) in Acting - Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Springboard week at the Young Vic, The Actor and the Target workshop with Declan Donnelan (Young Vic), First Steps in New Writing/Brecht's Arturo Ui with Lyndsey Turner and Walter Meierjohann (Young Vic). Active member of the Young Vic Genesis directors scheme, former actor member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Nominated for an Ian Charleson award in 2001.

Josh Rowe (US - NYC)

Josh Rowe is a NYC-based theater artist. He has received space grants from The Harold Clurman Center for New Works in Movement and Dance Theatre to develop two original shows, The Post-Parade (2006) and hard wear soft drive (2010), a multimedia, one-man show in heels, which was presented in the 2011 HOT! Festival at Dixon Place. Another solo work, Josh and Megaphone premiered at Theater for the New City in the 2010 People's Theater Lab Festival. His plays Dorill & Betsy (2002) and Sunshine (2003) were written and produced for the Repertory Company at the Coronado School of the Arts in San Diego, California. Josh has served as assistant director to Corinne Donly, Lauren Albert, Elizabeth Mozer/Theater in the Flesh and Renee Philippi/Concrete Temple Theater. As performer and/or designer: Judith M. Smith/Mile of String's No Where Can Be Here Now (The Chocolate Factory) and Elegy for a Vacant Lot (Ontological-Hysteric Theater); Kate Hilliard's While We Were Waiting and The Brutes (Firehall Arts Center, Vancouver, and The Theater Center, Toronto), Laura Diffendurfer/Oh Dear Dance's I Woulda Have Been a Killer (Danspace Project) and A Wagner Matinee (Merce Cunningham Studio), Enrico D. Wey/The Living Laboratory, Heart Ain't In It: Four Chamber Studies (Dance Theater Workshop), Jimena Duca/Tiyatro Global's MIKA (The United Nations), Him (Dir. Meghan Finn, Walkerspace), A Bright Room Called Day (Dir. Tom Oppenheim, Theater 5). Josh teaches at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. BFA/NYU Tisch.

Ashley Marie Scoles (US - NYC)

Ashley Marie Scoles (Director - Prime) is thrilled to be directing as a part of the TimeWave Festival. Since moving to New York City she has directed many new works in the Looking Glass Theatre's (NY) Forum and their Staged Reading Series. She also directed Health Debt at The Drilling Company and The Dixie Swim Club at The Warehouse Theatre.

Elyse Singer (US - NYC)

Elyse Singer is a director/writer/producer and the Founding Artistic Director of the OBIE-winning Hourglass Group. Her work has been seen Off-Broadway, regionally and internationally. Her original multi-media play Frequency Hopping won the International STAGE Playwriting Competition and ran at 3LD Art & Technology Center. Singer's Off-Broadway directing credits include Trouble in Paradise; the first NYC revival of Mae West's 1926 play SEX; the first US revival of West's Pleasure Man (starring Charles Busch); and Deborah Swisher's Hundreds of Sisters & One BIG Brother. Singer's other original works include Love in the Void, Care-less: Eva Tanguay and Private Property. As producer: Beebo Brinker Chronicles Off-Broadway at 37 Arts (co-produced with Lily Tomlin, Jane Wagner and Harriet Newman Leve), winner of the 2008 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding New York Theater. A Yale graduate, Singer is a Usual Suspect at NYTW, an alum of the LCT Directors Lab and a member of the League of Professional Theatre Women. She is represented by Bret Adams, Ltd. and is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.

Dylan Southard (US - LA)

Dylan Southard is the co-Artistic Director of Los Angeles' Needtheater, where he served as dramaturg for productions of Fatboy, Mercury Fur, Scarcity, and The Web, the producer of tempOdyssey and G.O.Ne, and the director of Guided Consideration of a Lamentable Deed. Dylan is also the resident dramaturg for The Robey Theatre Company where he has overseen the Advanced Playwright's Lab for the past six years. He has worked in dramaturgical capacities for The Center Theatre Group, The Geffen Playhouse, The Theatre @ Boston Court, Centerstage Baltimore, Native Voices at the Autry, the Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble, LoNyLa, Theatre Dybbuk and The Network of Ensemble Theaters. Dylan regularly writes about theater for the websites LA Bitter Lemons and HowlRound. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University.

Roy Alexander Weise (UK)

Roy Alexander Weise trained at Rose Bruford College on the BA Hons Directing course. Since graduating in 2011 he has been invited to joint the Genesis Young Directors' Programme. He later held a residency as Associate Director at The Red Room Theatre & Film Company where he attained his first television broadcast experience as Trainee Director on Topher Campbell's 'Invisible' for Channel 4 Random Acts. Credits as Director: What Happens Behind the Bar (Cockpit Theatre), One Million Tiny Plays About Britain (Young Vic), SKEEN! (Oval House Theatre), Invisible Mice (Lyric Theatre), Black Man Monologues (Intermission Theatre), Seventeen (Rose Bruford College) Chameleon (Unicorn Theatre) Tap Baby Tap (Oval House Theatre), Phaedra's Love (Rose Bruford College) Credits as Assistant Director: The Serpent's Tooth (Almeida Theatre/Talawa), Public Enemy (Young Vic), The Government Inspector Parallel Production (Young Vic), Hamlet Schools Festival (Young Vic), Wedekind's Lulu (Rose Bruford), The Cherry Orchard (Rose Bruford).

Stephen Whitson (UK)

Stephen Whitson is originally from Edinburgh and trained at The Arts Educational Schools, London. He is currently Associate Director for the West End production of From Here To Eternity in London. Recent Directing credits include:The Wizard of Oz (St. Ives Theatre), Cross Purpose (King's Head Theatre), After The Gold Rush (Tristan Bates Theatre),The Merchant (Chats Palace, London), Jubilee Street (Theatre503, London). Associate Director credits include RENT (Greenwich Theatre) and the UK Tour of My Big Gay Italian Wedding. Assistant Director credits include: Noye's Fludde by Benjamin Britten (Aldeburgh Music Festival/BBC), What You Will (The Globe Theatre/London 2012 Festival), While The Sun Shines (Top Goat Productions, Lion & Unicorn Theatre), One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (LOST Theate), Goodnight Mrs. Calabash and Guys & Dolls (both Ovation Productions, Upstairs at The Gatehouse). On stage, Stephen's credits covered several major productions, including the 2012 Olivier Award Winning (Best Musical Revival) Crazy For You (West End and Regent's Park Open Air Theatre), My Fair Lady (BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall and Sheffield Theatres) and The Producers (West End). During this time he worked with directors such as Adrian Noble, Daniel Evans, Timothy Sheader, Susan Stroman, and Stephen Mear. Stephen also teaches and directs for a number of professional training institutions around the UK, including the RSAMD, LIPA, Motherwell College, The Dance School of Scotland and Manchester College. (www.stephenwhitson.com)