Frequent Collaborators
Collaborators
Simon James Collier
Simon is the Creative Director and Producer at Evcol Audio Productions. Prior to forming Evcol Entertainment in 2008, he was the Producer and Co-Founder of the award-winning Okai Collier Company, which was established in 1994. He has presented over 170 musicals, plays, films, audio dramas, documentaries, Requiem’s, arts projects and publications over the past twenty-seven years in the role/s of writer, director and or producer. Simon has also been the Executive Director of two London theatres, owned his own publishing company, worked as a theatre critic and been a trustee of numerous charities. In 2017 he transitioned Evcol’s output from theatrical to audio productions with the aim of the company creating, producing and distributing its own content. Evcol Entertainment has produced over 70 titles, with a further 30 in either production or development.
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Richard Bates
Richard is a composer and conductor based in London. He has worked in musicals for many years and has led over sixty shows as musical director and conductor. He has written music for Treasure Island (2008), Animate (2010), The Last Ever Musical (2013), Spooky Noises (2015), Legacy (2017), The Countess (2019) and Brian's Last Musical (2020).
Concert commissions include The Vigil (2013), as well as being Composer in Residence to The Platinum Consort (2005-15) for whom he wrote many works, with his Vespers, Tenebrae and In the Dark being recorded commercially. He has also appeared on BBC Radio 3 numerous times to discuss the writing of music as well as in relation to his work with The Platinum Consort. Richard's performing interests now have a significant focus on concerts, event-based work and recording. He works around the UK and is a frequent guest conductor in the USA. He teaches at the UK's top drama schools. In 2018 he teamed up with Evcol Entertainment to record a number of his entertainment pieces as complete audio experiences, with an immersive movie-in-sound records being released from 2019.
Adam Dechanel
Award-winning writer & artist, Adam already had an extensive portfolio of novels and comic books before joining the Okai Collier Company team in 2003. Collaborating on several novels, productions, events, concerts and films it was not until 2005 that his play radio play A Wrongful Execution made its stage debut in Hackney Empire. In 2013 writing and production credits expanded to include full stage productions of new adaptations of classic novels with new twists. The Jungle Book, The Corruption of Dorian Gray, Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus, Jekyll & Hyde: Corpus Delicti which have since gone on to be adapted for digital and streaming radio. Adam went on to adapt his comic book series Education of a Superhero for short radio episodes and formed the entertainment company Clockwork Digital Studios home of his long-form digital series The Last Cavalier. He is currently writing exclusive content for Evcol Entertainment’s upcoming projects.
Samantha Boffin
Samantha is an award-winning Voice Artist and Actor, based in London. She plays serial killer Vivian Shorewood in Evcol Audio’s “Skin Trilogy” as well as a ghost and some saucy vampires in “Dracula”! An experienced actor and audiobook narrator, she has a particular love for storytelling and regularly performs short stories and poetry in venues around the UK. She’s also part of the London improv group WTQ. As a TV broadcaster, Sam has voiced, written and directed hundreds of short films and promotional campaigns for companies around the world including the BBC, Sky, Discovery and UKTV. She is currently developing The Talking Creative Podcast, due for release in 2020.
Mitch Howell
Mitch Howell is an actor, and voiceover artist who's worked extensively in theatre, film and radio, as well as in motion capture, puppetry and physical theatre. Quickly establishing himself as a character actor early in his career, he has tackled a wide variety of leading and supporting roles throughout his stage appearances, beginning with Brick Lane Rabbit Hole (The Rag Factory), the first UK stage production of Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls (The Lord Stanley), and receiving rave reviews for his performances as Squealer in Animal Farm (The Courtyard Theatre) as Dr.Haynes in Chew (The Etcetera Theatre), as Cassius in Spada Productions interpretation of Julius Caesar (The Courtyard Theatre) and in the one man show Secondhand Stories (The Lion and Unicorn Theatre) which was written specifically for him by playwright Christopher Walthorne.
He has also appeared in the short films Ground Level (2011), Looped Alphabet (2014) and Peaked (2015). His first collaboration with Simon James Collier was in Evcol's 2014 stage production of The Corruption of Dorian Gray (The Lion and Unicorn), followed in 2015 by Dracula (The Lion and Unicorn) and the 2017 production of Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven (The Old Red Lion). Since Evcol's transition from theatrical to audio productions in 2017, Mitch has been a longstanding member of the company, having provided his vocal talents to many of the company's audio outputs since its inception, these including The Raven, Beyond The Time Machine, Madame X, Spooky Noises, Box, and Dracula.
James Nicholson – Sound Design
James studied Theatre Sound Design at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
West End Credits: The Boys in The Band (Vaudeville Theatre), Vanities (Trafalgar Studios), Ushers- The Front of House Musical (Arts Theatre), As Is (Trafalgar Studios) and Dessa Rose (Trafalgar Studios). UK Touring Credits: Ray Cooney’s Out of Order, The Boys in The Band, Made Up Stories from my Unmade Bed, Rise and Fall and Liza Liza Liza. Off West End Credits: Aspects of Love (Southwark Playhouse), Aladdin (Broadway Theatre), Unexpected Joy (Southwark Playhouse), Pippin (Southwark Playhouse), Fitzrovia Radio Hour's, A Christmas Carol Spiegeltent (Leicester Square), Chinglish (Park Theatre), The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Southwark Playhouse), The Boys In The Band (Park Theatre), DUSTY (Charing Cross Theatre), Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (Charing Cross Theatre), Shutters Park Theatre, Ushers - The Front of House Musical (Charing Cross Theatre), Finian’s Rainbow (Charing Cross Theatre) and Lost Boy (Charing Cross Theatre). Other Credits: The Falcon’s Malteser (Vaults Theatre), The Crown Dual (Wilton’s Music Hall, Kings Head Theatre and Edinburgh Festival), RAGS (Hope Mill Theatre), Putting It Together (Hope Mill Theatre), Fitzrovia Radio Hour's, A Christmas Carol (Vaults Theatre), F*cking Men (Vaults Theatre), Queen Lear (Tristan Bates Theatre), Lights Out (Rose Theatre, Kingston), Princess Caraboo (Finborough Theatre), Road Show (Union Theatre), Fear and Misery of the Third Reich (Union Theatre), White Feather (Union Theatre), Henry VI - Play of Thrones (Union Theatre), Lear (Union Theatre), Ace of Clubs (Union Theatre), Lost Boy (Finborough Theatre), Liza Liza Liza (Tabard Theatre, The Bridge Chelsea Theatre/Rose Theatre), Don’t Exaggerate (Jermyn Street Theatre), Made Up Stories from my Unmade Bed (Battersea Arts Centre), SOLD (Pleasance Fourth), The Good Actor (Hoxton Hall) and You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown [Associate] (Tabard Theatre). Composition work includes: The Falcon’s Malteser (Vaults Theatre), F*cking Men (Vaults Theatre), Queen Lear (Tristan Bates Theatre), Shutters (Park Theatre), Music for trailer of Jonathan Havey’s Beautiful Thing, Music for the trailer of Page One Theatre’s The Bridge, Underscore for Page One Theatre’s Made Up Stories from my Unmade Bed and live Underscore for John Wright’s Divine Words Embassy Theatre.
Richard Warrick
Richard Warrick is an actor, voiceover artist and award-winning filmmaker. He has worked extensively in theatre, both in London and nearer to his home in rural Devon. These include productions of Dracula and Bloodline (both with Simon Collier) and a summer at the Open Air Theatre in Regents Park in The Comedy of Errors. He has also recorded the audio dramas Dracula, Madame X and The White Witch of Rose Hall with Evcol Entertainment. Behind the camera, he has appeared in the feature films Frontman and Scareycrows, and his own short film, A Good Book Has No Ending (written and starring Richard) has won awards at film festivals around the world. Away from the hustle of acting, Richard grows vegetables and keeps chickens overlooking the rolling beauty of the Blackdown Hills.
Georgie Montgomery
Georgie started off her career in musical theatre, training at The MTA in London, where she trained in acting, singing and dancing for theatre, as well as acting for TV and Film. She has toured in plays and musicals in China and Italy and has recently finished her first radio play of ‘Dracula' and set to do her second next week. Georgie has also worked on Sky 1 HD’s massively popular program Sing Ultimate Acapella with Cat Deeley in which she performed with her acapella band WEARETRACKLESS. She is about to embark next on a new project which she has written and is set to film shortly. Georgie is incredibly excited to work with Simon and his team again on ’Skin II’.
